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David Butt, flautist known to Prommers for his frenetic Sailor’s Hornpipe
He played under conductors including Sir Adrian Boult and Pierre Boulez and appeared in 38 Last Nights of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall
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Paddy Mackie, Northern Irish conservationist and noted gardener who was kidnapped by republicans
Mackie monitored the birdlife at Strangford Lough and today his Castle Espie wetland reserve features on BBC Countryfile and Springwatch
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Margaret Gale, vivacious and nimble-voiced soprano who was a stalwart of 1960s Sadler’s Wells
She gained a reputation as a deft last-minute cover and in 1964 sang one of the twittery nieces in Peter Grimes at three hours’ notice
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Peter Garland, biochemist who led the Institute of Cancer Research as it made vital new discoveries
He played a key role in the development of Humira – for rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease – which become a top-selling medicine
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Gene Hackman, rugged Hollywood legend who won Oscars for The French Connection and Unforgiven
Hollywood provided an escape route from a childhood scarred with traumas which helped form Hackman’s nervy and rage-fuelled screen persona
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Tony Roberts, actor warmly remembered as Woody Allen’s handsome pal in films including Annie Hall
Roberts said of his good friend Allen: ‘I would like to have his gift and his genius and his brain… I wouldn’t want his deeper neuroses”
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Nigel McCrery, creator of Silent Witness and New Tricks who drew on his career in the police
For Tomorrow’s World he tested bones found in woods outside Ekaterinburg and confirmed that they belonged to Tsar Nicholas II and his family
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The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Ismailis and jet-setting billionaire philanthropist
He was a keen race-goer and skier and developed the exclusive Costa Smeralda yachting resort in Sardinia
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Tony Martin, farmer whose shooting of a teenage burglar sparked national soul-searching
The reality was that Martin’s story was not that of a folk hero, but of a deluded, unstable and lonely man who never got the help he needed
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Marianne Faithfull, star of the Sixties with big natural talent and a self-destructive streak
‘You wanted to seduce her, to protect her... She was everything you could want in a woman that you couldn’t possibly have’
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Michael Baggott, expert on antique silver who valued objects on BBC TV’s Flog It!
One item Baggott was asked to examine turned out to be a rare Aboriginal shield and was bought for £30,000 by Sydney Museum of Primitive Art
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Bertrand Blier, French director behind racy arthouse classics Les valseuses and Trop belle pour toi!
Les valseuses, Blier’s ‘French Clockwork Orange’, combines earthy humour with depictions of brutish violence towards women
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Tony Slattery, mercurial comedian and actor whose improvisations lit up Whose Line Is It Anyway?
He brought an edge of danger to light entertainment, but in his 1990s heyday he became visibly exhausted by his punishing schedule
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Jack Bond, filmmaker behind the Pet Shop Boys’ It Couldn’t Happen Here and Dali in New York
Bond was nearly sacked as a BBC trainee after inventing outraged viewer responses during an early run of Points of View
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Oliviero Toscani, Benetton art director notorious for his shocking photos in advertising campaigns
In ‘All the colors of the world’ children of different ethnicities wore Benetton jumpers, but later campaigns pushed the boundaries of taste
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Rosita Missoni, co-founder of Missoni knitwear with its zigzag motifs and kaleidoscope of colour
Missoni knitted designs were like ‘Vuitton bags and Gucci shoes’ with fans ranging from Jacqueline Onassis to the current Princess of Wales
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Wayne Osmond, original member of family band The Osmonds, white America’s answer to the Jackson 5
Osmonds events prompted scenes of teen hysteria, and Wayne remembered two young fans posting themselves to the group inside a large crate
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Johnnie Walker, much-loved BBC radio DJ with an authentic love of music and an easy style
A listeners’ favourite, he bounced back from scandals including ‘payola’ in the 1970s and a News of the World sting revealing cocaine use
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R Barry O’Brien, Telegraph newshound who was a figure of awe to all who encountered him
Colleagues marvelled at his ability to make sense of the most complicated stories and his moral authority derived from rock-like Catholicism
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Dickie Rock, frontman of the Miami Showband who enjoyed superstar status in his native Ireland
Rock’s showy onstage persona drove young female fans wild, but it sometimes went down badly with Ireland’s conservative Establishment
