Honoré de Balzac20 May 1799, French
French Novelist and Playwright
Denis Diderot05 October 1713, French
Philosopher
Friedrich Schiller10 November 1759, German
Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Frances Burney13 June 1752, British
Novelist
Alfred de Vigny27 March 1797, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
John Burgoyne24 February 1722
Politician, Playwright, Writer, Military personnel
Richard Brinsley Sheridan30 October 1751, Irish
Poet, Politician, Librettist, Writer, Playwright
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 January 1729, German
Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,
Heinrich von Kleist18 October 1777, German
Playwright, Poet, Short story writer, Novelist,
David Garrick19 February 1717, British
Actor, Playwright, Film producer, Writer,
Richard Steele12 March 1672, Irish
Writer
Hannah More02 February 1745, British
Writer, Poet, Essayist
Carlo Goldoni25 February 1707, Italian
Playwright, Writer, Librettist, Screenwriter,
Felicia Hemans25 September 1793, British
Poet
Emanuel Schikaneder01 September 1751, German
Librettist, Singer, Opera singer, Actor,
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff10 March 1788, German
Poet
Matthew Lewis09 July 1775, British
Novelist
Eliza Haywood1693 AD, British
British author
Ludvig Holberg03 December 1684, Danish, Norwegian
Writer
August Wilhelm Schlegel08 September 1767, German
Linguist, Translator, Sanskrit scholar,
Wolfgang von Kempelen23 January 1734, Hungarian
Engineer, Writer, Painter, Playwright, Chess
Madeleine de Scudéry15 November 1607, French
Writer
John Galt02 May 1779, Scottish
Novelist
August von Kotzebue03 May 1761, German
Playwright
Vittorio Alfieri16 January 1749, Italian
Dramatist
Pierre de Marivaux04 February 1688, French
Novelist
Christopher Smart11 April 1722, British
Poet
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois19 June 1749, French
Actor
Nicolas Chamfort06 April 1741, French
Writer
Charles Maturin25 September 1780, Irish
Writer
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Carlo Gozzi13 December 1720, Italian
Playwright
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray01 May 1751, American
Advocate
Joanna Baillie11 September 1762, Scottish
Poet
Mary Russell Mitford16 December 1787, British
Author
John Howard Payne09 June 1791, American
Actor
Eugène Scribe24 December 1791, French
French dramatist
Nicholas Rowe20 June 1674, British
Poet
Fabre d'Églantine28 July 1750, French
Actor
Royall Tyler18 June 1757, American
Jurist
Louis-Sébastien Mercier06 June 1740, French
Author
Charlotte Lennox1730 AD, British
Author
Charles Paul de Kock21 May 1793, French
Novelist
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz23 January 1751, Latvian
Writer
Charles Dibdin04 March 1745, British
Composer
Elizabeth Inchbald15 October 1753, British
Novelist
Samuel Foote27 January 1720, British
Playwright, Impresario, Actor, Stage actor, Writer
Susanna Rowson1762 AD, British, American
Novelist
August, Graf von Platen24 October 1796, German
Poet
Isabelle de Charrière20 October 1740, Swiss, Dutch
Writer
Alain-René Lesage06 May 1668, French
Novelist
Delarivier Manley1663 AD, British
Author
Jean-François Marmontel11 July 1723, French
Historian
Ferenc Kazinczy27 October 1759, Hungarian
Linguist, Writer, Playwright, Poet
Silvio Pellico24 June 1789, Italian
Italian author
Hugh Henry Brackenridge1748 AD, American, Scottish
Writer
Antônio José da Silva08 May 1705, Brazilian, Portuguese
Dramatist
Henry Carey26 August 1687, British
Poet
Christian August Vulpius23 January 1762, German
Novelist
Ivan Kotliarevsky09 September 1769, Ukrainian
Writer
James Kirke Paulding22 August 1778, American
Writer
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau06 April 1671, French
Playwright
Charles Macklin26 September 1690, Irish
Actor
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz16 February 1758, Polish
Poet
Leandro Fernández de Moratín10 March 1760, Spanish
Dramatist
Thomas D'Urfey1653 AD, British
Writer
Andreas Kalvos01 April 1792, Greek
Poet
Isaac Bickerstaffe26 September 1733, Northern Irish
Dramatist
José Cadalso08 October 1741, Spanish
Author
Thomas Corneille20 August 1625, French
Dramatist
Kitty Clive05 November 1711, British
Actress
Johann Adam Hiller25 December 1728, German
Composer
Robert Dodsley13 February 1704, British
Bookseller
Thomas Southerne12 February 1660, Irish
Dramatist
John Hill17 November 1714, British
Author and botanist
Alexander Sumarokov25 November 1717, Russian
Russian writer
George Lillo03 February 1691, British
Playwright
Marie-Joseph de Chénier11 February 1764, Turkish
Poet
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon13 January 1674, French
Poet
Johan Herman Wessel06 October 1742, Norwegian
Poet
Charles-Antoine Coypel11 July 1694, French
Painter
Jean-François de La Harpe20 November 1739, French
Playwright
René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt22 January 1773, French
Theatre Director
George Colman the Younger21 October 1762, British
Dramatist
Johan Ludvig Heiberg14 December 1791, Danish
Poet
Mikhail Kheraskov05 November 1733, Russian
Poet
Stephen Kemble21 April 1758, British
Theatre actor
Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas10 March 1791, Spanish
Poet
Diego de Torres Villarroel17 June 1693, Spanish
Writer
József Katona11 November 1791, Hungarian
Playwright
Vincenzo Monti19 February 1754, Italian
Poet
August Wilhelm Iffland19 April 1759, German
Actor
John Home13 September 1722, Scottish
Minister
John Banim03 April 1798, Irish
Authors