Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Mani Nagaraj
Indian film director and screenwriter (Pencil) · 24 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 24
Jonathan Destin
French writer and anti-bullying activist · 24 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 24 · French
Mahbub Talukdar
Bangladeshi poet and civil servant · 23 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 23
Michael Malone
American author and television writer · 21 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 21
Alexei Panshin
American writer and science fiction critic · 21 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 21
Mark Girouard
British architectural writer · 16 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 16
Nur Tabar
Tajik writer and politician · 16 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 16
Narayan
Indian novelist (Kocharethi) · 15 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 15
Frederick Buechner
American novelist (A Long Day's Dying · 14 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 14
Oles Lupii
Soviet and Ukrainian writer · 14 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 14
Philip Purser
British television critic and novelist · 14 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 14
Nicholas Evans
English writer (The Horse Whisperer) · 14 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 14
Francesc Gras Salas
Spanish ophtalmologist and writer · 13 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 13 · Salas
Maung Paw Tun
Burmese writer · 13 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 13 · Tun
German Vitke
Russian poet and songwriter · 11 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 11 · Germán
Ranjit Patnaik
Indian screenwriter (Bhala Pae Tate 100 Ru 100) · 09 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 9
Raymond Briggs
British writer and illustrator (The Snowman · 09 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 9
Hushang Ebtehaj
Iranian poet · 09 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 9
Vasile Tărâțeanu
Romanian writer from Ukraine · 08 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 8
Elana Dykewomon
American lesbian activist and author · 06 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 6
Jan Longone
American food historian and writer · 06 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 6
Shinmon Aoki
Japanese writer · 06 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 6
Shirley Barrett
Australian film director and screenwriter (Love Serenade) · 05 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 5
Bruce Grant
Australian writer and journalist · 04 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 4 · Grant,
Doc Dockery
American businessman and author · 04 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 4
Stuart Briscoe
English-born American evangelical Christian author · 03 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 3
Melissa Bank
American writer (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing) · 03 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 3
Yvonne Baby
French journalist and novelist · 03 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 3 · French
Randy Farb
American librarian and comic strip author · 02 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 2
C.C. (Doc) Dockery
American businessman and author · 01 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 1 · Dockery
Cont Mhlanga
Zimbabwean playwright · 01 August 2022 · August 2022 · August 1
Maria Frisé
German journalist and author · 31 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 31
David Ireland
Australian author (The Unknown Industrial Prisoner) (death announced on this date) · 28 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 28
Paul Garon
American writer and blues historian · 27 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 27
Inger Alfvén
Swedish author and sociologist · 25 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 25
Marjorie Crocombe
Cook Islands author and academic · 25 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 25
Aaron Latham
American journalist and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy · 24 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 24
Knuts Skujenieks
Latvian writer and poet · 24 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 24
Kyaw Min Yu
Burmese political activist and writer · 24 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 24
Diana Kennedy
British food writer · 23 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 23
Rinus Ferdinandusse
Dutch writer and journalist · 23 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 23 · Dutch
Michel Schneider
French writer and musicologist · 21 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 21 · French
Cas Enklaar
Dutch actor and writer (Toneelgroep Amsterdam · 21 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 21 · Dutch
Alan Grant
Scottish comic book writer (Judge Dredd · 20 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 20 · Grant,
Sean Kelly
Canadian humorist and writer (National Lampoon · 19 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 19
Maxime Feri Farzaneh
French-Iranian writer and filmmaker · 19 July 2022 · July 2022 · Farzaneh · July 19 · French
Vladimir Kos
Slovenian Jesuit missionary and poet · 18 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 18
Xavier Amorós Solà
Spanish writer and poet · 18 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 18 · Solá
Bajram Haliti
Serbian-romani author · 18 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 18
Erden Kıral
Turkish film director and screenwriter (On Fertile Lands · 17 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 17 · Kráľ
Don Mattera
South African poet and writer · 17 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 17
Eric Flint
American author (1632) and editor · 17 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 17 · Éric
Herbert W. Franke
Austrian scientist and writer · 15 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 15 · Franke
Gaston Bouatchidzé
Georgian-French writer and translator · 14 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 14 · French
Joan Lingard
Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series) · 13 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 13
Charlotte Valandrey
French actress and author · 12 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 12 · French
Diana Lebacs
Curaçaoan writer · 12 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 12
Ján Solovič
Slovak writer · 11 July 2022 · July 2022 · July 11 · Jan