Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861, Indian
Poet
Oscar Wilde16 October 1854, Irish
Playwright, Poet & Novelist
Leo Tolstoy09 September 1828, Russian
Writer
George Bernard Shaw26 July 1856, Irish
Playwright
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Novelist & Poet
Alexandre Dumas24 July 1802, French
Jules Verne08 February 1828, French
Writer
Anton Chekhov29 January 1860, German, Russian
Playwright, Short-story writer
W B Yeats13 June 1865, Irish
Poet
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885, British
Novelist
Bertolt Brecht10 February 1898, German
Poet, Playwright
Henry James15 April 1843, American
Writer
Emile Zola02 April 1840, French
Novelist, Playwright
Sir Noël Peirce Coward16 December 1899, British
Playwright
Eugene O'Neill16 October 1888, American
Playwright
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, British, Scottish
Writer
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
P G Wodehouse15 October 1881, British, American
Playwright and Author
Federico García Lorca05 June 1898, Spanish
Poet, playwright
Maxim Gorky28 March 1868, Russian
Writer & Dramatist
Jean Cocteau05 July 1889, French
Novelist, Poet, Artist & Filmmaker
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
William Maugham25 January 1874, British
Novelist & Playwright
Gustave Flaubert12 December 1821, French
Novelist, Writer
Antonin Artaud04 September 1896, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
J. B. Priestley13 September 1894, British
Novelist and Playwright
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
John Galsworthy14 August 1867, American
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Alphonse Daudet13 May 1840, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
August Strindberg22 January 1849, Swedish
Novelist
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Miguel de Unamuno29 September 1864, Spanish
Writer
Luigi Pirandello28 June 1867, Italian
Writer
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, 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
A.P. Herbert24 September 1890, British
Humorist, Novelist, Playwright & Law Reform
Jalil Mammadguluzadeh22 February 1866, Azerbaijani
Satirist
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero16 July 1897, Paraguayan
Poet
Nikolai Gogol01 April 1809, Russian
Playwright
Arnold Ridley07 January 1896, British
Actor
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Dietrich Eckart23 March 1868, German
Poet
Preston Sturges29 August 1898, American
Playwright, Director
Guillaume Apollinaire26 August 1880, French
Poet
Alexandre Dumas, fils27 July 1824, French
Author
Sukumar Ray30 October 1887, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
Edward Bulwer-Lytton25 May 1803, British
Writer
Michael Madhusudan Dutt25 January 1824, Indian
Poet, Writer
Thornton Wilder17 April 1897, American
Playwright
Adam Mickiewicz24 December 1798, Polish
Poet
Ben Hecht28 February 1893, American
Screenwriter
Natalie Clifford Barney31 October 1876, American
Playwright
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
W. S. Gilbert18 November 1836, British
Dramatist
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Romain Rolland29 January 1866, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Charles MacArthur05 November 1895, American
Playwright
Jaishankar Prasad30 January 1889, Indian
Poet
Booth Tarkington29 July 1869, American
Novelist
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Antonio Machado26 July 1875, Spanish
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Josephine Tey25 July 1896, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Ira Aldridge24 July 1807, American
Actor
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895, American
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Arthur Schnitzler15 May 1862, Austrian
Author
Robert Musil06 November 1880, Austrian
Writer, Librarian, Novelist, Playwright,
Thomas Dixon Jr.11 January 1864, American
Politician
Bharatendu Harishchandra09 September 1850, Indian
Writer
Sean O'Casey30 March 1880, Northern Irish
Dramatist
Edmond Rostand01 April 1868, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Essayist, Screenwriter
Maurice Maeterlinck29 August 1862, Belgian
Playwright
George Arliss10 April 1868, British
Writer, Playwright, Film director, Autobiographer,
Archibald MacLeish07 May 1892, American
Librarian, Poet, Playwright, Writer, University
Sidney Howard26 June 1891, American
Playwright
Alfred Jarry08 September 1873, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Novelist
Terence MacSwiney28 March 1879, Irish
Writer
Franz Werfel10 September 1890, Austrian, Czech, American
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter, Science
Horacio Quiroga31 December 1878, Uruguayan
Playwright
Hugo von Hofmannsthal01 February 1874, Austrian
Novelist, Librettist, Poet, Playwright, Writer,
Ernst Toller01 December 1893, German
Playwright, Politician, Writer, Screenwriter, Poet
Thomas MacDonagh01 February 1878, Irish
Poet
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany24 July 1878, Irish, British
Dramatist
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer17 February 1836, Spanish
Poet, Short story writer, Playwright, Writer
Mabel Dodge Luhan26 February 1879, American
Biographer
Italo Svevo19 December 1861, Italian
Novelist
George Abbott25 June 1887, American
Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter,
Gabriel Marcel07 December 1889, French
Playwright, Philosopher, Writer, University
Howard Staunton01 April 1810, British
Chess Master
William Dean Howells01 March 1837, American
Novelist
Georg Büchner17 October 1813, German
Dramatist