Deaths in February - 2021

Actor Dustin Diamond died February 1 at the age of 44. He wrote Behind the Bell and Sincerely, Screech.

Oncology pioneer Emil J Freireich died Feb 1 at the age of 93. He wrote a number of titles including: Leukemia advances in research and treatment. His groundbreaking work was featured in the book and documentary The Emperor of All Maladies.

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Labor leader John J. Sweeney died February 1 at the age of 86. His books include America Needs a Raise and Solutions for the New Work Force: Policies.

Hip hop and rap photographer Ricky Powell died February 1 at the age of 59. His books include Oh Snap! and Public Access: Ricky Powell Photographs.

Baseball player and coach Wayne Terwilliger died February 3 at the age of 95. He wrote Terwilliger Bunts One.

Tennis player Tony Trabert died February 3 at the age of 90. His books include Trabert on Tennis and Winning Tactics for Weekend Tennis.

Actor Christopher Plummer died February 5 at the age of 91. He wrote In Spite of Myself: A Memoir.

Healthcare strategist Alan M. Zuckerman died February 3 at the age of 70. His books include Healthcare Strategic Planning, Ambulatory Care in Integrated and Leading Your Healthcare Organization.

Cabinet secretary under Nixon and Reagan, George P. Schultz died February 6 at the age of 100. His books include Turmoil and Triumph and Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines.

Labor MP Maureen Colquhoun died February 2 at the age of 92. She wrote Woman in the house.

One of the founding members of the Supremes, Mary Wilson died February 8 at the age of 76. She wrote Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme and Supreme Faith: Someday We’ll be Together.

NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer died February 8 at the age of 77. His memoir was called Martyball.

Cartoonist S. Clay Wilson died February 7 at the age of 79. His books include The Art of S. Clay Wilson and Collected Checkered Demon.

Lawyer and archaeologist Hershel Shanks died February 5 at the age of 90. His books include Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls and The Dead Sea Scrolls after Forty Years.

Pornographer Larry Flynt died February 10 at the age of 78. His books include An Unseemly Man and Sex, Lies & Politics.

Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere died February 8 at the age of 89. His work includes Please, Mr. Einstein, This is not the End of the Book snd Conversations About the End of Time.

The lead structural engineer on the World Trade Center Towers, Leslie Earl Robertson died February 11 at the age of 92. He wrote The Structure of Design.

Publisher Naim Attallah died February 2 at the age of 89. His books include Women, Singular Encounters and A Scribbler in Soho.

Founder of the Friendly’s restaurant chain S. Prestley Blake died February 11 at the age of 106. He wrote A Friendly Life.

Literary critic J. Hillis Miller died February 7 at the age of 92. His books include Deconstruction and Criticism and On Literature.

Journalist James Ridgeway died February 13 at the age of 84. His books include Blood in the Face and Red Light.

Classical guitarist Jorge Morel died February 10 at the age of 89. His books include Latin American Rhythms for Guitar and Mel Bay Tangos and Milongas.

Church founder Frederick K. C. Price died February 12 at the age of 89. He wrote How Faith Works.

Entrepreneur Ruth Dayan died February 5 at the age of 103. She wrote Crafts of Israel and And Perhaps ....

Cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bernard Lown died February 16 at the age of 99. His books include The Lost Art of Healing and Current Advances in Digitalis Therapy.

Right wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh died February 17 at the age of 70. His books include The Way Things Ought to Be and See, I Told You So.

Lawyer and lobbyist James F. Fitzpatrick died February 7 at the age of 88. He wrote Law and Roadside Hazards.

Scriptwriter Iain Pattinson died February 14 at the age of 68. He wrote Lyttelton’s Britain and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.

Singer songwriter Carman Licciardello died February 16 at the age of 65. His books include Raising the Standard and The Champion.

Designer of the Bicentennial star and the NASA look Bruce Blackburn died February 1 at the age of 82. He wrote down Design Standards Manuals.

Music critic Peter G. Davis died February 13 at the age of 84. He wrote The American Opera Singer.

Founder of Urban Ministries, Inc. Melvin E. Banks died February 13 at the age of 86. His books include Healing Secrets and Jesus, King of Kings.

Ursuline nun Dianna Ortiz died February 19 at the age of 62. She told of her kidnapping and torture by the Guatemalan military in The Blindfold’s Eyes and Talking About Torture.

Israeli diplomat and politician Shlomo Hillel died February 8 at the age of 97. As a Mossad agent he helped more than 100,000 Jews flee Iraq. He wrote Operation Babylon.

Literary scholar Catherine Belsey died February 14 at the age of 80. Her books include Poststructuralism and Tales of the Troubled Dead.

Playwright Douglas Turner Ward died February 20 at the age of 90. His work includes Happy Ending and The Reckoning; a surreal southern fable.

City Lights Bookstore owner and publisher of Beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti died February 22 at the age of 101. His work includes A Coney Island of the Mind, Pictures of the Gone World, Starting from San Francisco and Little Boy. 🥺

Stripper Annabel Battistella died February 10 at the age of 84. She once made a splash by fleeing a Congressman’s car and jumping in the DC tidal basin. Her memoir was Fanne Foxe.

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Poet and literary critic Philippe Jaccottet died February 24 at the age of 95. His work includes A la lumiere d’hiver, Breathings and Poesie: 1946-1967.

Graphic designer Rajie Cook aka Roger has died at the age of 91. He wrote A Vision for my Father.

BYU professor -- and specialist in the life and works of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- Brandie R. Siegfried died February 17 at the age of 57. Among her books are God and nature in the thought of Margaret Cavendish.

Photographer Raymond Cauchetier died February 22 at the age of 101. His works include Saigon and Raymond Cauchetier’s New Wave.

Attorney Lawrence Otis Graham died February 19 at the age of 59.; His books include Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class, The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black and A Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World.

Investigative reporter Joseph R. Daughen died of coronavirus February 18 at the age of 85. He wrote The Wreck of the Penn Central and The Cop Who Would Be King : The Honorable Frank Rizzo .

Television producer Roger Englander has died at the age of 94. He wrote Opera: What's All the Screaming About?

Actor Johnny Briggs died February 28 at the age of 85. He wrote Johnny Briggs: My Autobiography.

Historian Hywel Francis died February 14 at the age of 74. His books include Miners Against Fascism and History on our Side.

Sports analyst Irv Cross died February 28 at the age of 81. His autobiography was called Bearing the Cross.

Mystery writer Margaret Maron died February 23 at the age of 82. Her books include Bootlegger’s Daughter, Southern Discomfort and Shooting at Loons.

Author Michael Downing died February 9 at the age of 62. His books include Breakfast with Scot and The Shoes Outside the Door.

Former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Michael Somare died February 26 at the age of 84. He wrote Sana: An Autobiography of Michael Somare.

Polish theatre and Shakespeare scholar Jerzy Limon died of Covid-19 March 3 in Gdansk at the age of 70. His books include Gentlemen of a Company: English Players in Central and Eastern Europe and Dangerous Matter: English Drama and Politics 1623-1624.

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Psychiatrist Julian Leff died February 23 at the age of 82. His books include The Unbalanced Mind, Social Inclusion of People with Mental Illness and Family Work for Schizophrenia.

Humanities administrator and author Craig Eisendrath died February 20 at the age of 85.His books include Beyond Permanence: The Great Ideas of the West, Crisis Game: A Novel of the Cold War and War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space.

Music store owner Henry Goldrich died February 21 at the age of 88. He wrote The Wall of Fame: New York City’s Legendary Manny’s Music

Margaret Maron, author of many crime/mystery novels and snort stories, has died at 82. Her two best known series characters were a judge in North Carolina, Deborah Knott, starting with Bootlegger's Daughter and police detective Sigrid Harald in New York City, starting with One Coffee With.

Playwright Bill C. Davis died February 28 at the age of 69. His work includes Mass Appeal and Wrestlers.

Egyptologist George Hart died February 15 at the age of 75. His books include Egyptian Myths and A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses.

Prof. Christopher Heywood has died at the age of 93. He wrote A History of South African Literature.

Prof. Hazel McFerson died February 27 at the age of 78. She wrote Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience.

Illustrator and children's book author Victor Ambrus died February 10 at the age of 85. His books include The Anatomy of Costume and How to Draw the Human Figure .

Food historian Laura Mason died February 2 at the age of 63. Her books include Traditional Foods of Britain: An Inventory and
Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: The Prehistory of Sweets .

Designer Jessica McClintock died February 16 at the age of 90. She wrote Jessica McClintock’s Simply Romantic Decorating.

Naomi Rosenblum, "who wrote about the history of photography and helped elevate it as an art form," died February 19 at the age of 96. Rosenblum's books included A World History of Photography.

UN official Edward C. Luck died February 16 at the age of 72. His books include Mixed Messages: American Politics and The UN Security Council: A Primer.

Novelist and graphic artist George Mandel died February 13 at the age of 101. Among his books is the cult proto-Beat novel Flee the Angry Stranger.

Classicist David Raeburn died February 1 at the age of 93. He wrote The Agamemnon of Aeschylus.

Historian Cyril Mango died February 8 at the age of 92 his books include The Oxford History of Byzantium and Byzantium the Empire of New Rome.

Architect Trevor Dannatt died February 16 at the age of 101. His books include Buildings and Interiors and Modern Architecture in Britain.

Historian and biographer Frances Harris died February 17 at the age of 71. Her books include A Passion for Government and Transformations of Love.

Sinologist Kristofer Schipper died February 18 at the age of 86. His books include The Taoist Body and The Taoist Canon

Social psychologist David Milner has died at the age of 74. He wrote Children and Race and Children and Race: Ten Years On.

Professor of human resource management Mick Marchington died February 24 at the age of 71. His books include Human resource management at work, People Management and Development at work and Fragmenting Work.