Oscar Wilde16 October 1854, Irish
Playwright
Alexandre Dumas24 July 1802, French
Jules Verne08 February 1828, French
Writer
W B Yeats13 June 1865, Irish
Poet & Dramatist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
D. H. Lawrence11 September 1885, British
Novelist
Eugene O'Neill16 October 1888, American
Playwright
Henry James15 April 1843, American
Writer
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, British, Scottish
Writer
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
Maxim Gorky28 March 1868, Russian
Writer & Dramatist
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Gustave Flaubert12 December 1821, French
Novelist, Writer
J. B. Priestley13 September 1894, British
Novelist and Playwright
Antonin Artaud04 September 1896, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
Miguel de Unamuno29 September 1864, Spanish
Writer
August Strindberg22 January 1849, Swedish
Novelist
John Galsworthy14 August 1867, American
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Luigi Pirandello28 June 1867, Italian
Writer
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Alphonse Daudet13 May 1840, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
William Maugham25 January 1874, British
Novelist & Playwright
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
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Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Dietrich Eckart23 March 1868, German
Poet
Alexandre Dumas, fils27 July 1824, French
Author
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Michael Madhusudan Dutt25 January 1824, Indian
Poet, Writer
Jaishankar Prasad30 January 1889, Indian
Poet
Ben Hecht28 February 1893, American
Screenwriter
Thornton Wilder17 April 1897, American
Playwright
Edward Bulwer-Lytton25 May 1803, British
Writer
Sean O'Casey30 March 1880, Northern Irish
Dramatist
Ira Aldridge24 July 1807, American
Actor
Sukumar Ray30 October 1887, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti22 December 1876, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Composer, Science
George S. Kaufman16 November 1889, American
Theatre director, Screenwriter, Journalist,
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany24 July 1878, Irish, British
Dramatist
Romain Rolland29 January 1866, French
Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Historian, Novelist,
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Bharatendu Harishchandra09 September 1850, Indian
Writer
W. S. Gilbert18 November 1836, British
Dramatist
Charles MacArthur05 November 1895, American
Playwright
Antonio Machado26 July 1875, Spanish
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Josephine Tey25 July 1896, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Arthur Schnitzler15 May 1862, Austrian
Writer, Playwright, Physician, Screenwriter,
Sidney Howard26 June 1891, American
Playwright
Natalie Clifford Barney31 October 1876, American
Playwright
Robert Musil06 November 1880, Austrian
Writer, Librarian, Novelist, Playwright,
Thomas Dixon Jr.11 January 1864, American
Politician
Howard Staunton01 April 1810, British
Chess Master
Maurice Maeterlinck29 August 1862, Belgian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Essayist, Playwright,
Booth Tarkington29 July 1869, American
Novelist
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895, American
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Augusta, Lady Gregory15 March 1852, Northern Irish
Dramatist
Edmond Rostand01 April 1868, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Essayist, Screenwriter
Alfred Jarry08 September 1873, French
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Novelist
Archibald MacLeish07 May 1892, American
Librarian, Poet, Playwright, Writer, University
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer17 February 1836, Spanish
Poet, Short story writer, Playwright, Writer
Hugo von Hofmannsthal01 February 1874, Austrian
Novelist, Librettist, Poet, Playwright, Writer,
Prosper Mérimée28 September 1803, French
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Historian,
Ion Luca Caragiale01 February 1852, Romanian
linguist, poet, writer, journalist, playwright
George Arliss10 April 1868, British
Writer, Playwright, Film director, Autobiographer,
William Dean Howells01 March 1837, American
Novelist
Ernst Toller01 December 1893, German
Playwright, Politician, Writer, Screenwriter, Poet
Gabriel Marcel07 December 1889, French
Playwright, Philosopher, Writer, University
George Abbott25 June 1887, American
Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter,
Franz Werfel10 September 1890, Austrian, Czech, American
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter, Science
François Mauriac11 October 1885, French
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Novelist, Playwright,
Patricia Collinge20 September 1892, Irish
Actress
Curzio Malaparte09 June 1898, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Diplomat,
Felix Salten06 September 1869, Austrian
Screenwriter, Writer, Journalist, Novelist,
Paul Claudel06 August 1868, French
Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet
Italo Svevo19 December 1861, Italian
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Businessperson,
César Vallejo16 March 1892, Peruvian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Robert Riskin30 March 1897, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer,
Susan Glaspell01 July 1876, American
Playwright
Maxwell Maltz10 March 1889, American
Physician, Writer, Playwright
DuBose Heyward31 August 1885, American
Author
Aḥmad Shawqī17 October 1870, Egyptian
Poet
Minna Canth19 March 1844, Finnish
Writer
Lion Feuchtwanger07 July 1884, German
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Kyōka Izumi04 November 1873, Japanese
Novelist
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson08 December 1832, Norwegian
Writer