Carrie Fisher21 October 1956, American
Actress
Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861, Indian
Poet
Sam Shepard05 November 1943, American
Actor
Albert Camus07 November 1913, Algerian, French
Philosopher & Novelist
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
Playwright, Essayist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Jean-Paul Sartre21 June 1905, French
Philosopher, Novelist
Tracy Letts04 July 1965, American
Actor, Screenwriter
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
Screenwriter
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Writer
Danai Gurira14 February 1978, American, Zimbabwean
Actress
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Langston Hughes01 February 1902, American
Poet, Novelist, Playwright, & Columnist
W. H. Auden21 February 1907, British
Poet
Norman Mailer31 January 1923, American
Novelist, Journalist and Screen Writer
Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
David Mamet30 November 1947, American
August Wilson27 April 1945, American
American playwright
Daphne du Maurier13 May 1907, British
Novelist & playwright
Lashana Lynch27 November 1987, British
Actress
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, British, Scottish
Writer
Neil Simon04 July 1927, American
Playwright & Screenwriter
Thomas Clayton Wolfe03 October 1900, American
Novelist
Robert Greene14 May 1959, British, American
Writer, Playwright
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
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Stefan Zweig28 November 1881, Austrian
Novelist
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870, British
Poet
Charlayne Woodard29 December 1953, American
Actress
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Ari Behn30 September 1972, Norwegian
Norwegian Author
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer
Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
Jack Dunphy22 August 1914, American
Novelist
Frances Hodgson Burnett24 November 1849, British, American
Novelist
Jean Genet19 December 1910, French
Novelist
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Tanikella Bharani14 July 1954, Indian
Actor
Brendan Behan09 February 1923, Irish
Irish poet
Amelia Bullmore31 January 1964, British
Actress
Peter Handke06 December 1942, Austrian
Novelist
Humayun Ahmed13 November 1948, Bangladeshi
Writer, Filmmaker
Naguib Mahfouz11 December 1911, Egyptian
Novelist
James Wong20 April 1959, American
Television producer
Paul Laurence Dunbar27 June 1872, American
Poet
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
Robertson Davies28 August 1913, Canadian
Author and Journalist
Irwin Shaw27 February 1913, American
Illness
Dario Fo24 March 1926, Italian
Playwright
Gollapudi Maruti Rao14 April 1939, Indian
Actor
Yang Jiang17 July 1911, Chinese
Playwright
A. B. Yehoshua19 December 1936, Israeli
Israeli Faulkner
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932, British
Poet
Jim Steinman01 November 1947, American
Composer
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Patrisse Cullors20 June 1983, American
Artist
Marilyn vos Savant11 August 1946, American
Columnist
Zoe Kazan09 September 1983, British, American
Actress
Michaela Coel01 October 1987, Ghanaian, British
Actress
Ernie Hudson17 December 1945, American
Actor
Colman Domingo28 November 1969, American
Actor
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Lewis Black30 August 1948, American
Comedian
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Florian Zeller28 June 1979, French
Novelist
Edna O'Brien15 December 1930, Irish
Novelist
Elaine May21 April 1932, American
Actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor,
Jonathan Larson04 February 1960, American
Composer, Writer
Gypsy Rose Lee08 January 1911, American
Entertainer
Rory Kinnear17 February 1978, British
Actor
John Cameron Mitchell21 April 1963, American
Actor
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Jez Butterworth29 February 1969, British
Playwright
Stephen Tobolowsky30 May 1951, American
Actor
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Saul Rubinek02 July 1948, Canadian
Actor
Andrew Upton01 February 1966, Australian
Film director, Screenwriter, Librettist
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor
Anand Gandhi26 September 1980, Indian
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Steven Berkoff03 August 1937, British
Actor
Carrie Hamilton05 December 1963, American
Actress