Michael Winner
British film director (Death Wish) and food criticDied on Monday January 21st 2013
Famous Dead Writers: Recent Writer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 8,000 obituaries of famous dead writers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Jean Krier
Luxembourgian poetDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Teresa Torańska
Polish journalist (Gazeta Wyborcza) and writerDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Mexican poet and classicistDied on Thursday January 31st 2013
M.S. Udayamurthy
Indian Tamil language writerDied on Monday January 21st 2013
Gregory Victor Babic
Australian writerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Alexei Rudeanu
Romanian writerDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Harvey Einbinder
American physicist and authorDied on Wednesday January 30th 2013
Toyo Shibata
Japanese poetDied on Sunday January 20th 2013
Robert Kee
British writerDied on Friday January 11th 2013
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
American psychologist and authorDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Gamal al-Banna
Egyptian author and scholarDied on Wednesday January 30th 2013
Dolores Prida
Cuban-born American advice columnist (Latina)Died on Sunday January 20th 2013
Claude Fredericks
American playwright and memoiristDied on Friday January 11th 2013
Charles Chilton
British BBC Radio writerDied on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
Ferrol Sams
American author and physicianDied on Tuesday January 29th 2013
Pavlos Matesis
Greek writerDied on Sunday January 20th 2013
Evan S. Connell
American novelistDied on Thursday January 10th 2013
Slobodan Rakitić
Serbian writer and politicianDied on Tuesday January 1st 2013
Anselm Hollo
Finnish poet and translatorDied on Tuesday January 29th 2013
Hans Massaquoi
German-born American journalist and authorDied on Saturday January 19th 2013
Jim Godbolt
British jazz writer and historianDied on Wednesday January 9th 2013
Benedict Zilliacus
Finnish writerDied on Monday January 28th 2013
Jacques Sadoul
French writer and book editorDied on Friday January 18th 2013
Watson Parker
American historian and authorDied on Tuesday January 8th 2013
Ceija Stojka
Austrian Romani writerDied on Monday January 28th 2013
John R. Powers
American author (Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?)Died on Thursday January 17th 2013
Harvey Shapiro
American poet and newspaper editor (The New York Times)Died on Monday January 7th 2013
Horacio Ferrer
Uruguayan poetDied on Sunday December 21st 2014
Naphtali Lau-Lavie
Israeli writer and diplomatDied on Saturday December 6th 2014
Robert Conroy
American science fiction authorDied on Tuesday December 30th 2014
Robert D. San Souci
American children's author and screenwriter (Mulan)Died on Friday December 19th 2014
Menis Koumandareas
Greek writerDied on Saturday December 6th 2014
Rashid Al Zlami
Saudi Arabian poetDied on Monday December 29th 2014
Roberta Leigh
British author and television producer (Space Patrol)Died on Friday December 19th 2014
Velaga Venkatappaiah
Indian librarian and authorDied on Sunday December 28th 2014
Carleton Mabee
American Pulitzer Prize-winning writerDied on Thursday December 18th 2014
Tomaž Šalamun
Slovene poetDied on Saturday December 27th 2014
Franco Bomprezzi
Italian journalist and writerDied on Thursday December 18th 2014
Claudia Emerson
American poetDied on Thursday December 4th 2014
Ulises Estrella
Ecuadorian poetDied on Saturday December 27th 2014
Oleh Lysheha
Ukrainian poetDied on Wednesday December 17th 2014
Giulio Questi
Italian director and screenwriter (Django KillDied on Wednesday December 3rd 2014
Carl Neumann Degler
American historian and authorDied on Saturday December 27th 2014
Fritz Rudolf Fries
German writerDied on Wednesday December 17th 2014
Ann Marcus
American television screenwriter (Days of Our LivesDied on Wednesday December 3rd 2014
Taitetsu Unno
Japanese Shin Buddhist scholar and authorDied on Saturday December 13th 2014
Vicente Leñero
Mexican writer and journalistDied on Wednesday December 3rd 2014
Nand Chaturvedi
Indian poetDied on Thursday December 25th 2014
Joan Barril
Spanish writer and journalistDied on Saturday December 13th 2014
Jeff Truman
Australian screenwriter and actor (NeighboursDied on Tuesday December 2nd 2014
Alf Næsheim
Norwegian artist and writerDied on Wednesday December 24th 2014
Donald S. Malecki
American author and insurance consultantDied on Friday December 12th 2014
Giampaolo Rugarli
Italian novelistDied on Tuesday December 2nd 2014
Lee Israel
American author and forgerDied on Wednesday December 24th 2014
Norman Bridwell
American author and cartoonist (Clifford the Big Red Dog)Died on Friday December 12th 2014
Dominique Aubier
French authorDied on Tuesday December 2nd 2014
Jacqueline Briskin
British-born American writerDied on Wednesday December 24th 2014
Donald Moffitt
American science fiction authorDied on Wednesday December 10th 2014
Rocky Wood
New Zealand-born Australian authorDied on Monday December 1st 2014
Ekhlasuddin Ahmed
Bangladeshi children's writerDied on Wednesday December 24th 2014
Ralph Giordano
German writer and publicistDied on Wednesday December 10th 2014
Norm Phelps
American author and animal rights activistDied on Wednesday December 31st 2014
Jeremy Lloyd
British screenwriter (Are You Being Served?Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2014
Sacvan Bercovitch
Canadian literary and cultural criticDied on Tuesday December 9th 2014
Michael Kennedy
British biographerDied on Wednesday December 31st 2014
Sobho Gianchandani
Pakistani writer and social scientistDied on Monday December 8th 2014
Abdullah Hussain
Malaysian novelist (Interlok)Died on Wednesday December 31st 2014
Sitor Situmorang
Indonesian poet and writerDied on Sunday December 21st 2014
Emma Lou Thayne
American Mormon poetDied on Saturday December 6th 2014
Kent Haruf
American novelist (Plainsong)Died on Sunday November 30th 2014
Richard F. Johnston
American ornithologist and authorDied on Saturday November 15th 2014
George Edgar Slusser
American writer and professorDied on Tuesday November 4th 2014
Sir Fred Catherwood
British politician and Christian writerDied on Sunday November 30th 2014
Leslie Feinberg
American transgender activist and authorDied on Saturday November 15th 2014
Gerard W. Hughes
English Jesuit priest and writerDied on Tuesday November 4th 2014
Radwa Ashour
Egyptian writer and academicDied on Sunday November 30th 2014
Glen A. Larson
American writer and producer (Battlestar GalacticaDied on Friday November 14th 2014
Leigh Chapman
American actress (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and screenwriter (Dirty MaryDied on Tuesday November 4th 2014
Mark Strand
Canadian-born American poet and writerDied on Saturday November 29th 2014
Edward Summer
American writer and directorDied on Thursday November 13th 2014
Alan Milliken Heisey Sr.
Canadian political activist and authorDied on Sunday November 2nd 2014
Luc De Vos
Belgian musician (Gorki) and writerDied on Saturday November 29th 2014
Manoel de Barros
Brazilian poetDied on Thursday November 13th 2014
Anne Cluysenaar
Belgian-born Welsh poet and writerDied on Saturday November 1st 2014
Chespirito
Mexican playwrightDied on Friday November 28th 2014
Jan Lindhardt
Danish theologian and writerDied on Tuesday November 11th 2014
Frank Yablans
American film producer and screenwriterDied on Thursday November 27th 2014
Marianne Alopaeus
Finnish-born Swedish authorDied on Monday November 10th 2014
P. D. James
English crime novelist (The Children of MenDied on Thursday November 27th 2014
R. A. Montgomery
American author (Choose Your Own Adventure)Died on Sunday November 9th 2014
Célia Bertin
French writerDied on Thursday November 27th 2014