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Prof Stuart Hall, Jean Babilée, Tony Crook, Shirley Temple Black
Matthew Bannister remembers a sociologist, a dancer, a car maker and a child star.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jose Sulaiman, Anna Gordy Gaye, Ron Hall, Peter Austin
Matthew Bannister recalls an actor, a journalist, a Motown exec and a boxing administrator
Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey, Sir Run Run Shaw
A singer and activist, an architect, a British Steel chairman and a movie mogul.
Lord McAlpine, Jocelyn Hay, Amiri Baraka, Sir Christopher Chataway, Claudio Abbado
Matthew Bannister on a Tory fundraiser, a broadcasting campaigner, a poet and a runner.
Roger Lloyd Pack, Prof Julian B Rotter, Hiroo Onoda, Rae Woodland, Ariel Sharon
Remembering an actor, a psychologist, an opera singer and a former Israeli prime minister.
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.
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.
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
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.
Paul Ausseresses, Olivia Robertson, Noel Woodall, Hugh de Wardener, Junior Murvin
Matthew Bannister on a general, an archpriestess, an autonumerologist and a nephrologist.
