April 14, 2016 Writers Ruth Gilbert New Zealand poet Died on Thursday April 14th 2016 Other writersHerb Wharton dead at age 89, public figureVladimir Molchanov dead at age 75, Russian television host and journalistBarry W. Blaustein dead at age 72, American screenwriter and film director, pancreatic cancerBassek Ba Kobhio dead at age 69, Cameroonian writer and filmmakerRex Reed dead at age 87, American film critic and journalistAtaur Rahman Bangladeshi actor dead at age 84Ralph Ottey Jamaican-born British author and World War II veteran dead at age 102Anja Breien Norwegian film director dead at age 85Michael Pennington public figure dead at age 82Frid Ingulstad Norwegian novelist dead at age 90More from New ZealandKenneth Keith dead at age 88, New Zealand jurist and legal scholar, judge of the International Court of JusticeMark Smythe dead, 53 New Zealand-born American composer, atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseaseGeoff Stedman New Zealand physicist, Hector Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand dead at age 83Carla Van Zon New Zealand artistic director dead at age 74Adrienne Staples New Zealand politician, mayor of South Wairarapa and member of the Greater Wellington Regional Council dead at age 69Mark Carrington New Zealand cricketer dead at age 64Ned New Zealand snail diesCleighten Cornelius New Zealand cricketer and winemaker, myeloma dead at age 49Peter Lynn New Zealand engineer and kite maker, cancer dead at age 79Sir Alan Frampton New Zealand agricultural economist dead at age 96More from April 14, 2016Saul SameJulio García EspinosaZsolt KaposváriFred HaymanMartin FitzmauriceGeorge H. W. BushSir David J. C. MacKayLiang SiliPhil SayerColin Knight Tags 14 April 2016 2016-04-14 April 14 April 2016 Gilbert New Zealand Ruth Writers ←Raymond Fitzwalter Saul Same→