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Deaths in July - 2015

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Critic and biographer Edward Greenfield died July 1 at the age of 86. His books include The Penguin Guide to Opera and The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Great Classical Recordings.

Bermudan actress Diana Douglas Darrid, best known as the ex-wife of actor Kirk Douglas and mother of actor Michael Douglas, has died on July 3 at the age of 92. She was author of In the Wings: a Memoir.

Lawrence Herkimer helped develop modern cheerleading and wrote The Complete Book of Cheerleading. He died July 1 at the age of 89.

Hall of Fame foot ball player Charlie Sanders died July 2 at the age of 68. He wrote Tales from the Detroit Lions Sidelines.

Conservative Mormon leader Boyd K. Packer died July 3 at the age of 90. His books include Holy Temple and Teach Ye Diligently.

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Film producer Jerry Weintraub died July 6 at the age of 77. His memoir was called When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead.

British politician Philip Goodhart died July 5 at the age of 89. He wrote War Without Weapons and The Royal Americans.

Novelist John Alfred Williams died July 3 at the age of 89. A few of his books include The Man Who Cried I Am and The King God Didn't Save.

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Juil 8, 2015, 3:33 pm

An expert on ocean liners John Maxtone-Graham has died on July 6 at the age of 85. His books include The Only Way to Cross and Liners to the Sun.

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Juil 9, 2015, 8:12 am

Author Helen Harrison died July 4 at the age of 68. In response to the birth of her premature son she wrote The Premature Baby Book.

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Juil 10, 2015, 10:55 am

Egyptian film star Omar Sharif died July 10 at the age of 83. He wrote Play Bridge with Omar Sharif and The Eternal Male. Farewell Dr. Zhivago. :'(

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Former Raiders Quarterback Ken Stabler died July 8 at the age of 69. He wrote Roll Tide! and Snake.

Pulitzer prize winning poet James Tate died July 8 at the age of 71. His collections include Worshipful Company of Fletchers and Return to the City of White Donkeys.

Chronicler of the war in Vietnam, William Conrad Gibbons died July 4 at the age of 88. He wrote The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War.

The environmental scientist who analyzed the post 9/11 dust, Paul J. Lioy died July 8 at the age of 68. He wrote Dust: The Inside Story of its Role in the September 11 Aftermath.

Anthropologist and sociologist Charles Winick died July 10 at the age of 71. His books include Dictionary of Anthropology and The Lively Commerce.

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Juil 14, 2015, 10:01 am

D'Army Bailey, founder of the civil rights museum where Dr. Martin Luther King was shot has died on July 12 at the age of 73. He wrote The Education of a Black Radical.

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Rev. Prof. Owen Chadwick died July 15 at the age of 99. His books include The Reformation and A History of Christianity.

Paleontologist David M. Raup died July 9 at the age of 82. His books include Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? and The Nemesis Affair.

Television journalist Marlene Sanders died July 14 at the age of 84. She wrote Waiting for Prime time: The Women of Television News.

Interior designer William Diamond died July 9 at the age of 63. His books include Diamond Baratta Design and All-American: The Exuberant Style of William Diamond and Anthony Baratta.

Former coach for the Dolphins and Giants Bill Arnsparger died July 17 at the age of 88. He wrote Arnsparger's Coaching Defensive Football.

Nobel winning physicist Yoichiro Nambu died July 5 at the age of 94. He wrote Quarks: Frontiers in elementary Particle Physics.

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Juil 21, 2015, 12:45 pm

Boston educator Robert R. Spillane died July 18 at the age of 80. He wrote The Superintendent of the Future.

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Historian Irene Collins died July 12 at the age of 89. Her books include Jane Austen and the Clergy and Jane Austen: The Parson's Daughter.

Classics scholar Martin L. West died July 13 at the age of 77. His books include Greek Lyric Poetry and Studies in Greek Elegy.

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Août 3, 2015, 7:56 am

Award winning novelist E. L. Doctorow died July 21 at the age of 84. A few of his many books include Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March.

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Horse racing broadcaster Peter O'Sullevan died July 29 at the age of 97. He wrote Peter O'Sullevan's Horse Racing Heroes and Calling the Horses: A Racing Autobiography.

Anthropologist Jack Goody died July 16 at the age of 95. His many books include The Domestication of the Savage Mind and The Theft of History.

New Jersey politician Richard C. Leone died July 16 at the age of 75. He wrote The War on our Freedoms and Liberty Under Attack.

Sex researcher who worked with Kinsey, Paul H. Gebhard died July 9 at the age of 98. His work includes The Kinsey Data and Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types.

Zimbabwean poet and novelist Chenjerai Hove died July 12 at the age of 59. His books include Bones, Ancestors and Shadows (African Writers series).

Author Ingrid Sischy died July 24 at the age of 63. Her books include William Wegman's Fashion Photographs and Dior Couture.

Scholar of Islamic history Patricia Crone died July 11 at the age of 70. Her books include God's Caliph, God's Rule and Pre-Industrial Societies.

Advocate for Afghanis, Rosanne Klass died July 21 at the age of 86. Her books include Land of the High Flags and Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited.

Former Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam died July 27 at the age of 83. His books include Ignited Minds and Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges.

Diplomatic reporter Don Oberdorfer died July 27 at the age of 84. His books include The Two Koreas. Tet! and From the Cold War to a New Era.

Lawyer and Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar died July 27 at the age of 86. He wrote Of Blood and Hope, La Ressource Humaine and Co-existence & Commerce.

Musician and drum stick manufacturer Vic Firth died July 26 at the age of 85. He wrote Snare Drum Method and The Solo Timpanist.

True crime writer Ann Rule died July 26 at the age of 83. A few of her many works include The Stranger Beside Me, Green River Running Red and Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder.

Composer Van Alexander died July 19 at the age of 100. His memoir was called From Harlem to Hollywood: My Life in Music.

Pro-wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper died July 30 at the age of 61. He wrote In the Pit with Piper.

Former Clinton science advisor John H. Gibbons died July 18 at the age of 86. He wrote Alternatives to Animal use in Research, Testing and Education.

Horticulturalist Charles Notcutt died July 1 at the age of 81. He wrote Notcutts Book of Plants.

First generation Russian emigre to Britain, Kyril Zinovieff aka Kyril FitzLyon, as a child saw Rasputin and witnessed events of the Revolution. He died July 31 at the age of 104. He wrote Before the Revolution: A View of Russia's Last Tsar and co-authored The Companion Guide to St. Petersburg.

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Août 5, 2015, 7:53 am

Author and NPR book critic Alan Cheuse died July 31 at the age of 75. A few of his books include Song of Slaves in the Desert and Writers Workshop in a Book.

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Août 7, 2015, 11:17 am

Human rights investigator Jemera Rone died July 29 at the age of 71. Her books include Civilian Devastation, Behind the Red Line and Famine in Sudan 1998.

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Août 10, 2015, 3:43 pm

Surgeon Carolyn Kaelin died July 28 at the age of 54. She wrote Living Through Breast Cancer.

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Oct 14, 2015, 2:25 pm

Veterinary surgeon Prof John Bleby died July 19 at the age of 83. He wrote A Dog's Health from A to Z A Canine Veterinary Dictionary.

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