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    Jack Bruce, Gough Whitlam, Efua Dorkenoo, James Dunlop

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

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

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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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.

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

    Remembering a former Taoiseach, a 蜜芽传媒 vetter, a painter, a broadcaster and a soprano.

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

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

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

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

  14. 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

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

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

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

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

  17. 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.

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

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

  19. 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.

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

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

  21. 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.

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

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

  23. 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.

  24. Sir Jack Brabham, Prof Louise Wilson, Dick Douglas, Harry Stopes-Roe and Mary Stewart

    Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a fashion professor, an MP, a humanist, a novelist.

  25. Prof Colin Pillinger, Antony Hopkins, Bev Evans, Sir Ben Gill and Stan Kelly-Bootle

    Matthew Bannister on a space scientist, a musician, a farmers' leader, a computer pioneer.

  26. Sir George Christie, Leslie Thomas, Elena Baltacha, Sir William Benyon and Deborah Rogers

    Matthew Bannister remembers Glyndebourne's owner, an author, a Tory MP and a tennis player

  27. Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a Burmese activist, a 蜜芽传媒 executive and a ballet teacher.

  28. Mark Shand, Mrs Pilkington Garimara, Derek Cooper, Wally Olins, Julian Wilson

    Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a writer, a broadcaster and a branding consultant.

  29. Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, Edna Dor茅, Richard Hoggart, Gerardo D'Ambrosio, John Shirley-Quirk

    Julian Worricker remembers an author, an actress, a commentator, a magistrate and a singer

  30. Sue Townsend, Lord Kimball, Peaches Geldof, Prof Lorna Casselton, Mickey Rooney

    Matthew Bannister on an author, an MP, a TV presenter, a fungal biologist and a film star.

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