Some well-known people who have died recently
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English rock and blues singer known for his gritty voice and his spasmodic body movement in performance
Joe Cocker, 1944-2014
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Leslie Dew, 1930-2014
Christchurch transport historian and author
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Kent Haruf, 1943-2014
American novelist whose spare prose gave life to quiet human drama in the fictional town of Holt
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Michael Kennedy, 1926-2014
Northern Editor of the Daily Telegraph who became a highly-renowned music critic and biographer of Elgar and Vaughan Williams
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Virna Lisi, 1936-2014
Italian actress who abandoned a promising Hollywood career to pursue more challenging roles in Europe
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Jeremy Lloyd, 1930-2014
Comedy writer and actor who created popular, bawdy televisions series such as 'Allo, 'allo!
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Lydia Mordkovitch, 1944-2014
Russian violinist who made her name in Britain by drawing out the darker side of 20th-century composers
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Ivor Richardson, 1930-2014
Eminent New Zealand jurist, legal writer and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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Jon Stallworthy, 1935-2014
Poet and literary scholar whose biography of Wilfred Owen shaped public understanding of the First World War
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Jean Watson, 1933-2014
New Zealand author and humanitarian, whose charitable work in India was recently featured in the documentary Aunty and the Star People
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Billie Whitelaw, 1932-1014
Actress and muse of playwright Samuel Beckett who terrified as the hellish nanny of The Omen
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