Recent necrology, January 2020

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Steph Bowe, 1994-2020
  Australian novelist and blogger

• Terry Jones, 1942-2020
  Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian, member of the Monty Python comedy team

• Gordon McLauchlan, 1931-2020
  New Zealand journalist, broadcaster and social historian

• Shirley Murray, 1931-2020
  Prolific New Zealand hymn writer

• Dick Scott, 1923-2020
  New Zealand historian and journalist

• Roger Scruton, 1944-2020
  English philosopher and writer who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy

• Ian Woodford Gibson Smith, 1954-2020
  New Zealand archaeologist

• Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020
  Third son of the author J. R. R. Tolkien and editor of much of his father's posthumously published work

• Barry Tuckwell, 1931-2020
  Virtuoso Australian horn player

• Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1967-2020
  American writer and journalist, known for her memoir Prozac Nation