Darby Penney
(1952-2021) Author. Darby Penney was born in Oceanside, New York, and died in Albany, New York.
Type: NY State
Grace Mirabella
(1929-2021) Author. Grace Mirabella was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Neil Marcus
(1954-2021) Playwright. Neil Marcus was born in Scarsdale, New York, and died in Berkeley, California.
Richard Leakey
(1944-2022) Conservationist, author. Richard Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and died in Kenya.
Justus Rosenberg
(1921-2021) Professor, author. Justus Rosenberg died in Rhinebeck, New York.
Jay Last
(1929-2021) Physicist, author. Jay Last was born in Butler, Pennsylvanis, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Laszlo Z. Bito
(1934-2021) Scientist, novelist. Laszlo Z. Bito was born in and died in Budapest, Hungary.
Jerry Pinkney
(1939-2021) Illustrator, writer. Jerry Pinkney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Sleepy Hollow, New York. He wrote and illustrated children’s books.
Doris Willens Kaplan
(1924-2021) Journalist, author, songwriter. Doris Willens Kaplan was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in East Windsor Township, New Jersey.
Susan Gordon Lydon
(1943-2005) Author, editor, journalist, columnist. Susan Gordon Lydon was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Boca Raton, Florida.