Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Rahat Khan
Bangladeshi journalist and novelistDied on Saturday August 29th 2020
Gilda Cordero-Fernando
Filipino writer and visual artistDied on Saturday August 29th 2020
Eugene McCabe
Irish novelist and playwrightDied on Thursday August 27th 2020
Keri Kaa
New Zealand educator and writerDied on Thursday August 27th 2020
André-Paul Duchâteau
Belgian novelistDied on Wednesday August 26th 2020
Jean Mauriac
French writer and journalistDied on Tuesday August 25th 2020
Gail Sheehy
American authorDied on Tuesday August 25th 2020
Lynn M. Hilton
American politician and authorDied on Monday August 24th 2020
Sálvio Dino
Brazilian writerDied on Monday August 24th 2020
Gaspard Hons
Belgian poetDied on Monday August 24th 2020
Masakazu Yamazaki
Japanese playwright and literary criticDied on Monday August 24th 2020
Sir Ken Robinson
British educationalist and authorDied on Saturday August 22nd 2020
Kenneth Bernard
American playwrightDied on Friday August 21st 2020
Wojciech Karpiński
Polish writer and historian of ideasDied on Thursday August 20th 2020
Charles Allen
British writer and historianDied on Tuesday August 18th 2020
Madhav Prasad Ghimire
Nepali poet (Gauri)Died on Tuesday August 18th 2020
Dinos Christianopoulos
Greek poetDied on Tuesday August 18th 2020
Boris Purgalin
Russian screenwriter and songwriterDied on Tuesday August 18th 2020
Stuart Christie
Scottish anarchist and writerDied on Sunday August 16th 2020
Richard Gwyn
Canadian authorDied on Sunday August 16th 2020
William Arnett
American art collector and writerDied on Friday August 14th 2020
Osvaldo Wehbe
Argentinian writer and journalistDied on Friday August 14th 2020
George Christy
American columnist (Hollywood ReporterDied on Thursday August 13th 2020
Gulnazar Keldi
Tajik lyricist (Surudi Milli) and poetDied on Thursday August 13th 2020
Mike Finley
American poetDied on Wednesday August 12th 2020
Naima El Bezaz
Moroccan-Dutch writerDied on Monday August 10th 2020
Jacobo Langsner
Romanian-born Uruguayan writer and playwrightDied on Monday August 10th 2020
Kurt Luedtke
American screenwriter (Out of AfricaDied on Sunday August 9th 2020
Lottie Louise Riekehof
American ASL interpreter and authorDied on Sunday August 9th 2020
Enio Mainardi
Braazilian writer and journalistDied on Sunday August 9th 2020
Manabendra Bandyopadhyay
Bengali-Indian author and translatorDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Doris Buffett
American philanthropist and writerDied on Thursday August 6th 2020
Isidora Bjelica
Serbian prose writerDied on Wednesday August 5th 2020
Eric Bentley
British-born American theatre critic (The New Republic) and playwrightDied on Wednesday August 5th 2020
Mike Clark
American film critic (USA Today)Died on Wednesday August 5th 2020
Sadia Dehlvi
Indian writer and columnistDied on Wednesday August 5th 2020
Lawrence Laurent
American television critic (Washington Post)Died on Wednesday August 5th 2020
Susan Ellison
British-born American Science Fiction author (Man of Many Parts)Died on Tuesday August 4th 2020
Shirley Ann Grau
American writer (The Keepers of the House)Died on Tuesday August 4th 2020
Freya Pausewang
German authorDied on Monday August 3rd 2020
Ruth Weiss
American poetDied on Monday August 3rd 2020
Hedi Hauser
German children’s books authorDied on Sunday August 2nd 2020
Julio Diamante
Spanish film director and screenwriterDied on Sunday August 2nd 2020
José Vicente Anaya
Mexican essayistDied on Saturday August 1st 2020
Pablo Aranda
Spanish writerDied on Saturday August 1st 2020
Marie-Christine Lévesque
Canadian authorDied on Saturday August 1st 2020
Giorgio Todde
Italian writerDied on Friday July 31st 2020
Karen Berg
American author and founder of the Kabbalah Centre InternationalDied on Thursday July 30th 2020
Diana E. H. Russell
South African feminist activist and writerDied on Wednesday July 29th 2020
Kina Kadreva
Bulgarian children’s book writerDied on Tuesday July 28th 2020
Lluís Serrahima
Spanish writerDied on Monday July 27th 2020
Harun Hashim Rashid
Palestinian poetDied on Monday July 27th 2020
Nagindas Sanghavi
Indian political columnistDied on Monday July 27th 2020
Betty van Garrel
Dutch art journalist and writerDied on Sunday July 26th 2020
George Boyd
Canadian playwright and news anchor (CBC Newsworld)Died on Sunday July 26th 2020
El indio Rómulo
Colombian poetDied on Saturday July 25th 2020
Ludmila Vachtová
Czech historian and art criticDied on Saturday July 25th 2020
Rene Carpenter
American columnist and television personalityDied on Saturday July 25th 2020
Maurizio Calvesi
Italian art criticDied on Friday July 24th 2020
Maurizio Calvesi
Italian art criticDied on Friday July 24th 2020
Maurizio Calvesi
Italian art criticDied on Friday July 24th 2020
Halldóra K. Thoroddsen
Icelandic writerDied on Friday July 24th 2020
Maurizio Calvesi
Italian art criticDied on Friday July 24th 2020
Mike Adams
American columnistDied on Friday July 24th 2020
Luigi Latini De Marchi
Italian director and screenwriterDied on Thursday July 23rd 2020
Roland Desné
French philosopher and writerDied on Thursday July 23rd 2020
Josephine Cox
English authorDied on Monday July 20th 2020
Shukrullo
Uzbek poetDied on Sunday July 19th 2020
Juan Marsé
Spanish novelistDied on Sunday July 19th 2020
Sapardi Djoko Damono
Indonesian poet Died on Sunday July 19th 2020
Vishnu Raj Atreya
Nepali writer and poetDied on Saturday July 18th 2020
C. T. Vivian
American author and civil rights activistDied on Friday July 17th 2020
Florence Littauer
American self-help authorDied on Friday July 17th 2020
Delphine Zanga Tsogo
Cameroonian writerDied on Thursday July 16th 2020
Susan Quimpo
Filipino activist and authorDied on Thursday July 16th 2020
Joanna Cole
American children's writer (The Magic School Bus)Died on Wednesday July 15th 2020
Elias Farkouh
Jordanian novelistDied on Wednesday July 15th 2020
Stella Nangonová
Czech philologist and writerDied on Wednesday July 15th 2020
Adalet Ağaoğlu
Turkish novelist and playwrightDied on Tuesday July 14th 2020
Hasan al-Lawzi
Yemeni writer and politicianDied on Monday July 13th 2020