2016 deaths: The great, the good and the lesser known
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38418802
The year 2016 has been called that of the big celebrity death. But alongside notable names such as Bowie, Muhammad Ali and Victoria Wood, were others - many of whom had not lived in quite such an intense public glare.
With the first months of the year seeing a flurry of death announcements, it has been suggested that 2016 has seen a higher than normal number of "famous deaths".
Now, at the year's end, take a closer look at the lives of 34 people - some better known than others - who died in the past 12 months. And then scroll on to see who else we said goodbye to in 2016.
Other notable deaths of 2016:
- US musician and singer, best remembered in the UK for his 1980s signature hit Trapped
Ernestine Anderson - US jazz and blues singer
Pierre Boulez - French composer and conductor, he also spearheaded the music venue The Paris Philharmonic
Pete Burns - Dead Or Alive lead singer who had a UK number one hit in 1985 with You Spin Me Round. He later became a reality TV star
John Chilton - jazz trumpeter who lead the Feetwarmers, the band that accompanied George Melly
Leonard Cohen - Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist - his work includes the song Hallelujah
Padraig Duggan - one of the founding members of Irish folk group Clannad
Keith Emerson - musician and composer - founding member of progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Emile Ford - musician who had a UK number one with What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?
Glenn Frey - US singer and musician, and founding member of the US rock band the Eagles
Valerie Gell - guitarist and singer with the 1960s all-female group The Liverbirds
David Gest - US music producer and reality star on UK television
Craig Gill - drummer with the Inspiral Carpets at the heart of the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 90s
Dale Griffin - drummer and founding member of the 1970s glam rock band Mott the Hoople
Nikolaus Harnoncourt - celebrated Austrian conductor considered to be the "pope" of the baroque music revival
Merle Haggard - American country music legend credited with helping to define the "Bakersfield sound" that influenced future country performers
Joan Marie Johnson - American co-founder of the 1960s pop trio The Dixie Cups, who recorded such classics as Chapel of Love and Iko Iko
Sharon Jones - American singer who spearheaded a soul revival movement with her band the Dap-Kings
Paul Kantner - American singer-guitarist, and founding member of the rock band Jefferson Airplane
Greg Lake - fronted both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Also known for his solo hit I Believe in Father Christmas
John D Loudermilk - American singer and songwriter best known for writing the 1960s hit Tobacco Road
Sir Neville Marriner - conductor and violinist who established the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, one of the world's leading chamber orchestras
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - celebrated for his prolific and often unpredictable compositions, later to become Master of the Queen's Music
Scotty Moore - pioneering rock guitarist who was a member of Elvis Presley's original band and helped Presley shape his musical sound
Andy 'Thunderclap' Newman - founder member of Thunderclap Newman, best known for their 1969 hit Something in the Air
Rick Parfitt - one of rock's most recognisable guitarists, he remained, with Francis Rossi, at the core of Status Quo - from their early psychedelic-inspired incarnation in the late 1960s, to their later brand of foot-tapping boogie-rock
Billy Paul - American soul singer best known for his 1972 US chart-topper Me and Mrs Jones
Harry Rabinowitz - composer and conductor, who conducted the scores for more than 60 films including Chariots of Fire
Leon Russell - American rock'n'roll hall of famer. Writer of hit songs including Delta Lady
Frank Sinatra Jr - American singer who carried on his father's legacy with his own career in music
Dave Swarbrick - folk musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work with group Fairport Convention
Rod Temperton - British songwriter best known for Michael Jackson's Thriller and Rock With You
Maurice White - founder of US soul group Earth, Wind & Fire, whose hits include September and Boogie Wonderland
Guy Woolfenden - long-serving musical director at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Colin Vearncombe - singer-songwriter who performed under the name Black. His 1987 single Wonderful Life was a top 10 hit around the world
Bobby Vee - US singer best known for hits including Rubber Ball, Take Good Care of My Baby and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Alan Vega - co-founder and frontman of the 1970s American electronic band suicide, which used early drum machines and synthesisers and was known for chaotic and violent shows
Joe Alaskey - US voice artist who, after the death of Mel Blanc in 1989, provided vocals for Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Jean Alexander - famous for playing Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden, one of the best-loved soap characters in British TV history
Sylvia Anderson - voice of Lady Penelope in the 1960s puppet series Thunderbirds - which she produced with her husband Gerry
Kenny Baker - starred as the "droid" R2-D2 - alongside C-3PO - in six Star Wars films from 1977
Ken Barrie - voice of the children's TV favourite Postman Pat
Charmian Carr - played the eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl in the 1965 film The Sound of Music
Alan Devereux - played the role of Sid Perks in BBC Radio 4's The Archers for nearly 50 years
Hazel Douglas - best known from her seven-decade career for the film role of Bathilda Bagshot in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Larry Drake - best known for playing office assistant Benny Stulwicz on the US show LA Law in the 1980s and 90s
Patty Duke - won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker in 1963
Ronnie Claire Edwards - best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey in the 1970s US show The Waltons
Ann Emery - veteran actress who played Ethel Meaker in children's show Rentaghost, and Grandma in the original stage cast of Billy Elliot
Frank Finlay - stage and screen actor, who earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Iago opposite Laurence Olivier in Othello in 1965
Zsa Zsa Gabor - Hungarian-born Hollywood actress, she appeared in more than 70 films but was more famous for her celebrity lifestyle and nine marriages
Bernard Gallagher - enjoyed a six-decade career, known for playing consultant Ewart Plimmer in the first three years of BBC series Casualty
George Gaynes - played Commandant Lassard in all seven Police Academy films
Vivean Gray - played the interfering busybody Mrs Mangel in the Australian soap Neighbours
Dan Haggerty - rose to fame starring as frontier woodsman Grizzly Adams in a film and TV series in the 1970s
Florence Henderson - from 1969 played matriarch Carol Brady in the US TV series The Brady Bunch
Robert Horton - played frontier scout Flint McCullough on the US TV western Wagon Train which ran from 1957 to 1965
Barry Howard - best known for his deadpan role as ballroom dancer Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in the holiday camp comedy Hi-de-Hi!
David Huddleston - played the title roles in The Big Lebowski and Santa Claus: The Movie
Frank Kelly - stage and screen actor best known for playing the ranting Father Jack in the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted
George Kennedy - won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Cool Hand Luke" in 1968, and also starred in The Dirty Dozen and The Naked Gun films
Burt Kwouk - most of his roles were straight ones, but best known as Inspector Clouseau's karate-kicking manservant Cato, in the Pink Panther films
Madeleine Lebeau - French actress who was the last surviving cast member of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, in which she played the part of Yvonne
William Lucas - played Dr Gordon 1970s equine children's drama The Adventures of Black Beauty
Valerie Lush - veteran actor who played Auntie Flo in the 1970s sitcoms And Mother Makes Three and And Mother Makes Five
Noel Neill - the first actress to play reporter Lois Lane in Superman on screen
Bill Nunn - best known for his role as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
Hugh O'Brian - starred as Wyatt Earp in the first US television Western aimed at adults, which began in 1955
Louise Plowright - played hairdresser Julie Cooper in EastEnders, and co-starred in Mamma Mia! the musical on the West End stage for five years
Debbie Reynolds - leading lady in a succession of Hollywood musicals and comedies after rising to fame, at the age of 19, in the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain opposite Gene Kelly. She died a day after the death of her daughter, Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher
Doris Roberts - played meddling mother Marie Barone in US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond
Andrew Sachs - his long and varied career was defined by his role as Spanish waiter Manuel in the classic BBC TV comedy Fawlty Towers
Sheila Sim - film and theatre actress, the wife of the actor and director Richard Attenborough
Morag Siller - actor known for her TV roles in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Casualty, she also also appeared on stage in Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables
David Swift - perhaps best known for playing news anchor Henry Davenport in the Channel 4 newsroom comedy Drop the Dead Donkey
Gareth Thomas - best known for the title role of Roj Blake, in the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7
Van Williams - played the masked crime-fighter The Green Hornet in the 1960s American TV series
Peter Vaughan - an ever-present figure on stage, screen and television, he gained huge audiences with sitcoms such as Porridge and more recently the Game of Thrones series
Robert Vaughn - an elegant presence in film and television for more than 50 years, best-known for playing Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Abe Vigoda - played Sal Tessio, an old friend of Marlon Brando's Don Corleone, in the classic mafia film The Godfather
Anton Yelchin - played Pavel Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek films released in 2009 and 2013
Alan Young - actor and comedian who starred alongside a talking horse in the popular sitcom Mr Ed in the 1960s
- Sir Ken Adam - famous for his work on Dr Strangelove and seven James Bond films, he also designed the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Hector Babenco - Argentine-born Brazilian director best known for Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1985
Robert Banks Stewart - created the Jersey-based detective Jim Bergerac and radio-DJ-cum-private-detective Eddie Shoestring for the BBC
Michael Cimino - director of the 1978 Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter
Jim Clark - British film editor who won an Oscar for his work on the 1984 movie The Killing Fields
Vlasta Dalibor - Czech-born British creator, with her husband Jan, of the squeaky-voiced puppets Pinky and Perky in 1956
Howard Davies - Olivier award-winner, known for his work at venues that included the Old Vic and National Theatre
Tony Dyson - British designer who built the R2-D2 droid model used in the original Star Wars films
Reg Grundy - television producer behind the Australian soap operas Neighbours, The Young Doctors and Prisoner: Cell Block H
Robin Hardy - best known for cult British film The Wicker Man, starring Sir Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward
Guy Hamilton - directed four James Bond films: Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever
Earl Hamner Jr - created the 1970s television show The Waltons, which was inspired by his own childhood
Arthur Hiller - Canadian director of Love Story who went on to be president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Sir Antony Jay - co-writer of the BBC TV political comedies Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
Garry Marshall - writer, director and actor behind Hollywood blockbusters Pretty Woman and Beaches, and sitcoms including Happy Days and Mork and Mindy
Gordon Murray - creator and puppeteer of the BBC children's series Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley
Jimmy Perry - one of the greatest British TV comedy writers best known for BBC series Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi!
Douglas Slocombe - British cinematographer who shot 80 films, from classic Ealing to the Indiana Jones adventures
William Smethurst - editor credited with revitalising BBC Radio 4's The Archers from 1978 to 1986
Robert Stigwood - Australian impresario who managed Cream and the Bee Gees before producing the rock musicals Saturday Night Fever and Grease
Tony Warren - created the UK's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street, inspired by the strong female figures around him when he was growing up in Salford
Michael White - British producer behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show film and Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Vilmos Zsigmond - Hungarian-born cinematographer known for his work on The Deer Hunter, for which he won a Bafta, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, for which he won an Oscar
Paul Daniels - brought a new dimension to the art of the stage magician, mixing complex tricks with jokes and non-stop patter on primetime Saturday night television
Garry Shandling - American stand-up comedian who played the title role in the Emmy award winning Larry Sanders Show from 1992 to 1998
Liz Smith - won a Bafta in 1984 for her part in the film A Private Function, she is most fondly remembered for her parts in the BBC sitcoms Vicar of Dibley and the Royle Family
Peggy Spencer - dancing legend known to millions of viewers for her role on BBC TV's Come Dancing
Sally Brampton - founding editor of Elle magazine in the UK and newspaper columnist, who had spoken of her struggle with depression
Dave Cash - veteran broadcaster who started with pirate Radio London, saw the launch of Radio 1 and Capital Radio, and since 1999 worked at BBC Radio Kent
David Duffield - passionate cycling commentator who worked for Eurosport across two decades
Dave Lanning - darts and speedway commentator who called the first televised nine-dart finish, by John Lowe in 1984, and covered 50 successive speedway world finals
Ian McCaskill - popular BBC weather forecaster for 20 years, who even had his own Spitting Image puppet
Cliff Michelmore - anchor of the BBC's current affairs show Tonight in the 1950s and 60s, who went on to host the Holiday programme
Michael Nicholson - veteran war correspondent who joined ITN in 1964, and reported on the fall of Saigon in 1975, the Falklands War, the Balkans conflict, the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Sylvia Peters - BBC television announcer for the Queen's 1953 coronation, and also helped Her Majesty prepare for her first Christmas broadcast
Denise Robertson - resident agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning
Ed "Stewpot" Stewart - radio and television presenter best known for his radio request show Junior Choice and the children's TV series Crackerjack
Gerald Williams - one of the voices of Wimbledon, who commentated on tennis for BBC television and radio
Richard Adams - author who turned a story he told to his two daughters on a long car journey into the best-selling novel Watership Down. The book, about a group of rabbits trying to escape from their threatened warren, was turned into an animated children's film in 1978
Martin Aitchison - produced technical drawings for the bouncing bomb ahead of the Dam Busters raid in World War Two, then an illustrator for the Eagle comic and Ladybird's Peter and Jane books in the 1950s and 60s
Edward Albee - Pulitzer prize-winning US playwright who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
ER Braithwaite - Guyanese-born British-American writer who wrote, based on his experiences as a black teacher in a London school, the 1959 novel To Sir, With Love, which was turned into a successful film
Anita Brookner - art historian turned author who wrote 24 novels and won the Booker prize in 1984 for Hotel du Lac
Pat Conroy - author whose best-selling novels include Prince of Tides and Water is Wide
Umberto Eco - Italian writer and philosopher best known for his novel The Name of the Rose
Dario Fo - Italian playwright and actor known for his cutting political satires and for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997
Margaret Forster - award-wining writer best known for her novels Georgy Girl and Diary of an Ordinary Woman
Barry Hines - author and screenwriter whose best known book, A Kestrel for a Knave, was turned into Ken Loach's 1969 film Kes
Jim Harrison - American writer best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall, which was made into a film starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins
Robert Nye - author and poet whose 1976 novel Falstaff won the Guardian fiction prize and the Hawthornden
Sir Peter Shaffer - playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, who won an Oscar for Amadeus and wrote Equus
King Bhumibol Adulyadej - seen as a stabilising figure in Thailand, the world's longest-reigning monarch, he died after 70 years as head of state
Lord Avebury - Eric Lubbock, later Lord Avebury, was the Liberal MP for Orpington for eight years, but went on to become a staunch human rights campaigner in the Lords
Lord Taylor of Blackburn - a dominant figure in Lancashire politics, Thomas Taylor led the Taylor report into school governing bodies in 1977, and entered the Lords as a life peer a year later
Rabbi Lionel Blue - a regular on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day and the first openly gay British rabbi, he was known for his liberal teachings and supporting other gay members of the Jewish faith
Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Egyptian-born UN Secretary-General between 1992 and 1996 who sharply divided world opinion
Sir Robin Chichester-Clark - former Ulster Unionist MP for Londonderry, a moderate who served in Edward Heath's government but, as sectarian violence worsened in Northern Ireland, he left politics in 1974
The Most Rev Edward Daly - retired Catholic Bishop of Derry, remembered as the priest who helped those under fire on Bloody Sunday in 1972
Harry Harpham - Labour MP, a former Nottinghamshire miner who was elected member for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in 2015
Luc Hoffmann - Swiss conservationist who was a co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund
The Right Rev David Jenkins - former Bishop of Durham dubbed the "unbelieving bishop" after saying he did not believe God would have arranged a virgin birth and the resurrection
Islam Karimov - long-serving and authoritarian president of former Soviet Central Asian state of Uzbekistan, accused of repressing his opponents
Lord Mayhew - former Conservative cabinet minister Patrick Mayhew served as Northern Ireland secretary and attorney general
Willie McKelvey - Scottish Labour MP from 1979 to 1997, and a mentor to politician George Galloway
Lord Parkinson - Conservative politician given much credit for the Tory landslide election victory in 1983, Cecil Parkinson quit the cabinet soon after, when it emerged his ex-secretary Sara Keays was carrying his child
Lord Prior - former Conservative cabinet minister Jim Prior served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s
Ken Purchase - former Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East, who represented his Black Country constituency for 18 years after being elected at the second attempt in 1992
David Rendel - Liberal Democrat politician who won the Newbury seat from the Conservatives in a by-election in 1993, and held the town until 2005
Antonin Scalia - influential and conservative justice of the American supreme court who defended the original text of the US Constitution
Elie Wiesel - Romanian-born US Nobel peace laureate, political campaigner and author who wrote about his experiences as a teenager in Nazi concentration camps, where he lost his mother, father and younger sister
Lady Elizabeth Longman - friend and bridesmaid to the Queen
Margaret Rhodes - Queen's first cousin and one of her most trusted confidantes
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne - Queen's cousin, Michael Fergus Bowes Lyon, who enhanced Glamis Castle
Raine, Countess Spencer - daughter of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland and stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales
The Duke of Westminster - billionaire landowner and philanthropist Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor was said to be the third richest person in the UK
Lord Briggs - Asa Briggs worked at the Bletchley Park code-breaking station during World War Two, and would become a leading historian and adult education pioneer, helping to set up the Open University and Sussex University
Denton Cooley - American surgeon who implanted the first totally artificial heart in a patient in 1969
Donald Henderson - US doctor and epidemiologist who led a successful World Heath Organization campaign to wipe out smallpox worldwide
John Glenn - the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962, who later became a Democratic senator
Henry Heimlich - US doctor credited with inventing, in 1974, a lifesaving anti-choking technique, which uses abdominal thrusts to clear a person's airway
Valerie Hunter Gordon - mother-of-six who invented the disposable nappy after having her third child, Nigel, in 1947
W Dudley Johnson - US heart surgeon who developed coronary bypass operations and performed thousands of operations
Vijay Kakkar - surgeon who moved to London in the mid-1960s and revolutionised treatment of blood clots in patients undergoing operations
Edgar Mitchell - US astronaut, sixth man to walk on the Moon, who went on to claim in 2008 that aliens had visited Earth and there had been government cover-up
John Murrell - theoretical chemist who pioneered a colour framework for chemical compounds, with his research into molecules and how they absorb light
Simon Ramo - US aerospace pioneer and architect of America's intercontinental ballistic missile system
Vera Rubin - US astronomer whose work on galaxy rotation rates led to the theory of dark matter
Piers Sellers - British-born Sellers joined the US space agency Nasa in 1982 as a scientist - but switched to the astronaut corps and made three Space Shuttle flights to the International Space Station
Joe Sutter - US aeronautical engineer considered the "Father of the Boeing 747"
Carlos Alberto - Brazilian footballing legend who captained the 1970 World Cup-winning side
Chris Amon - Formula 1 Ferrari driver from 1963 to 1976. Although considered one of the best drivers of the era, he never won a Grand Prix
Jack Bannister - BBC TV cricket commentator and Warwickshire seam bowler who took 1,198 first-class wickets during a 368-match county career from 1950 to 1968
Alastair Biggar - rugby player capped 12 times for Scotland between 1969 and 1972, and part of the victorious 1971 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand
Jack Bodell - former British and European heavyweight boxing champion who beat Joe Bugner in 1971
John Buckingham - jockey who became part of horse racing folklore in 1967 by steering the 100-1 shot Foinavon through a mass of fallers at the Grand National's 23rd fence, which was later named after the horse
Beryl Crockford (previously Mitchell) - World-champion and Olympic rower who later became an inspirational coach
John Disley - post-war Olympic steeplechaser and co-founder of the London marathon
Mel Charles - Swansea, Arsenal, Cardiff City and Port Vale footballer who played 31 times for Wales, including in the team that reached the quarter-final of the 1958 World Cup
Tony Cozier - West Indian cricket commentator remembered for a career in TV, radio and journalism spanning 58 years
Martin Crowe - former New Zealand cricket captain widely regarded as one of the team's best players, scoring 17 centuries and 5,444 runs in 77 Tests
Roddy Evans - former Cardiff, Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby lock, who won 13 caps for Wales and played 18 times for the Lions on the 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand
Anthony Foley - Munster rugby coach, who also captained Ireland three times and made more than 200 appearances in the back row for Munster as a player
Andy Ganteaume - former West Indies batsman, the only Test cricketer with a better average (112 in one innings) than Sir Donald Bradman (99.94 in 80 innings)
Trevor Goddard - South African cricketer, an all-rounder of the 1950s and 60s
Sylvia Gore - pioneering women's footballer who scored the first official goal for the England women's team - in 1972 against Scotland
David Green - 1960s Lancashire and Gloucestershire batsman who also played rugby for Bristol, Sale and Cheshire, and wrote about both sports for the Daily Telegraph
Ken Higgs - Lancashire and Leicestershire bowler who made his England debut at The Oval against South Africa in 1965
Enzo Maiorca - Italian spear fisherman who became a record-breaking free diver
Cesare Maldini - former AC Milan defender who managed Italy's national side at the 1998 World Cup finals
Hanif Mohammad - Pakistani cricketer who in 1958 played the longest innings in Test history - 16 hours and 10 minutes. In a first class match a year later, he made 499 - a record that stood for 35 years, until Warwickshire's Brian Lara made 501 in 1994
Gardnar Mulloy - US No 1 tennis player who played in his country's Davis Cup team in the 1950s, and in 1957 at the age of 43, became the oldest player to win a Wimbledon title
Christy O'Connor Jr - Irish golfer who helped Europe retain the Ryder Cup at the Belfry in 1989 - nephew to Christy O'Connor Sr
Christy O'Connor Sr - Irish golfer who competed in every Ryder Cup between 1955 and 1973 - uncle of Christy O'Connor Jr
Arnold Palmer - American golfer, one of the sport's greatest players, who won 91 professional titles, including the Open twice, the US Open, and the Masters four times
Tom Pugh - Gloucestershire captain and towards the end of his cricket career was shortlisted to play James Bond - but the role went to Sean Connery
Don Rutherford - rugby full-back who won 14 caps for England and went on to be the RFU's first paid national coach
Jackie Sewell - England, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa and Hull City forward - who, when he moved to Sheffield Wednesday in 1951, commanded a record transfer fee of £34,500
Gary Sprake - Leeds United and Birmingham City goalkeeper in the 1960s and 70s, who won 37 caps playing for Wales
Walter Swinburn - former jockey, three-time Derby winner and the rider of Shergar
Maria Teresa de Filippis - Italian racing driver who was the first woman to compete in a Formula 1 grand prix
Eric "Winkle" Brown - the Royal Navy's most decorated pilot, he witnessed the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp in World War Two, and also held the world record for flying the greatest number of different types of aircraft, 487
Branse Burbridge - RAF night fighter pilot who shot down 21 German aircraft in World War Two, and brought down three of Hitler's V1 flying bombs before they hit residential parts of London
Jane Fawcett - worked at Bletchley Park in World War Two and decoded a message which helped locate and sink the German battleship Bismarck
John "Jock" Moffat - credited with launching the torped0 that crippled the German battleship Bismarck off the north coast of France in 1941
Molly Rose - joined the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1942 and became one of World War Two's "spitfire women", delivering 486 aircraft, including 273 Spitfires, from factories to the RAF
Denise St Aubyn Hubbard - worked as a translator at Bletchley Park in World War Two, competed as a high diver in the 1948 London Olympics, and sailed solo across the Atlantic in her 60s
Dick Bradsell - career bartender who helped revive the London cocktail scene with his concoctions, including the espresso martini and the bramble (gin, lemon, sugar, creme de mure and a blackberry garnish)
Jonathan Cainer - his astrology column appeared in the Daily Mail for 20 years. He remained adamant that astrologers should not look to predict the time of a person's demise, as there was a danger of creating "a self-fulfilling prophecy"
Peng Chang-kuei - Taiwanese chef who travelled to New York and created the much-loved sweet-but-spicy Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken
Michael "Jim" Delligatti - inventor of the McDonald's Big Mac burger which was introduced in 1967 with two lots of everything - "all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun"
Rose Evansky - London hairdresser who invented the "blow wave" in the 1960s, using a hand-held dryer and brush on wet hair to create a soft natural look
James Galanos - US fashion designer who dressed America's social elite, most notably Nancy Reagan
Viktor Korchnoi - Russian-born chess grandmaster who defected to the West in 1976, and was seen as one of the best players never to be world champion
Leonard of Mayfair - real name Leonard Lewis, he was hairdresser to stars and celebrities in the 1960s and 70s and his styling helped launch Twiggy's modelling career
Mark Taimanov - Russian chess grandmaster, among the world's top players from the 1940s to the 70s, who was also an international concert pianist
Henry Worsley - former army officer turned explorer who fell ill while trying to complete the unfinished Antarctic journey of his hero, Sir Ernest Shackleton
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