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2005 Mel Gussow, American Critic

2003 Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

2002 Timothy White, American Critic

2001 Jan Kott, Polish Critic

2001 Pauline Kael, critic, The New Yorker, dies at 82

2000 Vincent Canby, critic, dies at 76

2000 Jack Kroll, theater critic, Newsweek, dies at 73

1999 Gene Siskel, critic, Siskel and Ebert and the Movies, dies at 53

1997 Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83

1997 Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70

1997 Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52

1997 Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89

1997 Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71

1996 Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58

1996 Guido Aristarco, film critic, dies at 77

1996 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68

1996 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79

1996 Piers Gray, critic/writer, dies at 49

1996 Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81

1996 Rosemary Tsay, drama critic/SOE operator, dies at 76

1996 Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85

1995 Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95

1995 Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic, dies at 88

1995 Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71

1995 Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73

1995 Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93

1995 Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77

1995 Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52

1995 Ischa Meoer, journalist/critic/entertainer/interviewer, dies at 52

1995 Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic, dies at 83

1995 Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82

1995 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54

1994 Samuel Lipman, music critic, dies at 60

1994 Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80

1994 Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71

1994 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80

1994 Henry Geldzahler, U.S. critic, dies

1994 William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44

1994 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82

1994 Clement Greenberg, U.S. art critic (Art and Culture), dies at 85

1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74

1993 Kenneth Burke, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University, dies of heart failure at his home in Andover, New Jersey

1993 Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94

1993 Jay Scott, Jeffrey Scott Beaven, US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43

1993 Irving Howe, U.S. writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72

1992 Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies

1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith

1992 Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cinema, Traffic), dies

1992 Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies

1992 Constantin Poustochkine, jazz critic, dies

1991 Leo Geerts, Marcel van der Linden, Belgian writer/critic, dies

1991 Northrop Frye, Canadian Critic

1990 Anatole Broyard, American Critic

1990 Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82

1989 Virgil Thomson, U.S. composer/critic (4 saints in 3 acts), dies at 92

1989 Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87

1983 Paul de Man, Belgian Critic

1981 Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1980 Kenneth Tynan, English Critic

1977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92

1974 Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77

1973 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. art critic sculptor, dies at 81

1972 Paul Goodman, U.S. social critic/writer, dies at 60

1972 Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

1972 Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71

1971 Harry Knowles, American Critic

1969 Casper Howeler, music critic, dies at 71

1969 Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86

1967 Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 79

1967 Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies

1966 Delmore Schwartz, U.S. poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52

1965 Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82

1965 Richard P Blackmur, U.S., critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61

1965 Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic

1964 Clive Bell, English Critic

1962 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63

1962 Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Vredens Son), dies at 64

1962 Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82

1960 Richard Roeper, American Critic

1959 Ernest Newman, English Critic

1958 Andre Bazin, French Critic

1958 John Bloom, Joe Bob Briggs, drive-in movie critic

1958 Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87

1958 Francis Carco(pino), French author/critic (L'homme traque), dies at 71

1958 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64

1957 Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor, SNL, League of their Own, Critic

1956 H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75

1955 James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY

1955 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79

1955 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68

1953 Emil Ermatinger, Switzerland, literature critic, dies at 80

1953 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60

1953 Joe Bob Briggs, American Critic

1952 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59

1952 Bell Hooks, American Critic

1952 Timothy White, American Critic

1950 Leonard Maltin, born in New York City, movie critic, Entertainment Tonight

1950 Henry Louis Gates, American Critic

1949 Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70

1948 Lester Bangs, American Critic

1948 Tom Shales, TV critic, Washington Post

1947 Aleister Crowley, English Critic

1947 Michael Coveney, drama critic

1947 Robert M. Parker, Jr., American Critic

1947 Piers Gray, critic/writer

1947 Else JT Rangstrom, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies

1947 Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52

1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71

1946 Andrea Dworkin, American Critic

1946 Gene Siskel, movie critic, Siskel and Ebert

1945 Stanley Crouch, American Critic

1944 Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet and critic, On the Droge

1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80

1943 Stephen Greenblatt, American Critic

1943 Joel Siegel, born in Los Angeles, California, American film critic, television journalist

1943 Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1943 Terry Eagleton, English Critic

1943 Ischa Meijer, journalist/critic/actor, Boezemvriend

1943 Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56

1942 Paul Weyrich, American Critic

1942 Roger Ebert, born in Urbana, Illinois, film critic, Siskel and Ebert at the Movies

1942 Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic

1942 Alexander Woollcott, American Critic

1941 Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday

1940 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48

1940 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40

1940 James L. Brooks, producer/director, Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic

1939 Tom Johnson, born in Greely, Colorado, composer, minimalist style, new music critic for the Village Voice, wrote music based on tiling, involving mathematical and logical processes

1938 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57

1938 Rex Reed, Ft. Worth, Texas, movie critic/actor, Myra Breckinridge

1938 Pia Lindstrom, critic, WNBC-TV, journalist, From Russia With Love

1938 Robert Hughes, born in Australia, writer/critic, Barcelona

1938 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78

1938 Jack Tinker, drama critic

1937 Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic, dies at 69

1937 Paul Elmer More, American Critic

1935 Charles Shere, born in Berkeley, California, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp'

1935 Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies

1934 Samuel Lipman, music critic

1933 Mel Gussow, American Critic

1933 Eric Salzman, born in America, author, composer, record producer, music critic, wrote for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune

1933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic, Film Greats

1933 Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa', dies at 67 in Sankt Georgen, Austria

1933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic

1933 Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography'

1932 John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner

1932 [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51

1931 Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies

1930 Harold Bloom, American Critic

1928 Andrew Sarris, movie critic, Village Voice

1928 Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic

1928 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic

1927 Simon Raven, English playwright/critic, Alms for Oblivion

1927 Martin Carter, poet and critic

1927 Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post

1927 Kenneth Tynan, English Critic

1927 Georg Brandes, Cohen, Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85

1925 Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic

1925 John Simon, theater critic, New York Times

1924 William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68

1924 Vincent Canby, critic, New York Times

1924 Colin Welch, columnist/critic

1923 Max Nordau, Hungarian Critic

1922 Donald Alfred Davie, poet and critic

1922 Donald L. Keene, born in New York City, Japanese translator/critic

1922 Juan A Bardem, Spanish director/critic, Comicos

1922 Judith Crist, New York, movie critic, TV Guide

1921 Ole Sarvig, Danish writer/critic, Limbo, Glem Ikke

1921 Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic, Secret Diary

1921 Ada Louise Huxtable, American Critic

1920 Anatole Broyard, American Critic

1920 Irving Howe, U.S., writer/critic, World of Our Fathers

1919 Paul de Man, Belgian Critic

1919 Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps

1919 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79

1918 Guido Aristarco, film critic

1918 Andre Bazin, French Critic

1917 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic and poet

1917 Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

1916 Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer, In Search of Theater

1916 Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books

1916 John Ciardi, poet and critic, translated Dante

1915 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76

1915 Roland Barthes, French literary critic, L'Empire des Signer

1915 Remy de Gourmont, French critic/writer (Physique L'Amour), dies at 57

1915 Alfred Kazin, U.S. writer/literature critic, Inmost Leaf

1915 Mervyn Levy, artist/critic

1914 Jan Kott, Polish Critic

1914 Brendan Gill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine

1914 Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician

1914 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic, Dance Magazine

1913 Delmore Schwartz, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Shenandoah

1913 Peter Black, TV critic

1913 Walter Kerr, New York drama critic, Sad Clowns

1913 Edward Dowden, Irish Critic

1912 M. H. Abrams, Critic

1912 Northrop Frye, Canadian Critic

1912 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic

1911 Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic

1910 Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic

1909 Hilton Kramer, American Critic

1909 Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet and critic, Vienna, Edge of Darkness

1909 Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic, Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose

1908 John Churton Collins, English Critic

1907 Leon Edel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, wrote on James Joyce, taught literature at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia University

1907 Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic

1907 Charles Boost, movie critic

1907 Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic

1907 John Canaday, art critic, Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios

1906 William Empson, English poet and critic, Milton's God

1906 Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85

1906 Clement Greenberg, art critic

1905 Kenneth Rexroth, U.S., poet, critic and translator Birds in the Bush

1905 Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic, Byron in Italy

1904 Richard P Blackmur, Massachusetts, critic/poet, Good European

1903 Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, U.S. dance critic/poet, Snoring in N

1902 Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic, Temps Humain

1902 Dirk A M Binnendijk, critic, Authoritarian Regimes in Transistion

1901 Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist, New York Herald Tribune

1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959

1900 Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author, Myth Makers

1900 John Mason Brown, born in Louisville, Kentucky, critic, Tonight on Broadway

1900 Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic, Garden of Eros

1899 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic

1899 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic, Flandre

1899 Conrad Aiken, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Selected Poems

1898 Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic, Fiskerne, Slaven

1897 Casper Howeler, Dutch music critic

1897 Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University

1896 Virgil Thomson, born in Kansas City, Missouri, composer/music critic, 4 Saints in 3 Acts

1896 Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War

1896 Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic, Occupied City

1895 Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic, Culture and Environment

1895 Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer, Patriotic Gore

1895 George Scharf, critic, dies

1894 Brooks Atkinson, drama critic, Broadway theater namesake

1894 Willem FJ Pijper, Dutch composer/critic

1894 Mark van Doren, born in Illinois, author, Happy Critic, Transients

1893 John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies

1893 The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink

1893 Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet and critic, Meaning of Meaning,

1893 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic, Scrittori d'Oggi

1893 Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic

1893 Jorge Guillen, Valladolid Spain, poet and critic, Cantico, Final

1892 Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet and critic, Mirror of Dutch Poetry

1892 Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer

1892 Edward B B Shanks, British poet and critic

1891 James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies

1890 Alphonse Karr, French Critic

1889 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom

1888 T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948

1888 John Crowe Ransom, U.S. poet and critic, God Without Thunder

1888 Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/music critic

1887 Josef Capek, Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic, Kulhavy Poutnik

1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73

1887 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic, Tramonto del grande attore

1886 Francis Carcopino, French author/critic, L'Homme Traque

1885 Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems

1885 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic

1885 Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930

1884 Anders J Ture Rangstrom, Stockholm Swed, composer/critic, Kronbruden

1884 Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies

1883 Max F Eastman, U.S., critic/essayist, Masses

1882 Johan C T Kikkert, Dutch painter/etcher/critic

1882 Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic

1882 George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury

1881 Stark Young, U.S. critic/writer, So Red the Rose

1881 Clive Bell, English Critic

1881 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73

1881 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic, Revaluations

1880 Henry Louis Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic, American Mercury

1880 H. L. Mencken, born in Baltimore, Maryland, newspaperman/critic, Prejudices

1880 Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet and movie critic, 'Alcoola'

1880 Anne C. Veth, Dutch cartoonist and art critic

1880 Lytton Strachey, biographer and critic, Benson Medal 1923

1879 Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic, Pleasures of Ignorance

1878 Eduard R. Verkade, Dutch actor, director and critic, Pygmalion

1877 Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic

1877 Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51

1875 Aleister Crowley, English Critic

1874 Michel H. Campen, author/critic, Bikoerim

1874 Amy Lowell, U.S. poet and critic, Patterns, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

1872 Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61

1871 Franz Blei, Peregrinus Steinhovel, Austrian painter/critic

1868 Ernest Newman, English Critic

1867 Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic

1867 Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic, Great Babylon

1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, born in England, poet and critic, Ireland and Other Poems

1867 Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic, Fiery Particles

1866 Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, born in Elbingerode, Germany, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa'

1865 Bernard Berenson, art critic, Italian Painters of the Renaissance

1865 Arthur Symons, Welsh poet, critic and co-founder Savoy

1864 Paul Elmer More, American Critic

1858 Remy de Gourmont, French critic and writer, Physique de L'amour

1858 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic, dies at 54

1856 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52

1856 Otto Brahm, German critic/founder, Neue Deutsche Rundschau

1852 [James] Burner Matthews, U.S. playwright/critic, New York Times

1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies

1849 Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic, Father and Son

1848 Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies

1848 John Churton Collins, English Critic

1845 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77

1843 Edward Dowden, Irish Critic

1843 Henry James, US/British writer/critic, Turn of the Screw, Bostonians

1842 Georg Brandes, Morris Cohen, Danish literary-historian/critic

1840 Austin Dobson, England, poet, critic and biographer

1839 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic, Der Herr im Hause

1839 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic, Roccaverdina

1837 William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic

1834 Charles Lamb, English Critic

1830 William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies

1829 Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP/critic, Akbar

1828 Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic

1826 Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer

1822 Matthew Arnold, England, poet and critic, Dover Beach

1820 Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic

1819 Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic, Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi

1819 James Russell Lowell, poet and critic /diplomat/abolitionist

1819 John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist, Prerafaelite

1812 Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist

1810 Margaret Fuller, American Critic

1808 Alphonse Karr, French Critic

1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet and literature critic

1804 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer, Informal Talk

1804 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic

1803 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic, Si j'etait roi

1802 Adrian van der Hoop, Jr., Dutch poet and critic

1787 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic

1781 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany

1779 William Warburton, English Critic

1778 William Hazlitt, essayist and critic

1775 Charles Lamb, born in London, England, critic/poet/essayist

1775 Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer, Imaginary Conversation

1772 Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic, Lucinde

1767 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic

1766 Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic

1746 Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic

1729 Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator

1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, born in Kamenz, Germany, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature

1728 Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64

1702 Dominique Bouhours, French Critic

1698 William Warburton, English Critic

1663 Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic, Arcadia


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