Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Gérard Piouffre
French writer and historian · 21 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 21 · French · Gerard
Ian Whitcomb
English singer-songwriter ("You Turn Me On") and author · 20 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 20
Sirio Maccioni
Italian restaurateur and writer · 19 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 19
Leonie Kooiker
Dutch children's book writer (Gouden Griffel winner and Vlag en Wimpel winner) · 19 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 19 · Dutch
Michael Gilkes
Guyanese writer · 18 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 18
Roger Beatty
American television writer (The Carol Burnett Show) · 17 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 17
Ken Walibora
Kenyan author and journalist (Siku Njema) · 15 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 15
Antonio Ferres
Spanish writer and poet · 15 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 15
Donna Kauffman
American romance novelist and columnist · 15 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 15
Michael McCarthy
American television writer (Saturday Night Live) · 14 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 14
Joel M. Reed
American filmmaker and screenwriter · 14 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 14 · Reed
Michael W. R. Davis
Detroit historian and author · 13 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 13 · Davis
Pip Baker
British screenwriter (Doctor Who) · 13 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 13
Joseph Tusiani
Italian poet and translator · 13 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 13
C. S. Rao
Indian screenwriter (Pranam Khareedu · 13 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 13 · Rao
Jacques De Decker
Belgian writer and author · 13 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 13 · Decker
Saul Turteltaub
American comedy writer and producer · 12 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 12
William R. Polk
American foreign policy consultant and author · 11 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 11 · Polk
Giuseppe Aldo Rossi
Italian screenwriter (Giallo club. Invito al poliziesco) · 11 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 11 · Rossi
Iris M. Zavala
Puerto Rican author · 11 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 11 · Zavala
Bernard Epin
French writer and literary critic · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7 · French
Arthur Whistler
American ethnobotanist and author · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7
Patricia Bosworth
American actress (The Nun's Story) and author · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7
Tim Robinson
English writer and cartographer · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7
Rodrigo Pesántez Rodas
Ecuadorian writer and poet · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7 · Rodas
C. W. Nicol
Welsh-born Japanese writer · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7 · Nicol · Welsh
Rao Pingru
Chinese comic book author (Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China) · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7
Pentti Linkola
Finnish deep ecologist and writer · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7
Jean Little
Taiwanese-born Canadian writer (Mine for Keeps · 07 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 7
Yuri Bondarev
Russian writer and screenwriter (Liberation) · 01 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 1
Amankhan Alimuly
Kazakh poet · 01 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 1
Rik Kuethe
Dutch writer and journalist (Elsevier (magazine)) · 01 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 1 · Dutch
William Wolf
American author and theater critic · 01 April 2020 · April 2020 · April 1
Joe Baltake
American film critic (Sacramento Bee · 28 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 28
Maurice Berger
American cultural historian and art critic · 24 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 24
Terrence McNally
American playwright (Ragtime · 24 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 24
Tarcisio Stramare
Italian biblist and writer · 24 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 24
Susham Bedi
Indian writer and academic · 23 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 23
Tarciso Stramare
Italian biblist and writer · 23 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 23
Eldred D. Jones
Sierra Leonean literary critic · 22 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 22 · Jones
Cengiz Bektaş
Turkish architect and writer · 21 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 21
Michael Broadbent
British wine critic and writer · 19 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 19
Giwi Margwelaschwili
German-Georgian writer and philosopher · 13 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 13
Yang Mu
Taiwanese poet and essayist · 13 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 13
Earl Pomerantz
Canadian-born American television writer and producer (Major Dad) · 09 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 9
Mart Crowley
American playwright (The Boys in the Band) · 09 March 2020 · March 2020 · March 9 · Märt