Deaths in September - 2016

Actor Hugh O'Brian died September 5 at the age of 91. His autobiography was called Hugh O'Brian, Or What's Left of Him.

Extreme right wing political activist Phyllis Schlafly died September 5 at the age of 92. Her books include A Choice Not an Echo and The Supremacists.

Children's author Anna Dewdney died September 3 at the age of 50. Her many books include Llama Llama Red Pajama and Llama Llama Mad at Mama.

Ruler of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov died September 2 at the age of 78. He wrote Uzbekistan on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century.

Music manager Jerry Heller died September 2 at the age of 75. He wrote Ruthless: A Memoir.

Oz magazine founder Richard Neville died September 4 at the age of 74. His books include Playpower and Hippie Hippie Shake.

Celebrity Gullah chef Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor died September 3 at the age of 79. Her books include Vibration Cooking, Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen and Vertamae Cooks Again.

Theologian Bishop David Jenkins died September 4 at the age of 91. He wrote The Calling of the Cuckoo: Not Quite an Autobiography and The God of Freedom and the Freedom of God.

Hair expert Philip Kingsley died September 3 at the age of 86. He wrote The Hair Bible.

The Lady Chablis, who shot to fame after her appearance in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and playing herself in the film version, died September 8 at the age of 59. Her autobiography was called Hiding My Candy. RIP sweet lady. :'(

Economist and former college president John R. Coleman died September 6 at the age of 95. He wrote Blue-Collar Journal.

Combat veteran, author and journalist, Robert Timberg died September 6 at the age of 76. His books include The Nightingale's Song and John McCain: An American Odyssey.

The first woman to lead Germany's highest court Jutta Limbach died September 6 at the age of 76. She was editor of Ausgewanderte Worter and Das schonste deutsche Wort.

Banker and former president of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi died September 16 at the age of 95. His books include Dizionario della democrazia, Dall'Europa all'euro and Non e il paese che sognavo.

Famed playwright Edward Albee died September 16 at the age of 88. He is best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?.

Novelist W. P. Kinsella died September 16 at the age of 81. He is best known for Shoeless Joe..

Charmian Carr the actress who played Liesl in The Sound of Music died September 17 at the age of 73. Her books include Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl.

Former astronaut Dr. Duane Graveline died September 5 at the age of 85. His books include Statin Drugs Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol and Lipitor Thief of Memory.

Grocery heir billionaire Howard E. Butt, Jr., who gave it all up for religion, died September 11 at the age of 89. His books include Who Can you Trust? and Renewing America's Soul.

Author D. Keith Mano died September 14 at the age of 74. His books include Take Five and The Bridge.

Culinary educator Dorothy Cann Hamilton died September 16 at the age of 67 from injuries received in an automobile accident. She wrote Love What You do: Building a Career in the Culinary Industry.

Expert on Jack the Ripper, Richard Whittington-Egan died September 14 at the age of 91. His many books include Murder Files, The Riddle of Birdhurst Rise and The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew.

South African journalist Allister Sparks died September 19 at the age of 83. His books include The Mind of South Africa, Tomorrow is Another Country and Beyond the Miracle.

Exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth died September 16 at the age of 91. His books include An Exorcist Tells his Story, An Exorcist: More Stories and Memoirs of an Exorcist.

Prolific historian of the crusades, Jonathan Riley-Smith died September 13 at the age of 78. His books include The Crusades: A Short History, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades and The Atlas of the Crusades.

Golfing great Arnold Palmer died September 25 at the age of 87. His books include A Golfer's Life and My Game and Yours. :'(

German historian Karl Dietrich Bracher died September 19 at the age of 94. His books include The German Dictatorship and The Age of Ideologies.

Mexican architect Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon died September 16 at the age of 90. He wrote Kalach & Alvarez.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres died September 28 at the age of 93. His books include The New Middle East and Battling for Peace.

Author and Holocaust survivor Max Mannheimer died September 23 at the age of 96. He wrote Spates Tagebuch.

Film maker Herschell Gordon Lewis died September 26 at the age of 90. His books include Herschell Gordon Lewis On the Art of Writing Copy and Direct Mail Copy that Sells.

Economist Charles L. Schultze died September 27 at the age of 91. His books include The Public Use of Private Interest and National Income Analysis.

Conservationist Ian Mercer died September 20 at the age of 83. He wrote Dartmoor and Nature Guide to the West Country.

Vilnius ghetto survivor Joseph Harmatz led a post-war plot to poison Germans. He died September 22 at the age of 91. His memoir was called From the Wings: A Long Journey: 1940-1960.

Australian cricket player, turned sportscaster, turned writer Max Walker died September 28 at the age ofl 68. His books include How to Tame Lions and Other Great Tales and How to Kiss a Crocodile and other Snappy Stories.

Vermont poet David Budbill died September 25 at the age of 76. His books include Bones on Black Spruce Mountain and Snowshoe Trek to Otter River.

R & B singer, writer and producer Kashif died September 25 at the age of 59. He wrote Everything You'd Better Know About the Record Industry.

Folk singer and radio host Oscar Brand died September 30 at the age of 96. His books include The Ballad Mongers: Rise of the Modern Folk Song and Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads.

Grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Curtis Roosevelt died September 26 at the age of 86. He wrote Too Close to the Sun: Growing up in the Shadow of my Grandparents.

Dancer and dance critic Jan Murray has died at the age of 74. She was the author of Dance Now: A Closer Look at the Art of Movement.

Writer Gloria Naylor died September 28 at the age of 66. Her books include The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day.

Photographer George Barris, famed for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, died September 30 at the age of 94. See his work in Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words.

Conservationist John Craighead died September 18 at the age of 100. He wrote A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers and How to Survive on Land and Sea.

Art historian Luke Herrmann died September 9 at the age of 84. His books include J. M. W. Turner (Very Interesting People) and Paul and Thomas Sandby.