Famous playwrights
person who writes plays
1,326 people
Václav Havel
1936
– 2011
· Age 75
Deceased
Maya Angelou
1928
– 2014
· Age 86
Deceased
Boris Pasternak
1890
– 1960
· Age 70
Deceased
André Gide
1869
– 1951
· Age 81
Deceased
Romain Rolland
1866
– 1944
· Age 78
Deceased
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792
– 1822
· Age 29
Deceased
Walter Scott
1771
– 1832
· Age 61
Deceased
Samuel Beckett
1906
– 1989
· Age 83
Deceased
Günter Grass
1927
– 2015
· Age 87
Deceased
José Saramago
1922
– 2010
· Age 87
Deceased
George Sand
1804
– 1876
· Age 71
Deceased
Knut Hamsun
1859
– 1952
· Age 92
Deceased
Taras Shevchenko
1814
– 1861
· Age 47
Deceased
Luigi Pirandello
1867
– 1936
· Age 69
Deceased
Maurice Maeterlinck
1862
– 1949
· Age 86
Deceased
Rainer Maria Rilke
1875
– 1926
· Age 51
Deceased
Douglas Adams
1952
– 2001
· Age 49
Deceased
Doris Lessing
1919
– 2013
· Age 94
Deceased
Adam Mickiewicz
1798
– 1855
· Age 56
Deceased
Mary Shelley
1797
– 1851
· Age 53
Deceased
Mario Vargas Llosa
1936
– 2025
· Age 89
Deceased
Mikhail Lermontov
1814
– 1841
· Age 26
Deceased
Robert Frost
1874
– 1963
· Age 88
Deceased
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1832
– 1910
· Age 77
Deceased
Erich Maria Remarque
1898
– 1970
· Age 72
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q214917