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
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Jules Verne08 February 1828, French
Writer
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885, British
Novelist
Henry James15 April 1843, American
Writer
Eugene O'Neill16 October 1888, American
Playwright
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
Maxim Gorky28 March 1868, Russian
Writer & Dramatist
Gustave Flaubert12 December 1821, French
Novelist, Writer
J. B. Priestley13 September 1894, British
Novelist and Playwright
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
August Strindberg22 January 1849, Swedish
Novelist
Antonin Artaud04 September 1896, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
Miguel de Unamuno29 September 1864, Spanish
Writer
Luigi Pirandello28 June 1867, Italian
Writer
John Galsworthy14 August 1867, American
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
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
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh22 February 1866, Azerbaijani
Satirist
William Maugham25 January 1874, British
Novelist & Playwright
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero16 July 1897, Paraguayan
Poet
A.P. Herbert24 September 1890, British
Humorist, Novelist, Playwright & Law Reform
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792, British
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
Nikolai Gogol01 April 1809, Russian
Playwright
John Galt02 May 1779, Scottish
Novelist
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Arnold Ridley07 January 1896, British
Actor
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Thornton Wilder17 April 1897, American
Playwright
Edward Bulwer-Lytton25 May 1803, British
Writer
Michael Madhusudan Dutt25 January 1824, Indian
Poet, Writer
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti22 December 1876, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Composer, Science
Ben Hecht28 February 1893, American
Screenwriter
Romain Rolland29 January 1866, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Arthur Schnitzler15 May 1862, Austrian
Writer, Playwright, Physician, Screenwriter,
Emma Orczy23 September 1865, Hungarian, British
Novelist
W. S. Gilbert18 November 1836, British
Dramatist
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Sukumar Ray30 October 1887, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Antonio Machado26 July 1875, Spanish
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany24 July 1878, Irish, British
Dramatist
Maurice Maeterlinck29 August 1862, Belgian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Essayist, Playwright,
Charles MacArthur05 November 1895, American
Playwright
Robert Musil06 November 1880, Austrian
Writer, Librarian, Novelist, Playwright,
Jaishankar Prasad30 January 1889, Indian
Poet
Josephine Tey25 July 1896, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Natalie Clifford Barney31 October 1876, American
Playwright
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895, American
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Augusta, Lady Gregory15 March 1852, Northern Irish
Dramatist
Alfred Jarry08 September 1873, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Novelist
Edmond Rostand01 April 1868, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Essayist, Screenwriter
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer17 February 1836, Spanish
Poet, Short story writer, Playwright, Writer
Thomas Dixon Jr.11 January 1864, American
Politician
George Abbott25 June 1887, American
Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter,
Archibald MacLeish07 May 1892, American
Librarian, Poet, Playwright, Writer, University
Maxwell Maltz10 March 1889, American
Physician, Writer, Playwright
Hugo von Hofmannsthal01 February 1874, Austrian
Novelist, Librettist, Poet, Playwright, Writer,
Prosper Mérimée28 September 1803, French
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Historian,
François Mauriac11 October 1885, French
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Novelist, Playwright,
Italo Svevo19 December 1861, Italian
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Businessperson,
Curzio Malaparte09 June 1898, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Diplomat,
Franz Werfel10 September 1890, Austrian, Czech, American
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter, Science
Ira Aldridge24 July 1807, American
Actor
William Dean Howells01 March 1837, American
Novelist
Gabriel Marcel07 December 1889, French
Playwright, Philosopher, Writer, University
Ernst Toller01 December 1893, German
Playwright, Politician, Writer, Screenwriter, Poet
George Arliss10 April 1868, British
Writer, Playwright, Film director, Autobiographer,
Gerhart Hauptmann15 November 1862, German, Polish
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Novelist,
Miroslav Krleža07 July 1893, Croatian
Croatian author
Alexandre Dumas, fils27 July 1824, French
Author
Lion Feuchtwanger07 July 1884, German
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Sidney Howard26 June 1891, American
Playwright
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson08 December 1832, Norwegian
Writer
Paul Claudel06 August 1868, French
Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet
Felix Salten06 September 1869, Austrian
Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist, Novelist,
Conrad Aiken05 August 1889, American
Writer
Robert E. Sherwood04 April 1896, American
Playwright
DuBose Heyward31 August 1885, American
Author
César Vallejo16 March 1892, Peruvian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Nelly Sachs10 December 1891, German, Swedish
Poet, Playwright, Writer
Susan Glaspell01 July 1876, American
Playwright
Bharatendu Harishchandra09 September 1850, Indian
Actor, Journalist, Writer, Poet
Frank Wedekind24 July 1864, German
Playwright, Writer, Journalist, Screenwriter,
Mina Loy27 December 1882, British, American
Poet
Maxwell Anderson15 December 1888, American
Playwright