Recent necrology, March 2020

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Alan Caiger-Smith, 1930-2020
  Founder of Aldermaston Pottery who was a noted ceramic scholar

• Hugh Cecil, 1941-2020
  British historian who brought home to readers the experience of fighting in a war

• Jeanette Fitzsimons, 1945-2020
  New Zealand environmentalist and politician, former co-leader of the Green Party

• Fiona MacCarthy, 1940-2020
  British biographer and cultural historian

• Terrence McNally, 1938-2020
  American playwright, librettist and screenwriter

• Krzysztof Penderecki, 1933-2020
  Avant garde Polish composer and conductor

• Max von Sydow, 1920-2020
  Swedish actor who played chess with Death in The seventh seal

• McCoy Tyner, 1938-2020
  Influential jazz pianist

• Uderzo, 1927-2020
  French comic book artist and scriptwriter who was most famous as co-creator and illustrator of the Astérix series