Deaths in March - 2024

Historian Baroness Ruth Henig died March 1 at the age of 80. Her books include The Origins of the First World War and Versailles and After, 1919-1933.

Fashion icon Iris Apfel died March 1 at the age of 102. She wrote Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon .

Former Steelers football player Andy Russell died March 2 at the age of 82. He wrote Andy Russell: A Steeler Odyssey, An Odd Steelers Journey, and Beyond the goalpost.

Medical researcher Howard Hiatt died March 2 at the age of 98. His books include Medical Lifeboat: Will There Be Room for You in the Health Care System? (Perennial Library) and America's Health in the Balance: Choice or Chance .

ESPN NFL analyst Chris Mortensen died March 3 at the age of 72. He wrote Playing for Keeps: How One Man Kept the Mob from Sinking Its Hooks into Pro Football.

Architect Antoine Predock died March 3 at the age of 87. His books include Antoine Predock 2: Architect and Antoine Predock: Houses .

Playwright Edward Bond died March 3 at the age of 88. His work includes Saved and Lear .

Nickelodeon executive Janice Burgess died March 3 at the age of 72. She wrote Here Come the Backyardigans!

Steely Dan keyboardist Jim Beard has died at 63.

Artist Lucas Samaras died March 7 at the age of 87. His work includes Samaras (Aperture Monograph), Lucas Samaras--objects and subjects, and Crude Delights.

Manga artist Akira Toriyama died March 1 aged 68. He created the series Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z. The latter two series sparked the extremely popular multimedia franchise of the same name.

>8 karenb: now I'm sad

Civil rights activist and sister-in-law to MLK Jr. Naomi Ruth Barber King died March 7 at the age of 92. She wrote AD and ML King: Two Brothers who Dared to Dream .

CBS correspondent E. S. “Bud” Lamoreaux III has died on March 5 at the age of 89. He wrote Once Upon a Time on a Sunday Morning: When Charles Kuralt Gave us the Real World. Currently not on LT.

Talk radio pioneer and actor Malachy McCourt died March 11 at the age of 92. He was the brother of Frank McCourt ❤️. Malachy’s books include A Monk Swimming , Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland, and Singing My Him Song .

Gay rights activist David Mixner died March 11 at the age of 77. His books include Stranger Among Friends and Brave Journeys: Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage.

Essayist Giuseppe Granieri died March 11 at the age of 55. His books include Blog generation and La società digitale .

Author Madeleine Chapsal died March 11 at the age of 98. Her books include La Maison de Jade, Le foulard bleu, and Les amoureux .

Irish journalist Charlie Bird died March 11 at the age of 74. His books include This Is Charlie Bird and A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories .

Arts curator Jay McKean Fisher died March 7 at the age of 74. His books include The Prints of Edouard Manet , The Essence Of Line: French Drawings From Ingres To Degas, and Félix Buhot, peintre-graveur : prints, drawings, and paintings.

Singer/Guitarist Eric Carmen of 'Hungry Eyes' fame

>13 varielle: David Mixner worked as an activist for decades in many areas: for civil rights (registering voters in the 1960s), opposing the war in Vietnam, for LGBTQ+ rights, and for fair treatment for people with AIDS. He also worked on political campaigns and advised US presidents (among others) on relevant policies.

>14 jldarden: Eric Carmen.

French politician and Admiral Philippe de Gaulle (son of Charles de Gaulle) died March 12 at the age of 102. His books include Charles de Gaulle, mon père : Entretiens avec Michel Tauriac, De Gaulle: Pensées, répliques et anecdotes , and Mémoires accessoires .

Polio survivor who spent seven decades in an iron lung Paul R. Alexander died March 11 of Covid-19 at the age of 72. He wrote Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in an Iron Lung.

Diplomat who negotiated for the release of captives held in Lebanon Giandomenico Picco died March 10 at the age of 75. His books include Man Without a Gun : One Diplomat's Secret Struggle to Free the Hostages, Fight Terrorism, and End a War and Crossing the Divide: Dialogue among Civilizations .

Corporate lawyer Ira M. Millstein died March 13 at the age of 97. His books include The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance and The activist director : lessons from the boardroom and the future of the corporation .

Novelist and spiritual writer Dan Wakefield died March 14 at the age of 91. His books include The Story of Your Life: Writing A Spiritual Autobiography and New York in the fifties .

The creator of Benji Joe Camp died March 15 at the age of 84. His books include The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd and Benji Off the Leash: A Novelization .

Mountaineer and film maker David Breashears died March 14 at the age of 68. His books include High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places and Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory .

Stuntman Grant Page was killed in a car crash on March 14 at the age of 85. He wrote Man on Fire: A Stunt of a Life .

College president Jared Cohon died March 16 at the age of 76. He wrote Multiobjective Programming and Planning (Dover Books on Computer Science) .

Classical pianist Byron Janis has died at the age of 95. His memoir was Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal.

Educator Andrew Ciofalo died March 7 at the age of 89. He wrote The Pilgrimage for Peace and Internships: Perspectives on Experiential Learning : A Guide to Internship Management for Educators and Professionals.

Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford died March 18 at the age of 93. His books include We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race and America at the Threshold: Report of the Synthesis Group on Americas Space Exploration Initiative .

Game designer James M. Ward has decided Ed at the age of 72. His work included Dungeons & Dragons Supplement IV: Gods, Demi-Gods, & Heroes and Gamma World (1st Edition) .

Journalist Rod Oram died March 19 at the age of 73. He wrote Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene (BWB Texts Book 46) and Reinventing Paradise: How New Zealand Is Starting to Earn a Bigger, Sustainable Living in the World Economy .

Poet Neeli Cherkovski died March 19 at the age of 78. His work includes Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski, Whitman's Wild Children, Ferlinghetti, a biography, and Elegy for Bob Kaufman .

Holocaust survivor and tailor to the stars Martin Greenfield died March 20 at the age of 95. He wrote Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor .

Math and computer science professor (retired) and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge died March 20 aged 79. His works include Across realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, and True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier.

Mercenary Peter McAleese died March 18 at the age of 84. His books include No Mean Soldier, Beyond no mean soldier : the explosive recollections of a former special forces operator, and McAleese's Fighting Manual .

Primatologist Frans de Waal died March 14 at the age of 84. His books include Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are, and Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves .

Democratic strategist Hal Malchow died March 21 at the age of 72. His books include The Sword of Darrow and The New Political Targeting .

M. Emmet Walsh- a great character actor

>26 jldarden: I’m sure he’s a great actor. Did he ever publish a book?

>27 varielle: Don't think so but he was in some movies based on books!

Children’s author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff died March 22 at the age of 98. His father created Babar and he continued the series for seven decades. His work includes Meet Babar and His Family, Babar and the Ghost , and Babar's Yoga for Elephants .

Journalist David Capper died March 24 at the age of 91. He wrote The Enforcement of Judgments in Northern Ireland and Mareva injunctions.

Journalist and rugby historian Ian Heads died March 25 at the age of 81. His books include A Centenary of Rugby League 1908-2008: The Definitive Story of the Game in Australia and Richie : the man behind the legend .

Poet Michael Coady has died at the age of 84. His books include Oven Lane and All Souls: Poetry and Prose .

Poetry scholar Marjorie Perloff died March 24 at the age of 92. Her books include Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, and The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage .

Sculptor Richard Serra died March 26 at the age of 85. His work can be seen in Richard Serra: Sculpture 1985-1998 and Richard Serra: Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres .

Anthropologist Emmanuel Terray died March 26 at the age of 89. He wrote Marxism and "Primitive" Societies: Two Studies .

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman died March 27 at the age of 90. His books include Thinking, Fast and Slow, Noise: A Flaw in Human Jugdment , and Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

Historian and guardian of Jefferson’s Monticello Daniel P. Jordan died March 21 at the age of 85. He co-wrote A Richmond Reader, 1733-1983 .

US politician former Sen. Joseph Lieberman died March 27 at the age of 82. His books include in Praise of Public Life, The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath, and An Amazing Adventure: Joe and Hadassah's Personal Notes on the 2000 Campaign .

Historian Avraham Grossman died March 27 at the age of 88. His books include Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe, Rashi, and The cultural and social background of Jewish martyrdom in Germany in 1096.

Picture book author & illustrator Lynne Barasch died March 7 aged 84. Her works include Rodney’s Inside Story, Hiromi’s Hands, and Ask Albert Einstein.

Horror novelist James A. Moore died March 27 at the age of 58. His books include Seven Forges, Chaos Bleeds, and Writ in Blood.

Chemist Alfred Hassner died March 27 at the age of 93. His books include Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reactions and Unnamed Reactions (Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry) and Synthesis of Heterocycles via Cycloadditions II (Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry) (No. 2) .

Artist Robert Moskowitz died March 26 at the age of 88. His works can be seen in ROBERT MOSKOWITZ : Paintings and Drawings, Robert Moskowitz Works on Paper, Robert Moskowitz: window shades, 1959-62 .

Nobel winning physicist Herbert Kroemer died March 8 at the age of 95. He wrote Quantum mechanics: for engineering, materials science, and applied physics and Selected Works Of Professor Herbert Kroemer .

Biblical scholar Sara Japhet died March 27 at the age of 89. Her books include I and II Chronicles: A Commentary (The Old Testament Library) and The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought .

Actor Louis Gossett Jr. died March 28 at the age of 87. He wrote An Actor and a Gentleman.

Computer security researcher Ross J. Anderson died March 28 at the age of 67. His books include Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Security Engineering, 2ed, and Personal Medical Information Security, Engineering, and Ethics: Personal Information Workshop.

Law professor J. Michael Robinson died March 25. He wrote Comparative survey of securities laws a review of the securities and related laws of fourteen nations .

Social campaigner Les Twentyman has died at the age of 76. He wrote The Les Twentyman Story: 25 Years of Life on the Streets and The mouth that roared : a memoir .

Comedienne Joan Morecambe died March 27 at the age of 97. She co-authored Morecambe and Wife.

Headmistress of an orphanage for boys liberated from Buchenwald Judith Hemmendinger died March 24 at the age of 100. She wrote Survivors : children of the Holocaust .

Mountain climber Lou Whittaker died March 24 at the age of 95. He wrote Lou Whittaker: Memoirs of a Mountain Guide .

Pediatrician and publisher Martin Bax died March 21 at the age of 90. His books include The hospital ship and Edmond Went Far Away.

Computer network engineer Daniel C. Lynch died March 30 at the age of 82. He wrote Digital Money: The New Era of Internet Commerce .

Cartoonist, former teacher, and book author and illustrator Mike Thaler died March 24 aged 87. His works include the Black Lagoon series (starting with The Teacher from the Black Lagoon), the Heaven and Mirth series, and many collections of riddles.

UN special envoy and cricket administrator Shaharyar Khan died March 24 at the age of 89. His books include The Shallow Graves of Rwanda, The Begums of Bhopal: A History of the Princely State of Bhopal , and Cricket Cauldron: The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan .

Playwright Trevor Griffiths died March 29 at the age of 88. His work includes Comedians , Plays: "Occupations", "The Party", "Comedians", "Real Dreams" v. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics), and The Party.

Bishop Michael Adie died March 4 at the age of 94. He wrote Teaching Right and Wrong: Have the Churches Failed? (Religion & Liberty S.) and Held Together.

Animator Eli Noyes died March 23 at the age of 81. He wrote Ruff’s Bone.

Expert on actinobacteria and educator Michael Goodfellow died March 8 at the age of 83. He wrote Why Not the Best Schools? The England Report .

Negotiator of the Ozone Treaty Richard Benedick died March 16 at the age of 88. He wrote Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet, Enlarged Edition.

Pianist Maurice el Medioni died March 25 at the age of 95. He wrote Maurice El Médioni - A Memoir .

Sociologist Evan Stark died March 18 at the age of 82. His books include Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life and Women at Risk: Domestic Violence and Women's Health.

Painter and comics artist Mark D. Bright / M.D. Bright died March 27 aged 68. He worked on such series as Quantum and Woody (with Christopher J. Priest), Green Lantern, Black Panther, Batman, Icon, and The Transformers.

SAS soldier and mountaineer Bronco Lane died March 22 at the age of 78. He wrote Military mountaineering : a history of services mountaineering 1945-2000 .

Lithuanian nun and Soviet dissident Nijole Sadunaite died March 31 at the age of 85. Her books include A Radiance in the Gulag and Song in Siberia .

Political cartoonist Don Wright died March 24 at the age of 90. He wrote Wright On!: A Collection of Political Cartoons and Wright: Cartoons That Win Readers .

Irish poet Sean Hutton has died at the age of 83. His work includes Ireland's Histories : Aspects of State, Society and Ideology (History Workshop) and Seachrán Ruairí agus Dánta Eile.

The first woman named to the Securities Exchange Commission Roberta Karmel died March 23 at the age of 86. She wrote Regulation by Prosecution.

Anthropologist Barbara Joans died March 6 at the age of 89. She wrote Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society.

Discredited psychologist Bennett Braun died March 20 at the age of 83. He wrote The Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder (Clinical Insights Monograph).

Educator and historian Richard James Sherrill died March 24 at the age of 84. He wrote The Tidewater Canal: Harford County's contribution to the canal Arrow.

Copywriter and illustrator Hugh Bredin has died at the age of 89. His work includes Philosophies of Art and Beauty and Jeeves Cocktail Book.

Neuroscientist Prof Larry J. Young died March 21 at the age of 56. He wrote The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction.

Sexologist Milton Diamond died March 20 at the age of 90. His books include Sexwatching: Looking into the World of Sexual Behaviour and Sexual decisions .

Journalist, teacher, and wanderer Tom Davies died March 16 at the age of 82. His books include Landscapes of Glory: An English Pilgrimage and Merlyn the Magician and the Pacific Coast Highway.

The feminist poet known as Alta died March 10 at the age of 81. Her work includes I Am Not a Practicing Angel: Poems, Burn This And Memorize Yourself Poems for Women and Shameless Hussy (The Crossing Press feminist series).