Sam Shepard05 November 1943, American
Actor
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
Tracy Letts04 July 1965, American
Actor, Screenwriter
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Danai Gurira14 February 1978, American, Zimbabwean
Actress
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
David Mamet30 November 1947, American
Lashana Lynch27 November 1987, British
Actress
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
Neil Simon04 July 1927, American
Playwright & Screenwriter
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Stefan Zweig28 November 1881, Austrian
Novelist
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer
Charlayne Woodard29 December 1953, American
Actress
Amelia Bullmore31 January 1964, British
Actress
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Jack Dunphy22 August 1914, American
Novelist
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Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
Humayun Ahmed13 November 1948, Bangladeshi
Writer, Filmmaker
Jean Genet19 December 1910, French
Novelist
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Naguib Mahfouz11 December 1911, Egyptian
Novelist
Brendan Behan09 February 1923, Irish
Irish poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar27 June 1872, American
Poet
Dario Fo24 March 1926, Italian
Playwright
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
Elfriede Jelinek20 October 1946, Austrian
Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Caryl Churchill03 September 1938, British
Dramatist, Women's Rights Activist
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
Robert Greene14 May 1959, British, American
Writer, Playwright
James Wong20 April 1959, American
Television producer
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Thomas Clayton Wolfe03 October 1900, American
Novelist
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Zoe Kazan09 September 1983, British, American
Actress
Larry Kramer25 June 1935, American
Playwright
Michaela Coel01 October 1987, Ghanaian, British
Actress
Rory Kinnear17 February 1978, British
Actor
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Russell Tovey14 November 1981, British
Actor, Playwright
Lisa Edelstein21 May 1966, American
Playwright, Television actor, Actor, Film actor,
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Andrew Upton01 February 1966, Australian
Film director, Screenwriter, Librettist
Eric Bogosian24 April 1953, American
Actor
Ernie Hudson17 December 1945, American
Actor
Alan Bennett09 May 1934, British
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Diarist, Writer
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Lorraine Hansberry19 May 1930, American
Writer, Theatre director, Screenwriter,
Alejandro Jodorowsky17 February 1929, Chilean, French
Writer, Film director, Actor, Playwright,
Clive Barker05 October 1952, British
Film director, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Marilyn vos Savant11 August 1946, American
Columnist
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
screenwriter, playwright, writer
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor
Saul Rubinek02 July 1948, Canadian
Actor
Stephen Tobolowsky30 May 1951, American
Actor
Julia Jones27 March 1923, British
Actress
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Howard Zinn24 August 1922, American
Playwright, Political scientist, Historian of the
Ruby Dee27 October 1922, American
Actress
Philip Pullman19 October 1946, British
Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Playwright,
Douglas Hodge25 February 1960, British
Actor
Mike O'Malley31 October 1966, American
Actor
Thomas Harris11 April 1940, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright,
Morgan Spurlock07 November 1970, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Journalist
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939, Indian
Writer, Screenwriter, News presenter, Journalist,
Steven Berkoff03 August 1937, British
Actor
Rainer Werner Fassbinder31 May 1945, German
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Actor,
Piyush Mishra13 January 1963, Indian
Screenwriter, Music director, Actor, Singer,
Carrie Hamilton05 December 1963, American
Actress
Gypsy Rose Lee08 January 1911, American
Entertainer
Roberto Rossellini08 May 1906, Italian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Playwright,
John Cameron Mitchell21 April 1963, American
Actor
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952, Indian
screenwriter
Ian McEwan21 June 1948, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist