The Magazine's regular column on the passing of significant - but lesser-reported - characters of the past month, among them the voice of the Daleks and Peter Sellers' son.
On Watch With Mother, he provided Bill and Ben with their "flobbalob" language, and for Captain Pugwash he characterised a whole host of piratical odd-balls. Hawkins also provided the voice of Zippy in early editions of Rainbow and struck terror into the hearts of millions as the sound of the first incarnation of Dr Who's Daleks.
From the age of nine she acted in programmes such as ER and made two films. Whilst still at school she was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy and she had a heart transplant in 2000. Madison married Brent Joseph Morris in Kentucky and they honeymooned in Hawaii.
He became Chief Rabbi in 1940, when Romania was allied to Nazi Germany and had begun to introduce anti-Jewish laws. In 1941 Safran helped convince dictator Ion Antonescu to revoke an order forcing Jews to wear the yellow badge.
The actions of the government forced Safran's work underground but he used links with influential foreigners, including the Queen Mother, to convince Antonescu to resist German demands for the wholesale deportation of Jews.
His relationship with his father had been tempestuous: sometimes glamorous, following his father to the playgrounds of the rich; sometimes destructive, with Peter trying to sever all ties and even suggesting his son change his surname.
In temperament, Michael was most unlike his father, but his genetic inheritance meant both died from heart problems within two years of each other's age.
She learnt to play at the age of seven, firstly by watching her parents, then by "filling in" for her father when he went to pour drinks. Then one night, a guest who was meant to be playing was late and she was allowed to join in properly. From then on she was a "bridge addict".
Master Diver is the highest warfare qualification obtainable by a member of the US Navy diving community and would have been an impressive achievement in any case. But Carl Brashear also had to overcome racial prejudice in the service, which he had joined in 1948, shortly after it had desegregated, and also attained the rank after becoming the first amputee to be certified as a diver.
Others who died in July included Ted Grant, one of the founders of Militant; Borscht Belt comedian Red Buttons; husky-voiced Hollywood actress June Allyson; jazz trombonist Don Lusher; Kenneth Lay, ex-chief of Enron; cricketer and commentator Fred Trueman; Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett; crime writer Mickey Spillane; Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok; and the American character actor Jack Warden.
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