Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Tracy Letts04 July 1965, American
Actor, Screenwriter
Sam Shepard05 November 1943, American
Actor
Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Danai Gurira14 February 1978, American, Zimbabwean
Actress
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Lashana Lynch27 November 1987, British
Actress
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
David Mamet30 November 1947, American
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
Neil Simon04 July 1927, American
Playwright & Screenwriter
Charlayne Woodard29 December 1953, American
Actress
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
Stefan Zweig28 November 1881, Austrian
Novelist
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer
Humayun Ahmed13 November 1948, Bangladeshi
Writer, Filmmaker
Naguib Mahfouz11 December 1911, Egyptian
Novelist
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Jack Dunphy22 August 1914, American
Novelist
Jean Genet19 December 1910, French
Novelist
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Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Brendan Behan09 February 1923, Irish
Irish poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar27 June 1872, American
Poet
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
Dario Fo24 March 1926, Italian
Playwright
Caryl Churchill03 September 1938, British
Dramatist, Women's Rights Activist
Elfriede Jelinek20 October 1946, Austrian
Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Yang Jiang17 July 1911, Chinese
Playwright
Robertson Davies28 August 1913, Canadian
Author and Journalist
Irwin Shaw27 February 1913, American
Illness
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932, British
Poet
A. B. Yehoshua19 December 1936, Israeli
Israeli Faulkner
James Wong20 April 1959, American
Television producer
Robert Greene14 May 1959, British, American
Writer, Playwright
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Thomas Clayton Wolfe03 October 1900, American
Novelist
Philip Pullman19 October 1946, British
Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Playwright,
Rory Kinnear17 February 1978, British
Actor
Zoe Kazan09 September 1983, British, American
Actress
Russell Tovey14 November 1981, British
Actor, Playwright
Lisa Edelstein21 May 1966, American
Playwright, Television actor, Actor, Film actor,
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
screenwriter, playwright, writer
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Peter Handke06 December 1942, Austrian
Novelist, Playwright, Film director, Screenwriter,
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939, Indian
Writer, Screenwriter, News presenter, Journalist,
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Ernie Hudson17 December 1945, American
Actor
Alejandro Jodorowsky17 February 1929, Chilean, French
Writer, Film director, Actor, Playwright,
Douglas Hodge25 February 1960, British
Actor
Clive Barker05 October 1952, British
Film director, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Stephen Tobolowsky30 May 1951, American
Actor
Jim Beaver12 August 1950, American
Actor
Andrew Upton01 February 1966, Australian
Film director, Screenwriter, Librettist
Nikolai Gogol31 March 1809, Russian
Playwright
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Ben Elton03 May 1959, Australian, British
Actor, Comedian, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Alan Bennett09 May 1934, British
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Diarist, Writer
Anthony Newley24 September 1931, British
Actor, Songwriter, Singer-songwriter, Composer,
Colman Domingo28 November 1969, American
Actor
Morgan Spurlock07 November 1970, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Journalist
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Paolo Sorrentino31 May 1970, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Actor, Playwright
Ruby Dee27 October 1922, American
Actress
Howard Zinn24 August 1922, American
Playwright, Political scientist, Historian of the
David Haig20 September 1955, British
Actor
Mike Leigh20 February 1943, British
Film director, Actor, Playwright, Theatre
Amelia Bullmore31 January 1964, British
Actress
Ian McEwan21 June 1948, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963, Indian
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Jim Steinman01 November 1947, American
Composer
Gypsy Rose Lee08 January 1911, American
Entertainer
Roberto Rossellini08 May 1906, Italian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Playwright,
Austin Pendleton27 March 1940, American
Actor, Playwright, Writer, Stage actor, Television
Julia Jones27 March 1923, British
Actress
Carrie Hamilton05 December 1963, American
Actress
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor
Christine Jorgensen30 May 1926, American
Actor
Michaela Coel01 October 1987, Ghanaian, British
Actress
Sidney Sheldon11 February 1917, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film