text: DEATHS: Angela Merici, Italian educator and saint, founded the Company of St Ursula (1540), Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (1731), Edward Middleton Barry, English architect and academic, co-designed the Halifax Town Hall and the Royal Opera House (1880), Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (1901), Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA (2018).