Deaths in May - 2023

Singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died May 1 at the age of 84. His books include Canadian Railroad Trilogy and the Gordon Lightfoot Songbook.

Illustrator Bruce McCall died May 5 at the age of 87. His work includes Zany Afternoons, Marveltown, and This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me): Billionaires in the the Wild .

Former FCC chairman Newton Minow died May 6 at the age of 97. His books include Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, & the First Amendment and Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future.

Author Philippe Sollers died May 5 at the age of 86 . His books include Women, The Park, and A Strange Solitude.

Golfer Don January died May 7 at the age of 93. He wrote Golf is a Funny Game.

Baseball player Vida Blue died May 6 at the age of 73. He wrote Vida: His Own Story.

Historian Ronald Steel died May 7 at the age of 92. His books include Walter Lippmann and the American Century and In Love With Night: The American Romance With Robert Kennedy.

Former University of Louisville basketball coach Denny Crum died May 9 at the age of 86. He wrote The State of the Game.

The Bolivian General who captured Che Guevara Gary Prado Salmon died May 6 at the age of 84. He wrote The Defeat of che guevara: military response to guerrilla challenge.

Brazilian rock musician Rita Lee died May 8 at the age of 75. She wrote Rita Lee: uma autobiografia.

Punk pioneer John Albert died May 3 at the age of 58. His books include Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates and Learn To Hack: A Complete Guide To Learn Hacking!

Fiddler for the Chieftains Sean Keane died May 6 at the age of 86. He published 50 Fiddle Solos.

Cartoonist Sam Gross died May 6 at the age of 89. His books include Books, Books, Books: A Hilarious Collection of Literary Cartoons (editor) and Cats, cats, cats : a collection of great cat cartoons.

Novelist, screenwriter, and restaurateur Andrew Delaplaine died May 1 at the age of 73. His books include The Running Mate, The Meter Maid Murders, and The Bornholm Diamond.

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Mommy blogger Heather Armstrong died May 9 at the age of 47. Her books include It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much needed margarita and The Valedictorian of Being Dead.

Mountaineer Thomas Hornbein died May 6 at the age of 92. His books include Everest: The West Ridge and High Altitude: An Exploration of Human Adaption.

Novelist Gabrielle Carey died May 2. Her books include Puberty Blues: A Surfie Saga, Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family, and In my father's house.

Forensic criminal psychologist Stanton Samenow died May 8 at the age of 81. His books include Inside the Criminal Mind and Before It's Too Late: Why Some Kids Get Into Trouble--and What Parents Can do about it.

Soap opera actress Jacklyn Zeman died May 10 at the age of 70. She wrote Jackie Zeman’s beauty on the go.

Urban historian Fred Suegel died May 7 at the age of 78. His books include The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life and The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of Americas Big Cities.

Economist Kemal Dervis died May 8 at the age of 74. His books include General Equilibrium Models for Development Policy and Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy.

Children’s book illustrator Gerald Rose died May 5 at the age of 87. His work can be seen in The Tiger-Skin Rug and Trouble in the Ark.

Rodeo cowboy Larry Mahan died May 7 at the age of 79. He wrote Spring Animals: Your Friends for Life and Fundamentals of Rodeo: The Mental and Physical Approach to Success.

Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden died May 8 at the age of 53. He wrote Neige.

UCLA sports announcer Chris Roberts died May 12 at the age of 74. He wrote UCLA Bruins: Stadium Stories and UCLA football vault : the history of the Bruins.

Professional poker player Doyle Brunson died May 14 at the age of 89. His books include Doyle Brunson's Super System: A Course in Power Poker and The Godfather of Poker: The Doyle Brunson Story.

Tennis player Owen Davidson died May 12 at the age of 79. He wrote Lawn tennis: the great ones and Great women tennis players.

Historian John Dunmore died May 1 at the age of 99. His books include Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis de Bougainville and Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-FranCois de la Perouse .

Journalist and ghost writer Don Short died May 3 at the age of 90. His books include Engelbert Humperdinck: The Authorised Biography and The Beatles and Beyond.

Mathematician Vicky Neale died May 3 at the age of 39. She wrote Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers and Why Study Mathematics?

Poet Rafael Guillen died May 4 at the age of 90. His works include I'm Speaking : Selected Poems, Los estados transparentes (El Bardo), and Versos del amor cumplido: Antologia 1956-1985 (Coleccion "Alhucema").

Editor Byrna Barclay died May 7 at the age of 82. Her work includes The Forest Horses and Summer of the hungry pup.

Poet Ingrid Arvidsson died May 7 at the age of 103. Her work includes En glimmande vägg : dikter, Öden i vår tid, and Leendet : dikter.

Author Rosemary Crossley died May 10 at the age of 78. Her books include Annie's Coming Out, The dole cookbook, and Speechless: Facilitating Communication for People Without Voices.

Philosopher Ian Hacking died May 10 at the age of 87. His books include The Social Construction of What? and Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of natural science.

Economist Stanley Engerman died May 11 at the age of 87. He co-authored Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Time On The Cross: Evidence and Methods; A Supplement, and The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples.

Social worker Useni Eugene Perkins died May 7 at the age of 90. His books include Hey Black Child, Home Is a Dirty Street: The Social Oppression of Black Children, and Harvesting New Generations: The Positive Development of Black Youth.

Memoirist Amy Silverstein died May 5 at the age of 59. She wrote Sick Girl and My Glory Was I Had Such Friends.

Economist Robert Lucas Jr. died May 15 at the age of 85. His books include Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics and Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice, Volume 2 .

Children’s book author Inger Sandberg died May 16 at the age of 92. Her books include Little Spook Haunts Again and Dusty Wants to Help.

The last living founder of the LPGA Maureen Bauer Hagge died May 16 at the age of 89. She was co-author of Golf for Women.

Sociologist Maria Mies died May 16 at the age of 92. Her books include Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labor, Ecofeminism, and Women: The Last Colony.

Economist Uwe Kitzinger died May 16 at the age of 95. His books include Politics and Economics of European Integration, Diplomacy and Persuasion: How Britain Joined the Common Market, and Macro-Engineering and the Earth: World Projects for Year 2000 and Beyond.

Wrestler “Superstar” Billy Graham died May 17 at the age of 79. His autobiography was WWE Legends - Superstar Billy Graham: Tangled Ropes.

Documentary filmmaker and biographer Iain Johnstone died May 4 at the age of 80. His books include The Man with no Name and Cannes: The Novel.

Real estate mogul Sam Zell died May 18 at the age of 81. He wrote Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel .

Poet Kevin Ireland died May 19 at the age of 89. His works include For the People and Under the Bridge and Over the Moon.

Architect Robin Guenther died May 6 at the age of 68. She wrote Sustainable Healthcare Architecture.

Actor Helmut Berger died May 18 at the age of 78. He wrote Ich. Die Autobiographie.

Evangelist Timothy Keller died May 19 at the age of 72. His books include The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith, and The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment.

Bosnian writer Dzevad Karahasan died May 19 at the age of 70. He wrote Sarajevo, Exodus of a City.

Football player and actor Jim Brown died May 18 at the age of 87. He wrote Jim Brown Out of Bounds and Off My Chest.

English professor James de Jongh died May 5 at the age of 80. His books include Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination and Do Lord remember me .

Novelist Martin Amis died May 19 at the age of 73. His books include London Fields and Money: A Suicide Note.

Cuban poet and writer Anton Arrufat died May 21 at the age of 87. His work includes La noche del Aguafiestas, Los siete contra Tebas, and La Caja Esta Cerradau.

Olympian and America’s Cup sailing champion Buddy Melges died May 18 at the age of 93. He wrote Sailing Smart: Winning Techniques, Tactics, And Strategies.

Disability rights advocate Rick Hoyt died May 23 at the age of 61. He wrote One Letter at a Time.

Sportswriter Rick Hummel died May 20 at the age of 77. His books include Get Up, Baby!: My Seven Decades With the St. Louis Cardinals and Commish and the Cardinals: The Most Memorable Games.

Poet Veno Taufer died May 21 at the age of 90. His work includes Waterlings and
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Theologian Donald Macleod died May 21 at the age of 82. His books include The Person of Christ (Contours of Christian Theology), Shared Life, and A Faith to Live by: Understanding Christian Doctrine.

Sociologist Margaret Archer died May 21 at the age of 80. Her books include Critical Realism: Essential Readings, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach, and Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory.

Artist Rolf Harris died May 10 at the age of 93. His books include Six White Boomers and Your Cartoon Time.

Linguist Jean Haudry died May 23 at the age of 88. He wrote Les Indo-européens.

Psychologist Albert Bregman died May 18 at the age of 86. He wrote Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound and Demonstrations of Auditory Scene Analysis.

Egyptologist Jaromir Malek died May 23 at the age of 79. His books include Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt, The Cat in Ancient Egypt, and Echoes of the Ancient World, The Egyptians in the Shadow of the Pyramids.

Filmmaker Kenneth Anger died May 11 at the age of 96. His books include Hollywood Babylon and Hollywood Babylon II.

Singer Tina Turner died May 24 at the age of 83. Her books include I, Tina and My Love Story.

Geographer Alice Coleman died May 2 at the age of 99. Her books include Utopia on trial : vision and reality in planned housing and The planning challenge of the Ottawa area.

Mathematician Robert J. Zimmer died May 23 at the age of 75. His books include Essential Results of Functional Analysis and Ergodic Theory and Semisimple Groups (Monographs in Mathematics) .

Pilot Brian Shul died May 20 at the age of 75. His books include Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet and The Untouchables .

Jeremy Clarke died May 21st 2023. He joined The Spectator under Boris Johnson in 1999 to write the Low Life column and wrote his last column for the May 6th issue. RIP Jeremy I will miss you.

Hollywood stuntman Gary Kent died May 25 at the age of 89. His memoir was Shadows & Light: Journeys With Outlaws in Revolutionary Hollywood.

Editor Caroline Raphael has died at the age of 85. (Exact date undetermined) Her edited books include Good Hotel Guide Great Britain and Ireland, Europe's Wonderful Little Hotels and Inns : Continental Europe, Europe's Wonderful Little Hotels and Inns : Great Britain And Ireland, and The Good Hotel Guide : Continental Europe.

Poet and playwright Antonio Gala died May 28 at the age of 92. His work includes El manuscrito carmesí, La pasión turca, Más allá del jardín, and El pedestal de las estatuas.

Nature writer Michael Viney died May 30 at the age of 90. His books include Ireland : a Smithsonian natural history and A Year's Turning.

Journalist Claudia Rosett died May 27 at the age of 67. She wrote What to Do About the U.N. (Encounter Broadsides) .

Robin Page died My 27th 2023 aged 80 of pancreatic cancer. (number 3 on touchstones). He wrote Decline of an English Village among several others.

American politician Don Bonker died May 30 at the age of 86. His books include A Higher Calling: Faith and Politics in the Public Square and War in the Horn of Africa - A firsthand report on the challenges.

Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo died May 31 at the age of 81. Her books include Changes: a Love Story and Our Sister Killjoy

Virologist Harald zur Hausen died May 28 at the age of 87. His books include Infections Causing Human Cancer and Evolution und Menschwerdung: Vorträge anläßlich.

Sociologist Amitai Etzioni died May 31 at the age of 94. His books include The Spirit of Community, The New Golden Rule: Community And Morality In A Democratic Society, Modern Organizations, and The Limits Of Privacy.

Economist Eric Rahim died May 2 at the age of 94. He wrote A Promethean Vision: The Formation of Karl Marx's Worldview.

Writer Mariana Villa-Gilbert has died at the age of 86. She wrote My love all dressed in white, Mrs Galbraith's air, Manuela : a modern myth, and The Sun in Horus.

South African political analyst Eusebius McKaiser died May 30 at the age of 44. His books include A Bantu in My Bathroom: Debating race, sexuality and other uncomfortable topics and Run Racist Run: Journeys into the heart of racism.

Artist Russ Nicholson died in May. His illustrations appeared in many books, magazines, and gamebooks, including The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, early Warhammer books, and many works in the Fighting Fantasy series.

Mystery author and bookseller John Dunning died on May 22 at age 81. His books include Booked to die and On the air : the encyclopedia of old-time radio.

Conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov died on May 27 at age 89. His publications include The Palace of Projects and Ilya Kabakov: Ten Characters. He was born in Soviet Ukraine and grew up there and in Russia, but he moved to the USA in the 1970s.

Writer, cinematographer, and film director Jessie Maple died on May 30 at age 76. Her books include The Maple crew : a memoir. Maple was the first Black female member of the Cinematographer's Local 644 (New York City) and the first Black woman to direct an independent feature-length film.

Holocaust survivor Judge Thomas Buergenthal died May 29 at the age of 89. His books include A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, Public International Law in a Nutshell, and International Human Rights in a Nutshell.

Newspaper editor Tom Plate died May 23. His books include Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation and Confessions of an American Media Man: What They Don't Tell You at journalism School.

Writer and actor Luca di Fulvio died May 31 at the age of 66. His work includes The Boy Who Granted Dreams, The Mannequin Man, and Mamma Roma.

Wrongly convicted of a Birmingham, UK bombing Hugh Callaghan died May 27 at the age of 93. He wrote Cruel Fate: One Man's Triumph over Injustice.

Crime prevention specialist J. J. Bittenbinder died May 24 at the age of 80. He wrote Tough Target: A Street-Smart Guide to Staying Safe.

Historian Patrick Renshaw has died at the age of 87. His books include The Wobblies: The Story of IWW and Syndicalism in the United States and Nine days in May: The General Strike.

Photographer Paul Ickovic died May 23 at the age of 79. His books include Safe Conduct: Photographs (International Center of Photography) , In transit, and Kafka's Grave & Other Stories.

Pioneering author of lesbian literature Anita Cornwell died May 27 at the age of 99. She wrote Black Lesbian in White America.

Former US Secretary of the Interior under Reagan James G. Watt died May 27 at the age of 85. He once argued before an astonished Congress that the environment didn’t need protection because the rapture was coming. He wrote The Courage of a Conservative.

Astronomer Owen Gingerich died May 28 at the age of 93. His books include The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, God's Universe, and Scientific Genius and Creativity.

Lecturer and master printer Peter Green has died at the age of 89. His books include Introducing Surface Printing, Peter Green: The Workmanship Of Uncertainty, and New Creative Print Making.

Australian journalist Robert Milliken has died. He wrote Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock, No Conceivable Injury: The Story of Britain and Australia's Atomic Cover-up, and On the edge: The changing world of Australia's farmers.

Lecturer Janet Townsend died May 5 at the age of 79. She wrote Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchy and Poverty and co-edited Geography of Gender in the Third world.

Lacemaker Pamela Nottingham died May 12 at the age of 89. Her books include The Technique of Bobbin Lace, Bobbin Lace Making, and Technique of Bucks Point Lace.

Horticulturalist and BBC gardening show host Peter Thoday died May 5 at the age of 88. He wrote Two Blades of Grass: The Story of the Cultivation of Plants and the forward to The Victorian Kitchen Garden .

Political scientist Raymond F. Hopkins died May 23 at the age of 84. His books include The Global political economy of food and Global Food Interdependence: Challenge to American Foreign Policy.

Photographer Roswell Angier died May 23 at the age of 82. His books include Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography and "A Kind of Life": Conversations in the Combat Zone.

Feminist scholar Jalna Hanmer died May 25 at the age of 91. Her books include Women, Violence and Social Control and Women, Policing and Male Violence: International Perspectives.

Architect Paolo Portoghesi died May 30 at the age of 92. His books include The Vatican Library: Its History and Treasures (Contributor), After modern architecture, Architecture, 1980: The presence of the past, and Nature and Architecture.

Photographer Paul Ickovic died May 23 at the age of 79. His work includes Safe Conduct: Photographs (International Center of Photography), In transit, and Kafka's Grave & Other Stories .

Archaeologist Peter Harbison died May 30 at the age of 84. His books include Spectacular Ireland, Pre-Christian Ireland: From the First Settlers to the Early Celts, and Guide to the National Monuments of Ireland.

Former president of Amherst Peter Pouncey died May 30 at the age of 85. He wrote Rules for Old Men Waiting: A Novel and The Necessities of War: A Study of Thucydides' Pessimism.

Cricketer Brian Booth died May 19 at the age of 89. His books include Booth to Bat and Cricket and Christianity.

Physicist Lewis Branscomb died May 31 at the age of 96. His books include Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk and Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works.

Anti-Apartheid activist Jonty Driver died May 21 at the age of 83. His books include Elegy for a revolutionary and Shades of Darkness.

US graphic designer, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist Paul Giambarba died May 1 aged 94. His 25 years of work for Polaroid Corporation included corporate image development and graphic design, including the rainbow stripe. He wrote The lighthouse at Dangerfield and Cape Cod seashore life.

Swiss journalist and crime writer Peter Zeindler died May 7 aged 99. He wrote Aus Privatbesitz and the Konrad Sembritzki series.

German translator Franz Peter Künzel died May 26 aged 98. He translated books including Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera and Cutting it short by Bohumil Hrabal.

Welsh miner and trade unionist Tyrone O'Sullivan died May 27 aged 77. He wrote Tower of Strength: The Story of Tyrone O'Sullivan and Tower Colliery.

Music journalist and writer Peter Silverton died in May aged 70. He wrote Filthy English: the how, why, when, and what of everyday swearing and Essential Elvis: A Photographic Survey of His Top Fifty Recordings.

Novelist, potter, and advertising executive Jim Powell died May 20 at the age of 74. His books include The Breaking of Eggs and Trading Futures .

Activist Jonty Driver died May 21. His books include Elegy for a revolutionary and Shades of Darkness.

Economist Jonathan Perraton died in May at the age of 58. He co-wrote Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture.

Journalist Stephen Aris died May 27 at the age of 87. He co-authored Watergate: The Full Inside Story and wrote But there are no Jews in England.

Lecturer in French Norma Rinsler died May 10 at the age of 89. She wrote Gérard de Nerval .

Expert on the English civil war John Wroughton died May 16 at the age of 88. His works include The Longman Companion to the Stuart Age, 1603-1714 and The Routledge Companion to the Stuart Age, 1603-1714.

Salvation Army Gen. Shaw Clifton died May 29 at the age of 78. His books include Who Are These Salvationists?: An Analysis for the 21st Century and New Love: Thinking Aloud About Practical Holiness.