Deaths in August - 2023

Journalist Laurence Deonna died August 2 at the age of 86. His books include The war with two voices : testimonies by women from Egypt and Israel, Yemen, and Syrians: A Travelogue (1992-1994).

Journalist Gilles Perrault died August 3 at the age of 92. His books include The Red Orchestra and The secret of D-Day.

Economist Ignacy Sachs died August 2 at the age of 96. His books include Studies in political economy of development and Brazil: A Century of Change (Latin America in Translation.

Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree died August 4 at the age of 70. His books include All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v Board of Education, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates and Race, Class, and Crime, From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty.

I remember him from the late 1980s as one of the hosts of PBS's Ethics in America, moderating seminars with a variety of scholars, writers, politicians, and other public figures on various ethical issues and how they impact our private and political lives.

Historian Helene Carrere d’Encausse died August 5 at the age of 94. Her books include Lenin, Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt, and Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition .

Comic book artist Saverio Tenuta died August 3 at the age of 54. His work can be seen in Legend of the Scarlet Blades, The Mask of Fudo: Book 1, and Legends of the Pierced Veil.

Journalist and science fiction writer Philippe Curval died August 5 at the age of 93. His books include Le ressac de l'espace and Ist da jemand?

Historian Nidhi Eoseewong died August 7 at the age of 83. His books include Pen and Sail: Literature and History in Early Bangkok and many more in Thai whose titles varielle can’t translate.

Film director William Friedkin died August 7 at the age of 87. He wrote The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir .

Philosopher and politician Mario Tronti died August 7 at the age of 92. His books include Workers and Capital and The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution.

Military historian Williamson Murray died August 1 at the age of 81. His books include A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, Military Innovation in the Interwar Period , and The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War .

Musician Robbie Robertson died August 9 at the age of 80. His memoir was called Testimony.

Environmental writer Paul Brodeur died August 2 at the age of 92. His books include The Stunt Man and The Zapping of America: Microwaves, Their Deadly Risk, and the Coverup.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Diana Marcum died on August 9. She wrote The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores and The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way.

Chess Grand Master Aleksandar Matanovic died August 9 at the age of 93. His books include Chess Informant, Encyclopedia of Chess Endings, and Encyclopedia of Chess Openings.

Canadian politician Hugh Segal died August 9 at the age of 72. His books include The Long Road Back and Beyond greed : a traditional conservative confronts neoconservative excess.

Novelist Michela Murgia died August 10 at the age of 51. Her books include Accabadora, Ave Mary (Italian Edition), and How to Be a Fascist: A Manual.

Artist Brice Marden died August 9 at the age of 84. His work can be seen in Brice Marden Drawings (Whitney Museum of American Art Books) and Brice Marden: Paintings, Drawings, Etchings.

Health consultant Patricia Bragg died August 10 at the age of 94. Her books include Apple Cider Vinegar: Miracle Health System, The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History, and Bragg Healthy Lifestyle: Vital Living to 120!

Cinematographer Stan Waterman died August 10 at the age of 100. He wrote Sea Salt: Memories & Essays.

Punk artist Jamie Reid died August 9 at the age of 76. His work can be seen in Up They Rise: The Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid.

Librettist Tom Jones died August 11 at the age of 95. He wrote The Fantasticks: The Complete Illustrated Text Plus the Official Fantasticks Scrapbook and History of the Musical.

>11 varielle: He also wrote something not directly related to The Fantasticks: Making Musicals: An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theater.

Brazilian historian Jose Carvalho died August 13 at the age of 83. His books include Os bestializados: O Rio de Janeiro e a República que não foi, D. Pedro II , and Cidadania no Brasil: O longo caminho .

Photographer John Fielder died August 11 at the age of 73. His works include Colorado, 1870-2000 and John Fielder's Best of Colorado .

Holocaust survivor Nechama Tec died August 3 at the age of 92. Her books include Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood, and When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland .

Former Pulitzer Prize winning editor and curator Robert Giles died August 7 at the age of 90. His books include When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later and Covering the courts : free press, fair trials and journalistic performance.

Sociologist and journalist Francesco Alberoni died August 14 at the age of 93. His books include Innamoramento e amore, L'amicizia, L'erotismo, and Je t'aime : Tout sur la passion amoureuse.

Sociologist Bindeshwar Pathak died August 14 at the age of 80. His books include Road to Freedom (A Sociological Study on the Abolition of Scavenging, and Sociology of sanitation : environmental sanitation, public health , and Widows in India : study of Varanasi and Vrindavan.

Poet Kenneth White died August 11 at the age of 87. His works include The Bird Path: Collected Longer Poems and Open World: The Collected Poems 1960-2000 .

Dorothy Casterline helped codify American Sign Language. She died August 8 at the age of 95. She co-authored A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles .

Soprano Renata Scotto died August 16 at the age of 89. Her autobiography was called Scotto: More than a diva.

Photographer Roland L. Freeman died August 7 at the age of 87. His books include A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and their stories and Close to Home: Seven Documentary Photographers.

Novelist Pierre Alferi died August 16 at the age of 60. His books include Guillaume d'Ockham le singulier, Natural Gaits (Sun and Moon Classics), and Oxo .

Sociologist Howard S. Becker died August 16 at the age of 95. His books include Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis and Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research .

Journalist and broadcaster Michael Parkinson died August 16 at the age of 88. His books include Parky: My Autobiography, Parky's People, Michael Parkinson on Cricket.

Danish author Jorn Riel died August 18 at the age of 92. His books include La vierge froide et autres racontars and Un safari arctique.

Former US Senator James L. Buckley died August 18 at the age of 100. His books include Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State and Saving Congress from Itself: Emancipating the States.

Native American activist Ada Deer died August 15 at the age of 88. Her books include Making a difference : my fight for native rights and social justice and Tribal Identity and Culture- Ada Deer.

Photographic artist John Goto died August 2 at the age of 74. His books include Lovers' rock and Atomic Yard: Aspects of British Culture, C.1957 .

Czech music critic Jiri Cerny died August 17 at the age of 88. His books include Obrázky z českých dějin a pověstí and Dějiny lingvistiky .

Welsh scholar and critic Brynley F. Roberts died August 17 at the age of 92. His books include The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature (editor) and
Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys.

Anthropologist Isabel Crook died August 20 at the age of 107. Her books include Ten Mile Inn: Mass Movement in a Chinese Village and First Years of Yangyi Commune: International Library of Sociology .

Historian Howard Spodek died August 20 at the age of 81. His books include The World's History and Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India .

Holocaust survivor and Professor Claire Golomb has died at the age of 95. Her books include The Child's Creation of A Pictorial World and The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The Role of Art, Magic and Dreams.

Historian Jean Canavaggio died August 21 at the age of 87. His books include Cervantes, HIST LITERATURA ESPAÑOLA 6- El Siglo XX , and Don Quijote, del libro al mito .

Comic book artist Dan Green died August 22 at the age of 70. His work includes Jack of Fables Vol. 6: The Big Book of War, Dr. Strange: Into Shamballa, and Spider-Man Kingpin: To the Death .

Television writer and producer David Jacobs died August 20 aged 84. While best known for the television shows Dallas and Knot's Landing, he started out writing such biography and art history books as Master painters of the Renaissance, American conscience; Woodrow Wilson's search for world peace, and Chaplin, the movies, & Charlie.

Archaeologist Amnon Ben-Tor died August 22 at the age of 88. His books include The Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Hazor: Canaanite Metropolis:Israelite City .

Māori activist Dun Mihaka died August 22 at the age of 81. He wrote The Hono Ki Riipia and Independence wanted: Mihaka

Wrestler Terry Funk died August 23 at the age of 79. He wrote Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore .

Israeli General Aharon Levran died August 23 at the age of 93. He wrote Israeli Strategy After Desert Storm: Lessons of the Second Gulf War and The Middle East Military Balance, 1987-1988: A Comprehensive Data Base.

Former Bishop Howard J. Hubbard died August 19 at the age of 84. His books include I Am Bread Broken: A Spirituality for the Catechist and Fulfilling the Vision: Collaborative Ministry in the Parish .

Author Ignacio Solares died August 24 at the age of 78. His books include Yankee Invasion: A Novel of Mexico City, El sitio (Spanish Edition), COLUMBUS, and Madero, el otro.

Journalist and author Michael Anthony died August 24 at the age of 93. His books include Green Days by the River, The Year in San Fernando, and All That Glitters.

Writer and translator Diane de Margerie died August 25 at the age of 95. Her books include Edith Wharton: lecture d'une vie, Le Ressouvenir, and Le jardin secret de Marcel Proust .

Poet and translator Prof. Yoel Hoffmann died August 25 at the age of 86. His editorial work includes Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death and The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers .

Game show host Bob Barker died August 26 at the age of 99. His memoir was called Priceless Memories.

Poet Walt Curtis died August 25 at the age of 82. His works include Mala Noche: And Other "Illegal" Adventures and Rhymes for Alice Bluelight .

Symbol for the Republican Party Samuel Wurzelbacher died August 27 at the age of 49. He wrote Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream.

Guitarist Bernie Marsden died August 24 at the age of 62. He wrote Where's My Guitar?: An Inside Story of British Rock and Roll .

Filmmaker and writer Éléonore Faucher died August 27 aged 50. In addition to creating the films Brodeuses and A common thread, she wrote the novel Un Petit Quelque Chose de Different.

Philosopher Carl Cohen died August 26 at the age of 92. His books include Communism, Fascism, and Democracy: The Theoretical Foundations and Four Systems: Individualist Democracy, Socialist Democracy, Fascism, Communism.

Artist Libby Newman died August 8 at the age of 100. She wrote A city sketched: Guide to the art and history of Philadelphia.

Playwright Tina Howe died August 28 at the age of 85. Her work includes Three Plays by Tina Howe: Museum, The Art of Dining, and Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays.

Stock market forecaster Laszlo Birinyi died August 21 at the age of 79. He wrote The Master Trader, + Website: Birinyi's Secrets to Understanding the Market.

Lawrence Lacks Sr., last surviving child of Henrietta Lacks died August 26 at the age of 88. He co-wrote HeLa Family Stories: Lawrence and Bobbette (A Short Memoir).

Canadian languages Commissioner Keith Spicer died August 24 at the age of 89. His books include Winging It Logic System and Think on Your Feet - Techniques to Analyze, Organize and Present Ideas.

Business Executive and AI researcher Douglas Lenat died August 31 at the age of 72. His books include Building Expert Systems (Teknowledge series in knowledge engineering) and Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference.

Photojournalist Prof. Michael Carlebach died August 22 at the age of 78. His books include Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes and THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM IN AMERICA.

Hall of fame sailor Bill Pinkney died August 31 at the age of 87. He wrote Captain Bill Pinkney's journey ;: A Collections for Young Scholars and As long as it takes : meeting the challenge.

Actor and playwright Tom Kempinski died August 2 aged 85. He wrote Duet for one and Separation : a play.

Actress and model Gayle Hunnicutt died August 31 at the age of 80. She wrote Dearest Virginia: Love Letters From A Cavalry Officer In The South Pacific and Health and Beauty in Motherhood.

Poet Gboyega Odubanjo died August 31 at the age of 27. Their works include Two Stops Short of Barking, While I Yet Live, Aunty Uncle Poems, and Magma 77: Act Your Age .

Playwright Nathan Louis Jackson died August 22 at the age of 44. His work includes When I Come to Die and Broke-ology .

Scholar of Australian literature Elizabeth Webby died August 6 at the age of 81. Her work includes The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature, Colonial Voices: Letters, Diaries, Journalism and Other Accounts , and Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850S-1930s .

Cardiologist and university president Aram Chobanian died August 31 at the age of 94. He wrote Boston University Medical Center's heart risk book .

Screenwriter and novelist Robert Klane died August 29 at the age of 81. His books include The Horse Is Dead and Where's Poppa?

British politician and historian Lord Alan Haworth died August 28 at the age of 75. His books include Understanding the political philosophers : from ancient to modern times and Anti-libertarianism .

Missionary Sarah Young died August 31 at the age of 77. Her books include Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence and Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions For Kids.

Comedian Mike Yarwood died September 8 at the age of 82. He wrote Just Joking and My Family Joke Book .

Psychotherapist Irma Brenman Pick died August 3 at the age of 89 . She wrote Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman.

Garden writer Holly Kerr Forsythe died August 14 at the age of 70. Her books include Remembered Gardens: Eight Women and Their Visions of an Australian Landscape, The Constant Gardener, and The Gardener's Book of Days.

Novelist and poet Tobias Hill died August 26 at the age of 53. His books include The Hidden, The Cryptographer, and City of Clocks.

Architect Peter Buchanan died August 23 at the age of 80. His books include Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World, and The Great Court: and The British Museum.

Filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan died August 22 at the age of 100. His work includes An Encounter with Dylan Thomas and Barkhord-ha dar Zamaneh Barkhord (Encounters at the Encountering Season)

Vocal trainer, marketing executive, and horror writer Brent Monahan died on August 31 at age 75. He wrote The Bell witch : an American haunting, the John Le Brun Isles series, and The Singer's Companion: A Guide to Improving Your Voice and Performance.

Psychoanalyst Arturo Varchevker died August 2 at the age of 84. He wrote Married life and its vicissitudes : a therapeutic approach and Enduring migration through the life cycle.

Lecturer Robert Fyson died August 23 at the age of 83. His books include The Chartist Legacy and The Duty of Discontent: Essays for Dorothy Thompson.

Social Scientist John Bynner died August 22 at the age of 85. His books include Social Research: Principles and Procedures and It Doesn't Get Any Better: The Impact of Poor Basic Skills .

Historian Clive Burgess has died at the age of 71. His books include The Late Medieval English College and its Context and The church records of St. Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, c1450-c1570.

Photographer John Benton-Harris died August 26 at the age of 83. His work can be seen in Walking New York 1961-1981 and Walking London 1965-1988.

Feminist activist Ellen Malos died August 22 at the age of 85. She edited The Politics of Housework and contributed to Half the Sky: An Introduction to Women’s Studies.

Academic Angus Erskine has died at the age of 70. He edited The Student's Companion to Social Policy.