The Times Great Lives
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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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Publisher
Times Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9780008164805

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Introduction
  4. Abridged Introduction
  5. Lord Kitchener
  6. V. I. Lenin
  7. Giacomo Puccini
  8. Claude Monet
  9. Emmeline Pankhurst
  10. D. H. Lawrence
  11. Dame Nellie Melba
  12. Sir Edward Elgar
  13. Marie Curie
  14. Sigmund Freud
  15. Amy Johnson
  16. Virginia Woolf
  17. David Lloyd George
  18. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  19. Adolf Hitler
  20. General G. S. Patton
  21. John Maynard Keynes
  22. Henry Ford
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. George Orwell
  25. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  26. Arnold Schoenberg
  27. Joseph Stalin
  28. Alan Turing
  29. Henri Matisse
  30. Sir Alexander Fleming
  31. Albert Einstein
  32. Humphrey Bogart
  33. Arturo Toscanini
  34. Christian Dior
  35. Dorothy L. Sayers
  36. Frank Lloyd Wright
  37. Aneurin Bevan
  38. Ernest Hemingway
  39. Marilyn Monroe
  40. President John F. Kennedy
  41. Lord Beaverbrook
  42. Ian Fleming
  43. T. S. Eliot
  44. Sir Winston Churchill
  45. Le Corbusier
  46. Yuri Gagarin
  47. Martin Luther King
  48. Enid Blyton
  49. Bertrand Russell
  50. Jimi Hendrix
  51. President Gamal Abdel Nasser
  52. Coco Chanel
  53. Igor Stravinsky
  54. Louis Armstrong
  55. Duke of Windsor
  56. Sir Noel Coward
  57. Pablo Picasso
  58. Charles Lindbergh
  59. P. G. Wodehouse
  60. Dame Agatha Christie
  61. Field Marshal Montgomery
  62. Mao Tse-Tung
  63. Benjamin Britten
  64. Elvis Presley
  65. Maria Callas
  66. Charlie Chaplin
  67. Jesse Owens
  68. Jean-Paul Sartre
  69. Sir Alfred Hitchcock
  70. Mae West
  71. John Lennon
  72. Bob Marley
  73. Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader
  74. Orson Welles
  75. Henry Moore
  76. Andy Warhol
  77. Jacqueline du Pré
  78. Sir Frederick Ashton
  79. Sugar Ray Robinson
  80. Ayatollah Khomeini
  81. Laurence Olivier
  82. Dame Margot Fonteyn
  83. Miles Davis
  84. Menachim Begin
  85. Francis Bacon
  86. Elizabeth David
  87. Willy Brandt
  88. Rudolf Nureyev
  89. Richard Nixon
  90. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  91. Fred Perry
  92. Harold Wilson
  93. Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  94. Diana, Princess of Wales
  95. Mother Teresa
  96. Frank Sinatra
  97. Iris Murdoch
  98. Stanley Kubrick
  99. Yehudi Menuhin
  100. Sir Alf Ramsey
  101. Raisa Gorbachev
  102. Sir Stanley Matthews
  103. Dame Barbara Cartland
  104. Sir John Gielgud
  105. Sir Alec Guinness
  106. Don Bradman
  107. Christiaan Barnard
  108. Spike Milligan
  109. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
  110. Ronald Reagan
  111. Francis Crick
  112. Pope John Paul II
  113. Rosa Parks
  114. Luciano Pavarotti
  115. Sir Edmund Hillary
  116. Michael Jackson
  117. Elizabeth Taylor
  118. Steve Jobs
  119. Sir Bernard Lovell
  120. Neil Armstrong
  121. Baroness Thatcher
  122. Seamus Heaney
  123. Sir David Frost
  124. Nelson Mandela
  125. Lady Soames
  126. Lord Attenborough
  127. Sir Terry Pratchett
  128. Lee Kuan Yew
  129. Acknowledgements
  130. Index
  131. About the Publisher