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2012 Death - Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies

1996 Death - Cao Yu, playwright, dramatist, dies at 86

1996 Death - Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60

1995 Death - Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66

1995 Death - Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies

1993 Death - Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91

1993 Death - Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80

1990 Death - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies

1989 Death - Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72

1986 Death - Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75

1984 Death - Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist

1977 Death - Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92

1974 Death - Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75

1970 Death - Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels', dies at 78

1963 Death - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies

1961 Death - Moss Heart, U.S. dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57

1961 Death - Yme C Schuitmaker, potato farmer/dramatist, dies

1960 Death - Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

1959 Death - Maxwell Anderson, U.S. dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70

1955 Death - Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59

1953 Death - Ugo Betti, dramatist, dies

1952 Death - Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52

1951 Death - James Bridie, Osborne Henry Mavor, dramatist, dies

1950 Death - Balthazar H Verhagen, Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer, dies

1949 Death - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Dramatist

1947 Birthday - Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff'

1945 Death - Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California

1944 Death - Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79

1944 Death - Jean Giraudoux, French Dramatist

1943 Birthday - Mike Leigh, dramatist/director, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies

1936 Birthday - Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist

1935 Birthday - Bent Lorentzen, born in Stenvad, Denmark, prolific composer, dramatist, wrote 18 operas to date, compared to Richard Vagner

1934 Birthday - Wole Soyinka, born in Nigeria, dramatist, Road, Kongi's Harvest-Nobel 1986

1933 Death - Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa', dies at 67 in Sankt Georgen, Austria

1933 Birthday - Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist, Prick Up Your Ears

1932 Death - Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist

1929 Death - Arno Holz, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus', dies at 66

1929 Birthday - Heiner Muller, dramatist

1923 Birthday - Erland Josephson, Stockholm Sweden, actor/dramatist, Utflykt

1923 Birthday - Paddy Chayevsky, Sydney, U.S., dramatist, Marty, Hospital

1923 Birthday - Paddy Chayefsky, American Dramatist

1917 Birthday - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor, Saint's Day

1916 Birthday - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade

1913 Birthday - Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist, Anne Frank

1913 Birthday - Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist

1912 Birthday - Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright, Fiddler on the Roof

1911 Birthday - Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist, God's Murderer

1910 Birthday - Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks

1910 Birthday - Cao Yu, born in China, born Wan Jiabao, playwright, dramatist, celebrated for Thunderstorm, Sunrise, and Peking Man, responsible for spoken theater in 20th century Chinese literature

1910 Birthday - Jean Anouilh, born in France, dramatist, Thieves' Carnival

1909 Death - John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37

1906 Death - Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies

1906 Birthday - Clifford Odets, U.S., dramatist, 1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy

1905 Birthday - Emlyn Williams, Welsh Dramatist

1904 Birthday - Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist

1904 Death - Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

1902 Birthday - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist, The Defeat

1901 Birthday - Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist

1899 Birthday - Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist, Coup of Trafalgar

1898 Birthday - Federico Garcia Lorca, born in Spain, poet/dramatist, Blood Wedding

1896 Birthday - Philip Barry, U.S., dramatist, Philadelphia Story

1896 Birthday - Robert Sherwood, dramatist, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight

1896 Birthday - Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist, The Ghost Train

1892 Birthday - Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe, Illinois, polit essayist/poet/dramatist, JB

1892 Birthday - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist, Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize

1891 Birthday - Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels'

1891 Birthday - Sidney Coe Howard, U.S., dramatist, Swords, Pulitzer 1925

1891 Birthday - Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951

1891 Birthday - Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

1889 Birthday - George S. Kaufman, American Dramatist

1888 Birthday - Maxwell Anderson, U.S., dramatist, Winter Set, High Tor

1888 Birthday - Eugene O'Neill, born in New York City, dramatist, Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936

1888 Birthday - T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948

1887 Birthday - Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King'

1886 Death - Henry Taylor, English Dramatist

1884 Birthday - James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist, Hassan

1884 Birthday - Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright, Cafe Tabac

1884 Death - Henry James Byron, English Dramatist

1881 Birthday - Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity

1881 Birthday - Balthazar H. Verhagen, Netherlands/South African dramatist and writer

1877 Birthday - Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic

1877 Birthday - Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist

1874 Birthday - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist

1873 Birthday - Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, Los Galeotes

1871 Birthday - John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet, Riders to the Sea

1871 Birthday - Serafin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, El Flechazo

1866 Birthday - Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, born in Elbingerode, Germany, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa'

1865 Birthday - Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend'

1863 Birthday - Arno Holz, born in Germany, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus'

1862 Birthday - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Dramatist

1860 Birthday - Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

1856 Birthday - George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ire, dramatist, Pygmalion-Nobel 1925

1852 Birthday - Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist

1850 Birthday - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi

1849 Birthday - August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist and novelist, 'Apologia'

1840 Birthday - Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist

1836 Death - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, writer, dramatist, anti-Semite, idolized by the Nazis, works include, 'Hannibal', 1835, dies at 34

1835 Birthday - Henry James Byron, English Dramatist

1832 Birthday - Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904

1823 Birthday - Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist, 2 Tudors

1817 Birthday - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist, El rey Loco

1812 Death - Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist

1811 Death - Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies

1809 Death - Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist

1803 Death - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist

1801 Birthday - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, born in Detmold, Germany, writer, dramatist, anti-Semite, idolized by the Nazis, works include, 'Hannibal', 1835

1800 Birthday - Mihaly Vorosmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist, "To a Day-Dreamer"

1800 Birthday - Henry Taylor, English Dramatist

1799 Death - Pierre de Beaumarchais, dramatist, dies

1792 Death - Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist

1791 Birthday - A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist, Bertrand et Raton

1791 Birthday - Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist, Golden Fleece

1781 Death - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany

1777 Birthday - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet, Penthesilea

1771 Birthday - Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet, Regulus

1762 Birthday - Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist

1757 Death - Edward Moore, English Dramatist

1749 Birthday - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist

1745 Birthday - Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist

1739 Death - George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity), dies at 46

1730 Birthday - Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist, She Stoops to Conquer

1729 Death - Richard Steele, British Dramatist

1729 Birthday - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, born in Kamenz, Germany, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature

1729 Death - William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), dies at 58

1720 Birthday - Samuel Foote, England, actor/dramatist, Mirror

1716 Death - William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75

1712 Birthday - Edward Moore, English Dramatist

1710 Birthday - Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist

1709 Death - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74

1707 Death - George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist

1693 Birthday - George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist, London Merchant

1689 Death - Aphra Behn, English Dramatist

1684 Death - Pierre Corneille, French lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42

1681 Death - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, writer, dramatist, Spanish Golden Age, works include, 'La vida es sueno', or, 'Life is a Dream', dies at 81

1671 Birthday - Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate, Love's Last Shift

1664 Death - Andreas Gryphius, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius', dies at age 47

1664 Birthday - John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist/architect, baptized

1655 Death - Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)

1655 Death - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris

1643 Death - William Cartwright, English Dramatist

1640 Death - Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies

1637 Death - Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65

1635 Birthday - Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist, Coriolanus

1634 Death - George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies

1627 Death - Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies

1626 Death - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51

1616 Birthday - Andreas Gryphius, born in Glogow, Silesia, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius'

1616 Death - William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

1611 Birthday - William Cartwright, English Dramatist

1609 Birthday - John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier

1606 Birthday - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist, El Cid, Horace

1600 Birthday - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, born in Madrid, Spain, writer, dramatist, Spanish Golden Age, works include, 'La vida es sueno', or, 'Life is a Dream'

1593 Death - Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered

1587 Birthday - Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist, Jephtha

1586 Birthday - John Ford, English dramatist, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

1579 Birthday - John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist, Phylaster, baptized

1564 Birthday - Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist

1564 Birthday - Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus

1562 Birthday - Lope Felix de Vega, born in Madrid, Spain, dramatist/poet, Angelica, Arcadia

1558 Birthday - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist, Spanish Tragedy

1558 Birthday - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist, Friar Bacon

1543 Birthday - Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist

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