Emily Mkamanga (72)
Malawian writer and political commentator.
Almudena Grandes (61)
Spanish writer.
K.S. Nageswara Rao
Indian film director (Raa) and screenwriter.
Ethel Grodzins Romm (96)
American author
Doug MacLeod (62)
Australian author and screenwriter.
Marilyn McLeod (82)
American singer-songwriter.
Charles Moose (68)
American author and police officer.
Rodolfo Di Biasio (84)
Italian poet and writer.
Dominic Orlando (57)
American television writer (The OA)
Aron Atabek (68)
Kazakh writer
Miquel Barceló (73)
Spanish science fiction writer and translator.
Paolo Pietrangeli (76)
Italian singer-songwriter and film director (Pigs Have Wings).
Antonio Escohotado (80)
Spanish philosopher and writer.
Guillermo Morón (95)
Venezuelan writer and historian.
Tony Dron (75)
British motor racing driver and writer
Theuns Jordaan (50)
South African singer-songwriter
Sezai Karakoç (88)
Turkish writer and philosopher.
Mark Gillespie
Australian singer-songwriter.
Michael Corballis (85)
New Zealand psychologist and author.
László Z. Bitó (87)
Hungarian physiologist and a writer.
Mannu Bhandari (90)
Indian writer.
Manu Bhandari (90)
Indian writer.
Balwant Moreshwar Purandare (99)
Indian historian and writer.
John Bean (94)
British far-right political activist and writer.
John Pearson (91)
British author (James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007).
Luigi Mario Engaku Taino (83)
Italian philosopher and writer.
Lee Maracle (71)
Indigenous Canadian writer
Per Aage Brandt (75)
Danish writer
Sean Higgins
Australian musician and songwriter (Australian Crawl
Jakucho Setouchi (99)
Japanese Buddhist nun and writer
Ed Lucas (82)
American sportswriter.
Margo Guryan (84)
American singer-songwriter ("Sunday Mornin'").
Miroslav Žbirka (69)
Slovak singer and songwriter
Enrico Fierro (69)
Italian journalist and writer.
Kirsi Kunnas (96)
Finnish children's book writer.
Andris Kolbergs (82)
Latvian writer and screenwriter (Defenders of Riga).
Mei Jones (68)
Welsh scriptwriter and actor (C'mon Midffîld!)
Pamela McCorduck (80)
American author and journalist.
Bob Baker (82)
British screenwriter.
Mario Lavista (78)
Mexican composer and writer.
Shafiq Ansari (84)
Indian screenplay and dialogue writer (Dost
Jean Verdun (90)
French writer and Freemason.
Yuri Klepikov (86)
Russian screenwriter and actor.
Maurice Malleret (90)
French writer and historian.
Doğan Akhanlı (64)
Turkish-German writer.
Wes Magee (82)
British poet and children's author.
Olena Lytovchenko (58)
Ukrainian writer
Tymur Lytovchenko (58)
Ukrainian writer
Timur Litovchenko (58)
Ukrainian writer.
Pavel Coruț (72)
Romanian writer and Securitate intelligence officer.
Javier Sahagún (59)
Mexican journalist and sports writer; Cancer.
Ahmad Kamal Abdullah (80)
Malaysian poet and writer.
Gilberto Braga (75)
Brazilian screenwriter (Escrava Isaura
Hartmut Geerken (82)
German author
Marcel Bluwal (96)
French film director and screenwriter.
Aleksandr Rogozhkin (72)
Russian film director and writer (Peculiarities of the National Hunt
Hryhoriy Shton (80)
Ukrainian writer
Hooshang Chalangi (81)
Iranian author.
Grigoriy Shton' (80)
Ukrainian writer
Grogoriy Ston (80)
Ukrainian writer
Mamat Khalid (58)
Malaysian screenwriter and director (Puteri Gunung Ledang
K. A. Abraham (79)
Indian interventional cardiologist and a medical writer.
Addo Stuur (68)
Dutch programmer and computer books writer.
Robin McNamara (74)
American singer-songwriter ("Lay a Little Lovin' on Me") and musician.
Jerry Pinkney (81)
American illustrator and children’s books writer.
Ralph Carmichael (94)
American composer and writer.
Fumio Yamamoto (58)
Japanese author
Lloyd Willis (73)
Jamaican session guitarist and songwriter ("Tease Me").
Anders Bodelsen (84)
Danish writer.
Michel de Roy (72)
French author.
Lloyd "Gitsy" Willis (73)
Jamaican session guitarist and songwriter (Tease Me).
Laila al-Atrash (73)
Jordanian writer and journalist.
Lou Antonelli (64)
American author.
Vano Siradeghyan (74)
Armenian politician and writer.
Mario Andrea Rigoni (73)
Italian poet and writer.
Johan Frinsel (94)
Dutch Pentecostal and writer.
Yitzhak Keinan (79)
Israeli author and politician
Yosef Bar-Yosef (88)
Israeli author and playwright.
Khalid Al Siddiq (76)
Kuwaiti film director and screenwriter (The Cruel Sea
Eddie Jaku (101)
German-born Australian writer and Holocaust survivor.