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John Glenn pilots the "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft during his historic flight as the first American to orbit the Earth.

John Glenn, American hero of Space Age

Glenn: "What got a lot of attention, I think, was the tenuous times we thought we were living in back in the Cold War. I don't think it was about me."

In Passing

Leonard of Mayfair at his salon, London, 1981.

Leonard of Mayfair, Keo Woolford, Grant Tinkler

Friend, fixer, best man and pallbearer to Elvis

Elvis Presley's former road manager and friend Joe Esposito, left, shakes hands with Bremerhaven mayor Manfred Richter ...

Joe Esposito, who was Elvis Presley's right-hand man, close friend and road manager for nearly two decades, has died at his home in Calabasas, California aged 78. The cause was complications of dementia, his daughter Cindy Bahr said.

Holocaust survivor revived lost town in photographs

Yaffa Eliach, historian, with her Tower of Faces exhibition at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Yaffa Eliach memorialised victims of the Holocaust not by recording their deaths but by remembering their lives in a massive photography collection that became a centrepiece of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.