The last farewells

A few more that might have been included in the obituary section (pp 175-180): the Guardian identifies 10 species that we lost in the Noughties. Farewell to the Baji dolphin, the golden toad, the Western black rhino and more.

More farewells

Nelly Arcan, writer
Josette Baujot, illustrator
Ludovic Kennedy, writer, broadcaster
Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist
Norman Painting, actor, writer
Robert Rines, cryptozoologist
Soupy Sales, comedian
David Shepherd, cricket umpire
Nancy Spero, artist
Joseph Wiseman, actor
Shaun Wylie, codebreaker

Farewell

More deaths that occurred too late to be included in The Noughties:

Felix Bowness, actor
Sadie Corré, actor
Marek Edelman, survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
Michael English, artist, musician
Stephen Gately, singer
Gladys ‘Killem’ Gillem, wrestler
Bobby Graham, musician
Barry Letts, TV producer
Irving Penn, photographer
Mercedes Sosa, singer
Harry Alan Towers, film producer
Lucy Vodden, in the Sky, with Diamonds

Endings

A few recent deaths that occurred too late for us to include in the ‘Endings’ chapter of The Noughties (see page 175):

Cory Aquino, politician

Norman Borlaug, agronomist

Jim Carroll, writer, musician

Chanel, world's oldest dog

Keith Floyd, TV chef

Henry Gibson, actor

Teddy Goldsmith, environmentalist

Ellie Greenwich, songwriter

John Hughes, film director

Edward Kennedy, politician

Troy Kennedy Martin, screenwriter

Jack Kramer, tennis player, entrepreneur

Les Paul, musician, inventor

Willy Ronis, photographer

Sam, koala

Naomi Sims, model

Darren Sutherland, boxer

Patrick Swayze, actor

Mary Travers, singer