Recent necrology, March 2017

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Murray Ball, 1939-2017
  New Zealand cartoonist known for his Footrot Flats series and Stanley the Paleolithic Hero. Read Fee's tribute to Murray Ball

• Chuck Berry, 1926-2017
  American guitarist, singer and songwriter, one of the pioneers of rock and roll music

• James Cotton, 1935-2017
  American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter

• Colin Dexter, 1930-2017
  English crime writer, creator of Inspector Morse

• Louis Frémaux, 1921-2017
  French conductor

• Phil Garland, 1942-2017
  Christchurch folk singer

• Kurt Moll, 1938-2017
  German operatic bass singer who enjoyed an international career and was widely recorded

• Mario Reading, 1953-2017
  English author, translator of Nostradamus

• David Storey, 1933-2017
  English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and former professional rugby league player

• Derek Walcott, 1930-2017
  Saint Lucian poet and playwright who received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature

• Robert James Waller, 1939-2017
  American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County. He was also a photographer and musician

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