Playwrights in History (Part 2)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 434

• 1862-02-22 Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
• 1862-05-15 Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
• 1862-11-04 Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet and playwright (Red Madymaynes), born in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India (d. 1960)
• 1862-12-08 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's), born in Paris (d. 1921)
• 1863-03-12 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, born in Pescara, Italy (d. 1938)
• 1863-07-19 Dwijendralal Ray, Bengali poet, playwright and lyricist (Dwijendrageeti), born in Krishnanagar, British India (d. 1913)
• 1864-01-11 Thomas Dixon, US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword)
• 1864-01-16 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), born near Yuba City, California (d. 1922)

• 1865-07-18 Laurence Housman, English author and playwright (Victoria Regina), born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England (d. 1959)
• 1865-09-11 Rainis [Jānis Pliekšāns], Latvian poet and playwright, born in Dunava parish, Russian Empire (d. 1929)
• 1865-10-04 Max Halbe, German playwright (Jugend), born in Güttland, Gdańsk (d. 1944)
• 1866-02-09 George Ade, American playwright, writer and humorist (Counsel Widow, Fables in Slang), born in Kentland, Indiana (d. 1944)
• 1866-02-28 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philosopher, playwright and poet, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1949)
• 1866-04-04 George P Baker, American educator and playwright (47 Workshop), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1935)
• 1866-08-12 Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922)
• 1866-09-07 Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist, born in Besançon, Doubs, France (d. 1947)
• 1867-05-27 Arnold Bennett, English novelist (Anna of the Five Towns), born in Hanley, Staffordshire, England (d. 1931)
• 1868-02-04 Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP

• 1868-04-01 Edmond Rostand, French poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• 1868-08-06 Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (L'Otage-1909), born in Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France (d. 1955)
• 1870-11-11 Nils Kjær, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn), born in Holmestrand, Norway (d. 1924)
• 1870-12-10 Rudolf Wilhelm Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us), born in Wûns (d. 1931)
• 1874-04-28 Sidney Toler, American actor, director and playwright (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight), born in Warrensburg, Missouri (d. 1947)
• 1874-07-29 August Stramm, German poet and playwright, born in Cathedrals (d. 1915)

• 1875-04-15 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright and novelist (Poverty), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
• 1876-02-06 Wilhelm August Schmidtbonn, German writer (Der Sprechende Eros), born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1952)
• 1876-04-17 Ian Hay [John Hay Beith], British novelist and playwright (Pip, Carrying On), born in Rusholme, Manchester (d. 1952)
• 1877-09-10 Georgia Douglas Johnson, African American poet and playwright (Autumn Love Cycle), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1966)
• 1878-01-12 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright (A Pal Utrai Fiuk)
• 1878-04-01 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
• 1878-11-25 Georg Kaiser, German playwright (The Burghers of Calais), born in Magdeburg (d. 1945)
• 1878-12-31 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), born in Salto, Uruguay (d. 1937)
• 1879-06-02 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)
• 1880-02-27 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist, teacher and playwright (Harlem Renaissance), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1958)
• 1880-03-04 Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
• 1880-03-30 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Juno and the Paycock), born in Dublin (d. 1964)
• 1880-08-05 Gertrude E Durden Rush, American composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden), born in Navasota, Texas (d. 1962)
• 1880-11-01 Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright (East River, Three Cities), born in Kutno, Poland (d. 1957)
• 1881-02-05 Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
• 1881-02-20 Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
• 1881-04-17 Anton Wildgans, Austrian poet and playwright (Armut), born in Vienna (d. 1932)
• 1882-06-01 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
• 1882-10-19 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright
• 1882-10-29 Jean Giraudoux, French writer and playwright (The Madwoman of Chaillot), born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France (d. 1944)
• 1882-11-22 Charles Vildrac, French author, poet and playwright (La Brouille, Michel Auclair, Notes sur la technique poétique), born in Paris, France (d. 1971)
• 1884-02-01 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian novelist/playwright (We)
• 1884-03-13 Hugh S. Walpole, British novelist and playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 1941)
• 1884-07-29 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist
• 1884-09-25 John Howard Lawson, American scriptwriter and playwright (Blockade, Algiers, Sahara), born in NYC, New York (d. 1977)
• 1884-12-14 Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (Smilin' Through), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1950)
• 1885-02-21 Sacha Guitry, French actor and playwright (Deburan, The Story of a Cheat), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1957)
• 1885-08-15 Edna Ferber, American author and playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron), born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (d. 1968)
• 1885-08-26 Jules Romains, French novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
• 1885-09-24 Herman Bouber, Dutch actor and playwright (Sailor's Wives), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1963)
• 1885-10-03 Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist, born in Stockton, California (d. 1970)
• 1885-10-11 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet and playwright (Nobel 1952), born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1970)
• 1885-11-09 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright, born in Tundutov, Russia (d. 1922)
• 1886-02-22 Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
• 1886-04-08 Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright and writer (Years of Grace), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1967)
• 1886-10-30 Zoe Akins, American playwright (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1935), born in Humansville, Missouri (d. 1958)
• 1886-11-12 Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
• 1886-11-19 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Le Cocu Magnificent), born in Paris (d. 1970)
• 1887-01-10 Robinson Jeffers, American poet & playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea), born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
• 1887-02-20 Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
• 1887-05-27 Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends) (d. 1918)
• 1887-08-23 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor and playwright (Fatherland), born in Amsterdam (d. 1956)
• 1888-02-21 Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
• 1888-04-26 Anita Loos, American screenwriter, novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and playwright, born in Sisson, California (d. 1981)

• 1889-03-29 Howard Lindsay, American playwright, actor and director (State of the Union), born in Waterford, New York (d. 1968)
• 1889-11-16 George S. Kaufman, American playwright (This is Show Business), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
• 1889-12-11 Paul Kornfeld, Czech playwright, born in Prague (d. 1942)
• 1889-12-22 Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, born in Baskinta, Lebanon (d. 1988)
• 1890-01-09 Karel Čapek, Czech writer, playwright and critic (R.U.R.); coined the word "robot", born in Malé Svatoňovice, Hungary (d. 1938)
• 1890-06-06 Dorothy Heyward, American playwright (Porgy), born in NYC, New York (d. 1961)
• 1890-09-10 Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet (Mirror Man, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)

• 1891-04-19 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian playwright and poet (La Ronda), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1985)
• 1891-05-15 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian playwright and novelist (The Master and Margarita, Black Snow), born in Kiev, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
• 1891-08-26 Ferdinand Bruckner [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright (Races)

• 1892-02-04 Ugo Betti, Italian playwright
• 1892-06-20 Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, born in Kuldīga, Latvia (d. 1937)

• 1893-02-20 Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
• 1893-02-28 Ben Hecht, American novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page), born in NYC, New York
• 1893-05-14 Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
• 1893-11-06 August Defresne, Dutch playwright and director (Uninhabited Island), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1961)
• 1893-12-01 Ernst Toller, German playwright, President of Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919), born in Samotschin (d. 1939)
• 1894-03-17 Paul Green, American novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
• 1894-05-25 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1967)
• 1895-02-28 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
• 1895-08-19 Arnoldt Bronnen, Austrian playwright, born in Vienna (d. 1959)
• 1895-10-15 Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil), born in Lautenburg, Germany (now in Poland) (d. 1952)
• 1895-11-05 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (The Scoundrel), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
• 1896-05-03 Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (101 Dalmatians), born in Whitefield, Lancashire, England (d. 1990)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 200 of 348

• 1929-07-15 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
• 1929-09-12 Rainis [Jānis Pliekšāns], Latvian poet and playwright, dies at 64
• 1931-11-03 Rudolf Wilhelm Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60

• 1932-05-03 Anton Wildgans, Austrian poet and playwright (Armut), dies at 51
• 1932-05-22 Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (Gold Apple) and patron of Yeats, dies at 80
• 1932-09-05 Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
• 1935-01-06 George P Baker, American educator and playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68
• 1937-03-19 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), commits suicide at 58
• 1937-03-25 John Drinkwater, English poet and playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
• 1937-04-29 William Gillette, American actor, playwright and manager (Sherlock Holmes on stage), dies at 83
• 1937-06-19 J. M. [James Matthew] Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan), dies at 77
• 1937-09-10 Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, executed by Stalinist regime at 47
• 1938-03-01 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, dies of a stroke at 74
• 1938-07-18 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
• 1938-12-25 Karel Čapek, Czech author, playwright and critic (R.U.R.), coined term "robot", dies of pneumonia at 48
• 1939-05-22 Ernst Toller, German playwright, commits suicide at 45
• 1939-08-23 Sidney Coe Howard, American playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
• 1941-06-01 Hugh S Walpole, British novelist and playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40), dies at 57
• 1942-02-02 Daniil Kharms [Yuvatchov], Russian surrealist and absurdist writer, poet, and playwright, dies of starvation during the siege of Leningrad at 36
• 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
• 1944-01-31 Jean Giraudoux, French writer and playwright (The Madwoman of Chaillot), dies at 61
• 1944-05-16 George Ade, American playwright, writer and humorist (Counsel Widow, Fables in Slang), dies at 78
• 1944-11-30 Max Halbe, German playwright (Jugend), dies at 79
• 1945-02-16 Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45
• 1945-03-31 Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers), dies at 85
• 1945-06-04 Georg Kaiser, German playwright (The Burghers of Calais), dies at 66
• 1945-08-26 Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet (Mirror Man, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), dies at 54
• 1946-06-28 Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
• 1947-02-12 Sidney Toler, American actor, director and playwright (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight), dies at 72
• 1947-12-07 Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist, dies at 81
• 1949-07-16 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philosopher, playwright and poet, dies at 83
• 1951-02-28 Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Russian playwright and journalist, dies at 50
• 1952-09-22 Ian Hay [John Hay Beith], British novelist and playwright (Pip, Carrying On), dies at 76
• 1952-10-03 Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil), dies at 56

• 1954-07-14 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87
• 1955-02-23 Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (L'otage-1909), dies at 86
• 1955-04-28 Lode Cantens, Flemish playwright (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43
• 1956-04-21 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (The Scoundrel), dies at 60
• 1956-08-14 Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright (Mother Courage), dies of a heart attack at 58
• 1957-07-10 Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright (East River, Three Cities), dies at 77
• 1957-07-24 Sacha Guitry, French actor and playwright (Deburan, The Story of a Cheat), dies at 72
• 1957-12-19 John Van Druten, English playwright (I Remember Mama, I am a Camera) and theater director, dies at 56
• 1958-05-16 Jeroom Verten [Jozef Frans Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
• 1958-06-10 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist, teacher and playwright (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 78
• 1958-07-04 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
• 1958-08-22 Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist (Nobel Prize for Literature 1937), dies at 77
• 1958-09-22 Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer and playwright (The Circular Staircase), dies at 82
• 1958-10-29 Zoe Akins, American playwright (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1935), dies at 71
• 1959-02-20 Laurence Housman, English author and playwright (Victoria Regina), dies at 93
• 1960-12-29 Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet and playwright (Red Madymaynes), dies at 98
• 1961-03-06 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright and director (Tivoli), dies at 59
• 1961-04-02 August Defresne, Dutch playwright and director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67
• 1961-06-02 George S. Kaufman, American playwright (This is Show Business), dies at 72
• 1961-11-19 Dorothy Heyward, American playwright (Porgy), dies at 71
• 1962-01-20 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75
• 1962-09-05 Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden). dies at 82
• 1962-09-19 Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright, dies at 61
• 1963-02-02 Herman Bouber, Dutch actor and playwright (Sailor's Wives), dies at 77
• 1963-08-14 Clifford Odets, American playwright (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), dies at 57
• 1963-09-21 Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
• 1964-04-18 Ben Hecht, American 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)
• 1965-05-12 Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57
• 1966-05-14 Georgia BD Camp Johnson, American poet/playwright, dies at 88
• 1966-12-26 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright and author (Poverty), dies at 91
• 1967-01-16 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72

• 1967-08-09 Joe Orton, EBritish actor and dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears), is murdered by his partner Kenneth Halliwell at 34
• 1967-10-14 Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright, dies at 65
• 1967-10-25 Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright and writer (Years of Grace), dies at 81
• 1968-02-11 Howard Lindsay, American playwright, actor and director (State of the Union), dies at 78
• 1968-04-16 Edna Ferber, American author and playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron), dies at 82
• 1968-05-09 Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite, dies at 75
• 1968-09-28 Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64
• 1970-02-20 Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist, dies at 84
• 1970-03-13 Rick Besoyan, American singer, actor, playwright, composer and director (Little Mary Sunshine), dies of internal hemorrhages at 45
• 1970-03-16 Arthur Adamov, Russian-French playwright (Paolo Paoli), dies at 61
• 1970-03-17 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83

• 1970-09-01 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet and playwright (Nobel 1952), dies at 84
• 1971-06-25 Charles Vildrac, French author, poet and playwright (La Brouille, Michel Auclair, Notes sur la technique poétique), dies at 88
• 1972-08-17 Alexander Vampilov, Russian playwright (Elder Son), drowns at 34

• 1973-05-04 Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright, dies at 56
• 1973-06-10 William M. Inge, American playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
• 1973-08-13 Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
• 1974-09-04 Marcel Achard, French playwright (La forges the Paris), dies at 75
• 1975-11-13 R. C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey's End), dies at 79

• 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

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