William J. Baumol
(1922-2017) Economist, author. William J. Baumol was born in the South Bronx, New York, and died in New York City.
Type: NY City
Judith Stein
(1940-2017) Author. Judith Stein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Franklyn (Frank) Bruce Modell
(1917-2016) Cartoonist. Frank Modell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Guilford, Connecticut. He was a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Anatoly Mironovich Kovarsky
(1919-2016) Cartoonist. Anatol Kovarsky was born in Moscow, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Robert Maxwell Weber
(1924-2016) Cartoonist. Robert Weber was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Branford, Connecticut. He had been a cartoonist for The New Yorker. He was a contributor to the 2007 book of New Yorker cartoons, “Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement…and the Great Beyond.”
Richard Nelson Bolles
(1927-2017) Author. Richard Bolles was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died in San Ramon, California.
Joseph John Nicolosi
(1947-2017) Author. Joseph Nicolosi was born in New York, and died in California.
George Braziller
(1916-2017) Publisher, author. George Braziller was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Derek Alton Walcott
(1930-2017) Poet. Derek Walcott was born in Castries, St. Lucia, and died near Gros Islet, St. Lucia. He studied directing with Jose Quintero in New York for a year. Mr. Walcott visited Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, some 25 times between 1978 and 2014.
Jimmy Breslin
(1928-2017) Writer. Jimmy Breslin was born in Queens, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a columnist and best-selling author.