Some well known people who have died recently
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Theodore Bikel, 1924-2015
Austrian American Jewish folk singer, actor, musician and activist who appeared in The African Queen, and My Fair Lady
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Cilla Black, 1943-2015
Singer and television presenter who delighted audiences with her unaffected humour
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Owen Chadwick, 1916-2015
Anglican priest and academic whose writing on Christianity was both scholarly and entertaining
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Alan Curtis, 1934-2015
Scholar, harpsichordist and conductor
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Ronald Davison, 1920-2015
Former New Zealand Chief Justice who was at the centre of some of New Zealand’s defining legal moments
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E L Doctorow, 1931-2015
Writer who detailed America’s murky history of socialites and mobsters in novels such as Ragtime
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Harold Feinstein, 1931-2015
Photographer who shot Coney Island’s characters and was at the heart of the New York jazz scene
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John Maxtone-Graham, 1929-2015
Author and speaker who left the theatre to celebrate the lost splendour of transatlantic liners
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W J McEldowney, 1921-2015
New Zealand librarian and author
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Ivan Moravec, 1930-2015
Czech concert pianist whose refined interpretations of Chopin echoed beyond the Iron Curtain
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Roger Rees, 1944-2015
Actor who made his name as the passionate hero in the RSC production of Nicholas Nickleby
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Mario Sereni, 1928-2015
Italian baritone, former lathe operator, who became a Metropolitan Opera mainstay
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Omar Sharif, 1932-2015
Dashingly handsome Egyptian film star who triumphed in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago
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Jon Vickers, 1926-2015
Canadian tenor who rejected a farmer’s life to bring reverence and brute force to the operatic stage
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Jerry Weintraub, 1937-2015
‘Mr Fixit’ of showbusiness who promoted Elvis and Sinatra and produced Ocean’s Eleven
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