Eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm has died at the age of 95.
His daughter Julia said on Monday that her father had died overnight at a London's Royal Free Hospital.
He had been suffering from pneumonia, AP reported.
Eric Hobsbawn died in London at the age of 95
In a statement reported by the BBC, his family said: "He will be greatly missed not only by his wife of fifty years, Marlene, and his three children, seven grandchildren and great grandchild, but also by his many thousands of readers and students around the world."
He was raised in Vienna and Berlin and came to Britain in 1933 after his family fled the Nazis.
Hobsbawn was a member of the Communist party from 1936 until the party's collapse in 1989. In 1947 he became a lecturer at Birkbeck College, in London.
He is best known for his books History of the 20th Century, The Age of Extremes, and The Age of Revolution.
His final book, How To Change The World, was printed in 2011.
An avid Duke Ellington fan, Hobsbawn also moonlighted as the New Statesman's jazz critic, writing under the nom de plume "Frances Newton".
A further book, now in proof stage, is scheduled for publication in 2013, The Guardian revealed.