Some well-known people who have died recently:
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Tony Benn, 1925-2014
British Labour Party politician, orator, campaigner and diarist, recognisable by his pipe, tape recorder and outsized mug -
Clarissa Dickson Wright, 1947-2014
Bombastic, outspoken lawyer who was brought to her knees by riches and alcoholism then rose again as a cook on Two Fat Ladies -
Ann Howard, 1934-2014
Opera singer who portrayed ‘witches and bitches’ and excelled as Carmen -
Bob Larbey, 1934-2014
Scriptwriter who mined the comic potential of suburbia in The Good Life, and Ever Decreasing Circles -
Kate O’Mara, 1939-2014
Actress best known for her role in Dynasty in the mid 1980s -
Alain Resnais, 1922-2014
French New Wave director celebrated for tackling in film Proustian themes of time and memory -
Richard Vaughan, 1927-2014
Medieval historian and ornithologist who studies bird life from Europe to the Arctic
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