History Hop Tags - Playwright

1593-05-18

Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

1598-09-22

Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel.

1778-03-30

Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath

1793-11-03

French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

1995-11-10

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.

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Euripides, Salamís, Greek playwright (Medea), (d. 406 BC)

1494-11-05

Hans Sachs, German composer, playwright and shoemaker

1495-11-21

John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)

1564-04-23

William Shakespeare, Stratford upon Avon, English Poet and playwright, traditionally regarded as his birthdate

1564-04-26

William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, baptism, English playwright and poet

1572-06-11

Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)

1574-09-16

Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena)

1578-02-09

Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo)

1580-04-18

Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess)

1585-03-16

Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)

1589-02-05

Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet

1607-10-04

Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright (Del Rey Abajo Ninguno)

1610-07-04

Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti)

1612-02-07

Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)

1615-03-06

Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y)

1619-03-06

Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright (Voyage to the Moon), known for his large nose

1622-01-15

Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)

1625-08-20

Thomas Corneille, French playwright

1631-08-09

John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas) [NS=Aug 19]

1632-10-30

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (School for Scandal) (or 1751)

1635-05-05

Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret)

1638-01-01

Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright

1640-12-14

(baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)

1652-03-03

Thomas Otway, England, playwright/poet (Venice Preserved)

1670-01-24

William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)

1671-04-06

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)

1683-07-25

Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars)

1684-11-16

Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg)

1685-02-10

Aaron Hill, English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara)

1694-11-21

Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d. 1778)

1707-02-25

Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges)

1728-01-06

Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet

1728-04-19

Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright

1731-09-02

Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Olint und Sophronia)

1732-01-24

Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright (Barber of Seville)

1746-11-15

Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)

1748-05-07

Olympe de Gouges, playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)

1751-04-09

Emanuel Schikaneder, [Johann Schickeneder], German playwright [or 9/1]

1751-10-30

Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)

1752-02-17

Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)

1782-09-25

Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)

1790-06-01

Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)

1795-01-15

Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)

1796-12-19

Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright

1798-01-24

Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor/playwright (Die Vagabunden)

1799-02-04

Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese playwright

1802-01-13

Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright

1803-01-03

Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag)

1808-02-04

Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)

1813-10-17

Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)

1815-05-05

Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright

1817-08-24

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, writer and playwright (d. 1875)

1818-10-28

Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS]

1818-11-09

Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]

1820-01-22

Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet

1821-09-24

Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)

1822-12-26

Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor/playwright (Rip van Winkle)

1823-04-12

Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers)

1824-07-27

Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)

1828-03-01

Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright

1828-03-20

Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)

1829-01-09

Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)

1832-04-04

Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido)

1834-01-01

Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)

1838-07-20

Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)

1839-02-01

James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)

1839-06-03

Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause)

1839-11-29

Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright (Der Schandfleck)

1844-03-19

Minna Canth, Finland, playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist

1845-02-03

Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Sedan)

1846-02-18

Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)

1846-05-08

Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)

1848-02-04

[Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, Fren playwright/poet (Jeune Croyances)

1850-06-27

Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)

1851-01-25

Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar)

1851-09-28

Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Judah)

1852-01-29

Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)

1852-02-21

[James] Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times)

1852-03-05

Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)

1852-03-15

Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress

1855-05-24

Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright

1858-01-19

Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries)

1858-06-25

Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright

1858-12-23

Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright (Life in Russian Theater)

1859-12-12

Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)

1860-01-29

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)

1862-02-22

Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)

1862-05-15

Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)

1862-11-04

Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)

1862-12-08

Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)

1864-01-11

Thomas Dixon, US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword)

1864-07-24

Frank Wedekind, German playwright (The "Lulu" plays)

1865-05-02

Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909)

1865-07-18

Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina)

1865-09-11

Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)

1866-02-09

George Ade, US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang)

1866-04-04

George P Baker, US playwright (47 Workshop)

1866-08-12

Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922)

1866-09-07

Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)

1867-05-27

Arnold Bennett, Hanley Staffordshire, English novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)

1868-02-04

Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP

1868-03-28

Maxim Gorky [Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire, Russian playwright and author (Mother and The Lower Depths)

1868-04-01

Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)

1870-11-11

Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn)

1870-12-10

Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us)

1873-09-08

Alfred Jarry, French absurdist playwright (d. 1907)

1875-04-01

Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist (Terror)

1875-04-15

Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)

1876-02-06

Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt], German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros)

1876-04-17

Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On)

1877-09-10

Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle)

1878-01-12

Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright (A Pal Utrai Fiuk)

1878-04-01

Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)

1879-06-02

Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)

1880-03-04

Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)

1880-03-30

Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World)

1880-08-05

Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden)

1880-11-01

Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)

1881-02-05

Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)

1881-02-20

Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)

1882-06-01

John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)

1882-10-19

Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright

1882-12-22

Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright

1884-02-01

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)

1884-03-13

Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)

1884-07-29

Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist

1884-12-14

Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)

1885-02-21

Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)

1885-08-15

Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968)

1885-08-26

Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)

1885-09-24

Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives)

1885-10-03

Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)

1885-10-11

Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952)

1885-10-28

Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)

1886-02-22

Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti

1886-09-25

John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright

1886-10-30

Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)

1886-11-12

Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)

1886-11-19

Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Le Cocu Magnificent)

1887-01-10

Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)

1887-02-20

Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)

1887-05-27

Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends)

1887-08-23

Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright (Fatherland)

1888-02-21

Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)

1888-04-26

Anita Loos, American screenwriter, novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and playwright (d. 1981)

1889-03-29

Howard Lindsay, Waterford NY, playwright/actor/dir (State of Union)

1889-11-16

George S Kaufman, Pittsburgh Pa, playwright (This is Show Business)

1889-12-22

Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright

1890-06-06

Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)

1890-12-13

Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please)

1891-05-15

Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow)

1891-08-26

Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright (Races)

1892-02-04

Ugo Betti, Italian playwright

1892-09-28

Elmer Rice, NYC, playwright/director/novelist (Pulitzer-Street Scene)

1893-02-20

Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)

1893-02-28

Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)

1893-05-14

Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)

1893-11-06

August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island)

1894-03-17

Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)

1894-05-25

Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence)

1895-02-28

Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)

1895-10-15

Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil)

1896-05-03

Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)

1896-06-06

Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)

1896-12-27

Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright

1897-01-28

Valentin Kataev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled) Died 1986

1897-04-17

Thornton N Wilder, US, novelist/playwright (Our Town)

1897-12-16

Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright (Le Canari et le Cerise)

1898-01-13

Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)

1898-02-10

Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer

1899-03-25

Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)

1899-05-11

Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)

1899-05-19

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright

1899-07-05

Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright (Jean de la Lune)

1899-08-09

Armand Salacrou, French playwright

1899-12-16

Noel Coward, England, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award)

1900-02-06

Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen)

1900-02-16

Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter

1900-07-06

Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)

1901-06-01

John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)

1901-08-25

Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director (Tivoli)

1901-09-04

Paul Osborn, playwright (Mornings at 7)

1902-02-01

Langston Hughes, Joplin, Missouri, American poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto)

1902-08-06

Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory) [OS]

1902-08-19

Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory) [NS]

1903-01-17

Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953)

1904-04-17

Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Story of Louis Pasteur)

1904-10-24

Moss Hart, Bronx NY, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)

1905-06-20

Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)

1905-11-26

George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)

1906-01-12

Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (d. 1942)

1906-04-13

Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969)

1906-10-22

Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)

1907-02-25

Mary Coyle Chase, playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize)

1907-06-20

Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)

1907-12-18

Christopher Fry, Bristol England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon)

1908-03-05

Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)

1908-08-23

Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright (Paolo Paoli)

1908-08-31

William Saroyan, US, novelist/playwright (Time of Your Life)

1908-10-14

Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)

1909-03-02

Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright

1909-03-22

Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright

1909-05-04

Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright

1909-11-17

Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (Heart of the Matter)

1909-11-26

Eugene Ionesco, playwright

1910-01-20

Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder (American Negro Theater)

1910-02-04

Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)

1910-06-12

Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)

1911-03-05

Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba)

1911-03-26

Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

1911-06-10

Terence Rattigan, playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version)

1911-07-02

Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader (Vatican movie bureau)

1912-05-30

Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)

1912-06-03

William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)

1912-08-13

Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor (Dog of Flanders, Little Ark)

1912-11-24

Garson Kanin, Rochester NY, playwright/producer (Double Life)

1913-05-03

William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)

1913-07-30

Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director (Albee/Pinter)

1914-04-04

Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall)

1914-05-04

Emmanuel Robles, Algerian-Fren journalist/playwright (Lesson Hauteurs)

1915-10-17

Arthur Miller, NYC, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), (d. 2005)

1916-02-04

Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker

1916-03-14

Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter

1916-04-24

Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)

1916-05-23

Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995)

1916-10-12

Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994)

1917-01-22

Herwig Hensen, [Flor Mielants], Flemish poet/playwright

1917-12-18

Ossie Davis, Cogdell GA, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam)

1918-01-06

Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director (Ciske the Rat)

1918-07-14

Arthur Laurents, NYC, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy)

1919-01-29

Norman F Simpson, British playwright (One Way Pendulum)

1919-07-19

Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright

1919-08-12

Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright

1920-06-28

A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright

1920-08-01

Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright

1920-10-12

Alice Childress, US playwright/actress (Wedding Band)

1921-01-05

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Konolfingen, Bern, Swiss playwright and novelist (The Physicists, The Visit)

1921-01-09

Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)

1921-08-28

Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)

1921-09-16

Dusty Hughers, playwright

1922-06-09

George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop)

1923-04-30

George Byatt, playwright

1923-08-16

Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright

1924-03-07

Kobo Abe, Tokyo Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)

1924-08-01

Jeffrey Segal, actor/playwright (Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces)

1924-08-15

Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)

1924-11-07

Wolf Mankowitz, British(?) playwright

1925-01-08

James Saunders, English chemist/playwright (Ark)

1925-08-19

Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)

1925-09-05

Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist/playwright (Cola Drinkers)

1926-03-24

Dario Fo, Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997)

1926-05-15

Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)

1926-05-15

Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)

1926-07-12

Beah Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot, Generation)

1926-07-30

Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)

1926-11-25

Murray Schisgal, playwright (Luv)

1927-06-30

James Goldman, Chicago, Illinois, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter, They Might Be Giants)

1927-07-04

Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)

1927-07-15

Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright (Knack)

1927-12-28

Simon Raven, English playwright/critic (Alms for Oblivion)

1928-03-12

Edward Albee, Washington, DC, playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)

1928-03-21

Peter Hacks, German playwright (Tie Windloch)

1928-06-30

Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic

1928-12-13

W Gordon Smith, playwright

1929-12-12

John Osborne, England, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)

1930-01-03

Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright

1930-04-11

Clive Exton, scriptwriter & playwright

1930-05-19

Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (Raisin in the Sun)

1930-10-10

Harold Pinter, London England, playwright (Homecoming, Servant)

1930-10-26

John Arden, England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty), (d. 2012)

1930-11-01

A. R. Gurney, American playwright

1931-01-16

Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist

1931-03-10

Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)

1931-04-01

Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy)

1931-04-13

Beverley Cross, playwright

1932-04-12

Jack Gelber, US, playwright (Connection, Apple)

1932-05-24

Arnold Wesker, British playwright (Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen)

1932-09-21

Melvin Van Peebles, US, playwright/director (Watermelon Man)

1933-07-13

David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright (Home)

1933-09-08

Michael Frayn, British playwright

1934-05-09

Alan Bennett, England, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball)

1934-07-18

Edward Bond, English playwright/director (Blow-up)

1934-09-09

Sonia Sanchez, US playwright/poet (The Bronx is Next)

1934-11-09

Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright (Dresser)

1935-04-04

Trevor Griffiths, playwright (Absolute Beginners)

1935-05-17

Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright (Karaoke, Midnight Movie)

1935-07-02

Ed Bullins, Phila, playwright

1936-03-22

Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight)

1936-05-15

Paul Zindel, playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)

1936-07-09

June Jordan, US playwright/poet (His Own Where)

1936-08-21

Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)

1936-10-21

James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright (Butley)

1937-01-28

Ken Hill, playwright/director

1937-02-11

Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright (The Family)

1937-04-13

Lanford Wilson, US playwright (Hot L Baltimore)

1937-05-10

Arthur Kopit, New York NY, US playwright ('Wings', 'Nine')

1937-07-03

Tom Stoppard, Zlin Czech, playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony)

1937-11-20

Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright

1938-05-26

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist

1938-09-03

Caryl Churchill, English playwright

1938-12-26

Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director

1939-04-12

Alan Ayckbourn, London, playwright

1939-10-05

Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright

1939-11-03

Terrence McNally, St Petersburg Fla, playwright (Bad Habits)

1939-12-18

Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer, Dutch dancer/actress/playwright

1940-03-10

David Rabe, Dubuque Iowa, playwright (Streamers)

1941-08-12

Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright

1941-11-20

Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright

1942-02-05

Susan Hill, English playwright (Magic Apple Tree)

1942-02-24

David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)

1942-06-25

Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright

1942-09-11

Gerome Ragni American Playwright

1942-09-29

Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright

1943-04-12

Charles Ludlam, NYC, playwright/actor (Big Easy)

1943-08-02

Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright (Restoration)

1943-11-05

Sam Shepard, Ill, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)

1945-04-27

August Wilson, US, playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987)

1946-01-26

Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright (Oviri, Hotel du Lac)

1946-04-12

Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor/director/playwright (Leonce & Lena)

1947-03-18

Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright

1947-06-05

David Hare, playwright (Strapless, Plenty, Wetherby, Fatale)

1947-08-02

Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright

1947-08-23

Willy Russell, author/playwright (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita)

1947-09-21

Marsha Norman, American playwright

1947-11-30

David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir (Speed the Plow, House of Games)

1948-06-02

Albert Innaurato, Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho)

1948-11-16

Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic

1949-01-02

Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)

1950-10-18

Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)

1951-02-05

Elizabeth Swados, Buffalo NY, composer/playwright (1972 TONY)

1951-08-21

Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.

1952-01-11

Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright

1952-04-20

Toine van Benthem, dentist/playwright/cabaret performer (Purper)

1952-05-08

Beth Henley, Jackson Miss, actress/playwright (Miss Firecracker)

1953-05-25

Eve Ensler, American playwright

1954-06-06

Harvey Fierstein, Brooklyn NY, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy, ID4)

1955-02-08

Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer

1955-02-18

Miles Tredinnick, English playwright

1956-07-16

Tony Kushner, American playwright

1956-12-11

Lani Brockman, playwright

1957-12-12

Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright

1957-12-29

Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright

1964-09-19

Patrick Marber, British playwright

1967-12-23

Tim Fountain, British playwright

1969-04-06

Jack Canfora, American playwright

1970-03-26

Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director

1971-02-03

Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)

1972-10-10

Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter

1973-11-29

Sarah Jones, American playwright

1977-07-18

Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright

1979-06-28

Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright

1982-05-10

Jeremy Gable, American playwright

1582-11-28

Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway

1846-09-12

Poet and playwright Robert Browning (34) weds poet Elizabeth Barrett (40) at Marylebone Church in London

1850-03-14

French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine

1858-06-18

Norwegian modernist playwright "The Doll's House" Henrik Ibsen (30) marries Suzannah Thoresen (21) in Oslo

1896-06-01

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (41) marries Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (41)in Covent Garden, London.

1909-10-02

American Playwright Eugene O'Neill (20) marries 1st wife Kathleen Jenkins

1917-10-21

Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)

1918-04-12

American Playwright Eugene O'Neill marries second wife novelist Agnes Boulton

1928-06-15

"King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30)

1929-07-22

American Playwright Eugene O'Neill (40) marries 3rd wife actress Carlotta Monterey (40)

1932-12-05

"East of Eden" director Elia Kazan (23) weds playwright Molly Day Thatcher (25)

1942-08-23

"King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)

1946-08-10

Playwright Moss Hart (41) weds singer and actress Kitty Carlisle (35)

1955-02-16

Playwright Brendan Behan (32) weds Beatrice Salkeld at Donnybrook Church in Dublin, Ireland

1956-06-29

Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York

1956-09-14

British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (26) marries 1st wife actress Vivien Merchant (27)

1961-03-25

Playwright Samuel Beckett (54) weds Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil on a secret civil ceremony in England

1965-03-26

Playwright Tom Stoppard (28) weds nurse Josie Ingle

1972-02-11

Playwright Tom Stoppard (34) weds doctor/author Miriam Moore-Robinson (34)

1973-10-25

American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (46) weds actress Marsha Mason (31)

1975-08-23

Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England

1977-12-21

American Jewish playwright and screenwriter "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet marries 1st wife actress Lindsay Crouse

1980-11-27

British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)

1991-09-22

American Jewish playwright and screenwriter David Mamet marries 2nd wife, English actress Rebecca Pidgeon

1999-07-10

"It Could Happen To You" actress Rosie Perez (34) weds playwright and screenwriter Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (37) in Brooklyn, New York

2014-06-07

Playwright Tom Stoppard (76) weds brewery heiress Sabrina Guinness on an intimate register office ceremony in East Dorset, England

1929-07-03

American Playwright Eugene O'Neill divorces second wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage

1556-12-23

Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)

1567-05-02

Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies

1584-01-04

Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44

1595-04-25

Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51

1616-03-06

Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)

1616-04-23

William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (b. 1564) (Julian calendar) dies aged 52

1618-08-23

Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33

1634-06-25

John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)

1635-08-27

Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72

1637-08-06

Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies at 65

1639-08-04

Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58

1647-05-21

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65

1654-06-07

Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76

1661-10-28

Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)

1670-01-21

Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80

1673-02-17

Molière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French playwright (The Misanthrope), dies. (b. 1622)

1674-01-11

Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58

1681-05-25

Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)

1688-11-26

Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53

1692-11-19

Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright

1700-05-01

John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies

1701-08-20

Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)

1715-08-12

Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies

1721-10-04

Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36

1725-01-06

Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Jap playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71

1726-03-26

John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62

1743-04-30

Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies

1743-08-01

Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46

1756-07-09

Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, dies at 72

1758-01-01

Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26

1770-08-26

Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, dies at 42

1781-02-15

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies at 52

1792-06-04

John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies

1794-08-14

George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies

1804-03-16

Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75

1805-05-09

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet/playwright, dies at 45

1809-07-03

Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)

1811-11-21

Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34

1816-07-07

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)

1823-01-17

Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36

1829-02-11

Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)

1836-09-05

Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)

1837-02-19

Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)

1852-03-04

Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright, dies at 43

1852-04-09

John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies

1855-01-10

Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67

1857-06-08

Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)

1872-01-21

Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81

1873-11-08

Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76

1883-05-23

Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies

1889-12-10

Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50

1890-09-18

Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67

1895-11-27

French writer and playwright Alexandre Dumas (b. 1824), son of the French author of the same name

1897-05-12

Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53

1900-01-30

Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71

1901-06-02

James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies

1906-05-23

Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78

1909-01-15

Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63

1909-03-24

John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37

1909-05-10

Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies

1918-02-09

Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30

1918-08-08

Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38

1919-01-31

Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79

1921-06-05

Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58

1924-01-14

Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72

1924-02-09

Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53

1924-12-27

William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68

1929-01-07

Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77

1929-06-25

Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies

1929-07-15

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies

1929-09-12

Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)

1931-11-03

Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60

1932-05-22

Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80

1932-09-05

Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)

1935-01-06

George P Baker, US playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68

1937-03-25

John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54

1938-07-18

Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35

1939-08-23

Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48

1942-02-02

Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)

1942-11-03

Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64

1943-04-25

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies

1943-05-24

Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84

1944-05-16

George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78

1945-02-16

Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45

1945-06-04

Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66

1946-06-28

Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident

1947-12-07

Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)

1953-11-27

Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65

1954-07-14

Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87

1955-02-23

Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86

1957-07-24

Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72

1958-05-16

Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49

1958-07-04

Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79

1958-08-22

Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies

1958-10-29

Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)

1961-03-06

Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59

1961-06-02

George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72

1962-01-20

Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75

1963-02-02

Herman Bouber, [Blom], actor/playwright (Bluejackets), dies at 77

1963-08-14

Clifford Odets, US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57

1963-09-21

Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)

1964-04-18

Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71

1964-09-18

Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84

1964-11-24

John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55

1964-11-28

Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93

1965-01-12

Lorraine Hansberry, US playwright, dies in NYC, dies at 34

1965-03-28

Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)

1965-05-11

Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86

1965-05-12

Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57

1966-05-14

Georgia BD Camp Johnson, US poet/playwright, dies at 88

1967-01-16

Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72

1967-05-08

Elmer Rice, NY playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74

1967-05-22

Langston Hughes, American poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto), dies at 65

1967-08-09

Joe Orton, English actor/playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34

1967-10-14

Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)

1968-02-11

Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78

1968-05-09

Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)

1968-09-28

Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64

1970-02-20

Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)

1970-03-16

Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61

1970-03-17

Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83

1971-06-25

Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88

1973-03-26

Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73

1973-05-04

Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright, dies at 56

1973-06-10

William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60

1973-08-13

Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75

1977-01-18

Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80

1977-02-09

Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92

1977-11-30

Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)

1979-06-08

Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79

1979-11-13

Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright (b. 1907)

1980-12-21

Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90

1981-03-31

Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)

1982-05-10

Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65

1983-02-25

Tennessee Williams, US playwright and writer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71

1984-03-12

Arnold Ridley, playwright/actor, dies at 88

1984-06-30

Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79

1985-04-01

Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (b. 1920)

1985-10-08

Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94

1987-10-03

Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77

1988-02-28

Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99

1988-06-16

Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)

1988-07-10

Errol John, playwright, dies at 63

1988-10-09

Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84

1990-11-24

Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)

1991-05-23

Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies

1991-05-26

Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50

1991-09-07

Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87

1991-10-29

Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60

1992-01-09

William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/Brit playwright (Alfie), dies at 81

1992-08-13

Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40

1992-09-19

Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57

1992-12-12

Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)

1993-01-18

Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies

1994-01-01

Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at 35

1994-03-14

Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered

1994-03-28

Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84

1994-08-08

Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95

1994-08-08

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94

1994-12-04

Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66

1994-12-24

John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65

1994-12-24

John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65

1995-01-06

Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81

1995-01-23

Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57

1995-01-23

Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75

1995-01-31

George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105

1995-02-14

Michael Vincent Gazzo, US actor/playwright (Godfather 2), dies at 71

1995-02-21

Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70

1995-03-16

Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95

1995-03-20

Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88

1995-06-07

Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84

1995-08-20

Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64

1996-02-09

Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86

1996-05-31

Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80

1996-06-11

Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69

1996-07-01

Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53

1996-08-05

Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68

1996-08-13

W Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 67

1996-11-16

George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73

1996-11-16

Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87

1997-08-25

Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78

1998-10-28

James Goldman, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter) dies of a heart attack at 71

1999-02-20

Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)

1999-03-16

Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)

2001-05-13

Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)

2001-07-24

Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)

2002-01-11

Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)

2002-10-23

Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)

2003-04-20

Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)

2003-09-25

Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)

2004-02-29

Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (b. 1915)

2005-02-10

Arthur Miller, American playwright, dies at 89

2005-06-30

Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady's Not for Burning), dies at 97

2005-10-02

August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)

2006-05-17

Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911)

2006-08-16

Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)

2006-10-16

Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)

2006-10-30

Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)

2007-01-30

Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)

2007-11-21

Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (b. 1921)

2007-12-24

Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (b. 1939)

2008-05-19

Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928)

2008-12-24

Harold Pinter, British playwright (b. 1930)

2009-03-04

Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (b. 1916)

2009-11-06

Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (b. 1932)

2010-01-21

Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)

2010-06-25

Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)

2010-10-24

Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)

2011-02-16

Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)

2011-05-26

Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright (b. 1920)

2011-11-19

Michael Hastings, British playwright, dies at 74

2012-01-05

Frederica Maas, American playwright and screenwriter, dies at 111

2012-03-28

John Arden, English novelist/playwright, dies at 81

2012-07-27

R G Armstrong, American actor and playwright, dies at 95

2013-08-30

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature)

2016-04-13

Sir Arnold Wesker, British playwright, dies aged 83

2016-06-08

'Amadeus' playwright Peter Shaffer dies aged 90

2016-06-08

'Equus' and 'Amadeus' playwright Peter Shaffer dies aged 90

2016-09-17

Pulitzer-winning playwright Edward Albee dies at 88

2016-09-17

Pulitzer-winning playwright Edward Albee dies at 88

2016-10-18

Love Story playwright Stephen Clark dies aged 55

2017-03-18

Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dies aged 87

2017-05-02

'Genius' playwright and speechwriter Michael Gurr dies aged 55

2017-06-27

Bran Nue Dae playwright dies, aged 69

2017-07-05

Playwright Heathcote Williams dies aged 75

2017-08-01

Sam Shepard, actor and playwright, dies at age 73

2017-08-14

Actor, Director, Playwright Joe Bologna Dies at Age 82

2017-09-02

Playwright Ann Jellicoe dies aged 90

2018-05-16

Playwright Tom Murphy dies, aged 83

2018-06-08

Playwright Joe Pintauro Dies at 87