2005 Mel Gussow, American Critic
2003 Leslie Fiedler, American Critic
2002 Timothy White, American Critic
2001 Pauline Kael, critic, The New Yorker, dies at 82
2001 Jan Kott, Polish Critic
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 Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70
1997 Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52
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 Me˜er, 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 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
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/US 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 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
1958 Andre Bazin, French Critic
1957 Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor, SNL, League of their Own, Critic
1957 Kate Kellaway, 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, Switz, 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 Joel Siegel, American Critic
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
1943 Stephen Greenblatt, 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
1942 Paul Weyrich, American Critic
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
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, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69
1937 Paul Elmer More, American Critic
1934 Samuel Lipman, music critic
1933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic, Film Greats
1933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic
1933 Mel Gussow, American Critic
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/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 Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps
1919 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1919 Paul de Man, Belgian Critic
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 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 Brendan Gill, critic
1914 Brendan Gill, writer/critic, New Yorker magazine
1914 Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician
1914 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic, Dance Magazine
1914 Jan Kott, Polish Critic
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 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
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 John Crowe Ransom, U.S. poet and critic, God Without Thunder
1888 Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/music critic
1887 Josef Capek, Czech 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 Carco[pino], 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
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/movie critic, Alcoola
1880 Carl Van Fight, U.S. author/critic, Red, Nigger Heaven
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 Paul Valery, France, poet/essayist/critic, La Jeune
1871 Franz Blei, [Peregrinus Steinhovel], Austrian painter/critic
1868 Ernest Newman, English Critic
1867 Frantisek X. Salda, Czech 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
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, [Keerom], 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
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, Saxon playwright/critic, dies
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, Germany, critic/dramatist
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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