Deaths Famous Dead Writers
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
Jim Northrup
American Ojibwe writer · 01 August 2016 · August 2016 · August 1
Eric Bergren
American screenwriter (The Elephant Man · 14 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 14 · Éric
Fazil Iskander
Abkhaz writer · 31 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 31
Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
Polish-born writer and inventor · 21 July 2016 · Pogonowski · July 2016 · July 21
Mahasweta Devi
Indian writer (Hajar Churashir Maa) · 28 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 28
James Alan McPherson
American writer (Elbow Room) · 27 July 2016 · July 2016 · McPherson · July 27
Tim LaHaye
American Christian faith author · 25 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 25
Neelabh Ashk
70 Indian Hindi poet · 23 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 23
John Pidgeon
69 British broadcaster and writer · 19 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 19
Robert Mason Pollock
American screenwriter (Dynasty · 11 July 2016 · July 2016 · July 11 · Pollock