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His parish churches in the industrial towns of northern Spain, austere outside and luminous within, were reviled when they opened and are now protected monuments.
As foreign minister in the fractious years after the 1974 revolution, he negotiated the treaty that made a poor, isolated country a member of the European club, then spent 30 years arguing it had been worth it.
A prodigy from Ghent who played with American expatriates in the Brussels clubs of the 1960s, she became, through a long-running television program, the face of the music for a generation.
A Norwegian oceanographer who spent 40 winters at sea, she showed how cold water sinking off Greenland drives a circulation that shapes Europe’s climate, and spent her last decade warning it was slowing.