Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Ramashankar Yadav
Indian poet and activist · 08 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 8
Albert Bontridder
Belgian architect and writer · 13 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 13
Peter Ryan
Australian newspaper columnist · 13 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 13 · Writers
Steve Chimombo
Malawian writer · 11 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 11
Jon Gadsby
British-born New Zealand writer and comedian (A Week of It) · 12 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 12
Sidney Huntington
American indigenous leader and writer · 08 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 8
Akiyuki Nosaka
Japanese novelist (Grave of the Fireflies · 09 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 9
John Trudell
American Indian activist and poet · 08 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 8
Chuck Williams
American business executive and author · 06 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 6
Rodney Milnes
British opera critic · 04 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 4
Vladimir Zheleznikov
Russian children's author · 03 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 3
Joseph F. Girzone
American Catholic priest and author · 29 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 29 · Girzone
A. Sheriff
Indian screenwriter (Avalude Ravukal) · 02 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 2
Christopher Middleton
British poet and translator · 29 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 29
Pío Caro Baroja
Spanish director and writer · 30 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 30 · Baroja · Pio
Fatema Mernissi
Moroccon feminist writer and sociologist · 30 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 30
Mark Behr
Tanzanian-born South African author (The Smell of Apples) · 27 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 27
Shigeru Mizuki
Japanese manga author (GeGeGe no Kitaro · 30 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 30
Theo Kars
Dutch writer and translator · 10 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 10
Lex Jacoby
Luxembourgian writer · 20 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 20
Lennart Hellsing
Swedish author and translator · 25 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 25
Richard Russell
American finance writer · 21 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 21
Hazel Adair
British television writer · 22 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 22
Betty Groff
American chef and cookbook author · 08 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 8
November 2015 Paris attacks
music critic and journalist (Les Inrockuptibles) · 13 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 13
Guillaume B. Decherf
French music critic and journalist (Les Inrockuptibles) · 13 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 13 · Decherf
A. Veluppillai
Sri Lankan Tamil academic and author · 01 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 1
Lauretta Ngcobo
South African author and activist · 03 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 3
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Indian director and poet · 07 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 7
Alex Poinsett
American magazine editor (Ebony) and author · 23 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 23
Craig Barnes
American political author · 04 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 4
Melissa Mathison
American screenwriter (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · 04 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 4
Colin Welland
British actor and screenwriter (Chariots of Fire) · 03 November 2015 · November 2015 · November 3
Thomas Blatt
Polish writer and Holocaust survivor · 31 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 31 · Blatt,
Üstün Akmen
Turkish theatre critic · 31 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 31
Andy Danziger
American pilot and newspaper columnist (New York Daily News) · 30 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 30 · Writers
Julia Jones
British scriptwriter (Quiet as a Nun · 09 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 9
Charles Boeckman Jr.
American author and jazz clarinetist/saxophonist · 12 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 12
Penelope Houston
British film critic and editor (Sight & Sound) · 28 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 28
Philip French
British film critic (BBC · 27 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 27
Jerome Kass
American writer for Broadway · 22 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 22 · Jérôme
Çetin Altan
Turkish writer and politician · 22 October 2015 · October 2015 · October 22 · Cetin