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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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A film director, a property developer, a radio operator, an actor and a rock legend

Matthew Bannister on Antonia Bird, Paul Reichmann, Robert Ford, Nigel Davenport, Lou Reed.

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A 大象传媒 political editor, a naturalist, a landscape architect, a Sultan and a union leader

John Cole, John Cloudsley-Thompson, Georgina Livingston, Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and more

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A British composer, a Northern Irish MP, a Romanian architect, a German mayor and a British supercentenarian

Sir John Tavener, Manfred Rommel, Anca Petrescu, Eddie McGrady and Grace Jones.

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Frederick Sanger, Doris Lessing, Ray Gosling, Jock Kane, Austin John Marshall

A biochemist, an author, a broadcaster, a whistleblower and a record producer.

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A priest, Walt Disney's daughter, a centenarian Labour campaigner, a footballer, an actor

Father Alec Reid, Diane Disney Miller, Hetty Bower, Bill Foulkes and Lewis Collins.

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Paul Ausseresses, Olivia Robertson, Noel Woodall, Hugh de Wardener, Junior Murvin

Matthew Bannister on a general, an archpriestess, an autonumerologist and a nephrologist.

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Stan Tracey, General Alfonso Armada, Mary Eyre, Bob George, Mary Riggans

A jazz musician, a Spanish general, a hockey international, a flea expert and an actress.

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Peter O'Toole, Lord Roberts of Conwy, Colin Wilson, Joan Fontaine, Ronnie Briggs

Matthew Bannister recalls an actor, a politician, an author, an actress and a train robber

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, John Fortune, Vera Houghton, Sir Christopher Curwen, Harold Camping

A novelist, a satirist, a family planning pioneer, an MI6 chief and a Doomsday evangelist.

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Simon Hoggart, Prof Janet Rowley, Saul Zaentz, Terry Biddlecombe, Phil Everly

A journalist, a cancer researcher, a film producer, a jockey, and an Everly Brother.

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