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A Russian opera diva, a famous British housebuilder, a reluctant union leader and a '60s trendsetter called 'Mr Freedom'

Matthew Bannister on Sir Lawrie Barratt, Galina Vishnevskaya, Jack Hart and Tommy Roberts.

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An American General, a legendary radio producer, a former Times editor, a British composer, a cricket commentator

Matthew Bannister on General Norman Schwarzkopf, Charles Chilton, Lord Rees Mogg and more.

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A Nobel-winning scientist, a French mountaineer, a sociologist, a former 大象传媒 DG and the voice of Listen With Mother

Matthew Bannister on Alasdair Milne, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Maurice Herzog, Stanley Cohen.

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A broadcaster, Montreux Jazz Festival founder, medical missionary, Nobel-winning economist and nun-turned-sex-columnist

Matthew Bannister on Robert Kee, Claude Nobs, George Patterson and James Buchanan.

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A human rights activist, a film director, an agony aunt, a laser pioneer and a culinary star

Matthew Bannister on Inez McCormack, Michael Winner, Pauline Phillips and Katie Stewart.

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An architect, a fox hunter, a publisher, a star of musicals, a pioneering sociologist and the last surviving Andrews Sister

On John Hopkins, Lizbeth Webb, Peter Carson, Mary McIntosh and Migs Greenall.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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An actor, a Russian tycoon, a 大象传媒 producer, a Bangladeshi president and a Motown producer

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

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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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