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Scientist whose Cold War project to cure radiation sickness became a boon for sporting cheats
18 Jan 2011
'Leftfield’ theatre pioneer known as La Mama whose work established the 'Off-Off-Broadway’ scene
18 Jan 2011
Prep school headmaster of the eccentric, old-fashioned sort, who cherished cricket, classics and the cane
18 Jan 2011
Featuring a record-breaking art-collector, a Cypriot bassist with Japan, and the son of the Shah of Iran
18 Jan 2011
Grandson of a prime minister and son of a war hero who inherited ability but not political ambition
17 Jan 2011
Electrical engineer who used his flair for invention to make important contributions to medical science
17 Jan 2011
Magician who performed for royalty and for British troops in the Falklands
17 Jan 2011
Actress who epitomised the 'Swinging Sixties' and excelled in some of the classic films of the era
16 Jan 2011
Aggressive centre-forward for Bolton Wanderers and England who earned the nickname 'Lion of Vienna’
16 Jan 2011
Artillery officer who fought from North Africa up through Italy to Lake Garda
16 Jan 2011
Pragmatic head of the Derry Red Cross during the Troubles who once entertained the IRA to tea
14 Jan 2011
Poet and schoolgirl muse of the Beat Generation who wrote a memoir described as 'a feminist On the Road’
14 Jan 2011
Ebullient governor of the Punjab whose bravery in standing up to religious extremists cost him his life
13 Jan 2011
Protégée of Johnny Mercer who had a string of hits in the 1940s and 1950s
13 Jan 2011
Actress who starred opposite Robby the Robot in 'Forbidden Planet’, a sci-fi update of Shakespeare’s 'Tempest’
13 Jan 2011
SOE officer who parachuted into the Balkans and went on to negotiate with Saddam Hussein
12 Jan 2011
Daredevil photographer who escaped poverty to capture harrowing images of the 1956 Hungarian uprising
12 Jan 2011
City broker who worshipped Elvis and had his first drink at six weeks old
12 Jan 2011
Controversial but effective mastermind behind the radical redevelopment of London’s Docklands
11 Jan 2011
Labour MP who deplored the violence of the miners' strike and found himself ousted by the Scargillites
11 Jan 2011
American soldier whose exploits with 'Easy’ Company during D-Day were celebrated in 'Band of Brothers’
11 Jan 2011
Last survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania who was saved by her teenaged nursemaid
11 Jan 2011
Literary critic, anthologist and man of letters once described as 'the best-read man in Britain’
10 Jan 2011
British director behind the first – and still the best – car chase in film, the epic 10-minute pursuit in Bullitt
10 Jan 2011
Chief executive of the Morning Star who took issue with her fellow communists
10 Jan 2011
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Actress who epitomised the 'Swinging Sixties' and excelled in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
American soldier whose exploits with 'Easy’ Company during D-Day were celebrated in 'Band of Brothers’
SOE officer who parachuted into the Balkans and went on to negotiate with Saddam Hussein
Australian spymaster who was sacked amid great scandal only for his good name to be restored
Spitfire pilot shot down at Monte Cassino who was the only RAF serviceman to bail out of an enemy aircraft
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