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2005 Death - Mel Gussow, American Critic 2003 Death - Leslie Fiedler, American Critic 2002 Death - Timothy White, American Critic 2001 Death - Jan Kott, Polish Critic 2001 Death - Pauline Kael, critic, The New Yorker, dies at 82 2000 Death - Vincent Canby, critic, dies at 76 2000 Death - Jack Kroll, theater critic, Newsweek, dies at 73 1999 Death - Gene Siskel, critic, Siskel and Ebert and the Movies, dies at 53 1997 Death - Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83 1997 Death - Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70 1997 Death - Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52 1997 Death - Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89 1997 Death - Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71 1996 Death - Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58 1996 Death - Guido Aristarco, film critic, dies at 77 1996 Death - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68 1996 Death - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79 1996 Death - Piers Gray, critic/writer, dies at 49 1996 Death - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81 1996 Death - Rosemary Tsay, drama critic/SOE operator, dies at 76 1996 Death - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85 1995 Death - Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95 1995 Death - Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic, dies at 88 1995 Death - Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71 1995 Death - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73 1995 Death - Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93 1995 Death - Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77 1995 Death - Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52 1995 Death - Ischa Meoer, journalist/critic/entertainer/interviewer, dies at 52 1995 Death - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic, dies at 83 1995 Death - Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82 1995 Death - Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54 1994 Death - Samuel Lipman, music critic, dies at 60 1994 Death - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80 1994 Death - Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71 1994 Death - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80 1994 Death - Henry Geldzahler, U.S. critic, dies 1994 Death - William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44 1994 Death - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82 1994 Death - Clement Greenberg, U.S. art critic (Art and Culture), dies at 85 1994 Death - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74 1994 Death - Bill Hicks, comedian, social critic, dark comedic style, challenged mainstream beliefs, performed on HBO special, 'One Night Stand', dies of pancreatic cancer and liver cancer 1993 Death - Kenneth Burke, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University, dies of heart failure at his home in Andover, New Jersey 1993 Death - Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94 1993 Death - Jay Scott, Jeffrey Scott Beaven, US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43 1993 Death - Irving Howe, U.S. writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72 1992 Death - Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies 1992 Event - Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith 1992 Death - Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cinema, Traffic), dies 1992 Death - Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies 1992 Death - Constantin Poustochkine, jazz critic, dies 1991 Death - Leo Geerts, Marcel van der Linden, Belgian writer/critic, dies 1991 Death - Northrop Frye, Canadian Critic 1990 Death - Anatole Broyard, American Critic 1990 Death - Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82 1989 Death - Virgil Thomson, U.S. composer/critic (4 saints in 3 acts), dies at 92 1989 Death - Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 1983 Death - Paul de Man, Belgian Critic 1981 Death - Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1980 Death - Kenneth Tynan, English Critic 1977 Death - Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 1974 Death - Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77 1973 Death - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. art critic sculptor, dies at 81 1972 Death - Paul Goodman, U.S. social critic/writer, dies at 60 1972 Birthday - Chuck Klosterman, American Critic 1972 Death - Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71 1971 Birthday - Harry Knowles, American Critic 1969 Death - Casper Howeler, music critic, dies at 71 1969 Death - Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86 1967 Death - Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 79 1967 Death - Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies 1966 Death - Delmore Schwartz, U.S. poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52 1965 Death - Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82 1965 Death - Richard P Blackmur, U.S., critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61 1965 Birthday - Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic 1964 Death - Clive Bell, English Critic 1962 Death - Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63 1962 Birthday - Taslima Nasrin, born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, doctor turned author, fled Bangladesh to live in exile since 1994, radical feminist and critic of Islam, works for New York University 1962 Death - Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Vredens Son), dies at 64 1962 Death - Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82 1961 Birthday - Bill Hicks, born in Valdosta, Georgia, comedian, social critic, dark comedic style, challenged mainstream beliefs, performed on HBO special, 'One Night Stand' 1960 Birthday - Richard Roeper, born in Chicago, Illinois, film critic, columnist, 'Chicago Sun Times' newspaper, co-host of 'At the Movies' television series with Roger Ebert 1959 Death - Ernest Newman, English Critic 1958 Death - Andre Bazin, French Critic 1958 Death - Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87 1958 Death - Francis Carco(pino), French author/critic (L'homme traque), dies at 71 1958 Death - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64 1957 Birthday - Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor, SNL, League of their Own, Critic 1956 Death - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75 1955 Death - James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY 1955 Death - Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79 1955 Death - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 1953 Death - Emil Ermatinger, Switzerland, literature critic, dies at 80 1953 Death - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60 1953 Birthday - Joe Bob Briggs, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, film critic, wrote for 'Texas Monthly' and 'Dallas Times Herald' 1952 Death - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59 1952 Birthday - Timothy White, American Critic 1950 Birthday - Leonard Maltin, born in New York City, movie critic, Entertainment Tonight 1950 Birthday - Henry Louis Gates, American Critic 1949 Death - Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70 1948 Birthday - Lester Bangs, American Critic 1948 Birthday - Tom Shales, TV critic, Washington Post 1947 Death - Aleister Crowley, English Critic 1947 Birthday - Michael Coveney, drama critic 1947 Birthday - Robert M. Parker, Jr., American Critic 1947 Birthday - Piers Gray, critic/writer 1947 Death - Else JT Rangstrom, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies 1947 Death - Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52 1947 Death - Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71 1946 Birthday - Andrea Dworkin, American Critic 1946 Birthday - Gene Siskel, movie critic, Siskel and Ebert 1945 Birthday - Stanley Crouch, American Critic 1944 Birthday - Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet and critic, On the Droge 1944 Death - Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 1943 Birthday - Stephen Greenblatt, American Critic 1943 Birthday - Joel Siegel, born in Los Angeles, California, American film critic, television journalist 1943 Birthday - Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1943 Birthday - Terry Eagleton, English Critic 1943 Birthday - Ischa Meijer, journalist/critic/actor, Boezemvriend 1943 Death - Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56 1942 Birthday - Paul Weyrich, American Critic 1942 Birthday - Roger Ebert, born in Urbana, Illinois, film critic, Siskel and Ebert at the Movies 1942 Birthday - Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic 1942 Death - Alexander Woollcott, American Critic 1941 Birthday - Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday 1940 Death - Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48 1940 Death - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40 1940 Birthday - James L. Brooks, producer/director, Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic 1939 Birthday - Tom Johnson, born in Greely, Colorado, composer, minimalist style, new music critic for the Village Voice, wrote music based on tiling, involving mathematical and logical processes 1938 Death - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57 1938 Birthday - Rex Reed, Ft. Worth, Texas, movie critic/actor, Myra Breckinridge 1938 Birthday - Pia Lindstrom, critic, WNBC-TV, journalist, From Russia With Love 1938 Birthday - Robert Hughes, born in Australia, writer/critic, Barcelona 1938 Death - Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78 1938 Birthday - Jack Tinker, drama critic 1937 Death - Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic, dies at 69 1937 Death - Paul Elmer More, American Critic 1935 Birthday - Charles Shere, born in Berkeley, California, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp' 1935 Death - Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies 1934 Birthday - Samuel Lipman, music critic 1933 Birthday - Mel Gussow, American Critic 1933 Birthday - Eric Salzman, born in America, author, composer, record producer, music critic, wrote for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune 1933 Birthday - Barry Norman, Britain, film critic, Film Greats 1933 Death - Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa', dies at 67 in Sankt Georgen, Austria 1933 Birthday - Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic 1933 Birthday - Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography' 1932 Birthday - John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1932 Death - [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51 1931 Death - Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies 1930 Birthday - Harold Bloom, American Critic 1928 Birthday - Andrew Sarris, movie critic, Village Voice 1928 Birthday - Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic 1928 Birthday - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic 1927 Birthday - Simon Raven, English playwright/critic, Alms for Oblivion 1927 Birthday - Martin Carter, poet and critic 1927 Birthday - Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post 1927 Birthday - Kenneth Tynan, English Critic 1927 Death - Georg Brandes, Cohen, Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85 1925 Birthday - Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic 1925 Birthday - John Simon, theater critic, New York Times 1924 Death - William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68 1924 Birthday - Vincent Canby, critic, New York Times 1924 Birthday - Colin Welch, columnist/critic 1923 Death - Max Nordau, Hungarian Critic 1922 Birthday - Donald Alfred Davie, poet and critic 1922 Birthday - Donald L. Keene, born in New York City, Japanese translator/critic 1922 Birthday - Juan A Bardem, Spanish director/critic, Comicos 1922 Birthday - Judith Crist, New York, movie critic, TV Guide 1921 Birthday - Ole Sarvig, Danish writer/critic, Limbo, Glem Ikke 1921 Birthday - Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic, Secret Diary 1921 Birthday - Ada Louise Huxtable, American Critic 1920 Birthday - Anatole Broyard, American Critic 1920 Birthday - Irving Howe, U.S., writer/critic, World of Our Fathers 1919 Birthday - Paul de Man, Belgian Critic 1919 Birthday - Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps 1919 Death - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79 1918 Birthday - Guido Aristarco, film critic 1918 Birthday - Andre Bazin, French Critic 1917 Birthday - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic and poet 1917 Birthday - Leslie Fiedler, American Critic 1916 Birthday - Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer, In Search of Theater 1916 Birthday - Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books 1916 Birthday - John Ciardi, poet and critic, translated Dante 1915 Death - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76 1915 Birthday - Roland Barthes, French literary critic, L'Empire des Signer 1915 Death - Remy de Gourmont, French critic/writer (Physique L'Amour), dies at 57 1915 Birthday - Alfred Kazin, U.S. writer/literature critic, Inmost Leaf 1915 Birthday - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic 1914 Birthday - Jan Kott, Polish Critic 1914 Birthday - Brendan Gill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine 1914 Birthday - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician 1914 Birthday - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic, Dance Magazine 1913 Birthday - Delmore Schwartz, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Shenandoah 1913 Birthday - Peter Black, TV critic 1913 Birthday - Walter Kerr, New York drama critic, Sad Clowns 1913 Death - Edward Dowden, Irish Critic 1912 Birthday - M. H. Abrams, Critic 1912 Birthday - Northrop Frye, Canadian Critic 1912 Birthday - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic 1911 Birthday - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic 1910 Birthday - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic 1909 Death - Hilton Kramer, American Critic 1909 Birthday - Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet and critic, Vienna, Edge of Darkness 1909 Birthday - Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic, Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose 1908 Death - John Churton Collins, English Critic 1907 Birthday - Leon Edel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, wrote on James Joyce, taught literature at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia University 1907 Birthday - Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic 1907 Birthday - Charles Boost, movie critic 1907 Birthday - Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic 1907 Birthday - John Canaday, art critic, Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios 1906 Birthday - William Empson, English poet and critic, Milton's God 1906 Death - Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85 1906 Birthday - Clement Greenberg, art critic 1905 Birthday - Kenneth Rexroth, U.S., poet, critic and translator Birds in the Bush 1905 Birthday - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic, Byron in Italy 1904 Birthday - Richard P Blackmur, Massachusetts, critic/poet, Good European 1903 Birthday - Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, U.S. dance critic/poet, Snoring in N 1902 Birthday - Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic, Temps Humain 1902 Birthday - Dirk A M Binnendijk, critic, Authoritarian Regimes in Transistion 1901 Birthday - Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist, New York Herald Tribune 1901 Birthday - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959 1900 Birthday - Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author, Myth Makers 1900 Birthday - John Mason Brown, born in Louisville, Kentucky, critic, Tonight on Broadway 1900 Birthday - Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic, Garden of Eros 1899 Birthday - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic 1899 Birthday - Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic, Flandre 1899 Birthday - Conrad Aiken, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Selected Poems 1898 Birthday - Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic, Fiskerne, Slaven 1897 Birthday - Casper Howeler, Dutch music critic 1897 Birthday - Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University 1896 Birthday - Virgil Thomson, born in Kansas City, Missouri, composer/music critic, 4 Saints in 3 Acts 1896 Birthday - Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War 1896 Birthday - Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic, Occupied City 1895 Birthday - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic, Culture and Environment 1895 Birthday - Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer, Patriotic Gore 1895 Death - George Scharf, critic, dies 1894 Birthday - Brooks Atkinson, drama critic, Broadway theater namesake 1894 Birthday - Willem FJ Pijper, Dutch composer/critic 1894 Birthday - Mark van Doren, born in Illinois, author, Happy Critic, Transients 1893 Death - John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies 1893 Event - The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink 1893 Birthday - Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet and critic, Meaning of Meaning, 1893 Birthday - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic, Scrittori d'Oggi 1893 Birthday - Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic 1893 Birthday - Jorge Guillen, Valladolid Spain, poet and critic, Cantico, Final 1892 Birthday - Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet and critic, Mirror of Dutch Poetry 1892 Birthday - Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer 1892 Birthday - Edward B B Shanks, British poet and critic 1891 Death - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies 1890 Death - Alphonse Karr, French Critic 1889 Birthday - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom 1888 Birthday - T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948 1888 Birthday - John Crowe Ransom, U.S. poet and critic, God Without Thunder 1888 Birthday - Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/music critic 1887 Birthday - Josef Capek, Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic, Kulhavy Poutnik 1887 Death - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 1887 Birthday - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic, Tramonto del grande attore 1886 Birthday - Francis Carcopino, French author/critic, L'Homme Traque 1885 Birthday - Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems 1885 Birthday - Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic 1885 Birthday - Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930 1884 Birthday - Anders J Ture Rangstrom, Stockholm Swed, composer/critic, Kronbruden 1884 Death - Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies 1883 Birthday - Max F Eastman, U.S., critic/essayist, Masses 1882 Birthday - Johan C T Kikkert, Dutch painter/etcher/critic 1882 Birthday - Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic 1882 Birthday - George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury 1881 Birthday - Stark Young, U.S. critic/writer, So Red the Rose 1881 Birthday - Clive Bell, English Critic 1881 Death - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73 1881 Birthday - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic, Revaluations 1880 Birthday - Henry Louis Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic, American Mercury 1880 Birthday - H. L. Mencken, born in Baltimore, Maryland, newspaperman/critic, Prejudices 1880 Birthday - Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet and movie critic, 'Alcoola' 1880 Birthday - Anne C. Veth, Dutch cartoonist and art critic 1880 Birthday - Lytton Strachey, biographer and critic, Benson Medal 1923 1879 Birthday - Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic, Pleasures of Ignorance 1878 Birthday - Eduard R. Verkade, Dutch actor, director and critic, Pygmalion 1877 Birthday - Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic 1877 Death - Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 1875 Birthday - Aleister Crowley, English Critic 1874 Birthday - Michel H. Campen, author/critic, Bikoerim 1874 Birthday - Amy Lowell, U.S. poet and critic, Patterns, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed 1872 Death - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61 1871 Birthday - Franz Blei, Peregrinus Steinhovel, Austrian painter/critic 1868 Birthday - Ernest Newman, English Critic 1867 Birthday - Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic 1867 Birthday - Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic, Great Babylon 1867 Birthday - Lionel Pigot Johnson, born in England, poet and critic, Ireland and Other Poems 1867 Birthday - Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic, Fiery Particles 1866 Birthday - Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, born in Elbingerode, Germany, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa' 1865 Birthday - Bernard Berenson, art critic, Italian Painters of the Renaissance 1865 Birthday - Arthur Symons, Welsh poet, critic and co-founder Savoy 1864 Birthday - Paul Elmer More, American Critic 1858 Birthday - Remy de Gourmont, French critic and writer, Physique de L'amour 1858 Death - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic, dies at 54 1856 Death - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52 1856 Birthday - Otto Brahm, German critic/founder, Neue Deutsche Rundschau 1852 Birthday - [James] Burner Matthews, U.S. playwright/critic, New York Times 1850 Death - Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies 1849 Birthday - Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic, Father and Son 1848 Death - Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies 1848 Birthday - John Churton Collins, English Critic 1845 Death - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 1843 Birthday - Edward Dowden, Irish Critic 1843 Birthday - Henry James, US/British writer/critic, Turn of the Screw, Bostonians 1842 Birthday - Georg Brandes, Morris Cohen, Danish literary-historian/critic 1840 Birthday - Austin Dobson, England, poet, critic and biographer 1839 Birthday - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic, Der Herr im Hause 1839 Birthday - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic, Roccaverdina 1837 Birthday - William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic 1834 Death - Charles Lamb, English Critic 1830 Death - William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies 1829 Birthday - Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP/critic, Akbar 1828 Birthday - Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic 1826 Birthday - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer 1822 Birthday - Matthew Arnold, England, poet and critic, Dover Beach 1820 Birthday - Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic 1819 Birthday - Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic, Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi 1819 Birthday - James Russell Lowell, poet and critic /diplomat/abolitionist 1819 Birthday - John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist, Prerafaelite 1812 Birthday - Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist 1810 Birthday - Margaret Fuller, American Critic 1808 Birthday - Alphonse Karr, French Critic 1807 Birthday - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet and literature critic 1804 Birthday - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer, Informal Talk 1804 Birthday - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic 1803 Birthday - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic, Si j'etait roi 1802 Birthday - Adrian van der Hoop, Jr., Dutch poet and critic 1787 Birthday - Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic 1781 Death - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany 1779 Death - William Warburton, English Critic 1778 Birthday - William Hazlitt, essayist and critic 1775 Birthday - Charles Lamb, born in London, England, critic/poet/essayist 1775 Birthday - Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer, Imaginary Conversation 1772 Birthday - Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic, Lucinde 1767 Birthday - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic 1766 Birthday - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic 1746 Birthday - Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic 1729 Birthday - Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator 1729 Birthday - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, born in Kamenz, Germany, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature 1728 Death - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64 1702 Death - Dominique Bouhours, French Critic 1698 Birthday - William Warburton, English Critic 1663 Birthday - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic, Arcadia |
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