This is a list of authors whose works enter the public domain in part of the world in 2015. Entering the public domain in Europe A work enters the public domain in most European countries (with the exception of Belarus) 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the author's lifetime.In 1995,the European union extended copyright from life+50 to life+70 and that had the effect of extending copyrights that had already expired,this way authors that died in 1944 and entered the public Domain in 1995 entered the public domain again in 2015. Sortable list Entering the public domain in countries with life + 50 years In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, Canada, New Zealand and Uruguay; a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death. Writers January 17 – T. H. White, English novelist (heart condition, born 1906) February 3 – Clarence Irving Lewis, American philosopher (born 1883) February 25 – Grace Metalious (Marie Grace DeRepentigny), American novelist (cirrhosis of liver, born 1924) March 17 – Păstorel Teodoreanu, Romanian poet and satirist (lung cancer, born 1894) March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish playwright, poet and writer (born 1923) April 14 – Rachel Carson, American environmentalist (breast cancer, born 1907) April 18 – Ben Hecht, American screenwriter (born 1894) April 23 – Karl Polanyi (Károly Polányi), Austro-Hungarian economic historian and social philosopher (born 1886) May 13 – Hamilton Basso, American novelist and journalist (born 1904) July 6 – Ion Vinea, Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist (cancer, born 1895) August 3 – Flannery O'Connor, American essayist and fiction writer (born 1925) August 12 – Ian Fleming, English spy thriller writer (heart attack, born 1908) August 17 – Mihai Ralea, Romanian critic and sociologist of literature (born 1896) September 14 – Vasily Grossman, Soviet novelist (cancer, born 1905) September 18 – Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (born 1880) November 21 – Leah Bodine Drake, American poet, editor and critic (cancer, born 1914) November 29 – Anne de Vries, Dutch novelist (born 1904) December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (born 1887) December 21 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (born 1880) Unknown date – Radu D. Rosetti, Romanian poet and playwright (born 1874) Artists January 1 – Paul Ninas, American painter (b. 1903) January 17 – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter (b. 1904) January 26