Deaths Famous Dead Writers
Dov Yermiya
Israeli army officer and author · 30 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 30
Anthony Simmons
British screenwriter and film director (The Optimists of Nine Elms · 22 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 22
Don Marks
Canadian writer and indigenous rights advocate · 30 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 30
Nayani Krishnakumari
Indian writer and folklorist · 29 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 29
Jacques Rivette
French film director and film critic · 29 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 29
Carles Hac Mor
Spanish Catalan writer · 27 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 27 · Mor
Zaw Zaw Aung (writer)
Burmese author and public intellectual · 26 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 26
Nikolay Abramov
Russian Vepsian writer and translator · 23 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 23
Stanley Mann
Canadian scriptwriter (The Collector) · 11 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 11
Abolhassan Najafi
Iranian writer and translator · 22 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 22
Francis Seow
Singapore-born American writer and political refugee · 21 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 21
Robert Banks Stewart
Scottish television writer (Bergerac · 14 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 14 · Stewart
A. R. Morlan
American horror writer · 06 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 6 · Morlan
A.R. Morlan
American horror writer · 06 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 6
Gunnel Vallquist
Swedish writer and translator · 11 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 11
George Jonas
Hungarian-born Canadian writer · 10 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 10 · Jonáš
Gianni Rondolino
Italian film critic and historian · 09 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 9
Elizabeth Swados
American writer and composer (Runaways) · 05 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 5
Frances Cress Welsing
American psychiatrist and author (The Isis Papers) · 02 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 2 · Welsing
Fazu Aliyeva
Russian Avar poet and journalist · 01 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 1
Fazu Alijeva
Russian Avar poet · 01 January 2016 · January 2016 · January 1
Wesley Burrowes
Irish playwright (Glenroe) · 31 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 31
George Clayton Johnson
American science fiction writer · 22 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 22 · Johnson
Alain Jouffroy
French surrealist poet and art critic · 20 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 20
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