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Elizabeth Jane Howard, John Fortune, Vera Houghton, Sir Christopher Curwen, Harold Camping
A novelist, a satirist, a family planning pioneer, an MI6 chief and a Doomsday evangelist.
Peter O'Toole, Lord Roberts of Conwy, Colin Wilson, Joan Fontaine, Ronnie Briggs
Matthew Bannister recalls an actor, a politician, an author, an actress and a train robber
Stan Tracey, General Alfonso Armada, Mary Eyre, Bob George, Mary Riggans
A jazz musician, a Spanish general, a hockey international, a flea expert and an actress.
Paul Ausseresses, Olivia Robertson, Noel Woodall, Hugh de Wardener, Junior Murvin
Matthew Bannister on a general, an archpriestess, an autonumerologist and a nephrologist.
A priest, Walt Disney's daughter, a centenarian Labour campaigner, a footballer, an actor
Father Alec Reid, Diane Disney Miller, Hetty Bower, Bill Foulkes and Lewis Collins.
Frederick Sanger, Doris Lessing, Ray Gosling, Jock Kane, Austin John Marshall
A biochemist, an author, a broadcaster, a whistleblower and a record producer.
A British composer, a Northern Irish MP, a Romanian architect, a German mayor and a British supercentenarian
Sir John Tavener, Manfred Rommel, Anca Petrescu, Eddie McGrady and Grace Jones.
A BBC political editor, a naturalist, a landscape architect, a Sultan and a union leader
John Cole, John Cloudsley-Thompson, Georgina Livingston, Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and more
A film director, a property developer, a radio operator, an actor and a rock legend
Matthew Bannister on Antonia Bird, Paul Reichmann, Robert Ford, Nigel Davenport, Lou Reed.
A sculptor, a comedian, a social worker and Yugoslavia's First Lady
Matthew Bannister recalls Sir Anthony Caro, Jovanka Broz, Felix Dexter and Olive Stevenson
