Deaths in March - 2019

Professional wrestler King Kong Bundy died March 4 at the age of 63. He co-wrote Hittin' the Mat: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Professional Wrestler.

Canadian award winning poet Patrick Lane died March 7 at the age of 79. His better known works include What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered , Red Dog, Red Dog and edited Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast .

Vintner John Shafer died March 2 at the age of 94. He wrote From the Ground Up: Shafer Vineyards' First 25 Years .

Sports writer Dan Jenkins died March 7 at the age of 89. The best known of his many books include Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect and You Gotta Play Hurt.

Organist Peter Hurford died March 3 at the age of 88. He wrote Making Music on the Organ.

Adopted daughter of Babe Ruth, Julia Ruth Stevens died March 9 at the age of 102. She wrote Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia and Major League Dad: A Daughter's Cherished Memories .

Performance artist Carolee Schneeman died March 6 at the age of 79. Her books include Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects , More Than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings and Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including Her Limits .

Nigerian author Pius Adesanmi was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10. He wrote You're Not A Country, Africa: A Personal History of the African Present and Naija No Dey Carry Last: Thoughts On A Nation In Progress.

Prolific Neopagan author Raven Grimassi died on March 3 at the age of 67. His most popular works include Wiccan Mysteries and Italian Witchcraft.

Drummer Hal Blaine died March 11 at the age of 90. His autobiography was called Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World's Most Recorded Musician.

Historian and Picasso biographer John Richardson died March 12 at the age of 95. His many books include A Life of Picasso, The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper, Master Paintings from the Hermitage and the State Russian Museum and Manet: Phaidon Colour Library.

Political scientist Sidney Verba died March 4 at the age of 86. His numerous books include Designing Social Inquiry , The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations , Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics and The Changing American Voter .

Former Indiana Senator Birch Bayh died March 14 at the age of 91. He wrote One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Disability and Succession.

Photographer Vivian Cherry died March 4 at the age of 98. Her books include Helluva town: New York City in the 1940s and 50s and Vivian Cherry's New York.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin died March 15 at the age of 91. His works include The Shadow of Sirius , Migration: New & Selected Poems , The Rain in the Trees , The First Four Books of Poems , The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France , The Mays of Ventadorn and The Lice: Poems ,

Business journalist Milton Moskowitz died March 5 at the age of 91. His books include Everybody’s Business, The Executive’s Almanac and The Global Marketplace: 102 of the Most Influential Companies .

Sports writer Al Silverman has died on March 10 at the age of 92. He is best known for ghost writing Gayle Sayers’ I am Third. His other books include Yankee Colors, My Life is Baseball and Joe DiMaggio: The Golden Year.

Children's book author Marjorie Weinman Sharmat died March12 at the age of 90. She wrote the series about Nate the Great.

Magician Johnny Thompson aka The Great Tomsoni, died March 9 at the age of 84. His books include The Magic of Johnny Thompson and Johnny Thompson Magic Made Easy .

Curator Okwui Enwezor died March 15 at the age of 55. His work includes In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present (editor), The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, Lorna Simpson and Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art.

MusicologistJ. H. Kwabena Nketia died March 13 at the age of 97. His books include The Music of Africa, Funeral dirges of the Akan people and Our Drums and Drummers .

Novelist Rachel Ingalls died March 6 at the age of 78. Her books include Mrs. Caliban , Binstead's Safari , The End of Tragedy and I See a Long Journey.

Journalist Bernard Krisher died March 5 at the age of 87. He wrote Draftee's confidential guide;: How to get along in the Army and Japan as we lived it: Can East and West ever meet and ghost wrote several more.

Controversial film maker Barbara Hammer died March 16 at the age of 79. She wrote HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life .

Psychotherapist Ralph Metzner died March 14 at the age of 82. His many books include The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead , Well of Remembrance and The Psychedelic Reader: Selected from the Psychedelic Review .

Baroness Warnock (Mary Warnock) died March 20th 2019 aged 94. She wrote many books on philosophy and existentalism in particular.

Critic Maya Turovskaya died March 6 at night he age of 94. She wrote Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry.

Disability advocate Anita Silvers died March 14 at the age of 78. Her books include Puzzles about Art and Disability, Difference, Discrimination.

Cardinal Godfried Danneels died March 14 at the age of 84. His books include Messengers of Joy and Christ or Aquarius.

Journalist and author Brian MacArthur died March 24th aged 79.
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LT user ('wilum') and critic and writer of horror and 'weird' fiction Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire died March 26 at the age of 67. He was the author of Encounters with Enoch Coffin, The tangled Muse, and many others. His Wikipdeia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Pugmire

Photographer Peter B. Kaplan died March 19 at the age of 79. His books include High on New York and Liberty for All.

Poet Linda Gregg died March 20 at the age of 76. Her collections include Sacraments of the Desire and Things and Flesh.

Educator Janet Lieberman died March 19 at the age of 97. She wrote The Wisdom Trail.

Severely injured by a teenager, Victoria Ruvolo died March 25 at the age of 59. She wrote No Room for Vengeance.

Moral philosopher Mary Warnock died March 25 at the age of 94. Her many books include Ethics Since 1900 and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Ethics.

The man behind Swiss Miss Cocoa, Charles A. Sanna died March 13 at the age of 101. At the age of 89 he wrote a children's book called There's a Mouse in the House. He also patented a unique golf putter head. The moral of this story is to drink more cocoa and play more golf.

Tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle died March 26 at the age of 87. His books include Tattoo Book of Days: Past Present and Future and Tattoo 70 .

Author Jonathan Baumbach died March 28 at the age of 85. His work includes On the Way to my Father’s Funeral, B: A Novel and A Man to Conjure With.

Actor Shane Rimmer died March 29 at the age of 89. His autobiography was called From Thunderbirds to Pterodactyls.

Professor Couze Venn died in March at the age of 79. His books include Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity and The Postcolonial Challenge: Towards Alternative Worlds .

Lawyer and philosopher Oliver Black took his own life March 27th 2019. His books include "Shrunk and Other Stories", "Diary of a Misplaced Philosopher" and "The Commune" as well as works on philosophy and law.

The U.S. Government's official photographer for Oak Ridge, Tennessee Ed Westcott, died on March 29 at the age of 97. His book was called Oak Ridge (TN) (Images of America) .

Archaeologist Ralph Solecki died on March 20 at the age of 101. His books include Shanidar, the first flower people , Shanidar; the humanity of Neanderthal man , and The Proto-Neolithic Cemetery in Shanidar Cave.

Kitty Tucker organized the legal effort regarding the Silkwood case. Ms. Tucker died March 30 at the age of 75. She wrote A radiation helath information project report and Plutonium and the Workplace: An Assessment of Health and Safety Procedures.

Biographer, professor & flautist James Anderson Winn died March 25 at the age of 71. His books include John Dryden and His World , The Poetry of War , Unsuspected Eloquence: A History of the Relations Between Poetry and Music and Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts .

Paul Henderson Scott died March 15th 2019. A diplomat he wrote a number of books related to Scotland.