Matthew Bannister on the BBC Political Editor John Cole who covered the turbulent politics of the 1980s - and was satirised by Spitting Image.

Also Professor John Cloudsley-Thompson - once called the "Titan of the Sahara" - he was a leading expert on the wildlife of the world's deserts.

Georgina Livingston, the landscape architect who designed a competition-winning scheme for Stonehenge

Roy Grantham, the moderate trade union leader who struggled to resolve the bitter 1970s dispute at the Grunwick photo processing plant

And the Sultan of Sulu - who late in life launched an abortive bid to annexe part of North Borneo.

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