The Observer's obituaries of 2017
Cultural figures we lost in 2017, remembered at the end of the year by those close to them
Simone Veil remembered by Robert Badinter
Howard Hodgkin remembered by Alan Hollinghurst
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson remembered by Duncan James
Bruce Forsyth remembered by Anton du Beke
Lil Peep remembered by Sarah Stennett
Sam Shepard remembered by Johnny Dark
Darcus Howe remembered by Diane Abbott
Ugo Ehiogu remembered by Gareth Southgate
Azzedine Alaïa remembered by Julian Schnabel
Fats Domino remembered by Joe Lauro
Johnny Hallyday remembered by Carla Bruni
Peter Hall remembered by David Hare
Antonio Carluccio remembered by Giorgio Locatelli
Anita Pallenberg remembered by Marianne Faithfull
John Hurt remembered by John Boorman
