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Sir Hardy Amies, royal dressmaker, 86; Mr Richard Barker, headmaster, Sevenoaks School, 56; Mr Hartley Booth MP, 49; Mr Tim Brooke- Taylor, actor, 55; Mr Mark Burgess, cricketer, 51; Miss Diahann Carroll, actress and singer, 60; Sir Alan Cottrell, former Master, Jesus College, Cambridge University, 76; Professor Donald Davie, poet, 73; Miss Phyllis Diller, comedienne and concert pianist, 78; Mr Patrick Egan, chairman, Fisons, 65; Mr William Etherington MP, 54; Mr Ray Galton, scriptwriter, 65; Baroness Gardner of Parkes, dental surgeon, 68; Mr W. Gordon Graham, publisher, 75; Mr Eric Hammond, trade union leader, 66; Mr Peter Hardy MP, 64; Mr John Harper, former deputy managing director, British Telecom, 65; Sir William Henderson, microbiologist, 82; Sir William Heseltine, former private secretary to the Queen, 65; Lord Lane, former Lord Chief Justice of England, 77; The Right Rev David Lunn, Bishop of Sheffield, 65; Mr John Patten MP, 50; Dr Marjorie Reeves, historian, 90; Mr Andrew Robathan MP, 44; Mr Peter Sissons, broadcaster, 53; Mr Wayne Sleep, dancer and choreographer, 47; Lt-Col Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, former deputy Master of the Household, 66; Sir Kenneth Stowe, former senior civil servant, 68; Mr Donald Sutherland, actor, 60; Mr Bob Taylor, cricketer, 54; Sir David West-Russell, former judge and president of Industrial Tribunals, 74; Mr P.D.V. Wilkes, headmaster, Cheltenham College, 54; Mr Terrel Wyatt, chairman, W.S. Atkins Ltd, 68.
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