Deaths in July - 2019

Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor died July 4 at the age of 85. Her books include Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz and Little Eva & Miriam in first grade (Little Eva & Miriam series) .

Sports journalist and bookie John McCririck died July 5 at the age of 79. He wrote John McCririck’s World of Betting.

Poet Marie Ponsot died July 5 at the age of 98. Her works include Springing: Selected Poems and The Bird Catcher.

Theater producer and director Martin Charnin died July 6 at the age of 84. He wrote Annie: A theatre memoir .

Businessman and political candidate Ross Perot died July 9 at the age of 89. A few of his books include United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country , My Life & The Principles for Success and Not for Sale at Any Price: How We Can Save America for Our Children .

Former writer for the Rolling Stone and curator of the Museum of Rock and Roll, James Henke died July 8 at the age of 65. His books include Lennon Legend: An Illustrated Life of John Lennon , I Want to Take You Higher (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum) (Editor) and The Jim Morrison Scrapbook.

Musicologist Vivian Perlis died July 4 at the age of 91. Her books include Copland: 1900 through 1942 , Copland: Since 1943 and Charles Ives remembered : an oral history .

Composer Michael Colgrass died July 2 at the age of 87. His books include My Lessons With Kumi: How I Learned to Perform With Confidence in Life and Michael Colgrass: Adventures of an American Composer .

Italian actress Valentina Cortese died July 10 at the age of 96. Her autobiography was called Quanti sono i domani passati .

Former pitcher for the Yankees, Jim Bouton died July 10 at the age of 80. His books include Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues, I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally and Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark .

Former president of Argentina, Fernando de la Rua died July 9 at the age of 81. He wrote Proceso y Justicia.

Chef Elka Gilmore died July 6 at the age of 59. She contributed to the New York Times Seafood Cookbook.

Father of the computer password Fernando J. Corbato died July 12 at the age of 93. He wrote CTSS Programmer’s Guide and Advanced Computer Programming.

Extreme right wing politician and former U.S. Congressman William Dannemeyer died July 9 at the age of 89. He wrote Shadow in the Land: Homosexuality in America and Who turned the First Amendment Upside-down?.

Art scholar Douglas Crimp died July 5 at the age of 74. His books include AIDS Demo Graphics , AIDS: Cultural Analysis / Cultural Activism and On the Museum's Ruins.

Poet Steve Cannon died July 7 at the age of 84. He wrote Groove, Bang and Jive Around , Jambalaya : poems and A Gathering of the Tribes #10 .

Roller derby promoter Jerry Seltzer died July 1 at the age of 87. He wrote Bay Area Roller Derby.

Former US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died July 16 at the age of 99. His books include Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir and Six Amendments.

Novelist and theater director Andrea Camilleri died July 17 at the age of 93. His books include The Shape of Water, The Terra-Cotta Dog, The Voice of the Violin and The Snack Thief.

Memoirist Lucette Lagnado died July 10 at the age of 62. Her books include The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, is The Arrogant Years and the Children of the Flames.

Actor and author Luciano de Crescenzo died July 18 at the age of 90. His works include The History of Greek Philosophy, Tutti Santi me compreso and Fosse ‘a Madonna.

The most senior American hostage during the Iran crisis L. Bruce Laingen died July 15 at the age of 96. He wrote Yellow Ribbon: the Secret Journal of L. Bruce Laingen and Growing Up: Life on a Minnesota Farm.

Architect Cesar Pelli died July 19 at the age of 92. He wrote Observations for Young Architects.

Socialite Marylou Whitney died July 19 at the age of 93. She wrote The Glorious Goober Cookbook and Vanderbilt’s Dollhouse.

From the MIT Obituary: "Patrick Winston, a beloved professor and computer scientist at MIT, died on July 19 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 76." He authored several books, including books on LISP and AI. He was listed here on LT as Patrick Henry Winston.

Newspaper editor Wesley Pruden died July 17 at the age of 83. His books include Capital Contacts: Newly Revised andTwo decades of Distinction

Christopher Kraft, an aeronautical engineer who was the backbone of NASA's mission control, died July 22 at the age of 95. He was the author of Flight.

Musician Art Neville of Neville Brothers and Meters fame, died July 22 at the age of 81. He wrote The Brothers.

Yippie founder Paul Krassner died July 21 at the age of 87. His books include Pot Stories for the Soul and Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut! Misadventures in the Counterculture.

Memoirist George Hodgman died July 20 at the age of 60. He wrote Bettyville: A Memoir.

Metaphysical and paranormal author Rosemary Ellen Guiley died June 18 at the age of 69. Her most popular work was the Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft.

Ethicist Daniel Callahan died July 16 at the age of 88. His many books include The Secular City Debate , The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death and What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress .

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer died July 19 at the age of 75. He wrote All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade runners and Autobiografie. :'( Farewell Roy, you beat your incept date after all. :'(

Aussie food writer Margaret Fulton died July 24 at the age of 94. Her many books include The Margaret Fulton Cookbook, Margaret Fulton's Encyclopedia of Food & Cookery and The Margaret Fulton crock-pot cookbook .

Academic who worked on drug policy, Mark A. R. Kleiman died July 24 at the age of 68. His books include When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment and Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Former President of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi died July 25 at the age of 92. He wrote Tunisie : la démocratie en terre d'islam.

Musician Ben Johnston died July 21 at the age of 93. He wrote Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music.

Bryan Magee, philosopher, died July 26th 2019 aged 89. He wrote a good number of books but the only one I've read is a memoir Confessions of a Philosopher which was very readable.

Journalist Lois Wille died July 24 at the age of 87. She wrote Forever open, free and clear and At Home in the Loop.

Musicologist Father M. Owen Lee died July 23. His books include Wagner’s Ring: Turning the Sky round and First Intermissions.

Professor Richard Macksey died July 22 at the age of 87. He wrote The Structuralist Controversy and Criticism and the Sciences. LTers - he had over 70,000 books in his personal library.

Politician/philosopher Bryan Magee died July 26 at the age of 89. His many books include The Story of Philosophy and Confessions of a Philosopher.

Deaf advocate Harlan Lane died July 13 at the age of 82. His books include A Journey into the Deaf-world and The Mask of Benevolence.

Televangelist Ben Kinchlow died July 17 at the age of 82. His books include Plain Bread and you Don’t have to if you Don’t Want To.

Physicist John Robert Schrieffer died July 27 at the age of 88. His books include Theory of Superconductivity and Selected Papers of J Robert Schrieffer: In Celebration of His 70th Birthday.

Hungarian dissident philosopher Agnes Heller died July 19 at the age of 90. Her many books include The Theory of Need in Marx and Renaissance Man .

Tony winning Broadway theater director Hal Prince died July 31 at the age of 91. He wrote Contradictions: Notes on twenty-six years in the theatre .

Marcel Berlins died July 31st 2019 aged 77. He wrote a number of books as well as writing a column for The Times.

Oxford don Fergus Millar died July 15 at the age of 84. His many books include The Roman Near East, 31 B.C.-A.D. 337 , The Roman Empire and Its Neighbours and The Emperor in the Roman World.

Educator Vivian Gussin Paley died July 26 at the age of 90. Her numerous books include You Can't Say You Can't Play , White Teacher , and The Girl with the Brown Crayon .

Social geographer Claire Dwyer died July 14 at the age of 54. She wrote New Geographies of Race and Racism.

Ann Moyal died July 21st 2019 aged 93. She wrote several books including a memoir about her friendship with Lord Beaverbrook Breakfast with Beaverbrook and, an unlikely success, Platypus.

Professor Hugh Brogan died July 26th 2019. His books include a history of the United States and a biography of President Kennedy.

Legal journalist Marcel Berlins died July 31 at the age of 77. He wrote The Law Machine and The Law and You.

Geneticist Liane B. Russell died July 20 at the age of 95. She wrote Genetic Mosaics and Chimeras in Mammals.

Oral historian Myrna Katz Frommer died August 10 at the age of 80. With her husband Harvey she wrote a number of books including It Happened on Broadway and Growing up Jewish in America.

Sportscaster Jack Whitaker died August 18 at the age of 95. He wrote Preferred Lies and other Tales: Skimming the Cream of Life in Sports.
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>36 varielle: oops, wrong month

Ack! I’m on a cell and can’t copy it over to August if someone wants to move it I’ll delete this one.