. The death of the founding father of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, was marked by countless expressions of grief by many of the 5.5 million people living in this city-state, as well as obituaries in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) Born late in 1923 in what was then the British Straits Settlements, Lee Kuan Yew was aged just 16 when World Wa…