Richard Whittington-Egan
British writer and criminologist
Died on Wednesday September 14th 2016
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Severino Santiapichi
Italian magistrate and writer
Died on Friday September 16th 2016
Edward Albee
American playwright
Died on Friday September 16th 2016
W. P. Kinsella
Canadian writer (Shoeless Joe)
Died on Friday September 16th 2016
Dennis Shryack
American screenwriter (The Gauntlet
Died on Wednesday September 14th 2016
Gareth F. Williams
Welsh author
Died on Wednesday September 14th 2016
Rolf Losansky
German film director and screenwriter
Died on Thursday September 15th 2016
Gavin Frost
British Wiccan author
Died on Sunday September 11th 2016
Ermanno Rea
Italian novelist
Died on Tuesday September 13th 2016
Massimo Felisatti
Italian author and screenwriter (Silent Action
Died on Wednesday September 7th 2016
Claude-Jean Philippe
French film critic and filmmaker
Died on Sunday September 11th 2016
Paul Green
American author and politicial commentator
Died on Saturday September 10th 2016
Dalmiro Sáenz
Argentine playwright
Died on Sunday September 11th 2016
Mario Spezi
Italian journalist and author
Died on Friday September 9th 2016
Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera
Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and author
Died on Tuesday September 6th 2016
Pran Kurup
Indian entrepreneur and author
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2016
Maria Costa
Italian poet
Died on Wednesday September 7th 2016
Joseph Hone
Irish spy writer
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2016
Håkon M.E. Sundaune
Norwegian writer and librarian
Died on Friday August 19th 2016
Joseph Chilton Pearce
American author
Died on Tuesday August 23rd 2016
Darren Seals
American activist (Black Lives Matter) and writer
Died on Tuesday September 6th 2016
Anna Dewdney
American children's author and illustrator
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2016
Peter Oresick
American poet
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2016
Cyril C. Perera
Sri Lankan author
Died on Sunday September 4th 2016
Isidore Okpewho
Nigerian novelist and critic
Died on Sunday September 4th 2016
Richard Neville
Australian writer and editor (Oz)
Died on Sunday September 4th 2016
Maria Isabel Barreno
Portuguese writer
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2016
Eileen Younghusband
British WW2 officer and author
Died on Friday September 2nd 2016
Kalthoum Bornaz
Tunisian screenwriter
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2016
Zenzo Matsuyama
Japanese screenwriter and director
Died on Saturday August 27th 2016
Nalinidhar Bhattacharya
Indian poet and literary critic
Died on Friday September 2nd 2016
Kashmiri Lal Zakir
Indian poet and novelist
Died on Wednesday August 31st 2016
Nabile Farès
Algerian-born French novelist
Died on Tuesday August 30th 2016
Liane Aukin
British writer
Died on Thursday August 18th 2016
Shahid Qadri
Bangladeshi poet
Died on Sunday August 28th 2016
Henri de Turenne
French journalist and screenwriter
Died on Thursday August 25th 2016
Michel Butor
French writer
Died on Wednesday August 24th 2016
Geneton Moraes Neto
Brazilian writer and journalist
Died on Monday August 22nd 2016
Vagn Lundbye
Danish author
Died on Saturday August 20th 2016
David Attwooll
British poet and publisher
Died on Friday August 5th 2016
Jean-Guy Allard
Canadian journalist and author
Died on Tuesday August 16th 2016
Joyce Carol Thomas
African-American poet
Died on Saturday August 13th 2016
Ignacio Padilla
Mexican writer
Died on Saturday August 20th 2016
Scott Williams
American writer and wrestling historian
Died on Wednesday August 17th 2016
Víctor Mora
Spanish comic book writer
Died on Wednesday August 17th 2016
Solange Fasquelle
French writer
Died on Monday August 15th 2016
Gurdial Singh
Indian writer
Died on Tuesday August 16th 2016
T. A. Razzaq
Indian screenwriter (Perumazhakkalam)
Died on Monday August 15th 2016
Hermann Kant
German writer
Died on Sunday August 14th 2016
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Belgian writer
Died on Saturday August 13th 2016
Alison Piepmeier
American writer
Died on Friday August 12th 2016
Thomas Steinbeck
American writer and war photographer
Died on Thursday August 11th 2016
Panchu Arunachalam
Indian film writer and director
Died on Tuesday August 9th 2016
Vijaya Nandasiri
Sri Lankan actor and dramatist
Died on Monday August 8th 2016
Vietnam Veedu Sundaram
Indian scriptwriter and film director
Died on Friday August 5th 2016
Mahim Bora
Indian writer
Died on Saturday August 6th 2016
Elliot Tiber
American artist and writer (Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot
Died on Wednesday August 3rd 2016
Jouko Turkka
Finnish theatre director and writer
Died on Friday July 22nd 2016
Peter Gossage
New Zealand Maori author
Died on Saturday July 30th 2016
Jim Northrup
American Ojibwe writer
Died on Monday August 1st 2016
Angelika Schrobsdorff
German writer
Died on Monday August 1st 2016
Eric Bergren
American screenwriter (The Elephant Man
Died on Thursday July 14th 2016
Gwynn ap Gwilym
Welsh author
Died on Sunday July 31st 2016
Fazil Iskander
Abkhaz writer
Died on Sunday July 31st 2016
Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
Polish-born writer and inventor
Died on Thursday July 21st 2016
Mahasweta Devi
Indian writer (Hajar Churashir Maa)
Died on Thursday July 28th 2016
James Alan McPherson
American writer (Elbow Room)
Died on Wednesday July 27th 2016
Tim LaHaye
American Christian faith author
Died on Monday July 25th 2016
Neelabh Ashk
70 Indian Hindi poet
Died on Saturday July 23rd 2016
Jean Ricardou
French writer
Died on Monday July 25th 2016
Jürg Frischknecht
Swiss journalist and author
Died on Monday July 18th 2016
Francis M. Gibbons
American biographer
Died on Saturday July 16th 2016
John Pidgeon
69 British broadcaster and writer
Died on Tuesday July 19th 2016
Robert Mason Pollock
American screenwriter (Dynasty
Died on Monday July 11th 2016
Carolyn See
American author
Died on Wednesday July 13th 2016
Péter Esterházy
Hungarian author
Died on Thursday July 14th 2016
Billy Marshall Stoneking
Australian poet
Died on Friday July 15th 2016
Carlos Gorostiza
Argentine playwright
Died on Tuesday July 19th 2016
Bommi Baumann
German author and political activist
Died on Tuesday July 19th 2016
William H. McNeill
Canadian-American historian and author
Died on Friday July 8th 2016
Miriam Pielhau
German television presenter and author
Died on Tuesday July 12th 2016
Rokusuke Ei
Japanese author and lyricist ("Sukiyaki")
Died on Monday July 11th 2016
Wolfram Siebeck
German journalist and food critic
Died on Thursday July 7th 2016
Jacques Rouffio
French film director and screenwriter
Died on Friday July 8th 2016
Valentino Zeichen
Italian poet and author
Died on Tuesday July 5th 2016