Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Simon Perchik
American poet
Died on Sunday June 19th 2022
Kazue Morisaki
Japanese poet and writer
Died on Saturday June 18th 2022
René-Nicolas Ehni
French writer and playwright
Died on Saturday June 18th 2022
Patrick Breuzé
French journalist and writer
Died on Friday June 17th 2022
Shauneille Perry
American stage director and playwright
Died on Thursday June 16th 2022
Zinovy Roizman
Russian film and animation director and screenwriter (Empire Under Attack)
Died on Thursday June 16th 2022
Gopi Chand Narang
Indian literary critic
Died on Wednesday June 15th 2022
Joyce Burditt
American television writer (Diagnosis Murder
Died on Wednesday June 15th 2022
Joel Whitburn
American author and music historian
Died on Tuesday June 14th 2022
Valeriu Râpeanu
Romanian literary critic
Died on Tuesday June 14th 2022
A. B. Yehoshua
Israeli writer
Died on Tuesday June 14th 2022
Igor Dudinsky
Russian artist and art critic
Died on Sunday June 12th 2022
Baxter Black
American cowboy poet and veterinarian
Died on Sunday June 12th 2022
Robert M. Utley
American author and historian
Died on Friday June 10th 2022
Birkha Bahadur Muringla
Indian writer
Died on Thursday June 9th 2022
Erasmus Schöfer
German writer
Died on Wednesday June 8th 2022
Thubten Samphel
Tibetan writer and government official
Died on Tuesday June 7th 2022
Zinoviy Royzman
Russian film and animation director and screenwriter
Died on Monday June 6th 2022
Aziz Gardi
Kurdish writer and translator
Died on Monday June 6th 2022
George Lamming
Barbadian novelist and poet
Died on Sunday June 5th 2022
György Moldova
Hungarian writer
Died on Saturday June 4th 2022
Luis Monje Ciruelo
Spanish journalist and writer
Died on Saturday June 4th 2022
Ann Turner Cook
American author and model (Gerber Baby)
Died on Saturday June 4th 2022
Liliana de Curtis
Italian actress (Orient Express) and writer
Died on Friday June 3rd 2022
Na Yeon-suk
South Korean screenwriter
Died on Friday June 3rd 2022
Joseph Zoderer
German-speaking Italian writer
Died on Wednesday June 1st 2022
Jacques Nicolaou
French comic book author
Died on Tuesday May 31st 2022
Friedrich Christian Delius
German writer
Died on Tuesday May 31st 2022
Donald Kemp Ross
American public interest lawyer and author
Died on Monday May 30th 2022
Boris Pahor
Slovenian writer
Died on Monday May 30th 2022
Laimonas Tapinas
Lithuanian writer
Died on Sunday May 29th 2022
Vadim Saralidze
Russian writer and violinist
Died on Saturday May 28th 2022
Rajat Kumar Kar
Indian playwright
Died on Friday May 27th 2022
Claude Michelet
French writer
Died on Friday May 27th 2022
Alexander Astin
American educator and writer
Died on Thursday May 26th 2022
Lívia Gyarmathy
Hungarian film director and screenwriter
Died on Thursday May 26th 2022
Teodor Kukuruza
Ukrainian poet
Died on Thursday May 26th 2022
Eduardo Lizalde
Mexican poet
Died on Wednesday May 25th 2022
Maja Lidia Kossakowska
Polish fantasy writer
Died on Monday May 23rd 2022
Miro Silvera
Italian writer
Died on Monday May 23rd 2022
Dervla Murphy
Irish travel writer and cyclist
Died on Monday May 23rd 2022
Jeffrey Escoffier
American author and activist
Died on Sunday May 22nd 2022
Jaakko Syrjä
Finnish author
Died on Sunday May 22nd 2022
Roger Angell
American baseball author
Died on Friday May 20th 2022
Donald K. Ross
American public interest lawyer and author
Died on Friday May 20th 2022
Muthaffar al-Nawab
Iraqi poet and political critic
Died on Friday May 20th 2022
Griselda El Tayib
British-born Sudanese writer and cultural anthropologist
Died on Friday May 20th 2022
Yaakov Sharett
Israeli author
Died on Friday May 20th 2022
Jean-Louis Comolli
French film critic (Cahiers du Cinéma) and director
Died on Thursday May 19th 2022
Oleksandr Smyk
Ukrainian singer-songwriter and poet
Died on Thursday May 19th 2022
Olexandr Smik
Ukrainian singer-songwriter and poet
Died on Thursday May 19th 2022
Jim Murphy
American author
Died on Thursday May 19th 2022
Domingo Villar
Spanish writer (Death on a Galician Shore)
Died on Wednesday May 18th 2022
Norberto Ávila
Portugal playwright
Died on Wednesday May 18th 2022
Christian Giudicelli
French novelist and literary critic
Died on Tuesday May 17th 2022
Kay Mellor
British actress and writer (Children's Ward
Died on Tuesday May 17th 2022
François Blais
Canadian writer
Died on Monday May 16th 2022
Salah Montaser
Egyptian writer and journalist
Died on Sunday May 15th 2022
Anne de Leseleuc
French writer
Died on Saturday May 14th 2022
Alexei Tsvetkov
Russian poet
Died on Thursday May 12th 2022
Vlastislav Toman
Czech writer and journalist
Died on Thursday May 12th 2022
Jeroen Brouwers
Dutch writer
Died on Wednesday May 11th 2022
Katsumoto Saotome
Japanese author
Died on Wednesday May 11th 2022
Patricia A. McKillip
American author (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Died on Wednesday May 11th 2022
Víctor Chamorro
Spanish writer
Died on Tuesday May 10th 2022
Midge Decter
American non-fiction writer
Died on Monday May 9th 2022
John R. Cherry III
American film director and screenwriter (Ernest Saves Christmas
Died on Sunday May 8th 2022
Kim Chi-ha
Korean poet and playwright
Died on Sunday May 8th 2022
Mykola Adamenko
Ukrainian poet
Died on Sunday May 8th 2022
George Pérez
American comic book artist and writer
Died on Saturday May 7th 2022
Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author
Died on Saturday May 7th 2022
Serhiy Dyachenko
Ukrainian writer and screenwriter (Dark Planet)
Died on Friday May 6th 2022
Sergey Dyachenko
Ukrainian writer and screenwriter (Dark Planet)
Died on Friday May 6th 2022
Philip J. Hilts
American journalist and author
Died on Wednesday May 4th 2022
Larry Woiwode
American writer
Died on Wednesday May 4th 2022
Biancamaria Frabotta
Italian writer
Died on Tuesday May 3rd 2022
George Yanok
American television writer and producer (Hee Haw
Died on Tuesday May 3rd 2022
Jan Kostrhun
Czech writer and politician
Died on Monday May 2nd 2022
Michel Vinaver
French writer and dramatist
Died on Monday May 2nd 2022
Joanna Barnes
American actress and writer
Died on Saturday April 30th 2022
Anatoliy Bayukanskiy
Russian writer and publicist
Died on Saturday April 30th 2022
Harold Livingston
American novelist and screenwriter (Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Died on Friday April 29th 2022
Elspeth Barker
British novelist and journalist
Died on Thursday April 28th 2022
Kristian Lundberg
Swedish author
Died on Thursday April 28th 2022
Bente Hansen
Danish writer and women's rights activist
Died on Wednesday April 27th 2022
Lee Oi-soo
South Korean writer
Died on Tuesday April 26th 2022
Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan
Iranian literary critic
Died on Tuesday April 26th 2022
Paolo Mauri
Italian literary critic and journalist
Died on Monday April 25th 2022
Barbara Hall
British crossword compiler and advice columnist
Died on Sunday April 24th 2022
Eric Chappell
English screenwriter (The Squirrels
Died on Sunday April 24th 2022
Binapani Mohanty
Indian novelist
Died on Sunday April 24th 2022
Clay Reynolds
American writer and literary critic
Died on Sunday April 24th 2022
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
American novelist
Died on Saturday April 23rd 2022
Marco Innocenti
Italian comic book artist and writer
Died on Friday April 22nd 2022
Philip Beidler
American writer
Died on Thursday April 21st 2022