Deaths in September - 2020

Anthropologist and Occupier David Graeber died September 2 at the age of 59. His books include Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs.

#1---and very much part of creating the 'we are the 99%' slogan. I just finished his Bullshit Jobs a couple months ago.

Cardinal’s baseball legend Lou Brock died September 6 at the age of 81. He wrote Stealing is My Game.

Last president of the American League Gene Budig died September 9 at the age of 81. His books Include Grasping the Ring and George Norris, Going Home.

Playwright Sir Ronald Harwood died September 8 at the age of 85. He wrote The Dresser and the screenplay of The Pianist.

Actress Dame Diana Rigg died September 10 at the age of 82. Her books include No Stone Unturned: The Worst Ever Theatrical Reviews and So to the Land. Farewell Mrs. Peel and Lady Olenna. You were the only Bond girl James Bond ever loved. :’(

True crime author Shanna Hogan died September 1 at the age of 37. Her books include Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story and The Stranger She Loved.

Social psychologist James S. Jackson died September 1 at the age of 76. His books include Life in Black America and Researching Black Communities.

Best known for The Hite Report feminist author Shere Hite died September 9 at the age of 76.

Designer Terence Conran died September 12 at the age of 88. His books include Terence Conran’s New House Book and The Essential House Book.

Climate expert Ted Halstead died September 2 at the age of 52. His books include The Radical Center and The Real State of The Union.

Feminist publisher Florence Howe died September 12 at the age of 91. Her works include No More Masks and Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems.

Attorney Bill Gates Sr. died September 14 at the age of 94. He wrote Showing Up for Life and Wealth and Our Commonwealth.

Oscar winning song writer Al Kasha died September 14 at the age of 83. His books include Reaching the Morning After and Notes on Broadway: Conversations with the Great Songwriters.

Critic Stanley Crouch died September 16 at the age of 74. His books include Kansas City Lightning and Notes of a Hanging Judge.

Playwright Steve Carter died September 15 at the age of 90. His work includes Eden: A Drama in Three Acts and Nevis Mountain Dew.

Engineer Mike Cooley died September 4 at the age of 86. He wrote Architect or Bee?

Poet Anne Stevenson died September 14 at the age of 87. Her books include Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, Living in America and Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop.

Fantasy author Terry Goodkind died September 17 at the age of 72. His many books include Sword of Truth and The Children of D’Hara.

Author Winston Groom died September 16 at the age of 76. His many books include Forrest Gump and A Storm in Flanders.

Former First Lady of Costa Rica Henrietta Boggs died of coronavirus on September 9 at the age of 102. She wrote Married to a Legend Don Pepe and First Lady of the Revolution.

The man behind Gore-tex Robert W. Gore died September 17 at the age of 83. He wrote The Early Days of W. L. Gore.

Historian Stephen F. Cohen died September 18 at the age of 81. His books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution and Rethinking the Soviet Experience.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died September 18 at the age of 87. Her books include co-authoring Scalia Speaks and My Own Words.

Farewell Notorious RBG. You will be sorely missed. 😢

Cosmo chemist John T. Wasson died September 8 at the age of 86. He wrote Meteorites: Their Record of Early Solar-System History.

Children’s author Sam McBratney died September 18 at the age of 77. His books include Guess How Much I Love You, Yes We Can! and You’re All My Favorites.

Rev Robert S. Graetz died September 20 at the age of 92. His books include Montgomery: A White Preacher’s Memoir and A White Preacher’s Message on Race & Reconciliation.

Actor Michael Lonsdale died September 21 at the age of 89. His memoir was called Le Dictionnaire de Ma Vie.

Astrologer Jacqueline Stallone died September 21 at the age of 98. She wrote Star Power.

Chicago Bears legend Gale Sayers died September 23 at the age of 77. His books include I Am Third and Sayers: My Life and Times.

Cartoonist and set production designer Ron Cobb died September 21 at the age of 83. His books include The Cobb Book: Cartoons and Colorvision.

Actress Juliette Greco died September 23 at the age of 93. Her books include Jujube and Je Suis Comme Je Suis.

Activist Kevin Zeese died September 4 at the age of 64. He contributed to Friedman and Szasz on Liberty and Drugs and Comehomeamerica.us.

Businessman Rick Case died September 21 at the age of 77. He wrote Our Customers, Our Friends.

Newspaperman and former head of Random House Harold Evans died September 23 at the age of 82. His books include My Paper Chase and The American Century.

Sherpa Ang Rita died September 21 at the age of 72. He wrote Triumph on Everest.

Chef and restaurateur Pierre Troisgros died September 23 at the age of 92. He wrote Cuisine de famille Chez les Troisgros

Cricket star Dean Jones died September 24 at the age of 59. He wrote Deano - My Call and Dean Jones’ Cricket Tips.

Public image specialist Lillian Brown died September 13 at the age of 106. Her books include Your Public Best, Speaking to be Understood: English as a First or Second Language and The polished politician : the political candidate's personal handbook.

Indian politician Jaswant Singh died September 27 at the age of 82. His books include Jinnah and In Service of Emergent India.

Hockey coach Jack Kelley died September 16 at the age of 93. He wrote Hockey: Bantam to Pro.

Historian and columnist Meron Benvenisti died September 20 at the age of 86. His books include Sacred Landscape, City of Stone, Conflicts and contradictions and Intimate Enemies.

Derwent May wrote a number of books and was for many years a nature columnist for the Times (London). He died 26th September 2020 aged 90.

#21--Jack Kelley---the old Boston U. hockey coaching legend.

Social activist Swami Agnivesh died September 11 at the age of 80. He wrote Harvest of Hate, Applied Spirituality, and Hinduism in the New Age.

Nobel laureate Arthur Ashkin died September 21 at the age of 98. He wrote Optical Trapping.

Barbara Ker Wilson died 10 September 2020 aged 90.

Former Dodgers baseball player Jay Johnstone died of coronavirus on September 26 at the age of 74. His books include Temporary Insanity and Over the Edge.

Singer Helen Reddy died September 29 at the age of 78. Her autobiography was called The Woman I Am.

Park Service and Civil War historian Edwin Bearss died September 15 at the age of 97. His numerous books include The Campaign for Vicksburg and Fields of Honor.

Computer scientist Howard Davies has died at the age of 81. He edited A History of International Research Networking.

Artist Robert Bechtle died September 24 at the age of 88. His work can be seen in Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective.

Designer Stuart Durant has died at the age of 88. His books include Ornament and C. F. A. Voysey.

Bioethicist Renee C. Fox died September 23 at the age of 92. Her books include Observing Bioethics and Doctors without Borders: Humanitarian Quests.

Russian dissident Yuri Orlov died September 27 at the age of 96. He wrote Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life.

Argentinian cartoonist Quino died September 30 at the age of 88. His books include Toda Mafalda and Mundo Quino.

Collector of word art Marvin Sackner died September 29 at the age of 88. His books include The Art of the Typewriting and Schreibmaschinenkunst.

Fiber artist Cat Bordhi died September 29 at the age of 69. Her books include Socks Soar and New Pathways for Sock Knitters.

Genetic counselor Joan Marks died September 14 at the age of 91. Her books include The Genetic Connection and Advocacy in Health care.

Child psychologist Florence Levy has died at the age of 83. She wrote Attention, Genes and ADHD.

Environmentalist Dame Georgina M. Mace Died September 19 at the age of 67. He wroteConservation in a Changing World.

Journalist and country diariest Sarah Poyntz died September 17 at the age of 93. She wrote A Burren Journal and Burren Villages.

Playwright Mary O’Malley died September 19 at the age of 79. She wrote Once a Catholic.

Theater director Maurice Edwards died September 23 at the age of 97. He wrote How Music Grew in Brooklyn.

Musicologist Maynard Solomon died September 28 at the age of 90. His books include Beethoven, Late Beethoven and Mozart: A Life.

Yankees’ pitcher Whitey Ford died October 9 at the age of 91. His books include The Fighting Southpaw and Slick: My Life in and Around Baseball.

Theater scholar Diana Devlin Died September 27 at the age of 79. Her books include Mask and Scene and Sam Wanamaker: A Global Performer.

Translator of works from Hungarian into English Tim Wilkinson has died at the age of 73. His works include Hold on a Minute, Kaddish for an Unborn Child and Fatelessness.

Former director at Harvard Divinity School Constance Buchanan died September 16 at the age of 73. She wrote Choosing to Lead: Women and the Crisis of American Values .

Astronomer Stuart Bowyer died September 23 of coronavirus at the age of 86. He wrote Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet.

Anita Mason died 8th September 2020 aged 78. Her book The Illusionist 1983 was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Simon Magus was the main character.

Psychologist Scott Lilienfeld died September 29 at the age of 59. His books include 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology and Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding.

Academic geographer Phil O’Keefe has died at the age of 71. His 30 books include Down Cobbled Streets and co-authoring Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk.

Author Elisabeth Russell Taylor died September 1 at the age of 90. Her books include Will Dolores come to Tea?, Pillion Riders and Mother Country.

Lesbian evangelist Virginia Mollenkott died September 25 at the age of 88. Her books include co-authoring Is the Homosexual my Neighbor, The Divine Feminine and Omnigender.

Cosmologist John D. Barrow died September 26 at the age of 67. His books include Pi in the Sky and The Left Hand of Creation.

Museum director Doran H. Ross died September 19 at the age of 73. His books include Wrapped in Pride and Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory.

Soviet dissident physicist Yuri Orlov died September 27 at the age of 96. He wrote Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life.

Conductor and curator Jeremy Montagu has died at the age of 92. His books include The World of Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments, Origins and Development of Musical Instruments and Baroque and Classical Musical Instruments.