Deaths in June - 2017

Former Austrian foreign minister Alois Mock died June 1 at age 82. He wrote Heimat Europa: Der Countdown von Wien nach Brussel, among others.

Novelist and critic Charles Simmons died June 1 at age 92. He wrote Powdered Eggs.

Russian ballet master Sergey Vikharev died June 2 at age 55. He wrote Dinamika mel'nits dlya razmola voloknistykh polufabrikatov.

Peter Sallis - who played Cleggy and voiced Wallace - died on June 2nd. His autobiography is Fading into the Limelight: The Autobiography.

Former baseball player Jim Piersall died June 3 at age 87. He co-authored Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story about his struggles with mental illness.

Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo died June 4 at age 86. He wrote Marks of Identity and others.

Marketing strategist Jack Trout died June 4 at age 82. He wrote Trout on Strategy and co-authored many others.

Emmy-award winning producer Marilyn Hall died June 5 at age 90. She co-authored Celebrity Kosher Cookbook. (She was the wife of Let's Make A Deal host Monty Hall.)

Conservative political adviser Victor Gold died June 5 at age 88. He wrote Invasion of the Party Snatchers and several others.

Helen Dunmore born in December 1952 died on June 5th. An obit in today's "The Times" (London) but afraid it will be behind a pay wall. She wrote some poetry and also books for children. "A Spell in Winter" deals with brother-sister incest and won the first Orange Prize for fiction in 1996. Burning Bright deals with teenage prostitution in Finland.

Literary agent Ed Victor died June 7 at age 77. He wrote The Obvious Diet: Your Personal Way to Lose Weight Fast Without Changing Your Lifestyle.

Political scientist Robert S. Leiken died June 7 at age 78. He wrote Why Nicaragua Vanished and others.

Adam West, television's original Batman, died June 9 at age 88. He wrote Back to the Batcave.

Folk singer/songwriter Rosalie Sorrels died June 11 at age 83. She wrote What, Woman, and Who, Myself, I Am and Way Out in Idaho: A Celebration of Songs and Stories.

Historian David Fromkin died June 11 at age 84. He wrote A Peace to End All Peace.

Music scholar Philip Gossett died June 12 at age 75. He wrote Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera.

Playwright A. R. Gurney died June 13 at age 86. He wrote O Jerusalem and Love Letters, plus many others.

Argentinian media mogul Ernestina Laura Herrera de Noble died June 14 at age 92. She wrote Buenos Aires the Neighborhoods, and others.

Women's soccer coach Tony DiCicco died June 19 at age 68. He wrote Goalkeeper: Soccer Training Manual.

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl died June 16 at age 87. He wrote Ich wollte Deutschlands Einheit, among others.

Actor Stephen Furst died June 16 at age 63. He wrote Confessions of a Couch Potato.

Dancer, potter and teacher Paulus Berensohn died June 15 at age 84. He wrote Finding One's Way With Clay: Pinched Pottery and the Color of Clay.

Comic actor Bill Dana died June 15 at the age of 92. He wrote Cowboy/english English-cowboy Dictionary and My Name . . . Jose Jimenez.

Actor Stephen Furst, best known for his role in Animal House died June 16 at the age of 63. He wrote Confessions of a Couch Potato.

Former U.S. Women's Soccer Coach Tony DiCicco died June 19 at the age of 68. He wrote Catch Them being Good: Everything You need to Know to Successfully Coach girls.

Dr. Lawrence L. Weed pioneered improved means of patient record keeping. He died June 3 at the age of 93. He wrote Medical records, medical education, and Patient Care and Knowledge Coupling.

Dr. John E. Sarno died June 22 at the age of 93. He wrote Healing Back Pain and The Mindbody Prescription.

Semiconductor scientist Elias Burstein died June 17 at the age of 99. He wrote Polaritons and Tunneling Phenomena in Solids.

Poet Susan Laughter Meyers has died. Details to be updated as they become available. She wrote My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass.

Photographer Richard Benson died June 22 at the age of 73. His books include The Printed Picture and Lee Friedlander at Work.

Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz died June 24 at the age of 73. His many works include The Book of Ruth/Megillas Ruth, Pirkei Avos and The Megillah: The Book of Esther.

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist died June 27 at the age of 56. His autobiography was called Nar barnet lagt sig.

Memoirist Margaux Fragoso died June 23 at the age of 38. Her story of abuse was told in Tiger, Tiger.

Chef Alain Senderens died June 25 at the age of 77. His books include The Cuisine of Alain Senderens, The Table Beckons and The three-star recipes of Alain Senderens.

Wildlife advocate and photographer Hope Ryden died June 18 at the age of 87. Her books include God's Dog: The North American Coyote and Lily Pond: Four Years with a Family of Beavers.

Children's author Michael Bond died at 91 on 27th June. He was the creator of Paddington Bear.

Hockey player Dave Semenko died June 29 at the age of 59. He wrote Looking Out for Number One.

Former President of Botswana, Quett Ketumile Joni Masire died June 22 at the age of 91. He wrote Masire: Memoirs of an African Democrat.

French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil died June 30 at the age of 89. She wrote Une vie and Genocide and Accountability.

Folklorist Roger D. Abrahams died June 20 at the age of 84. His books include African Folktales, African American Folktales and Singing the Master.

Theologian Peter L. Berger died June 27 at the age of 88. His books include The Social Construction of Reality and The Sacred Canopy.

Film critic Barry Norman died at 83 on 30th June. He wrote a number of books including a memoir And Why Not?.

The first woman to lead the Berkeley law faculty, Herma Hill Kay died June 10 at the age of 82. Her books include Text, cases and Materials on Sex-Based Discrimination and Conflict of Laws: Cases-Comments-Questions.

James Berry, poet, born in Jamaica in 1924 died 20th June 2017 age 92.
Guardian obituary here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/04/james-berry-obituary

Biographer Morton N. Cohen died June 12 at the age of 96. His books include Lewis Carroll: A Biography and Reflections in a Looking Glass.

Archbishop John R. Quinn died June 22 at the age of 88. He wrote The Reform of the Papacy (ut unum sint).

Ms. Sheila Michaels popularized the honorific Ms. She died June 22 at the age of 78. She wrote 7 Reasons to be grateful You're the Mother of a Tweenager.