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Antonio Bianco
Master diamond cutter who was entrusted with crafting the world's largest, most precious gems
30 Jun 2009
Air Vice-Marshal Professor John Ernsting
Aviation doctor who analysed the effects of high altitude and influenced the design of Concorde
30 Jun 2009
Godfrey Rampling
Britain's longest-lived Olympic gold medallist who was one of the finest relay runners in history
29 Jun 2009
Viscount Bledisloe
Popular peer and QC whose interests included roulette and rhododendrons, fly-fishing and the Cresta Run
29 Jun 2009
Gale Storm
Hollywood actress often cast as 'the girl the cowboy left behind', who later starred in her own television series
29 Jun 2009
Major Jack Bazzard
Artillery officer mistakenly arrested as a German after a deadly assault that earned him an MC
28 Jun 2009
Boris Pokrovsky
Opera director whose career flourished despite an ill-advised attempt to 'improve' Stalin's favourite tunes
28 Jun 2009
Allen Greenwood
Aerospace executive who opposed nationalisation and lobbied valiantly but in vain for the doomed TSR2
28 Jun 2009
Michael Jackson
Pop music's greatest talent, celebrated for his 'Moonwalk' and infectious dancefloor-fillers, but long tainted by child abuse scandal
26 Jun 2009
Farrah Fawcett
All-American beauty whose pin-up good looks translated into screen success with Charlie’s Angels
25 Jun 2009
Group Captain Everett Baudoux
U-boat hunter who harassed the enemy in the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and off Norway
25 Jun 2009
Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald
Doctor who treated her own cancer while she served in the Antarctic
25 Jun 2009
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Farrah Fawcett
All-American beauty whose pin-up good looks translated into screen success with Charlie’s Angels
Michael Jackson
Pop music's greatest talent, celebrated for his 'Moonwalk' and infectious dancefloor-fillers, but long tainted by child abuse scandal
Gale Storm
Hollywood actress often cast as 'the girl the cowboy left behind', who later starred in her own television series
Iz the Wiz
Graffiti artist whose 'throw-ups', 'burners' and 'top-to-bottom jammies' made him 'king' of NYC
Lady Carrington
Gifted plantswoman who also gave untiring support to her husband, Lord Carrington, in his many roles
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Major Martin Clemens
British colonial officer who hid from the Japanese on Guadalcanal to feed intelligence to the Allies
24 Jun 2009
Jean 'Johnny' Hugel
Scion of a French wine dynasty who put Alsace on the map and ran a brothel for the Nazis in wartime Italy
24 Jun 2009
Professor Jean Dausset
Nobel Prize-winning doctor who uncovered the genetic secrets of the human immune system
23 Jun 2009
Iz the Wiz
Graffiti artist whose 'throw-ups', 'burners' and 'top-to-bottom jammies' made him 'king' of NYC
23 Jun 2009
Sir Henry Hodge
High Court judge who frequently frustrated the government despite his friendship with the Blairs
22 Jun 2009
Steve Race
Musician and broadcaster who chaired all 520 episodes of My Music and devised Telegraph crosswords
22 Jun 2009
Ghassan Hanna
Palestinian who practised surgery in Britain having defied the odds to realise his dream of becoming a doctor
22 Jun 2009
Jack Eddy
Astronomer who changed the way we view the Sun and how it influences the Earth’s climate
21 Jun 2009
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Indian classical musician who was discovered by Yehudi Menuhin and inspired The Beatles
21 Jun 2009
Lieutenant-Commander Max Shean
X-craft submariner who took his skills in sabotage to the fjords of Norway and the Pacific Ocean
19 Jun 2009
Flossie Lane
Oldest innkeeper in Britain whose unspoilt parlour pub boasted no bar, no till and no trouble
19 Jun 2009
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