Recent necrology, August-September 2014

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