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