Illustrator and creator of the Meg and Mog children’s books, who also used pop-up and paper cut-outs to thrilling effect

Architectural historian who championed the preservation of England’s postwar buildings and the brutalist style

Oscar-winning actor who starred in To Sir, With Love, and broke down racial barriers in Hollywood and beyond

Archaeologist, author and radio presenter with an abiding love of Orkney

Academic concerned about poverty, pensions and inequality with a genius for popularising complex issues

Labour minister whose campaign skills forced government action on a range of life-saving social changes in the law

Actor who played Clifford Jones in Doctor Who and appeared in several popular drama series including Emmerdale Farm

Television producer responsible for invigorating EastEnders in the early 1990s, and who played a key role in Doctor Who history

Brewer who enhanced the fortunes of the St Austell Brewery in Cornwall, where he worked for more than 20 years

Social historian who was a leading authority on the Chartists

Actor who played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again and had roles in Doctor Who and Blake’s 7

Superbly expressive dancer who went on to be a choreographer and movement director

Actor best known for his roles in the TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Colditz and I, Claudius

Popular BBC weather forecaster who became a national celebrity

Educationist who argued that children’s creativity is stifled by school systems that prioritise academic achievement

Campaigner against abuse and harassment in sport

Photographer and author of popular botanical guides who became an expert on fungi and a guru of the foraging movement

Actor who voiced children’s TV characters including Noddy, Kiki the frog and the villainous Zelda in Gerry Anderson’s Terrahawks

Graphic designer and co-founder of Pentagram, who helped transform mid-century British design

Actor who played Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Open All Hours and Auntie Mabel in the children’s programme Come Outside

Leading light of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and charismatic peace activist ordained as a Roman Catholic priest

One of the great British comedians and all-round entertainers of her generation who wrote dramas, sketches and popular sitcoms

Member of the trio who wrote and produced songs that built the Motown legend and helped define popular music in the 1960s

Botanical illustrator who opened people’s eyes to the beauty of wild flowers

Children’s author and illustrator whose books included the Princess Smartypants series

Medical researcher who was an early mover in using web-based tools to improve healthcare and established the UCL eHealth Unit

Actor who played the dashing Capt Mike Yates in 1970s episodes of the long-running TV series Doctor Who

One of the key figures in Japanese animation who co-founded the internationally renowned Studio Ghibli

Head of BBC television’s children’s programmes who created Newsround and made a great contribution to Blue Peter

The first female commercial computer programmer – on the Leo system that J Lyons & Co pioneered for its catering operation

One of Britain’s most popular abstract painters known for her huge vibrant canvases bursting with colour

Brilliant Serbian footballer who played for Red Star Belgrade and won 41 caps representing the former Yugoslavia

Designer whose costumes for the TV series The Avengers encapsulated fashion’s mid-60s turn towards youth

A key player in the great 1950s Wolverhampton Wanderers side that won three league titles and an FA Cup

Acclaimed novelist best known for The Prestige whose large body of work never fitted into any particular literary mould

Jazz singer with an openness to many ways of making music and a gift for imparting a beguiling freshness to classic material

Production designer who helped create the look of the Star Wars films and of the Indiana Jones adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark

Broadcaster and DJ who was the first woman to have her own weekday show on Radio 1 and be a regular host of Top of the Pops

Broadcaster and popular anchor of the BBC’s Look North news programme who was dedicated to his native Yorkshire

Academic, critic and writer who focused on the works of Virginia Woolf, autobiography and the history of cinema

Archaeologist who oversaw the Parthenon marbles and other sculpture from ancient Greece at the British Museum

Longstanding computer journalist and writer of the popular Guardian column Ask Jack

Stage and screen actor who appeared in the 1968 film The Devil Rides Out and the ITV prison drama series Within These Walls

Writer and script editor who lent dramatic complexity to Blake’s 7 and devised some of Doctor Who’s most admired stories

Children’s author who devised the adventures of the Pig family and illustrated stories including Dick King-Smith’s The Sheep-Pig

Historian with an international reputation as the foremost scholar of police history

Stage and screen actor who was part of the original cast of Doctor Who

Radio 1’s longest-serving broadcaster, dedicated to groundbreaking music for more than 50 years

Feminist art historian who touched a nerve with her 1971 article Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?

Leading light of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and charismatic peace activist ordained as a Roman Catholic priest

Composer who found fame with the theme and incidental music he created for the TV series Inspector Morse

Star of Babette’s Feast who shone in the films of her husband Claude Chabrol

One of the pioneers of the American folk revival of the 1950s who played with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly

Scriptwriter who wrote 447 episodes of Coronation Street and created the sitcoms Brass, The Last of the Baskets and How’s Your Father?

Publisher who founded Virago, which champions women’s writing and books on feminist topics

Composer inspired by images and poetry to produce assured music of hard-edged originality

Scholar of medieval Latin who shone light on Hildegard of Bingen and other female writers of the Middle Ages

Composer and songwriter who masterminded Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell, one of the biggest-selling albums of all time

Other Lives: Lecturer in geography and sport who wrote several books questioning the perceived role of sport as a force for good

Member of the provocative artist collective BANK, and painter of sensual images of middle-aged women

Comedian and panellist on the radio shows I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and The News Quiz

Leader of the BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu sect for 45 years who expanded it internationally

Artist whose unmistakable record sleeve designs contributed to the tumultuous impact of the Sex Pistols in the 1970s

Actor who shot to TV stardom in the 1960s as Emma Peel in The Avengers and found new fans as the ruthless Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones

Head of the National Union of Teachers during the 1970s and 80s committed to rights in education

Other Lives: Director on the classic 1960s puppet TV series Thunderbirds

German saxophonist who was a pioneering figure in the world of European free jazz

Fashion designer who from punk origins created an international brand with a dissident edge

Leading race relations activist who was a key figure in the inquiry into the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence

Archaeologist who specialised in the Roman empire, focusing on ports and commerce in Italy and Spain

Lyricist of West Side Story who went on to write music and lyrics for acclaimed works including Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods

Brian Clover writes: Tony did the gig in a country pub, had his lunch and went back to the car