Jerry Samuels, (AKA Napoleon XIV) who has died aged 84, recording engineer who had a hit with They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!

A Dutchman who fled the Nazi occupation to serve as a Spitfire pilot with the British air force during WWII has died at the age of 99. The Ministry of Defence said Leo Hendrikx was one of the last surviving Engelandvaarders—a group of around 1,700 Dutch people who escaped to England to fight with the Allied troops and help liberate their country. Hendrikx left the occupied Netherlands in 1941 and travelled through France, Spain, Portugal and Canada before ending up in England at the end of 1942.

Virginia Norwood, a founding figure in satellite land imaging who developed technology to scan the surface of the moon for safe landing sites and map our planet from space, died Sunday at age 96.

Norwood is best known for developing the Multispectral Scanner System that flew on the first Landsat satellite, making her the "Mother of Landsat," according to NASA.

Landsat 1, launched in July 1972, was the first satellite to study and monitor Earth's landmasses and operated for nearly six years. The space agency said the "quality and impact of the resulting information exceeded all expectations."

Much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness. The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time.