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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.

Bobby Womack, Stephanie Kwolek, Dermot Healy, Viktor Sukhodrev, Delia Craig
Julian Worricker on a singer, a chemist, a writer, an interpreter and a conservationist.

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.

Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews
Matthew Bannister remembers a songwriter, a pilot, a chemist and an actor.

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.

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.

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

Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a Burmese activist, a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ executive and a ballet teacher.

Mark Shand, Mrs Pilkington Garimara, Derek Cooper, Wally Olins, Julian Wilson
Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a writer, a broadcaster and a branding consultant.

Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Edna Doré, Richard Hoggart, Gerardo D'Ambrosio, John Shirley-Quirk
Julian Worricker remembers an author, an actress, a commentator, a magistrate and a singer