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The player spoke out on the great social issues of the day when many of his peers chose to stay silent
The Unionist leader sacrificed both career and party in pursuit of peace between Catholic and Protestant communities
His supersized sculptures of spoons and ice cream cones combined consumerist pleasure and intellectual irreverence
The much-married socialite was known for using her powerful status to further her charitable endeavours
Czech-born former skier and model helped build her husband’s larger-than-life persona in 1980s New York
The New Yorker’s performances in 1970s classics had a full-blooded, combative force
A blue-blooded political showman who sought to revive Japan and revise its pacifist constitution
A visionary who revolutionised how we stage Shakespeare, he left his native Britain to travel in search of ‘outside contexts’
The famous psychoanalyst’s granddaughter spent much of her life publicly opposing his theories
The former Lazard chairman was known for his aversion to Wall Street fads and his ability to spot banking talent
The environmental and civic campaigner spent his short life standing up to abuses of power
Born in Lisbon, the artist made the personal political in devastating figurative work
Born into a racing family, the rider won unusually wide public acclaim
An elegant stylist who personified the New Yorker magazine, whose pages he graced for almost 80 years
Raised amid poverty, the Irish adventurer made her name by cycling to India in 1963 and went on to write 26 books
A financier who made his influence felt in both takeover battles and Scottish cultural life
Ukraine’s first democratically elected president, who liberated his country from Soviet dominion
Part stalker, part art director, the photographer believed his celebrity quarries needed a camera to capture their magic
He was a born trader and hardball negotiator who prided himself on his small stable of players
The Middle East expert was a writer of passion and integrity, renowned for his lucid prose during his 44 years on the paper
His music could be spiky and visceral but it was also deeply rooted in English landscapes
Using two fingers, the Jewish secretary typed the names of those the industrialist rescued from the Holocaust, including her own
The court jester of Putin’s Duma pioneered a xenophobic pugilism which was adopted by the Kremlin
The computer scientist behind a file format that changed how the world reacts, ridicules and bonds online
First woman to become Washington’s top diplomat was an unabashed champion of American power
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