Deaths in January - 2021

Football player Floyd Little died January 1 at the age of 78. He wrote Promises to Keep and Floyd Little’s Tales from the Broncos Sidelines.

Architectural Digest editor Paige Rense died January 1 at the age of 91. Her books include Gardens: Architectural Digest and Celebrity Homes.

UN peace specialist Brian Urquhart died January 2 at the age of 101. His books include Hammarskjold snd A life in Peace and War.

Musician Gerry Marsden died January 3 at the age of 78. He wrote I’ll Never Walk Alone: An Autobiography.

Theater director Lee Breuer died January 3 at the age of 83. His works include The Gospel at Colonus and Sister Suzie Cinema.

Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey died January 3 at the age of 59. His books include Milk in my Coffee and Cheaters.

Chef Albert Roux died January 3 at the age of 85. His books include The roux Brothers and New classic Cuisine

Reporter Neil Sheehan died January 7 at the age of 84. His books include The Pentagon Papers and A Bright and Shining lie.

Dodgers’ baseball great Tommy LaSorda died January 7 at the age of 93. His books include Chicken Soup for the Baseball Soul, The Artful Dodger and I Live for This! ⚾️ 😢 RIP

Physicist Martinus Veltman died January 4 at the age of 89. His books include Facts and Mysteries In Elementary Particle Physics and Diagrammatica.

Katharine Whitehorn. English journalist and author of a famous cookery book Cooking in a Bedsitter and a memoir, Selective Memory, died on 8 January aged 92.

Celebrated New Yorker writer Ved Mehta died January 9 at the age of 86. His works include Continents of Exile and Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker.

Reality television star Pat Loud died January 10 at the age of 94. She wrote Lance Out Loud and Pat Loud: a woman’s Story.

Cricketer Colin McDonald died January 11 at the age of 92. He wrote ‘CC’: The Colin McDonald Story Cricket, Tennis, Life.

Law professor Deborah L. Rhode died January 8 at the age of 68. Her books include The Beauty Bias, Speaking of Sex and Sex and Gender.

Writer, publisher, bookstore owner, theatrical producer, counter-culture figure (etc) James "Jim" Haynes died January 6 at the age of 87. Among his books are Workers of the World, Unite and Stop Working! and Thanks for Coming.

Magician and animal trainer Siegfried Fischbacher (formerly of Siegfried & Roy) died January 13 at the age of 80. His books include Siegfried and Roy: Mastering the Impossible, Siegfried & Roy: Cooking in the Spotlight - Recipes from the Cast & Crew and
Siegfried & Roy "The Magic Begins At Home" .

Choreographer Sir Robert Cohan died January 13 at the age of 95. He wrote The Dance Workshop: A Guide to the Fundamentals of Movement.

Wife of children’s tv host Mr. Rogers Joanne Rogers died January 14 at the age of 92. She wrote the forward to The World According to Mr. Rogers.

Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson died January 2 at the age of 81. Her many books include Composing a Life, Peripheral Visions and With a Daughter’s Eye.

New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain died January 13 at the age of 69. He is the author of There's No Bones in Ice Cream: Sylvain Sylvain's Story of the New York Dolls.

Music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector died of coronavirus in prison on January 16 at the age of 81. His books include He's a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock 'n' Roll's Legendary Producer and Phil Spector: Back to Mono .

Anti-feminist activist Joseph Scheidler died January 18 at the age of 93. His books include Closed: 99 Ways and Racketeer for life.

Journalist and critic John Heilpern died January 7 at the age of 78. His works include Conference of the Birds and John Osborne: A Patriot for Us.

Photojournalist Grace Robertson died January 8 at the age of 90. Her books include Grace Robertson: Photojournalist of the 1950’s and Breaking the Frame.

Chess Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek died January 18 at the age of 77. His books include World Cup Chess and Grandmaster Chess Tournament.

Home run king Hank Aaron died January 22 at the age of 86. His books include I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story and Home Run: My Life in Pictures.
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Novelist Sharon Kay Penman died January 22 at the age of 75. Her many books include The Sunne in Splendor, Here be Dragons and When Christ and His Saints Slept.

Science writer Sharon Begley died on January 16 at the age of 64. Her books include Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain and The mind and the Brain.

Choreographer Bob Avian died January 21 at the age of 83. His autobiography was called Dancing Man.

Television and radio host Larry King died of coronavirus on January 23 at the age of 87. His books include How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere and Love Stories of World War II.

>18 varielle: Hank Aaron died shortly after doing a Covid-19 vaccine promotion, where he touted its safety, and urged others to take it as well.

>20 fuzzi:
Are you trying to say the vaccine killed him?

The reports I’ve seen, though unofficial, suggest he had serious heart disease and passed away from a massive stroke.

Poet and translator Mahmud Kianush has died at the age of 86. His work includes Modern Persian Poetry.

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein died January 23 at the age of 101. He wrote Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist.

Chilean judge Juan Guzman Tapia died January 22 at the age of 81. He wrote La Sentencia and En el borde del mundo.

Business academic Gareth R. Jones has drowned at the age of 69. His books include Why Should Anyone be Led By You? and Contemporary Management.

Stunt driver Remy Julienne died January 21 at the age of 90. He wrote Ma Vie En Cascades.

Co-founder of the Make-a-Wish Foundation Frank Shankwitz has died at the age of 77. He wrote Once Upon a Wish.

Feminist scholar Christina Crosby died January 7 at the age of 67. She wrote A Body, Undone and The Ends of History.

Mathematician Graham Hoare has died at the age of 85. He wrote Mathematics with a Microcomputer.

Actress, comedienne and former Miss America Cloris Leachman died January 26 at the age of 94. Her memoir was called Cloris. Farewell, Frau Blucher.

Actress Cicely Tyson died January 28 at the age of 96. She wrote Just as I am: A Memoir.

Journalist Godfrey Hodgson died January 27 at the age of 86. His books include America in our Time and A Great and Godly Adventure.

>27 varielle: I did not realize how old Ms. Tyson was, sad to hear of her passing.

I recall watching her in both Roots and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Scientist Paul Crutzen died January 28 at the age of 87. His books include Atmosphere, Climate, and Change and Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate.

Circus showman Gerry Cottle died January 13 at the age of 75. He wrote Confessions of a Showman: My Life in the circus.

Biologist Lewis Wolpert died January 28 at the age of 91. His books include Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast and Malignant Sadness.

Gardening expert David Joyce has died at the age of 81. His books include The English Garden Tradition and Pruning and Training Plants.

Children’s television host Sonny Fox died of coronavirus pneumonia on January 24 at the age of 95. His books include Funnier than the First One and But You Made the Front Page.

Marketing and PR expert Michael Bland died of coronavirus on January 18 at the age of 76. His books include Pig at the Wheel and Effective Media Relations.

>31 varielle: I see he suffered for 20 years with Parkinson's, too. That's a shame.

>32 fuzzi: and he caught corona in the hospital after he had a fall in December. Tragic.

>33 varielle: the hospital can be a very dangerous place.

Sociologist Veronica Beechey has died at the age of 75. Her books include The Changing Experience of Women, Subjectivity and Social Relations, A Matter of Hours and Women in Britain Today.

Actor Hal Holbrook died January 23 at the age of 95. His works include Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain and Looking Through Walls: Based on a True Story.

>36 varielle: I appreciated his acting. For me he was one of the best parts of Magnum Force.

Sci-fi author Kathleen Ann Goonan died January 28 at the age of 68. Her books include Queen City Jazz, Crescent City Rhapsody and The Bones of Time.

Saxophonist Grady Gaines died January 29 at the age of 86. His memoir was called I’ve Been Out There: On the Road with Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll

>37 fuzzi:
I loved his Mark Twain Tonight.

"Who's got my golden arm?..."

>39 Crypto-Willobie: he was good in so many things, Magnum Force was just the first to come to mind...

Galleria Richard Feigen died of coronavirus on January 29 at the age of 90. He wrote Tales from the Art Crypt.

Teacher and Holocaust survivor Nelly S. Toll died January 30 at the age of 88. Her books include Behind the Secret Window and When Memory Speaks: The Holocaust in Art.

Film maker David Shaw-Smith died January 16 at the age of 81. He wrote Traditional Crafts of Ireland.

Social scientist Margaret C. Snyder died January 26 at the age of 91. She wrote Women in African Economies, Transforming Development: Women, Poverty and Politics and African Women and Development.

Rabbi and psychiatrist Abraham Twerski died January 31 at the age of 90. His books include Addictive Thinking, When do the Good Things Start? and Waking up Just in Time.

Advocate for female artists Cindy Nemser died January 26 at the age of 83. As he wrote Art Talk with 15 Women and Ben Cunningham.

Social worker Joyce Lishman has died at the age of 73. Her books include Communication in Social Work and Social Work Education and Training.

Sociolinguist Jan Blommaert died January 7 at the age of 59. His books include Discourse: A critical introduction and The Sociolinguistics of Globalization.

Neuropsychiatrist Alwyn Lishman died January 26 at the age of 89. He wrote Organic Psychiatry.

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein died January 23 at the age of 101. His books include Keep Your Head Down and Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist.

Guitarist Flory Jagoda died January 29 at the age of 97. She wrote The Flory Jagoda Songbook.

Conductor John Byrt died of coronavirus on January 15 at the age of 80. He wrote An Unequal Music.

Cartoonist Bill Titcombe has died at the age of 82. His work includes Dad’s Army (strip cartoons) and Tat the Cat.

>49 varielle: the Touchstone for Dad's Army appears to be going to the wrong book.

>50 fuzzi: It put up a touchstone fight but I think I got it.

>51 varielle: success!

Professor of dermatology Lionel Fry has died at the age of 87. His books include Encyclopedia of Dermatology and An Atlas of Atopic Eczema.

Agricultural adviser to the UN, Hugh Brammer has died at the age of 95. His books include Agricultural Development Possibilities in Bangladesh and The Physical Geography of Bangladesh.

Political scientist Byron Criddle died of coronavirus on January 20 at the age of 78. His work includes several volumes of Parliamentary Profiles.

Medical geneticist Sir Peter S. Harper died January 23 at the age of 81. His books include Practical Genetic Counseling and Myotonic Dystrophy.

Historian and Holocaust survivor Otto dov Kulka died January 30 at the age of 88. His books include Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death and The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports.

Radio personality and author Rush Limbaugh passed away on February 17, 2021 from complications of Stage 4 lung cancer.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/rush-limbaugh-conservative-radio-host-dead-at-70/

>55 fuzzi: hey fuzz, he died in February. This is the January thread.

Musician biographer Johnny Rogan died January 21 at the age of 67. His books include Van Morrison: No Surrender and Morrissey & Marr.

Peace advocate Ken Weller died January 27 at the age of 85. He wrote Don’t be a Soldier! and Lordstown Struggle.

>56 varielle: my bad, I didn't realize there was a February thread.

Poet Gerald Locklin died January 17 at the age of 80. His work includes Go West, Young Toad, Charles Bukowski a Sure Bet and The Life Force Poems.

Photographer Benedict J. Fernandez died January 31 at the age of 84. His books include Countdown to Eternity, Protest: Photographs and In Opposition.

Psychologist Rosalind Cartwright died January 15 at the age of 98. Her books include The Twenty-four Hour Mind, Crisis Dreaming and Night Life.

Card player Roger Baldwin died January 10 at the age of 91. He wrote Playing Blackjack to Win.

Disaster expert Dennis Mileti died of coronavirus on January 31 at the age of 75. He wrote Disasters by Design.

Professor of international relations Abdul Aziz Said died January 22 at the age of 90. His books include Contemporary Islam and Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam.

Paleontologist Brian George Gardiner died on January 21 at the age of 88. His works include Macmillan Book of Dinosaurs and The Guinness Encyclopedia of the Living World.