Recent necrology, January 2017

Some well-known people who have died recently

• John Berger, 1926-2017
  English art critic, novelist, painter and poet

• William Peter Blatty, 1928-2017
  American writer and filmmaker best known for his novel The Exorcist

• Michael Chamberlain , 1944-2017
  New Zealand-born Australian writer, teacher and pastor best known for the 1980 death of his daughter Azaria

• Babette Cole, 1950-2017
  English children’s author and illustrator

• John Hurt, 1940-2017
  English actor and voice actor whose career spanned six decades

• Mary Tyler Moore, 1936-2017
  American actress known for her roles in the TV sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Georges Pretre, 1924-2017
  French orchestral and opera conductor

• Om Puri, 1950-2017
  Indian actor

• Douglas Reeman, 1924-2017
  British author of many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, who also wrote under the pseudonym Alexander Kent

• Emmanuèle Riva, 1927-2017
  French actress best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Amour

• Bruce Slane, 1931-2017
  New Zealand’s first Privacy Commissioner

• Antony, Earl of Snowdon, 1930-2017
  British photographer, designer and film maker

• Emma Tennant, 1937-2017
  British novelist and editor whose fiction is often imbued with fantasy or magic

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