Famous playwrights
person who writes plays
602 people
William Shakespeare
1564
– 1616
· Age 52
Deceased
Leo Tolstoy
1828
– 1910
· Age 82
Deceased
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749
– 1832
· Age 82
Deceased
Victor Hugo
1802
– 1885
· Age 83
Deceased
Voltaire
1694
– 1778
· Age 83
Deceased
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844
– 1900
· Age 55
Deceased
Miguel de Cervantes
1547
– 1616
· Age 68
Deceased
Charles Dickens
1812
– 1870
· Age 58
Deceased
Rabindranath Tagore
1861
– 1941
· Age 80
Deceased
Hans Christian Andersen
1805
– 1875
· Age 70
Deceased
Alexander Pushkin
1799
– 1837
· Age 37
Deceased
Anton Chekhov
1860
– 1904
· Age 44
Deceased
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712
– 1778
· Age 66
Deceased
Edgar Allan Poe
1809
– 1849
· Age 40
Deceased
Molière
1622
– 1673
· Age 51
Deceased
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469
– 1527
· Age 58
Deceased
Oscar Wilde
1854
– 1900
· Age 46
Deceased
Sophocles
Ernest Hemingway
1899
– 1961
· Age 61
Deceased
Gabriel García Márquez
1927
– 2014
· Age 87
Deceased
Albert Camus
1913
– 1960
· Age 46
Deceased
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905
– 1980
· Age 74
Deceased
Agatha Christie
1890
– 1976
· Age 85
Deceased
Jules Verne
1828
– 1905
· Age 77
Deceased
George Bernard Shaw
1856
– 1950
· Age 94
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q214917