Colin powell was always an army person. Romesvelt was a secretary of defence both in the soviet era and later on, in the era of nine 11. Stephen sonteim revolutionized american musical theatre.
From Prince Philip to Desmond Tutu, from an anti-racism campaigner and member of the Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra to a war surgeon focused on civilians to an impoverished Ethiopian whose school for the poor educated 120,000 students: our obituaries editor reflects on the famed and the lesser-known figures who died in 2021.