Dave Morice, died aged 79
Dave Morice, an American poet, died on August 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in St. Louis on September 10, 1946, he also worked as a writer, visual artist, performance artist…
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
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Death of Roger McKenzie at age 75
Roger McKenzie, an American comic book writer, died on August 21, 2026, aged 75, of heart failure and kidney disease. He was best known for his work on Daredevil with…
Imam Tantowi dead at age 80
Imam Tantowi, an Indonesian film director and screenwriter, died on August 21, 2026, aged 80. Born in Tegal on August 13, 1946, he began his career in stage directing before…
Obituary: Mostafa Derkaoui, dead at age 82
Mostafa Derkaoui, the Moroccan film director and screenwriter known for socially engaged and revolutionary films, died on August 20, 2026, aged 82. Born in Oujda in 1944, he studied philosophy…
Perry Rosemond death at age 89
Perry Rosemond, a Canadian television writer and producer, died August 20, 2026, aged 89. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he built a long career in television as a writer, producer and…
Ġorġ Mallia, died aged 68
Ġorġ Mallia, a Maltese communications academic, author and cartoonist, died on August 19, 2026, aged 68. Born in Malta on November 9, 1957, he built a career in communications, instructional…
Juan Tamariz passed away at age 83
Juan Tamariz, the Spanish magician and television presenter, died on August 18, 2026, aged 83. Born Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón in Madrid on October 18, 1942, he became one of Spain’s…
Vereslav Eingorn, died aged 69
Vereslav Eingorn, a Ukrainian chess grandmaster, coach and author, died on August 18, 2026, aged 69. Born in Odesa in 1956, he earned the grandmaster title in 1986 and became…
Vedrana Rudan passes away at age 76
Vedrana Rudan, a Croatian journalist and novelist, died on August 18, 2026, aged 76. A native of Rijeka, she was born in 1949 and built a career across Croatian media…
Shaul Mishal dies at age 81
Shaul Mishal, the Israeli political scientist who studied Arab and Palestinian politics, died on August 18, 2026, aged 81. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he later made aliyah with his…
Sonia Melchett, died aged 100
Sonia Melchett, the British socialite and author known in later life as Sonia Elizabeth Sinclair, died on August 17, 2026, aged 100. Born Sonia Graham, she was the daughter of…
Durga Lal Shrestha dies at age 91
Durga Lal Shrestha, the Nepali poet and lyricist who wrote in Nepal Bhasa and Nepali, died on August 16, 2026, aged 91. Born in Kathmandu in July 1935, he was…
Raja Sen death at age 70
Raja Sen, the Indian film director known for Damu and Desh, died on August 16, 2026, aged 70. Born in Kolkata on November 10, 1955, he built a career as…
Rex A. Wade obituary: died at age 89
Rex A. Wade, an American historian and author, died on August 16, 2026, aged 89. Born in Piedmont, he was also known as Rex Arvin Wade and taught Russian and…
Peggy Webber dies at age 100
Peggy Webber, an American actress known for work in Dragnet, Macbeth and The Smurfs, died on August 15, 2026, aged 100. Born in Laredo, Texas, on September 15, 1925, she…
Alex Mukulu passed away at age 72
Alex Mukulu, the Ugandan playwright, died on August 15, 2026, aged 72. Born in Misebe in Ssingo County, Buganda, in 1954, he studied at Kololo Secondary School before going on…
Alexander Danilin, died aged 66
Alexander Danilin, a Russian writer, psychotherapist, psychiatrist and physician-narcologist, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. Born on March 12, 1960, he was also known as Alexander Gennadievich Danilin, Aleksandr…
Jason Arday obituary: died at age 41
Jason Arday, the British academic and author of Great and Unfortunate Things: A Memoir, died on August 14, 2026, aged 41. A former sociology professor, he taught at the University…
Obituary: Dave Marsh, dead at age 76
Dave Marsh, the American music critic and radio talk show host, died on August 14, 2026, at age 76. Born in Detroit on March 1, 1950, he grew up in…
George W. Cave dies at age 97
George W. Cave, an American author and CIA agent, died on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Cave was a retired CIA operations officer and an authority on Iran who later…
Mohamed Serghini passes away at age 96
Mohamed Serghini, the Moroccan poet, died on August 14, 2026, at age 96. Born on January 1, 1930, he was a male poet of Moroccan nationality who studied at the…
Brian Holguin obituary: died at age 62
Brian Holguin, an American cartoonist and comic book writer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 62. He was known for his work on Aria and Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and also…
James T. Laney, died aged 98
James T. Laney, an American minister, professor and diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1993 to 1996 and as president of Emory University from 1977 to…
Sumit Sarkar has died at age 87
Sumit Sarkar, the Indian historian of modern India, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. A Marxist historian and writer, he was among the leading scholars of modern Indian history…
Death of Bill Kerby at age 88
Bill Kerby, an American screenwriter whose credits included the 1970s films "Hooper" and "The Rose," died on August 13, 2026, aged 88. Born in the United States, he built a…
Brendan Myers dies at age 52
Brendan Myers, a Canadian philosopher and author, died on August 13, 2026, aged 52. Also known as Brendan Cathbad Myers, he was recognized for work in environmental philosophy, Druidry and…
Gregor Benko passed away at age 82
Gregor Benko, the American music historian behind the International Piano Archives, died on August 13, 2026, aged 82. Born in Cleveland on August 4, 1944, he built a career as…
Janez Kajzer dies at 88
Janez Kajzer, a Slovene writer and journalist, died on August 13, 2026, aged 88. Born in Vižmarje in 1938, he built a career across several corners of the literary and…
Ahn Pan-seok death at age 65
Ahn Pan-seok, the South Korean film and television director behind Behind the White Tower, Secret Affair and Heard It Through the Grapevine, died on August 12, 2026, aged 65, of…
Mikhail Gulko obituary: died at age 95
Mikhail Gulko, the singer-songwriter known for his Russian chanson performances, died on August 12, 2026, at age 95. Born Mikhail Aleksandrovich Gulko on July 23, 1931, in Kharkiv, in the…
M. P. Parameswaran passes away at age 91
M. P. Parameswaran, the Indian physicist, nuclear engineer and educationist who played an important role in the Indian nuclear programme, died on August 11, 2026, aged 91. Born in Kiralur…
Krishneswara Rao dead, Krishneswara Rao, Indian actor and writer
Krishneswara Rao, an Indian actor and writer known for his work in Telugu films and stage theatre, died on August 11, 2026. Born in Guntur district, he was credited as…
Len Brown dead at age 84
Len Brown, an American comic book writer and creator of Mars Attacks, died on August 11, 2026, aged 84. Born in Brooklyn on October 7, 1941, he also worked as…
Ward Churchill dies at age 78
Ward Churchill, the American academic, activist and writer known for his controversial work on political dissent and Native Americans, died on August 11, 2026, aged 78. Born Ward LeRoy Churchill…
Riemke Ensing, died aged 87
Riemke Ensing, a New Zealand poet, died on August 10, 2026, aged 87. Born in Groningen in the Netherlands, she moved to New Zealand in 1951 and went on to…
Death of Vincent Dieutre at age 65
Vincent Dieutre, the French film director and screenwriter known for Beirut Hotel, died on August 10, 2026, aged 65. Born in Le Petit-Quevilly on 25 November 1960, he built a…
Death of Slavko Pregl at age 80
Slavko Pregl, a Slovenian writer, editor and publisher, died on August 10, 2026, aged 80. Best known for his youth literature, he was born in Šentvid on September 9, 1945,…
Vladimír Páral passes away at age 94
Vladimír Páral, the Czech fiction writer, died on August 10, 2026, aged 94. Born in Prague, he studied chemical engineering at a branch of the University of Chemistry and Technology…
Death of Ben Jones at age 84
Ben Jones, the American politician and actor best known for playing Cooter Davenport on The Dukes of Hazzard and serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993,…
Death of Maurice Buttin at age 97
Maurice Buttin, the French lawyer and writer, died on August 9, 2026, aged 97. Born in Meknes on December 10, 1928, he joined the Rabat Bar Association in 1954 and…
John Crowley passes away at age 83
John Crowley, the American writer and screenwriter whose works of fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction included Little, Big, the Ægypt sequence and Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of…
Obituary: David H. Lund, dead at age 86
David H. Lund, an American philosopher and writer, died on August 9, 2026, aged 86. Born David Herbert Lund in Roseau, Minnesota, on October 23, 1939, he studied at the…
Reggie Bannister dies at 80
Reggie Bannister, the American actor best known for playing Reggie in the Phantasm film series, died on August 9, 2026, aged 80, of complications from dementia and Parkinson's disease. Born…
John Rousmaniere, died aged 82
John Rousmaniere, an American author and sailor whose work focused on sailing and historical writing, died on August 8, 2026, at age 82. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he wrote 30…
Joaquim Sarmento dies at age 74
Joaquim Sarmento, a Portuguese lawyer, politician and former deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, died on August 8, 2026, aged 74. Born Joaquim Sebastião Sarmento da Fonseca Almeida on…
Rachel Naomi Remen, died aged 88
Rachel Naomi Remen, an American pediatrician, died on August 8, 2026, aged 88. Born in New York City on February 8, 1938, she became known as an author and teacher…
C. J. Binks dead at age 94
C. J. Binks, the Tasmanian writer and educator known also as Christopher John Binks, died on August 8, 2026, aged 94. A long-time figure in Tasmanian education, he taught at…
Andrzej Gąsiorowski, died aged 75
Andrzej Gąsiorowski, a Polish academic and historian, died on August 7, 2026, aged 75. He worked as a research scientist at the Stutthof concentration camp Museum in Sztutowo and as…
Wimal Dissanayake died at age 86
Wimal Dissanayake, a Sri Lankan writer, literary critic and scholar of Asian cinema and communication theory, died on August 7, 2026, aged 86. He was known as a creative writer…
Roger Penn dies at age 77
Roger Penn, the British sociologist and writer, died on August 7, 2026, aged 77. Born Roger David Penn in Lytham, Lancashire, he studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1972,…
Death of Keiko Kishi at age 93
Keiko Kishi, the Japanese actress known for films including The Makioka Sisters, Snow Country and The Rendezvous, died on August 7, 2026, aged 93. Born in Yokohama on August 11,…
Carola von Braun passed away at age 78
Carola von Braun, a German politician and women's rights activist who served in the Bundestag, the Senate of Berlin and the Berlin House of Representatives, died on August 7, 2026,…
Boris Conunov dies at 79
Boris Conunov, a Moldovan director and screenwriter, died on August 7, 2026, aged 79. Born in Tashkent on May 24, 1947, he was identified in Russian-language sources as a Soviet…
Zuca Sardan died at age 92
Zuca Sardan, the literary name of Carlos Felipe Alves Saldanha, died on August 6, 2026, aged 92, in Hamburg, Germany, of complications from a fall. A Brazilian poet, writer, draughtsman…
Martha Rivers Ingram dies at age 90
Martha Rivers Ingram, the American business executive who led Ingram Industries as chairman and chief executive officer, died on August 6, 2026, aged 90. Known also as Martha Robinson Rivers…
Flo Anthony death at age 74
Flo Anthony, an American gossip columnist, died on August 6, 2026, aged 74. Known also as Florence Anthony, she worked as a journalist and writer, building a career that included…
Rashid al-Rajih death at age 81
Rashid al-Rajih, a Saudi academic and politician, died on August 6, 2026, aged 81. Born in Turubah, Saudi Arabia, in 1944, he was a Saudi national who studied at the…
Matthew Jukes dies at age 58
Matthew Jukes, a British wine writer, died on August 6, 2026, aged 58. Based in the United Kingdom, he was known for publishing annual wine reports including the 100 Best…
Francesco Guccini passes away at age 86
Francesco Guccini, the Italian singer-songwriter known for songs such as "Auschwitz," died on August 6, 2026, aged 86. Born in Modena on June 14, 1940, he became one of Italy’s…
Bilgesu Erenus dies at 82
Bilgesu Erenus, the Turkish playwright, screenwriter and activist, died on August 5, 2026, aged 82. She began her career at the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation as a producer and…
Tim Jeal passes away at age 81
Tim Jeal, the British biographer and novelist, died on August 5, 2026, aged 81. Born in London on January 27, 1945, as John Julian Timothy Jeal, he built a career…
Gloria Carlin died at age 84
Gloria Carlin, a Canadian actress known for The Hanoi Hilton, died on August 5, 2026, at age 84. Carlin’s screen work included the 1987 war drama, and she is identified…
Didier Decoin death at age 81
Didier Decoin, the French writer and screenwriter who won the Prix Goncourt in 1977, died on August 5, 2026, aged 81. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt on March 13, 1945, he began…
Oladele Awobuluyi death at age 89
Oladele Awobuluyi, a Nigerian linguist, professor and author known for his work in Yoruba linguistics, African linguistics and language policy, died on August 5, 2026, aged 89. Born on July…
Ken Mitchell dies at age 85
Ken Mitchell, the Canadian poet, novelist and playwright who helped shape Saskatchewan’s literary life, died on August 5, 2026, aged 85. Born Kenneth Ronald Mitchell in Moose Jaw on December…
Andrzej Morozowski passed away at age 69
Andrzej Morozowski, a Polish journalist and television personality, died on August 4, 2026, aged 69. Born in Warsaw on June 13, 1957, he studied theatre at the Warsaw Department of…
Andrzej Morozowski passed away at age 69
Andrzej Morozowski, a Polish journalist and television personality, died on August 4, 2026, aged 69. Born in Warsaw on June 13, 1957, he studied theatre at the Warsaw Department of…
Victor Niederhoffer passed away at age 82
Victor Niederhoffer, an American investor and writer, died on August 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Brooklyn on December 10, 1943, he was also known as a statistician, economist and…
Peter Gill died at age 86
Peter Gill, the Welsh theatre director, playwright and actor, died on August 4, 2026, aged 86. Born in Cardiff on 7 September 1939, he was educated at St Illtyd's College…
Paula Alí has died at age 88
Paula Alí, the Cuban actress known for films including Letters from the Park, The Elephant and the Bicycle and The Waiting List, died on August 3, 2026, aged 88. Born…
Jimmy Cricket obituary: died at age 80
Jimmy Cricket, the Irish comedian born James Mulgrew, died on August 3, 2026, aged 80. Born in Cookstown in 1945, he came to prominence in the 1970s and went on…
Obituary: Monika Helfer, dead at age 78
Monika Helfer, the Austrian writer, died on August 2, 2026, aged 78. Born in Au on October 18, 1947, she became one of Austria’s noted literary voices and was invested…
Rod Liddle death at age 66
Rod Liddle, the English journalist and broadcaster, died on August 2, 2026, aged 66. Born in Abbey Wood on April 1, 1960, he worked at the BBC and became editor…
Nariman Hasanzade passed away at age 95
Nariman Hasanzade, the Azerbaijani poet and playwright, died on August 1, 2026, aged 95. Born Nariman Alimammad oglu Hasanzade on February 18, 1931, in Poylu, he was educated at Baku…
Death of Thottam Rajasekharan at age 95
Thottam Rajasekharan, an Indian writer, died on August 1, 2026, aged 95. Born in Thiruvananthapuram on September 24, 1930, he was known as a Malayalam writer and was active from…
Monty Roberts dies at 91
Monty Roberts, the American horse trainer and author who promoted natural horsemanship through his Join-Up International organization, died on August 1, 2026, aged 91. Born Marvin Earl Roberts in Salinas,…
Nariman Hasanzade passed away at age 95
Nariman Hasanzade, the Azerbaijani poet, died on August 1, 2026, aged 95. Born Nəriman Əliməmməd oğlu Həsənzadə on February 18, 1931, in Poylu in Qazakh district, he was also known…
Glenn A. Baker died at age 74
Glenn A. Baker, the Australian journalist, author and broadcaster, died on July 31, 2026, aged 74. A leading voice on rock music, he wrote books and magazine articles on music…
Antonio Mazzi passed away at age 96
Antonio Mazzi, an Italian Roman Catholic priest, died on July 31, 2026, aged 96. Born in Verona in 1929, he became known as a presbyter, educator and writer, and devoted…
Kailash Chandra Pant died at age 90
Kailash Chandra Pant, an Indian writer and journalist who promoted the Hindi language, died on July 31, 2026, aged 90. He served as general secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Rashtrabhasha…
Scott Hylands death at age 83
Scott Hylands, a Canadian actor known for work on screen and stage, died on July 31, 2026, aged 83. Born Scott Hylands Douglas in Vancouver, he began his career in…
Marģers Vestermanis, died aged 100
Marģers Vestermanis, the Latvian Holocaust survivor and historian who founded the museum Jews in Latvia and later served as its former director, died on July 30, 2026, aged 100. Born…
Iga Cembrzyńska obituary: died at age 87
Iga Cembrzyńska, the Polish actress known for films including The Saragossa Manuscript, Salto and Hydrozagadka, died on July 30, 2026, aged 87. Born Maria Elżbieta Cembrzyńska in Radom on July…
Death of Sokrat Khanyan at age 96
Sokrat Khanyan, the Armenian poet and literary critic, died on July 30, 2026, aged 96. Born on January 22, 1930, in Ağbulaq, he was also known as a translator, prose…
Nirmal Purja dead at age 43
Nirmal Purja, the Nepali mountaineer known as Nims or Nimsdai, died on July 30, 2026, aged 43, after an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Born on July 25, 1983, in…
Eugene Benson died at age 98
Eugene Benson, a writer and Canadian professor of English, died on July 30, 2026, aged 98. Born in Northern Ireland in 1928, he went on to build a career as…
Death of James Munkres at age 95
James Munkres, an American mathematician known for his work in topology and the Hungarian algorithm, died on July 30, 2026, aged 95. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he studied at Nebraska…
Death of Simone Forti at age 91
Simone Forti, the American postmodern dancer, choreographer and artist whose work helped shape postmodern dance, died on July 29, 2026, aged 91. Born in Florence on March 25, 1935, she…
Cairns Craig dies at 77
Cairns Craig, the Scottish literary scholar who specialised in Scottish and modernist literature, died on July 29, 2026, aged 77. Born Robert Cairns Craig in Kilmarnock in 1949, he built…
Carol Lynn Pearson dies at age 86
Carol Lynn Pearson, the American poet, author and screenwriter known for works including "Cipher in the Snow," died on July 29, 2026, at age 86. Born Carol Lynn Wright in…
Raymond J. Smit death at age 97
Raymond J. Smit, an American politician who served in the Michigan House of Representatives, died on July 29, 2026, aged 97. A Republican, he represented his district in the state…
Kristina Carlson died at age 76
Kristina Carlson, the Finnish writer, died on July 28, 2026, aged 76. Born in Helsinki on July 31, 1949, she worked as a journalist, poet and novelist and also wrote…
Raoul Vaneigem has died at age 92
Raoul Vaneigem, the Belgian writer known for his 1967 book The Revolution of Everyday Life, died on July 28, 2026, aged 92. Born in Lessines in 1934, he studied romance…
Vedat Yenerer, died aged 61
Vedat Yenerer, a Turkish journalist and writer, died on July 28, 2026, aged 61. Born in Istanbul on January 2, 1965, he built a career as a war correspondent and…
Konrad Beikircher passed away at age 80
Konrad Beikircher, the German cabaret artist, musician and author, died on July 28, 2026, aged 80. Born Konrad Johann Aloysia Beikircher in Bruneck, South Tyrol, he built a career that…
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza passed away at age 95
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, the Colombian journalist and writer who also worked as a diplomat, died on July 28, 2026, aged 95. Born in Tunja in 1932, he was identified in…
Benjamin Alire Sáenz has died at age 71
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the American author of "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe," died on July 28, 2026, at age 71. A poet, novelist and writer of…
Jim Hopkins dead at age 79
Jim Hopkins, the New Zealand broadcaster and politician who served on the Waitaki District Council, died on July 27, 2026, aged 80. Born on January 1, 1946, Hopkins was known…