Deaths in April - 2021

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Deaths in April - 2021

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Apr 2, 2021, 2:59 pm

Rabbi Solomon Schiff died April 1 at the age of 91. He wrote Under the Yarmulke: Tales of Faith, Fun and Football.

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Apr 3, 2021, 1:37 pm

Playwright Arthur Kopit died April 2 at the age of 83. His work includes Indians and Oh Dad, Poor Dad.

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Economist Robert A. Mundell died April 3 at the age of 88. His books include The Euro as a Stabilizer and Man and Economics.

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Theologian Hans Kung died April 6 at the age of 93. His books include Hans Kung Memoirs and New Concilium: Religion in the Seventies.

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Modificato: Apr 8, 2021, 6:56 pm

Dr. Robert D. Lesslie was murdered on April 7 along with five others. He was 70. His many books include Angels in the ER and Angels on the Night Shift.

Comedy writer for Saturday Night Live Anne p. Beatts died April 7 at the age of 74. She edited Saturday Night Live and Titters: The first collection of humor by women

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Modificato: Apr 9, 2021, 7:55 pm

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh died on April 9 at the age of 99. His books include Wildlife Crisis, Birds of Britannia and Sandringham.

The rapper known as DMX died April 9 at the age of 50. He wrote E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX.

Biographer Peter Manso died April 7 at the age of 80. His books include Brando: The Biography and Ptown.

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Modificato: Apr 10, 2021, 5:09 pm

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark died April 9 at the age of 93. His books include The Fire this Time and Crime in America.

Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins died April 4 at the age of 90. His books include Stone Age Economics snd Islands of History.

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Modificato: Apr 13, 2021, 10:59 am

Business executive John Naisbitt died April 8 at the age of 92. His books include Megatrends and Global Paradox.

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Photographer June Newton died April 9 at the age of 97. Her books include Mrs. Newton and Helmut Newton: Pages from the Glossies.

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Apr 12, 2021, 3:39 pm

Martin Orkin, professor of Shakespeare and post-colonial studies died April __ after a long and debilitating illness. Among his works are Shakespeare Against Apartheid and Local Shakespeares.

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Apr 12, 2021, 4:29 pm

Baroness Shirley Williams died today, 12 April 2021, at the age of 90. She is best known as a politician, as a Labour then SDP MP in Britain, and then when most of the SDP merged with most of the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats here, she became a Lib Dem peer. Her memoir was appealingly called Climbing the Bookshelves, and she also wrote introductions to more recent editions of her mother Vera Brittain's memoir Testament of Youth and her mother's best friend Winifred Holtby's best known novel South Riding. She also published books on the Common Market, the EU and other political topics.

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Modificato: Apr 12, 2021, 5:12 pm

Long time Baltimore Sun editor Joseph R. L. Sterne died April 4 at the age of 92. He wrote Combat Correspondents and A Century in the Sun.

Journalist I. A. Rehman died April 12 at the age of 90. He wrote Pakistan Under Siege and Arts & Crafts of Pakistan.

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Apr 13, 2021, 6:48 pm

Heroic D-Day medic Ray Lambert died April 10 at the age of 100. He wrote Every Man a Hero: A D-Day Memoir.

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Modificato: Apr 14, 2021, 10:36 pm

Basketball coach Bobby Leonard “Slick” died April 13 at the age of 88. He wrote Boom Baby!: My Life in Basketball in Indiana.

Mad magazine writer Frank Jacobs died April 5 at the age of 91. His books include Strange Maps and Fun with Hand Shadows.

Economist John Williamson died April 11 at the age of 83. His many books include International Monetary Reform , Growth-Linked Securities and The Crawling Band.

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Modificato: Apr 15, 2021, 7:58 am

South African author Phumlani Pikoli has died at the age of 33. He wrote Born Freeloaders and The Fatuous State of Severity.

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Apr 15, 2021, 8:54 am

Author Amy Oestreicher died April __ at the age of 33. Her first book was My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful; her second is just being published.

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Modificato: Apr 15, 2021, 7:52 pm

Crown green bowler Hugh Hornby has died at the age of 51. His books include Soccer (Eyewitness) and Uppies and Downies.

Antiques dealer and design writer Carol Prisant died April 9 at the age of 82. Her books include Antiques Roadshow Primer and Dog House: A Love Story.

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Apr 16, 2021, 8:12 am

Playwright Peter Terson died April 8 at the age of 89. His work includes Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices.

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Apr 16, 2021, 9:03 am

Children's author Constance C. Greene died April 7 at the age of 96. Among her books is A Girl Called Al.

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Modificato: Apr 16, 2021, 9:20 pm

Academic and president of the Carnegie Corporation Vartan Gregorian died April 15 at the age of 87. His books include The Road to Home and Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith.

Actor Felix Silla died April 16 at the age of 84. He wrote Felix Silla: The Golden Age of Film.

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Apr 17, 2021, 5:20 am

Helen McCrory died on 16 April 2021 at 52, of cancer. I don't think she'd published any books but she acted in theatre productions of plays by Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde and the last 3 Harry Potter films, and her last big role was as Polly in the historical drama Peaky Blinders.

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Modificato: Apr 17, 2021, 7:13 pm

Literary critic Denis Donoghue died April 6 at the age of 92. His work includes Yeats, The American Classics and The Practice of Reading.

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Modificato: Apr 20, 2021, 4:17 am

Former US Vice-president Walter Mondale died April 19 at the age of 93. His books include The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics and The Accountability of Power.

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Apr 21, 2021, 3:34 pm

Stripper Tempest Storm died April 20 at the age of 93. She wrote Tempest Storm: The Lady is a Vamp.

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Apr 22, 2021, 9:25 pm

Microbiologist Thomas D. Brock died April 4 at the age of 94. His books include Milestones in Microbiology and Microbiology Applications.

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Modificato: Apr 23, 2021, 9:32 pm

Poet, editor and executor of the Philip Larkin estate Anthony Thwaite died April 22 at the age of 90. His worki is includes The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, Letters to Monica and Six Centuries of Poetry.

Bay City Roller Les McKeown died April 20 at the age of 65. He wrote Shang-a-Lang: Life as an International Pop Idol.

Curator Allon Schoener died April 8 at the age of 95. His books include The American Jewish Album and Portal to America.

Professor Gerald Haslam died April 13 at the age of 84. His books include Coming of Age in California and The Great Central Valley.

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Apr 24, 2021, 4:58 pm

Photojournalist William A. Wynne “Bill” died April 19 at the age of 99. He wrote Yorkie Doodle Dandy and Bill Wynne Man’s Best Friend.

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Modificato: Apr 25, 2021, 8:38 pm

Fashion designer Alber Elbaz died of coronavirus on April 24 at the age of 59. He wrote Lanvin: I Love You.

Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig died April 24 at the age of 93. She wrote In My Own Voice: Memoirs.

British politician Ian Gibson died April 9 at the age of 82. He wrote Class, Health and Profit.

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Modificato: Apr 26, 2021, 8:24 pm

Business executive W. Galen Weston died April 12 at the age of 80. He wrote Christo and Jean-Claude.

Memoirist and translator Helen Weaver died April 13 at the age of 89. Her books include The Awakener and Daisy Conversations with my Dog,

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Apr 27, 2021, 8:18 am

Dark fantasy and horror editor, anthologist, publisher, and writer John C. Pelan died April 12 at the age of 64. Among his many works are Children of Cthulhu and Alone on the Darkside.

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Modificato: Apr 27, 2021, 7:25 pm

Actor Trader Faulkner died April 14 at the age of 93. He wrote Peter Finch: A Biography and Inside Trader.

Anti-televangelist minister who called out hypocrisy Ole Anthony died April 16 at the age of 82. He wrote Crossfire.

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Modificato: Apr 28, 2021, 8:25 pm

Former episcopal bishop J. Jon Bruno died April 23 at the age of 74. He edited In Times Like These: How We Pray.

Astronaut Michael Collins died April 28 at the age of 90. His books include First on the Moon and Carrying the Fire: an astronaut’s journey.

Music producer Al Schmitt died April 26 at the age of 91. He wrote Al Schmitt on the Record and Al Schmitt on Vocal and instrumental Recording Techniques.

Journalist and politician Jonathan Fryer died April 16 at the age of 70. His books include Andre & Oscar and Robbie Ross.

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Modificato: Apr 29, 2021, 8:14 pm

Education researcher Robert E. Slavin died April 24 at the age of 70. His books include Cooperative Learning and Educational Psychology.

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Modificato: Apr 30, 2021, 8:45 pm

Restauranteur Tomas Estes died April 25 at the age of 75. He wrote The Tequila Ambassador.

Spy novelist and retired CIA agent Jason Matthews died April 28 of 69. His books include Red Sparrow and Palace of Treason.

Anne Douglas, widow of Kirk, died April 29 at the age of 102. She co-wrote Kirk and Anne.

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Lexicographer Katherine Barber died April 24. Editor in chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, she also authored books on the history and use of words: Six Words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs and Only in Canada You Say: a Treasury of Canadian Language

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Modificato: Mag 1, 2021, 11:20 pm

Former Boston fire department commissioner Leo Stapleton died April 28 of 93. His books include Thirty Years on the line, Jakes and Ffops.

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Mag 2, 2021, 8:10 pm

Novelist and playwright Lee Dunne died April 10 at the age of 86. His work includes Goodbye to the Hill and Paddy Maguire is Dead.

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Mag 3, 2021, 6:16 pm

Serbian general Jovan Divjak died April 8 at the age of 84. He wrote Sarajevo, Mon Amour.

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Modificato: Mag 4, 2021, 2:34 pm

Classical music announcer and commentator Martin Bookspan died April 29 at the age of 94. His books include Zubin and 101 Masterpieces of Music.

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Modificato: Mag 5, 2021, 8:59 am

Ballet promoter Nancy Lassalle died April 26 at the age of 93. She co-wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream the Story of the New York City Ballet and Tanaquil Le Clercq.

Novelist Gordon Weaver died April 2 at the age of 84. His books include The Eight Corners of the World and The American Short Story 1945-1980: A Critical History.

Librarian Kathie Coblentz died April 3 at the age of 73. She wrote Your Home Library.

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Mag 5, 2021, 10:30 am

Cate Haste died April 29th 2021 aged 75.

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Modificato: Mag 5, 2021, 9:09 pm

Artist William T. Wiley died April 25 at the age of 83. His books include Wiley Territory and Steal Witness for the Time Being.

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Modificato: Mag 6, 2021, 3:38 pm

Author Reese Erlich died April 6 at the age of 73. His books include Inside Syria and The Iran Agenda.

Comic book artist Michel koeniguer died April 6 at the age of 49. His work includes Brooklyn 62nd and Bomb Road.

Linguist Pieter Muysken died April 6 at the age of 70. His works include Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction and Language Contact and Bilingualism.

Media theorist Gene Youngblood died April 6 at the age of 78. He wrote Expanded Cinema.

Attorney James Serritella died April 23 at the age of 78. He wrote Religious Organizations in the United States.

Playwright Sharon Pollock died April 22 at the age of 85. Her work includes Blood relations and other plays and Walsh .

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Modificato: Mag 7, 2021, 1:22 pm

Philosopher Kai Nielsen died April 7 at the age of 94. His books include Does God Exist?: The Debate between theists and atheists and Ethics without God.

Prof. Tony Allan died April 15 at the age of 84. His books include Virtual Water and The Oxford Handbook of Food, Water and Society.

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Mag 7, 2021, 10:14 am

Highly regarded literary translator John Cullen died April 15 at the age of 79. Among his translations are Brodeck's Report and The Swallows of Kabul.

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Modificato: Mag 7, 2021, 11:40 pm

Historian Kate Haste died April 29 at the age of 75. Her books include Nazi Women and Clarissa Eden - A Memoir.

Linguist Euan Reid died April 19 at the age of 81. His books include English in Urban Classrooms and was co-author of The Other Languages of England.

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Modificato: Mag 8, 2021, 1:55 pm

Travel writer Geoff Crowther died April 13 at the age of 77. His books include Lonely Planet Africa on a Shoestring and Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

Photographer for the Polish Resistance, Faye Schulman died April 24 at the age of 101. She wrote A Partisan’s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust.

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Modificato: Mag 10, 2021, 4:34 pm

Indian author Manzoor Ahtesham died of coronavirus On April 26 at the age of 73. The only works of his that LT has is The Tale of the Missing Man and A Dying Banyan.

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Mag 13, 2021, 11:10 pm

Fiber specialist Sue Blacker died April 5 at the age of 69. She wrote Pure Wool.

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Antique specialist Myrna Kaye died April 20 at the age of 90. Her books include Fake, Fraud, or Genuine? and American Antique Furniture.

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Artist Mary Beth Edelson died April 20 at the age of 88. Her books include Mary Beth Edelson: First Hand: Photographs and Shape Shifter, Seven Mediums.

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Mag 26, 2021, 5:42 am

Historian Derek Keene died April 17 at the age of 79. His books include Cheapside Before the Great Fire and St. Paul’s: London’s Cathedral.

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Mag 28, 2021, 1:53 pm

Wine expert Ted Murphy died April 13 at the age of 85. He wrote A Kingdom of Wine.

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Modificato: Giu 3, 2021, 6:42 pm

Psychologist Arthur Staats died April 26 at the age of 97. His books include Marvelous learning Animal and Learning, Language, and Cognition.

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Dante scholar Robert Hollander died April 20 at the age of 87. His books include Dante A Life in Works, Allegory in Dante’s Commedia and The Bible in Western Culture.

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LGBTQ historian Madeline D. Davis died April 28 at the age of 80. She co-wrote Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold.

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Psychologist Ed Diener died April 27 at the age of 74. His books include Happiness: Unlocking the Mystery and Culture and Subjective Well-Being.

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