Recent necrology, December 2020

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Irina Antonova, 1922-2020
  Legendary art historian who ran Moscow’s Pushkin Museum for 50 years

• Jeremy Bulloch, 1945-2020
  English actor with a varied career on stage and screen

• James Flynn, 1934-2020
  New Zealand intelligence researcher

• Hugh Keays-Byrne, 1947-2020
  Actor best known as a psychopathic villain in two Mad Max films

• John Le Carré, 1931-2020
  British spy writer

• Alison Lurie, 1926-2020
  American novelist who explored human relationships in a time of social change

• Rangimarie Rose Pere, 1937-2020
  Educator, conservationist and academic, of Ngāti Kahungunu descent

• Charley Pride, 1938-2020
  Country music’s first African-American superstar

• Tim Severin, 1940-2020
  British explorer, historian, and writer

• Fanny Waterman, 1920-2020
  British pianist, academic piano teacher, and the founder and artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition

• Barbara Windsor, 1937-2020
  English actress known for her appearances in the Carry On films