Toller was the leading German expressionist playwright of the era.

Also present there, in those days where Michel Chekhov, nephew of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, the German modern dancer-choreographer, Kurt Jooss and another German Rudolf Laban who invented the dance notation, this experience only added more exuberance to his expressionist dance.

These sages include poet Carl Sandburg, statesman Jawaharlal Nehru and sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, in Volume One, and playwright Sean O'Casey, David Ben-Gurion, philosopher Bertrand Russell and the late Frank Lloyd Wright in the second set.

* Robert Anton Wilson, polymath, author, philosopher, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian, ( edu.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* Adrian Mitchell ( 1932 – 2008 ), English poet, novelist and playwright

* 1946 – Herménégilde Chiasson, Acadian poet and playwright

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

Oxford was an important courtier poet and was praised as a playwright, although none of his plays survive.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

* 1461 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright ( d. 1501 )

They associated with their work the chemist Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, the mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange, the astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande, the mathematician Gaspard Monge, the astronomer and naval geographer Alexandre Guy Pingré, and the poet, actor and playwright Fabre d ' Églantine, who invented the names of the months, with the help of André Thouin, gardener at the Jardin des Plantes of the Muséum National d ' Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

One innovative form of graffiti that emerged in the UK in the 1970s was devised by the Money Liberation Front ( MLF ), essentially a loose affiliation of underground press writers such as the poet and playwright Heathcote Williams and magazine editor and playwright Jay Jeff Jones.

* Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, playwright, essayist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( 1862 – 1949 )

* Clive Sansom, poet and playwright

Ivar Andreas Aasen ( 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896 ) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright and poet.

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

* 1808 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, playwright, and linguist ( d. 1845 )

* 1852 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian playwright and poet ( d. 1912 )

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* 1468 – Juan del Encina, Spanish composer, poet, and playwright ( d. 1530 )

* 1977 – Alfian Sa ' at, Singaporean poet and playwright

* 1916 – Eve Merriam, American poet and playwright ( d. 1992 )

Famous authors of works in Danish are existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, prolific fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, and playwright Ludvig Holberg.

Its modern-day function was originated by the innovations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an 18th-century German playwright, philosopher, and theorist about theatre.

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

* 1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher ( d. 1961 )

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

* Seneca the Younger ( Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC – 65 AD ), Roman philosopher and playwright, tutor and advisor of Nero

* December 7 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher and playwright ( d. 1973 )

Writer, philosopher and playwright Albert Camus, native of Algiers, often associated with existentialism, tried unsuccessfully to persuade both sides to at least leave civilians alone, writing editorials against the use of torture in Combat newspaper.

He was a philosopher, theologian, playwright, and poet.

* Hugo de Groot, jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright and poet

Cavendish was a poet, philosopher, writer of prose romances, essayist, and playwright who published under her own name at a time when most women writers published anonymously.

Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg ( December 13, 1684 – January 28, 1754 ) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian double monarchy, who spent most of his adult life in Denmark.

Hélène Cixous (; born 5 June 1937 ) is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo ( 29 September 1864, Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain – 31 December 1936, Salamanca, Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain ) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.

* January 28-Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright ( born 1684 )

* December 3-Ludvig Holberg, Danish / Norwegian essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright ( died 1754 )

The principal contributors to Danish literature are undoubtedly Hans Christian Andersen ( 1805 – 1875 ) with his fairy tales, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ), storyteller Karen Blixen ( 1885 – 1962 ), playwright Ludvig Holberg ( 1684 – 1754 ), and modern authors such as Henrik Pontoppidan and Herman Bang.

His son, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, became a famous painter, playwright, novelist and philosopher, also known ( from the conflation of his surname and middle name ) by the mononymous pseudonym " Witkacy.

In addition to being a playwright and philosopher, Marcel was also a music critic.

The Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal or Russell-Sartre Tribunal, was a private body organized by British philosopher Bertrand Russell and hosted by French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre.

He taught at the lycée in Reims from 1963 where he became a close friend of fellow playwright ( and philosopher ) François Regnault, and published a couple of novels before moving to the University of Paris VIII ( Vincennes-Saint Denis ) in 1969.