THE ARTS
British novelist Kingsley Amis (73) Actor Jeremy Brett, the definitive Sherlock
Novelist Bridgid Brophy (66) Science fiction author John Brunner (60), grandfather of cyberpunk, of a stroke Avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer Don Cherry (58), of liver failure Actor Elisha Cook (91) — the trigger-happy kid in The Maltese Falcon Canadian author Robertson Davies (82) Famed photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (96) Actress Bess Finney (81), of cancer Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia (53) of a heart attack at a drug treatment centre Casablanca scriptwriter Howard Koch (93) Comedian Terry Lester (55) of bone marrow
British writer Edith Pargeter (82) who, as Ellis Peters, created the Brother Cadfael mystery series Playwright John Patrick (90), author of Teahouse of the August Moon, took his own life Musician and alternative South African rock icon James Phillips (36), who died following an operation on a skull fracture sustained in a car accident Painter and sculptor Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli (45), of cancer Pierre Schaeffer (85), a founder of the musique concrte movement Terry Southern (71), who wrote Candy and Dr
Poet Stephen Spender (86) Actress Lana Turner (75)
Exiled Libyan leader Mohamed Abuzeid, stabbed to death Former Somali dictator Major General Mohamed Siad Barre (74), in exile in Lagos Yusuf Cachalia (80), former secretary-general of the South African Indian Congress John Cairncross (82), the Fifth Man in the Cambridge spy ring Israeli deputy defence minister Mordechai Gur (65), who captured the Temple Mount in 1967;
Johannesburg councillor Les Dishy (72) Former British prime minister Sir Alec Douglas Home (92) ANC senator Ernest Sipho Mchunu, killed in a car crash National Intelligence Agency security chief and former Apla commander Mziwendoda Mdluli, found shot dead in his car Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,
Playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists, hanged in Nigeria South African Communist Party stalwart Jack Simons (88), co-author of Class and Colour in South Africa Minister of Housing Joe Slovo (68), of cancer Johannesburg councillor Dr Prakash Vallabh, shot dead during a car hijack Former British prime minister Harold Wilson
Italian cyclist Fabio Casartelli (25), killed in a Tour de France pile-up Colombian super featherweight boxer Jimmy Garcia, after suffering brain damage in a title bout Tennis great Pancho Gonzalez (67), of stomach
England fast bowler Harold Larwood (90), whose short-pitched bowling aimed at the body created a diplomatic rift during the 1932-33 Australian test series Moroka Swallows manager James “Nkalakatha” Ngidi (55), shot dead Free State boxer Mathews Pule, who collapsed during a bout Former Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs (77), of
Free State cricket captain and scrumhalf Willie Strydom (52), shot during a robbery at his garage Light-heavyweight boxing champion Ginger Khenja Tshabalala (31), shot dead
Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (84) Nuclear physicist Rudolf Peiris (88), whose claim that refined U-235 instead of ordinary uranium be used made the atomic bomb possible Physicist Keith Runcorn (73), who pioneered the science of palaeomagnetism, murdered Dr Jonas Salk (80), who developed the first polio vaccine
AND …
Corrie Bornman (76), former deputy president of the Transvaal Rugby Union, of a heart
Dr Wynand de Villiers (66), former chairman of the Atomic Energy Corporation Journalist Arthur Gavshon, author of The Sinking of the Belgrado Christo Kritzinger (43), former executive editor of TNP, of a heart attack Friday Mandla Mavuso (46), founder of the Self Help Association for Paraplegics, in a motor
BBC broadcaster Rashid Meer (38), in a motor
Judge Anton Mostert (64), who led the commission that uncovered the Info Scandal Sir Philip Oppenheimer (83), horse breeder and former chairman of the Central Selling
Johanna Raath (85), longtime president of the South African Vroue Federasie Bishop Amos Shembe of the Shembe Church The last Maharajah of Bharatpur, Brajendra Singh (76), who turned his estate into India’s best-known bird sanctuary Peter Townsend (81), the man Britain’s Princess Margaret loved but left to keep her right of succession to the throne