As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Scientist (1836) |
| Herbert Baker, Architect (1862) |
| Leslie Banks, Actor (1890) |
| Johnny Depp, Actor (1963) |
| T. D. Jakes, Clergyman (1957) |
| William Maxwell Aitken, Businessman (1964) |
| Arthur Alexander, Musician (1993) |
| Roland Allen, Clergyman (1947) |
| William Carey, Clergyman (1834) |
| Richard Eberhart, Poet (2005) |
| Hans Janmaat, Politician (2002) |
| Jacob Lawrence, Artist (2000) |

