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.
NOREEN NASH, aged 99
From apple blossom queen to Hollywood star, she was an actress in many B-Movies, but occasionally played alongside superstars.
JOSEPH KITTINGER, aged 94
A test pilot who was involved in space research, he completed the world’s highest skydive. He broke many world records but also became a prisoner of war.
DORIS DERBY, aged 82
At the forefront of the Civil Rights movement, she attended the March on Washington before photographing images of racism and the struggle for equality in the USA.
VENETIA STEVENSON, aged 84
She came from an artistic family and was an actress and a model, known for her beauty She married an actor and a pop star and her daughter inspired a very famous song.
EARL OLD PERSON, aged 92
Chief of the Blackfoot Tribe based in Monana, he was a Scout, a musician and a basketball player and eventually a politician, befriending monarchs and presidents – and fighting for the rights of Native Americans.
MAGDA SALEH, aged 79
After being trained with the Bolshoi ballet she became Egypt’s prima ballerina and first decorated woman. She became a doctor, teacher and artistic director.
BENJAMIN B. FERENCZ, aged 103
The last of the Nuremberg Trials prosecutors, he was forced to visit concentration camps searching for evidence of crimes. He later became a world wide advocate for peace.
DOTTIE FRAZIER, aged 99
She saved her sister’s life, water skiied with a broken leg, fought a shark, rode with a snake and won an Olympic gold medal. An amazing woman!
SAMUEL BHIMA, aged 97
The first qualified black doctor in Malawi he was twice forced into exile by a vengeful president. He was a pioneer in gynaecology.
BETTY ROWLAND, aged 106
Teenage vaudeville star, Queen of Burlesque, she spent time in prison, mixed with the stars, appeared in films and created a well-known fashion item.
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