Deaths Famous Dead Writers
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
Nisar Nasik
Pakistani poet (Dil Dil Pakistan) · 03 July 2019 · July 2019 · July 3
Jonas Juškaitis
Latvian poet and translator · 30 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 30 · Jonáš
Borka Pavićević
Serbian dramaturge and newspaper columnist · 30 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 30 · Writers
Sebastián Alarcón
Chilean film director and screenwriter (Night Over Chile) · 30 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 30
Kirsti Simonsuuri
Finnish writer and poet · 29 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 29
Santosh Rana
Indian writer and politician · 29 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 29 · Raña
Abburi Chayadevi
Indian fiction writer · 28 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 28
Justin Raimondo
American author and the editorial director of Antiwar.com · 28 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 28
Cecil Woolf
English author and publisher · 27 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 27
Xu Zhongyu
Chinese writer and literary scholar · 26 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 26
William F. Brown
American playwright (The Wiz) · 24 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 24 · Brown
Judith Krantz
American author (Scruples · 23 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 23
Brian Taggert
American screenwriter (Visiting Hours · 21 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 21
Warren Niesłuchowski
German-born Polish-American artist and writer · 21 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 21
Pavel Chihaia
Romanian novelist and political dissident · 20 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 20
Norman Stone
Scottish historian and author · 20 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 20
Molara Ogundipe
Nigerian writer and women's rights activist · 20 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 20
Rubens Ewald Filho
Brazilian film critic · 20 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 20 · Filho
D. K. Chowta
Indian writer and artist · 19 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 19 · Chowta
Yehuda (Leo) Levi
American-Israeli rabbi and writer · 18 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 18 · Levi
Nikolay Agaphonov
Russian writer and protopriest in the Russian Orthodox Church · 18 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 18
Charles A. Reich
American scholar and author (The Greening of America) · 18 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 18 · Reich
Elio Cruz
British Gibraltarian playwright · 14 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 14
Peter Whitehead
English writer and filmmaker (Wholly Communion · 13 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 13
Ahmed Essop
Indian-born South African writer · 13 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 13
Juan José Alonso Millán
Spanish playwright and film scriptwriter (Cristóbal Colón · 13 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 13 · Millan
Enrico Nascimbeni
Italian singer and poet · 12 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 12
William D. Wittliff
American screenwriter (Lonesome Dove · 10 June 2019 · June 2019 · Wittliff · June 10
Girish Karnad
Indian actor and screenwriter · 10 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 10
Milan Asadurov
Bulgarian science fiction writer · 09 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 9
Noa Pothoven
Dutch mental health activist and author · 07 June 2019 · June 2019 · June 7 · Dutch