Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, CBE, QC, M.A., LL.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Emeritus Reader in International Law, Director Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (founding Director 1983–95), Honorary Professor of International Law, 1994–98, died on 8 February 2017, aged 88 years.
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, Hon. Sc.D., FRS, Hon. FRCR, Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall, Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Nottingham, Nobel Laureate, died on 8 February 2017, aged 83 years.