Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Playwrights, including Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas.
Oscar Wilde16 October 1854, Irish
Playwright
Alexandre Dumas24 July 1802, French
Jules Verne08 February 1828, French
Writer
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885, British
Novelist
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
Eugene O'Neill16 October 1888, American
Playwright
Henry James15 April 1843, American
Writer
J. B. Priestley13 September 1894, British
Novelist and Playwright
Maxim Gorky28 March 1868, Russian
Writer & Dramatist
Gustave Flaubert12 December 1821, French
Novelist, Writer
Antonin Artaud04 September 1896, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
August Strindberg22 January 1849, Swedish
Novelist
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Luigi Pirandello28 June 1867, Italian
Writer
John Galsworthy14 August 1867, American
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Miguel de Unamuno29 September 1864, Spanish
Writer
Alphonse Daudet13 May 1840, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
Alfred de Musset11 December 1810, French
Dramatist, Poet, Novelist
Alfred Noyes16 September 1880, British
Poet
Mirza Fatali Akhundov12 July 1812, Azerbaijani
Writer and Philisopher
W B Yeats13 June 1865, Irish
Poet & Dramatist
William Maugham25 January 1874, British
Novelist & Playwright
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh22 February 1866, Azerbaijani
Satirist
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero16 July 1897, Paraguayan
Poet
A.P. Herbert24 September 1890, British
Humorist, Novelist, Playwright & Law Reform
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Poet, Philosopher, Politician, Playwright
Arthur Conan Doyle22 May 1859, British
Physician, Writer, Poet, Cricketer, Novelist,
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792, British
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
Colette28 January 1873, French
Novelist, Ghostwriter, Journalist, Writer,
W. Somerset Maugham25 January 1874, French, British
Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter
Theodor Herzl02 May 1860, Hungarian
Journalist, Writer, Poet lawyer, Lawyer,
Stefan Zweig28 November 1881, Austrian, British
Writer, Translator, Journalist, Playwright, Poet,
Oscar Hammerstein II12 July 1895, American
Songwriter, Librettist, Song book, Screenwriter,
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer, Translator, Novelist, Playwright,
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
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Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Dramaturge, Writer, Playwright, Children's writer,
Michael Madhusudan Dutt25 January 1824, Indian
Poet, Writer
Paul Laurence Dunbar27 June 1872, American
Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Jaishankar Prasad30 January 1889, Indian
Poet
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti22 December 1876, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Composer, Science
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Romain Rolland29 January 1866, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Sukumar Ray30 October 1887, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
Antonio Machado26 July 1875, Spanish
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Arthur Schnitzler15 May 1862, Austrian
Writer, Playwright, Physician, Screenwriter,
Maurice Maeterlinck29 August 1862, Belgian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Essayist, Playwright,
Robert Musil06 November 1880, Austrian
Writer, Librarian, Novelist, Playwright,
George Abbott25 June 1887, American
Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter,
Marcel Pagnol28 February 1895, French
Theatre director, Film director, Writer,
Edmond Rostand01 April 1868, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Essayist, Screenwriter
Josephine Tey25 July 1896, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
Bharatendu Harishchandra09 September 1850, Indian
Actor, Journalist, Writer, Poet
Alfred Jarry08 September 1873, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Novelist
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer17 February 1836, Spanish
Poet, Short story writer, Playwright, Writer
Archibald MacLeish07 May 1892, American
Librarian, Poet, Playwright, Writer, University
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895, American
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Prosper Mérimée28 September 1803, French
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Historian,
Franz Werfel10 September 1890, Austrian, Czech, American
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter, Science
Ernst Toller01 December 1893, German
Playwright, Politician, Writer, Screenwriter, Poet
William Gillette24 July 1853, American
actor, screenwriter, stage actor, writer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal01 February 1874, Austrian
Novelist, Librettist, Poet, Playwright, Writer,
Italo Svevo19 December 1861, Italian
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Businessperson,
Gabriel Marcel07 December 1889, French
Playwright, Philosopher, Writer, University
César Vallejo16 March 1892, Peruvian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Gerhart Hauptmann15 November 1862, German, Polish
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Novelist,
François Mauriac11 October 1885, French
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Novelist, Playwright,
Paul Claudel06 August 1868, French
Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet
George Arliss10 April 1868, British
Writer, Playwright, Film director, Autobiographer,
Curzio Malaparte09 June 1898, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Diplomat,
Ion Luca Caragiale01 February 1852, Romanian
linguist, poet, writer, journalist, playwright
Lion Feuchtwanger07 July 1884, German
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Frank Wedekind24 July 1864, German
Playwright, Writer, Journalist, Screenwriter,
Maxwell Maltz10 March 1889, American
Physician, Writer, Playwright
Nelly Sachs10 December 1891, German, Swedish
Poet, Playwright, Writer
Felix Salten06 September 1869, Austrian
Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist, Novelist,
Robert Riskin30 March 1897, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer,
Andrei Platonov16 August 1899
Writer, Playwright, Science fiction writer
Pär Lagerkvist23 May 1891, Swedish
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Screenwriter
Hermann Broch01 November 1886, Austrian
Writer, Playwright
Sacha Guitry21 February 1885, French
Screenwriter, Actor, Playwright, Film director,
Alexander Ostrovsky31 March 1823, Russian
writer, librettist, playwright, journalist
Jean Giraudoux29 October 1882, French
Playwright, Screenwriter, Diplomat, Novelist,
Ernst Barlach02 January 1870, German
Sculptor, Printmaker, Writer, Playwright, Painter
Benjamin Fondane14 November 1898, French, Romanian
Linguist, Poet, Librarian, Film director,
Wilson Mizner19 May 1876, American
Screenwriter, Writer
William Somerset Maugham25 January 1874, British
Ugo Betti04 February 1892, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Judge
Thomas Stearns Eliot26 September 1888, British, American
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero1855 AD, British
William Schwenck Gilbert18 November 1836, British
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, Welsh
George Simon Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Jiří Mahen12 December 1882, Czech
Writer, Librarian, Playwright, Journalist, Poet