Sam Shepard05 November 1943, American
Actor
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
Screenwriter
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Tracy Letts04 July 1965, American
Actor, Screenwriter
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Danai Gurira14 February 1978, American, Zimbabwean
Actress
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Lashana Lynch27 November 1987, British
Actress
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Thomas Clayton Wolfe03 October 1900, American
Novelist
David Mamet30 November 1947, American
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, British, Scottish
Writer
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Neil Simon04 July 1927, American
Playwright & Screenwriter
Robert Greene14 May 1959, British, American
Writer, Playwright
Stefan Zweig28 November 1881, Austrian
Novelist
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Amelia Bullmore31 January 1964, British
Actress
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
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Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
Jack Dunphy22 August 1914, American
Novelist
Paul Laurence Dunbar27 June 1872, American
Poet
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1954, Indian
Actor
Charlayne Woodard29 December 1953, American
Actress
Jean Genet19 December 1910, French
Novelist
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Brendan Behan09 February 1923, Irish
Irish poet
Naguib Mahfouz11 December 1911, Egyptian
Novelist
Humayun Ahmed13 November 1948, Bangladeshi
Writer, Filmmaker
Peter Handke06 December 1942, Austrian
Novelist
Ari Behn30 September 1972, Norwegian
Norwegian Author
Elfriede Jelinek20 October 1946, Austrian
Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
Caryl Churchill03 September 1938, British
Dramatist, Women's Rights Activist
Dario Fo24 March 1926, Italian
Playwright
Robertson Davies28 August 1913, Canadian
Author and Journalist
Irwin Shaw27 February 1913, American
Illness
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939, Indian
Actor
James Wong20 April 1959, American
Television producer
Yang Jiang17 July 1911, Chinese
Playwright
A. B. Yehoshua19 December 1936, Israeli
Israeli Faulkner
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932, British
Poet
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Marilyn vos Savant11 August 1946, American
Columnist
Michaela Coel01 October 1987, Ghanaian, British
Actress
Zoe Kazan09 September 1983, British, American
Actress
Ernie Hudson17 December 1945, American
Actor
Colman Domingo28 November 1969, American
Actor
Ruby Dee27 October 1922, American
Actress
Gypsy Rose Lee08 January 1911, American
Entertainer
Philip Pullman19 October 1946, British
Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Playwright,
Elaine May21 April 1932, American
Actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor,
Bryan FogelAmerican
Director
Stephen Tobolowsky30 May 1951, American
Actor
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Douglas Hodge25 February 1960, British
Actor
Rory Kinnear17 February 1978, British
Actor
Thomas Harris11 April 1940, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright,
Carrie Hamilton05 December 1963, American
Actress
Mike O'Malley31 October 1966, American
Actor
Lorraine Hansberry19 May 1930, American
Writer, Theatre director, Screenwriter,
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Patrisse Cullors20 June 1983, American
Artist
Saul Rubinek02 July 1948, Canadian
Actor
Mike Leigh20 February 1943, British
Film director, Actor, Playwright, Theatre
Andrew Upton01 February 1966, Australian
Film director, Screenwriter, Librettist
Lewis Black30 August 1948, American
Comedian
Steven Berkoff03 August 1937, British
Actor
Richard Dormer11 November 1969, Northern Irish
Actor
Roberto Rossellini08 May 1906, Italian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Playwright,
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor
Howard Zinn24 August 1922, American
Playwright, Political scientist, Historian of the
Rainer Werner Fassbinder31 May 1945, German
Film maker
Jim Steinman01 November 1947, American
Composer
Jonathan Larson04 February 1960, American
Composer, Writer
Eric Bogosian24 April 1953, American
Actor