Recent necrology, July 2018

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Franz Beyer, 1922-2018
  German musicologist who provided a satisfactory conclusion to Mozart’s unfinished Requiem

• Bernard Hepton, 1925-2018
  English actor and director of stage, film and television

• Tab Hunter, 1931-2018
  American film star and recording artist

• Clive King, 1924-2018
  Children’s author who became a publishing phenomenon with his Stig of the dump

• Oliver Knussen, 1952-2018
  British composer and conductor

• Harry Miller, 1934-2018
  New Zealand manager, promoter and publicist

• Colin Quincey, 1945-2018
  First person to row from New Zealand to Australia

• Hugh Whitemore, 1936-2018
  English playwright and screenwriter

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