Some well-known people who have died recently:
- Rubin Carter, 1937-2014
Boxer wrongly convicted of murder who found Bob Marley fighting his corner
Alan Davie, 1920-2014
Artist who won the admiration of Rothko and Pollock and later embraced ‘magic symbolism’
- Bob Hoskins, 1942-2014
Actor who excelled as the tough but engaging anti-hero of Mona Lisa and The long good Friday
- Richard Hoggart, 1918-2014
Commentator and academic whose Uses of Literacy lamented the impact of mass culture on traditional working-class life
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1937-2014
Master of ‘Magic Realism’ whose bestsellers included One hundred years of solitude, and Love in the time of cholera
- Anthony Marriott, 1931-2014
Co-author of No sex please, we’re British, the West End’s longest-running comedy
- Doris Pilkington, 1937-2014
Aboriginal author whose story of Australia’s stolen generation inspired a film starring Kenneth Branagh
Mickey Rooney, 1920-2014
Icon of American youth and energy who was as prolific in his marriages as he was on screen
- Patrick Seale, 1930-2014
Author who deputised for Kim Philby in Beirut and became the pre-eminent expert on Syria
- John Shirley-Quirk, 1931-2014
Former science teacher turned bass-baritone whose talents proved an inspiration to Benjamin Britten
- Sue Townsend, 1946-2014
Writer whose diaries of spotty teenager Adrian Mole became a publishing sensation
- Owen Woodhouse, 1916-2014
NZ jurist and chair of government commissions, notably workers’ accident compensation
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