Famous writers
person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce literary works
9,940 people
Bertolt Brecht
1898
– 1956
· Age 58
Deceased
Ban Ki-moon
1944
· Age 81
Alive
Erasmus
1466
– 1536
· Age 69
Deceased
Malala Yousafzai
1997
· Age 28
Alive
Kwame Nkrumah
1909
– 1972
· Age 62
Deceased
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803
– 1882
· Age 78
Deceased
William Butler Yeats
1865
– 1939
· Age 73
Deceased
Ho Chi Minh
1890
– 1969
· Age 79
Deceased
Guy de Maupassant
1850
– 1893
· Age 42
Deceased
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850
– 1894
· Age 44
Deceased
Brigitte Bardot
1934
– 2025
· Age 91
Deceased
Aeschylus
Boris Johnson
1964
· Age 61
Alive
Umberto Eco
1932
– 2016
· Age 84
Deceased
Giordano Bruno
1548
– 1600
· Age 52
Deceased
Giovanni Boccaccio
1313
– 1375
· Age 62
Deceased
Linus Torvalds
1969
· Age 56
Alive
Ivan Turgenev
1818
– 1883
· Age 64
Deceased
Denis Diderot
1713
– 1784
· Age 70
Deceased
B. R. Ambedkar
1891
– 1956
· Age 65
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov
1899
– 1977
· Age 78
Deceased
Florence Nightingale
1820
– 1910
· Age 90
Deceased
John Steinbeck
1902
– 1968
· Age 66
Deceased
Walt Whitman
1819
– 1892
· Age 72
Deceased
John Stuart Mill
1806
– 1873
· Age 66
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q36180