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Chart-topping entertainers, scientists, sportsmen and grandees from both the left and right of politics - 2015 has seen the deaths of some familiar faces.

Click play above - and spend a few minutes remembering dozens of well-known figures who contributed to UK cultural life - and then scroll down to see more.

You can find out about well-known international figures who died in 2015 here.

Jimmy Hill

Former football player and manager, Match of the Day presenter and chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association.

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Don Howe

Former England international and coach. He also helped Arsenal to a league and FA Cup double in 1971, then spent four years as the boss of West Bromwich Albion, before returning to the Gunners as coach and manager.

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Daniel Topolski

Former Oxford rowing coach, author and BBC Sport rowing commentator.

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Chris Squire

Musician and founder of the prog rock band Yes.

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Jackie Trent

Sixties singer-songwriter, later noted for co-writing the theme tune for Neighbours.

Coleridge Goode

Double-bass player who made a notable contribution to the British jazz scene for almost 70 years.

(pictured second from right)

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John McCabe

Composer and musician who also spent seven years as director of the London College of Music.

John Renbourn

Musician and songwriter who teamed up with fellow musicians, including guitarist Bert Jansch, to form Pentangle (pictured) in the late 1960s.

(pictured second from left)

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Cynthia Lennon

John Lennon's first wife. The couple met at art school when he tapped her on the back in class and simply said "Hi, I'm John".

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Jonathan Ollivier

Dancer best known for his work with choreographer Matthew Bourne, dancing as The Swan in Bourne's all-male Swan Lake.

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Bryony Brind

Dancer who was a principal at the Royal Ballet for 14 years.

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John Bayley

Critic, writer and husband of the author Iris Murdoch.

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Sheila Kitzinger

Natural childbirth campaigner who came to prominence with the publication of her book, The Experience of Childbirth, in 1962.

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Joyce Bennett

First English woman ordained as a Anglican priest - in Hong Kong in 1971.

Tom Beard

Actor who starred in Foyle's War and Holby City as well as in stage plays. including Hotel at the National Theatre in 2014.

Nigel Terry

Actor who played the title role in Derek Jarman's 1986 film Caravaggio.

Alan Howard

Actor who played almost every Shakespearean king for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Roger Rees, Richard Johnson and Anthony Valentine - actors

Roger Rees won Olivier and Tony awards for his performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby.

Richard Johnson was a leading man who featured in numerous films, alongside stars such as Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier and Charlton Heston.

Anthony Valentine was best known for the 1970s TV series Colditz and Raffles.

Keith Michell

Actor who portrayed the king in the BBC television series, The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

Richard Davies

Actor best known for his role as the teacher, Mr Price, in the ITV comedy series, Please Sir!

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Kitty McGeever, Stephen Lewis and Shirley Stelfox - actors

Kitty McGeever became the first blind actress to have a starring role in a British soap, Emmerdale.

Stephen Lewis was best known for his role as officious inspector "Blakey" in the 1970s ITV sitcom On the Buses.

Shirley Stelfox played Edna Birch in the ITV soap, Emmerdale.

Lance Percival and Judy Carne - actors

Lance Percival found fame in the classic satire show That Was The Week That Was, before starring in Carry On Cruising, Postman's Knock and Darling Lili.

Judy Carne was best known as the "Sock It To Me" girl on hit 1960s show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

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Brian Friel

Irish playwright who co-founded the Field Day Theatre Company with the actor Stephen Rea.

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Anne Warburton

The UK's first female ambassador - to Denmark - in 1976.

Beryl Platt

Aeronautical engineer who went on to head the Equal Opportunities Commission.

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Jeremy Black

Commanded HMS Invincible, one of the two aircraft carriers dispatched to the Falklands in the South Atlantic in April 1982.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts

BBC foreign correspondent who reported on events in Syria, Burma and North Korea among many others.

Ian McDougall

BBC foreign correspondent who joined the corporation in 1948 and filed despatches from around the world for 27 years.

Michael Dean

Broadcaster and presenter of BBC Two's Late Night Line-Up in the 1960s and 70s.

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Gordon Honeycombe

Newsreader and actor who broadcast for ITN news between 1965 and 1977. He later went on to read bulletins for TV-am.

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Anthony Scrivener

Charismatic leading barrister who was invited, but declined, to lead the defence team of Saddam Hussein.

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Chris Woodhead

Former head of the Ofsted schools inspectorate.

Brian Close

Former England cricket captain who was the youngest player, aged 18, to have won a Test cap for England.

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Frank Tyson

Former England and Northants fast bowler Frank "Typhoon" Tyson who shone brightest as England won the 1954-55 Ashes series down under.

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Justin Wilson

IndyCar driver who won the Formula 3000 series in 2001, and two years later raised £1.2m to finance his F1 entry after setting up a company in his own name.

The photofilm features a selection of people who died in 2015 and whose lives impacted on UK cultural life. It includes non-British nationals.

Photofilm by Paul Kerley.

Images from BBC, AP, PA, Getty Images, Rex Features and Alamy.

Roy Dommett image: The British Library/Matt Casswell - British Library Voices of Science.

Joyce Bennett image: St Catharine's School Hong Kong.

Music: Cilla Black, Visage, Dennis Waterman, The Eagles, Jim Diamond, Hot Chocolate, Val Doonican, The Beverley Sisters, Silva Screen Records and EMI Production Music.