2 – Meic Stephens, Welsh writer and editor (The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, Library of Wales: Poetry 1900–2000), 79 (born 1938) July 3 – Thérèse Kleindienst, French librarian, 101 (born 1916) July 4 – Rogelio Mangahas, Filipino poet and writer, 79 (born 1939) July 5 – François Budet, French singer-songwriter, novelist, and poet, 78 (born 1940) Gerald Messadié, French essayist and novelist, 87 (born 1931) Michel Suffran, French novelist, 87 (born 1931) July 6 – Amritlal Vegad, Indian writer, 89 (born 1928) July 7 – Peter Sawyer, English historian, 90 (born 1928) July 8 – Anthony Kirk-Greene, English historian, 93 (born 1925) July 10 – Clive King, English writer, 94 (born 1924) July 13 – Atukwei Okai, Ghanaian poet and academic (University of Ghana), 77 (born 1941) Claude Seignolle, French writer, 101 (born 1917) July 14 – Petr Weigl, Czech director, playwright and dramaturge, 79 (born 1939) July 17 – Radoslav Nenadál, Czech writer and English-language translator, 88 (born 1929) Hugh Whitemore, English playwright, 82 (born 1936) July 18 – Anne Olivier Bell, English literary editor and art scholar, member of the Monuments Men Brigade, 102 (born 1916) Ling Li (凌力), Chinese historical novelist and missile engineering technologist, 76 (born 1942) July 26 – Sha Yexin (沙叶新), Chinese playwright and political activist, 79 (born 1939) July 27 – Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian linguist, intellectual and sexologist, 80 (born 1938) August 4 – Lluïsa Forrellad, Spanish writer, 91 (born 1927) Anita Miller, American writer, publisher and co-founder of Academy Chicago Publishers, 91, (born 1926) August 5 – Matthew Sweeney, Irish poet, 65 (born 1952) August 6 – Kamrul Hasan Bhuiyan, Bangladeshi military officer and writer, 66 (born 1952) Christian Habicht, German historian (Ancient Greece), 92 (born 1926) Leonard Lewinsohn, American Islamic scholar, 64–65 (born 1953) Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet, 49 (born 1968) August 7 – Andrew Coburn, American fiction writer, essayist and newspaper columnist, 86 (born 1932) Joel H. Silbey, American historian, 84 (born 1933) Robley Wilson, American writer, 88 (born 1930) August 8 (actual date) or 9 (official date) – Mario Alinei, Italian linguist, 91 (born 1926) Robert Hugh Ferrell, American historian, 97 (born 1921) August 10 – William Corbett, American poet, 75 (born 1942) Mahmut Makal, Turkish writer, 88 (born 1930) August 11 – Pierre Coustillas, French University of Lille academic and literary scholar specialising in George Gissing, 88 (born 1930) Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul,