(Beckenham, Kent, England)
Died 29 December 2003
(Eggington, Bedfordshire, England)
Age at death: 75
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| Malden, Karl |
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Born 22 March 1912 (Gary, Indiana, USA) |
| Serbian immigrant (real name Mladen Sekulovich) and former steelworker who became a bit-part movie actor. However, he was better known as Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone in the '70s TV series 'The Streets of San Francisco'. |
| Mandela, Nelson |
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Born 18 July 1918 (Umtata, South Africa) |
| Leader of the African National Congress, which was outlawed in 1948, when apartheid was legalised in South Africa. He was imprisoned for allegedly being involved in a bomb plot, and spent 27 years inside, before being freed as part of President FW de Klerk's reforms in 1990. Mandela himself became President from 1994-97. |
| Maradona, Diego |
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Born 30 October 1960 (Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| Short, fat Argie footballer whose 'Hand of God' antics knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup. Now a cash-strapped recovering cocaine addict. |
| Marceau, Marcel |
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Born 22 March 1923 (Strasbourg, France) |
| Thanks to the lack of sophistication of the French sense of humour, Marceau has managed to make a living as a mime artist for over 50 years , mainly playing his white-faced Ronald McDonald lookalike character, Bip. With self-conscious irony, he had the only speaking part in Mel Brooks' film 'Silent Movie' (1976). |
| Marcos, Imelda |
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Born 2 July 1929 (Manila, Philippines) |
| Former beauty queen, lavish-living, obsessive shoe-collector and widow of former Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos. After his death, she was acquitted of embezzlement in the US, but convicted of the crime of 'graft', whatever that is, in the Philippines. |
| McCarthy, Eugene |
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Born 29 March 1916 (Watkins, Minnesota, USA) |
| Trained as a Benedictine monk before entering US politics and making a name for himself as a liberal intellectual. Notably argued against the communist witch-hunts instigated by his unrelated namesake Joe McCarthy, and against the Vietnam War. Was a senator from 1959-71, and ran unsuccessfully for President in 1976. |
| Miller, Arthur |
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Born 17 October 1915 (New York, USA) |
| Playwright ('Death of a Salesman') and ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe. |
| Mills, Sir John |
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Born 22 February 1908 (Felixstowe, Suffolk, England) |
| Veteran actor (Oh What A Lovely War, Ryan's Daughter, Gandhi etc). Grandfather of Crispian Mills, lead singer of Kula Shaker. |
| Minnelli, Liza |
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Born 12 March 1946 (Los Angeles, California, USA) |
| Daughter of Judy Garland, and moderately successful singer/stage actress in her own right. Has suffered from ill health in recent years as a result of drug abuse, and has been a regular visitor to rehab clinics. Married film producer David Gest in March 2002. |
| Mitchell, Warren |
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Born 14 January 1926 (London, England) |
| Actor who will forever be associated with the part he played as the bigoted Alf Garnett in the long-running British sitcoms "Till Death Us Do Part" (alongside Tony Booth) and its sequel "In Sickness and in Health". |
| Monkhouse, Bob |
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Born 1 June 1928 (Beckenham, Kent, England) Died 29 December 2003 (Eggington, Bedfordshire, England) Age at death: 75 |
| Comedian and wise-cracking gameshow host who has presented just about every British TV quiz show you can think of. |
| Montalban, Ricardo |
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Born 25 November 1920 (Mexico City, Mexico) |
| MGM matinee idol who went on to play Mr Roarke in the TV series "Fantasy Island". His performance as Khan Noonien Singh in 1982's "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" was a reprisal of his role in a guest appearance on "Star Trek" back in 1967. He also popularised the phrase "rich, Corinthian leather" in his TV commercials for Chrysler in the 1970s. |
| Montefiore, Hugh |
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Born 12 May 1920 (place of birth unknown) |
| Liberal theologian of the 1960s, TV pundit and former Bishop of Birmingham. Converted from Judaism to Christianity at the age of 16. |
| Moody, Ron |
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Born 8 January 1924 (London, England) |
| Film, stage and TV actor, born Ronald Moodnick, remembered for his role as Fagin in 1968's film version of "Oliver!". |
| Moore, Patrick |
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Born 4 March 1923 (Pinner, Middlesex, England) |
| Eminent astronomer and xylophone-player, who has presented every one of BBC television's "The Sky at Night" programmes (which makes him the world's longest-serving presenter). Big mates with Brian May out of Queen, due to their shared interest in space, he was knighted by the Queen in 2001. |
| Moore, Roger |
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Born 14 October 1927 (Stockwell, London, England) |
| The cheesiest of the actors to have played international man of mystery James Bond, he took over from Sean Connery in 1973, appearing in seven Bond films until 1985's "A View to a Kill". The ageing dinner-jacketed eyebrow-raiser now seemingly maintains the Bond persona for real, by living in Switzerland and Monte Carlo with his Swedish wife Christina “Kiki” Tholstrup, a former air stewardess. |
| Morariu, Corina |
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Born 26 January 1978 (Detroit, Michigan, USA) |
| Tennis player who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia in 2001, but fought back to compete at grand-slam level in 2002. |
| Moriarty, Michael |
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Born 5 April 1941 (Detroit, Michigan, USA) |
| Film and TV actor (and occasional musician), probably best known for his role in the series "Law and Order". |
| Mosley, Diana |
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Born 17 June 1910 (place of birth unknown) Died 11 August 2003 (Paris, France) Age at death: 93 |
| Last of the "Mitford Girls". Widow of, and apologist for, fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, who she married in Goebbels' drawing room in 1936. Imprisoned during WWII, recently-released MI5 files show that she was considered a greater threat than her husband. |
| Mugabe, Robert |
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Born 22 February 1924 (Kutama, Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) |
| President of Zimbabwe, constantly immersed in allegations of vote-rigging and incitement to violence, whose primary gift to the world is the idea that "it's ok to be the president and wear a baseball cap". There has been at least one alleged plot to assassinate the Marxist-when-it-suits-him leader. |
| Murdoch, Rupert |
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Born 11 March 1931 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) |
| American media tycoon who used to be Australian, but cynically switched nationalities for business purposes. Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000. |