Famous writers

person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce literary works

9,940 people

All Alive Deceased
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950 · Age 94
Deceased
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

1872 – 1970 · Age 97
Deceased
Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi

1942 – 2011 · Age 69
Deceased
John Lennon

John Lennon

1940 – 1980 · Age 40
Deceased
Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

1899 – 1980 · Age 80
Deceased
Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler

1571 – 1630 · Age 58
Deceased
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

1859 – 1930 · Age 71
Deceased
Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

1868 – 1936 · Age 68
Deceased
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

1908 – 1986 · Age 78
Deceased
Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

1759 – 1805 · Age 45
Deceased
Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

1879 – 1940 · Age 60
Deceased
Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

1821 – 1867 · Age 46
Deceased
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

1791 – 1867 · Age 75
Deceased
Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

1867 – 1959 · Age 91
Deceased
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

1813 – 1901 · Age 87
Deceased
Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

1343 – 1400 · Age 57
Deceased
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

0121 – 0180 · Age 58
Deceased
Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

1901 – 1971 · Age 69
Deceased
Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

1799 – 1850 · Age 51
Deceased
Victoria

Victoria

1819 – 1901 · Age 81
Deceased
Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

1910 – 1998 · Age 88
Deceased
Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

1802 – 1870 · Age 68
Deceased
Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

1788 – 1860 · Age 72
Deceased
James Madison

James Madison

1751 – 1836 · Age 85
Deceased
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941 · Age 59
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q36180