Some well-known people who have died recently
Dannie Abse, 1923-2014
Welsh poet
- Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014
American actress
- Frans Bruggen, 1934-2014
Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist
- Mary Cadogan, 1928-2014
English author who wrote on popular and children’s fiction
Jan Ekier, 1913-2014
Polish pianist
- Christopher Hogwood, 1941-2014
English conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist
- Graham Joyce, 1954-2014
British writer of speculative fiction
- Bill Kerr, 1922-2014
Australian actor and comedian
- Candida Lycett Green, 1942-2014
British author and TV documentary writer
- Madga Olivero, 1910-2014
Italian operatic soprano
- John Ritchie, 1921-2014
Music educator, composer and conductor, ‘father’ of Christchurch music
- Joan Rivers, 1937-2014
American actress, comedian, writer and TV host
- Peter Sculthorpe, 1929-2014
Australian composer
- David St John Thomas, 1929-2014
English publisher and writer who founded David & Charles publishing house
- Robin Williams, 1951-2014
American actor and comedian
- Sandy Wilson, 1924-2014
English composer and lyricist
- Eoin Young, 1939-2014
New Zealand motoring journalist
