Recent necrology, May 2015

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Jack Body, 1940-2015
  Acclaimed New Zealand composer

• B. B. King, 1925-2015
  Virtuoso blues guitarist and singer who combined technical agility with passionate vocals

• Tanith Lee, 1947-2015
  Prolific fantasy writer who revelled in the grotesque and gave a macabre spin to the traditional folk tale

• Paul Myers, 1932-2015
  Classical record producer who wrote a biography of Leonard Bernstein and also mystery novels

• John Nash, 1928-2015
  American mathematician with fundamental contributions in game theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations