Famous writers
person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce literary works
9,940 people
Daniel Defoe
1660
– 1731
· Age 70
Deceased
Zoroaster
Maya Angelou
1928
– 2014
· Age 86
Deceased
Boris Pasternak
1890
– 1960
· Age 70
Deceased
Michel de Montaigne
1533
– 1592
· Age 59
Deceased
John Keats
1795
– 1821
· Age 25
Deceased
André Gide
1869
– 1951
· Age 81
Deceased
Francis of Assisi
1182
– 1226
· Age 44
Deceased
Joseph Goebbels
1897
– 1945
· Age 47
Deceased
Satyajit Ray
1921
– 1992
· Age 70
Deceased
Romain Rolland
1866
– 1944
· Age 78
Deceased
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792
– 1822
· Age 29
Deceased
Samuel Beckett
1906
– 1989
· Age 83
Deceased
Ptolemy
0100
– 0170
· Age 70
Deceased
Du Fu
0712
– 0770
· Age 58
Deceased
Walter Scott
1771
– 1832
· Age 61
Deceased
Pearl S. Buck
1892
– 1973
· Age 80
Deceased
Benjamin Disraeli
1804
– 1881
· Age 76
Deceased
Henri Bergson
1859
– 1941
· Age 81
Deceased
Chanakya
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1846
– 1916
· Age 70
Deceased
Alain Delon
1935
– 2024
· Age 88
Deceased
George Eliot
1819
– 1880
· Age 61
Deceased
Swami Vivekananda
1863
– 1902
· Age 39
Deceased
Benjamin Harrison
1833
– 1901
· Age 67
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q36180