Deaths in February - 2017

Actor Richard Hatch died February 7 at the age of 71. He wrote So Say We All: An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica.

Actor Alec McCowen died February 6 at the age of 91. His memoir was called A Double Bill.

Literary theorist Tzetvan Todorov died February 7 at the age of 77. His books include The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre and Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps.

Former socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson died February 8 at the age of 45. Her books include The Naughty Girl's Guide to Life, Inheritance and Infidelity.

Author William Melvin Kelley died February 1 at the age of 79. His books include Dem, A Different Drummer and Dancers on the Shore.

Statistician Dr. Hans Rosling died February 7 at the age of 68. He wrote How Not to be Ignorant About the World.

Author Barbara Gelb died February 9 at the age of 91. Her books include O'Neill co-authored with her husband Arthur Gelb, O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo, and So Short a Time.

>7 varielle: Barbara Gelb's uncle was Jascha Heifetz, and her stepfather was S. N. Behrman!

Mathematician and puzzle maker Raymond Smullyan died February 6 at the age of 97. His books include What is the Name of this Book? and The Tao is Silent.

International lawyer Sir Elihu Lauterpacht died February 8 at the age of 88. He wrote The Life of Hersch lauterpacht and Jerusalem and the Holy Places.

Canadian radio personality Stuart McLean died February 15 at the age of 68. His books include Vinyl Cafe Unplugged and Home from the Vinyl Cafe.

Reference book writer Irwin Stambler died February 10 at the age of 92. His many books include Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul and Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music.

Professional wrestler George "The Animal" Steele died February 16 at the age of 79. His memoir was called Animal.

Dick Bruna died February 16 at the age of 89. He was the creator of Miffy. :'(

Pro-wrestler Ivan Koloff has died at the age of 74. He wrote Is that Wrestling Fake? The Bear Facts.

Archaeologist Ivor Noel Hume died February 3 at the age of 89. His many books include Martin's Hundred and A guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America.

Norma McCorvey died on February 18 at the age of 69. She is better known as Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade. She wrote Won By Love and I am Roe.

Roman Catholic social Philosopher Michael Novak died February 17 at the age of 83. His many books include Washington's God and The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism.

Canadian union leader Bob White died February 20 at the age of 81. His memoir was called Hard Bargains: My Life on the Line.

Film critic Richard Schickel died February 18 at the age of 84. His many books include The World of Goya, 1746-1828 and The Disney Version: The Life, Times, ARt and Commerce of Walt Disney.

Nobel winning economist Kenneth Joseph Arrow died February 21 at the age of 95. His many books include Social Choice and Individual values and The Limits of Organization.

Guitarist Larry Coryell died February 19 at the age of 73. His autobiography was called Improvising: My Life in Music.

Poet Thomas Lux died February 5 at the age of 70. His books include New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux and The Street of Clocks: Poems.

Irish author Frank Delaney died February 21 at the age of 74. His books include Ireland, Tipperary and The Celts.

Physicist Mildred Dresselhaus died February 20 at the age of 86. She wrote Group Theory: Application to the Physics of Condensed Matter and edited Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics.

News commentator Alan Colmes died February 23 at the age of 66. He wrote Red, White and Liberal and Thank the Liberals for Saving America.

Texas writer Gary Cartwright died February 22 at the age of 82. His books include Galveston: A History of the Island and Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis.

Illustrator for the New Yorker James Stevenson died February 17 at the age of 87. His books include "Could be Worse!", What's Under My Bed? and The Night After Christmas.

Avant garde Chinese photographer Ren Hang has died at age 29. His works include The Brightest light Runs too Fast and Physical Borderline.

Author Nancy Willard died February 19 at the age of 80. Her books include Experienced... and A Visit to William Blake's Inn.

Political scientist Theodore Lowi died February 17 at the age of 85. His many books include The End of Liberalism, American Government: Power and Purpose and American Government: Freedom and Power.

Libertarian author Jerome Tuccille died February 16 at the age of 79. His books include It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand and Trump.

Cardinal Desmond Connell died February 21 at the age of 90. His books include According to Your Word and Christ Our Life.

Former television judge Joseph A. Wapner died February 26 at the age of 97. His memoir was called A View from the Bench.

Former pitcher for the St. Louis Browns, Ned Garver died February 26 at the age of 91. He wrote Touching all the Bases.

A nod in passing to the man who was the vision behind the revival of the Library of Alexandria. Mostafa El-Abbadi died February 13 at the age of 88. He wrote What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? and Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/world/middleeast/mostafa-el-abbadi-great-libr...

Marian B. Javits widow of the late Sen. Javits, died February 28 at the age of 92. She wrote Senator's Wife: Ahead of My Time.

Novelist and biographer Nicholas Mosley died February 28 at the age of 93. His books include Hopeful Monsters, Impossible Object and Julian Grenfell.

Historian Marilyn Young died February 19 at the age of 79. Her books include The Vietnam War A History in Documents, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 and American Expansionism.

Russian mathematician and former Soviet dissident Igor R. Shafarevich died February 19 at the age of 93. His many books include Basic Algebraic Geometry I, Algebra I: Basic Notions of Algebra, The Socialist Phenomenon and Basic Algebraic Geometry 2.