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    Mandy Rice-Davies, Dr Tim Black, Michel du Cille, Ian Player, Christopher Morris

    Matthew Bannister on a showgirl, a doctor, a photographer and a conservationist.

  2. Queen Fabiola, Stella Young, Bernard Stonehouse, Kent Haruf, Ralph Baer

    Matthew Bannister on a disability campaigner, a queen, a polar scientist and an author.

  3. Jeremy Thorpe, Ian McLagan, Viktor Tikhonov, Trevor Pharo and Sabah

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, an ice hockey coach, a clown, and a singer.

  4. PD James, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Glen A Larson, Medlin Lewis-Spencer, Arthur Butterworth MBE

    Matthew Bannister on a crime writer, a criminal, a director, a mayor and a composer.

  5. Sir Thomas Macpherson, Mike Nichols, Alexander Grothendieck, Paul Vaughan, Leonore Davidoff and Jimmy Ruffin

    Matthew Bannister on a war hero, a director, a mathematician, a broadcaster, a historian.

  6. Vivienne Price; Dr Dick Laws; Warren Clarke; Geoffrey Clarke; Prince David Chavchavadze

    Matthew Bannister on an orchestra founder, a zoologist, an actor, a sculptor and a spy.

  7. Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt

    Matthew Bannister on a company chairman, a musician, a politician and a canal campaigner.

  8. Jack Bruce, Gough Whitlam, Efua Dorkenoo, James Dunlop

    Matthew Bannister on a rock musician, a campaigner, a politician and a firefighter.

  9. Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry, John Holt

    Andrea Catherwood remembers an actress, a war veteran, a reggae artist and newspaperman.

  10. Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Jerrie Mock, John Moat, Shirley Baker, David Rayvern Allen

    Matthew Bannister on a newspaper executive, a pilot, an author, a photographer, a producer

  11. Andrew Kerr, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Dorothy Tyler MBE, Prof Karl Miller, Cosimo Matassa

    Matthew Bannister on a festival founder, a dictator, an athlete and a literary editor.

  12. Christopher Hogwood, Major General Yitzhak Hofi, Sheila Tracy, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Lynsey de Paul

    Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an Israeli general, a broadcaster and a mathematician.

  13. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Oleg Ivanovsky, Jim Petrie, Dame Julia Polak and Bob Crewe

    Julian Worricker on two scientists, an illustrator, a songwriter and a leading aristocrat.

  14. James Nesbitt MBE, Andrew McLaglen, Emilio Botin, Simin Behbahani, Sir Philip Dowson, George Hamilton IV

    Matthew Bannister on a detective, a film director, a banker, a poet and an architect.

  15. Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding, Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, an actor, an adventurer, a disability rights campaigner

  16. Joan Rivers, Sir David Mitchell, Werner Franz, Candida Lycett Green, Sandy Wilson

    Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, an MP, a Hindenburg survivor and a conservationist

  17. Richard Attenborough, Helen Bamber, BKS Iyengar, Sam Galbraith, Bill Kerr

    Matthew Bannister on a director, a human rights campaigner, a yoga guru and a Labour MSP.

  18. Albert Reynolds, Ronnie Stonham, Norman Cornish, Gerry Anderson, Licia Albanese

    Remembering a former Taoiseach, a BBC vetter, a painter, a broadcaster and a soprano.

  19. Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams, Peter Sculthorpe

    Andrea Catherwood on a Hollywood legend, a comic genius, a composer and an economist.

  20. Chapman Pincher, Mike Smith, Lettice Curtis, Karl Albrecht, Kenny Ireland

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a businessman, a broadcaster, a pilot, an actor

  21. Sir Richard MacCormac, Eileen Ford, Nigel Ryan, Zohra Sehgal, Frank Mumford

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, a modelling agent, an editor, an actress, a puppeteer

  22. James Garner, Joep Lange, Alan Alan, Philip Wayre, Dora Bryan

    Julian Worricker on an actor, a physician, a naturalist, an actress and an escapologist

  23. Elaine Stritch, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Scudamore and Lorin Maazel

    Matthew Bannister on an actress, a writer, a jockey and a conductor.

  24. Alfredo Di Stefano, Eduard Shevardnadze, Ultra Violet, Chester Nez and Horace Silver

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a Georgian politician, an artist and a code talker.

  25. Bobby Womack, Stephanie Kwolek, Dermot Healy, Viktor Sukhodrev, Delia Craig

    Julian Worricker on a singer, a chemist, a writer, an interpreter and a conservationist.

  26. Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

    Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a TUC leader, an author and one of the Guildford Four.

  27. Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews

    Matthew Bannister remembers a songwriter, a pilot, a chemist and an actor.

  28. Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming, Alan Douglas

    Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, a psychiatrist, a children's writer and a cyclist.

  29. Lady Mary Soames, Gordon Willis, Clyde Snow, Count Suckle

    Obituaries for Churchill's daughter, a cinematographer, a forensic scientist and a DJ.

  30. Maya Angelou, Malcolm Glazer, Tessa Watts, General Jaruzelski, Herb Jeffries

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, a businessman, a music video producer and a Polish leader.

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