October 8, 2015 Politicians Writers William Taylor New Zealand children’s writer and politician Died on Saturday October 3rd 2015 Other politiciansNikolay Tsaturyan dead at age 81, Armenian theatre directorKrzysztof Piesiewicz dead at age 80, public figureZoya Boguslavskaya dead at age 102, Russian poet and writerHerb Wharton dead at age 89, public figureVladimir Molchanov dead at age 75, Russian television host and journalistBarry W. Blaustein dead at age 72, American screenwriter and film director, pancreatic cancerBassek Ba Kobhio dead at age 69, Cameroonian writer and filmmakerRex Reed dead at age 87, American film critic and journalistAtaur Rahman Bangladeshi actor dead at age 84Ralph Ottey Jamaican-born British author and World War II veteran dead at age 102More from New ZealandKenneth Keith dead at age 88, New Zealand jurist and legal scholar, judge of the International Court of JusticeMark Smythe dead, 53 New Zealand-born American composer, atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseaseGeoff Stedman New Zealand physicist, Hector Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand dead at age 83Carla Van Zon New Zealand artistic director dead at age 74Adrienne Staples New Zealand politician, mayor of South Wairarapa and member of the Greater Wellington Regional Council dead at age 69Mark Carrington New Zealand cricketer dead at age 64Ned New Zealand snail diesCleighten Cornelius New Zealand cricketer and winemaker, myeloma dead at age 49Peter Lynn New Zealand engineer and kite maker, cancer dead at age 79Sir Alan Frampton New Zealand agricultural economist dead at age 96More from October 3, 2015Javid IqbalFranciszek WalickiDenis HealeyA. R. M. Abdul CaderSamuel Sam-SumanaJoão Leithardt NetoStewart McInnesJosé VilhenaGerald SquiresBarbara Meek Tags 03 October 2015 2015-10-03 New Zealand October 2015 October 3 Politicians Taylor William Writers ←Harry Gallatin Arthur A. Small→