LANCE MACKEY, aged 52
Known as The People’s Champion, he was a ‘musher’, who completed in, and won, dog sled races in Alaska. However, his career was blighted by controversy.
DON WALSH, aged 92
One of the world’s great explorers, he was the first person to visit the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific – but remained relatively unknown.
ESTHER COOPER JACKSON, aged 105
A Civil Rights campaigner, she was active in many areas, including defending those wrongly accused of crimes. She gave a voice to the oppressed in her magazine.
LANCE MACKEY, aged 52
Known as The People’s Champion, he was a ‘musher’, who completed in, and won, dog sled races in Alaska. However, his career was blighted by controversy.
DON WALSH, aged 92
One of the world’s great explorers, he was the first person to visit the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific – but remained relatively unknown.
ESTHER COOPER JACKSON, aged 105
A Civil Rights campaigner, she was active in many areas, including defending those wrongly accused of crimes. She gave a voice to the oppressed in her magazine.
JO-CARROLL DENNISON, aged 97
Brought up in a travelling show she went on to be a beauty queen winning Miss America. A wartime pin-up and actress she started to fight for women’s rights.
ESTEBAN VOLKOV, aged 97
Persecuted from a young age, he had a famous revolutionary grandfather and witnessed one of the most notorious political assassinations of the 20th century.
LUCIA HIRIART, aged 98
A Chilean aristocrat, she married army officer Augusto Pinochet. When he led a military coup she became First Lady, known for her temper and love of wealth.
MELODY MILLER, aged 77
After an inspirational meeting with President Kennedy whilst still a teenager, she became a trusted aide to all of of the Kennedy family for her entire career.
EMAHOY TSEGUE-MARYAM GUEBROU, aged 99
A persecuted but brilliant musician and composer who remains largely undiscovered to this day, she abandoned music dedicated her life to God, becoming a nun.
ABIGAIL KAWANANAKOA, aged 96
The last member of a royal dynasty she used her immense fortune for many good works but courted controversy – even after her death
ISABEL CROOK, aged 107
A missionary in China she converted to communism. She married a spy, served in the war and was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution.
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