Recent necrology, January 2019

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Theo Adam, 1926-2019
  Legendary German operatic bass

• Diana Athill, 1917-2019
  British literary editor, novelist and memoirist

• John Burningham, 1936-2019
  English author and illustrator of children’s books

• Trevor Chinn, 1937-2018
  New Zealand glaciologist

• Windsor Davies, 1930-2019
  Welsh actor who performed in many films and television shows

• Elizabeth Edgar, 1929-2019
  Christchurch botanist and author

• John Joubert, 1927-2019
  British composer of South African descent

• Michel Legrand, 1932-2019
  French musician, composer, arranger and conductor

• Mary Oliver, 1935-2019
  American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

• Ian Shirley, 1944-2019
  New Zealand advocate for social justice and first professor of public policy

• Tomi Ungerer, 1931-2019
  French award-winning children's book author and illustrator