Deaths in June - 2021

Famed attorney F. Lee Bailey died June 3 at the age of 87. His books include The Defense Never Rests and When the Husband is the Suspect.

Charity worker Ganga Stone died June 2 at the age of 79. She wrote Start the Conversation: The Book About Death You Were Hoping to Find.

Circuit court judge Robert A. Katzmann died June 10 at the age of 68. His books include Judging Statutes and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Psychiatrist Edward de Bono died June 9 at the age of 88. His books include Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking.

Lucinda Riley, author of The Seven Sisters series and other commercial fiction, has died aged 55.

Baseball player Mudcat Grant has died at the age of 85. He wrote The Black Aces.

Diplomat William Vanden Heuvel died June 15 at the age of 91. Ha books include On His Own: Robert F. Kennedy and Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times.

Judge Jack B. Weinstein died June 15 at the age of 99. His books include Weinstein’s Evidence Manual and Evidence : Rules, Statute.
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Journalist Janet Malcolm died June 15 at the age of 86. Her birthday books include The Journalist and the Murderer and The Silent Woman.

Former president of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda died June 17 at the age of 97. His books include Zambia Shall be Free and A Humanist in Africa.

Journalist Ronald J. Ostrow died June 14 at the age of 89. He co-authored The FBI and the Berrigans.

Former gangster Monster Kody Scott aka Sanyika Shakur, was found dead on June 7 at the age of 57. He wrote Monster: The Autobiography of an L. A. Gang Member.

Television producer John Sacret Young died June 3 at the age of 75. He wrote Remains: Non-Viewable and The Weather Tomorrow.

Fashion designer Frances Patiky Stein died June 6 at the age of 83. She wrote Hot Tips: 1,000 Fashion & Beauty Tips.

Magazine editor Richard Stolley died June 16 at the age of 92. His books include Life: A Century of Change and Life: Our Century in Pictures.

Biographer Vance H. Trimble died June 16 at the age of 107. His books include Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America’s Richest Man and Overnight Success: Federal Express.

Chef Mark Peel died June 20 at the age of 66. He wrote The Food of Campanile.

Actress Joanne Linville, best known for her guest role as a Romulan commander in the original Star Trek series, has died on June 20 at the age of
93. She wrote Joanne Linville’s Seven Steps to an Acting Craft.

Software developer John McAfee was found dead in his Barcelona jail cell on June 23. He was 75. His books include Computer Viruses, Worms, Data Diddlers, Killer Programs, and Other Threats to your System, The Secret of the Yamas and The Fabric of the Self.

Native American rights activist Leonard Crow Dog died June 6 at the age of 78. He wrote Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men.

Indian track star Milkha Singh died June 18 from complications of COVID-19 at the age of 91. He wrote The Race of My Life: An Autobiography.

Actress and novelist Lucinda Riley died June 11 at the age of 54. Her books include The Seven Sisters, Hothouse Flower and The Girl on the Cliff.

Pop Curator Diego Cortez died June 20 at the age of 74. His books include Private Elvis and Jean Michel Basquiat.

Holocaust survivor David Wisnia died June 15 at the age of 94. His memoir is One Voice, Two Lives from Auschwitz Prisoner to 101 Airborne Trooper.

Poet Stephen Dunn died June 24 at the age of 82. His books include Different Hours and New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994.

Artist Max Fulcher died June 7 at the age of 85. He wrote The Enchanted Orchid.

Singer and widow of a land and water speed racer, Tonia Bern-Campbell has died at the age of 84. She wrote My Speed King: My Life with Donald Campbell.

Former Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel died June 26 at the age of 91. His books include Citizen Power : A Mandate for Change and A Political Odyssey.

Teacher and Chicana rights activist Elizabeth Martinez died June 29 at the age of 95. Her books include De Colores Means All of Us, 500 Years of Chicano History and Letters from Mississippi.

Children’s author Patricia Riley Giff died June 22 at the age of 86. Her books include Lily’s Crossing, Nory Ryan’s Song and Pictures of Hollis Woods.

Surfer Greg Noll died June 28 at the age of 84. He wrote Da Bull: Life Over the Edge.

Former US Cabinet secretary Donald Rumsfeld died June 30 at the age of 88. His books include Known and Unknown: A Memoir and Rumsfeld Rules.

Dr.. Gerald S. Levey, who rebuilt the UCLA medical center after the Northridge earthquake, died June 25 at the age of 84. He wrote Never be Afraid to do the Right Thing.

Surgical oncologist and Georgetown Professor Dr. John F. Potter died June 29 at the age of 95. He wrote How to Improve Your Odds Against Cancer.

Culture critic Lauren Berlant died June 28 at the age of 63. Her books include Cruel Optimism and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City.

Film critic Alan Lovell has died at the age of 85. His books include Screen Acting and Anarchist Cinema.

Art teacher John Spencer has died at the age of 95. He wrote the Art History Study Guide.

Musician and writer Anthony Weller died June 3 at the age of 63. His books include The Polish Lover, The Garden of Peacocks and The Siege of Salt Cove.

Editor Albert Eisele died June 29 at the age of 85. His books include Almost to the Presidency and Northern Lights, Southern Nights.

Philosophy professor Aryeh Kosman died June 17 at the age of 85. His books include The Birth of Western Philosophy and Plato and Aristotle.

British politician Dick Leonard died June 24 at the age of 90. His books include The Great Rivalry: Disraeli and Gladstone and Guide to the European Union.

Journalist Edward Mortimer died June 18 at the age of 87. His books include Faith and Power, People, Nation and State and The Rise of the French Communist Party.

Rosemary Kingsland died June 5th 2021 aged 79. She wrote a number of books but as a 14-year-old had an affair with Richard Burton told in her 2003 autobiography Hold Back the Night.

Translator Thomas Cleary died June 20 at the age of 72. His works include The Essential Tao and The Essential Koran.

Author Bernette Ford died June 20 at the age of 70. Her books include Bright Eyes, Brown Skin and First Snow.

Asylum advocate Gina Clayton died June 3 at the age of 66. She wrote Immigration & Asylum Law.

Pioneer in wilderness medicine Dr. Paul Auerbach died June 23 at the age of 70. His books include Wilderness Medicine and Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine.

Philosopher Joseph Margolis died June 8 at the age of 97. His books include Philosophy Looks at the Arts, An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry, and Pragmatism without Foundation.

Scholar on Burma Josef Silverstein died June 29 at the age of 99. He wrote Independent Burma at Forty and Burma: Military rule .

Biographer Carol Easton died June 17 at the age of 87. Her books include Jacqueline du Pre and No intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille.

Harry DeLeyer made horse show jumping history with his rescue mount Snowman. He died June 25 at the age of 93. He wrote Harry & Snowman.

Art historian and surrealist collector Arturo Schwarz died June 23 at the age of 97. His books include The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray (ArtDossier).
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Former journalist and Time-Life editor Laura Foreman died June 4 at the age of 76. Her books include Cleopatra’s Palace and Alexander: The Conqueror.

Novelist Isla Dewar died June 20 at the age of 74. Her books include Women Talking Dirty and Keeping Up With Magda.

Advocate for female runners Dr. Joan Ullyot died June 19 at the age of 80. Her books include Women’s Running and Running Free.

Garden designer Sylvia Landsberg died in June at the age of 93. She wrote The Medieval Garden.

French literature professor Alain Viala died June 30 at the age of 73. His books include Naissance de l’ecrivain, Histoire du theatre and Sociologie de la litterature.

Naval historian James Hornfischer died June 2 at the age of 55. His books include Last of the Tin Can Sailors, Neptune’s Inferno, and Ship of Ghosts.