Vernor Vinge obituary

Sci-fi author and computer scientist who coined the term ‘the Singularity’ to describe the rapid acceleration of AI

Nicholas Jacobs obituary

Other lives: Publisher dedicated to promoting German literature in the UK, including through his own company, Libris

Author and illustrator who carried on his father Jean’s adventures of Babar in more than 40 books

Primatologist whose studies showed that non-human apes can behave with compassion, cooperation and cunning

Other lives: Playwright and short story writer whose work was performed around the south-west of England

Other lives: Art historian best known for his writing about comic strips through the ages

Other lives: Actor whose mellifluous voice narrated hundreds of audiobooks and video games

Lecturer and social historian whose books on witchcraft transformed the study of the subject

Other lives: Expert aviculturist, artist and educator with a deep love of wildlife

Other lives: Historian and author who liked to research everyday lives and unsung organisations

Graphic designer whose distinctive typographic work graced Penguin book covers, museum signage and London monuments

Other lives: Librarian who moved from Sweden to the UK and became a key member of her local Amnesty group

Other lives: Leeds University historian who was an authority on the late Habsburg empire

American interior designer, collector and stylist regarded as one of the great exotics of 20th-century fashion

Writer and dementia campaigner who believed that people should have the right to choose their own death