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Abdul Sattar Edhi, Professor Suzanne Corkin, Bernardo Provenzano, Garry Marshall

Matthew Bannister on a humanitarian, a neuroscientist, a mafia don, a comedy director.

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Gary S Paxton, Sally Beauman, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Dickens, Marni Nixon

Matthew Bannister on a hostage, a singer, songwriter and producer, an author, a cartoonist

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Luc Hoffmann, Sylvia Peters, Joe Powell, William Smethurst, Sandy Pearlman

Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, an announcer, a stuntman, an editor, a rock manager.

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Bishop Edward Daly, Ahmed Zewail, Suzanne Wright, Duke of Westminster, Ivo Pitanguy

Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a chemist, an autism campaigner, a duke, a plastic surgeon.

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Bob Kiley, Professor Paul Robertson, Elizabeth Spillius, Shahram Amiri, Tony Chater, Arthur Hiller

Julian Worricker on a scientist, a musician, a psychoanalyst, a public servant, an editor.

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Sir Antony Jay, Donald Henderson, Tom Cholmondeley, Patsy Wright-Warren CBE, Lord Rix

Julian Worricker on a writer, an epidemiologist, an aristocrat, a nurse, an entertainer.

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Joao Havelange, Sonia Rykiel, Gene Wilder, Toots Thielemans

Matthew Bannister on a FIFA president, a fashion designer, an actor, a jazz musician.

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The Right Rev David Jenkins, Dame Margaret Anstee, Islam Karimov, Richard Neville

Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a diplomat, a president and an editor.

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Barry Myers, Eileen Younghusband, Robin Spark, Keith McDougall, Prince Buster

Matthew Bannister on a director, a filter officer, an artist, a countryman, a ska star.

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Edward Albee, James Cronin, Caroline Thomson OBE, Sir Frederick Holliday, Charmian Carr

Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a physicist, a health administrator and a zoologist.

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Shimon Peres, Nathalie Evans, Arnold Palmer, Bill Mollison, Jean Shepard

Shimon Peres, Nathalie Evans, Arnold Palmer, Bill Mollison, Jean Shepard.

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Sir Neville Marriner, Father Gabriele Amorth, Beryl Crockford, Professor Louis Herman, Rod Temperton

Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an exorcist, a rower, a psychologist and a songwriter.

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King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Dario Fo, Jean Bloxam, Andrew Vicari, Don Buchla

Matthew Bannister on a king, a playwright, a racing driver, a painter, a musical inventor.

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Jean Alexander, Trinh Thi Ngo, Ian Mercer, Joseph Harmatz, Joan Marie Johnson

Matthew Bannister on an actress, a broadcaster, a naturalist, an 'Avenger' and a singer.

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Raine, Countess Spencer, James "Jimmy" Perry, Stylianos Pattakos, Howard Davies, Bobby Vee

Matthew Bannister on a countess, a comedy writer, a Greek general, a director, a singer.

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Tom Hayden, Valerie Hunter Gordon, Carole Blake, Anne Pashley

Matthew Bannister on a political activist, an inventor, a literary agent, an opera singer.

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Leonard Cohen, Lt Col Robert Montgomery MC, Janet Reno, Sir Jimmy Young

Matthew Bannister on a singer, a war hero, a US attorney general, a broadcaster.

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Robert Vaughn, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, Carolyn Hardy OBE, Ewen Whitaker, Claude 'Curly' Putman

Matthew Bannister on an actor, an astronomer, a gardener, a philanthropist, a singer.

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Martin Aitchison, Sir Mota Singh QC, William Trevor, Ruth Gruber, David Mancuso

Kate Silverton on an artist, a judge, a writer, a photojournalist and a party host.

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Andrew Sachs, Fidel Castro, Mose Allison, The Honourable Margaret Rhodes

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a revolutionary leader, a singer, the Queen's cousin.

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John Glenn, Peter Vaughan, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, Greg Lake

Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, an actor, an Indian politician, a musician.

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Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill

Matthew Bannister on a glazier, a journalist, a carer, a palaeobotanist, a weatherman.

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Michael Nicholson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lord Prior, Rabbi Lionel Blue, Pauline Oliveros

Julian Worricker on a journalist, an actress, a politician, a rabbi, a composer.

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Last Word End of Year Special

Matthew Bannister and Nick Serpell recall a year when obituarists were in huge demand.

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John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton, Brian Widlake and George Michael

Julian Worricker on a writer, a linguist, a broadcaster, a musician, a surgeon, two actors

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Lord Snowdon, Graham Taylor, Jill Saward, Peter Sarstedt, Clare Hollingworth

Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist.

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Baroness Heyhoe Flint, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Una Kroll, William Peter Blatty, Sir James Mancham

Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, two presidents, a campaigner, a writer.

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Tam Dalyell MP, Victor Lownes, Babette Cole, Zhou Youguang, Gorden Kaye

Matthew Bannister on an MP, a playboy, a children's author, a linguist, an actor.

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Sir John Hurt, Margaret Pereira CBE, Sir Christopher Bland, Emma Tennant, Mary Tyler Moore

Matthew Bannister on two actors, a forensic scientist, a chairman, a writer.

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Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta

Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a secretary, a businessman and an author.

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