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Bertrand Tavernier at the "Ninth Annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels Film Festival" at the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, in 2005. Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images

Obituary: Bertrand Tavernier, outstanding French film director who came to Glasgow to make Death Watch

Born: April 25, 1941;

George Segal and his first wife, Marion Segal – film producer, editor and screenwriter – in May, 1965 (Photograph: Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Obituary: George Segal, actor with twinkly-eyed dryness who starred opposite Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand

Born: February 13, 1934;

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Obituary: Nicola Pagett, actress who learned her craft at the Citizens and starred in Upstairs, Downstairs

Born: June 15, 1945;

Yaphet Kotto on the day he married his third wife, Tessie Sinahon, in July 1998. (AP Photo/John Gillis)

Obituary: Yaphet Kotto, actor who starred in Alien and had explosive end as Bond villain

Yaphet Kotto

John Russell, photographed for Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s Flattening the Curve archive. Image by Maria Sappho

Obituary: John Russell, outstanding guitarist who extended the boundaries of improvisation

Born: December 19, 1954;
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 1958 collection of poems sold more than a million copies. Photograph © Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images

Obituary: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, bookseller and 'philosophical anarchist'

Born: March 24, 1919;

Johnny Rogan. Photograph: Rosie Still

Obituary: Johnny Rogan, tenacious rock music biographer who aroused the ire of Morrissey

Born: February 14, 1953;

Gerry Cottle at his entertainment complex at Wooky Hole, Somerset, in 2006. Picture: Neil Bennett

Obituary: Gerry Cottle, irrepressible showman who turned his entire life into a circus

Born: April 7, 1945;

The Jasmine Minks. Photo: Laurens Francis

Scottish band Kurt Cobain wanted to be in release new material

WHEN radio DJ John Peel sadly passed away in 2004, one of his many legacies was the welter of more than 4,000 radio sessions recorded exclusively for his late night radio show. Many more were recorded for Peel’s fellow BBC Radio 1 DJs, including Janice Long.

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Obituary: William Link, award-winning co-creator of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote

Born: December 15, 1933;