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2002 Adolph Green, "lyricist, screenwriter", Singin' in the Rain, dies at 86

2000 "Ring Lardner, Jr", writer, M*A*S*H screenwriter, dies at 85

1998 Jerome Bixby, screenwriter/writer, Twilight Zone, dies at 75

1996 Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53

1996 Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69

1996 Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78

1995 John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90

1995 Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83

1995 Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92

1995 Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies

1995 Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95

1995 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81

1995 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95

1994 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75

1994 Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77

1994 Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80

1994 Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74

1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86

1994 Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36

1993 Herve Bromberger, French director/screenwriter, dies at 75

1993 Walter Brown Newman, U.S. screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77

1993 Richard Landau, U.S. screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79

1993 Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71

1993 Ken England, U.S. screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82

1993 Daniel Fuchs, U.S., screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84

1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83

1993 Wells Root, U.S. screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92

1993 Paul D Zimmerman, U.S. screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54

1993 Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96

1992 Henry Ephron, U.S. screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81

1992 Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84

1992 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes

1992 Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61

1991 William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies

1990 Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42

1989 Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82

1987 Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86

1984 John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81

1981 Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies

1981 Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58

1973 Samuel N Behrman, U.S. stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80

1973 Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85

1968 John Singleton, director and screenwriter, Boyz in the Hood

1967 Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76

1963 Quentin Tarantino, director and screenwriter, Pulp Fiction

1960 Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter

1959 Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60

1958 Charlie Kaufman, American Screenwriter

1957 John W. Van Druten, U.S. stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56

1957 Rupert Haselden, journalist/Screenwriter

1951 Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter, Kika, Matador

1945 Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter, Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas

1944 Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter, Basic Instinct, Showgirls

1942 Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright

1942 Tom Mankiewicz, born in Los Angeles, California, screenwriter, Diamonds are Forever

1941 Nora Ephron, New York, novelist/screenwriter/director, Michael, Heartburn

1934 Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter, Chinatown

1932 Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter, There's a Girl in My Soup

1930 Buck Henry, New York City, screenwriter/comedian, SNL, Get Smart

1928 Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter, French Connection

1924 Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter, l'Amour

1922 Stewart Stern, screenwriter, Rebel Without A Cause

1920 I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter, 1960 Acad Award-Apartment

1918 Rene de Obaldia, French writer/screenwriter, Fugue Waterloo

1918 Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer, Jennifer

1918 Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter

1918 Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter, It's Great to be Young

1915 Lardner Ring, Jr., Chicago, screenwriter, Woman of the Year

1914 Howard Fast, New York City, screenwriter, Rachel and the Stranger, Spartacus

1913 Jack Davies, screenwriter

1913 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter

1911 Jack Rose, screenwriter

1911 John Paxton, screenwriter, On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely

1909 Joan Harrison, screenwriter

1909 Richard Maibaum, New York City, screenwriter, Goldfinger

1908 Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter

1906 Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies

1905 John Patrick, screenwriter

1903 Walter Reisch, U.S., screenwriter, Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic

1903 Niven Busch, U.S. screenwriter, Postman Always Rings Twice

1902 Howard Koch, screenwriter

1902 Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Ladri di Biciclette

1902 Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Bicycle Thiefs

1900 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter

1900 Jacques Prevert, France, poet/screenwriter, Paroles

1899 Charles Bennett, screenwriter

1895 Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter

1893 Samuel N. Behrman, U.S. screenwriter, Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs

1893 Ben Hecht, New York City, novelist/playwright/screenwriter, Front Page

1891 Wallace Reid, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor/dir/screenwriter, Every Inch a Man

1890 Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter, El Dorado

1888 Frances Marion, born in San Francisco, California, screenwriter/actress, Pollyanna

1853 Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter



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