Deaths in September - 2023

Author, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and the King of Margarittaville Jimmy Buffet died September 1 at the age of 76. His books include A Salty Piece of Land and A Pirate Looks at Fifty. 🍸 RIP 😢

US politician Bill Richardson died September 1 at the age of 75. He wrote Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life, How to Sweet-Talk a Shark: Strategies and Stories from a Master Negotiator, and Leading by Example: How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution .

Linguist Carme Junyent died September 3 at the age of 68. Their books include Som dones, som lingüistes, som moltes i diem prou and El futur del català depèn de tu (Divulgació) .

Historian Olivier Picard died September 1 at the age of 83. His books include Les Grecs devant la menace perse and Chalcis Et La Confederation Eubeenne: Etude de Numismatique Et d'Histoire.

Architect Raymond Moriyama died September 1 at the age of 93. His work includes In Search of a Soul, The Legacy Document: Canadian War Museum, Make (māk)- An Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts, and The Bata Shoe Museum : Sonja Bata's vision, Raymond Moriyama's design.

Famed translator Edith Grossman died September 4 at the age of 87. Her work includes Why Translation Matters and The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance .

Lead singer for Smash Mouth Steve Harwell died September 4 at the age of 56. He wrote Smash Mouth: Recipes from the Road: A Rock 'n' Roll Cookbook.

Sociologist Amando de Miguel died September 3 at the age of 86. His books include Sociología del Franquismo Análisis ideológico de los Ministros , La perversión del lenguaje, and La Espana de nuestros abuelos: Historia intima de una epoca.

Singer songwriter Gary Wright died September 4 at the age of 80. He wrote Dream Weaver: A Memoir; Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison and Dream Weaver: A Children's Picture Book (LyricPop) .

Journalist Maria Teresa Campos died September 5 at the age of 82. Her books include Como librarse de los hijos, antes de que sea demasiado tarde, Agobios nos da la vida, and Princesa Letizia: Una historia ficticia basada en hechos reales.

Advocate for an open web Molly Holzschlag died September 5 at the age of 60. Her books include The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web and Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge.

Journalist Jurate Rosales died September 4 at the age of 93. Their books include Los Godos and Goths and Balts: The Missing Link of European History .

Actor, author and artist John Cairney died September 7 at the age of 93. His books include The Quest for Robert Louis Stevenson and On the Trail of Robert Burns .

Journalist Peter C. Newman died September 7 at the age of 94. His books include Caesars of the Wilderness,
The Canadian Establishment, Volume 1,And Empire of the Bay: The Company of Adventurers that Seized a Continent.

Historian Dermot Keogh died September 6 at the age of 78. His books include Twentieth-Century Ireland: Nation and State and Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland .

Former Director-General of Mossad Shabtai Shavit died September 5 at the age of 84. He wrote Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel .

Artist Steve Roden died September 6 at the age of 59. His books include I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces: Music in Vernacular Photographs and Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear .

Author and translator Gareth Miles died September 6 at the age of 85. His books include Cymru ar wasgar chwe stori and Socialism for the Welsh People.

Franciscan friar and peace activist Louis Vitale died September 6 at the age of 91. He wrote Love is What Matters: Writings on Peace and Nonviolence, Letter from Imperial Jail, and Liberating Nonviolence: The Spirituality and Practice of Christian Nonviolence.

South African politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi died September 9 at the age of 95. His books include Power Is Ours and SOUTH AFRICA: MY VISION OF THE FUTURE.

Body builder and model Lisa Lyon died September 8 at the age of 70. She wrote Lisa Lyon's body magic.

Chef Nico Ladenis died September 10 at the age of 89. He wrote My Gastronomy and Nico .

Embryologist Sir Ian Wilmut’s death was announced on September 11. He was 79. His books include The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control and After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning .

Holocaust survivor and author Eva Fahidi died September 11 at the age of 97. She wrote Anima rerum and The Soul of Things: Memoir of a Youth Interrupted .

Leading US lawyer for big wigs in trouble Robert S. Bennett died September 10 at the age of 84. He wrote In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer.

Sociologist Ronald Creagh died September 10 at the age of 94. His books include The Shadows Under The Lamp: Essays On September 11 And Afghanistan and Anarchism in the United States.

NYC police commissioner under Giuliani Howard Safir died September 11 at the age of 81. He wrote Security: Policing Your Homeland, Your State, Your City and Security: An Inside Look at the Tactics of the NYPD . *The irony of the date of his death is mind boggling. *

Byzantine scholar Elizabeth Jeffreys died September 12 at the age of 82. Her books include The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions, Four Byzantine Novels: Theodore Prodromos, Rhodanthe and Dosikles.

Psychologist Endel Tulving died September 11 at the age of 96. His books include The Oxford Handbook of Memory (Oxford Handbook Series) and Elements of Episodic Memory (Oxford Psychology Series).

Naturalist Maj. Iain Grahame died September 4 at the age of 91. He’s perhaps better known for saving a man from being executed by Idi Amin. His books include Ruffled feathers and Flying Feathers.

Colombian Artist Fernando Botero, famed for his portly and rubenesque figures, died September 15 at the age of 91. His work can be see in Botero: Abu Ghraib, Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings, and Botero: Women.

Historian and dance critic Erik Aschengreen died September 9 at the age of 88. His books include Dancing Across the Atlantic USA - Denmark 1900 - 2014 , Jean Cocteau and the dance, and Harald Lander - His Life and Ballets.

Australian rules football coach Ron Barassi died September 16 at the age of 87. His books include Barassi: The life behind the legend , Wisdom : life lessons from an Australian legend, and Ron Barassi's Football Clinic: Footbal's greatest coach tells you how.

Columnist Howard Kleinberg died September 14 at the age of 90. His books include Miami Beach : A History, and Woggles and Cheese Holes: The History of Miami Beach's Hotels .

Author Gita Mehta died September 16 at the age of 80. Her books include A River Sutra and Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East.

Historian Petr Charvatdied September 17 at the age of 74. His books include Mesopotamia Before History and The Emergence of the Bohemian State .

Professor of international relations Christopher Coker died September 5 at the age of 70. His books include Humane Warfare, Men At War: What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From The Iliad to Catch-22, and The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror .

Historian Dean Esslinger died September 5 at the age of 81. He wrote Friends for two hundred years : a history of Baltimore's oldest school .

Playwright David Fennario died September 16 at the age of 76. His work includes Balconville, On the Job, Bolsheviki: A Dead Serious Comedy, and Joe Beef.

Cartoonist Joe Matt died September 18 at the age of 60. His books include The Poor Bastard and Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt .

Folk singer Roger Whittaker died September 13 at the age of 87. His memoir was So Far, So Good: The Autobiography of a Wandering Minstrel .

Philosopher Gianni Vattimo died September 19 at the age of 87. His books include The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture , Religion, and Belief .

Journalist James F. Hoge Jr died September 19 at the age of 87. His books include The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World and America and the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics.

Photographer Erwin Olaf died September 20 at the age of 64. His work can be seen in Olaf Erwin: Violence and Passion andThe Male Nude: A Male View : An Anthology.

Health economist Victor Fuchs died September 16 at the age of 99. His books include Who Shall Live? and Women's quest for economic equality.

Photographer Marvin E. Newman died September 13 at the age of 95. His work can be seen in Africa’s Animals and New York: Portrait Of A City .

Organ historian Graeme D. Rushworth died September 6 at the age of 91. He wrote Historic Organs of New South Wales.

Chess master Jeremy Silman died September 21 at the age of 69. His books include How to Reassess Your Chess and The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery.

Historian of early cinema Stephen Herbert has died at the age of 71. (Exact date unknown) His books include Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey and Theodore Brown's Magic Pictures.

Civil rights activist Hollis Watkins died September 20 at the age of 82. He wrote Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of a Movement Man and Songs of Struggle .

Historian Geir Lundestad died September 22 at the age of 78. His books include East, West, North, South: Major Developments in International Politics and The United States and Western Europe since 1945.

Anglican bishop Keith Riglin died September 24 at the age of 66. He wrote Reforming Worship: English Reformed Principles and Practice .

Actor David McCallum (The Man from UNCLE) died September 25 at the age of 90. He wrote Once a Crooked Man: A Novel .

South African writer Zoleka Mandela died September 25 at the age of 43. She wrote When Hope Whispers.

Expert on early black cinema Pearl Bowser died September 14 at the age of 92. Her books include Writing Himself into History : Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema.

The man who made varielle a baseball fan, Mr. Oriole Brooks Robinson died September 26 at the age of 86. His books include Third base is my home, Putting it all together, and We played the game : memories of baseball's greatest era. 😢 ⚾️

Architect John F. C. Turner died September 3 at the age of 96. His books include Housing by people : towards autonomy in building environments and Freedom to build; dweller control of the housing process.

Entrepreneur Tony Wade died September 7 at the age of 90. His books include How They Made a Million and Black Enterprise in Britain.

Irish author Maurice Leitch has died at the age of 90. His books include Silver's City and The Liberty Lad.

Moldovan writer and poet Ion Drutse died September 28 at the age of 95. His work includes Moldavian Autumn and Story Of An Ant.

Agronomist M. S. Swaminathan died September 28 at the age of 98. His books include In Search of Biohappiness: Biodiversity and Food, Health and Livelihood, Science and sustainable food security selected papers of M S Swaminathan, Groves of Beauty and Plenty: An Atlas of Major Flowering Trees in India, and Combating hunger and achieving food security.

Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim died September 29 at the age of 84. His books include Egypt Islam and Democracy: Critical Essays, Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives, and the new arab social order: a study of the social impact of oil wealth.

Peace activist and novelist Pat Arrowsmith died September 29 at the age of 93. Her books include Somewhere Like This, Jericho, and I Should Have Been a Hornby Train.

Philologist Michal Glowinski died September 29 at the age of 88. His books The Black Seasons, Kręgi obcości. Opowieść autobiograficzna, and Totalitarian speech.

Neurosurgeon Donlin Long died September 19 at the age of 89. His books include Contemporary Diagnosis & Management of Pain and Atlas of Skull Base Surgery (The Encyclopedia of Visual Medicine Series).

Author and performer Echo Brown died September 16 at age 39. She wrote Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard and The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey.

Former DC company librarian and historian of science fiction and media Allen Asherman died last weekend at age 81. He edited The Star Trek Compendium and The Star Trek Interview Book.

Historian Evelyn Fox Keller died September 22 at the age of 87. Her books include A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, Reflections on Gender and Science, and
The Century of the Gene.

Children’s book illustrator Ed Young died September 30 at the age of 91. His work can be seen in Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China and Seven Blind Mice.

Novelist and screenwriter Khalid Khalifa died September 30 at the age of 59. His works include Death is Hard Work, In Praise of Hatred, and No Knives in the Kitchens of This City: A Novel.

Author Echo Brown died September 16 at the age of 39. She wrote Black Girl Unlimited and The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey.

Teacher, scholar, and former Maori language Commissioner of New Zealand Sir P W Hohepa died September 22 at age 87. He wrote A Maori community in Northland and A profile generative grammar of Maori.

Journalist, teacher, biographer, and travel writer Hıfzı Topuz died September 26 aged 100. He wrote Paris'te Son Osmanlılar, Taif'te ölüm, and Milli mücadele'de Çamlıca'nın üç gülü.

Theologian Robert A. Kraft died September 15 at the age of 89. His books include Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters and Barnabas and the Didache .

Diplomat and travel writer Sir John Ure died September 19 at the age of 92. His books include In Search of Nomads and Pilgrimages: The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages.

History professor Trevor D. Burridge has died at the age of 91. (Exact date unknown) his books include Clement Attlee: A Political Biography and British labour and Hitler's war.

Jesuit Michael Campbell-Johnston died September 13 at the age of 91. He wrote In the Midst of Noise: An Ignatian Retreat in Everyday Life and Time to Change: An Ignatian Retreat in Everyday Life.

Social Scientist Teresa Rees died September 22 at the age of 77. Her books include Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union, Women and Work: Twenty-five Years of Gender Equality in Wales, and Women and the Labour Market (Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work).

Editor Patricia Byrnes died September 24 at the age of 80. She wrote Environmental Pioneers.

Historian Jose Harris died September 13 at the age of 82. Her books include Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain: 1870-1914 and William Beveridge: A Biography.

Poet Caroline Gilfillan died September 24 at the age of 71. Her work includes The Peasmarsh Players (The Rags Whistledown North Norfolk Seies Book 3) and The Bar (Rags Whistledown North Norfolk series.

Surgeon Miles Little died September 30 at the age of 89. He wrote Humane Medicine.

Educator Jon Dixon has died at the age of 72. His books include Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship and The Moral Foundations of Educational Research.

Educator Pat Pinsent died September 9 at the age of 90. Her books include Childrens Literature and the Politics of Equality and Books and Boundaries: Writers and Their Audiences.

Actor Keith Baxter died September 24 at the age of 90. His work includes My Sentiments Exactly and Barnaby and the Old Boys.

Archaeologist Jonathan Tubb died September 25 at the age of 71. His books include Bible Lands (Eyewitness Books), Canaanites (Peoples of the Past), and Ancient Civilizations (Eyewitness Anthologies).

Novelist and publisher Dione Venables died September 12 aged 92. Under the pseudonym D. G. Finlay she wrote Once Around the Sun and The edge of Tomorrow. She also edited and published George Orwell the Complete Poetry and enabled the publication of Eric and Us: Remembrance of George Orwell by Jacintha Buddicom.