Deaths in October - 2017

He was obviously one of the Heartbreakers because my heart is breaking. 😥 Tom Petty died October 2 st the age of 66. His autobiography was called Conversations with Tom Petty.

Sorry Varielle. One of my friends when he comes over and we're jamming with our guitars and drinking beer--he's always messing around with some Tom Petty song or another.

Psychologist Arthur Janov died October 1 at the age of 93. He is best known for The Primal Scream and The Feeling Child.

Actress Anne Wiazemsky died October 5 at the age of 70. Her work includes My Berlin Child, Une poignee de gens, Hymni rakkaudelle and Jeune fille.

Former football player for the Giants, 49ers and Colts, Y. A. Tittle died October 8 at the age of 90. He wrote Nothing Comes Easy: My Life in Football and Y. A. Tittle: I Pass!

Author Nora Johnson died October 5 at the age of 84. She wrote The World of Henry Orient and Coast to Coast: A Family Romance.

Director of the Bronx Museum, Holly Block died October 7 at the age of 58. Her work includes Art Cuba: The New Generation and Alberto Casado: Todo Clandestino Todo Popular.

Neurophysiologist and expert on sleep, Dr. Michel Jouvet died October 3 at the age of 91. His books include The paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming and The Castle of Dreams.

French actor Jean Rochefort died October 9 at the age of 87. His autobiography was called Ce genre de choses.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur died October 14 at the age of 96. A few of his collections include The Disappearing Alphabet and The Pig in the Spigot.

Chess Grandmaster William Lombardy died October 13 at the age of 79. His books include Chess Opening Traps, Chess Panorama and Chess for Children, Step by Step.

Former UK middle-weight boxing champion Terry Downes died October 6 at the age of 81. He wrote My Bleeding Business.

Sean Hughes died 16th October age 51. He wrote Detainees which the Irish Independent newspaper called the most important novel of the decade and Time Out said was 'the work of wanker'. He also wrote It's What he Would've Wanted.

Author and artist Marian Cannon Schlesinger died October 14 at the age of 105. Her books include Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge memoir, I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People and The Colonial Williamsburg Coloring Book.

Cornelia Walker Bailey worked to preserve Gullah-Geechee culture. She died on October 15 at the age of 71. She wrote God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man.

Musician Gord Downie died October 17 at the age of 53. he wrote Coke Machine Glow and Secret path.

Cinematographer Walter Lassally died October 23 at the age of 90. He wrote Itinerant Cameraman.

Actor Robert Guillaume died October 24 at the age of 89. He wrote Guillaume: A Life and Animals & Ethics.

Iona Opie died 23rd October 2017 age 94. Her books include The People in the Playground , The Singing Game, The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes and The Oxford Nursery Rhymes Book.

Prolific author who wrote under many pen names Donald Bain died October 21 at the age of 82. He wrote Coffee, Tea or Me and the Murder She Wrote series.

Journalist and spokesman for JFK's campaign, Tom Mathews died October 14 at the age of 96. His books include Standing Fast the Autobiography of Roy Wilkins and The Quest for the Presidency, 1988.

Swim coach Terry Laughlin died October 20 at the age of 66. His books include Total Immersion and Triathlon Swimming Made Easy.

A leader in the Native American Civil Rights Movement, Dennis Banks died October 29 at the age of 80. He wrote Ojibwa Warrior.

Poet Fay Chiang died October 20 at the age of 65. Her work includes A Railroad on Gold Mountain and Miwa's Song.

Mountaineer Fred Beckey died october 30 at the age of 94. His works include Cascade Alpine Guide Climbing and High Routes and Mountains of North America.

>18 varielle:: You may not have noticed but the death of Iona Opie is recorded in my post >15 PossMan::

Linda Nochlin died October 29th 2017 age 86. An art historian she wrote Women, Art, and Power, Politics and Vision, and Courbet

Sci-fi author Julian May died October 17 at the age of 86. His books include The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc and The Nonborn King.

Professor Hugh Kearney died October 1st 2017 age 93. He wrote The British Isles: A History of Four Nations and Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History

Photographer Patrick Nagatani died October 27 at the age of 72. His works include Patrick Nagatani/Andree Tracey and Virtual Pilgrimage.

Former President and CEO of Porsche, Peter W. Schutz, died October 28 at the age of 87. He wrote The Driving Force: Extraordinary Results from Ordinary People.

John Mattock, a rose grower, died 23rd October 2017 age 91. He wrote The Reader's Digest Gardener's Guide to Growing Roses. He was often asked whether he had named a rose after his wife Sheila and usually replied "No, as I would be unable to say whether it was better in a bed or up against a wall."

Colin Simpson, a journalist, died October 31st 2017 age 86. He wrote many books including The Ship That Hunted Itself.

Jane Juska died October 24th 2017 aged 84. In 1999 she was 66 divorced and retired and decided she wanted a lot of sex with a lot of men to which end she put an ad in the New York Review of Books. Her memoir A Round-Heeled Woman was the result. Followed by Unaccompanied Women and a book about Mrs Bennet's marriage in Jane Austen.

John McCracken died October 23rd 2017 age 79. His books include:-
Politics and Christianity in Malawi
A History of Malawi
Voices from the Chilembwe Rising — his final book but unknown to touchstones.