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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.
Frederick Sanger, Doris Lessing, Ray Gosling, Jock Kane, Austin John Marshall
A biochemist, an author, a broadcaster, a whistleblower and a record producer.
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.
A BBC 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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
