Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
James Alan McPherson
American writer (Elbow Room)Died on Wednesday July 27th 2016
Tim LaHaye
American Christian faith authorDied on Monday July 25th 2016
Neelabh Ashk
70 Indian Hindi poetDied on Saturday July 23rd 2016
Jean Ricardou
French writerDied on Monday July 25th 2016
Jürg Frischknecht
Swiss journalist and authorDied on Monday July 18th 2016
Francis M. Gibbons
American biographerDied on Saturday July 16th 2016
John Pidgeon
69 British broadcaster and writerDied on Tuesday July 19th 2016
Robert Mason Pollock
American screenwriter (DynastyDied on Monday July 11th 2016
William H. McNeill
Canadian-American historian and authorDied on Friday July 8th 2016
Miriam Pielhau
German television presenter and authorDied on Tuesday July 12th 2016
Lorenzo Amurri
Italian authorDied on Tuesday July 12th 2016
Carolyn See
American authorDied on Wednesday July 13th 2016
Péter Esterházy
Hungarian authorDied on Thursday July 14th 2016
Billy Marshall Stoneking
Australian poetDied on Friday July 15th 2016
Helen Bailey
British authorDied on Friday July 15th 2016
Carlos Gorostiza
Argentine playwrightDied on Tuesday July 19th 2016
Bommi Baumann
German author and political activistDied on Tuesday July 19th 2016
Rokusuke Ei
Japanese author and lyricist ("Sukiyaki")Died on Monday July 11th 2016
Sally Beauman
British writerDied on Monday July 11th 2016
Wolfram Siebeck
German journalist and food criticDied on Thursday July 7th 2016
Jacques Rouffio
French film director and screenwriterDied on Friday July 8th 2016
Cory Taylor
Australian writerDied on Tuesday July 5th 2016
William Hawkins
Canadian poetDied on Monday July 4th 2016
Abbas Kiarostami
Iranian film director and screenwriter (Close-UpDied on Monday July 4th 2016
Markus Werner
Swiss writerDied on Sunday July 3rd 2016
Joe Jares
American sports journalist and authorDied on Saturday July 2nd 2016
Shirley Fenton Huie
Australian authorDied on Thursday June 23rd 2016
Robert Nye
British poetDied on Saturday July 2nd 2016
Michael Cimino
American screenwriter and director (The Deer Hunter)Died on Saturday July 2nd 2016
Elie Wiesel
American writerDied on Saturday July 2nd 2016
Margaret Bakkes
South African authorDied on Wednesday June 29th 2016
Ion Ianoși
Romanian-born Israeli writer and essayistDied on Friday July 1st 2016
Yves Bonnefoy
French poetDied on Friday July 1st 2016
Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere
Indian writerDied on Friday July 1st 2016
Geoffrey Hill
British poetDied on Thursday June 30th 2016
Silvia Tennenbaum
American authorDied on Monday June 27th 2016
Elechi Amadi
Nigerian writerDied on Wednesday June 29th 2016
Alvin Toffler
American writer and futurist (Future ShockDied on Monday June 27th 2016
Barbara Goldsmith
American authorDied on Sunday June 26th 2016
Leland Bardwell
Irish poetDied on Tuesday June 28th 2016
Gopal Gurung
Nepali politician and authorDied on Friday June 10th 2016
Maurice G. Dantec
French science fiction writer and musicianDied on Saturday June 25th 2016
Kavalam Narayana Panicker
Indian dramatistDied on Sunday June 26th 2016
Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo
Indian writerDied on Saturday June 25th 2016
Adam Small
South African writer and poetDied on Saturday June 25th 2016
Michael Herr
American authorDied on Thursday June 23rd 2016
Pierre Pachet
French authorDied on Tuesday June 21st 2016
Samir Roychoudhury
Indian writer (Hungry Generation)Died on Wednesday June 22nd 2016
Guda Anjaiah
Indian poetDied on Tuesday June 21st 2016
Michelle Cliff
Jamaican-born American writerDied on Sunday June 12th 2016
Michele Cliff
Jamaican-born American writerDied on Sunday June 12th 2016
Bill Richmond
American screenwriter and producer (The Carol Burnett ShowDied on Saturday June 4th 2016
Lois Duncan
American writerDied on Wednesday June 15th 2016
Fred Caruso
American writer and director (The Big Gay Musical)Died on Monday June 13th 2016
Rhoda Blumberg
American authorDied on Monday June 6th 2016
Elayne Rapping
American writerDied on Tuesday June 7th 2016
Maurice Pons
French novelist and short story writerDied on Wednesday June 8th 2016
Rezső Keszthelyi
Hungarian writerDied on Wednesday June 8th 2016
Mihai Dragolea
Romanian prose writerDied on Monday June 6th 2016
André Warusfel
French Mathematician and writerDied on Monday June 6th 2016
Nicola Tanda
Italian literary critic and philologistDied on Saturday June 4th 2016
Evtim Evtimov
Bulgarian poetDied on Wednesday June 8th 2016
Adolfo Prieto
Argentinian literary criticDied on Friday June 3rd 2016
Manuel Maristany
Spanish photographer and writerDied on Saturday June 4th 2016
Alexander Glezer
Russian poetDied on Saturday June 4th 2016
William Wright
American authorDied on Saturday June 4th 2016
Theresa Poh Lin Chan
Singaporean writer and actressDied on Monday June 6th 2016
Marita Lindquist
Finnish writerDied on Tuesday June 7th 2016
Sir Peter Shaffer
British playwright and screenwriterDied on Monday June 6th 2016
Erkin Vohidov
Uzbek poetDied on Monday May 30th 2016
Farid Seiful-Mulyukov
Uzbek-born Russian journalist and writerDied on Saturday June 4th 2016
Antti Hyry
Finnish writerDied on Saturday June 4th 2016
Tsuyoshi Makino
Japanese authorDied on Friday May 20th 2016
Svetozar Koljević
Serbian authorDied on Sunday May 29th 2016
Erika Berger
German television presenter and authorDied on Sunday May 15th 2016
Carla Lane
English television writer (The Liver BirdsDied on Tuesday May 31st 2016
Javare Gowda
Indian writerDied on Monday May 30th 2016
Mathew Mattam
Indian Malayalam authorDied on Sunday May 29th 2016
Daniel Kunene
South African-American poetDied on Friday May 27th 2016
R. G. Jadhav
Indian literary criticDied on Friday May 27th 2016
Gyula Kosice
Slovak-born Argentine poetDied on Wednesday May 25th 2016
Yang Jiang
Chinese playwrightDied on Wednesday May 25th 2016
Vera Henriksen
Norwegian writerDied on Monday May 23rd 2016
Robert W. Gutman
American musicologist and biographer of Richard Wagner and Wolfgang Amadeus MozartDied on Wednesday May 18th 2016
Alexandre Astruc
French film critic and directorDied on Thursday May 19th 2016