Recent necrology, November 2017

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Donald Bain, 1935-2017
  One of America’s most prolific ghost writers

• Antonio Carluccio, 1937-2017
  Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert

• David Cassidy, 1950-2017
  American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist, star of the Partridge Family

• Nancy Friday, 1933-2017
  American author who wrote on female sexuality and liberation

    

• Jon Hendricks, 1921-2017
  Jazz supremo

• Dmitri Hvorostovsky, 1962-2017
  Russian opera baritone

• Jane Juska, 1933-2017
  Author of a memoir on late-life sex

• Charles Manson, 1934-2017
  Hippy cult leader and mass murderer

• James Morwood, 1943-2017
  English classicist