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Silvia Pinal, Mexican film star best known for Buñuel’s shocking Viridiana
She starred in Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel and Simon of the Desert, as the breast-baring Devil, and her other films included Shark!
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Neale Fraser, Wimbledon champion and Australian Davis Cup captain who mentored Cash and Hewitt
He is also the only player to have achieved a clean sweep of the US singles, doubles and mixed titles in the same year – and he did it twice
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Richard Secord, decorated Vietnam War pilot later exposed as middleman in Iran-Contra scandal
He insisted he was doing the Reagan administration’s bidding, acting as a patriot for a cause he believed to be righteous: fighting the Left
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Joe Birrell, hurdler at the 1948 London Olympics who later coached Idi Amin at basketball
He ran at Wembley in shorts made by his mother and with a set of spikes given to him by his school
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Cleo Sylvestre, singer with the Rolling Stones and first black woman to play a National Theatre lead
Her mother would make meals for Mick Jagger and Brian Jones in the kitchen of their north London council flat
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Tony Soper, BBC birdwatching and wildlife pioneer who co-presented Animal Magic in the 1960s
His bestselling Bird Table Book helping to fuel the boom in birdwatching and the multi-million-pound garden bird-feeding business
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Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, director of the V&A who divided critics with her ‘rebranding’ exercise
In a much-discussed advertising campaign, posters intended to draw a younger crowd plugged ‘an ace caff with a rather nice museum attached’
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Richard Lugner, shopping-mall magnate whose guests stole the show at the Vienna Opera Ball
He had six wives, marrying his last, 49 years his junior, in June this year
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Keith Wainwright, celebrity ‘Smile’ hairdresser who pioneered vivid dye in the punk era – obituary
With its informal, unisex, open plan, Smile in Knightsbridge was an instant success, attracting trendy musicians and styling Roxy Music
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Iris Apfel, design guru whose clients ranged from Greta Garbo to President Clinton – obituary
She relished her celebrity as the high priestess of style, and frequently castigated the fashion industry for its obsession with youth
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Norman Jewison, Canadian-born director whose films included In the Heat of the Night and Moonstruck – obituary
Jewison was hard-working and versatile and his films ranged from Doris Day comedies to Fiddler on the Roof and the dystopian Rollerball
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Gaston Glock, shrewd businessman behind the Glock 9mm pistol used by police and armies – obituary
His handguns, the first to be made mostly from plastic, made their creator a billionaire, and the Glock was promoted through films and music
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Randy Meisner, Eagles bassist and singer who hit the high notes on Take It to the Limit – obituary
He stayed part of the band’s line-up until Hotel California in 1976 and left the following year after internal disagreements
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Tony Bennett, suave singer of I Left My Heart in San Francisco whose career spanned 70 years – obituary
The sincerity of his singing melted the hearts of generations: ‘The trick is to survive success,’ he said. ‘Anyone can survive failure’
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Dodie Heath, Broadway actress whisked to Hollywood by Vincente Minnelli for Brigadoon – obituary
In The Diary of Anne Frank, she played Miep Gies, the brave employee of Anne’s father Otto who helped to hide the Frank family
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Alan Arkin, actor noted for Catch-22 who won an Oscar as the heroin-snorting grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine – obituary
‘I’m a character actor,’ Arkin once said, ‘and they call if there’s a part I’m right for. The nice thing is, I always go on working’
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Pierre Gruneberg, ‘swimming instructor to the stars’ on the French Riviera – obituary
McCartney, Zuckerberg, Bardot, Chaplin and Bono were just some of the luminaries he taught to overcome their fear of water
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Glenda Jackson, ‘electrifying’ double Oscar-winning actress who spent 23 years as a Labour MP – obituary
She rose to prominence with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her ‘rich, mighty contralto’ was ‘one of the great voices of the theatre’
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Ronnie Knight, career criminal who hit the headlines with his marriage to Barbara Windsor – obituary
She described him as ‘a very, very sweet man. Never a womaniser, and never violent to me – though I smashed him once or twice’
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Irma Capece Minutolo, lover of King Farouk of Egypt who also pursued a career as an opera singer – obituary
Farouk, exiled in Naples, spotted the teenage Irma Capece Minutolo, newly crowned Miss Naples, in a bikini, on a diving board
