Deaths in October - 2023

Star pitcher for the Red Sox Tim Wakefield died October 1 at the age of 57. He wrote Knuckler: My Life with Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch.

Educator Alice Shalvi died October 2 at the age of 96. She wrote Never a native and Women in Israel.

Sportswriter Jim Caple died October 1 at the age of 61. He wrote The Devil Wears Pinstripes, The best Boston sports arguments : the 100 most controversial, debatable questions, and The Theory & Practice of Training .

Groundbreaking architect Beverly Willis died October 1 at the age of 95. She wrote Invisible Images - The Silent Language of Architecture .

Architect Harriet Pattison died October 3 at the age of 94. She wrote Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn.

Historian Arthur Burns died October 3 at the age of 87. He wrote Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850 (Past and Present and The diocesan revival in the Church of England, c. 1800-1870 .

Football player Dick Butkus died October 5 at the age of 80. He wrote Butkus: Flesh and Blood and Stop-action.

Diplomat Peter Penfold died October 1 at the age of 79. He wrote Atrocities, diamonds and diplomacy and African Anecdotes: Reminiscences of a British Diplomat in Africa .

Missionary Loren Cunningham died October 6 at the age of 88. His books include Is that really you, God?, Daring to Live on the Edge: The Adventure of Faith and Finances, and Why Not Women : A Biblical Study of Women in Missions, Ministry.

Film director Terence Davies died October 7 at the age of 77. He wrote Hallelujah Now.

Chef Michael Chiarello died October 6 at the age of 61. His books include The Tra Vigne Cookbook, Michael Chiarello's Casual Cooking, Flavored Oils: 50 Recipes for Cooking with Infused Oils , and At Home with Michael Chiarello: Easy Entertaining .

Radio host Brian O’Donovan died October 6 at the age of 66. He wrote Four Years in the Cauldron: The Gripping Story of an Irishman Making Sense of America.

Mathematician Giuseppe da Prato died October 6 at the age of 87. His books include Stochastic Equations in Infinite Dimensions, An Introduction to Infinite-Dimensional Analysis, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Applications, and Second Order Partial Differential Equations in Hilbert Spaces.

Surfer and novelist (great career combination) Allan Weisbecker has died at the age of 75. His books include Cosmic Banditos, and In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road, and Can't You Get Along With Anyone?: A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a lost surfer’s paradise.

Novelist David Benedictus died October 9 at the age of 85. His books include Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, Local hero (novelization), The Fourth of June, and Floating Down to Camelot.

Architect Andrea Branzi died October 9 at the age of 84. His books include The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design, Weak and Diffuse Modernity: The World of Projects at the beginning of the 21st century , and Neo-prehistory: 100 Verbs .

Economist David Dollar died October 8 at the age of 68. His books include editing Aid and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies and Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam .

Poet Kim Namjo died October 10 at the age of 96. She wrote Rain, sky, wind, port : poems .

Author Criostoir O Floinn died October 10 at the age of 95. His books include Irish Humorous Poetry and Sanctuary Island and Other Stories .

Political analyst Kevin Phillips died October 9 at the age of 82. His books include American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and borrowed money and American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the house of Bush.

Author Louise Meriwether died October 10 at the age of 100. Her books include Daddy Was a Number Runner, Fragments of the Ark, The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls, and Shadow Dancing .

Advocate for opening adoption records Florence Fisher died October 1 at the age of 95. She wrote The Search for Anna Fisher .

Comic book artist and writer Keith Giffen died October 10 at the age of 70. His work can be seen in Justice League International, Volume One, Lovecraft (Adapter), and Annihilation Book.

Football player Walt Garrison died October 11 at the age of 79. He wrote Once a Cowboy and Then Landry Said to Staubach: The Best Dallas Cowboys Stories Ever Told.

Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves died October 13 at the age of 91. His books include Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind and Atoms of Silence: An Exploration of Cosmic Evolution.

Marxist historian Tom O’Lincoln died October 12 at the age of 76. His books include Into the mainstream: The decline of Australian communism, Australia's Pacific war: Challenging a national myth, and Years of rage : social conflicts in the Fraser era .

Food writer Colette Rossant died October 12 at the age of 91. Her books include Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes and Return to Paris: A Memoir.

Poet Louise Gluck died October 13 at the age of 80. Her books include The Wild Iris and Averno: Poems .

Picture book author Eve Bunting died October 1 at the age of 94. Her books include Smoky Night and Flower Garden.

Film historian Robert von Dassanowsky died October 12 at the age of 63. His books include Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema, Austrian Cinema: A History, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, and New Austrian Film.

Renaissance scholar Peter Mack was killed in a traffic accident on October 5. He was 68. His books include More Straw Bale Building: A Complete Guide to Designing and Building and Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice .

Actor Mark Goddard died October 9 at the age of 87. He wrote Three Years Lost in Space and To Space and Back: A Memoir.

Actress Piper Laurie died October 14 at the age of 91. She wrote Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir.

Actress and fitness guru Suzanne Somers died October 15 at the age of 76. Her books include Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight and The Sexy Years: Discover the Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous.

Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari died October 16 at the age of 86. He wrote The United Nations at 70: Restoration and Renewal.

Former Dean of Winchester Rev. Trevor Beeson died October 17 at the age of 97. His books include Westminster Abbey and Discretion and valour : religious conditions in Russia and eastern Europe.

Economist Alexander Buzgalin died October 18 at the age of 69. He wrote Bloody October in Moscow : political repression in the name of reform.

Photojournalist Giovanni Chiaramonte died October 17 at the age of 75. His books include Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids and The story of photography : an illustrated history.

Aboretum director and photographer Paul W. Meyer died October 10 at the age of 71. He wrote Morris Arboretum, of the University of Pennsylvania, Through the Lens of Paul W. Meyer.

Psychiatrist David Shaffer has died at the age of 87. His books include The Many Faces of Depression in Children and Adolescents and Diagnostic Assessment in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Actress Lara Parker died October 12 at the age of 84. She is best known for her role as Angelique on Dark Shadows and wrote books about those characters including Angelique's Descent and The Salem Branch. 🪦

Dance critic Nicholas Dromgoole has died at the age of 96. He wrote Sibley and Dowell, Performance style and gesture in Western theatre, and The role of the critic.

Actor Burt Young of Rocky fame. Also in Chinatown and Once Upon a Time in America plus a run on the Sopranos. He was 83.

Crime writer Vincent Patrick died October 6 at the age of 88. His books include The Pope of Greenwich Village and Smoke Screen.

Television executive Edward Bleier died October 17 at the age of 94. He wrote The Thanksgiving Ceremony: New Traditions for America's Family Feast .

Sports promoter David P. Webster died October 19 at the age of 95. He wrote The World History of Highland Games .

Cartoonist Tony Husband died October 18 at the age of 73. His books include Cartoons of World War II and The 20th Century in Cartoons.

Architect George Baird died October 17 at the age of 84. His books include The Space of Appearance and Meaning in architecture.

Newspaper editor John Vidal died October 19 at the age of 74. His books include McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial and Development dialogue. What Next Volume III Climate, Development and Equity.

Feminist studies professor Eva Kollisch died October 10 at the age of 98. She wrote Girl in Movement and The Ground Under My Feet.

Architectural historian Anthony Vidler died October 19 at the age of 82. His books include The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely, Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture, and Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism.

Comic book artist Sergio Staino died of Covid-19 on October 21 at the age of 83. His works include Sergio Staino - Pinocchio Novecento. 25 Tavole a Colori Commentate, Bobo, and Bobo Novecento.

Australian politician Bill Hayden died October 21 at the age of 90. He wrote Hayden: an Autobiography and Bill Hayden on the Economy.

Soccer player and coach Sir Bobby Charlton died October 21 at the age of 86. His books include My Manchester United Years: The Autobiography and My England Years: The Autobiography.

Former gangster Dave Courtney died October 22 at the age of 64. His books include Stop the Ride, I Want Off and Raving Lunacy: Clubbed to Death - Adventures on the Rave Scene.

Dance critic Jack Anderson died October 20 at the age of 88. His books include Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History, Dance, and Art without boundaries : the world of modern dance.

Journalist and translator Anthony Holden died October 7 at the age of 76. His books include Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them, Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player, and Behind the Oscar: The Secret History of the Academy Awards.

Economist Warner Max Corden died October 22 at the age of 96. His books include Trade Policy and Economic Welfare and Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes (Ohlin Lectures).

Historian Natalie Zemon Davis has died at the age of 94. Her books include The Return of Martin Guerre, Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds, and Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives .

Philosopher Hans Albert died October 24 at the age of 102. His books include Der Positivismusstreit in der deutschen Soziologie and Traktat über kritische Vernunft.

Physicist Giorgos Grammatikakis died October 25 at the age of 84. He wrote An astrolabe of heaven and the life.

Author Rock Brynner died October 13 at the age of 76. His books include Yul: The Man Who Would Be King : A Memoir of Father and Son and Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond .

Artist and designer Robert Irwin died October 24 at the age of 95. His work includes Being and Circumstance Notes Toward a Conditional Art and Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries.

Artist Ida Applebroog died October 22 at the age of 93. Her work can be seen in Ida Applebroog: Are You Bleeding Yet?, Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings, and Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital.

Washington aide who started out sweeping the Capitol steps Bertie Bowman died October 25 at the age of 92. He wrote Step by Step: A Memoir of Hope, Friendship, Perseverance, and Living the American Dream.

Archaeologist Petros G. Themelis died October 27 at the age of 87. His work includes Ancient Corinth: The site and the museum, Delphi: The archaeological site and the museum, and Ancient Messene.

Former president and CEO of Weight Watchers Florine Mark died October 13 at the age of 90. She wrote Talk to the Mirror: Feel Great About Yourself Each and Every Day .

Actress Joanna Merlin died October 15 at the age of 92. She wrote Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide.

>28 varielle: Bertie Bowman was the longest serving staff member of the US Congress. He worked longest for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, first a clerk, and then as the committee's hearing coordinator until age 90.

Actor Matthew Perry drowned on October 28 at the age of 54. He wrote Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir .

Theater critic Robert Brustein died October 29 at the age of 96. His books include The Theatre of Revolt: Studies in modern drama from Ibsen to Genet and Letters to a Young Actor.

Climate expert Saleemul Huq died October 28 at the age of 71. His books include Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change and edited Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up.

Magazine editor Louis Oliver Gropp died October 17 at the age of 88. His books include Solar Houses: 48 Designs, House Beautiful Gardens: Design Principles at Work Outdoors, and House Beautiful Entertaining .

Diplomat Rawdon Dalrymple has died at the age of 92. He wrote Continental Drift: Australia's Search for a Regional Identity.

Writer and critic Ernesto Ferrero died October 31 at the age of 75. His works include N., Album Calvino, and I migliori anni della nostra vita.

Journalist and historian Audrey Salkeld died October 11 at the age of 87. Her books include Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory and Mystery on Everest: A Photobiography Of George Mallory.

Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper editor David Dave Mitchell died October 25 at the age of 79. He wrote The Light on Synanon: How a country weekly exposed a corporate cult--and won the Pulitzer Prize.

Sports photographer Gerry Cranham died October 20 at the age of 94. He wrote The guinness guide to steeplechasing, Great jockeys of the flat: a celebration of two centuries of jockeyship, and This Sporting Life.

Presidential adviser Jeffrey A. Bader died October 23 at the age of 78. He wrote Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy and The Global Politics of Energy.

Lesbian activist, organizer, and former sex worker Amber L. Hollibaugh died Oct. 20 aged 77. She wrote My dangerous desires : a queer girl dreaming her way home and co-edited Best lesbian erotica 2002.

UK journalist and gay rights activist Andrew Lumsden died in October aged 82. (He died Nov. 1)

Writer and writing teacher Scott Blackwood died October 4 aged 58. He wrote the novels See how small and We agreed to meet just here : a novel and the nonfiction The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917–1932.

Mathematician Yang Le died Oct. 22 aged 83. His English-language works include the monograph Value distribution theory.

Roman Catholic psychiatrist, teacher, and Holocaust survivor Wanda Półtawska died Oct. 24 aged 102. Her works include And I am afraid of my dreams and Diario de una amistad: La familia de Póltawski y Karol Wojtyla.

Writer and playwright Amos Aricha died Oct. 25 aged 90. His works include Phoenix (with Eli Landau), Hour of the clown, and Journey toward death

Feminist, lawyer, and professor Linda R. Hirshman died October 31 at the age of 79. Her books include Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World and Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution.

Sports administrator David Pirie Webster died October 18 at the age of 95. His books include Scottish Highland Games and Bodybuilding: An Illustrated History .

Feminist sociologist Jackie West has died at the age of 74. Her books include Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation and Work, Women and the Labour Market.

Retired Col. Ben S. Malcom died October 30 at the age of 94. He wrote White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea (Memories of War).

Heart transplant surgeon Dr. Donald Longmore OBE died October 31 at the age of 95. His books include The Heart (World University Library) and Spare-Part Surgery: the surgical practice of the Future.

Author Jan Needle died October 9 at the age of 80. His books include A Fine Boy for Killing and Wild Wood.

Television and film scholar Martin McLoone died October 3 at the age of 73. His books include Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema and Film, Media and Popular Culture in Ireland: Cityscapes, Landscapes, Soundscapes .

Philosopher John Burnheim died October 26 at the age of 96. His books include Is Democracy Possible?: The Alternative to Electoral Politics and The demarchy manifesto : For better public policy.

Journalist and historian of mountaineering Audrey Salkeld died October 11 at the age of 87. Her books include Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory and Mystery on Everest: A Photobiography Of George Mallory.

Educator Myra Barrs died October 24 at the age of 83. Her books include Shakespeare Superscribe (Peacock Books) and Reading Together: Parents' Handbook.

Nephrologist Dr. Todd S. Ing died October 24 aged 89. He came up with the idea for the Handbook of Dialysis, a pocket guide for physicians that became a standard text, and co-edited the first five editions.

Vascular surgeon Roger Greenhalgh died October 6 at the age of 82. His books include Vascular and Endovascular Surgical Techniques and Inflammatory and thrombotic problems in vascular surgery.

Curator J. A. Bennett “Jim” died October 28 at the age of 76. His books include Navigation: A Very Short Introduction and London’s Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke.

Salvation Army Major Joy Webb died October 1 at the age of 91. Her books include This Praying Thing and And This is Joy.

Broadcaster David Stafford died October 24 at the age of 74. His books include Alexei Sayle's Great Bus Journeys of the World (Methuen Humour) and Fings Ain’t What They Used t’ Be: The Lionel Bart Story.

Consultant Paddy Bowie OBE died October 21 at the age of 98. She wrote A Vision Realised: The Transformation of a National Oil Corporation and Teh Hong Piow: A Banking Thoroughbred .

Research chemist Graham Pearson died October 21 at the age of 87. His books include Hidcote and Littleborough.