1996 Cao Yu, dramatist, dies at 86
1996 Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60
1995 Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66
1995 [William] Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies
1993 Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91
1993 Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
1990 Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
1989 Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72
1986 Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75
1984 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist
1977 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1974 Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75
1963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
1961 Moss Heart, U.S. dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57
1961 Yme C Schuitmaker, potato farmer/dramatist, dies
1960 Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist
1959 Maxwell Anderson, U.S. dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70
1955 Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59
1953 Ugo Betti, dramatist, dies
1952 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
1951 James Bridie, [Osborne Henry Mavor], dramatist, dies
1950 Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies
1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Dramatist
1944 Jean Giraudoux, French Dramatist
1943 Mike Leigh, dramatist/director, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies
1936 Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist
1934 Wole Soyinka, born in Nigeria, dramatist, Road, Kongi's Harvest-Nobel 1986
1933 Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist, Prick Up Your Ears
1932 Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist
1929 Heiner Muller, dramatist
1923 Erland Josephson, Stockholm Sweden, actor/dramatist, Utflykt
1923 Paddy Chayevsky, [Sydney], U.S., dramatist, Marty, Hospital
1923 Paddy Chayefsky, American Dramatist
1917 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor, Saint's Day
1916 Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade
1913 Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist, Anne Frank
1913 Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist
1912 Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright, Fiddler on the Roof
1911 Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist, God's Murderer
1910 Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks
1910 Cao Yu, dramatist
1910 Jean Anouilh, born in France, dramatist, Thieves' Carnival
1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
1906 Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies
1906 Clifford Odets, U.S., dramatist, 1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy
1905 Emlyn Williams, Welsh Dramatist
1904 Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist
1904 Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist
1902 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist, The Defeat
1901 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist
1899 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist, Coup of Trafalgar
1898 Federico Garcia Lorca, born in Spain, poet/dramatist, Blood Wedding
1896 Philip Barry, U.S., dramatist, Philadelphia Story
1896 Robert Sherwood, dramatist, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight
1896 Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist, The Ghost Train
1892 Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe, Illinois, polit essayist/poet/dramatist, JB
1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist, Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize
1891 Sidney Coe Howard, U.S., dramatist, Swords, Pulitzer 1925
1891 Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951
1891 Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist
1889 George S. Kaufman, American Dramatist
1888 Maxwell Anderson, U.S., dramatist, Winter Set, High Tor
1888 Eugene O'Neill, New York City, dramatist, Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936
1886 Henry Taylor, English Dramatist
1884 James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist, Hassan
1884 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright, Cafe Tabac
1884 Henry James Byron, English Dramatist
1881 Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity
1881 Balthazar H. Verhagen, Netherlands/South African dramatist and writer
1877 Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic
1877 Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
1873 Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, Los Galeotes
1871 John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet, Riders to the Sea
1871 Serafin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, El Flechazo
1862 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Dramatist
1860 Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist
1856 George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ire, dramatist, Pygmalion-Nobel 1925
1852 Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist
1850 Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1849 August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist/novelist, Apologia
1840 Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist
1835 Henry James Byron, English Dramatist
1832 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904
1823 Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist, 2 Tudors
1817 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist, El rey Loco
1812 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist
1811 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies
1809 Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist
1803 Vittorio Alfieri, Italiian Dramatist
1800 Mihaly Vorosmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist, "To a Day-Dreamer"
1800 Henry Taylor, English Dramatist
1799 Pierre de Beaumarchais, dramatist, dies
1792 Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist
1791 A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist, Bertrand et Raton
1791 Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist, Golden Fleece
1777 Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet, Penthesilea
1771 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet, Regulus
1762 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist
1757 Edward Moore, English Dramatist
1749 Vittorio Alfieri, Italiian Dramatist
1745 Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist
1739 George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity), dies at 46
1730 Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist, She Stoops to Conquer
1729 Richard Steele, British Dramatist
1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist
1729 William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), dies at 58
1720 Samuel Foote, England, actor/dramatist, Mirror
1716 William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75
1712 Edward Moore, English Dramatist
1710 Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist
1709 Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74
1707 George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist
1693 George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist, London Merchant
1689 Aphra Behn, English Dramatist
1684 Pierre Corneille, Fr lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42
1671 Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate, Love's Last Shift
1664 John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist/architect, baptized
1655 Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris
1643 William Cartwright, English Dramatist
1640 Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies
1637 Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65
1635 Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist, Coriolanus
1634 George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies
1627 Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies
1626 Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
1616 William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
1611 William Cartwright, English Dramatist
1609 John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
1606 Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist, El Cid, Horace
1600 Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish poet/dramatist
1593 Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered
1587 Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist, Jephtha
1586 John Ford, English dramatist, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1579 John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist, Phylaster, baptized
1564 Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist
1564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus
1562 Lope Felix de Vega, born in Madrid, Spain, dramatist/poet, Angelica, Arcadia
1558 Thomas Kyd, English dramatist, Spanish Tragedy
1558 Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist, Friar Bacon
1543 Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist
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