Recent necrology, November 2016

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Mose Allison, 1927-2016
  American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter
• Fidel Castro, 1926-2016
  Cuban revolutionary turned dictator
• Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016
  Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist

• Ray Columbus, 1942-2016
  New Zealand singer and songwriter, entertainer and music manager, television host
• Marti Friedlander, 1928-2016
  Leading New Zealand photographer
• John Gray, 1928-2016
  Former Christchurch City Manager, author and Brigadier, New Zealand Territorial Force
• Luke Herrmann, 1932-2016
  Art historian and expert on Turner
• Roger Hobbs, 1988-2016
  American writer, author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games
• Sharon Jones, 1956-2016
  American soul and funk singer
• Leslie Kenton, 1941-2016
  Prolific health and beauty author and educator

• James McNeish, 1931-2016
  New Zealand novelist, playwright and biographer
• Benedict Read, 1945-2016
  English art historian
• Leon Russell, 1942-2016
  American musician and songwriter
• Andrew Sachs, 1930-2016
  Actor who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers
• Mike Tomkies, 1928-2016
  Adventurer and writer
• William Trevor, 1928-2016
  Irish novelist who won the Whitbread Prize three times
• Robert Vaughn, 1932-2016
  Debonair star of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Giles Waterfield, 1949-2016
  British novelist, art historian and curator

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