Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Gordon Bressack
American television writer (Pinky and the Brain · 31 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 31
Sean Stephenson
American motivational speaker and writer · 30 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 30
Biba Caggiano
Italian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author · 29 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 29
Chad Holt
American writer and actor · 29 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 29
Peter Kempadoo
Guyanese writer · 29 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 29
Sogyal Rinpoche
Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer (The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying) · 28 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 28
Mir Tanha Yousafi
Pakistani poet · 28 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 28 · Yousafi
Massimo Mattioli
Italian cartoonist and comics writer and artist (Squeak the Mouse · 26 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 26
Ann Snitow
American writer (Dissent) · 24 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 24
Gordan Mihić
Serbian screenwriter (Black Cat · 23 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 23
Ernesto Lariosa
Filipino Visayan writer and poet in Cebuano language · 23 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 23 · Filipino
Russ Conway
American sports journalist and hockey beat writer (Boston Bruins) · 21 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 21
Giulio Chierchini
Italian comics writer and artist · 18 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 18
Sasson Somekh
Iraqi-born Israeli writer and translator · 18 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 18
Patricia Louisianna Knop
American screenwriter (Lady Oscar · 17 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 17 · Knop
Peter Fonda
American actor and screenwriter (Easy Rider · 16 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 16
Claire Cloninger
American Christian songwriter and author · 16 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 16
Barry Hughart
American fantasy writer · 16 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 16
Madan Mani Dixit
Nepali writer · 15 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 15 · Dixit
Ugo Sansonetti
Italian writer and masters athlete · 14 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 14
Artak Voskanyan
Armenian poet · 14 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 14
Robyn Léwis
Welsh author · 13 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 13 · Lewis · Welsh
Wu Ningkun
Chinese writer and translator · 11 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 11
Toni Morrison
American Novelist and Nobel Prize Laureate · 06 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 6
Schoschana Rabinovici
French-born Lithuanian-Israeli Holocaust survivor and writer · 05 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 5 · French
Don Banks
American NFL writer (Sports Illustrated · 05 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 5
Kanti Bhatt
Indian Gujarati author and journalist · 04 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 4
Martin Mayer
American economist and writer (The Bankers) · 02 August 2019 · August 2019 · August 2
Jean Arasanayagam
Sri Lankan poet and fiction writer · 31 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 31
Tuvya Ruebner
Israeli poet and translator · 29 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 29
M. K. Seetharam Kulal
Indian Tulu-Kannada dramatist · 28 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 28 · Kulal
Scott Rubenstein
American television writer and story editor · 28 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 28
Giorgio Arlorio
Italian film director and screenwriter (The Shortest Day · 27 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 27
Christoforos Liontakis
Greek poet and translator · 26 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 26 · Greek
Attoor Ravi Varma
Indin poet and translator · 26 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 26 · Varma
Pierre Péan
French journalist and author · 26 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 26 · French
Paul Krassner
American author and political activist · 21 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 21
Rosa María Britton
Panamanian doctor and novelist · 20 July 2019 · July 2019 · Britton · July 20
Mattia Torre
Italian screenwriter (Boris) · 19 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 19
Kerry Reed-Gilbert
Australian author and Aboriginal rights activist · 19 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 19
Edward Shotter
British Anglican priest and author · 18 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 18
Raja Dhale
Indian writer and activist · 16 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 16
Himayat Ali Shair
Pakistani poet and writer · 16 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 16 · Shair
Victor Sosnora
Russian poet and playwright · 13 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 13
Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar
Indian writer and art curator · 13 July 2019 · Gorakshkar · July 2019 · July 13
Marie Borroff
American poet and translator · 11 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 11
Noel Whelan
Irish politician and writer · 11 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 11
Neil Westergaard
American newspaper editor and columnist (The Denver Post · 08 July 2019 · July 2019 · Writers · July 8
Jaime Posada Díaz
Colombian writer and politician · 03 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 3 · Diaz