Sam Shepard05 November 1943, American
Actor
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
Tracy Letts04 July 1965, American
Actor, Screenwriter
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Danai Gurira14 February 1978, American, Zimbabwean
Actress
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
David Mamet30 November 1947, American
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Neil Simon04 July 1927, American
Playwright & Screenwriter
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Lashana Lynch27 November 1987, British
Actress
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
Stefan Zweig28 November 1881, Austrian
Novelist
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
Charlayne Woodard29 December 1953, American
Actress
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer
Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
Amelia Bullmore31 January 1964, British
Actress
Jean Genet19 December 1910, French
Novelist
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Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Humayun Ahmed13 November 1948, Bangladeshi
Writer, Filmmaker
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Naguib Mahfouz11 December 1911, Egyptian
Novelist
Jack Dunphy22 August 1914, American
Novelist
Paul Laurence Dunbar27 June 1872, American
Poet
Brendan Behan09 February 1923, Irish
Irish 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
Robertson Davies28 August 1913, Canadian
Author and Journalist
Caryl Churchill03 September 1938, British
Dramatist, Women's Rights Activist
Irwin Shaw27 February 1913, American
Illness
Yang Jiang17 July 1911, Chinese
Playwright
A. B. Yehoshua19 December 1936, Israeli
Israeli Faulkner
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932, British
Poet
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
Michaela Coel01 October 1987, Ghanaian, British
Actress
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Zoe Kazan09 September 1983, British, American
Actress
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
screenwriter, playwright, writer
Lisa Edelstein21 May 1966, American
Playwright, Television actor, Actor, Film actor,
Marilyn vos Savant11 August 1946, American
Columnist
Lorraine Hansberry19 May 1930, American
Writer, Theatre director, Screenwriter,
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Cormac McCarthy20 July 1933, American
Novelist
Alan Bennett09 May 1934, British
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Diarist, Writer
Rory Kinnear17 February 1978, British
Actor
Russell Tovey14 November 1981, British
Actor, Playwright
Ernie Hudson17 December 1945, American
Actor
Howard Ashman17 May 1950, American
Composer, Screenwriter, Lyricist, Songwriter, Film
Howard Zinn24 August 1922, American
Playwright, Political scientist, Historian of the
Mike O'Malley31 October 1966, American
Actor
Alejandro Jodorowsky17 February 1929, Chilean, French
Writer, Film director, Actor, Playwright,
Clive Barker05 October 1952, British
Film director, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Gypsy Rose Lee08 January 1911, American
Entertainer
Eric Bogosian24 April 1953, American
Actor
Carrie Hamilton05 December 1963, American
Actress
Andrew Upton01 February 1966, Australian
Film director, Screenwriter, Librettist
Ruby Dee27 October 1922, American
Actress
Thomas Harris11 April 1940, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright,
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Stephen Tobolowsky30 May 1951, American
Actor
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Larry Kramer25 June 1935, American
Playwright
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939, Indian
Writer, Screenwriter, News presenter, Journalist,
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Saul Rubinek02 July 1948, Canadian
Actor
Lewis Black30 August 1948, American
Comedian
Julia Jones27 March 1923, British
Actress
Ron Palillo02 April 1949, American
Actor, Stage actor, Television actor
Philip Pullman19 October 1946, British
Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Playwright,
Douglas Hodge25 February 1960, British
Actor
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor
Steven Berkoff03 August 1937, British
Actor
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952, Indian
screenwriter
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist
Colman Domingo28 November 1969, American
Actor
Roberto Rossellini08 May 1906, Italian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Playwright,