Recent necrology, December 2021

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Joan Didion, 1934-2021
  American author and essayist

• Sarah Harding, 1981-2021
  English singer, model and actress

• bell hooks, 1952-2021
  American Black feminist author

• Keri Hulme, 1947-2021
  New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer

• Ray Illingworth, 1932-2021
  English cricketer, commentator and administrator

• Michael Nesmith, 1942-2021
  American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist, member of the Monkees

• Anne Rice, 1941-2021
  American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature

• Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021
  South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist

• Betty White, 1922-2021
  American actress and comedian