MARIO FIORENTINI, aged 103
A student who joined the Italian Resistance to the Nazis, he was involved in many daring actions alongside his girlfriend. He is Italy’s most decorated war hero
ANGELO GUGEL, aged 90
The invaluable personal attendant to three separate popes, he was present at an assassination attempt and witnessed a miracle, but kept the papal secrets.
IRMA CAPECE MINUTOLO, aged 87?
A beauty queen who had a controversial relationship with an exiled monarch and playboy. She became a failed – then ultimately, a highly successful opera singer.
FATHER JEREMY DAVIES, aged 87
After qualifying as a doctor he became a Catholic Priest, rising to become England’s prominent exorcist. A man of firm beliefs and controversial opinions.
BEPPE PIRODDI, aged 82
An Italian playboy in the 1960s he was part of a group known as The Four Musketeers. He had affairs with rich women and had celebrity friends, as long as connections with royals and the Mafia.
JUSTO GALLEGO, aged 96
A former Trappist monk he rebuilt a church destroyed in the Spanish Civil War – but he kept going and it became a cathedral, made of scrap
JAMES BUTLER, aged 90
A noted sculptor he worked with the Queen, for the Royal Mint, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Wolverhampton Wanderers and for the military – his statues are to be found in diverse places.
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