Recent necrology, February 2019

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Stanley Donen, 1924-2019
  Director and choreographer who helped transform the Hollywood musical

• Albert Finney, 1936-2019
  Actor who made his name as the archetypal angry young man in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

• William Hawkey, 1932-2019
  Composer, teacher and musician, formerly conductor of Christchurch Harmonic Society and University of Canterbury Madrigal Singers

• John Haynes, 1938-2019
  Creator of the Haynes Manual and founder of the Haynes International Motor Museum. Browse Haynes Manuals AllAccess from home

• Karl Lagerfeld, 1938-2019
  German creative director, fashion designer, artist and photographer

• Andrea Levy, 1956-2019
  Novelist whose works explored the lives of the Windrush generation

• Rosamunde Pilcher, 1924-2019
  Novelist whose Cornish domestic dramas sold in their millions

• Peter Posa, 1941-2019
  New Zealand guitarist, most famous for his instrumental The White Rabbit

• André Previn, 1929-2019
  German-American pianist, conductor and composer

• 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

• Patricia Nell Warren, 1936-2019
  American novelist, poet and journalist

• Peter Wells, 1950-2019
  New Zealand novelist, playwright, filmmaker and historian