Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Peter Dickinson
British authorDied on Wednesday December 16th 2015
Tom Arden
Australian-born British authorDied on Tuesday December 15th 2015
Albert Bontridder
Belgian architect and writerDied on Sunday December 13th 2015
Peter Ryan
Australian newspaper columnistDied on Sunday December 13th 2015
Gaston Salvatore
Chilean writerDied on Thursday December 10th 2015
Steve Chimombo
Malawian writerDied on Friday December 11th 2015
Federico Kirbus
Argentine authorDied on Saturday December 12th 2015
Jon Gadsby
British-born New Zealand writer and comedian (A Week of It)Died on Saturday December 12th 2015
Phil Pepe dead at age 80, American sportswriter
Phil Pepe, an American sportswriter, died on December 12, 2015. Born Philip Francis Pepe on March 21, 1935, in Brooklyn, he spent more than five decades covering sports in New…
Ian Bell
Scottish journalist and authorDied on Friday December 11th 2015
Sidney Huntington
American indigenous leader and writerDied on Tuesday December 8th 2015
Akiyuki Nosaka
Japanese novelist (Grave of the FirefliesDied on Wednesday December 9th 2015
John Trudell
American Indian activist and poetDied on Tuesday December 8th 2015
Chuck Williams
American business executive and authorDied on Sunday December 6th 2015
Rodney Milnes
British opera criticDied on Friday December 4th 2015
William McIlvanney
Scottish novelist and poetDied on Saturday December 5th 2015
Vladimir Zheleznikov
Russian children's authorDied on Thursday December 3rd 2015
Takamasa Sakurai
Japanese authorDied on Friday December 4th 2015
Thom Thomas
American playwrightDied on Wednesday December 2nd 2015
Doug Lennox
Canadian actor and writerDied on Saturday November 28th 2015
Dag Skogheim
Norwegian writerDied on Friday December 4th 2015
Joseph F. Girzone
American Catholic priest and authorDied on Sunday November 29th 2015
Edwar al-Kharrat
Egyptian novelistDied on Tuesday December 1st 2015
Ferenc Juhász
Hungarian poetDied on Wednesday December 2nd 2015
A. Sheriff
Indian screenwriter (Avalude Ravukal)Died on Wednesday December 2nd 2015
Christopher Middleton
British poet and translatorDied on Sunday November 29th 2015
Pío Caro Baroja
Spanish director and writerDied on Monday November 30th 2015
Nauro Machado
Brazilian poetDied on Saturday November 28th 2015
Jean Joubert
French authorDied on Saturday November 28th 2015
Fatema Mernissi
Moroccon feminist writer and sociologistDied on Monday November 30th 2015
Mark Behr
Tanzanian-born South African author (The Smell of Apples)Died on Friday November 27th 2015
Shigeru Mizuki
Japanese manga author (GeGeGe no KitaroDied on Monday November 30th 2015
José María Mendiluce
Spanish politician and authorDied on Saturday November 28th 2015
Xosé Neira Vilas
Spanish authorDied on Friday November 27th 2015
Hazel Holt
British novelistDied on Monday November 23rd 2015
Aurora Venturini
Argentine authorDied on Tuesday November 24th 2015
Carlos Oroza
Spanish poetDied on Friday November 20th 2015
Lex Jacoby
Luxembourgian writerDied on Friday November 20th 2015
Lennart Hellsing
Swedish author and translatorDied on Wednesday November 25th 2015
Anthony Read
British screenwriter (Doctor Who)Died on Saturday November 21st 2015
Richard Russell
American finance writerDied on Saturday November 21st 2015
Hazel Adair
British television writerDied on Sunday November 22nd 2015
Jamiluddin Aali
Pakistani Urdu poetDied on Monday November 23rd 2015
Mario Cervi
Italian essayist and journalistDied on Tuesday November 17th 2015
Korrie Layun Rampan
Indonesian author and politicianDied on Thursday November 19th 2015
Ehud Havazelet
American authorDied on Thursday November 5th 2015
James Prideaux
American playwright and screenwriterDied on Wednesday November 18th 2015
Betty Groff
American chef and cookbook authorDied on Sunday November 8th 2015
Stephen Birmingham
American authorDied on Sunday November 15th 2015
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
Iranian poetDied on Tuesday November 17th 2015
Ishtiaq Ahmad
Pakistani authorDied on Tuesday November 17th 2015
Georges-Hébert Germain
Canadian journalist and authorDied on Friday November 13th 2015
November 2015 Paris attacks
music critic and journalist (Les Inrockuptibles)Died on Friday November 13th 2015
Guillaume B. Decherf
French music critic and journalist (Les Inrockuptibles)Died on Friday November 13th 2015
Robert Craft
American conductor and writerDied on Tuesday November 10th 2015
A. Veluppillai
Sri Lankan Tamil academic and authorDied on Sunday November 1st 2015
Madeline DeFrees
American poetDied on Wednesday November 11th 2015
Tage Skou-Hansen
Danish writerDied on Wednesday November 11th 2015
Lauretta Ngcobo
South African author and activistDied on Tuesday November 3rd 2015
Derrick Gilbert
American poetDied on Sunday November 1st 2015
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Indian director and poetDied on Saturday November 7th 2015
André Glucksmann
French philosopher and writerDied on Tuesday November 10th 2015
Karl-Heinz Jakobs
German authorDied on Wednesday November 4th 2015
Gülten Akın
Turkish poetDied on Wednesday November 4th 2015
Pajo Kanižaj
Croatian writerDied on Wednesday November 4th 2015
T. M. Wright
American authorDied on Saturday October 31st 2015
Alex Poinsett
American magazine editor (Ebony) and authorDied on Friday October 23rd 2015
Craig Barnes
American political authorDied on Wednesday November 4th 2015
Melissa Mathison
American screenwriter (E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialDied on Wednesday November 4th 2015
Franz Thaler
Italian authorDied on Thursday October 29th 2015
Colin Welland
British actor and screenwriter (Chariots of Fire)Died on Tuesday November 3rd 2015
Antonio Dal Masetto
Italian-born Argentine writerDied on Monday November 2nd 2015
Thomas Blatt
Polish writer and Holocaust survivorDied on Saturday October 31st 2015
Lowell B. Komie
American lawyer and authorDied on Thursday October 29th 2015
Üstün Akmen
Turkish theatre criticDied on Saturday October 31st 2015
James Sites
American novelistDied on Saturday October 10th 2015
Ryūzō Saki
Japanese writerDied on Saturday October 31st 2015
Andy Danziger
American pilot and newspaper columnist (New York Daily News)Died on Friday October 30th 2015
Stella Sutherland
Scottish poetDied on Thursday October 15th 2015
Julia Jones
British scriptwriter (Quiet as a NunDied on Friday October 9th 2015
Christopher Chapman
Canadian writerDied on Saturday October 24th 2015
Charles Boeckman Jr.
American author and jazz clarinetist/saxophonistDied on Monday October 12th 2015
Penelope Houston
British film critic and editor (Sight & Sound)Died on Wednesday October 28th 2015
Yuri Mamleev
Russian authorDied on Sunday October 25th 2015
Dick Sharples
British scriptwriterDied on Monday October 19th 2015
Margarita Hemlin
Russian authorDied on Friday October 23rd 2015
Jerome Kass
American writer for BroadwayDied on Thursday October 22nd 2015
Carlos Bousoño
Spanish poet and literary criticDied on Saturday October 24th 2015
Zdzisław Jaskuła
Polish poetDied on Saturday October 24th 2015
Diana Pullein-Thompson
British writerDied on Wednesday October 21st 2015
Çetin Altan
Turkish writer and politicianDied on Thursday October 22nd 2015