Herbert W. Franke (95)
Austrian scientist and writer.
Vira Vovk (96)
Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer
William Hart (77)
American singer (The Delfonics) and songwriter ("La-La (Means I Love You)"
David Dalton (80)
writer
Gaston Bouatchidzé (86)
Georgian-French writer and translator.
Joan Lingard (90)
Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series).
Sylvia Molloy (83)
Argentine writer.
Charlotte Valandrey (53)
French actress and author
Diana Lebacs (74)
Curaçaoan writer
Ján Solovič (88)
Slovak writer
Binette Schroeder (82)
German author and illustrator.
Ann Shulgin (91)
American writer (PiHKAL
Barry Ronge (74)
South African film critic and author.
Barbara Delaplace
Canadian author.
Judy Barrett Litoff (77)
American author and professor at Bryant University.
Max Eisen (93)
Slovakian-Canadian author and Holocaust survivor.
Tristan Goodall (48)
Australian blues musician (The Audreys) and songwriter.
Alan Blaikley (82)
British songwriter ("Have I the Right?"
Muriel Phillips (101)
American World War II veteran and writer.
Remco Campert (92)
Dutch writer.
Ni Kuang (87)
Hong Kong screenwriter (One-Armed Swordsman
Mats Traat (85)
Estonian poet and writer.
Arkady Gartsman (75)
Ukrainian songwriter (Treasure Island)
Ken Williams (72)
American songwriter ("Everybody Plays the Fool").
Surender Sharma (76)
Indian poet and writer.
Raffaele La Capria (99)
Italian writer.
Frank Moorhouse (83)
Australian writer.
L. Patrick Devlin (83)
American lecturer and author.
Arkadiy Gartsman (75)
Ukrainian songwriter (Treasure Island)
Gerd Grønvold Saue (92)
Norwegian writer.
Xhevdet Bajraj (62)
Albanian Kosovar poet and screenwriter.
Gérard Bonal (81)
French writer and biographer.
José García-Pérez (86)
Spanish writer and politician
Kazue Morisaki (95)
Japanese poet and writer
René-Nicolas Ehni (87)
French writer and playwright.
Patrick Breuzé (69)
French journalist and writer.
Zinovy Roizman (80)
Russian film and animation director and screenwriter (Empire Under Attack).
Joyce Burditt (83)
American television writer (Diagnosis Murder
Joel Whitburn (82)
American author and music historian.
A. B. Yehoshua (85)
Israeli writer
Robert M. Utley (92)
American author and historian.
Birkha Bahadur Muringla (79)
Indian writer.
Erasmus Schöfer (91)
German writer.
Thubten Samphel (65)
Tibetan writer and government official.
Christopher Evans-Ironside (82)
English-German songwriter
Zinoviy Royzman (80)
Russian film and animation director and screenwriter.
Aziz Gardi (75)
Kurdish writer and translator.
György Moldova (88)
Hungarian writer
Luis Monje Ciruelo (98)
Spanish journalist and writer.
Ann Turner Cook (95)
American author and model (Gerber Baby).
Liliana de Curtis (89)
Italian actress (Orient Express) and writer.
Hal Bynum (87)
American songwriter.
Na Yeon-suk (77)
South Korean screenwriter.
Paul Vance (92)
American songwriter and record producer.
Joseph Zoderer (86)
German-speaking Italian writer.
Leonid Dukhovny (83)
Ukrainian-American singer-songwriter
Walter Abish (90)
Austrian-born American author.
Jacques Nicolaou (91)
French comic book author.
Friedrich Christian Delius (79)
German writer.
Donald Kemp Ross (78)
American public interest lawyer and author.
Boris Pahor (108)
Slovenian writer.
Laimonas Tapinas (77)
Lithuanian writer
Vadim Saralidze (62)
Russian writer and violinist.
Claude Michelet (83)
French writer.
Alexander Astin (89)
American educator and writer.
Lívia Gyarmathy (90)
Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Maja Lidia Kossakowska (50)
Polish fantasy writer
Miro Silvera (80)
Italian writer
Dervla Murphy (90)
Irish travel writer and cyclist.
Cathal Coughlan (61)
Irish singer-songwriter (Microdisney
Jeffrey Escoffier (79)
American author and activist.
Norman Dolph (83)
American songwriter and record producer
Jaakko Syrjä (96)
Finnish author.
Roger Angell (101)
American baseball author
Donald K. Ross (78)
American public interest lawyer and author.
Griselda El Tayib (97)
British-born Sudanese writer and cultural anthropologist.
Yaakov Sharett (94)
Israeli author
Bob Neuwirth (82)
American singer-songwriter ("Mercedes Benz").
Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury (87)
Bangladeshi-born British journalist and songwriter ("Ekusher Gaan").
Oleksandr Smyk (64)
Ukrainian singer-songwriter and poet.