Little Sammy Davis (89)
American blues singer-songwriter and harmonicist.
Daniel Vernet (73)
French journalist and author.
Sampie Terreblanche (84)
South African economist and writer.
Rakhymshan Otarbayev (61)
Kazakhstan writer and playwright
James W. Downing (104)
American naval officer and author
Edward Pearce (78)
English political journalist and writer.
Douglas Botting (83)
English explorer and author.
Victor Milan (63)
American science fiction and fantasy author (Wild Cards
Lerone Bennett Jr. (89)
American scholar and author.
Antoni Krauze (78)
Polish screenwriter and director.
Jim Downing (104)
American naval officer and author
Janet Blachford (79)
Canadian author
Tom Rapp (70)
American singer-songwriter (Pearls Before Swine).
Bill Crider
American author.
Françoise Xenakis (87)
French writer.
Vic Damone (89)
American pop singer and songwriter (“You're Breaking My Heart”).
Sir Lawrence Byford (92)
British author.
Brahim Akhiat (77)
Moroccan author.
Michiko Ishimure (90)
Japanese writer
John Anthony West (85)
American author and Egyptologist
John Perry Barlow (70)
American writer
Zeno Roth (61)
German guitarist and songwriter (Uli Jon Roth).
Liliana Bodoc (59)
Argentine poetess and fantasy writer (La Saga de los Confines)
Hoàng Vân (88)
Vietnamese songwriter.
Mathieu Riboulet (57)
French writer and film director.
Nico ter Linden (81)
Dutch predikant and writer.
Gregor Dorfmeister (88)
German writer and journalist (Die Brücke
Jockie Soerjoprajogo (63)
Indonesian musician and songwriter.
Henry Soles, Jr. (82)
American chaplain and author.
William Whitehead (86)
Canadian writer.
David Sherwin (75)
British screenwriter (if....)
Wojciech Wójcik (75)
Polish film director and screenwriter.
Steve Foster (71)
Australian singer-songwriter
Julia Reyes Taubman (50)
American author
Jean-Claude Lattès (76)
French writer.
Buzz Clifford (76)
American singer-songwriter
Dharmasena Pathiraja (74)
Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter.
Stephen Edward Foster (71)
Australian singer-songwriter
Moussa Diagana (71)
Mauritian writer.
Shawkat Ali (81)
Bangladeshi author.
Jack Ketchum (71)
American author (The Girl Next Door)
Mark E. Smith (60)
British singer and songwriter (The Fall).
Ursula K. Le Guin (88)
American science fiction writer.
Jack Gadellaa (75)
Dutch television director and writer.
Greg Critser (63)
American writer
Bob Carlton (67)
British theatre director and writer (Return to the Forbidden Planet).
Julius Lester (78)
American writer (To Be a Slave) and educator.
Dusty Richards (80)
American author
Nancy Richler (60)
Canadian writer
Peter Mayle (78)
British author (A Year in Provence).
Guy Dupré (89)
French writer and publisher
Marley Carib (70)
Japanese manga writer (Old Boy).
Gnani Sankaran (64)
Indian journalist and writer.
Yılmaz Onay (80)
Turkish author.
Leopold Ahlsen (90)
German writer.
Doodhnath Singh (81)
Indian writer
Carole Hart (74)
American television writer (Sesame Street)
Tricia Walker (53)
British author
John Wegg
Aviation books author
Bjørg Vik (82)
Norwegian writer.
Carlos Heitor Cony (91)
Brazilian journalist and writer.
Hans Werner Kettenbach (89)
German journalist and writer.
Marina Ripa di Meana (76)
Italian writer
Rayya Elias (57)
American author.
Serge Liberman (75)
Uzbek-born Australian writer and physician.
Ambalavaner Sivanandan (94)
Sri Lankan-born Indian author.
Tareka (90)
Portuguese actress and writer.
Walter Pilar (69)
Austrian writer and artist
Pierre Minvielle (83)
French writer.
José Louzeiro (85)
Brazilian writer
Eti Saaga (67)
Samoan-born American Samoan poet and writer. (Death reported on this date)
Sue Grafton (77)
American myster writer.
Ronit Matalon (58)
Israeli fiction writer.
Asa Lanova (84)
Swiss dancer (Danseuse Étoile) and author.
Marcus Raskin (83)
American author and idealist.
Shahnon Ahmad (84)
Malaysian writer and politician.
José Lorenzo Fuentes (89)
Cuban writer.
Juan Drago (70)
Spanish poet and writer.
Lawrence J. Cohen (82)
American film and TV writer and producer (Start The Revolution Without Me
Clifford Irving (87)
American author