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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Two broadcasters, a folk singer and a science journalist

Matthew Bannister on Sir David Frost, David Dickson, Louisa Jo Killen and David Jacobs.

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An inventor, an autogyro pilot, a photographer, a science fiction writer and a circus performer

Matthew Bannister on Ray Dolby, Wing Cdr Kenneth Wallis, Frederick Pohl and Lydia Gridneff

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An RAF air marshal, a cancer care centre founder, a chocolate maker, a singer and a broadcaster

Sir John Curtiss, Pat Pilkington, Brian Sollitt, Joan Regan, Tom Vernon, Franco de Gemini.

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A Ghanaian poet, an addiction counsellor, a beat writers' muse and a special branch officer

Matthew Bannister remembers Kofi Awoonor, Peter Kay, Carolyn Cassady and Ferguson Smith.

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A thriller writer, a musician, the Kabbalah Centre founder and a Hammer Horror producer

Matthew Bannister on Tom Clancy, Lindsay Cooper, Rabbi Philip Berg and Anthony Hinds.

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Maria de Villota, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Dr Ruth Patrick, Kathleen Watkins, Phil Chevron

Matthew Bannister remembers Maria de Villota, General Vo Nguyen Giap and Dr Ruth Patrick.

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A Buddhist leader, a cookery writer, a Motown stylist, an Australian criminal and a whisky distiller

Aasmah Mir on Choje Akong Rinpoche, Marcella Hazan, Maxine Powell and Mark 'Chopper' Read.

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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

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