Deaths in October - 2018

Physicist Leon Lederman died October 3 at the age of 96. His books include The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, From Quarks to the Cosmos and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe .

Sound engineer who recorded the Beatles, Geoff Emerick died October 2 at the age of 72. He wrote Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles .

Sports writer Dave Anderson died October 4 at the age of 89. His books include One Knee Equals Two Feet: And Everything Else You Need to Know About Football, Hey, Wait a Minute and Pennant Races: Baseball at Its Best .

Collector of all things related to quackery, William H. Helfand died October 2 at the age of 92. His books include Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera, and The picture of health : images of medicine and pharmacy from the William Helfand Collection.

CIA nemesis, journalist David Wise died October 8 at the age of 88. His numerous books include Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America , The Invisible Government and the Spy Who Got Away.

Former San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos died October 9 at the age of 95. His autobiography was called Sharing the Wealth : My Story .

Basketball coach Fred "Tex" Winter died October 10 at the age of 96. He wrote The Triple-post Offense .

Photographer and train enthusiast John Gruber died October at the age of 82. His books include Classic Steam: Timeless Photographs of North American Steam Railroading, The Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas (Great Passenger Trains) and Streetcars of America (Shire Library USA) .

Betty Grissom widow of astronaut Gus Grissom died October 6, 2018 at the age of 91. She's best known for suing Rockwell over her husband's launchpad death. She wrote Starfall.

Sen. Joseph Tydings died October 10 at the age of 90. He wrote My Life in Progressive Politics.

British politician Denzil Davies died October 10 at the age of 80. He was responsible for Booth: Residence, Domicile and UK Taxation.

Philosopher Mary Midgley died October 10 at the age of 99. Her many books include Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature and Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay.

Co-founder of Microsoft and Vulcan, Paul Allen died October 15 at the age of 65. His memoir was called Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft.

Addiction specialist Dr. Herbert D. Kleber died October 5 at the age of 84. He wrote Assessment and treatment of Cocaine-Abusing Methadone-Maintained Patients and The American Psychiatric Press textbook of substance abuse treatment.

Interior designer Mario Buatta died October 52 at the age of 82. He wrote Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration.

Legendary voice coach Cicely Berry died October 15 at the age of 92. Among her books are Voice and the Actor and The Actor and the Text. Obit here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/obituaries/cicely-berry-dead.html?emc=edit_th...

Brothel owner Dennis Hof died October 16 at the age of 72. He wrote The Art of the Pimp.

Anthea Bell translated dozens of works to English for writers as diverse as Freud, Zweig and Kafka. She died October 18 at the age of 82.

Baroness Patricia Hollis, UK Labour Party peer, former council leader but also an academic historian who published several books about socialist and feminist history, and a biography of 20th century Labour MP Jennie Lee, has died aged 77.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/18/lady-hollis-of-heigham-obituary

https://kmflett.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/historians-pay-tribute-to-socialist-fem...

(I have to declare a personal curiosity here as Jennie Lee was my great-grandfather's lover. Margaret Forster's Good Wives also includes a chapter about Frank Wise, his wife Dorothy and Jennie Lee).

Author Sue Hubbell died October 13 at the age of 83. Her books include A Country Year: Living the Questions, A Book of Bees and Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs.

Turkish photographer Ara Guler died October 17 at the age of 90. His work can be seen in Ara Guler's Istanbul: 40 Years of Photographs .

The Doctor who treated the bubble boy Dr. William T. Shearer died October 9 at the age of 81. He wrote Medical Management of AIDS in Children.

Former literature professor and holocaust denier Robert Faurisson died October 21 at the age of 89. His books include Mémoire en défense, Is the Diary of Anne Frank Genuine ? and Le Révisionnisme de Pie XII.

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Curator Wen C. Fong died October 3 at the age of 88. His books include Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei , Eighteen songs of a nomad flute: the story of Lady Wen-chi(editor) and Along the Riverbank : Chinese Paintings from the C. C. Wang Family (editor).

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Rev. Eugene H. Peterson died October 22 at the age of 85. His books include The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society and The Message Remix .

Spanish comics artist who co-created Judge Dredd, Carlos Ezquerra died October 1 at the age of 70. His work includes Preacher Vol. 4: Ancient history (Illustrator), Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand (Illustrator), Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files Vol. 5 (Illustrator) and War Stories, Vol. 2. (Illustrator)

Nobel prize winning chemist Osamu Shimomura, who survived the atomic blast in Nagasaki, has died on October 19 at the age of 90. His books include Bioluminescence: Chemical Principles and Methods (Revised Edition), Luminous pursuit : jellyfish, GFP, and the unforeseen path to the Nobel Prize and Nihon keizai no setsudo.

Earl Bakken was an electronics repairman who created the first wearable pacemaker and went on to co-found Medtronics. He died October 21 at the age of 94. His autobiography was called One Man's Full Life.

Poet Tony Hoagland died October 23 at the age of 64. His work includes What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems, Donkey Gospel: Poems, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft and Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems.

Wanda Ferragamo took over her husband's luxury shoe business after his death. She died October 19 at the age of 96. Her autobiography was called STEPPING INTO THE DREAM: THE STORY OF MY LIFE.

British economist Patrick David Henderson has died at the age of 91. His books include The Role of Business in the Modern World, Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility and The changing fortunes of economic liberalism.

Film critic and crime writer Margaret Hinxman died October 16 at the age of 94. Her books include Films of Dirk Bogarde , The Night They Murdered Chelsea and One Way Cemetery .

Biographer Michael Freedland died 1st October 2018 aged 83. His many books were mostly on the lives of film stars but he also write for a number of newspapers including obituaries of Jewish people for The Times (London).

Poet and playwright Ntozake Shange died October 27 at the age of 70. Her works include For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf , Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Ellington Was Not a Street.

Former CIA operative Victor Marchetti died October 19 at the age of 88. He wrote The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.

A monk of the Cistercian Order and leader in the contemplative movement, Rev Thomas Keating died October 25 at the age of 95. His many books include Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel and Intimacy With God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer .

Illustrator Horacio Cardo died October 22 at the age of 74. His work can be seen in The Story of Chess (Little Pebbles).

Artist and illustrator Mel Ramos died October 14 at the age of 83. Some of his work includes Mel Ramos: Watercolors (Lancaster-Miller Art Series) and Mel Ramos : heroines, goddesses, beauty queens.

Playwright Maria Irene Fornes died October 30 at the age of 88. Her work includes Plays: Maria Irene Fornes (PAJ Books) and Fefu and Her Friends (PAJ Books) .

Racehorse owner Cot Campbell died October 27 at the age of 91. His books include Rascals and Racehorses: A Sporting Man's Life, Lightning in a Jar and Memoirs of a Longshot.

Sportswriter Frank Litsky died October 30 at the age of 92. His books include Winners in gymnastics and Superstars.

Venezuelan politician Teodoro Petkoff died October 31 at the age of 86. His books include The Two Lefts: Chavez, Venezuela, and Contemporary Left-Wing Politics , Dos izquierdas and El Socialismo Irreal.

Representative of the Dalai Lhama Lodi Gyari died October 30 at the age of 69. His works include Forbidden Freedoms : Beijing's Control of Religion in Tibet (Introduction) and Tibet "Transformed:" A Pictorial Essay Documenting China's Colonization.

Actor Bernard Bragg died October 29 at the age of 90. His books include Lessons in Laughter and Meeting Halfway in American Sign Language: A Common Ground for Effective Communication.

Martial arts author Jin Yong aka Louis Cha, died October 30 at the age of 94. His many works include The Deer and the Cauldron: The First Book and The Book and the Sword .

Art critic Milton Gendel died October 11 at the age of 99. His work includes An illustrated history of Italy and Incontri Romani: Roman Encounters .

Historic preservationist William J. Murtagh died October 28 at the age of 95. His books include Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America and Moravian architecture and town planning; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other eighteenth-century American Settlements.

Actor and producer Derrick Sherwin died October 17 at the age of 82. His memoir was called Who's Next?.

Canon Hugh Melinsky died October 22 at the age of 94. His books include The Shape of the Ministry, Forming the Pathfinders: The Career of Air Vice-Marshal Sydney Bufton and A Code-breaker's Tale .

Haitian photographer Gerald Bloncourt died October 29 at the age of 91. His work can be seen in La peinture haïtienne.

Virginia Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo died October 31 at the age of 76. Her books include Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives , Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work and editor of Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write.

Animal behaviourist Aubrey Manning died october 20 at the age of 88. His books include An Introduction to Animal Behaviour and Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives .

Robert Rennie McOwan died 2nd October 2018 aged 84. He wrote over 15 books many like Light on Dumyat for children.

Harpsichord maker Wolfgang Zuckermann died October 31 at the age of 96. He wrote The Modern Harpsichord.

Theologian Thomas Altizer died October 28. At the age of 91. His books include Radical Theology and the Death of God, The Gospel of Christian Atheism and The Contemporary Jesus.