Deaths in January - 2024

Consumer advocate Sidney Wolfe died January 1 at the age of 86. His books include Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Consumer's Guide to Avoiding Drug-Induced Death or Illness and Women's Health Alert: What Most Doctors Won't Tell You About Birth Control, C-Sections, Weight Control.

Photographer Peter Magubane died January 1 at the age of 91. His works include Vanishing Cultures of South Africa, Magubane's South Africa, Soweto, and Black Child.

Legal scholar Ved P. Nanda died January 1. His books include Climate Change and Environmental Ethics and Our World To Make: Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Rise of Global Civil Society .

US Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan died January 2 at the age of 85. His books include Hope is Not a Method, Soldiers serving the nation, and Portrait of an Army.

Former university president David P. Gardner died January 2 at the age of 90. His books include The California Oath Controversy , and Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President .

Computer scientist Niklaus Wirth died January 1 aged 89. He designed several computer languages including PASCAL. His works include Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs and Compiler Construction.

Actor David Soul of 'Starsky & Hutch' fame. 80 yrs

Professor, novelist, poet, and editor Fred Chappell died January 4 at the age of 87. His books include I Am One of You Forever: A Novel and Brighten the Corner Where You Are. 🥺RIP I was supposed to go hear him once but was deathly ill and sent my ex. I did get a signed copy of the Fred Chappell Reader out of it.

Photographer Kishin Shinoyama died January 4 at the age of 83. His works include Santa Fe 宮沢りえ , Accidents 1: Water Fruit , The Sixties by Kishin, and Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man.

British political advisor Derek Draper died January 4 from post - covid complications at the age of 56. His books include Create Space: How to manage time and find focus, productivity and success and First Hundred Days.

Former executive editor of the New York Times Joseph Lelyveld died January 5 at the age of 86. His books include Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, and His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt.

>6 varielle: I heard his story "The Beard" on "Selected Shorts" back in 1996. Never got to see him in person, but what a great writer. Was also poet laureate of North Carolina.

Philosopher Nicholas Rescher died January 5 at the age of 95. His books include G. W. Leibniz's Monadology, Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life, and Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy.

Historian Sabetai Unguru died January 6 at the age of 93. He wrote Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300-1700: Tension and Accommodation and Mavo le-toldot ha-matemaṭiḳah.

Critic Joan Acocella died January 7 at the age of 78. Her books 📚 include Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays, Mark Morris, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder .

Surgeon Sir Roy Calne died January 6 at the age of 93. His books include A Colour Atlas of Surgical Anatomy of the Abdomen in the Living Subject and Sharp Compassion.

Soccer star and manager Franz Beckenbauer died January 7 at the age of 78. His books include Beckenbr Soccer PW, Ich. Wie es wirklich war, and Fodbold er mit liv.

Novelist Mark Kharitonov died January 8 at the age of 86. His books include Lines of Fate: A Novel, Projet solitude, Возвращение ниоткуда : романы, and Une journée en février.

Rugby star JPR Williams died January 8 at the age of 74. His books include JPR, an autobiography and JPR: Given the Breaks - My Life in Rugby.

Sci-fi writer Terry Bisson died January 10 at the age of 81. His books include The Fight to Survive and Crossfire.

Game designer Jennell Jaquays died January 10 at the age of 67. Her books include campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide and Central Casting: Heroes of Legend.

Political scientist Charles O. Jones died January 3 at the age of 92. His books include The American Presidency: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) and The Presidency in a Separated System .

Political scientist Bernard Cecil Cohen died January 10 at the age of 97. His books include The Press and Foreign Policy and The political process and foreign policy : the making of the Japanese peace settlement .

Former shortstop for the Mets Bud Harrelson died January 10 at the age of 79. He wrote Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets and How to Play Better Baseball .

Make-up artist Reggie Wells died January 8 at the age of 76. He wrote Face Painting: African American Beauty Techniques from an Emmy Award-Winning Makeup Artist.

Skeptic Edward Jay Epstein died January 9 at the age of 88 from complications of Covid. His books include legend:the Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, The Big Picture Money and Power in Hollywood, and The Hollywood Economist.

Broadcaster Annie Nightingale died January 11 at the age of 83. She wrote Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ and Wicked Speed.

The lawyer who fought John Lennon’s deportation Leon Wildes died January 8 at the age of 90. He wrote John Lennon vs. The U.S.A.: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History.

Television critic Tom Shales died January 13 at the age of 79. His books include Live from New York and Those Guys have all the Fun: Inside the world of ESPN .

Actor Bill Hayes died January 12 at the age of 98. His books include Like Sands Through The Hourglass and Trumpet.

Business executive Eddie O’Connor died January 5 at the age of 76. His autobiography was called Eddie O'Connor: A Dangerous Visionary .

Horror historian and critic David J. Skal died January 1 aged 71. In addition to co-editing Dracula Norton Critical Edition, Skal wrote The monster show : a cultural history of horror, Death makes a holiday : a cultural history of Halloween, and Hollywood gothic : the tangled web of Dracula from novel to stage to screen.

Writer and music critic Tom Purdom died January 14 aged 87. His works include The Tree Lord of Imeten, Five Against Arlane, and Romance on Four Worlds: A Casanova Quartet.

Texan speculative fiction writer Howard Waldrop died January 14 aged 77. His works include Them bones, The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 (with Jake Saunders), and Night of the Cooters.

Writer and illustrator Susan Campbell died January 2 at the age of 92. Her books include Cooks' Tools and Walled Kitchen Gardens.

Mexican novelist Jose Agustin died January 16 at the age of 79. His books include La Tumba, Ciudades desiertas, and De perfil.

Academic nursing administrator Claire M. Fagin died January 16 at the age of 97. She wrote Essays on Nursing Leadership .

Historian Michael Sugrue died January 17. His books include Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues and The Bible and Western Culture .

Composer Peter Schickele died January 16 at the age of 88. He wrote The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bach .

Health psychologist Nancy E. Adler died January 4 at the age of 77. She co-wrote Health Psychology : A Handbook .

Journalist George Richards has died at the age of 89. He wrote Column 8 : the best of Column 8 .

Musicologist Ivan Moody died January 18 at the age of 59. His work includes Ikons : meditations in words and music and book + sound recording and Modernism and Orthodox Spirituality in Contemporary Music.

Golfer Jack Burke died January 19 at the age of 100. His books include It's Only a Game: Words of Wisdom from a Lifetime in Golf, The natural way to better golf, and The Secrets of Grindlewood.

Dermatologist and children’s author Anezi Okoro died January 20 at the age of 94. His books include Pictorial Handbook of Common Skin Diseases (Macmillan concise clinical medicine in the tropics), Education is great = Ilimi hasken duniya (Hausa), and One Week, One Trouble.

Computer engineer and inventor of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) David L Mills died January 17 aged 85. His 1985 invention helped make the Internet possible. He wrote Computer network time synchronization : the Network Time Protocol.

Wimbledon tennis referee Alan Mills CBE died January 18 at the age of 89. He wrote Lifting the Covers: My Autobiography .

Son of MLK Dexter Scott King died January 22 at the age of 62. He wrote Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir.

Australian political journalist Tim Colebatch died January 21 at the age of 75. He wrote Dick Hamer : the liberal Liberal .

Author Elke Erb died January 22 at the age of 85. Her work includes Mountains in Berlin and The Up and Down of Feet.

Physicist Arno Penzias died January 22 at the age of 90. His books include Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World, The Lovemarks Effect: Winning in the Consumer Revolution, and Harmony: Business, Technology, and the End of Paperwork.

Comic artist Martí died January 22 at the age of 68. His work can be seen in The Cabbie: Book One and Calvario Hills Vol. 1 (Ignatz)

Last survivor of the Burma Death Railway Jack Jennings has died at the age of 104. He wrote Prisoner Without a Crime.

Newscaster Charles Osgood died January 26 at the age of 91. His books include Funny Letters from Famous People and Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II .

Military historian Martin Middlebrook died January 23 at the age of 91. His books include The First Day on the Somme, The Kaiser's Battle, and The Falklands War.

Film director Norman Jewison.

Author Elke Erb died January 22 at the age of 85. Her work includes Mountains in Berlin and The Up and Down of Feet.

Physicist Arno Penzias died January 22 at the age of 90. His books include Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World, The Lovemarks Effect: Winning in the Consumer Revolution, and Harmony: Business, Technology, and the End of Paperwork.

Comic artist Martí died January 22 at the age of 68. His work can be seen in The Cabbie: Book One and Calvario Hills Vol. 1 (Ignatz)

Last survivor of the Burma Death Railway Jack Jennings has died at the age of 104. He wrote Prisoner Without a Crime.

Newscaster Charles Osgood died January 23 at the age of 91. His books include Funny Letters from Famous People and Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II .

Military historian Martin Middlebrook died January 23 at the age of 91. His books include The First Day on the Somme, The Kaiser's Battle, and The Falklands War.

Historian Dai Yi died January 24 at the age of 97. His books include A concise history of the Qing Dynasty and Jing shi zha ji : wai yi zhong.

>28 varielle: Charles Osgood? That's 2 days from now. ?

>28 varielle: and >30 jldarden: Charles Osgood died on 23 January according to Wikipedia and his entry on LT.

Erwin James died suddenly on 19 January 2024 aged 66. He started his career as a newspaper columnist while in prison for murder, writing a Life Inside column for the Guardian in the UK. He wrote three books: A Life Inside, The Home Stretch and Redeemable: A Memoir of Darkness and Hope.

Singer songwriter Melanie Safka, who recorded/performed as Melanie, has died at 76.

Psychiatrist Ivor Browne died January 24 at the age of 94. His books include Music and Madness and The Writings of Ivor Browne : Steps Along the Road: The Evolution of a Slow Learner.

US Army Captain Roger Donlon died January 25 at the age of 89. He wrote Beyond Nam Dong and Outpost of freedom.

Artist Deanna Petherbridge died January 9 at the age of 84. Her work includes Witches and Wicked Bodies, The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy , and The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice.

Sculptor Carl Andre died January 24 at the age of 88. His books include Cuts: Texts 1959-2004 and 12 dialogues, 1962-1963.

Journalist and convicted murderer Erwin James died January 19. His books include A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook and Redeemable: A Memoir of Darkness and Hope .

Science journalist Jon Franklin died January 21 at the age of 82. His books include Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction (Reference) and The wolf in the parlor.

Legal scholar Charles Fried died January 23 at the age of 88. His books include Modern Liberty: And The Limits of Government and Contract as Promise : A Theory of Contractual Obligation.

Holocaust survivor Batsheva Dagan died January 25 at the age of 98. Her books include Chika the dog in the ghetto, What happened in the Shoah? : a story in rhyme for children who wish to know, and If the Stars Could Only Speak.

Freelance writer Ruth Daniloff died January 19 at the age of 88. She wrote Twelve Days in Ozerki and co-wrote The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire.

>34 varielle: I looked up Ivor Browne because, as well as being a very young age to die, I think qualifying as a psychiatrist by the age of 24 would be pretty difficult. He was in fact 94 (born 1929).

Physicist Jiri Bicak died January 26 at the age of 82. His books include Relativity and Gravitation : 100 Years after Einstein in Prague and General relativity, cosmology and astrophysics : perspectives 100 years after Einstein's stay in Prague .

Columnist Peter A. Jay died January 23 at the age of 83. He wrote Havre De Grace: An Informal History .

Cricket writer Keith Booth died January 26 at the age of 81. His books include Tom Richardson: A Bowler Pure and Simple and Knowing the Score: Past, Present and Future of Cricket Scoring .

Manga author Hinako Ashihara died January 29 at the age of 50. Her series include Sand Chronicles and Forbidden Dance.

Horror writer Brian Lumley died January 2 at the age of 86. His works include Necroscope and Titus Crow.

Author N. Scott Momaday died January 24 at the age of 89. His books include House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain, and The Ancient Child .

Author Stanley Crawford has died at the age of 86. His books include Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine and A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm.

>38 varielle: Er, Hinako Ashihara was female.

US national security adviser Anthony Cordesman died January 29 at the age of 84. His books include The Lessons Of Modern War, Volume II: The Iran-Iraq War , The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons (CSIS Significant Issues Series) , and The Lessons of Afghanistan: War Fighting, Intelligence, and Force Transformation (Csis Significant Issues Series).

Photographer Brian Griffin died January 29 at the age of 75. His books include Work and Power: Photographs by Brian Griffin.

Broadway star Chita Rivera died January 30 at the age of 91. She wrote Chita: A Memoir.

Evangelical feminist Letha Dawson Scanzoni died January 9 at the age of 88. Her books include Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?, What God Has Joined Together: The Christian Case for Gay Marriage, and All We're Meant to Be: a Biblical Approach to Women's Liberation .

Former US Sen. Jean Carnahan died January 30 at the age of 90. Her books include If Walls Could Talk , Don't Let the Fire Go Out! , and The Tide Always Comes Back: And Other Irrefutable Truths and Assurances .

Novelist Mario Levi died January 31 at the age of 66. His books include Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale and Madam Floridis Dönmeyebilir .

Art critic Tim Hilton died January 6 at the age of 82. His books include The Pre-Raphaelites and John Ruskin: The Early Years.

The first man to run the NYC Marathon with a prosthetic leg Dick Traum died January 23 at the age of 83. He wrote A victory for humanity : Proof that the last can be first.

Biographer Anne Edwards died January 20 at the age of 96. Her books include Vivien Leigh A Biography and Katharine Hepburn: A Remarkable Woman.

Scholar of Holocaust literature Lawrence Langer died January 29 at the age of 94. His books include Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology and Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory.

Songwriter Toni Stern died January 17 at the age of 79. She wrote a book of poetry called WET.

Architectural historian Cecil L. Striker died January 8 at the age of 91. He wrote The Myrelaion (Bodrum Camii) in Istanbul and Architectural Studies in Memory of Richard Krautheimer.

Blues historian Dick Waterman died January 26 at the age of 88. He wrote Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive and photographed Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B.B. King .

Journalist David Kahn died January 23 at the age of 93. His books include The Codebreakers and Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boats Codes, 1939-1943 .

Novelist Ellen Gilchrist died January 30 at the age of 88. Her books include Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories and In the Land of Dreamy Dreams.

Psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes died January 13 at the age of 95. His books include Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Death and Bereavement Across Cultures, and Attachment Across the Life Cycle .

HIV/AIDS activist Larry Kessler died January 31 at the age of 81. He wrote We All Die Once.

Frequently banned children’s author Robie Harris died January 6 at the age of 83. Her books include It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library) and Maybe A Bear Ate It!

Made famous for being duped by a con man and inspiring Six Degrees of Separation designer Inger McCabe Elliott died January 29 at the age of 90. She wrote Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java and Exteriors.

Theatre director Eleanor Fazan has died at the age of 93. Her autobiography was Fiz: And Some Theatre Giants.

Cinema scholar Clyde Taylor died January 24 at the age of 92. His books include Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems and Committed to the image: Contemporary black photographers .

Publisher John Rotheroe died January 5 at the age of 88. His books include 30 Years of "Shire" Publications - a Bibliography for Collectors, Discovering East Suffolk, and Suffolk (Discovering).

Defender of Italian-American ethnicity Richard Gambino died January 12 at the age of 84. His books include Blood of my blood : the dilemma of the Italian-Americans, Vendetta: A true story of the worst lynching in America, the mass murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, and Bread and roses .

Biologist Christopher Moriarty died January 13 at the age of 87. His books include Exploring Dublin: Wildlife, Parks & Waterways, A Natural History of Ireland, Down the Dodder: Wildlife, History, Legend, Walks, and A guide to Irish birds.

Humor writer Brian McConnachie died January 5 at the age of 81. His work includes Elmer and the Chickens vs. the Big League, , Lily of the Forest, and Blowing Smoke: The Wild and Whimsical World of Cigars , and National lampoon presents The naked and the nude.

Mathematician Tony Gardiner died January 22 at the age of 76. His books include More Mathematical Challenges and Mathematical Challenge.

Novelist Lakshmi Persaud died January 14 at the age of 86. Her books include Butterfly in the Wind and For the Love of My Name.

Composer Merton Shatzkin died January 22 at the age of 94. He wrote Writing For The Orchestra: An Introduction To Orchestration .

British General Frank Kitson died January 2 at the age of 97. His books include Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency and Peacekeeping and Old Ironsides: The Military Biography of Oliver Cromwell (Phoenix Press) .

Investigative journalist Ross Gelbspan died January 27 at the age of 84. His books include Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis--And What We Can do to Avert Disaster and The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription .

Psychiatric researcher Peter McGuffin died January 30 at the age of 74. His books include Seminars in Psychiatric Genetics (College Seminars Series), The Essentials of Postgraduate Psychiatry, and The New genetics of mental illness.

Poet Molly Goodland died January 27 at the age of 97. She wrote Growing Wild on Exmoor and Evening on Exmoor.

Scholar of women in the Islamic world Marnia Lazreg died January 13 at the age of 83. Her books include Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad , and The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question .

Design historian Charlotte Benton died January 22 at the age of 90. Her books include Art Deco 1910-1939 and Architecture and design, 1890-1939: An international anthology of original articles .

Literary critic Sneja Gunew died January 8 at the age of 77. Her books include A Reader in Feminist Knowledge and Feminism and the Politics of Difference .

Journalist Paul Rambali died January 10 at the age of 66. His books include Boulangerie: The Craft and Culture of Baking in France, In the Cities and Jungles of Brazil, and Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila.

Architectural historian Father Anthony Symondson died January 31 at the age of 83. He wrote Sir Ninian Comper: An Introduction to His Life and Work, With Complete Gazetteer, Stephen Dykes Bower (Twentieth-Century Architects), and
The Victorian crisis of faith: six lectures .

Poet, potter, and grandson of the infamous Oswald Ivo Mosley died January 31 at the age of 72. His work includes Earth Poems: Poems from Around the World to Honor the Earth and Dumbing Down: Culture, Politics and the Mass Media .

Art critic Edwin Mullins died January 22 at the age of 90. His books include The pilgrimage to Santiago and The Painted Witch: How Western Artists Have Viewed the Sexuality of Women .

Lord John Tomlinsondied January 20 at the age of 84. He wrote Left Right: The March of Political Extremism in Britain (A Platform book.

Art history professor David Kunzle died January 1 at the age of 87. His books include Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture and Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Topffer.

Classicist Stephen Mitchell died January 29 at the age of 75. His books include A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World and One God: Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire .

Prof. Lois Bryson died January 7 at the age of 86. Her books include An Australian newtown;: Life and leadership in a working-class suburb and Welfare and the state : who benefits? .

Architect Charles E. Dagit, Jr. died March 27 at the age of 80. His books include Louis I. Kahn--Architect: Remembering the Man and Those Who Surrounded Him and The Groundbreakers: Architects in American HistoryTheir Places and Times .

Writer and visual artist Helena Adler died January 5 aged 40. She wrote Die Infantin trägt den Scheitel links and Fretten.

Translator and editor Emanuel Lottem died January 7 aged 79. He edited Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature and translated such works as Dune by Frank Herbert, The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, and A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking.