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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Barbara Amiel	Journalist	4-Dec-1940		Director of The Spectator
Conrad Black	Business	25-Aug-1944		Rapacious newspaper mogul
Sebastian Coe	Track and Field	29-Sep-1956		Won 4 Olympic running medals
Stephen Fry	Actor	24-Aug-1957		Jeeves on Jeeves and Wooster
Basil Liddell Hart	Military	31-Oct-1895	29-Jan-1970	Military strategist
Boris Johnson	Journalist	19-Jun-1964		British MP, Henley
John Keegan	Historian	15-May-1934		The Face of Battle
Philip Larkin	Poet	9-Aug-1922	2-Dec-1985	The Whitsun Weddings
James May	TV Personality	16-Jan-1963		Top Gear
Anthony Powell	Novelist	21-Dec-1905	28-Mar-2000	A Dance to the Music of Time
Ben Verwaayen	Business	11-Feb-1952		CEO of BT Group
Auberon Waugh	Columnist	17-Nov-1939	16-Jan-2001	Columnist for Private Eye

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