Deaths in August - 2022

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Deaths in August - 2022

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Bewerkt: aug 3, 2022, 3:21 pm

Hall of Fame baseball announcer Vin Scully died August 2 at the age of 94. He wrote The Dodgers: From Coast to coast.

Canadian civil rights attorney Clayton Ruby died August 2 at the age of 80. He wrote Law, Law, Law and Sentencing.

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Bewerkt: aug 10, 2022, 1:31 pm

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Bewerkt: aug 5, 2022, 7:45 am

Advocate for prison reform Albert Woodfox died of Covid-19 on August 4 at the age of 75. He wrote Solitary.

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aug 6, 2022, 7:57 am

Boxing champion Johnny Famechon died August 4 at the age of 77. His memoir was called Fammo.

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Bewerkt: aug 8, 2022, 8:59 pm

Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John died August 8 at the age of 73. Her books include Don’t Stop Believin’, A Pig Tale, and Livwise.

Historian David McCullough died August 7 at the age of 89. His many books include 1776, Truman, and John Adams.

Food writer Janice Longone died August 3 at the age of 89. Her books include American Cookbooks and Wine Books and Mother Maize and King Corn.

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Bewerkt: aug 9, 2022, 12:05 pm

Fashion designer Issey Miyake died August 5 at the age of 84. His books include Issey Miyake: Making Things and Pleats Please.

Motown writer and producer Lamont Dozier died August 9 at the age of 81. He wrote How Sweet it Is: A Songwriter’s Reflections .

Journalist Chet Fuller died August 2 at the age of 72. He wrote I Hear Them Calling my Name.

7elkiedee
aug 9, 2022, 7:13 pm

>2 varielle: Obituaries suggest that Melissa Bank worked in the short story form rather than that of the novel, though her short stories were linked. It's obviously time for me to add these to the reread list. I know I enjoyed Girl's Guide and have The Wonder Spot on my shelves, and can't remember whether I read the latter.

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Bewerkt: aug 10, 2022, 2:41 pm

CIA operative Gary Schroen died August 1 at the age of 80. He wrote First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War in Terror in Afghanistan.

Children’s author and illustrator Raymond Briggs died August 9 at the age of 88. His books include The Snowman and When the Wind Blows.

Chef Alastair Little died August 2 at the age of 72. His books include Keep it Simple, Food of the Sun, and Alastair Little’s Italian Kitchen,

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Bewerkt: aug 12, 2022, 10:34 pm

French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe died August 11 at the age of 89. His books include Nicholas, Nicholas on Vacation, and Nicholas and the gang.

Actress Anne Heche died August 12 at the age of 53. She wrote Call Me Crazy: A Memoir.*

*Update - not quite sure how to report this one. The LA Times reported Heche as deceased. However, later reports say she’s been declared brain dead but hasn’t been removed from life support pending organ donation. 😢

10Diabolical_DrZ
aug 13, 2022, 1:24 am

Brain dead is dead medically and legally. If there is any controversy it is usually on agreeing that criteria are met. Good for her and her family to be a donor

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Bewerkt: aug 14, 2022, 5:32 pm

Author Elana Dykewomon died August 7 at the age of 72. Her books include Beyond the Pale, They Will Know Me by My Teeth, and Riverfinger Woman.

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Bewerkt: aug 15, 2022, 8:57 pm

Former Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril died August 15 at the age of 92. He wrote The Smart Take From the Strong.

Author Nicholas Evans died August 9 at the age of 72. His books include The Horse Whisperer, The Loop, and The Smoke Jumper.

Professor and poet Yvonne Daley died August 9 at the age of 77. Her books include Going up the Country and The Bend in the Road.

Theologian Frederick buechner died August 15 at the age of 96. His books include Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABCs, and The Sacred Journey: Memoir of Early Days.

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Bewerkt: aug 16, 2022, 9:48 am

Author Cecile Pineda died August 11 at the age of 89. Her books include The Love Queen of the Amazon, Face, and Frieze.

Government advisor on population control Dr. Nafis Sadik died August 14 at the age of 92. Her books include Population : The UNFPA Experience and An Agenda for People.

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aug 17, 2022, 4:34 pm

Inventor of the MRI Dr. Raymond Damadian died August 3 at the age of 86. His memoir was called Gifted Mind.

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Bewerkt: aug 18, 2022, 10:08 pm

Fashion designer Hanae Mori died August 11 at the age of 96. She wrote Hanae Mori Style.

Ornithologist P. J. Higgins has died at the age of 63. He wrote Handbook of Australian, New Zealand, and Antarctic Birds.

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Bewerkt: aug 19, 2022, 8:42 pm

Judo champion Gene LeBell died August 9 at the age of 89. His books include Gene LeBell’s Handbook of Judo and Gene LeBell’s Grappling World.

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Bewerkt: aug 20, 2022, 8:38 pm

Comic book artist Tom Palmer died August 18 at the age of 81. His work can be seen in The Tomb of Dracula and The Avengers: Vol. 1.

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Bewerkt: aug 21, 2022, 8:19 pm

Golf champion Tom Weiskopf died August 20 at the age of 79. He wrote Go for the Flag and Tips for Better golf.

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Bewerkt: aug 22, 2022, 5:32 pm

Former UN weapons expert David A. Kay died August 13 at the age of 82. His books include World Eco Crisis and The New Nations in the United Nations.

Actor Bruce Montague died august 13 at the age of 83. His books include Birds, Bees and Educated Fleas and The Book of Shakespearean Useless Information.

Archbishop Rembert Weakland died August 22 at the age of 95. His books include Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church and Walking on the Wings of the Wind.

20PossMan
aug 23, 2022, 7:12 am

Mark Girouard who wrote on architectural topics died August 16th 2022 aged 90.

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Bewerkt: aug 23, 2022, 9:33 am

Novelist and script writer Michael Malone died August 18 at the age of 79. His books include Handling Sin and The Four Corners of the Sky.

Journalism professor Bryce Nelson died August 20 at the age of 84. He wrote The Academic Library Administrator’s Field Guide.

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Bewerkt: aug 24, 2022, 8:51 pm

Former football player and sportscaster Len Dawson died August 24 at the age of 87. He wrote Len Dawson Pressure Quarterback.

Photojournalist Tim Page died August 24 at the age of 78. His books include Nam and Tim Page’s Nam.

Poet Ana Luisa Amaral died August 5 at the age of 66. Her books include New Portuguese Letters to the World and What’s in a Name.

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Bewerkt: aug 25, 2022, 6:31 pm

Children’s entertainer Morgan Taylor has died at the age of 52. His books include I'm From the Sun: The Gustafer Yellowgold Story and Gustafer Yellowgold's Year in the Day.

Bicycle designer Mike Burrows died August 15 at the age of 79. His books include Bicycle Design and Kanban from the Inside.
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Bewerkt: aug 27, 2022, 3:14 pm

Architectural historian Mark Girouard died August 16 at the age of 90. His many books include Life in a English Country House, Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era, and The Victorian Country House.

White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier died August 26 at the age of 78. His books include Dessert University and All the Presidents’ Pastries.

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Bewerkt: aug 30, 2022, 5:17 pm

Former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev died August 30 at the age of 91. His books include Perestroika, Memoirs, and The August Coup.

British politician Lord Giles Radice died August 25 at the age of 85. His books include Friends and Rivals and Odd Couples.

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Bewerkt: sep 1, 2022, 8:12 am

Civil rights activist Esther Cooper Jackson died August 23 at the age of 105. She wrote This is my Husband and Freedomways Reader.

Singer Mable john died August 25 at the age of 91. She wrote Sanctified Blues and Stay out of the Kitchen!

BBC host Bill Turnbull died August 31 at the age of 66. He wrote Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper and The Bad Beekeeper’s Club.

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Bewerkt: sep 2, 2022, 7:37 pm

Filmmaker Amy Stechler died August 26 at the age of 67. She published The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God based on the television series.

Attorney and professor Roseann B. Termini died August 9 at the age of 69. She wrote Food and Drug Law.

Journalist Peter Guinta died August 25 at the age of 74. He co-wrote Illumination Rounds.

Japanese industrialist Kazuo Inamori died August 24 at the age of 90. His books include A Passion for Success, A Compass to Fulfillment, and Amoeba Management.

Science fiction author Joseph Delaney died August 17 at the age of 77. His books include The Spooks Apprentice, The Starblade Chronicles, and Revenge of the Witch.

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Bewerkt: sep 3, 2022, 4:57 pm

Hotelier Stanley Turkel died August 12 at the age of 96. His books include Heroes of the American Reconstruction and Great American Hoteliers.

Management consultant who invented the phrase “glass ceiling”, Marilyn Loden died August 6 at the age of 76. Her books include Workforce America!, Feminine Leadership, and Implementing Diversity.

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Bewerkt: sep 4, 2022, 1:03 pm

Literary scholar Peter Hobley Davison died August 16 at the age of 95. His books include The book encompassed, Lost Orwell, and Songs of the British Music Hall.

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Dr. Ronald J. Glasser died August 26 at the age of 83. His books include 365 Days and Ward 402.

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sep 8, 2022, 9:58 pm

Photographer Harold Chapman died August 19 at the age of 95. His books include The Beat Hotel and Cloche d’Or.

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Bewerkt: sep 9, 2022, 9:02 pm

Economist Elizabeth E. Bailey died August 19 at the age of 83. She wrote Deregulating the Airlines and Public Regulation: New Perspectives.

Founder of a health retreat Sonia Kelly died August 28 at the age of 100. Her books include A System of Personal Evolution and the Hungry Road.

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Bewerkt: sep 10, 2022, 7:23 pm

Physicist Kurt Gottfried died August 25 at the age of 93. His books include Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals and Crisis Stability and Nuclear War.

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Comic book artist and Holocaust survivor Lily Renee Phillips died August 24 at the age of 101. Her works include Women at War and Lily Renee, Escape Artist.

Fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky died August 29 at the age of 88. His works include Melvin Sokolsky: Seeing Fashion and Twiggy: A Life in Photographs .

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Publisher Jane Katjavivi died August 9 at the age of 69. She wrote Undisciplined Heart.

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Co-founder of The Paris Review John Train died August 13 at the age of 94. His books include The Money Masters and The New Money Masters.

Choreographer Naomi Mindlin died August 22 at the age of 73. She wrote Doris Humphrey: A Centennial Issue .

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Bewerkt: sep 23, 2022, 4:25 pm

Art director Irwin Glusker died August 30 at the age of 98. His work includes Southern Album and American Testament.

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sep 24, 2022, 9:03 pm

Holocaust survivor and archivist of the memories of other survivors Phillip Maisel died August 22 at the age of 100. He wrote The Keeper of Miracles.

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Bewerkt: sep 25, 2022, 5:32 pm

Cabinetmaker and designer Nancy R. Hiller died August 29 at the age of 63. Her books include English Arts and Crafts Furniture and Kitchen Think.

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Bewerkt: sep 28, 2022, 3:09 pm

Priest and Cardinal Newman scholar Dermot Fenlon died August 17 at the age of 80. He wrote Heresy and Obedience in Tridentine Italy.

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Inventor Maurice Kanbar died August 20 at the age of 93. He wrote Secrets From an Inventor’s Notebook.

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Novelist Biyi Bandele died August 7 at the age of 54. His books include The king’s Rifle, The Sympathetic Undertaker, and The Street.

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okt 4, 2022, 9:07 pm

Film maker Theo Richmond died August 25 at the age of 93. He wrote Konin: A Quest.

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okt 13, 2022, 4:40 pm

Curator Robert Skelton August 22 at the age of 93. His works include The Arts of Bengal and The Indian Heritage: Court Life and Arts.

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nov 4, 2022, 7:42 pm

Ecologist A. B. Costin died August 22 at the age of 96. His books include Conservation and Kosciusko Alpine Flora.

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Art historian Virginia Spate died August 12 at the age of 85. Her books include Claude Monet: The Color of Time, Life and Works: Degas, and Tom Roberts.

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nov 13, 2022, 8:52 pm

Journalist and biographer Christopher Ogden died August 27 at the age of 77. His books include Maggie, Life of the Party: Pamela Digby and Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg.

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dec 1, 2022, 3:57 pm

Children’s author Bob Cattell died August 24 at the age of 74. He wrote the Glory Gardens series and the Butter-finger trilogy.

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feb 17, 2023, 3:21 pm

Photographer Eric Boman died August 11 at the age of 76. His books include Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel and Blahnik by Boman: Shoes, Photographs, Conversation.

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