Deaths in December - 2016

Retired president of Lowes Inc., Leonard Herring died December 1 at the age of 89. He wrote My Link in the Chain.

Godspeed John Glenn. :'( Astronaut John Glenn died December 8 at the age of 95. He wrote John Glenn: A Memoir.

Irish poet John Montague died December 10 at the age of 87. His works include The Rough Field, The Dead Kingdom and Mount Eagle.

Nancy Mairs wrote about her own mental health and issues with MS. She died on December 3 at the age of 73. Her books include Waist-high in the world: A Life among the Nondisabled and Plaintext: Essays.

Adolf Burger was put into a Nazi concentration camp and forced to counterfeit British currency in an attempt to destabilize the pound. He died December 6 at the age of 99. His book about his experience was called The Devil's Workshop.

Danish Olympian Paul Elvstrom died December 7 at the age of 88. His books include Expert Dinghy and Keelboat Racing and Paul Elvstrom explains... the Yacht Racing Rules.

Guyanese author E.R. Braithwaite died December 12 at the age of 104. His most famous book is To Sir, With Love.

Cultural critic A. A. Gill died December 10 at the age of 62. His books include The Angry island: Hunting the English, AA Gill is Away and Previous Convictions: Assignments from here and There.

Actor Alan Thicke died December 13 at the age of 69. He wrote How Men Have Babies and How to Raise Kids who Won't Hate You.

Novelist Shirley Hazzard died December 12 at the age of 85. Her books include The Great Fire and The Transit of Venus.

Economist Thomas C. Schelling died December 13 at the age of 95. His books include Micromotives and Macrobehavior and The Strategy of Conflict.

Photographer Rodney Smith died December 5 at the age of 68. His books include The Hat Book and In the Land of Light.

Bishop Javier Echevarria died December 12 at the age of 84. His books include Getsemani, Paths to God and Eucaristia y Vida Cristiana.

Garden designer Marjorie Wyndham-Quin Marchioness of Salisbury, has died at the age of 94. Her books include The Gardens of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and The Gardens at Hatfield House.

Weather forecaster Ian McCaskill died December 10 at the age of 78. His books include Frozen in Time: The Worst Winters in History, Storm Force: Britain's Wildest Weather and Frozen Britain.

Investigative journalist Phillip Knightley died December 7 at the age of 87. His books include The First Casualty: From Crimea to Vietnam and The Second Oldest profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century.

Colorful sports reporter Craig Sager died December 15 at the age of 65. He wrote Living Out Loud: Sports, Cancer, and the Things Worth fighting For.

Labor mediator W. J. Usery died December 10 at the age of 92. He wrote Laboring For America: Memoirs of Bill Usery.

Former Director General of W.H.O., Dr. Halfdan Mahler died December 14 at the age of 93. He wrote Tropical Diseases.

Best known for the life saving procedure that bears his name, Dr. Henry J. Heimlich died December 17 at the age of 96. His books include Dr. Heimlich's Home Guide to Emergency Situations and Heimlich's Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation.

>6 Polite_Society: Sad to hear about E R Braithwaite, although I admit to not realising that he had still been alive up until so recently. At the same time, Then again, I wouldn't have thought he was so old (though it makes sense thinking about it....)

Socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor died December 18 at the age of 99. Her books include One Lifetime is not Enough, How to Catch a Man, How to keep a Man, How to get rid of a Man and Zsa Zsa Gabor: My Story.

Former mayor of Indianapolis, William H. Hudnut, III died December 18 at the age of 84. His books include Cities on the Rebound and Halfway to Everywhere.

Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns died December 14 at the age of 95. His books include Brasil: Nunca Mais, Da Esperanca a Utopia and Em favor do homem.

Dentist Dr. Esther Wilkins died December 12 at the age of 100. She set the standard for dental hygiene practices with her text book Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist.

Muhammad Ali's photographer, Howard L. Bingham died December 15 at the age of 77. His work can be seen in Muhammad Ali: A Thirty Year Journey.

Television priest Rev. Michael Manning died December 14 at the age of 75. His books include Pardon My Lenten Smile! and Questions and Answers for Today's Catholic.

Playwright David Berry died December 16 at the age of 73. He wrote The Whales of August and G.R. Point.

Physicist Sidney D. Drell died December 21 at the age of 90. His books include Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons.

Editor of Italian Vogue, Franca Sozzani died December 22 at the age of 66. Her books include Dolce & Gabbana (Memoirs), A Noir: The Black Book and Kartell.

French actress Michele Morgan died December 20 at the age of 96. She wrote Pourquoi pas le bonheur ?.

Furniture designer Jens Risom died December 9 at the age of 100. He wrote Contemporary Furniture.

Singer George Michael , formerly of Wham, died December 25 at the age of 53. His autobiography was called Bare: George Michael His Own Story.

I can't seem to get the correct touchstone for him. Sorry working from a phone over the holidays.

Actress Liz Smith died at 95 on 24th December. Author of a charming memoir, Our Betty.

Richard Adams. author of Watership Down. has died aged 96.

Actress Carrie Fisher died December 27 at the age of 60. Her books include Wishful Drinking and Postcards from the Edge. Farewell Princess, may the Force always be with you. 😪

Astronomer Vera C. Rubin died December 25 at the age of 86. She wrote Bright Galaxies Dark Matters and Large-Scale Motions in the Universe.

Mad Magazine contributor Don Edwing "Duck", died on December 26 at the age of 82. His books include Mad Bizarre Bazaar and Mad Variations.

Actress Debbie Reynolds died December 28 at the age of 84, one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher. Her books include Unsinkable: A memoir and Debbie: My Life. :'(

German banker Hans Tietmeyer died December 27 at the age of 85. He wrote Inside the Bundesbank.

Physicist Edwin L. Goldwasser died December 14 at the age of 97. He wrote Optics, waves, atoms, and nuclei: An Introduction.

Former football coach for Brigham Young University, Lavell Edwards died December 29 at the age of 86. He wrote Lavell: Airing it Out and Achieving.

The Beatles' first manager, Allan Williams, died December 30 at the age of 86. He wrote The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away.

M*A*S*H actor William Christopher who played the beloved Father Mulcahy, died December 31 at the age of 84. His memoir was called Mixed Blessings.

Biographer Arthur H. Cash died December 29 at the age of 94. His books include John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty and Laurence Sterne: The Later Years.

French novelist Michel Deon died December 28 at the age of 97. His books include The Foundling Boy and Un Taxi Mauve.

Professor of theology and philosophy prolific Huston Smith died December 30 at the age of 97. His many works include The World's Religions and The Religions of Man.

Bambi artist Tyrus Wong died December 30 at the age of 106. His books include Water to Paper, Paint to Sky and Mid-Century Mandarin.

Historian Joyce Appleby died December 23 at the age of 87. Her books include Telling the Truth about History, The Relentless Revolution and Inheriting the Revolution.

Irish poet and novelist Anthony Cronin died December 28 at the age of 93. His books include Samuel Beckett: The last Modernist and No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien.

Author on architecture James S. Ackerman died December 31 at the age of 97. His books include Palladio (Architect and Society), The Architecture of Michelangelo and The Villa.

Economist and Yugoslavian dissident Ljubo Sirc died December 1 at the age of 96. He wrote Between Hitler and Tito: Nazi Occupation and Communist Oppression.