Nicholas was totally committed to ensuring integrity in the racing industry and the welfare of both horses and humans involved.

• Alida McKern

After being orphaned in World War II, Zora Vendramin fled communist Yugoslavia for a new life in Melbourne, and never regretted it.

The Stones and Beatles would come in and say, 'We want four of those…'

Author of Miffy books which became a worldwide brand worth $300 million.

Lord Christopher Thynne, Stanley Bard, David Burwell,

• John Pilger

Pilger helped ease seriously disabled men and women back into the community.

Jones helped install the first high-performance computer networks in Australia for CSIRO and the Statistics Bureau.

Moore stepped off a Huey helicopter with 457 men to find themselves opposed by more than 3000 North Vietnamese troops.

• Graham Lockwood

Bill Hocking was not only a successful soldier but also made his mark at senior levels in the motor industry.

• Glenn A. Baker

Ritchie Yorke, groundbreaking chronicler of rock in its most explosive years.

Jarreau's highly accessible, intensely personal style defied easy classification

Under Allport's leadership university staff achieved several firsts for the trade union movement as a whole: national standards providing for 26-36 weeks' paid maternity (and later parental) leave.

Richard Hatch, Sir Peter Mansfield, Alec McCowen

• Ernest Healy

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.

• Kersi Meher-Homji

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.

• Lisa French

Australian artist Leonard French, who has died aged 88, created the majestic ceiling of the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria.

• Megan Evans

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