Necrology – a list of notable people who have died recently.
- James Atkinson, 1914-2011
International authority on Luther who offered meticulous insights into the significance of the Reformation - Stan Barstow, 1928-2011
Novelist of working-class life who achieved fame with A Kind of Loving - Walter Bonatti, 1930-2011
Italian mountaineer renowned for his courage and technical mastery whose career was blighted by a controversy on K2 - Patrick Collinson, 1929-2011
Scholar and historian whose work transformed the modern study of Elizabethan Puritanism - David Croft, 1922-2011
Co-creator of some of television’s most enduring comedies, among them Dad’s Army, ’Allo ’Allo and Hi-de-Hi! - John Glasby, 1928-2011
ICI chemist and astronomer who drew on his expertise to moonlight as a prolific writer of pulp fiction - Richard Hamilton, 1922-2011
Painter who embraced the march of new technologies and was hailed as the founder of Pop Art - Ian Kemp, 1931-2011
Authority on Berlioz who wrote a biography of Sir Michael Tippett - Emanuel Litvinoff, 1915-2011
Poet who wrote about his Jewish childhood in the East End and launched a devastating attack on TS Eliot - J.P. Morrison, 1922-2011
Christchurch human rights and peace worker, author of Evolution of a city, history of Christchurch to 1903 - Cyril Ornadel, 1924-2011
Conductor on Sunday Night at the London Palladium who wrote the score for the hit musical Pickwick - Richard Pearson, 1918-2011
Gifted character actor who brought freshness to the stalest of roles and starred in a baffling Pinter premiere - Cliff Robertson, 1925-2011
Oscar-winning actor who was blacklisted by Hollywood for exposing a fraudulent studio boss - Kurt Sanderling, 1912-2011
Celebrated Jewish conductor who fled the Nazis for the Soviet Union - Nancy Wake, 1912-2011
One of the most decorated secret agents of World War II
