ALLAN ‘SKILL’ COLE, aged 74
Jamaica’s most talented footballer, he played in the USA and Brazil. He was also Bob Marley’s closest friend and manager – and a bit of a rascal.
ENA COLLYMORE-WOODSTOCK, aged 108
From Jamaica she joined the ATS and was a radar operator in the war. She then became a barrister and judge, achieving many firsts for West Indian women.
KEVIN MITNICK, aged 59
An expert computer hacker who went on the run, he became the FBI’s Most Wanted criminal, he never made any financial gain from his illegal activities.
JUANITA CASTRO, aged 90
She was the sister Fidel Castro, who seized power in Cuba, but she fell out with him and became a CIA agent, before defecting to the USA and living in exile.
MURIEL ENGELMAN, aged 101
A nurse in the US Army, she worked in a field hospital experienced D-Day and The Battle of the Bulge and was often in great danger and had a Christmas nightmare
IVY JO HUNTER, aged 82
A talented musician, songwriter and producer from Detroit, he wrote one of pop music’s greatest songs before his career faded into obscurity.
JOSE EDUARDO dos SANTOS, aged 79
A committed Marxist he fought for Angolan independence. When this was achieved he became President and a dictator, making himself the richest man in Africa.
JOHAAR MOSOVAL, aged 95
From a background of poverty he rose to become Principal Dancer at the Royal Ballet, overcoming Apartheid, racial and religious prejudice.
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.
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