Jan Longone (89)
American food historian and writer.
Eike Christian Hirsch (85)
German journalist and writer.
Shinmon Aoki (85)
Japanese writer
Daniel Lévi (60)
French singer-songwriter
Torgny Söderberg (77)
Swedish songwriter.
Sid Jacobson (92)
American writer
Shirley Barrett (61)
Australian film director and screenwriter (Love Serenade).
Bruce Grant (97)
Australian writer and journalist.
Doc Dockery (89)
American businessman and author.
Stuart Briscoe (91)
English-born American evangelical Christian author.
Melissa Bank (61)
American writer (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing)
Randy Farb (61)
American librarian and comic strip author.
Alexander Bachilo (62)
Russian writer.
C.C. (Doc) Dockery (89)
American businessman and author.
Maria Frisé (96)
German journalist and author
Jim Trelease (81)
American author
Charlotte Pomerantz (92)
American author.
Raymond Raposa (41)
American singer-songwriter (Castanets).
David Ireland (94)
Australian author (The Unknown Industrial Prisoner) (death announced on this date)
İlhan İrem (67)
Turkish singer and songwriter
Pietro Citati (92)
Italian writer and literary critic.
Paul Garon (80)
American writer and blues historian.
Stuart Woods (84)
American author.
Felix Thijssen (88)
Dutch author.
Inger Alfvén (82)
Swedish author and sociologist.
Uri Orlev (91)
Polish-born Israeli children's author and translator.
Marjorie Crocombe (92)
Cook Islands author and academic.
Aaron Latham (78)
American journalist and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy
Knuts Skujenieks (85)
Latvian writer and poet.
Lotte Ingrisch (92)
Austrian author.
Kyaw Min Yu (53)
Burmese political activist and writer
Diana Kennedy (99)
British food writer.
Rinus Ferdinandusse (90)
Dutch writer and journalist.
Nanda Khare (75)
Indian writer.
Michel Schneider (78)
French writer and musicologist.
Cas Enklaar (79)
Dutch actor and writer (Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Alan Grant (73)
Scottish comic book writer (Judge Dredd
Sean Kelly (81)
Canadian humorist and writer (National Lampoon
Maxime Feri Farzaneh (93)
French-Iranian writer and filmmaker.
Xavier Amorós Solà (99)
Spanish writer and poet
Bajram Haliti (67)
Serbian-romani author.
Héctor Tricoche (66)
Puerto Rican salsa singer-songwriter.
Erden Kıral (80)
Turkish film director and screenwriter (On Fertile Lands
Don Mattera (86)
South African poet and writer.
Eric Flint (75)
American author (1632) and editor.
The Delfonics (77)
American singer (The Delfonics) and songwriter ("La-La (Means I Love You)"
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