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DEATHS

Sir David Amess

Veteran British politician who worked for almost 40 years as a backbench Member of Parliament for two Essex constituencies. He died on 15 October, aged 69.

Colin Powell

Four-star general in the US Army and America’s first Black secretary of state, who was a key figure in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He died on 18 October, aged 84.

Paddy Moloney

Leader of Irish band the Chieftains, who helped to re-popularise traditional Irish folk music. He died on 12 October, aged 83.

Ruthie Tompson

Former animator who worked on the 1937 hit Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was the last living link to the earliest days of Walt Disney’s animation studio. She died on 10 October, aged 111.

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