Recent necrology, October 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Denis Adam, 1924-2018
  New Zealand businessman, philanthropist, major contributor to music and the arts

• Charles Aznavour, 1924-2018
  Singer of bittersweet chansons and actor

• Montserrat Caballé, 1933-2018
  Great Spanish operatic soprano

• Carlos Ezquerra, 1947-2018
  Spanish comics artist best known as the co-creator of Judge Dredd

• David Fergusson, 1944-2018
  Christchurch health and development researcher

• Ray Galton, 1930-2018
  English radio and television scriptwriter, co-creator of Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son

• Eugene Peterson, 1932-2018
  American clergyman, scholar, author and poet, known for his The Message Bible

Recent necrology, August 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Kofi Annan, 1938-2018
  Ghanaian diplomat, UN Secretary-General

• Harlan Ellison, 1934-2018
  Science fiction writer

• Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018
  Legendary American singer and songwriter, the Queen of Soul

• Reinhart Langer, 1921-2018
  Renowned botanist

 

• V. S. Naipaul, 1932-2018
  Caribbean writer and Nobel Laureate

• Baden Norris, 1927-2018
  Author who was the driving force behind the Lyttelton Museum

• Warwick Roger, 1945-2018
  Innovative NZ journalist, founder of Metro magazine

• Neil Simon, 1927-2018
  American playwright, screenwriter and author

Recent necrology, July 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Franz Beyer, 1922-2018
  German musicologist who provided a satisfactory conclusion to Mozart’s unfinished Requiem

• Bernard Hepton, 1925-2018
  English actor and director of stage, film and television

• Tab Hunter, 1931-2018
  American film star and recording artist

• Clive King, 1924-2018
  Children’s author who became a publishing phenomenon with his Stig of the dump

  

• Oliver Knussen, 1952-2018
  British composer and conductor

• Harry Miller, 1934-2018
  New Zealand manager, promoter and publicist

• Colin Quincey, 1945-2018
  First person to row from New Zealand to Australia

• Hugh Whitemore, 1936-2018
  English playwright and screenwriter

Recent necrology, June 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Anthony Bourdain, 1956-2018
  American celebrity chef, author and television personality

• Gennadiĭ Rozhdestvenskiĭ, 1931-2018
  Brilliant Russian conductor

• Tony Vercoe, 1919-2018
  Musician and historian, in charge of Kiwi Pacific Records for 30 years

 

Recent necrology, May 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Beth Chatto, 1923-2018
  English garden designer, plantswoman and writer

• Neville Cooper, 1926-2018
  Aka Hopeful Christian, leader of the Gloriavale Community

• Bernard Lewis, 1916-2018
  Foremost Western historian of Islam in the post-war era

• John Moorfield, 1943-2018
  Highly regarded Māori language academic, affectionately known as Te Murumāra

  

• Philip Roth, 1933-2018
  American novelist, author of Portnoy’s Complaint

• Clive Sinclair, 1948-2018
  English author who published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories

• Graeme Stanley, 1938-2018
  Christchurch ‘walktologist’ and former city councillor

• Tom Wolfe, 1931-2018
  American author and pioneer of New Journalism

   

Recent necrology, April 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently:

• Abbas, 1944-2018
  Iranian photographer known for his photojournalism

• Milos Forman, 1932-2018
  Czech American film director, screenwriter and actor

• Wilson Harris, 1921-2018
  Guyanese novelist, poet and essayist

• Ivan Mauger, 1939-2018
  New Zealand motorcycle racer who won six world speedway titles

• Fergie McCormick, 1939-2018
  Legendary Crusaders and All Black fullback

• Anita Shreve, 1946-2018
  American novelist

• Emma Smith, 1923-2018
  English novelist who also wrote for children

• Cecil Taylor, 1929-2018
  Jazz pianist whose playing defined the term ‘free jazz’

• Huguette Tourangeau, 1938-2018
  French-Canadian mezzo-soprano particularly associated with French and Italian repertoire

 

Recent necrology, March 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Roger Bannister, 1929-2018
  British doctor, academic and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-four-minute mile in the 1952 Olympics

• Emma Hannigan, 1972-2018
  Bestselling Irish author and blogger

    

• Philip Kerr, 1956-2018
  British author known for his Bernie Gunther historical thrillers

• Jesús López Cobos, 1940-2018
  Spanish conductor with a multinational resumé

• Peter Temple, 1946-2018
  Australian crime fiction author. Read Dan’s post Vale, Peter Temple (& Jack Irish)

Recent necrology, February 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Emma Chambers, 1964-2018
  Actress in The Vicar of Dibley, and Notting Hill

• Billy Graham, 1918-2018
  American evangelist known internationally

• Raimund Herincx, 1927-2018
  British operatic bass-baritone

• Penny Vincenzi, 1939-2018
  English novelist

 

Recent necrology, January 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Jim Anderton, 1938-2018
  Christchurch politician

• John Barton, 1928-2018
  Co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company

• Pat Booth, 1929-2018
  Crusading New Zealand newspaperman

• Richard Havers, 1951-2017
  Pop, rock and jazz historian

 

• Ursula Le Guin, 1929-2018
  American novelist best known for her children’s fantasy and science fiction stories

• Dolores O’Riordan, 1971-2018
  Cranberries lead singer

• Peter Mayle, 1939-2018
  British author noted for his memoirs of life in Provence

• W. R. Sykes, 1927-2018
  Christchurch botanist

Recent necrology, December 2017

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Sue Grafton, 1940-2017
  American author of detective novels. Read Karen’s post from 2014 about her discovery of Sue Grafton’s ‘alphabet mysteries’ and her heroine Kinsey Millhone

• Christine Keeler, 1942-2017
  English model and showgirl

 

• John Mollo, 1931-2017
  Costume designer

• Cheryll Sotheran, 1945-2017
  Founding Chief Executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

• Gavin Stamp, 1948-2017
  British writer and architectural historian