Playwrights

What lands on a date

• 01-15 Molière · Baptised in Paris on 15 January 1622. source
• 01-22 August Strindberg · Born in Stockholm to a shipping clerk and a servant. source
• 01-29 Anton Chekhov · Born in Taganrog, southern Russia, to a grocer. source
• 02-10 Arthur Miller · Died in Roxbury, Connecticut, after a long illness. source
• 02-10 Bertolt Brecht · Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, to a paper-mill director. source
• 02-17 Molière · Died in Paris after collapsing during a performance. source
• 02-25 Tennessee Williams · Died in New York City from a choking accident. source
• 03-20 Henrik Ibsen · Born in Skien, Norway, to a merchant family. source
• 03-26 Tennessee Williams · Born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi. source
• 04-13 Samuel Beckett · Born in Foxrock, Dublin, to a middle-class family. source
• 04-21 Jean Racine · Died in Paris, the great tragedian of French classicism. source
• 04-23 William Shakespeare · Died in Stratford-upon-Avon, traditionally on his birthday. source
• 04-27 August Wilson · Born Frederick Kittel in Pittsburgh's Hill District. source
• 05-14 August Strindberg · Died in Stockholm, a central figure of Scandinavian drama. source
• 05-23 Henrik Ibsen · Died in Kristiania after a series of strokes. source
• 05-30 Christopher Marlowe · Killed in a Deptford tavern under disputed circumstances. source
• 06-06 Pierre Corneille · Born in Rouen, Normandy, to a legal family. source
• 06-28 Luigi Pirandello · Born near Agrigento, Sicily, to a sulphur-mining family. source
• 07-15 Anton Chekhov · Died of tuberculosis at a German spa town. source
• 07-26 George Bernard Shaw · Born in Dublin to an impoverished Protestant family. source
• 08-14 Bertolt Brecht · Died in East Berlin of a heart attack. source
• 10-01 Pierre Corneille · Died in Paris after decades as France's leading dramatist. source
• 10-02 August Wilson · Died in Seattle after a battle with liver cancer. source
• 10-10 Harold Pinter · Born in Hackney, east London, to a Jewish tailor. source
• 10-16 Oscar Wilde · Born in Dublin to an intellectual and artistic household. source
• 10-16 Eugene O'Neill · Born in a hotel on Broadway, New York City. source
• 10-17 Arthur Miller · Born in Harlem, New York, to a Polish-Jewish family. source
• 11-02 George Bernard Shaw · Died at Ayot St Lawrence after a fall, aged ninety-four. source
• 11-27 Eugene O'Neill · Died in Boston, the first American Nobel dramatist. source
• 11-30 Oscar Wilde · Died in Paris, bankrupt and in exile, aged forty-six. source
• 12-10 Luigi Pirandello · Died in Rome, Nobel laureate and master of metatheatre. source
• 12-22 Jean Racine · Baptised at La Ferté-Milon on 22 December 1639. source
• 12-22 Samuel Beckett · Died in Paris, Nobel laureate and central absurdist playwright. source
• 12-24 Harold Pinter · Died in London, Nobel laureate and master of menacing pause. source

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.

• Aeschylus -525
• Aeschylus -456
• Sophocles -497
• Sophocles -406
• Euripides -480
• Euripides -406
• Aristophanes -446
• Aristophanes -386
• Christopher Marlowe 1564
• William Shakespeare 1564
• Hamlet 1601
• A Doll's House 1879
• The Cherry Orchard 1904
• Waiting for Godot 1953
• Death of a Salesman 1949