Deaths in October - 2014

Multi-talented actor and artist Geoffrey Holder died October 5 at the age of 84. His books include Geoffrey Holder's Caribbean Cookbook and Geoffrey Holder: The Painter.

Broadway actress Marian Seldes died October 7 at the age of 88. She wrote The Bright Lights.

Father Benedict J. Groeschel died October 3 at the age of 81. His books include Arise from Darkness, Spiritual Passages and In the Presence of our Lord.

Tennis instructor Vic Braden died October 6 at the age of 85. His books include Vic Braden's Mental Tennis and Vic Braden's Tennis for the Future.

Author Siegfried Lenz died October 7 at the age of 88. His books include The German Lesson and A Minute's Silence.

Photographer Ray K. Metzker died October 9 at the age of 83. His work can be seen in City Stills.

Poet Carolyn Kizer died October 9 at the age of 89. Her collections include Yin: New Poems and Mermaids in the Basement.

Prolific children's author Zilpha Keatley Snyder died October 7 at the age of 87. Her books include The Egypt Game and The Headless Cupid.

Sociologist A. H. Halsey died October 14 at the age of 91. A few of his books include Change in British Society (Opus books) and Education: Culture, Economy, and Society.

Scholar on Africa Ali A. Mazrui died October 13 at the age of 81. His many books include The Africans: A Triple Heritage and The African Condition.

Tory political adviser Sir John Hoskyns died October 20 at the age of 87. He wrote Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution.

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam died October 21 at the age of 98. His books include The Truth of the Matter and Abiding Interests: Memoirs.

Legendary newsman Ben Bradlee died October 21 at the age of 93. His memoir was called A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures.

Famed photographer of Guevera and Picasso, Rene Burri died October 20 at the age of 81. His work can be seen in Luis Barragan and Rene Burri Photographs.

Former press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, Frank Mankiewicz died October 23 at the age of 90. His books include Perfectly Clear; Nixon from Whittier to Watergate and Remote Control.

Anglican Canon John Andrew died October 17 at the age of 83. He wrote My Heart is Ready: Feasts and FAsts on Fifth Avenue and The Best of Both Worlds.

Photographer Alfred Wertheimer died October 19 at the age of 84. His work was published in Elvis '56 and Elvis at 21.

Famed astrologer to Nancy Reagan, Joan Quigley died October 23 at the age of 87. Her books include Astrology for Adults and What does Joan Say?.

Drug reformer, Monsignor William B. O'Brien died October 19 at the age of 90. He wrote You Can't Do it Alone: The Daytop Way to Make Your Child Drug Free.

Dance critic Doris Hering died October 15 at the age of 90. She wrote 25 Years of American Dance and Giselle and Albracht.

New age spiritualist leader John-Roger died October 22 at the age of 80. His many books include Do it! Let's Get off Our Buts and Wealth 101.

Human rights campaigner Efua Dorkenoo died October 18 at the age of 65. She wrote Cutting the Rose.

Actor and writer L. M. Kit Carson died October 20 at the age of 73. He wrote David Holzman's Diary.

Pulitzer prize winning poet and editor Galway Kinnell died October 28 at the age of 87. His works include The Book of Nightmares and Selected Poems: Galway Kinnell.

USAF retired Col. Jack Broughton died October 24 at the age of 89. He wrote Rupert Red Two: A Fighter's Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs, Thud Ridge and Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington.

The city of Boston's longest serving mayor Thomas M. Menino died October 30 at the age of 71. He wrote Mayor for a New America.

Architectural historian Hermione Hobhouse died October 17 at the age of 80. Her books include Lost London, A History of Regent Street, Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition and Prince Albert, His Life and Work.

Playwright Herb Schapiro died October 17 at the age of 85. His work includes Elements of Drama and The Love Song of Saul Alinsky as well as bringing The Me Nobody Knows to the stage.

Anglican priest Bernard Mayes, who founded a suicide hot line, died on October 23 at the age of 85. He wrote Escaping God's Closet and This is Bernard Mayes in San Francisco.

High ranking diplomat during the Reagan years, David M. Abshire died October 31 at the age of 88. His books include Preventing World War III and Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency.

Theologian Lorenzo Albacete died October 24 at the age of 73. His books include God at the Ritz and The Sacramental Priesthood.

Photographer David Redfern died October 23 at the age of 78. His works include The Unclosed Eye and David Redfern's Jazz Album.

Conservationist Sonia Rolt died October 22 at the age of 95. She wrote A Canal People.

Russian noble and CIA spook during the Cold War David Chavchavadze died October 5 at the age of 90. He wrote The Grand Dukes and his memoir Crowns and Trenchcoats.

Paleontologist Larry D. Agenbroad died October 31 at the age of 81. His books include Hot Springs Mammoth Site, Megafauna and Man and Before the Anasazi.

Aristocrat turned novelist Oriel Malet died October 14 at the age of 91. A few of her books include Marjory Fleming, My Bird Sings and Horses of the Sun.

Historian Raleigh Trevelyan died October 23 at the age of 91. His books include Italian Short Stories, Sir Walter Raleigh and The Shadow of Vesuvius.

Historian Donald Cameron Watt died October 30 at the age of 86. His books include How War Came, Too Serious a Business and Personalities and Policies.

French novelist Claude Ollier died October 24 at the age of 91. His books include The Mise-en-scene and Disconnection.

British political correspondent Sheila Gunn died October 17 at the age of 66. She edited So You Want to be a Political Journalist.

Cell Biologist Sir Henry Harris died October 31 at the age of 89. He wrote The Birth of the Cell and Things Come to Life.