As Robin Tripp, the trainee chef sharing a flat with two women, Richard O'Sullivan was one of the biggest stars of 1970s British comedy. A stroke in 2003 ended his career, and he spent his last 23 years in a care home for entertainers.
The independent producer behind The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars, spent fifty years making films with Bertolucci, Cronenberg, Oshima and Gilliam. His last film was due to premiere three days after his death.
Conrad "Cronos" Lant sang and played bass in Venom, the Newcastle trio whose 1982 album Black Metal named a genre and whose noise shaped Metallica, Slayer and a generation of extreme bands.
He arrived at Highbury as a boy after a chance meeting with the manager and never left. Ken Friar was Arsenal's secretary, managing director and life president, and he helped move the club to the Emirates.
Lena Martell became the first Scottish woman to top the UK singles chart with a solo record when One Day at a Time spent three weeks at number one in 1979. She had already been a television star for a decade.
The five-time Oscar nominee scored films for Richard Attenborough, Ken Loach and Nora Ephron, and wrote the music millions of people hear when they picture the natural world: Blue Planet and Planet Earth.
The author of Kane and Abel, who went from the House of Commons to bankruptcy, bestsellers, the House of Lords and prison, died at home between writing sessions, a day before his final novel came out.
The Hilo-born teacher became the first Republican Hawaii sent to the House after statehood, then ran the Small Business Administration under George H. W. Bush.
The Delhi-born journalist sold suitcases near Yankee Stadium after arriving in New York, helped launch Forbes.com, founded GigaOm and became a venture partner at True Ventures.
A teenage partisan and national cycling champion, he defected in 1955, built ICN Pharmaceuticals from a California garage and returned to serve as Yugoslavia's prime minister in 1992.
