Deaths in May - 2022

Discotheque impresario Regine née Regine Zylberberg died May 1 at the age of 92. She wrote Moi, mes histoire, A toi Lionel, and Mes p’tits papiers.

Activist convicted for her activities with the Weather Underground Kathy Boudin died May 1 at the age of 78. She wrote The Bust Book: What to do Until the Lawyers Come.

Photographer Ron Galella died May 1 at the age of 90. His work includes Disco Years, Jacqueline, and Off-Guard.

Race car driver Tony Brooks died May 3 at the age of 90. He wrote Tony Brooks: Poetry in Motion: Autobiography of a supreme Grand Prix Driver.

Country musician Mickey Gilley died May 6 at the age of 86. He wrote Mickey Gilley’s Texas Cookbook.

Chess grand master Yuri Averbakh died May 7 at the age of 100. His books include Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge, Chess Tactics for Advanced Players, and Bishop v. Knight Endings.

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Journalist Midge Decter died May 9 at the age of 94. Her books include The New Chastity and Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait.

Actor Dennis Waterman died May 8 at the age of 74. His books include Reminder and Dennis Waterman in the East End.

The first president of an independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk died May 10 at the age of 88. He wrote The Ukraine.

Columnist John Leo died May 9 at the age of 86. He wrote Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police and Incorrect Thoughts.

Basketball player Bob Lanier died May 10 at the age of 73. His books include It’s all in the name and Out of Bounds.

Artist Robert Gillmor died May 8 at the age of 85. His work can be seen in Seventy Years of BirdWatching and Birds, Blocks and Stamps.

Anti-government separatist Randy Weaver died May 11 at the age of 74. He wrote The Federal Siege at Ruby Ridge and Vicki, Sam and America: How the government Killed all Three.

Former US national security advisor Robert C. McFarlane Died May 12 at the age of 84. He wrote Special Trust.

Cricket star and commentator Andrew Symonds died in a car accident on May 14 at the age of 46. His books include Roy: On the Rise and Roy: Going for Broke.

Hair stylist to the stars Carrie White Died May 3 at the age of 78. She wrote Upper Cut: Highlights of my Hollywood Life.

Musician Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma died May 10 at the age of 84. His books include Yoga and Sex and Yoga Against Spinal Pain.

Speculative fiction author Patricia A. McKillip died May 6 at the age of 74. She was best known for her fantasy novels for children and young adults, including The Riddle-Master Trilogy and The Forgotten Beasts of Eld.

Comic book artist George Pérez died from cancer May 6 at the age of 67. His work was highly influential in character designs for Wonder Woman and Superman.

LGBTQ+ rights activist Urvashi Vaid died May 14 at the age of 63. She wrote Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation and Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics.

Social scientist Lady Haleh Afshar died May 12 at the age of 77. Her books include Women and Politics in the Third World and The Dynamics of Race and Gender.

>17 varielle: Baroness Haleh Afshar was a colleague and close friend of my mum's at York Un1iversity in the 1980s. They worked together setting up the second Masters Course in Women's Studies in the UK (I think there were already more such courses in the US).

Journalist Barbara van der Zee née Griggs has died at the age of 88. Exact date of death has not been publicized. Her books include Green Witch Herbal, The Food Factor and with her husband A Sweet and Alien Land.

English lit professor Roger Sales has died at the age of 72. His books include John Clare: A Literary Life and Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England.

Public interest lawyer Donald K. Ross died May 14 at the age of 78. He wrote Public Citizens and national with Ralph Nader Action for a Change.

Actress Marnie Schulenburg died May 16 at the age of 37. Her books include Murder off the Record and A Test of Survival.

Newberry medal winning author of histories for children Jim Murphy died May 1 at the age of 74. His books include An American Plague and The Great Fire.

Endocrinologist Simeon Margolis died May 16 at the age of 91. His books include The Johns Hopkins Guide to Health after 50, Johns Hopkins Symptoms and Remedies, and The John’s Hopkins Complete Encyclopedia of Drugs.

>20 varielle: I'm working on reading all the Newbery award and honor books. I found An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 at our local public library and have put in a hold.

Manga creator Kentaro Miura died May 6 at the age of 54. His dark fantasy Berserk series spanned 30 years and is one of the best-selling manga ever.

Art critic Suzi Gablik died May 7 at the age of 87. Her books include Has Modernism Failed? and Magritte.

Sports journalist Robert Angell died May 20 at the age of 101. His books include The Summer Game and Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion.

Lawyer and preservationist Frank Brandeis Gilbert (grandson of the Supreme Court Justice) died May 14 at the age of 91. He co-authored Preserving Historic Districts: A Training Manual.

Canadian WWII Flying Ace James F. “Stocky” Edwards died May 14 at the age of 100. He wrote Kittyhawk Pilot.

Archaeologist Amanda Claridge died May 5 at the age of 72. Her books include Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide, Pompeii A.D. 79: Treasures, and A Companion to the City of Rome.

Star Wars designer behind the X-winger fighter Colin Cantwell died May 21 at the age of 90. He wrote CoreFires.

Architect and artist Andras Kaldor has died at the age of 83. His books include Great Opera Houses and Opera Houses of Europe.

Environmental activist Hazel Henderson died May 22 at the age of 89. Her books include Creating Alternative Futures, Paradigms in Progress, and The Politics of the Solar Age.

Travel writer Dervla Murphy died May 24 at the age of 90. Her books include Full Tilt and Eight Feet in the Andes.

Former Federal Reserve of the bank of NY President E. Gerald Corrigan died May 17 at the age of 80. He wrote The Global Economic Crisis and The Boom-bust Capital Spending.
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Australian journalist Caroline Jones died May 20 at the age of 84. Her books include An Authentic life and The Search for Meaning.

Feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Reuther died May 21 at the age of 85. Her books include Sexism and God-talk, Gaia and God and Religion and Sexism.

Jockey Lester Piggott died May 29 at the age of 86. His books include Lester: The Autobiography of Lester Piggott and Lester’s Derbys.

Art historian Samella S. Lewis died May 27 at the age of 99. Her books include African American Art and Artists, Black Artists on Art, and The Art of Elizabeth Catlett.

Rockabilly musician Ronnie Hawkins died May 29 at the age of 87. His autobiography was called Hawkins, Ronnie: Last of the Good ‘Ol Boys.

Reformed right wing extremist who infiltrated many neo-fascist groups Ray Hill died May 14 at the age of 82. He wrote The Other Face of Terror: Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network.

Track star Kenny Moore died May 4 at the age of 78. His books include Bowerman and the Men of Oregon and Best Efforts, World Class Runners and Races.

Author Walter Abish died May 28 at the age of 90. His books include How German is It and Alphabetical Africa.

Environmentalist John A. Burton died May 22 at the age of 78. His books include Owls of the World and Mammals of North America.

Shakespearean scholar Hugh Grady died May 8 at the age of 74. His books include Modernist Shakespeare and Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics.

Preservationist Paul Gunther died May 29 at the age of 65. He co-authored New York living : re-inventing home and Illusion in Design.

Conservationist Tony Fitzjohn died May 20 at the age of 76. He wrote Born Wild.

Historian Paul Ginsborg died May 11 at the age of 76. His books include A History of Contemporary Italy and Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony.

Hair stylist and dinosaur collector John Lanzendorf died May 27 at the age of 76. He wrote Dinosaur Imagery.

Magician John Wade has died at the age of 91. His books include Do Get the Name Right and Magic Tricks (Teach Yourself).

Former First Lady of the state of Georgia Betty Foy Sanders died May 29 at the age of 95. She wrote Favorite Recipes of Georgia’s First Lady.

Psychiatrist Stuart L. Kaplan died May 23 at the age of 82. He wrote Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder.

Historian John Merriman died May 22 at the age of 76. His books include History of Modern Europe, Massacre, and The Dynamite Club.

Author and radio host Peter Lamborn Wilson died May 22 at the age of 76. His books include Pirate Utopias and Immediatism.

Professor and former US cabinet member Kenneth W. Dam died May 31 at the age of 89. His books include The GATT and The Law-Growth Nexus.

Historian Father Brian P. Murphy died May 16 at the age of 87. His books include John Chartres: Mystery Man of the Treaty and Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal.

Prof. Ronald S. Berman died May 17 at the age of 91. His books include Solzhenitsyn at Harvard and The Great Gatsby and Modern Times.

Librarian and art collector Vivian Davidson Hewitt died May 29 at the age of 102. She wrote The One and Only.

Health official Jeffrey Escoffier died May 20 at the age of 79. His books include Bigger than Life, American Homo, Lives of Notable Gay men and Lesbians, and Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography.

Cardiac surgeon Brian Buxton died May 20 at the age of 82. He wrote Ischemic Heart Disease.