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Charles Aznavour, the French singer who "made despair popular". The lyricist Don Black, who worked with him, pays tribute.
Dr. Charles Kao, the Nobel prize winning physicist who developed fibre optic technology, so paving the way for the world wide web.
Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright, the pioneering foreign correspondent who helped to smuggle an interview with Solzhenitsyn out of Soviet Russia.
John Cunliffe, the writer who delighted generations of children by creating Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim.
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