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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
An actor, a Russian tycoon, a BBC producer, a Bangladeshi president and a Motown producer
John Wilson remembers Richard Griffiths, Boris Berezovsky, Zillur Rahman and Angela Bond.
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
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.
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.
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, Stéphane Hessel.
