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Richard Hatch, Sir Peter Mansfield, Alec McCowen
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Richard Hatch, Sir Peter Mansfield, Alec McCowen
Julianne Bell, who has died in Melbourne, was a courageous protector of Victoria's parks, public lands and cultural heritage.
Palmer-Tomkinson: "...going to all those endless parties, it made me feel worth a pile of s---."
Galton and Simpson were given carte blanche by the BBC to write what they liked
Patricia More O'Ferrall was the last survivor of a racy element of British social life in the 1930s.
Dixon solved the mystery of infant gastroenteritis by finding salmonella in infant formula.
Acclaimed cricket umpire Louis Patrick "Lou" Rowan passed away on the Gold Coast on Friday aged 91.
Deddie Davies, Etienne Tshisekedi, Alexander Chancellor
Lennart's micro-cameras exposed cerebral hemorrhages, the virus that causes AIDS, and tar-laden smokers' lungs to the naked eye.
"I had two other trainers who had calls on me," Britt said later. "But they sort of let me off when the King wanted me."
When Robert Fripp disbanded King Crimson, Wetton said: "I didn't understand Robert's reasons then and I still don't."
Moss understood the technical requirements of the emerging wheat export markets and became a pioneer in the area of Asian noodles.
Pac-Man was inspired by the shape of a pizza with a slice missing.
Pomsel professed that she had known nothing of the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust until after the war.
Australian artist Leonard French, who has died aged 88, created the majestic ceiling of the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Artist and teacher Len Tregonning was an inspiration to many through his commitment to revive traditional Aboriginal cultural knowledge
Merralls bred Beer Street who won the 1970 Caulfield Cup and the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in front of the Queen
Woodward was the "go-to man" for practical liaising with emergency services when support was needed for domestic operations and exercises
Hurt largely skirted the glare of Hollywood, preferring meaty parts in independent films.
Capsule was deliberately made difficult to open to prevent very young children from swallowing any of the smaller parts.
A visceral conductor whose face left players and singers in no doubt as to what he wanted with the sound.
Butch Trucks, Mario Soares, Tam Dalyell
Moore was nominated for an Emmy Award as lead actress every year during the show's seven-year run, winning three times.
Mardas made George Harrison empty boxes supposedly containing mystic light and said he could build a flying saucer.
Gorden Kaye,  the actor, who has died aged 75, was almost universally known as René Artois, the bumbling café owner and frustrated philanderer in the enormously popular television comedy series 'Allo 'Allo, which was seen in more than 30 countries by an audience of some 200 million viewers.
Bassist sported silver hair, thigh-high platform boots and a bass guitar in the shape of a swallow.
Music was in her blood – her father was a dance band leader and her mother a classical pianist.
"Miguel was a man of tremendous talent who had a powerful dramatic presence on screen."
Hans Berliner, a former world champion of correspondence chess became a pioneering developer of game-playing computers, died on Friday, January 13 in Riviera Beach, Florida. He was 87.
Sale businessman John Leslie was a generous benefactor to his city and the arts.
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