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Journalists, Authors and Literary Related 1996

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o Ann Susan Hills (7 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1996)
Freelance journalist
o William Thomas Pennar Davies (12 Nov 1911 - 29 Dec 1996)
Poet, author and theologian
o Richard Passmore (Roger Peacock) (1 Jan 1920 - 20 Dec 1996)
Writer
o Laurens jan van der Post (13 Dec 1906 - 15 Dec 1996)
Writer, farmer, soldier, explorer and conservationist
o Edward Blishen (29 Apr 1920 - 13 Dec 1996)
Writer, teacher and broadcaster
o Vance Oakley Packard (22 May 1914 - 12 Dec 1996)
Writer and journalist
o William George Rushton (18 Aug 1937 - 11 Dec 1996)
Actor, author and cartoonist
o Raphael Samuel (26 Sep 1934 - 9 Dec 1996)
Historian
o Marin Sorescu (18 Feb 1936 - 8 Dec 1996)
Poet and dramatist
o José Donoso (5 Oct 1924 - 7 Dec 1996)
Writer
o Sorley MacLean (Somhairle Mac Gill-Eain) (26 Oct 1911 - 24 Nov 1996)
Poet
o Denis Jenkinson (1922 - 19 Nov 1996)
Journalist
o David Herbert (2 Jan 1927 - 18 Nov 1996)
Publisher
o Liz Knights (16 Sep 1955 - 14 Nov 1996)
Publisher
o Marjorie Proops (1911 - 10 Nov 1996)
Problem page editor
o William Downie Forrest (21 Mar 1902 - 28 Oct 1996)
Journalist
o Diana Trilling (21 Jul 1905 - 23 Oct 1996)
Writer
o Abdelhamid Benhadugah (9 Jan 1925 - 21 Oct 1996)
Novelist
o Oliver Charles Anderson (30 Sep 1912 - 19 Oct 1996)
Novelist
o Eric (Lawson) Malpass (14 Nov 1910 - 16 Oct 1996)
Writer
o Bernard Frank (28 Feb 1927 - 15 Oct 1996)
Oriental scholar and writer
o Henri Nannen (25 Dec 1913 - 13 Oct 1996)
Journalist
o John Hillaby (24 Jul 1917 - 10 Oct 1996)
Writer and traveller
o Martyn Harris (7 Oct 1952 - 4 Oct 1996)
Journalist
o Frances Lear (14 Jul 1923 - 30 Sep 1996)
Writer
o Kenneth Muir (5 May 1907 - 30 Sep 1996)
English scholar
o Elizabeth Gille (20 Mar 1937 - 30 Sep 1996)
Writer, translator and editor
o Shusaku Endo (27 Mar 1923 - 29 Sep 1996)
Writer
o John Stachniewski (5 Oct 1953 - 21 Sep 1996)
Scholar and teacher
o Timothy Nicholson (25 Aug 1964 - 19 Sep 1996)
Journalist
o Andrew MacElhone (8 Feb 1923 - 16 Sep 1996)
Bar owner
o George Scheuer (8 Dec 1915 - 15 Sep 1996)
Writer and journalist
o Hilary Preston (16 May 1908 - 15 Sep 1996)
Editor
o Oscar Michael Moore (23 Mar 1960 - 12 Sep 1996)
Journalist
o Lloyd Turner (2 Oct 1938 - 12 Sep 1996)
Journalist
o Rose Isabel Williams (19 Nov 1909 - 5 Sep 1996)
Sister of Tennessee Williams
o Phyllis Pearsall (25 Sep 1906 - 28 Aug 1996)
Painter and writer
o Dai Houying (1938 - 25 Aug 1996)
Writer
o Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss (29 Dec 1961 - 24 Aug 1996)
Journalist and travel writer
o Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer (7 Sep 1918 - 22 Aug 1996)
Publisher
o Geoffrey Dearmer (21 Mar 1893 - 18 Aug 1996)
Poet
o Ruth Holland (8 May 1942 - 8 Aug 1996)
Journalist
o Herbert Huncke (9 Dec 1915 - 8 Aug 1996)
Writer
o George Richard Samways (14 Jan 1895 - 8 Aug 1996)
Children's writer
o Julian Stryjkowski (27 Apr 1905 - 8 Aug 1996)
Writer
o Buland Al Haidary (26 Sep 1926 - 6 Aug 1996)
Poet
o Geoff Hamilton (12 Aug 1936 - 4 Aug 1996)
Gardner and journalist
o Ivan V Lalić (8 Jun 1931 - 27 Jul 1996)
Poet
o Jessica Lucy Mitford (11 Sep 1917 - 23 Jul 1996)
Author
o Macha Louis Rosenthal (14 Mar 1917 - 21 Jul 1996)
Critic and poet
o Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh (26 May 1919 - 20 Jul 1996)
Journalist
o Frederick Angus Armstrong (5 Apr 1914 - 14 Jul 1996)
Journalist
o John William Chancellor (14 Jul 1927 - 12 Jul 1996)
Journalist
o John Boon (21 Dec 1916 - 12 Jul 1996)
Publisher
o William Darling (14 Apr 1923 - 12 Jul 1996)
Journalist
o Edilio Rusconi (11 Nov 1916 - 10 Jul 1996)
Writer, publisher and businessman
o Peter Martini (18 Feb 1965 - 9 Jul 1996)
Journalist
o Michael Parkin (8 Aug 1922 - 30 Jun 1996)
Journalist
o Hugh Henry Home Popham (15 may 1920 - 30 Jun 1996)
Aviator, writer and poet
o Veronica Guerin (5 Jul 1959 - 26 Jun 1996)
Journalist
o William Walsh (23 Feb 1916 - 23 Jun 1996)
Academic
o Michel Lebrun (1930 - 20 Jun 1996)
Crime writer
o David Mourão-Ferreira (24 Feb 1927 - 16 Jun 1996)
Poet and politician
o Jean Gimpel (10 Oct 1918 - 15 Jun 1996)
Author and iconoclast
o Uno Choyo (28 Nov 1897 - 10 Jun 1996)
Writer
o José María Valverde (26 Jan 1926 - 7 Jun 1996)
Philosopher, poet and translator
o Jan Kerouac (16 Feb 1952 - 5 Jun 1996)
Writer
o Leon Garield (14 Jul 1921 - 2 Jun 1996)
Writer
o Timothy Francis Leary (22 Oct 1920 - 31 May 1996)
Visionary
o Laurence Marks (1928 - 25 May 1996)
Journalist
o Joseph Mitchell (25 Jul 1908 - 24 May 1996)
Writer
o Rex Collings (18 Jun 1925 - 22 May 1996)
Writer and publisher
o Mary Perot Nichols (15 Oct 1927 - 21 May 1996)
Journalist
o George Malcolm Thomson (2 Aug 1899 - 20 May 1996)
Journalist
o Edward McInnes (5 Jul 1935 - 16 May 1996)
German Scholar
o Vera Chapman (7 May 1898 - 14 May 1996)
Writer
o Qazaleh Alizadeh (Feb 1948 - 14 May 1996)
Writer
o Malcolm MacEwen (24 Dec 1911 - 11 May 1996)
Writer
o Frank Hercules (12 Feb 1911 - 6 May 1996)
Writer
o Ai Qing (17 Feb 1910 - 5 May 1996)
Poet
o Emile Habibi (29 Aug 1922 - 2 May 1996)
Writer
o Asher Wallfish (10 Jun 1928 - 1 May 1996)
Journalist
o Jaime Garcia Terré (15 May 1924 - 29 Apr 1996)
Poet and essayist
o Pamela Lyndon Travers (9 Aug 1899 - 23 Apr 1996)
Writer
o Molly (Mary Nesta) Keane (20 Jul 1905 - 22 Apr 1996)
Writer
o Christopher Robin Milne (21 Aug 1920 - 20 Apr 1996)
Retired bookseller
o Piet Hein (16 Dec 1905 - 18 Apr 1996)
Poet and inventor
o Eva Jones (27 Jul 1913 - 17 Apr 1996)
Poet and novelist
o Françla;ois-Régis Bastide (1 Jul 1926 - 16 Apr 1996)
Writer and broadcaster
o Madeleine Bourdouxhe (25 Sep 1906 - 16 Apr 1996)
Writer
o George Mackey Brown (17 Oct 1921 - 13 Apr 1996)
Poet
o Marthe Robert (25 Mar 1914 - 12 Apr 1996)
Essayist and translator
o Nancty Sheehan (17 Mar 1927 - 12 Apr 1996)
Writer
o Daniel Wolf (25 May 1915 - 11 Apr 1996)
Journalist
o Richard Thomas Condon (18 Mar 1915 - 9 Apr 1996)
Author
o John Evan "Jasper" Weston-avies (Berkely Mather) (25 Feb 1909 - 7 Apr 1996)
Writer
o Dario Bellezza (5 Sep 1944 - 31 Mar 1996)
Poet
o Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith (5 Jan 1909 - 28 Mar 1996)
Bibliophile
o Hans Blumenberg (13 Jul 1920 - 28 Mar 1996)
Philosopher
o Thomas Wakefield (13 Dec 1935 - 26 Mar 1996)
Writer
o Mary Lavin (Mary MacDonald Scott) (12 Jun 1912 - 24 Mar 1996)
Author
o Claude Mauriac (25 Apr 1914 - 22 Mar 1996)
Writer
o Victor Zorza (19 Oct 1925 - 20 Mar 1996)
Journalist and Russian specialist
o Odysseus Elytis (Alepoudellis) (2 Nov 1911 - 18 Mar 1996)
Poet
o Peter Clemoes (20 Jan 1920 - 16 Mar 1996)
Anglo-Saxon scholar
o Nico Kiasashvii (8 Jun 1926 - 14 Mar 1996)
Professor of English Literature
o John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (2 Jun 1928 - 12 Mar 1996)
Writer and teacher
o John Henry Pyle Pafford (6 Mar 1900 - 11 Mar 1996)
Librarian
o Marguerite Duras (4 Apr 1914 - 3 Mar 1996)
Writer
o Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord (17 Nov 1919 - 3 Mar 1996)
Journalist
o Léo Malet (7 Mar 1909 - 3 Mar 1996)
Writer
o Joe Minogue (20 Oct 1923 - 29 Feb 1996)
Journalist
o James Runcieman Sutherland (26 Apr 1900 - 24 Feb 1996)
Academic
o Horace Leonard Gold (26 Apr 1914 - 21 Feb 1996)
SF writer and editor
o Jack Thieuloy (28 Feb 1931 - 18 Feb 1996)
Writer
o Brian Daley (1947 - 18 Feb 1996)
Writer
o Jean-Pierre Hervé Bazin (17 Apr 1911 - 17 Feb 1996)
Writer
o Caroline Blackwood (16 Jul 1931 - 14 Feb 1996)
Writer
o Roger Omond (2 Dec 1944 - 12 Feb 1996)
Journalist
o Amelia Rosselli (28 Mar 1930 - 11 Feb 1996)
Poet
o Bob Shaw (31 Dec 1931 - 11 Feb 1996)
Writer
o Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya (24 Mar 1907 - 7 Feb 1996)
Writer
o Jack Sutherland (5 Jun 1916 - 29 Jan 1996)
Journalist
o Joseph Brodsky (24 May 1940 - 28 Jan 1996)
Poet
o Jerry Siegel (17 Oct 1914 - 28 Jan 1996)
Comic book writer
o Victor "Toby" Neuberg (8 Mar 1924 - 28 Jan 1996)
Teacher and writer
o Barbara Skelton (29 Jan 1916 - 27 Jan 1996)
Writer
o Harold Brodkey (1930 - 26 Jan 1996)
Writer
o Norman MacCaig (14 Nov 1910 - 23 Jan 1996)
Poet
o Efua Theodore Sutherland (27 Jun 1924 - 22 Jan 1996)
Writer
o Charles Henry Madge (10 Oct 1912 - 17 Jan 1996)
Poet, writer and sociologist
o Giles William Playfair (27 Sep 1910 - 17 Jan 1996)
Writer
o Kaye Webb (26 Jan 1914 - 16 Jan 1996)
Publisher
o Marcia Davenport (9 Jun 1903 - 16 Jan 1996)
Writer
o Hubert Nicholson (23 Jan 1908 - 11 Jan 1996)
Poet and novelist
o Red Thunder (Carlos Westez) Cloud (1919 - 8 Jan 1996)
Singer and storyteller
o Edna Lipson (Gerda Charles) ( - Nov 1996)
Novelist


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