Deaths in August - 2016

Queen Anne of Romania, wife of Romania's last monarch Michael I, has died on August 1 at the age of 92. She wrote Un razboi, un exil, o viata.

Swimming coach Forbes Carlile died on August 2 at the age of 95. He wrote Forbes Carlile On Swimming.

Clarinetist Pete Fountain died August 6 at the age of 86. He wrote A closer Walk; The Pete Fountain Story. 😢

Vietnam Veteran who wrote about life on the reservation, Jim Northrup died August 1 at the age of 73. His books include Walking the Rez Road and The Rez Road Follies.

Nobel prize winning chemist Ahmed H. Zewail died August 2 at the age of 70. His books include Voyage Through Time and The Age of Science.

Famed plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy died August 6 at the age of 93. His books include El arte de la belleza and Aprendiz de tempo.

Irish Bishop Edward Daly died Augut 8 at the age of 82. His books include Mister, Are you a Priest? and Do not Let your Hearts be Troubled.

The man who gave Woodstock a home Elliot Tiber died August 3 at the age of 81. His books include Taking Woodstock and Palm Trees on the Hudson.

Ricci Martin son of the singer Dean Martin, died august 3 at the age of 62. He wrote That's Amore: A son Remembers Dean Martin.

Chef Michel Richard died August 13 at the age of 68. His books include Happy in the Kitchen and Michel Richard Home Cooking.

A novelist in his own right Thomas Steinbeck, son of John Steinbeck died August 11 at the age of 72. His books include In the Shadow of the Cypress and Down to a Soundless Sea.

The psychologist who learned to talk with dolphins Dr. Louis M. Herman died August 3 at the age of 86. His books include Cetacean Behavior and What Laboratory Research has Told us About Dolphin Cognition.

Believed to be the last Polish Jew to have survived the Sobibor extermination camp, Philip Bialowitz died August 6 at the age of 90. He escaped during a prisoner uprising, testified against the Nazis and wrote of his experience in A Promise at Sobibor A jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland.

Police official John F. Timoney died August 16 at the age of 68. He wrote Beat Cop to Top Cop.

Gerald Hughes brother of Ted Hughes died August 6 at the age of 95. He wrote Ted and I.

Historian Ernst Nolte died August 18 at the age of 93. His many books include Three Faces of Facism and Marxism, Facism, Cold War.

Dr. Donald A. Henderson died August 19 at the age of 87. He was involved in the eradication of small pox through the World Health Organization. He wrote Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management.

Actor/manager Brian Rix aka Lord Rix of Whitehall, died August 20 at the age of 92. His books include Life in the Farce Lane and Farce About Face.

Children's author Joyce Carol Thomas died August 13 at the age of 78. Her many books include The Blacker the Berry and I have Heard of a Land.

Creator of the British comedy Yes, Minister, Antony Jay died August 21 at the age of 86. His books include Management and Machiavelli and Corporation Man.

Priest/Clown the Rev. Roly Bain died August 11 at the age of 62. His books include Fools Rush In: A Call to Christian Clowning and Playing the Fool.

Former West German President Walter Scheel died August 23 at the age of 97. His books include Mut zu kritischer Sympathie and Heiterkeit und Haerte.

Fashion designer Sonia Rykiel died August 25 at the age of 86. She wrote Paris, sur les pas de Sonia Rykiel.

Magazine editor and political journalist Warren Hinckle died August 25 at the age of 77. His books include Deadly Secrets and The Fish is Red.

Religious leader Esther Jungreis died August 23 at the age of 80. Her books include The Committed Life and The Committed Marriage.

British diplomat Dame Margaret Joan Anstee died August 25 at the age of 90. Her books include Never Learn to Type, Orphan of the Cold War and Bolivia: Gate of the Sun.

Actor Gene Wilder died August 28 at the age of 83. His books include Kiss Me Like a Stranger and Gilda's Disease. :'(

Physicist James W. Cronin died August 25 at the age of 84. He wrote Fermi remembered.

Photojournalist Marc Riboud died August 30 at the age of 93. His books include Marc Riboud in China and The Three Banners of China.

Chief engineer for the 747, Joe Sutter died August 30 at the age of 95. He wrote 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet.

Radio psychologist Dr. Joy Browne died August 27 at the age of 71. Her books include Dating for Dummies and The Nine Fantasies that Will Ruin Your life.

Photographer Nathan Lyons died August 31 at teh age of 86. His books include Photographers on Photography and Notations in Passing.

Nobel winning game theorist Reinhard Selten died August 23 at the age of 85. His books include Bounded Rationality and Models of Strategic Rationality.

French novelist Michel Butor died August 24 at the age of 89. His books include La Modification and Passing Time.

Pediatrician Dr. Morris Wessel died August 20 at the age of 98. He wrote Parents Book For Raising a Healthy Child.

Biologist Harold Hillman died August 5 at the age of 85. His books include Atlas of the Cellular Structure of the Human Nervous System and The Impostor Syndrome.

Polymath George Spencer-Brown died August 25 at the age of 93. His books include Laws of Form and Probability and Scientific Inference.

Expert on ceramics and antiques Alison Kelly died August 15 at the age of 102. Her books include The Story of Wedgwood, The Book of English Fireplaces and Mrs. Coade's Stone.

Historian of architecture Peter Blundell Jones died August 19 at the age of 67. His books include Hans Scharoun and Gunnar Asplund.

Irish novelist Joseph Hone died August 15 at the age of 79. His books include The Private Sector and The Oxford Gambit.