writer, 91 (born 1926) Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski, Spanish physicist, academic (University of Barcelona), writer and aphorist, founder director of CosmoCaixa, 69 (born 1948) March 4 – José Triana, Cuban poet and playwright, 87 (born 1931) March 5 – Robert Assaraf, Moroccan historian, 81 (born 1936) Derek Bickerton, English-born American linguist, academic and writer of novels, 91 (born 1926) Clive Sinclair , English fiction writer included in Granta 1983 list of Best Young British Novelists, 70 (born 1948) Hayden White, American historian in the tradition of literary criticism (Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe), 89 (born 1928) March 6 – Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet and academic, 61 (born 1956) Peter Nicholls, Australian writer and editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 78 (born 1939) Indra Bahadur Rai, Indian writer, 91 (born 1927) March 8 – Sir Wilson Harris, Guyanese poet, essayist, and fiction writer (Palace of the Peacock), 96 (born 1921) Jean Jolivet, French philosopher and medievalist, 93 (born 1925) Gerd Søraa, Norwegian writer of novels and local history, 83 (born 1934) Peter Temple, Australian crime fiction writer, 71 (born 1946) Kate Wilhelm, American science fiction, mystery and suspense writer, 89 (born 1928) March 9 – Ulla Nenonen, Finnish missionary and Bible translator, 84 (born 1933) March 10 – Val Mulkerns, Irish writer and poet, 93 (born 1925) March 11 – H. Blair Neatby, Canadian historian, 93 (born 1924) David W. Noble, American historian, 92 (born 1925) Mary Rosenblum, American science fiction and mystery writer, 65 (born 1952) Mario Vegetti, Italian historian of philosophy, 81 (born 1937) March 12 – Emily Stipes Watts, American literary historian, 81 (born 1936) March 13 – Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer of novels, children's stories and short story collections, 86 (born 1931) March 14 – Robert L. Bireley, American Jesuit historian of Counter-Reformation Central Europe, 84 (born 1933) Alfred W. Crosby, American ecological historian (The Columbian Exchange, Ecological Imperialism), 87 (born 1931) David Wyman, American historian (The Abandonment of the Jews), 89 (born 1929) March 16 – Russell Freedman, American biographer, non-fiction and children's writer, 88 (born 1929) March 17 – Zdeněk Mahler, Czech writer and biographer, 89 (born 1928) Sushil Siddharth, Hindi prose and poetry writer, critic, editor and satirist, 59 (born 1958) March 18 – Li Ao (李敖), Chinese-Taiwanese essayist and historian, 82 (born 1935) Michael Rutschky, German writer and 1997 Heinrich Mann Prize recipient, 74 (born 1943) March 19 – Jürg Laederach,