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Student
Died in 2009
Honours student who gave a final gift by becoming an organ donor
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Author
1930 - 2009
Writer of unsettling and bleak books of huge cultural importance
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Author
1903 - 2009
Last survivor of the ‘Auden Generation’ who became prolific with age
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Playwright
1936 - 2008
Combative writer who dealt with the struggles of middle-class Britons in darkly comic plays
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Parish priest
1919 - 2007
Tribues paid to devoted and caring priest
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Scientist
1916 - 2004
Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered DNA's double helix structure
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Chemist
1920 - 2002
Pioneering British scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize
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Astronomer
1915 - 2001
Astro-scientific genius and mathematician who rejected big bang theory
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Comedian
1937 - 1995
Comic and satirist who inspired with his irreverence and ingenuity
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Author
1879 - 1970
Widely-travelled chronicler of the English class system
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