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On April 15 1989,  24,000 Liverpool fans travelled to a football match. 96 never returned. Over 20 years after Britain's worst sporting disaster, we want the world to see the faces of the fans whose hopes and dreams for the future ended that day.

Collectively they've become known as 'The 96' but to the families and friends they left behind, they were simply a dad, a son, a brother and a sister; a cousin, an auntie, an uncle and a grandad; a boyfriend, a husband, a soul mate and a best friend.
As the wife of one of the supporters who never came home so eloquently put it in a letter published on this website on the 20^th anniversary of the disaster, "To the world my husband is one of the 96, but to me and his children, he was always our number one."
 
To those who didn't know them, the fans who died at Hillsborough that day may just be a number of names etched into the Hillsborough Memorial marble.
 
24,000 tickets, 23 turnstiles, two criminally overcrowded pens, 96 dead and 766 people injured - numbers alone don't even begin to tell half the story of a disaster that has shaped Liverpool Football Club and the fans that will forever follow it.
 
Probably the most significant number in this whole sorry tragedy is the one that depicts the age of each victim on the slide show below.
 
That number, and the faces staring back at you - captured during happier times - tells you everything you need to know about why the events of April 15, 1989 and the fans who died that day will never ever be forgotten.

Jack Anderson
Aged 62

Colin Mark Ashcroft
Aged 19

James Gary Aspinall
Aged 18

Kester Roger Marcus Ball
Aged 16

Gerard Bernard Patrick Baron
Aged 67

Simon Bell
Aged 17

Barry Sidney Bennett
Aged 26

David John Benson
Aged 22

David William Birtle
Aged 22

Tony Bland
Aged 22

Paul David Brady
Aged 21

Andrew Mark Brookes
Aged 26

Carl Brown
Aged 18

David Steven Brown
Aged 25

Henry Thomas Burke
Aged 47

Peter Andrew Burkett
Aged 24

Paul William Carlile
Aged 19

Raymond Thomas Chapman
Aged 50

Gary Christopher Church
Aged 19

Joseph Clark
Aged 29

Paul Clark
Aged 18

Gary Collins
Aged 22

Stephen Paul Copoc
Aged 20

Tracey Elizabeth Cox
Aged 23

James Philip Delaney
Aged 19

Christopher Barry Devonside
Aged 18

Christopher Edwards
Aged 29

Vincent Michael Fitzsimmons
Aged 34

Steven Fox
Aged 21

Jon-Paul Gilhooley
Aged 10

Barry Glover
Aged 27

Ian Thomas Glover
Aged 20

Derrick George Godwin
Aged 24

Roy Harry Hamilton
Aged 34

Philip Hammond
Aged 14

Eric Hankin
Aged 33

Peter Andrew Harrison
Aged 15

Stephen Francis Harrison - Aged 31
Gary Harrison - Aged 27

David Hawley
Aged 39

James Robert Hennessy
Aged 29

Paul Anthony Hewitson
Aged 26

Carl Darren Hewitt
Aged 17

Nicholas Michael Hewitt
Aged 16

Sarah Louise Hicks
Aged 19

Victoria Jane Hicks
Aged 15

Gordon Rodney Horn
Aged 20

Arthur Horrocks
Aged 41

Thomas Anthony Howard
Aged 14

Thomas Howard
Aged 39

Eric George Hughes
Aged 42

Alan Johnston
Aged 29

Christine Anne Jones
Aged 27

Gary Philip Jones
Aged 18

Richard Jones
Aged 25

Nicholas Peter Joynes
Aged 27

Michael David Kelly
Aged 38

Anthony Peter Kelly
Aged 29

Carl David Lewis
Aged 18

David William Mather
Aged 19

Brian Christopher Matthews
Aged 38

Francis Joseph McAllister
Aged 27

John McBrien
Aged 18

Marian Hazel McCabe
Aged 21

Joseph Daniel McCarthy
Aged 21

Peter McDonnell
Aged 21

Alan McGlone
Aged 28

Keith McGrath
Aged 17

Paul Brian Murray
Aged 14

Lee Nicol
Aged 14

Stephen Francis O'Neill
Aged 17

Jonathon Owens
Aged 18

William Roy Pemberton
Aged 23

Carl William Rimmer
Aged 21

David George Rimmer
Aged 38

Graham John Roberts
Aged 24

Stephen Joseph Robinson
Aged 17

Henry Charles Rogers
Aged 17

Colin Andrew Hugh William Sefton
Aged 23

Inger Shah
Aged 38

Paula Ann Smith
Aged 26

Adam Edward Spearritt
Aged 14

Philip John Steele
Aged 15

David Leonard Thomas
Aged 23

Patrick John Thompson
Aged 35

Peter Reuben Thompson
Aged 30

Stuart Paul William Thompson
Aged 17

Peter Francis Tootle
Aged 21

Christopher James Traynor
Aged 26

Kevin Traynor
Aged 16

Kevin Tyrrell
Aged 15

Colin Wafer
Aged 19

Ian David Whelan
Aged 19

Martin Kenneth Wild
Aged 29

Kevin Daniel Williams
Aged 15

Graham John Wright
Aged 17