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About this book
The Times obituaries have given readers throughout the world an instant picture of a life for over 150 years. The Times Great Lives is a selection of 124 of these pieces, each obituary has been updated and reproduced in their entirety, by Anna Temkin, The Times assistant obituaries editor.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Abridged Introduction
- Lord Kitchener
- V. I. Lenin
- Giacomo Puccini
- Claude Monet
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- D. H. Lawrence
- Dame Nellie Melba
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Marie Curie
- Sigmund Freud
- Amy Johnson
- Virginia Woolf
- David Lloyd George
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Adolf Hitler
- General G. S. Patton
- John Maynard Keynes
- Henry Ford
- Mahatma Gandhi
- George Orwell
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Joseph Stalin
- Alan Turing
- Henri Matisse
- Sir Alexander Fleming
- Albert Einstein
- Humphrey Bogart
- Arturo Toscanini
- Christian Dior
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Aneurin Bevan
- Ernest Hemingway
- Marilyn Monroe
- President John F. Kennedy
- Lord Beaverbrook
- Ian Fleming
- T. S. Eliot
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Le Corbusier
- Yuri Gagarin
- Martin Luther King
- Enid Blyton
- Bertrand Russell
- Jimi Hendrix
- President Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Coco Chanel
- Igor Stravinsky
- Louis Armstrong
- Duke of Windsor
- Sir Noel Coward
- Pablo Picasso
- Charles Lindbergh
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Dame Agatha Christie
- Field Marshal Montgomery
- Mao Tse-Tung
- Benjamin Britten
- Elvis Presley
- Maria Callas
- Charlie Chaplin
- Jesse Owens
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Sir Alfred Hitchcock
- Mae West
- John Lennon
- Bob Marley
- Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader
- Orson Welles
- Henry Moore
- Andy Warhol
- Jacqueline du Pré
- Sir Frederick Ashton
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Laurence Olivier
- Dame Margot Fonteyn
- Miles Davis
- Menachim Begin
- Francis Bacon
- Elizabeth David
- Willy Brandt
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Richard Nixon
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Fred Perry
- Harold Wilson
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Mother Teresa
- Frank Sinatra
- Iris Murdoch
- Stanley Kubrick
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Sir Alf Ramsey
- Raisa Gorbachev
- Sir Stanley Matthews
- Dame Barbara Cartland
- Sir John Gielgud
- Sir Alec Guinness
- Don Bradman
- Christiaan Barnard
- Spike Milligan
- Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
- Ronald Reagan
- Francis Crick
- Pope John Paul II
- Rosa Parks
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Sir Edmund Hillary
- Michael Jackson
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Steve Jobs
- Sir Bernard Lovell
- Neil Armstrong
- Baroness Thatcher
- Seamus Heaney
- Sir David Frost
- Nelson Mandela
- Lady Soames
- Lord Attenborough
- Sir Terry Pratchett
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Publisher
