Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Qazi Anwar Hussain
Bangladeshi writer (Masud Rana)Died on Wednesday January 19th 2022
Shaoli Mitra
Indian actress and playwrightDied on Sunday January 16th 2022
Peter Seabrook
British gardening writer and television broadcasterDied on Sunday January 16th 2022
Paul Carter Harrison
American playwright and academicDied on Saturday January 15th 2022
Jim Forest
American writer and lay theologianDied on Saturday January 15th 2022
Ron Goulart
American authorDied on Saturday January 15th 2022
Dave Wolverton
American writer (The Runelords)Died on Friday January 14th 2022
Thiago de Mello
Brazilian poetDied on Friday January 14th 2022
Maria Aurora Couto
Indian writer and educationalistDied on Friday January 14th 2022
Noureddine Sammoud
Tunisian authorDied on Friday January 14th 2022
S. Ramesan
Indian poetDied on Friday January 14th 2022
Terry Teachout
American playwright and critic (The Wall Street Journal)Died on Friday January 14th 2022
Juhan Lepasaar
Estonian naturalist and writerDied on Thursday January 13th 2022
Herbert Achternbusch
German writerDied on Thursday January 13th 2022
Iraj Pezeshkzad
Iranian writerDied on Thursday January 13th 2022
Friedrich Kurrent
Austrian architect and authorDied on Thursday January 13th 2022
Brandon Murphy
American screenwriter (Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard)Died on Thursday January 13th 2022
Ciro Durán
Colombian screenwriter and film director (Gamín)Died on Wednesday January 12th 2022
Tim Rosaforte
American golf writer (Sports IllustratedDied on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Liu Xianping
Chinese writerDied on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Joyce Eliason
American television writer and producer (The Jacksons: An American DreamDied on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Manglu Charan Biswal
Indian playwright and writer (Bhukha)Died on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Nūr al-Dīn Ṣammūd
Tunisian authorDied on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Boris Khazanov
Russian writer and translatorDied on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Øystein Lønn
Norwegian writerDied on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Razmik Davoyan
Armenian poetDied on Tuesday January 11th 2022
Stanislav Rudolf
Czech writerDied on Monday January 10th 2022
Rezo Amashukeli
Georgian poetDied on Monday January 10th 2022
Dušan Klein
Czech film director and screenwriter (How the World Is Losing PoetsDied on Monday January 10th 2022
Chandrashekhar Patil
Indian Kannada language poetDied on Monday January 10th 2022
Antoni Dalmau i Ribalta
Spanish politician and writerDied on Sunday January 9th 2022
Russell Lees
American-born Canadian video game screenwriter (Assassin's CreedDied on Sunday January 9th 2022
Murray Peden
Canadian Air Force pilot and authorDied on Sunday January 9th 2022
Antoni Dalmau
Spanish politician and writerDied on Saturday January 8th 2022
Michael Wilmington
American film critic (The Chicago Tribune)Died on Friday January 7th 2022
Alexander Timofeevskiy
Russian writerDied on Friday January 7th 2022
Aleksandr Timofeevskiy
Russian poetDied on Friday January 7th 2022
Yoram Taharlev
Israeli songwriter and poetDied on Thursday January 6th 2022
Richard Freed
American music criticDied on Thursday January 6th 2022
Jay Wolpert
American television producer and screenwriterDied on Tuesday January 4th 2022
Adam Maldzis
Belarusian historian and literary criticDied on Monday January 3rd 2022
Gergely Homonnay
Hungarian writer and activistDied on Monday January 3rd 2022
Gianni Celati
Italian writer and translatorDied on Monday January 3rd 2022
Joan Soler i Amigó
Spanish pedagogue and writerDied on Sunday January 2nd 2022
Basti Vaman Shenoy
Indian writer and political activistDied on Sunday January 2nd 2022
Max Julien
American actor (The Mack) and screenwriter (Cleopatra Jones)Died on Sunday January 2nd 2022
Jacques Drillon
French writer and journalistDied on Friday December 31st 2021
Vladimir Gorikker
Russian film director and screenwriter (Mozart and SalieriDied on Friday December 31st 2021
Serge Lentz
French writer and journalistDied on Friday December 31st 2021
Ricardo Bellveser
Spanish writer and journalistDied on Thursday December 30th 2021
Harry Colomby
American talent manager (Michael Keaton) and screenwriter (Johnny DangerouslyDied on Thursday December 30th 2021
Bianca Garavelli
Italian writer and literary criticDied on Thursday December 30th 2021
Nino Filastò
Italian lawyer and writerDied on Thursday December 30th 2021
Susan Palo Cherwien
American poetDied on Wednesday December 29th 2021
Tesfaye Gebreab
Eritrean writerDied on Wednesday December 29th 2021
Tesfai Gebreab
Eritrean writerDied on Wednesday December 29th 2021
Burt Prelutsky
American television writer (M*A*S*HDied on Wednesday December 29th 2021
Birgit Vanderbeke
German writer (Das Muschelessen)Died on Tuesday December 28th 2021
Mameve Medwed
American novelistDied on Tuesday December 28th 2021
Andrew Vachss
American crime fiction authorDied on Tuesday December 28th 2021
Chaim Walder
Israeli rabbit and authorDied on Monday December 27th 2021
Bernard Dewulf
Belgian poet and journalistDied on Monday December 27th 2021
E. O. Wilson
American biologist (Sociobiology: The New Synthesis) and writer (On Human NatureDied on Monday December 27th 2021
Agustín Saavedra Weise
Bolivian diplomat and writerDied on Monday December 27th 2021
Kev Reynolds
English outdoor writerDied on Monday December 27th 2021
Frank Mula
American television writer and producer (The SimpsonsDied on Monday December 27th 2021
Gheorghe Chiriță
Moldovan translator and writerDied on Sunday December 26th 2021
Madhavan Ayyappath
Indian poet and translatorDied on Saturday December 25th 2021
Albert Likhanov
Russian writer and screenwriterDied on Saturday December 25th 2021
Jaime Comas
Spanish screenwriter (A Fistful of DollarsDied on Friday December 24th 2021
K. V. Raju
Indian film director and screenwriter (Yuddha KaandaDied on Friday December 24th 2021
K. S. Sethumadhavan
Indian film director and screenwriterDied on Friday December 24th 2021
Omar Saavedra Santis
Chilean writerDied on Thursday December 23rd 2021
Thomas Kinsella
Irish poetDied on Wednesday December 22nd 2021
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Indian poet and translatorDied on Wednesday December 22nd 2021
Linda Whetstone
British libertarian and free market campaigner and authorDied on Tuesday December 21st 2021
Hans Blohm
German-Canadian photographer and authorDied on Monday December 20th 2021
Madhur Kapila
Indian novelist and literary criticDied on Monday December 20th 2021
Klaus Wagenbach
German author and publisherDied on Monday December 20th 2021
Mushtari Shafi
Bangladeshi writerDied on Monday December 20th 2021
Oleg Haslavsky
Russian poet and translatorDied on Monday December 20th 2021
Juan Mediano Durán
Spanish writerDied on Saturday December 18th 2021
Eve Babitz
American artist and author (Eve's HollywoodDied on Saturday December 18th 2021
Margareta Ekström
Swedish author and translatorDied on Friday December 17th 2021
Sérgio Vieira
Mozambican politician and poetDied on Thursday December 16th 2021
Mustafa Murrar
Palestinian writerDied on Thursday December 16th 2021
bell hooks
American authorDied on Wednesday December 15th 2021