Famous writers
person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce literary works
22,803 people
Voltaire
1694
– 1778
· Age 83
Deceased
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844
– 1900
· Age 55
Deceased
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
1881
– 1938
· Age 57
Deceased
Immanuel Kant
1724
– 1804
· Age 79
Deceased
Mark Twain
1835
– 1910
· Age 74
Deceased
John F. Kennedy
1917
– 1963
· Age 46
Deceased
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1821
– 1881
· Age 59
Deceased
René Descartes
1596
– 1650
· Age 53
Deceased
Salvador Dalí
1904
– 1989
· Age 84
Deceased
Virgil
Miguel de Cervantes
1547
– 1616
· Age 68
Deceased
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929
– 1968
· Age 39
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
Franz Kafka
1883
– 1924
· Age 40
Deceased
Pope Francis
1936
– 2025
· Age 88
Deceased
Mao Zedong
1893
– 1976
· Age 82
Deceased
Edgar Allan Poe
1809
– 1849
· Age 40
Deceased
Che Guevara
1928
– 1967
· Age 39
Deceased
Augustine of Hippo
0354
– 0430
· Age 75
Deceased
Molière
1622
– 1673
· Age 51
Deceased
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469
– 1527
· Age 58
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q36180