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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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