Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Martin McDonagh26 March 1970, Irish, British
Playwright, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Sam Shepard05 November 1943, American
Actor
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
Tracy Letts04 July 1965, American
Actor, Screenwriter
Danai Gurira14 February 1978, American, Zimbabwean
Actress
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Tennessee Williams26 March 1911, American
American playwright
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Lashana Lynch27 November 1987, British
Actress
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Neil Simon04 July 1927, American
Playwright & Screenwriter
Roxann Dawson11 September 1958, American
Actress
David Mamet30 November 1947, American
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Charlayne Woodard29 December 1953, American
Actress
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Tom Stoppard03 July 1937, Czech, British
Playwright
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
Stefan Zweig28 November 1881, Austrian
Novelist
Yang Jiang17 July 1911, Chinese
Playwright
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Yolanda King17 November 1955, American
Activist
Naguib Mahfouz11 December 1911, Egyptian
Novelist
Humayun Ahmed13 November 1948, Bangladeshi
Writer, Filmmaker
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Dick Cusack29 August 1925, American
Actor
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
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Brendan Behan09 February 1923, Irish
Irish poet
Elfriede Jelinek20 October 1946, Austrian
Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Caryl Churchill03 September 1938, British
Dramatist, Women's Rights Activist
Dario Fo24 March 1926, Italian
Playwright
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
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,
Peter Handke06 December 1942, Austrian
Novelist, Playwright, Film director, Screenwriter,
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,
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Jeffrey Archer15 April 1940, British
Politician, Novelist, Writer, Playwright, Science
Clive Barker05 October 1952, British
Film director, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Ernie Hudson17 December 1945, American
Actor
Sally Wainwright1963 AD, British
television producer, screenwriter, playwright
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Alejandro Jodorowsky17 February 1929, Chilean, French
Writer, Film director, Actor, Playwright,
Douglas Hodge25 February 1960, British
Actor
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist
Peter Morgan10 April 1963, British
screenwriter, playwright, writer
Morgan Spurlock07 November 1970, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Journalist
Stephen Tobolowsky30 May 1951, American
Actor
Jim Beaver12 August 1950, American
Actor
Ben Elton03 May 1959, Australian, British
Actor, Comedian, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Nikolai Gogol31 March 1809, Russian
Playwright
Buchi Emecheta21 July 1944, Nigerian
Writer, Novelist, Sociologist, Playwright, Editor,
Howard Zinn24 August 1922, American
Playwright, Political scientist, Historian of the
Andrew Upton01 February 1966, Australian
Film director, Screenwriter, Librettist
Edward Albee12 March 1928, American
Playwright, Writer, Screenwriter, University
Colman Domingo28 November 1969, American
Actor
Ruby Dee27 October 1922, American
Actress
David Haig20 September 1955, British
Actor
Ian McEwan21 June 1948, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Amelia Bullmore31 January 1964, British
Actress
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Jim Steinman01 November 1947, American
Composer
Anthony Newley24 September 1931, British
Actor, Songwriter, Singer-songwriter, Composer,
Gypsy Rose Lee08 January 1911, American
Entertainer
Roberto Rossellini08 May 1906, Italian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Playwright,
Julia Jones27 March 1923, British
Actress
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Carrie Hamilton05 December 1963, American
Actress
Christine Jorgensen30 May 1926, American
Actor
Michaela Coel01 October 1987, Ghanaian, British
Actress
Mike Leigh20 February 1943, British
Film director, Actor, Playwright, Theatre
Anna Deavere Smith18 September 1950, American
Stage actor, Film actor, Television actor, Writer,
Ron Palillo02 April 1949, American
Actor, Stage actor, Television actor
Steven Berkoff03 August 1937, British
Actor
Rupert Holmes24 February 1947, British, American
Composer
Alan Bennett09 May 1934, British
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Diarist, Writer
Sidney Sheldon11 February 1917, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Thomas Harris11 April 1940, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright,
Anna Silk31 January 1974, Canadian
Actress
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor