Deaths Famous Dead Writers
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
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