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Michael Byrne

1939 – 2026 · Actor, Film actor, Stage actor

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Ann Widdecombe

1947 – 2026 · Politician, Autobiographer, Writer

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William Orbit

1956 – 2026 · Record producer, Composer, Songwriter

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Anthony Head

1954 – 2026 · Actor, Television actor, Film actor

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Bonnie Tyler

1951 – 2026 · Singer, Recording artist, Pop singer

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Tim Curry

1946 – 2026 · Actor; singer; voice actor; memoirist; stage and screen performer

“Sweet Transvestite, Pennywise, Wadsworth: a cult icon of fearless eccentricity.”

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David Bowie

1947 – 2016 · Musician and actor

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

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Freddie Mercury

1946 – 1991 · Singer and songwriter, Queen

“The show must go on.”

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John Lennon

1940 – 1980 · Musician and songwriter

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.”

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Queen Elizabeth II

1926 – 2022 · Queen of the United Kingdom

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

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Diana, Princess of Wales

1961 – 1997 · Princess of Wales and humanitarian

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward.”

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Phyllida Law

1932 – 2026 · Actress (stage, film, television); writer (memoirs); sometime costume designer

“Scottish actress of silken voice and sly wit, mother of two great actors, forever of the stage.”

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Harry Burrows

1941 – 2026 · Professional footballer (winger/forward); fabric-business partner; publican; postmaster; FA coach; charity-match guest; Abbots Bromley Stags president

“Cannonball left foot. Villa League Cup pioneer. Stoke terrace legend.”

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George Harrison

1943 – 2001 · Musician; singer; songwriter; music and film producer

“All things must pass.”

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Tony Harrison

1937 – 2025 · Poet; translator; playwright; librettist; film-poet

“Public poet of Leeds: verse for page, stage and screen.”

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Peter Gill

1939 – 2026 · Playwright, theatre director, actor

“Cardiff-born writer and director who made ordinary lives the centre of British theatre.”

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Sir Richard Alston

1948 – 2026 · Choreographer; dancer (early career); artistic director; teacher

“Musical contemporary classicist; Strider to Rambert to The Place; knighted for Services to Dance.”

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Sir Christopher Lee

1922 – 2015 · Actor; singer; military officer (RAF flight lieutenant, WWII)

“Dracula, Saruman, Dooku: a towering voice who made cinema's villains immortal.”

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Sir Roger Moore

1927 – 2017 · Actor; UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

“The Saint, the Bond with the raised eyebrow, and a lifelong champion for children.”

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Jimmy Cricket

1945 – 2026 · Comedian; television and radio personality; writer; pantomime performer; charity fundraiser

“And there's more. Clean comedy, wrong-foot wellies, and a force for joy.”

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Kevin Keegan

1951 – 2026 · Footballer (attacking midfielder / forward); football manager; pundit; occasional singer / TV personality

“Two-time Ballon d'Or. King Kev. The heartbeat of Newcastle's Entertainers.”

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Angela Lansbury

1925 – 2022 · Actress; singer (stage, film, television, voice)

“Broadway queen, TV sleuth, and Mrs Potts forever.”

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Bill Oddie

1941 – 2026 · Comedian; television presenter; naturalist; conservationist; writer; musician; songwriter; ornithologist

“My ashes can be scattered on Hampstead Heath. I love it there.”

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Nick Glennie-Smith

1951 – 2026 · Composer; conductor; keyboardist; musician; musical director

“He will always be the leader of our band.”

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John Irvin

1940 – 2026 · Film and television director; documentarian

“A director with balls behind the camera.”

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Sir Roger Jones

1943 – 2026 · Pharmacist; pharmaceutical entrepreneur; public servant; former WDA chairman; BBC national governor for Wales

“Welsh pharmacist-entrepreneur who built Penn Pharma, led the WDA, and never stopped fishing for Wales.”

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John Pickles

† 2026 · Music industry entrepreneur; founder of The Music Factory Entertainment Group, Mastermix DJ service, and commercial force behind Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers; described by Mastermix as songwriter

“Yorkshire music entrepreneur who took DJ megamixes to three UK number ones with Jive Bunny.”

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Hugh Curran

1943 – 2026 · Professional football striker; briefly football manager (Banbury United); hotelier; publican (four Red Lion pubs); Thornhill park-and-ride supervisor (Oxford, after 2005)

“Fast, airborne striker. Scotland's Wembley goal. Wolves and Norwich great.”

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Jimmy Rimmer

1948 – 2026 · Professional football goalkeeper; later goalkeeping coach and caretaker manager (Swansea City); goalkeeping coach (China national team, Dalian Shide; Canada)

“Two European Cups, one England cap; the keeper who put the team first.”

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Stephen Walker

† 2026 · Journalist; political correspondent; investigative documentary maker; author; biographer; speaker / event host; media trainer (BBC Northern Ireland; not the filmmaker of the same name)

“BBC NI truth-teller; Hume and Trimble's biographer; Sky Blue to the end.”

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Craig Douglas

1941 – 2026 · Singer (pop / rock and roll); known as the Singing Milkman

“Isle of Wight Singing Milkman whose Only Sixteen topped Britain in 1959.”

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Sir Anthony Kenny

1931 – 2026 · Philosopher; historian of philosophy; university administrator; former Roman Catholic priest (laicized)

“Devout agnostic who made the great philosophers lucid.”

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Sir Billy Boston

1934 – 2026 · Professional rugby league footballer (wing, centre); publican (Griffin Hotel); rugby league ambassador

“Rugby league's first knight: Tiger Bay powerhouse who became Everybody's Hero in Wigan.”

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Jimmy Batten

1955 – 2026 · Professional boxer (British light-middleweight champion); actor; stand-up comedian; karaoke host/singer; boxing trainer; doorman

“British light-middleweight champion who went the distance with Roberto Duran and never stopped smiling.”

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Alan Knight

1961 – 2026 · Professional footballer (goalkeeper); goalkeeping coach; manager; club ambassador; media and charity advocate; MBE

“Pompey's Legend: 801 games, one club, and a life spent helping others after the gloves came off.”

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Richard O'Sullivan

1944 – 2026 · Actor; also credited as composer for Robin's Nest theme; cookbook author

“Master of effortless charm who brought warmth and wit into millions of British living rooms.”

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Samuel “Sam” Okafor

1971 – 2026 · Bus driver and youth football coach

“Never missed a match. Never missed a shift. Never missed a chance to make you laugh.”

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Rosa Lindqvist

1934 – 2025 · Piano teacher

“She taught half of Brighton to play, and the other half to listen.”

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George Michael

1963 – 2016 · Singer and songwriter

“You gotta have faith.”

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Olivia Newton-John

1948 – 2022 · Singer and actress

“Let's get physical.”

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Liam Payne

1993 – 2024 · Singer, One Direction

“Strip that down.”

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Maggie Smith

1934 – 2024 · Actress

“What is a weekend?”

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Ozzy Osbourne

1948 – 2025 · Singer, Black Sabbath

“The Prince of Darkness.”

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Florence Nightingale

1820 – 1910 · Nurse and statistician

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

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Jane Goodall

1934 – 2025 · Primatologist and conservationist

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

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Winston Churchill

1874 – 1965 · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Never, never, never give up.”

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Alexander McQueen

1969 – 2010 · Fashion designer

“I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”

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Sean Connery

1930 – 2020 · Actor

“Bond. James Bond.”

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