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    An Irish poet, a woman stockbroker, a Roma King and a Welsh rugby player

    Matthew Bannister remembers Seamus Heaney, Muriel Siebert, Florin Cioaba and Cliff Morgan.

  2. A writer, a lawyer, a motor racing team owner, an actress and an entrepreneur

    Aasmah Mir on Elmore Leonard, Rosalia Mera, Jacques Verges and John Coombs.

  3. A Holocaust activist, a Hollywood actress, a jazz keyboardist, a stuntman and a tugboat hero

    Aasmah Mir recalls Betty Maxwell, Mark Sutton, Karen Black, Kenneth Dancy and George Duke.

  4. A Falklands War admiral, a writer and rock musician, an engineer who developed fracking, a French actress, a folk singer

    Matthew Bannister remembers Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, Mick Farren and Bernadette Lafont.

  5. A sex therapist, an archeologist, a modelling agent, a meditation teacher and a guitarist and songwriter

    Jane Little on Virginia Johnson, Mike Morwood, John Casablancas, Sonia Moriceau, JJ Cale.

  6. A White House journalist, a comedian, an artist, a technology guru, and a blues musician

    Matthew Bannister on Helen Thomas, William Turner, Mel Smith, Dr James Martin and more.

  7. A footballer, a Scottish nationalist, painter, an evolutionary theorist, a Liberal activist and a TV producer

    Matthew Bannister on Bert Trautmann, Kay Matheson, Elaine Morgan, Lord Chitnis, Ray Butt.

  8. An Afghan police officer, a prisoner of war, a TV presenter, an Egyptian princess and an American jazz pianist

    Matthew Bannister on Alan Whicker, Islam Bibi, Lord Campbell, Paul Smith, Princess Fawzia.

  9. A computer pioneer, a Hungarian politician, a choral director, an animator and a Native American tribal executive

    Aasmah Mir remembers Douglas Engelbart, Gyula Horn, Richard Marlow and Marjorie Anderson.

  10. An archaeologist, a psychoanalyst, a former Lord Advocate, a writer and an aboriginal singer

    Matthew Bannister on Mick Aston, Betty Joseph, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Michael Baigent.

  11. An actor, a youth worker, a ballet dancer, a poet and a local radio presenter

    Matthew Bannister on James Gandolfini, Elizabeth Braund, David Wall and Oliver Bernard.

  12. A novelist, a racehorse trainer, a swimmer and film star, a key figure in the Warsaw Pact and 'the fastest granny on water'

    Matthew Bannister on Iain Banks, Sir Henry Cecil, Esther Williams, the Countess of Arran.

  13. A novelist, a botanist, a TV writer, a missionary and a composer

    Mark Coles on Tom Sharpe, Nigel Hepper, Anne Valery, Henri Dutilleux, Molly Clutton-Brock.

  14. An actor, a child behavioural researcher, a French singer-songwriter, a chemist, a lighthouse keeper and a bass player

    Matthew Bannister recalls Bill Pertwee, Joyce Robertson, Georges Moustaki and George Gray.

  15. A comedy writer, a founding member of The Doors, an Argentine dictator, a Pakistani politician and an escapologist

    Matthew Bannister on Ray Manzarek, Jorge Videla, Zahra Shahid Hussain and Eddie Braben.

  16. A geophysicist, a pro-life campaigner, a former Ford UK chief executive, a composer and an actor

    Matthew Bannister on Joe Farman, Dr Margaret White, Sir Terence Beckett and Arnold Peters.

  17. An architect, the founder of Ms magazine, an Olympic sailor, an Italian politician and a film director

    Remembering Andrew Simpson, Bryan Forbes, Giulio Andreotti, Mary Thom and Rick Mather.

  18. A country singer, a Labour Party General Secretary, a film star, a cellist and a co-housing campaigner

    Matthew Bannister on George Jones, Jim Mortimer, Deanna Durbin, Janos Starker.

  19. An interior designer, a theatre director, a cricketer, a prima ballerina and a musician

    Matthew Bannister on Jocasta Innes, Patrick Garland, Mike Denness and Maria Tallchief.

  20. A conductor, a Hillsborough campaigner, an album cover designer, an immunologist and an ethnomusicologist

    Matthew Bannister on Sir Colin Davis, Anne Williams, Storm Thorgerson and Brigitte Askonas

  21. A former Prime Minister, an IVF pioneer, a Corgi toy designer and a Muppets co-creator

    Matthew Bannister on Baroness Thatcher, Sir Robert Edwards and Marcel Van Cleemput.

  22. A screenwriter, a champagne maker, a learning disabilities campaigner, a president, a Welsh poet and a music producer

    Matthew Bannister remembers Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henri Krug, Mabel Cooper and Moses Blah.

  23. An actor, a Russian tycoon, a 蜜芽传媒 producer, a Bangladeshi president and a Motown producer

    John Wilson remembers Richard Griffiths, Boris Berezovsky, Zillur Rahman and Angela Bond.

  24. A famous African author, a plotter against Hitler, a horror writer, an actor and an illustrator

    Matthew Bannister remembers Chinua Achebe, James Herbert, Frank Thornton and Barbara Firth

  25. A Swedish princess, a Khmer Rouge leader, a sports commentator, an HIV/Aids counsellor, and a blues-rock guitarist

    Matthew Bannister on Ieng Sary, Princess Lilian of Sweden, Tony Gubba and John Shine.

  26. A president, a jazz trumpeter, an economist, a socialite and codebreaker and a conductor

    John Wilson on Hugo Chavez, Kenny Ball, William Letwin, Sarah Baring, Wolfgang Sawallisch.

  27. A train robber, an actress, an animator, a TV executive and a human rights activist

    John Wilson on Bruce Reynolds, Elspet Gray, Bob Godfrey, Denis Forman, St茅phane Hessel.

  28. A sitcom favourite, a philosopher of law, a founder of Scottish skiing and a singer-songwriter

    Matthew Bannister remembers Richard Briers, Ronald Dworkin, Eileen Fuchs and Kevin Ayers.

  29. A table tennis champion, a zoo vet, a make-up artist, a radio presenter and a trombonist

    Remembering Zhuang Zedong, David Taylor, Stuart Freeborn, Patricia Hughes and Paul Tanner.

  30. A New York mayor, a Navy Seal, an anti-apartheid activist, a toymaker, a rock musician and an English king

    Matthew Bannister on Amina Cachalia, Reg Presley, Chris Kyle, Andre Cassagnes, Richard III

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