Some well-known people who have died recently
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Stanley Donen, 1924-2019
Director and choreographer who helped transform the Hollywood musical
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Albert Finney, 1936-2019
Actor who made his name as the archetypal angry young man in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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William Hawkey, 1932-2019
Composer, teacher and musician, formerly conductor of Christchurch Harmonic Society and University of Canterbury Madrigal Singers
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John Haynes, 1938-2019
Creator of the Haynes Manual and founder of the Haynes International Motor Museum. Browse Haynes Manuals AllAccess from home
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Karl Lagerfeld, 1938-2019
German creative director, fashion designer, artist and photographer
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Andrea Levy, 1956-2019
Novelist whose works explored the lives of the Windrush generation
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Rosamunde Pilcher, 1924-2019
Novelist whose Cornish domestic dramas sold in their millions
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Peter Posa, 1941-2019
New Zealand guitarist, most famous for his instrumental The White Rabbit
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André Previn, 1929-2019
German-American pianist, conductor and composer
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Tomi Ungerer, 1931-2019
French artist and author of much loved children’s books to adult works, from the fantastic to the autobiographical. Read Karen's blog post Vale Tomi Ungerer, 1931 - 2019
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Patricia Nell Warren, 1936-2019
American novelist, poet and journalist
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Peter Wells, 1950-2019
New Zealand novelist, playwright, filmmaker and historian
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