Former member of the Lithuanian Secret Police, features on the Wiesenthal Centre's list of most-wanted Nazis due to his role in the deaths of Jewish escapees from Vilna ghettos.
Depending on your age/TV likes - Jim Robinson in 'Neighbours' or Bradford Meade in 'Ugly Betty'. Rather worryingly for Dale, three of his best known characters have died of heart-attacks...
Hard drinking, cigarette puffing, high-stake gambling, drug-taking & hugely overweight golfer. Also one of the most popular & most talented golfers of the last 20 years, probably because of all the above...
Labour MP for West Lothian/Linlithgow from 1962-2005 and famous for posing the "West Lothian Question" in which you have to be an expert in cross-border constitutional politics to answer...
Author, governmental scholar and environmentalist, founder of international globalization and environment organization "The Future in Our Hands", named after his book. Both were recipients of the Right Livelihood Award in 1982.
Sports commentator for the BBC since 1969, Davies has commentated on a whole of sports including tennis, gymnastics, hockey and ice skating. Still primarily known as a football commentator on 'Match of the Day'.
Born 28 August 1930 (Canning Town, London, England)
English-born but Welsh-bred thespian who over-acted his way through dreadful '70s sitcom 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum' and the cringeworthy 'Never The Twain'.
One of America's most prolific actresses of the 1950s and '60s, born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff. After the death of her third husband, Marty Melcher, in 1968, she quit movies and turned to television and later to animal welfare.
Sister of Joan Fontaine, but hasn't spoken to her since 1942. Actress who picked up the award-winning parts, largely as she wasn't the most glamorous girl on the block. Now retired and living in France.
Runner-up on series two of 'Rock of Love', whose life has taken a downward spiral since she failed to win a reality show based around having sex with the lead singer of Poison.
Born 17 August 1943 (New York City, New York, USA)
Legendary actor whose quality control mechanism must have failed in recent years as he's barely made a movie to match such great performances as 'Raging Bull', 'The King of Comedy' and 'Goodfellas'. Still, the money must be OK...
Pete Beale in 'EastEnders', whose death in 1993 marked a change in the show's direction. Later weighed his genitals on a fruit and veg scale in an episode of 'Banzai'.
Brooding, heartthrob French actor who solidified his place in the arthouse pantheon with his roles in Jean-Pierre Melville's 'Le Samourai', Luchino Visconti's 'Rocco and His Brothers' and 'Asterix at the Olympic Games'.
Writer and producer forever known for his association with 'Doctor Who'. Script editor of the show from 1968-1974 and author of over 100 spin-off novelisations.
Chemist, known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills and the use of physical methods in organic chemistry as well as on structure elucidation of natural products.
End-of-the-pier stand-up comedian turned TV star and surprisingly successful singer. Not remotely funny to anyone under the age of about 70. Will this be the year he says "tatty bye" for the last time?
Former lead singer of The Libertines, now with Babyshambles. His addictions to heroin and crack have made his behaviour increasingly random, self-centred and downright tedious.
Born Kim Schmitz, big-living, big-gutted former computer hacker who later founded Megaupload and got involved in various political squabbles in New Zealand.
Born 27 September 1948 (Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England)
Actress still best known today for her role as Betty, the long-suffering wife of Michael Crawford's iconic Frank Spencer in 'Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em'. Was married to Edward Woodward from 1987 till his death in 2009.
Born 25 September 1944 (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA)
Followed his father Kirk into films, and was a moderately successful actor for 20 years until 'Fatal Attraction' really launched him into superstardom in 1987, quickly followed by 'Wall Street' and 'Basic Instinct'.
Peer whose 1954 conviction for gross indeceny was one of the most high profile convictions for homosexuality until its lifting as a criminal offence in 1967.
Poker Hall of Fame inductee. Invented satellite tournaments, those beloved institutions that allow Scandinavian teenagers with social anxiety problems the chance to play in major live cash events.
Born in Richmond, Virginia, USA (exact date unknown)
Born in 1941 - an American soldier who defected to North Korea, he is the last US defector of the Korean War alive. Later worked as a teacher in the country.
American White nationalist, writer, right-wing politician, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and former Republican Louisiana State Representative. Probably doesn't have Sidney Poitier round for dinner...
Actor, forever known as astronaut David "Dave" Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's epic 1968 film '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Funny to think we're more than a decade passed that now and no monolith to be found...
Born 26 June 1910 (Redford, Wayne County, Michigan, USA)
Philanthropist and benefactor of the Plymouth (Michigan) Historical Museum, who grew up on a potato farm. Now nearly as old as her museal cars. Died in May 2015 but no obit.