Necrology – a list of notable people who have died recently
- Geoffrey Burgon, 1941-2010
Composer who won accolades for his film and television scores including the theme to Brideshead Revisited
- Tony Curtis, 1925-2010
Actor who rose from the New York ghetto to achieve cinematic immortality in Some Like It Hot
- Robin Gibson, 1944-2010
Pillar of the National Portrait Gallery for 30 years who revitalised its 20th-century collection
- Peter Hart, 1963-2010
Canadian historian of the Irish Revolution
- Sally Holloway, 1926-2010
Journalist who became only the second BBC woman reporter and wrote a history of firefighting in London
- Tony Judt, 1948-2010
Eminent historian who chronicled both postwar Europe and the progress of his own fatal disease
- Frank Kermode, 1919-2010
Outstanding scholar and literary critic who sought to bridge the divide between the academic world and that of the common reader
- Abbey Lincoln, 1930-2010
Jazz singer, composer, actor and civil rights activist
- Edwin Morgan, 1920-2010
Scotland’s first ‘Poet Laureate’ whose vision encompassed both the trivial and the miraculous
- Patricia Neal, 1926-2010
American actress of stage and screen
- Patrick O’Dea, 1919-2010
Quintessential NZ public servant, involved in the organisation of six visits by the Queen to New Zealand
- Arthur Penn, 1922-2010
Director of stage and screen whose violent examinations of exclusion included Bonnie and Clyde
- Laszlo Polgar, 1947-2010
Formidable Hungarian bass who brought passion and a brooding presence to his many operatic roles
- Matthew Simmons, 1943-2010
Energy investment banker who championed the concept of peak oil
- Eric Tindill, 1910-2010
World’s oldest Test cricketer who kept wicket for New Zealand and also played for the All Blacks
- Ronald Trotter, 1927-2010
Prominent NZ business leader
- Edwin Charles Tubb, 1919-2010
Prolific British science fiction writer, who also wrote under several pseudonyms
- George Williams, 1926-2010
Evolutionary biologist whose work on genetics inspired Richard Dawkins
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