Really Interesting People from the UK
FREDDIE SCAPPATICCI, aged 77
A Belfast builder, he was also a brutal leader of the IRA, responsible for many murders. However, he was also a spy and informer for the British forces.
EIRWEN HARBOTTLE, aged 100
Working in espionage during the war, she became a broadcaster before co-founding an international peace moment, and writing an influential & successful musical.
COLIN REEVE, aged 78
A Norfolk builder who played local football, he took up refereeing and ended up running the line in one of the greatest FA Cup finals of all time.
PAT ARROWSMITH, aged 93
FOUNDER MEMBER OF CND Born Margaret Patricia Arrowsmith, into a fundamentalist Protestant family in Leamington Spa, she was always known as ‘Pat’. Her mother, Margaret Kingham, had been brought up in the Plymouth Brethren movement, […]
Really Interesting People from Europe
ROSALINA NERI, aged 96
An actress and singer who looked similar to Marilyn Monroe, she attracted lots of attention and fame, forging a very successful career in her own right.
GALINA BROK-BELTSOVA, aged 99
Recruited to the air force when the Nazis invaded the USSR, she became part of the Night Witches and had many close shaves. After the war she joined the KGB.
ELIZABETH SELBY, aged 96
Fleeing Europe and the Nazis, she set up a photograph agency in London with her husband, which captured many famous images and supplied the world’s media.
MARCUS KLINGBERG, aged 97
A Polish Jew who fought for the Red Army in the war, he emigrated to Israel to become their leading scientist – but all along he was a spy for the USSR.
Really Interesting People from the World
PRINCESS FAZILE, aged 83
From a rich royal lineage, she was just a teenager when she got engaged to a king – but an assassination and a military coup thwarted her plans.
ADELAIDE JOSEPH, aged 89
With her husband she fought apartheid in her native South Africa before being forced into exile. A friend of the Mandelas she continued the struggle in London.
MASAMITSU YOSHIOKA, aged 106
LAST OF THE PEARL HARBOUR ATTACKERS Masamitsu was born in Noromachi Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1918. At the age of eighteen, he joined the Japanese Navy, working as ground crew on biplanes. Masamitsu was […]
PETE ROSE, aged 83
Possibly the greatest baseball player of all time, his career fell apart due to his behaviour on and off the field meaning he was denied recognition and glory.
