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The novelist was the last conjuror of a now vanished America
Media mogul inescapably linked to economic decline and sometimes woeful standards of public life
Having spent two decades passing US secrets to Moscow, he created the worst intelligence failure in FBI history
As chief executive he successfully overhauled Diageo’s portfolio and was a towering figure in the drinks industry
Nobel Prize winner who discovered the cause of cervical cancer in humans
He was deeply committed to shaping financial regulation but came under heavy criticism for his efforts to co-operate with industry
He went on to pursue a career in Hollywood and championed civil rights — but the sports star also had a dark history of violence against women
Her hugely popular songs expressed her belief that, with enough will, people could do anything
The British novelist whose swagger and love of literary pyrotechnics produced dazzling, sardonic prose
A master model-builder who took on the Keynesians and reinvented his discipline
A ferocious networker who endeared himself to multiple generations of politicians, and built a sprawling global empire
The charismatic soprano flourished in the postwar years and battled discrimination on the way
He was the architect of IMF-backed progress subsequently reversed by Erdoğan
The executive who transformed the pharmaceuticals company then known as Glaxo into a global industry leader
The scholar, who overcame many personal setbacks, produced groundbreaking work on Indian and Soviet industrial policy
He parlayed his fame into passionate advocacy for the US civil rights movement
One of the great City characters, he righted both Citigroup and Lloyds during his six-decade career
An unmatched provocateur, whose most famous invention, Dame Edna, was a masterwork of snobbery, hypocrisy and an ebulliently monstrous ego
The dancer and choreographer had a passion for history and reconstructing lost works
Her shockingly short skirts, waistless dresses and buzzing boutiques brought a feminist edge to the industry
The agent known as Stakeknife was described as the British army’s ‘most important secret’
His field work and findings changed the discussion around solving the problem of poverty in low-income countries
An unconventional figure who declared that true creativity was destructive, he was warmly embraced by the mainstream
Radical who oversaw Tory privatisation and reform from No 11 but fell out with Margaret Thatcher
Her compositions managed to evoke Chopin, the Mississippi Delta blues and the sounds of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
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