A year like no other began with the shock death of basketball star and Oscar-winner Kobe Bryant before a pandemic upended life as we knew it.
Here are some of the high-profile figures who said their final goodbyes over the last 12 months:
33. Dame Barbara Windsor
Dame Barbara, who found fame in the 1960s starring in the Carry On films before becoming a national treasure playing Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, died at 83, six years after being diagnosed with dementia. Tributes flooded in and Ross Kemp, who played her on-screen son Grant, described her as “the woman who always had time for everybody”, adding: “I will miss Bar always.”
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