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VIRGINIA McKENNA, 86. The Bafta-winning English actress (right) co- starred with her husband Bill Travers in the 1966 film Born Free, about a game warden and his wife in Kenya who care for three orphaned lion cubs. It inspired her to set up her animal charity of the same name. When she visits Africa, she still wears the same safari boots she wore for the film. DAMIEN HIRST, 52. The English artist, best known for his animals in tanks of formaldehyde. ‘It’s amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw,’ he said when he collected his Turner Prize in 1995. In 2008, Hirst made £111 million in two days at Sotheby’s in London — the most money made at auction by any single artist.