Deaths in August - 2024

Comics writer and editor Joyce Braber died August 1 aged 72. Her works include Our cancer year, Brought to Light: A Graphic Docudrama, and Second Avenue caper : when goodfellas, divas, and dealers plotted against the plague.

Microbiologist and cell biologist Leonard Hayflick died August 1 aged 96. He wrote How and why we age.

Nobel prize-winning particle physicist T. D. Lee died August 4 aged 97. His works include Particle physics and introduction to field theory and Symmetries, asymmetries, and the world of particles.

Children's book writer Jeremy Strong died aged 74. His works include The hundred-mile-an-hour dog, Viking at School, and My Dad's Got an Alligator!.

Former professional baseball player Billy Bean died August 6 aged 60. He wrote Going the other way : lessons from a life in and out of major-league baseball.

Playwright Jean Battlo died August 3 at the age of 85. Her work includes Appalachian Gothic Tales and Behold the man.

Pro golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez died August 8 at the age of 88. His books include 101 Supershots: Every Golfer's Guide to Lower Scores, 20th. Century Golf Chronicle (Spanish Edition), and Chi Chi's Secrets of Power Golf.

Washington memoirist Barbara Howar died August 2 at the age of 89. Her work includes Laughing all the way and Making Ends Meet.

Music journalist and longtime supporter of Seattle's music scene Charles R. Cross died August 9 aged 67. His works include Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Room full of mirrors : a biography of Jimi Hendrix, and (with Ann and Nancy Wilson) Kicking & dreaming : a story of Heart, soul, and rock and roll.

Spirituality author Annick de Souzenelle died August 11 aged 81. Her works include Le Symbolisme du corps humain, L'Egypte intérieure, ou, Les dix plaies de l'âme, and Job sur le chemin de la lumière.

Bishop of the Church of England and hymnodist Timothy Dudley-Smith died August 12 aged 97. His works include John Stott, the making of a leader : a biography : the early years, Authentic Christianity (with John Stott), and The Lion Book of Stories of Jesus.

Brazilian journalist and writer Marcio Souza died August 12 aged 78. His works include The Emperor of the Amazon, Mad Maria, and Order of the Day: An Unidentified Flying Opus.

School history teacher and county archaeologist John M Steane died aged 92. His works include The archaeology of the medieval English monarchy, Oxfordshire, and The Archaeology of Power.

Theoretical physicist James D. Bjorken died aged 90. His works include Relativistic quantum mechanics and Relativistic quantum fields.

Economist Georges Corm died August 14 aged 84. His works include Le Proche-Orient éclaté : 1956-2006, El Líbano contemporáneo historia y sociedad, and L'Europe et le mythe de l'Occident. La construction d'une histoire.

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Political scientist and historian Ross Terrill died August 2 aged 85. His works include The white-boned demon : a biography of Madame Mao Zedong, Mao : a biography, and The new Chinese empire, and what it means for the United States.

Entrepreneur, public speaker, and literacy advocate Wally Amos died August 13 aged 88. His works include Watermelon magic : seeds of wisdom, slices of life, The Cookie Never Crumbles: Inspirational Recipes for Everyday Living, and The Famous Amos story: The face that launched a thousand chips.

Pop star and horror novelist Greg Kihn died August 13 aged 75. His books include Horror Show, Shade of Pale, and Rubber Soul.

>12 karenb: I've read all those books and enjoyed his music as well. Too bad.

Television host Phil Donahue died August 18 at the age of 88. His books include Donahue: My Own Story, The Human Animal, and Body of War - The True Story of an Anti-War Hero.

Literacy advocate Ruth J. Colvin died August 18 aged 107. Her works include I Speak English, Tutor: A Collaborative, Learner-centered Approach to Literacy Instruction for Teens and Adults, and Off the beaten path : stories of people around the world.

Former editor of People magazine Landon Y Jones died August 17 aged 80. His works include The Essential Lewis and Clark, William Clark and the shaping of the West, and Great expectations : America and the baby boom generation.

French Chef Michel Guérard died August 19 aged 91. His works include Michel Guérard's Cuisine Minceur, Cuisine Gourmande, and Michel Guerard's Cuisine for home cooks.

Poet Ann Drysdale died August 16. Her work includes Faint Heart Never Kissed a Pig and Vanitas.

Meterologist who specialized in global data modeling Eugenia Kalnay died August 14 aged 81. In addition to one of the most cited papers in the geosciences, she wrote the textbook Atmospheric modeling, data assimilation, and predictability.

Theoretical physicist Hermann Haken died August 14 aged 97. His works include The physics of atoms and quanta : introduction to experiments and theory, Synergetics : an introduction, and Brain Dynamics: An Introduction to Models and Simulations.

Irish journalist, feminist campaigner and playwright, Nell McCafferty died on 21 August aged 80. Her books include Peggy Deery: An Irish Family at War and Goodnight Sisters: Selected Writings.

Art historian and museum curator David Anfam died August 21 aged 69. Anfam's works include the 1990 classic Abstract Expressionism, the catalogue Mark Rothko : the works on canvas, and the exhibition catalogue David Smith : a centennial.

Outdoor survivalist Tom Brown, Jr. died August 16 at the age of 74. His many books include The Tracker, Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival, and Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking.

Victoria Thompson, author of the Gaslight Mysteries historical crime fiction series, 27 books including Murder on Astor Place and Murder on St Mark's Place, and of historical romance fiction died on 23 August, aged 76, of complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. News from the Mystery Fanfare blog. I can't yet find other information.

Founder of the Museum of Clean Don Aslett died August 21 aged 89. Aslett's works include Is there life after housework? and Make your house do the housework.

Jesuit priest and academic Gerald O'Collins died August 22 aged 93. O'Collins's works include Christology : a biblical, historical, and systematic study of Jesus and Catholicism : a very short introduction.

Philospher and Eastern Orthodox theologian Christos Yannaras died August 24 aged 89. Yannaras's works include The freedom of morality and Elements of faith : an introduction to Orthodox theology.

Epistemologist Alvin I. Goldman died August 4 aged 85. Goldman's works include Epistemology and Cognition, Knowledge in a social world, and Simulating minds : the philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of mindreading.

Philosophy professor Robert Stern died August 21 aged 62. Stern's works include the Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of spirit, Hegelian metaphysics, and Hegel, Kant and the structure of the object.

Mathematician and rabbi Shlomo Sternberg died August 23 aged 88. Sternberg's works incude Group Theory and Physics and Curvature in Mathematics and Physics.

Writer and former Wired editor Steve Silberman died August 29 aged 66. He wrote Neurotribes : the legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity.

Nehiyaw (Cree) writer Darrel J. McLeod died in August aged 67. McLeod's works include the memoirs Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age and Peyakow : reclaiming Cree dignity, plus the 2023 novel A Season in Chezgh'un.

Scholar, lawyer, and political commentator A. G. Noorani died August 29 aged 93. Noorani's works include Islam & Jihad : prejudice versus reality, On Nationalism, and The Kashmir Dispute: 1947-2012.

Activist, counselor, and rabbi Michael Lerner died August 28 aged 81. Lerner's works include The left hand of God : taking back our country from the religious right, Jewish renewal : a path to healing and transformation, and Surplus powerlessness: The psychodynamics of everyday life-- and the psychology of individual and social transformation.

Not an author, but certainly book related — Leonard Riggio, founder of Barnes & Noble, died August 27 at the age of 83.

Semiotics consultant and fiction writer Christopher P. Wilson died August 9 aged 74. Wilson's novels include The Ballad of Lee Cotton, The Zoo, and Mischief.

Poet, editor, and teacher Hettie Jones died August 13 aged 90. Jones's works include How I became Hettie Jones, The trees stand shining; poetry of the North American Indians, and Big star fallin' mama; five women in Black music.

Author Elaine Everest died August 16 aged 70. Everest's works include Wartime at Woolworths from the Woolworths series, Christmas with the Teashop Girls from the Teashop Girls series, and The Butlins Girls.

Stylist and long-time Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper Betty Halbreich died August 24 aged 96. Halbreich's works include I'll drink to that : a life in style, with a twist and Secrets of a fashion therapist : what you can learn behind the dressing room door.

Journalist Stevie Cameron died August 31 aged 80. Cameron's works include On the farm : Robert William Pickton and the tragic story of Vancouver's missing women, On the take : crime, corruption, and greed in the Mulroney years, and Blue trust : the author, the lawyer, his wife, and her money.

Biological anthropologist Helen E. Fisher died August 17 aged 79. Fisher's works include Why we love : the nature and chemistry of romantic love, Anatomy of love: a natural history of matting, marriage, and why we stray, and The sex contract: The evolution of human behavior.

Collage artist, designer, and writer Graham Rawle died August 16 aged 69. Rawle's works include Woman's world : a novel, Diary of an amateur photographer, and the Wonder book of fun.

Philosophy professor Robert Stern died August 21 aged 62. Stern's works include the Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of spirit, Hegelian Metaphysics, and Hegel, Kant and the structure of the object.

The first tenured female neurosurgeon in the US Frances K. Conley died August 5 aged 84. Conley wrote Walking out on the boys about her experiences with sexism in medicine and academia.

Teacher, writer, editor, and playwright David Stuart Davies died August 16 aged 78. Davies's works include The Sherlock Holmes Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, Forests of the Night, and Bending the willow : Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.

Fantasy writer Holly Lisle died August 27 aged 63. Lisle's works include Diplomacy of Wolves, Fire in the Mist, and Talyn : a novel of Korre.