81 (born 1936) August 24 – Stanley Morgan, English thriller writer, 88 (born 1929) Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, 93 (born 1925) August 26 – Hamsad Rangkuti, Indonesian short story writer, 75 (born 1943) Neil Simon, American playwright (Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple), 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner (Lost in Yonkers) and 1965, 1985 and 1991 Tony winner, 91 (born 1927) August 28 – Josep Fontana, Spanish historian and Pompeu Fabra University academic, 86 (born 1931) August 29 – Carilda Oliver Labra, Cuban poet, 96 (born 1922) August 30 – Peter Corris, Australian academic, historian, journalist and novelist of historical and crime fiction, 76 (born 1942) August 31 – Ian Jones, author and television writer and director, 86 (born 1931) Amanda Kyle Williams, American novelist of crime fiction, 61 (born 1957) September 1 – Margit Sandemo, Norwegian Swedish writer of historical fantasy works such as The Legend of the Ice People, 94 (born 1924) Mykola Shytyuk, Ukrainian historian, 64 (born 1953) Ehsan Yarshater, Iranian historian, linguist and Iranologist who was director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University, 98 (born 1920) September 3 – Rama Chowdhury, Bangladeshi writer, 81 (born 1937) September 5 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist, 84 (born 1934) Priscila Uppal, Canadian poet, novelist, playwright and teacher of creative writing, 43 (born 1974) September 6 – Salawat Gallyamov, Russian linguist, 58 (born 1959) Gilbert Lazard, French linguist, Iranologist and translator of classical Persian poetry, 98 (born 1920) September 7 – Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, Swiss neo-fascist political philosopher, 97 (born 1920) September 8 – Christopher Harper-Bill, English medieval historian focusing on "the ecclesiastical history of England from the Norman Conquest to the eve of the Reformation" and editing episcopal and monastic records, 71 (born 1947) September 9 – Adrian C. Louis, American Lovelock Paiute tribe writer whose work focused on poverty, alcoholism and social problems, 72 (born 1946) John W. Rogerson, English Anglican priest, theologian, biblical scholar and Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield, 83 (born 1935) September 10 – Paul Virilio, French philosopher of aesthetics, cultural theorist and urbanist, 86 (born 1932) September 12 – Ronald Carter , English linguist and founding member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, 71 (born 1947) Albert Ullin , German Australian children's bookseller and founder of Australia's first children's bookstore-The Little Bookroom, 88 (born 1930) September 13 – Guido Ceronetti, Italian poet, philosopher, playwright, puppeteer and