Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Angelo Bissesarsingh
Trinidadian historian and author · 05 February 2017 · February 2017 · February 5
Marc Spitz
American writer (We Got the Neutron Bomb) · 04 February 2017 · February 2017 · February 4
Bano Qudsia
Pakistani writer (Raja Gidh) · 04 February 2017 · February 2017 · February 4
Dritëro Agolli
Albanian writer · 04 February 2017 · February 2017 · February 4
Annie Saumont
French author and translator · 03 February 2017 · February 2017 · February 3
Predrag Matvejević
Bosnian-Croatian writer and political activist · 02 February 2017 · February 2017 · February 2
Bharati Mukherjee
Indian-born American writer and academic · 01 February 2017 · February 2017 · February 1
Howard Frank Mosher
American author (Where the Rivers Flow North) · 29 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 29 · Mosher
Ernst M. Binder
Austrian poet and theater director · 28 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 28 · Binder
Harry Mathews
American author (The Conversions · 26 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 26
Mark Baumer
American poet and activist · 24 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 24
Christopher Byron
American financial and investigative writer · 24 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 24
Harry J. Middleton
American writer and library director · 20 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 20 · Middleton
Klaus Huhn
German sports journalist and writer · 20 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 20
Eldar Kuliev
Kyrgyz Soviet screenwriter and author · 19 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 19
Patrick Henry
American animator and writer (Family Guy · 18 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 18
Babette Cole
English children's author · 15 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 15
Lynn Phillips
American television writer (Mary Hartman · 14 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 14
Alan Surgal
American screenwriter (Mickey One) · 13 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 13
Horacio Guarany
Argentine folkloric singer and writer · 13 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 13
William Peter Blatty
American novelist and screenwriter (The Exorcist) · 13 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 13 · Blatty
Claude Lebey
French food critic · 12 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 12
Paul Goble
English-born American author and illustrator (The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses) · 07 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 7
Sam Lovullo
American television writer and producer (Hee Haw · 06 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 6
John Berger
English art critic and painter · 02 January 2017 · January 2017 · January 2
M. D. Harmon
American newspaper columnist (Portland Press Herald) · 30 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 30 · Writers · Harmon
Kamal Mani Dixit
Nepalese writer · 30 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 30 · Dixit
M.D. Harmon
American newspaper columnist (Portland Press Herald) · 30 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 30 · Writers · Md.
Annelise Hovmand
Danish director and screenwriter (Be Dear to Me) · 28 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 28
Michel Déon
French novelist and literary columnist · 28 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 28 · Deon
Sibylle Boden-Gerstner
German costume designer and fashion writer · 28 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 28
Elvio Porta
Italian screenwriter and film director (What if Gargiulo Finds Out?) · 27 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 27
Buddha Sayami
Nepalese politician and poet · 27 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 27
Aleksander Shlepyanov
Russian film script writer and art expert · 25 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 25
Meto Jovanovski
Macedonian writer · 24 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 24
Larry Que
Filipino newspaper publisher and columnist · 23 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 23 · Writers
David Berry
American playwright (The Whales of August) · 23 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 23
Robert Stiller
Polish author and translator · 17 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 17
Hans-Eric Hellberg
Swedish author (Kram) and journalist · 15 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 15
T. Neil Davis
American geophysicist and writer · 14 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 14 · Davis
Shirley Hazzard
Australian-born American writer (The Bay of Noon) · 13 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 13
Robert Sumner
American Baptist pastor and author · 13 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 13
E. R. Braithwaite
Guyanese novelist (To Sir · 13 December 2016 · December 2016 · Braithwaite · December 13
Fred Secombe
Welsh priest and writer · 12 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 12
Alice Furlaud
American journalist and essayist (NPR) · 11 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 11
A. A. Gill
British writer and restaurant critic (death announced on this date) · 10 December 2016 · December 2016 · December 10 · Gill