Denis Donoghue obituary

Literary critic who defended traditional values against campus radicals

Eric Carle obituary

Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Outstanding cricket writer and biographer whose work graced the pages of the Guardian for 40 years

Historian who painted a vivid picture of life in medieval cities such as London and Winchester

Writer, essayist and broadcaster whose extraordinarily capacious intellect was allied to a sense of fun

Other Lives: Poet and small press publisher involved in the British counterculture of the 1960s

Other lives: Author and journalist who wrote a weekly column on surprising statistics for the Guardian in the 1990s

Other lives: Author and teacher who was a pioneering gay rights activist in the 1970s

Historian, biographer and documentary film-maker whose subjects ranged from the cold war to sexual freedom in Britain

Composer celebrated for completing Elgar’s Third Symphony but whose own voice was more modernist in style

Other Lives: Screenwriter and filmmaker who was associated for many years with the King’s Head pub theatre in London

Composer whose settings of texts in English display dramatic flair, poetic awareness and assured piano writing

Lib Dem activist, writer and lecturer whose international outlook was reflected in BBC radio broadcasts from all round the world

Versatile actor, flamenco dancer and biographer of his friend and fellow Australian Peter Finch

Poet inspired by the remains of Roman north Africa, and tireless as an editor and lecturer