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Professor Sir Ivor Batchelor, psychiatrist, 83; M Jacques Chirac, President of France, 67; Sir Derek Day, former High Commissioner in Canada, 72; Professor Sir Michael Howard, historian, 77; Mr Derek Jameson, radio presenter, 70; Professor Frank Kermode, literary critic, 80; Mr James McCulloch, ambassador to Iceland, 59; Mr John Mayall, musician, 66; Mr Geoffrey Moorhouse, writer, 68; Sir Alan Moses, High Court judge, 54; Dame Shirley Porter, former Lord Mayor of Westminster, 69; Professor David Rhind, former director- general and chief executive, Ordnance Survey, 56; Mr David Rintoul, actor, 50; Mr Toby Robertson, theatrical director, 71; Mr David Rogers, former chief executive, Amstrad, 53; Dame Janet Smith QC, High Court judge, 59; Sir David Steel, former chairman, the Wellcome Trust, 83; Mr Alan Lee Williams, director, Atlantic Council, 69; Miss Louise Winter, operatic mezzo-soprano, 39.
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