Marion Patrick Jones (85)
Trinidadian writer.
Tony Warren (79)
English television scriptwriter (Coronation Street).
Vid Pečjak (87)
Slovene psychologist and writer.
Alice Arlen (75)
American screenwriter (Silkwood).
Louise Rennison (64)
British author (Angus
Sengai Aaliyan (75)
Sri Lankan author.
Liliane Wouters (86)
Belgian author.
Taka Chiba (56)
Japanese manga writer
François Dupeyron (65)
French film director and screenwriter (The Officers' Ward).
John Chilton (83)
British jazz musician and writer.
Peter Lustig (78)
German television presenter and author.
Sonny James (86)
American country singer-songwriter ("Young Love").
Chiaki Morosawa (56)
Japanese anime screenwriter (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED)
Harper Lee (89)
American author (To Kill a Mockingbird) (death reported on this date)
Rosario Ferré (77)
Puerto Rican writer
Yūko Tsushima (68)
Japanese author.
Claude Jeancolas (66)
French author.
Andrzej Żuławski (75)
Polish film director and writer.
Akbar Kakkattil (62)
Indian writer
Salman Natour (67)
Israeli Palestinian author.
Bud Webster (63)
American science fiction and fantasy writer.
ONV Kurup (84)
Indian songwriter
Mildred Shapley Matthews (100)
American science writer.
Kim Williams (68)
American songwriter.
Bayard Johnson (63)
American screenwriter (Tarzan and the Lost City)
Tom Singer (67)
American newspaper columnist and baseball beat writer.
Norman Hudis (93)
English screenwriter (Carry On).
Roger Willemsen (60)
German author
Berre Bergen (53)
Belgian guitarist and songwriter.
Dan Gerson (49)
American screenwriter (Monsters
Dan Hicks (74)
74. American singer-songwriter
Sonia Borg (85)
Austrian-born Australian screenwriter (Women of the Sun
Intizar Hussain (92)
Pakistani writer.
Dov Yermiya (101)
Israeli army officer and author.
Don Marks (62)
Canadian writer and indigenous rights advocate
Ruth Rehmann (93)
German writer.
Nayani Krishnakumari (86)
Indian writer and folklorist.
Aleš Debeljak (54)
Slovenian writer.
Carles Hac Mor (75)
Spanish Catalan writer.
Zaw Zaw Aung (writer) (79)
Burmese author and public intellectual.
Black (53)
British singer-songwriter
Zarkus Poussa (40)
Finnish drummer and songwriter.
Nikolay Abramov (54)
Russian Vepsian writer and translator.
Anthony Simmons (93)
British screenwriter and film director (The Optimists of Nine Elms
Tahsin Yücel (83)
Turkish writer.
Abolhassan Najafi (86)
Iranian writer and translator.
Richard Klinkhamer (78)
Dutch writer.
Francis Seow (88)
Singapore-born American writer and political refugee
Ludovic Janvier (82)
French writer.
Edmonde Charles-Roux (95)
French writer.
Alexander Giese (94)
Austrian author.
Michel Tournier (91)
French writer.
Peggy Anderson (77)
American author.
Aristide von Bienefeldt (56)
Dutch writer.
Hubert Giraud (94)
French songwriter.
Robert Banks Stewart (84)
Scottish television writer (Bergerac
Vladimír Binar (74)
Czech author.
David St Vincent (48)
British writer and LGBT activist (body found on this date).
Stanley Mann (87)
Canadian scriptwriter (The Collector).
Gunnel Vallquist (97)
Swedish writer and translator.
George Jonas (80)
Hungarian-born Canadian writer
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American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Idaho).
Brett Smiley (60)
American singer-songwriter.
Red Simpson (81)
American country singer-songwriter ("I'm a Truck").
Anton Srholec (86)
Czech writer.
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American horror writer.
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American horror writer.
A. R. Morlan (58)
American horror writer.
A.R. Morlan (58)
American horror writer
Florence King (80)
American writer.
Labhshankar Thakar (80)
Indian author.
Elizabeth Swados (64)
American writer and composer (Runaways).
Joseph Ritz (86)
American author and playwright.
Long John Hunter (84)
American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.
Frances Cress Welsing (80)
American psychiatrist and author (The Isis Papers)
Chris Barnard (76)
South African author
Aidan Higgins (88)
Irish writer.
Stevie Wright
English born Australian musician and songwriter
Ignacio Rupérez (72)
Spanish author and diplomat.
Ottavio Jemma (90)
Italian screenwriter.