Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Francisco Tarajano Pérez
Spanish poet
Died on Tuesday November 13th 2018
Stuart H. Walker
American Olympic yachtsman and writer
Died on Tuesday November 13th 2018
John Faunce Roach
American film producer and screenwriter (Paradise Alley)
Died on Tuesday November 13th 2018
Jerry Gant
American visual artist and poet
Died on Monday November 12th 2018
Olga Harmony
Mexican writer
Died on Monday November 12th 2018
Leonid Zrelov
Russian writer
Died on Monday November 12th 2018
Juris Jurjevics
Latvian-born American writer and publisher
Died on Saturday November 10th 2018
Vladislav Ahromenko
Belorussian writer
Died on Saturday November 10th 2018
Bijan Zarmandili
Italian writer and journalist
Died on Saturday November 10th 2018
Roland Mahauden
Belgium actor and screenwriter
Died on Friday November 9th 2018
Mykola Bosak
Ukrainian journalist and writer
Died on Friday November 9th 2018
Janet Paisley
Scottish writer and poet
Died on Friday November 9th 2018
Mikola Bosak
Ukrainian journalist and writer
Died on Friday November 9th 2018
Vladimir Fromer
Russian-born Israeli writer and jourmalist
Died on Friday November 9th 2018
Askhal Ahmetkhuzhin
Bashkir poet and literary translator
Died on Friday November 9th 2018
Bertil Mårtensson
Swedish author
Died on Wednesday November 7th 2018
Eric Schiller
American chess player and author
Died on Tuesday November 6th 2018
Ali Squalli Houssaini
Moroccan writer
Died on Monday November 5th 2018
Kenneth Roy
Scottish print and TV journalist and author
Died on Monday November 5th 2018
Laxman Masturiya
Indian poet
Died on Sunday November 4th 2018
Eustaquio Sosa
Uruguayan poet
Died on Sunday November 4th 2018
Erno Polgar
Hungarian writer
Died on Saturday November 3rd 2018
Warren Dalton Jr
American columnist
Died on Thursday November 1st 2018
Bogdan Zholdak
Ukrainian screenwriter
Died on Thursday November 1st 2018
Bohdan Zholdak
Ukrainian screenwriter
Died on Thursday November 1st 2018
Victor Marchetti
American CIA agent and author
Died on Thursday November 1st 2018
María Irene Fornés
Cuban-American playwright (Sarita
Died on Wednesday October 31st 2018
Bogdan Joldak
Ukrainian screenwriter
Died on Wednesday October 31st 2018
Dave Duncan
award-winning Scottish-Canadian fantasy and science fiction author.
Died on Wednesday October 31st 2018
John Taylor Gatto
American author and teacher
Died on Tuesday October 30th 2018
Sangharakshita
British Buddhist teacher and writer
Died on Tuesday October 30th 2018
Hideo Osabe
Japanese author
Died on Sunday October 28th 2018
Ntozake Shange
American playwright (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf) and poet
Died on Saturday October 27th 2018
Angela Bianchini
Italian author and literary critic
Died on Saturday October 27th 2018
Thomas Keating
American Trappist monk and author
Died on Friday October 26th 2018
Tony Hoagland
American poet
Died on Wednesday October 24th 2018
Raymond Fraser
Canadian writer
Died on Wednesday October 24th 2018
Alojz Rebula
Italain-born Slovenian writer
Died on Wednesday October 24th 2018
Na. Muthuswamy
Indian theatre artist and playwright
Died on Wednesday October 24th 2018
Rein Põder
Estonian writer and publisher
Died on Wednesday October 24th 2018
François Montmaneix
French poet and writer
Died on Wednesday October 24th 2018
Louis O’Neill
Canadian writer
Died on Tuesday October 23rd 2018
Pyotr Moryakov
Russian poet and journalist
Died on Tuesday October 23rd 2018
Robert Saladrigas
Spanish writer
Died on Monday October 22nd 2018
Fang Nanjiang
Chinese novelist and major general of the People's Armed Police
Died on Monday October 22nd 2018
Gaétan Gervais
Canadian historian and author
Died on Sunday October 21st 2018
Sue Hubbell
American author
Died on Friday October 19th 2018
Abdrahman Asylbek
Kazakh poet
Died on Friday October 19th 2018
Daniel Honoré
French writer
Died on Friday October 19th 2018
Jan Jakob Tønseth
Norwegian author
Died on Wednesday October 17th 2018
David Helwig
Canadian poet
Died on Wednesday October 17th 2018
Bo Cavefors
Swedish writer and journalist
Died on Wednesday October 17th 2018
Roberto Burgos Cantor
Colombian writer
Died on Wednesday October 17th 2018
Arto Paasilinna
Finnish novelist.
Died on Tuesday October 16th 2018
Robert Bausch
American writer
Died on Sunday October 14th 2018
Milton Gendel
American-Italian photographer and art critic
Died on Saturday October 13th 2018
Fatos Arapi
Albanian poet and writer
Died on Friday October 12th 2018
Hebe Uhart
Argentina writer
Died on Friday October 12th 2018
Mikhail Aslamov
Russian poet
Died on Thursday October 11th 2018
Armas Mishin
Russian poet
Died on Thursday October 11th 2018
Zíbia Gasparetto
Brazilian spiritualist writer
Died on Thursday October 11th 2018
Ira Gasman
American theatre writer and lyricist
Died on Wednesday October 10th 2018
Sherhan Murtaza
Kazakhstan writer and translator
Died on Tuesday October 9th 2018
Dirk Ayelt Kooiman
Dutch writer
Died on Monday October 8th 2018
Oleg Pavlov
Russian writer
Died on Monday October 8th 2018
Ray Galton
British radio and television scriptwriter (Galton and Simpson)
Died on Saturday October 6th 2018
Lady Judith Kazantzis
British poet
Died on Saturday October 6th 2018
Paul Verhuyck
Belgian writer
Died on Saturday October 6th 2018
Ian Hutoryanski
Russian correspondent (Radio Mayak) and writer
Died on Saturday October 6th 2018
Edgardo Rivera Martínez
Peruvian writer
Died on Saturday October 6th 2018
Audrey Wells
American film director and screenwriter (Under the Tuscan Sun
Died on Friday October 5th 2018
Heo Su-gyeong
South Korean poet
Died on Thursday October 4th 2018
Derek Wheatley
English barrister and novelist
Died on Thursday October 4th 2018
Manuel Ríos Ruiz
Spanish poet and flamencologist
Died on Wednesday October 3rd 2018
Antonina Maari
Lithuanian writer
Died on Wednesday October 3rd 2018
Michael Freedland
British journalist and biographer
Died on Wednesday October 3rd 2018
Pascale Casanova
Frencj literary critic
Died on Wednesday October 3rd 2018
Peter C. Bjarkman
American baseball historian and author
Died on Wednesday October 3rd 2018
Peggy Sue Gerron
American author
Died on Tuesday October 2nd 2018
Vasyl Budyanskyi
Ukrainian stage actor and poet
Died on Tuesday October 2nd 2018
Vasili Budyanski
Ukrainian stage actor and poet
Died on Tuesday October 2nd 2018
Julio Fausto Aguilera
Guatemalan writer and poet
Died on Monday October 1st 2018
Yarema Hoyan
Ukrainian writer and journalist
Died on Saturday September 29th 2018
Yarema Goyan
Ukrainian writer and journalist
Died on Saturday September 29th 2018
Joe Masteroff
American playwright (Cabaret
Died on Friday September 28th 2018
Tamaz Chiladze
Georgian writer and poet
Died on Friday September 28th 2018
James Lawton
British sports journalist and biographer
Died on Friday September 28th 2018
Aleksey Tzybin
Russian writer
Died on Friday September 28th 2018
Ruslan Deriglazov
Russian poet and journalist
Died on Friday September 28th 2018
David Wong Louie
American writer
Died on Thursday September 27th 2018
Kavita Mahajan
Indian writer
Died on Thursday September 27th 2018
John Cunliffe
English children's book author
Died on Thursday September 27th 2018
Olav Angell
Norwegian poet and jazz musician
Died on Wednesday September 26th 2018
Terry Moore
Canadian broadcaster and author
Died on Wednesday September 26th 2018
Ismail Fahd Ismail
Kuwaiti novelist and literary critic
Died on Wednesday September 26th 2018
Herbert Meier
Swiss writer and translator
Died on Wednesday September 26th 2018
Pavel Řezníček
Czech poet
Died on Tuesday September 25th 2018