James Baldwin
Novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, writer, black activist
George Wallace
Democratic politician, 45th governor of Alabama, pro-black segregation forever, shot by Arthur Bremer in attempted assassination, took many votes away from LBJ's divided house, giving Nixon the decisive victory
1919-1998 (79)
al.com
Henry Morgenthau III
TV producer at WGBH in Boston from 1955-1977, Prospects of Mankind, The Negro and the American Promise, author
1917-2018 (101)
washingtonpost.com
Honoré de Balzac
Writer, novelist, playwright, La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy)
1799-1850 (51)
britannica.com
Noel Coward
Playwright of Blithe Spirit, writer, poet, socialite, novelist
Percy Shelley
Playwright, writer of The Cenci, Prometheus Unbound, Hellas, The Necessity of Atheism
Friedrich Schiller
Playwright, Joan of Arc, The Robbers, Maria Stuart, Wallenstein, poet, writer of Ode to Joy, Song of the Bell, The Pledge, Der Handschuh, Kallias Letters, On Grace and Dignity, Good Samaritan, Der Geisterseher ("The Ghost Seer"), philosopher
1759-1805 (46)
plato.stanford.edu
Seneca the Younger
Stoic philosopher, playwright, dramatist, statesman, satyrist, author of Natural Questions on the shortness of life and living a happy life
4 BC-65 AD
William Shakespeare
Renaissance poet, playwright, writer, actor
shakespeare.mit.edu
Thespis
Dramatic artist, where the word Thespian originated, theatre dramatist, playwright
Walter Scott
Novelist, poet, playwright, historian, lecturer, Scottish King's seal society the Writers of the Signet, author of Ivanhoe
1771-1832 (61)
historic-uk.com
W.B. Yeats
senator of the Irish Free State, poet, playwright, writer, dramatist, founded the Abbey Theatre
1865-1939 (74)
poetryfoundation.org