Individual
|
Background
|
Date of Death
|
Age
|
Cause of Death
|
Ref.
|
January
|
Lise Nørgaard
|
Danish journalist and writer (
Matador)
|
January 1
|
105
|
|
[42]
|
Edith Pearlman
|
American short story writer
|
January 1
|
86
|
|
[43]
|
Suzy McKee Charnas
|
American novelist (
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone,
The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("
Boobs")
|
January 2
|
83
|
|
[44]
|
Catherine David
|
French-American literary critic and novelist
|
January 2
|
73
|
|
[45]
|
Dumitru Radu Popescu
|
Romanian novelist and poet
|
January 2
|
87
|
|
[46]
|
Mohamed Enani
|
Egyptian writer and translator
|
January 3
|
83
|
|
[47]
|
Fay Weldon
|
British author (
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil,
Puffball,
The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright
|
January 4
|
91
|
|
[48]
|
Victoria de Stefano
|
Italo-Venezuelan novelist, essayist and philosopher
|
January 6
|
82
|
|
[49]
|
Russell Banks
|
American novelist (
Continental Drift,
The Sweet Hereafter,
Cloudsplitter)
|
January 7
|
82
|
Cancer
|
[50]
|
Aleksey Slapovsky
|
Russian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (
The Irony of Fate 2)
|
January 8
|
65
|
Pneumonia
|
[51]
|
Rehman Rahi
|
Indian poet, translator and literary critic
|
January 9
|
97
|
|
[52]
|
Charles Simic
|
Serbian-born American poet (The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems)
|
January 9
|
84
|
Complications from
dementia
|
[53]
[54]
|
Sara Aboobacker
|
Indian novelist, short story writer and translator
|
January 10
|
86
|
|
[55]
|
Paul Johnson
|
British journalist and historian (
Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s,
A History of the American People,
A History of Christianity)
|
January 12
|
94
|
|
[56]
[57]
|
Claudio Willer
|
Brazilian poet, essayist and translator
|
January 13
|
82
|
Bladder cancer
|
[58]
|
Ronald Blythe
|
English writer and columnist
|
January 14
|
100
|
|
[59]
|
Gordana Kuić
|
Serbian novelist (
The Scent of Rain in the Balkans)
|
January 15
|
80
|
|
[60]
|
Gáspár Miklós Tamás
|
Hungarian philosopher and academic
|
January 15
|
74
|
|
[61]
|
Mousse Boulanger
|
Swiss writer and journalist
|
January 16
|
96
|
|
[62]
|
Luisa Josefina Hernández
|
Mexican writer, playwright and translator
|
January 16
|
94
|
|
[63]
|
Jonathan Raban
|
British travel writer, critic, and novelist (
Soft City,
Waxwings,
For Love & Money)
|
January 17
|
80
|
|
[64]
[65]
|
Jacques Jarry
|
French linguist and archeologist
|
January 18
|
|
|
[66]
|
Claude Guillon
|
French writer and philosopher
|
January 19
|
70
|
|
[67]
|
Nilmani Phookan Jr
|
Indian poet
|
January 19
|
89
|
|
[68]
|
Grigorijus Kanovičius
|
Lithuanian writer
|
January 20
|
93
|
|
[69]
|
Paul LaFarge
|
American novelist, essayist and academic
|
January 20
|
52
|
Cancer
|
[70]
|
Nano Riantiarno
|
Indonesian playwright
|
January 20
|
73
|
|
[71]
|
Georges Banu
|
Romanian-born French writer
|
January 21
|
79
|
|
[72]
|
Pino Roveredo
|
Italian writer and theater director
|
January 21
|
68
|
|
[73]
|
Friedrich Weissensteiner
|
Austrian historian and writer
|
January 21
|
95
|
|
[74]
|
Ian Black
|
British journalist and author (
Israel's Secret Wars)
|
January 22
|
69
|
complications from
frontotemporal lobar degeneration
|
[75]
|
Joseph Agassi
|
Israeli philosopher and author (
The Continuing Revolution)
|
January 23
|
95
|
|
[76]
|
Dmytro Pavlychko
|
Ukrainian poet, translator and diplomat
|
January 29
|
93
|
|
[77]
|
K. V. Tirumalesh
|
Indian writer and poet
|
January 30
|
82
|
|
[78]
|
Linda Pastan
|
American poet
|
January 30
|
90
|
|
[79]
|
Cleonice Berardinelli
|
Brazilian academic and writer
|
January 31
|
106
|
|
[80]
|
Henrik Nordbrandt
|
Danish poet (
Drømmebroer), novelist, and essayist
|
January 31
|
77
|
|
[81]
|
February
|
René Schérer
|
French philosopher
|
February 1
|
100
|
|
[82]
|
Alain Lacouchie
|
French poet and illustrator
|
February 3
|
76
|
|
[83]
|
Knut Borchardt
|
German historian
|
February 5
|
93
|
|
[84]
|
Renato Del Ponte
|
Italian essayist
|
February 5
|
78
|
|
[85]
|
Josep Maria Espinàs
|
Spanish writer ("
Cant del Barça"), journalist and publisher
|
February 5
|
95
|
|
[86]
|
May Sayegh
|
Palestinian poet and political activist
|
February 5
|
82
|
|
[87]
|
Răzvan Theodorescu
|
Romanian historian and politician
|
February 6
|
83
|
|
[88]
|
Nicolò Mineo
|
Italian literary critic, literary historian and philologist
|
February 6
|
89
|
|
[89]
|
Richard Kell
|
Irish poet, composer, and teacher
|
February 7
|
95
|
|
[90]
|
Leontii Voitovych
|
Ukrainian historian
|
February 7
|
71
|
|
[91]
|
Subimal Mishra
|
Indian novelist and short story writer
|
February 8
|
79
|
|
[92]
|
Agnès Laroche
|
French novelist and author
|
February 11
|
57
|
|
[93]
|
Lualhati Bautista
|
Filipino novelist (
Dekada '70,
'GAPÔ,
Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?), screenwriter (
Bulaklak sa City Jail) and activist
|
February 12
|
77
|
|
[94]
|
Robert Sauzet
|
French historian
|
February 12
|
95
|
|
[95]
|
Suzanne Sens
|
French author and educator
|
February 13
|
92
|
|
[96]
|
Giampiero Neri
|
Italian poet
|
February 15
|
95
|
|
[97]
|
Helen Fogwill Porter
|
Canadian poet, essayist and activist
|
February 16
|
92
|
|
[98]
|
Mario Vitti
|
Italian philologist
|
February 6
|
96
|
|
[99]
|
Richard Belzer
|
American actor, stand-up comedian, and author
|
February 19
|
78
|
Unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions
|
[100]
[101]
|
Daniel Roche
|
French historian
|
February 19
|
87
|
|
[102]
|
Michael S. Heiser
|
American biblical scholar and author
|
February 20
|
60
|
Pancreatic cancer
|
[103]
|
Philip Ziegler
|
British historian and biographer
|
February 22
|
93
|
|
[104]
|
Irving Wardle
|
English theatre critic and playwright
|
February 23
|
93
|
|
[105]
|
Mihai Șora
|
Romanian philosopher, essayist and politician
|
February 25
|
106
|
|
[106]
|
Günther von Lojewski
|
German journalist, television presenter, and author
|
February 26
|
87
|
|
[107]
|
Amy Schwartz
|
American author and illustrator of children's books
|
February 26
|
68
|
|
[108]
[109]
|
Juan Muñoz Martín
|
Spanish children's author (
El Barco de Vapor)
|
February 27
|
93
|
|
[110]
|
Javad Tabatabai
|
Iranian philosopher and political scientist
|
February 28
|
77
|
|
[111]
|
March
|
Anise Koltz
|
Luxembourgish author
|
March 1
|
94
|
|
[112]
|
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
|
Indian novelist (
Pandab Goenda)
|
March 3
|
81
|
Stroke
|
[113]
|
Christopher Fowler
|
British science fiction writer
|
March 3
|
69
|
Cancer
|
[114]
|
Kenzaburō Ōe
|
Japanese writer (
1994 Nobel laureate in literature)
|
March 3
|
88
|
Natural causes
|
[115]
|
Yuri Zhukov
|
Russian historian
|
March 3
|
85
|
|
[116]
|
Judith Heumann
|
American disability rights activist and author
|
March 4
|
75
|
|
[117]
|
Matti Klinge
|
Finnish historian
|
March 5
|
86
|
|
[118]
|
Sylviane Telchid
|
Guadeloupean writer and translator
|
March 5
|
81
|
Complications from
Alzheimer's disease
|
[119]
|
Ian Falconer
|
American author and
illustrator of children's books (
Olivia)
|
March 7
|
63
|
|
[120]
|
Salvador García-Bodaño
|
Spanish poet
|
March 7
|
87
|
|
[121]
|
Jitendra Nath Mohanty
|
Indian philosopher
|
March 7
|
95
|
|
[122]
|
Dhiruben Patel
|
Indian novelist, playwright and translator
|
March 10
|
96
|
|
[123]
|
John Jakes
|
American writer (
North and South,
The Kent Family Chronicles)
|
March 11
|
90
|
|
[124]
|
William G. Johnsson
|
Australian theologian and author
|
March 11
|
88
|
|
[125]
|
Michel Peyramaure
|
French writer
|
March 11
|
101
|
|
[126]
|
Isabel Colegate
|
British author (
The Shooting Party) and literary agent
|
March 12
|
91
|
|
[127]
|
Karel Kaplan
|
Czech historian
|
March 12
|
94
|
|
[128]
|
Jaume Medina
|
Spanish philologist, translator and poet
|
March 12
|
73
|
|
[129]
|
Dragoslav Mihailović
|
Serbian academic and playwright
|
March 12
|
92
|
|
[130]
|
Momoko Kuroda
|
Japanese
haiku poet and essayist
|
March 13
|
84
|
Brain hemorrhage
|
[131]
|
Richard Wagner
|
Romanian-born German novelist
|
March 14
|
70
|
|
[132]
|
Patrick French
|
British writer and historian (
Tibet, Tibet,
The World Is What It Is)
|
March 16
|
57
|
Cancer
|
[133]
|
Anna Sujatha Mathai
|
Indian poet
|
March 16
|
89
|
|
[134]
|
Jorge Edwards
|
Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat
|
March 17
|
91
|
|
[135]
|
Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie
|
Iraqi novelist (
The Tattoo Mark)
|
March 20
|
83
|
|
[136]
|
Eric Brown
|
British science fiction writer
|
March 21
|
62
|
Sepsis
|
[137]
|
Harri Nykänen
|
Finnish crime writer
|
March 21
|
69
|
|
[138]
|
Howard Fergus
|
Montserratian author and historian
|
March 23
|
85
|
|
[139]
|
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
|
Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet
|
March 23
|
98
|
|
[140]
|
Jean-Marie Apostolidès
|
Greek-French novelist, essayist, and theater director
|
March 24
|
79
|
|
[141]
|
María Kodama
|
Argentine writer and translator; wife of
Jorge Luis Borges
|
March 26
|
86
|
Breast cancer
|
[142]
|
D. M. Thomas
|
British poet, translator and novelist (
The Flute-Player,
The White Hotel)
|
March 26
|
88
|
|
[143]
|
April
|
Rachel Pollack
|
American
science fiction author, comic book writer, and activist
|
April 7
|
77
|
|
[144]
|
Anne Perry
|
British crime writer (
The Cater Street Hangman)
|
April 10
|
84
|
|
[145]
|
Harold Kushner
|
American
rabbi, author, and lecturer (
When Bad Things Happen to Good People)
|
April 28
|
88
|
|
[146]
|
May
|
Andrew Delaplaine
|
American novelist and screenwriter (
Meeting Spencer)
|
May 1
|
73
|
Stomach cancer
|
[147]
|
Gabrielle Carey
|
Australian novelist (
Puberty Blues)
|
May 2
|
64
|
|
[148]
|
Henri Coulonges
|
French novelist and painter
|
May 4
|
86
|
|
[149]
|
Rafael Guillén
|
Spanish poet
|
May 4
|
90
|
Stroke
|
[150]
|
Haidar Haidar
|
Syrian novelist (
The Desolate Time,
A Feast for the Seaweeds,
The Mirrors of Fire)
|
May 5
|
87
|
|
[151]
|
Bruce McCall
|
Canadian author and illustrator
|
May 5
|
87
|
Complications from
Parkinson's disease
|
[152]
|
Philippe Sollers
|
French writer and literary critic, founder of
Tel Quel and
L'Infini
|
May 5
|
86
|
|
[153]
|
Ingrid Arvidsson
|
Swedish poet, author, and diplomat
|
May 7
|
103
|
|
[154]
|
Vladimir Dybo
|
Russian linguist
|
May 7
|
92
|
|
[155]
|
Fred Siegel
|
American historian and conservative writer
|
May 7
|
78
|
|
[156]
|
Ronald Steel
|
American author and biographer (
Walter Lippmann)
|
May 7
|
92
|
|
[157]
|
Samaresh Majumdar
|
Indian writer
|
May 8
|
79
|
Complications from
COPD
|
[158]
|
Heather Armstrong
|
American
blogger and author
|
May 9
|
47
|
Suicide
|
[159]
|
Josef Ehmer
|
Austrian historian
|
May 9
|
74
|
|
[160]
|
Wilferd Madelung
|
German-British author and scholar of Islamic history
|
May 9
|
92
|
|
[161]
|
Rosemary Crossley
|
Australian author
|
May 10
|
78
|
|
[162]
|
Ian Hacking
|
Canadian philosopher (
The Taming of Chance,
Rewriting the Soul,
Mad Travelers)
|
May 10
|
87
|
|
[163]
|
Leon Comber
|
British military officer and author
|
May 11
|
101
|
|
[164]
|
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
|
German writer
|
May 13
|
69
|
|
[165]
|
Hassan Hallak
|
Lebanese historian and academic
|
May 15
|
77
|
|
[166]
|
Eugene Kozlovsky
|
Russian writer, screenwriter, theatre and film director
|
May 15
|
76
|
|
[167]
|
Inger Sandberg
|
Swedish children's author (
The Little Ghost Godfrey,
Lilla Anna and the Tall Uncle)
|
May 16
|
92
|
|
[168]
|
Martin Amis
|
British novelist (
London Fields,
Money,
Time's Arrow)
|
May 19
|
73
|
Esophageal cancer
|
[169]
|
Pete Brown
|
English poet, lyricist ("
I Feel Free", "
Sunshine of Your Love", "
White Room") and singer
|
May 19
|
82
|
|
[170]
|
Dževad Karahasan
|
Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher
|
May 19
|
70
|
|
[171]
|
Veno Taufer
|
Slovenian poet, translator and playwright
|
May 20
|
90
|
|
[172]
|
Antón Arrufat
|
Cuban writer and poet
|
May 21
|
87
|
Bronchopneumonia
|
[173]
|
Erick Pohlhammer
|
Chilean poet
|
May 22
|
68
|
Complications from a
stroke
|
[174]
|
John Dunning
|
American novelist
|
May 23
|
81
|
|
[175]
|
Lin Wenyue
|
Taiwanese writer and translator
|
May 26
|
89
|
|
[176]
|
Govindray H. Nayak
|
Indian writer and academic
|
May 26
|
89
|
|
[177]
|
Anita Cornwell
|
American author and activist
|
May 27
|
99
|
|
[178]
|
Frédéric Barbier
|
French historian
|
May 28
|
70
|
|
[179]
|
Choi Il-nam
|
South Korean writer
|
May 28
|
90
|
|
[180]
|
Antonio Gala
|
Spanish poet, playwright and writer
|
May 28
|
92
|
|
[181]
|
Asad Gulzoda
|
Tajik poet and linguist
|
May 29
|
88
|
|
[182]
|
Ama Ata Aidoo
|
Ghanaian author and playwright (
The Dilemma of a Ghost,
Anowa)
|
May 31
|
81
|
|
[183]
|
Vellayani Arjunan
|
Indian literary scholar
|
May 31
|
90
|
|
[184]
|
June
|
Ronald L. Baker
|
American folklorist
|
June 1
|
85
|
|
[185]
|
Byron Barton
|
American author and illustrator of children's books
|
June 3
|
92
|
|
[186]
|
Khalid Kishtainy
|
Iraqi writer and satirist
|
June 3
|
93
|
|
[187]
|
Mochtar Pabottingi
|
Indonesian writer
|
June 4
|
77
|
Heart attack
|
[188]
|
Cormac McCarthy
|
American writer (
Suttree,
Blood Meridian,
The Border Trilogy,
No Country for Old Men,
The Road)
|
June 13
|
89
|
|
[189]
|
Robert Gottlieb
|
American author and editor
|
June 14
|
92
|
|
[190]
|
Micere Githae Mugo
|
Kenyan writer, activist and professor
|
June 20
|
80
|
Cancer
|
[191]
|
July
|
Ahn Junghyo
|
South Korean novelist and translator
|
July 1
|
81
|
Cancer
|
[192]
|
Victoria Amelina
|
Ukrainian novelist
|
July 1
|
37
|
Russian attack
|
[193]
|
Valeriano Bozal
|
Spanish historian and philosopher
|
July 2
|
82
|
|
[194]
|
Zé Celso
|
Brazilian playwright and stage director (
Teatro Oficina)
|
July 6
|
86
|
Injuries from a fire
|
[195]
|
Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ
|
Vietnamese poet
|
July 6
|
73
|
|
[196]
|
Mary Ann Hoberman
|
American author and poet
|
July 7
|
92
|
|
[197]
|
Ahmed Ilias
|
Bangladeshi poet
|
July 7
|
88
|
|
[198]
|
José Mattoso
|
Portuguese historian and medievalist
|
July 8
|
90
|
|
[199]
|
Adrian Tan
|
Singaporean novelist (
The Teenage Textbook,
The Teenage Workbook) and lawyer
|
July 8
|
57
|
Cancer
|
[200]
|
Alain Besançon
|
French historian
|
July 9
|
91
|
|
[201]
|
Jean-Jacques Becker
|
French historian
|
July 10
|
95
|
|
[202]
|
Richard G. Hovannisian
|
American historian
|
July 10
|
90
|
|
[203]
|
Marga Minco
|
Dutch journalist and writer
|
July 10
|
103
|
|
[204]
|
Per Odensten
|
Swedish novelist and poet
|
July 10
|
84
|
|
[205]
|
Ahmadreza Ahmadi
|
Iranian poet and screenwriter
|
July 11
|
83
|
|
[206]
|
Milan Kundera
|
Czech-French writer (
The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
The Joke,
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
|
July 11
|
94
|
|
[207]
|
Colin Spencer
|
English writer and artist
|
July 13
|
89
|
|
[208]
|
Bernard Bachrach
|
American historian
|
July 14
|
84
|
|
[209]
|
Harry Frankfurt
|
American philosopher and author (
On Bullshit,
On Truth)
|
July 16
|
94
|
congestive heart failure
|
[210]
|
Wasef Bakhtari
|
Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual
|
July 19
|
80
|
|
[211]
|
Silvana Lattmann
|
Italian-Swiss poet and author
|
July 19
|
104
|
|
[212]
|
Jaime Galarza Zavala
|
Ecuadorian writer
|
July 20
|
92
|
lung disease
|
[213]
|
Malú Urriola
|
Chilean poet
|
July 21
|
56
|
|
[214]
|
Russell H. Greenan
|
American author (
It Happened in Boston?)
|
July 22
|
97
|
|
[215]
|
Howard Adelman
|
Canadian philosopher and academic
|
July 23
|
85
|
|
[216]
|
Seiichi Morimura
|
Japanese novelist
|
July 24
|
90
|
|
[217]
|
Gérard Besson
|
Trinidadian writer and publisher
|
July 25
|
81
|
|
[218]
|
Shirish Kanekar
|
Indian writer and journalist
|
July 25
|
80
|
|
[219]
|
Eduardo Pitta
|
Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist
|
July 25
|
73
|
|
[220]
|
Lâm Quang Mỹ
|
Vietnamese-Polish poet
|
July 26
|
79
|
|
[221]
|
Keith Waldrop
|
American poet
|
July 27
|
90
|
|
[222]
|
Danila Comastri Montanari
|
Italian historical fiction novelist
|
July 28
|
74
|
|
[223]
|
Martin Walser
|
German writer (
Runaway Horse,
A Man in Love,
Marriage in Philippsburg)
|
July 28
|
96
|
|
[224]
|
David Albahari
|
Serbian writer and translator
|
July 30
|
75
|
|
[225]
|
August
|
Michela Murgia
|
Italian novelist and journalist
|
August 10
|
51
|
Cancer
|
[226]
|
October
|
Louise Meriwether
|
American novelist, journalist and activist
|
October 10
|
100
|
|
[227]
|
Louise Gluck
|
American poet (
2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature)
|
October 13
|
80
|
Cancer
|
[228]
|
November
|
A. S. Byatt
|
English novelist (
The Virgin in the Garden,
Possession,
Still Life) and critic
|
November 16
|
87
|
|
[229]
|
Eddie Linden
|
Scottish poet and publisher (Aquarius magazine)
|
November 19
|
88
|
|
[230]
|
Tim Dorsey
|
American novelist
|
November 26
|
62
|
|
[231]
|
John Nichols
|
American novelist
|
November 27
|
83
|
|
[232]
|
December
|
Benjamin Zephaniah
|
British poet
|
December 7
|
65
|
Brain tumour
|
[233]
|