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  • Chilean dictator reviled worldwide

    Gen Augusto Pinochet (second from left), with other members of the four-men military junta that seized power in Chile on September 11th, 1973, in a bloody coup against president Salvador Allende, as they salute during Independence Day celebrations in this file photograph from September 18th, 1973. Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, who has died aged 91, was the most notorious of Latin America's 20th century military rulers. Dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990, after which he remained as army commander-in-chief, then senator-for-life, he bestrode the final decades of the cold war in the region like no one else but Fidel Castro in Cuba. p

  • Prolific writer, playwright and broadcaster

    Harry Barton: Harry Barton, who has died aged 90, may be best remembered as the creator of the leprechaun Mr Mooney, the public relations officer of the Queens Own Loyal Sinn Féin Republican Volunteers - open to diehards of every persuasion - whose weekly monologues were broadcast on Radio Ulster for many years. He was also the author of more than 20 plays and a number of books. p

  • Prominent member of Dublin's Jewish community

    Asher Benson: Asher Benson, a prominent member of Dublin's Jewish community who has died aged 85, was born in the East End of London, the only child of Millie and David Bernstein, who were Jewish immigrants from Poland. p
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