Deaths in May -2020

Former CBS executive and author Gil Schwartz pen name Stanley Bing, died May 2 at the age of 68. His books include What Would Machiavelli Do?, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy and Throwing the Elephant.

Former Dolphins’ coach Don Shula died May 4 at the age of 90. His books include Everyone’s a Coach snd The Little Book of Coaching.

Best poet Michael McClure died May 4 at the age of 87. His many works include Scratching the Beat Surface and Huge Dreams.

Broadcaster Barry M. Farber died May 6 at the age of 90. His books include Learn Any Language and 12 Cliches of Selling.

Magician Roy Horn died of complications of coronavirus on May 8 at the age of 75. He co-authored Siegfried and Roy: Mastering the Impossible.

Crime historian Thomas Reppetto died May 5 at the age of 88. His books include American Mafia, Bringing Down the Mob and American Police.

Comedian Jerry Stiller died May 11 at the age of 92. His books include Married to Laughter and One People Many Stories.

Former CIA agent Ralph W. McGehee died May 2 at the age of 92. His memoir was called Deadly Deceits.

Green energy champion S. David Freeman died May 12 at the age of 94. His books include Winning our Energy Independence and Energy: The New Era.

Reproductive health expert Laurie Schwab Zabin died May 11 at the age of 94. She wrote Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Childbearing.

Film critic Jack Mathews died May 13 at the age of 80. He wrote The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam vs Universal.

College football coach Pepper Rodgers died May 14 at the age of 88. He wrote Fourth and Long Gone and Pepper! The Autobiography of an Unconventional Coach.

The Beatles’ photographer Astrid Kirchherr died May 14 at the age of 81. Her books include When We Was Fab and Yesterday: The Beatles Once Upon a Time .

Comic actor Fred Willard has died at the age of 86. He wrote Fred Willard’s Magnificent Movie Trivia.

Sportscaster, former First Lady of Kentucky and former Miss America Phyllis George Brown Died May 14 at the age of 70. Her books include Living with Quilts and Craft in America.

Feminist author Margaret Walters has died of coronavirus at the age of 81. Her books include Feminism: A Very Short Introduction and The Nude Male.

Scottish leftest intellectual Neil Davidson has died at the age of 62. His books include How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? and The Origins of Scottish Nationhood,

The actor who portrayed Eddie Haskell on Leave it to Beaver and former police officer Ken Osmond died May 18 at the age of 76. His memoir was called Eddie: The Life and Times of America’s Preeminent Bad Boy.

Evangelist Ravi Zacharias died May 19 at the age of 74. His many books include Kingdom of the Cults, Jesus Among the Gods, Deliver us from Evil and Can Man Live Without God?

Lawyer, political adviser and former Columbia quarterback Gene Rossides died May 16 at the age of 92. He wrote Kissinger and Cyprus.

Business executive for the Chicago Bears Michael McCaskey died May 16 at the age of 76. He wrote The Executive Challenge.

Investigative journalist Leonard Levitt died May 18 at the age of 79. His books include NYPD Confidential and Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder.

Columnist and WSJ bureau chief Karen Blumenthal died May 18 at the age of 61. Her books include Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different and Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine.

Playwright Rolf Hochhuth died May 13 at the age of 89. He is best known for The Deputy and Soldiers.

Artist Susan Rothenberg died May 28 at the age of 75. Her work can be seen in Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and The Horse Paintings.

Advocate for women in the military June Willenz died May3 at the age of 95. She wrote Women Veterans: America’s Forgotten Heroines.

Artist Richard Anuszkiewicz died May 19 at the age of 89. His work can be seen in Anuszkiewicz and Paintings by Richard Anuszkiewicz.

Journalist Stephen Fay died May 12 at the age of 81. His books include Hoax, Portrait of an Old Lady and The Collapse of Barings.

Washington bureau chief for CBS William J. Small died May 24 at the age of 93. He wrote To Kill a Messenger and Political Power and the Press.

Biographer Anthony Bailey died of the coronavirus on May 13 at the age of 87. His works include Vermeer: a View of Delft, A Walk Through Wales, and Standing in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner.

Playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer died May 27 at the age of 84. He is best known for Faggots and The Normal Heart.

Economist Oliver E. Williamson died May 21 At the age of 87. His books include The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, The Mechanisms of Governance and Markets and Hierarchies.

Educator Margaret Meek Spencer died May 4 at the age of 95. Her books include How Texts Teach What Readers Learn, The Cool Web and Coming of Age in Children’s Literature.

Mathematician and Bletchley Park code breaker Ann Mitchell died of coronavirus on May 11 at the age of 97. Her books include Someone to Turn to and Children in the Middle: Living Through Divorce.

Self-help specialist Barbara Sher died May 10 at the age of 84. Her many books include Refuse to Choose, Wishcraft and Teamworks.

Author Robb Forman Dew died May 22 at the age of 73. Her books include Dale Loves Sophie to Death, The Time of Her Life and The Evidence Against Her.

French/Tunisian intellectual Albert Memmi died May 22 at the age of 99. His many works include The Colonizer and the Colonized and Racism.

Former Life photographer John Loengard died May 24 at the age of 85. His work includes Photography of LIFE , Life Photographers: What They Saw and Life: Faces.

The artist Christo died May 31 at the age of 84. His work can be seen in Christo & Jean-Claude and Wrapped Reichstag.

Long time leader of Yeshiva University Norman Lamm died May 31 at the age of 92. His many books include The Shema and A Hedge of Roses.

Educator Christine Nuttall has died at the age of 89. She wrote Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language.

Medical educator Monty Losowsky died May 8 at the age of 88. He wrote Getting Better: Stories from the History of Medicine.

Photographer Elsa Dorfman died May 30 at the age of 83. Her books include No Hair Day and Elsa’s Housebook: A Photojournal.

Hutton Gibson, father of Mel Gibson, died on May 11 at the age of 101. He wrote Is the Pope Catholic and The Enemy is Still here!

Anti-gay minister Louis P. Sheldon died May 29 at the age of 85. He wrote The Agenda: The Homosexual Plan to Change America.

Former Waldenbooks executive Harry Hoffman died May 20 at the age of 92. He wrote The Pocket Mentor: Advice for Aspiring Executives.

Playwright Louise Page died May 30 at the age of 65. Her work includes Diplomatic Wives and Adam was a Gardener.

Ghostwriter Jennie Erdal died May 23 at the age of 69. Under her own name she wrote Ghosting: A Double Life and The Missing Shade of Blue.

French comedian Guy Bedos died May 27 at the age of 75. His books include Je craque and Petite droleries et autres mechancetes sans importance.

Maureen Dunbar has died at the age of 86. Her memoir of her daughter’s death was called. Catherine: The Story of a Young Girl Who Died of Anorexia Nervosa.

Critic James Harvey died on May 15 at the age of 90. His books include Movie Love in the Fifties and Romantic Comedy in Hollywood.

Arts promoter Cynthia Navaretta died May 18 at the age of 97. Her books include Arts Organizations for Women and Voices of Women.

Author Nicholas Rinaldi died Of coronavirus May 27 At the he age of 86. His books include The Courtship of Tom Thumb, The Resurrection of the Snails and Between Two Rivers.

Composer and poet Frederick C. Tillis died May 3 at the age of 90. He wrote Harlem Echoes and Seasons, Symbols & Stones.

Anthropologist and linguist Robert M. Laughlin died May 28 at the age of 85. His numerous books include The great Tzotzil dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán,
MAYAN TALES FR ZINACANTAN and PEOPLE OF THE BAT.

Human rights activist Zdena Tomin died May 24 at the age of 79. She wrote Stalin’s Shoe and The Coast of Bohemia.

Brazilian short story author Sergio Sant’Anna died of coronavirus on May 10 at the age of 78. His books include O voo da Madrugada, Um Crime delicado and O Monstro.

Military historian Ned Willmott aka H. P. Willmott died May 25 at the age of 74. His books include Warships and Strategy & Tactics of War.

Architect Michael Glickman died May 1 At the age of 78. He wrote Crop Circles and Corn Circles.

Teacher Sheila Oglethorpe died May 5 at the age of 86. She wrote Instrumental Music for Dyslexics.

Dr. Runa Mackay died May 31 at the age of 98. She wrote Exxile in Israel.

Fashion designer Gavin Waddell died May 22 at the age of 82. He wrote How Fashion Works.

Psychiatrist and lyricist Aldir Blanc died of coronavirus May 4 at the age of 73. His books include Rua dos artistas and O Gabinete do Doutor Blanc.

Author Charles R. Saunders died in May at the age of 73. His works include Imaro and Griots.