Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Bill Warren
American film historian and critic · 07 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 7
Pierre Tchernia
French screenwriter and voice actor (Asterix) · 08 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 8
Austin Kalish
American television writer (All in the Family · 05 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 5
Gloria Naylor
American novelist (The Women of Brewster Place) · 03 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 3
Gary Reed
American comic book writer · 03 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 3
Richard D. Trentlage
American advertising executive and jingle writer (Oscar Meyer · 21 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 21 · Trentlage
Oscar Brand
Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter and author · 30 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 30
Terence Brady
Btitish writer and actor · 29 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 29
Agnes Nixon
American television writer and producer (creator of One Life to Live and All My Children) · 28 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 28 · Agnès
Jack Nadel
American entrepreneur and author · 24 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 24
Robert Weinberg
American science fiction author · 25 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 25
Nahed Hattar
Jordanian writer · 25 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 25
Bojja Tharakam
Indian writer and social activist · 17 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 17
Amy van Singel
American journalist and blues writer (Living Blues) · 19 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 19 · Singel
Curtis Hanson
American film director and screenwriter (L.A. Confidential · 19 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 19
D. Keith Mano
American evangelical author · 14 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 14 · Mano
David Kyle
American science fiction writer · 18 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 18
Valeri Alikov
Russian Hill Mari poet · 11 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 11
Richard Whittington-Egan
British writer and criminologist · 14 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 14
W. P. Kinsella
Canadian writer (Shoeless Joe) · 16 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 16 · Kinsella
Dennis Shryack
American screenwriter (The Gauntlet · 14 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 14
Gavin Frost
British Wiccan author · 11 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 11
Massimo Felisatti
Italian author and screenwriter (Silent Action · 07 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 7
Claude-Jean Philippe
French film critic and filmmaker · 11 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 11
Paul Green
American author and politicial commentator · 10 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 10
Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera
Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and author · 06 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 6 · Mahathera
Pran Kurup
Indian entrepreneur and author · 03 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 3
Håkon M.E. Sundaune
Norwegian writer and librarian · 19 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 19 · Sundaune
Darren Seals
American activist (Black Lives Matter) and writer · 06 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 6
Anna Dewdney
American children's author and illustrator · 03 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 3
Richard Neville
Australian writer and editor (Oz) · 04 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 4
Eileen Younghusband
British WW2 officer and author · 02 September 2016 · September 2016 · September 2
Zenzo Matsuyama
Japanese screenwriter and director · 27 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 27
Kashmiri Lal Zakir
Indian poet and novelist · 31 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 31 · Zakir
Nabile Farès
Algerian-born French novelist · 30 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 30 · Fares
Don Welch
American poet and academic · 06 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 6
Joyce Carol Thomas
African-American poet · 13 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 13 · Thomas
Scott Williams
American writer and wrestling historian · 17 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 17
Víctor Mora
Spanish comic book writer · 17 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 17 · Victor
T. A. Razzaq
Indian screenwriter (Perumazhakkalam) · 15 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 15 · Razzaq
Thomas Steinbeck
American writer and war photographer · 11 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 11
Panchu Arunachalam
Indian film writer and director · 09 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 9
Elliot Tiber
American artist and writer (Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot · 03 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 3
Jouko Turkka
Finnish theatre director and writer · 22 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 22
Peter Gossage
New Zealand Maori author · 30 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 30