* April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist ( b. 1890 )

Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann ( 9 October 1846 – 14 January 1908 ), was a Danish poet and dramatist.

Peer Gynt (; ) is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt.

His stage name was a play on dramatist Henrik Ibsen.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

He was probably the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy and his Oresteia is the only ancient example of the form to have survived.

Harry Church Whorf was an artist, intellectual and designer – first working as a commercial artist and later as a dramatist.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

Eden Phillpotts ( 4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960 ) was an English author, poet and dramatist.

Traditional myth provided the subject matter but the dramatist was meant to be innovative so as to sustain interest, which led to novel characterization of heroic figures and to use of the mythical past to talk about present issues.

Aeschylus gained thirteen victories as a dramatist, Sophocles at least twenty, Euripides only four in his lifetime, and this has often been taken as an indication of the latter's unpopularity with his contemporaries, and yet a first place might not have been the main criterion for success in those times ( the system of selecting judges appears to have been flawed ) and merely being chosen to compete was in itself a mark of distinction.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 22 January 172915 February 1781 ) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

When he was in Belgrade in 1912 and 1913, preparing for his exams at the First Belgrade Gymnasium, Princip's sole friend was Momčilo Nastasijević, who grew up to become a poet and dramatist.

Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.

Enrico Arrigoni ( pseudonym: Frank Brand ) was an Italian American individualist anarchist Lathe operator, house painter, bricklayer, dramatist and political activist influenced by the work of Max Stirner.

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

He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exeget, theologian, and logician-a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

* Donald Rawe, Cornish publisher, dramatist, novelist, and poet, was born in Padstow.

This was Peter Jones, a dramatist ; they lived together for several years, until 1999.

In 1888 was born his son Jean-Jacques Bernard, also a dramatist.

Neifile narrates this tale, which was written first by the Sanskrit dramatist and poet Kālidāsa in his The Recognition of Śakuntalā.

Witold Marian Gombrowicz ( August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France ) was a Polish novelist and dramatist.

He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell ' amor patrio di Dante (" On Dante's Patriotic Love "), which was published in 1837.

Václav Havel — a writer, dramatist and philosopher — was recruited from the independent academic community and appointed president of the republic in December 1989.

* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).

The profession of dramatist was challenging and far from lucrative.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

Plautus wrote around 52 plays, of which 20 have survived, making him the most prolific ancient dramatist in terms of surviving work.

Thomas Kyd ( baptised 6 November 1558 ; buried 15 August 1594 ) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

Warbeck's story subsequently attracted writers — most notably by the dramatist John Ford, who dramatized the story in his play Perkin Warbeck, first performed in the 1630s.

* 169 BC – Quintus Ennius, epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry.

W. H. Auden praises it, saying " To succeed in these tales, as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet.

* Quintus Ennius ( b. 239 BC ), epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry.

The most famous play of this group is Antigone, which " established Anouilh as a leading dramatist, not only because of the power with which he drew the classic confrontation between the uncompromising Antigone and the politically expedient Creon, but because French theatre-goers under the occupation read the play as a contemporary political parable.

The most notable of the monuments erected in this city to its natives include those to Émile Augier the dramatist by the duchess of Uzès ( 1897 ), and to General Championnet.

Thus began the career of Dumas fils as a dramatist, which was not only more renowned than that of his father during his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century.

Had it not been for his role in the American War of Independence, Burgoyne would most likely be foremost remembered today as a dramatist.

Webster has received a reputation for being the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatist with the most unsparingly dark vision of human nature.

Thomas Dekker ( c. 1572 – 25 August 1632 ) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

Alexandre Hardy ( c. 1570 / 1572 – 1632 ) was a French dramatist, one of the most prolific of all time.

Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña ( in the village András, in the comarca of Vilanova de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 28 October 1866 – Santiago de Compostela, 5 January 1936 ), Spanish dramatist, novelist and member of the Spanish Generation of 98, is considered perhaps the most noteworthy and certainly the most radical dramatist working to subvert the traditionalism of the Spanish theatrical establishment in the early part of the 20th century.

She married Brussels-born dramatist Claude Spaak ( 1904-1990 ), the brother of screenwriter Charles Spaak and Paul-Henri Spaak, one of Belgium's most important statesmen.

The dramatist Dennis Potter, most famous for The Singing Detective, lived in Ross in the later part of his life.

Wilde's first stage success came with Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1892 ), which resulted in his becoming the most talked about dramatist in London.

Franciszek Zabłocki ( January 2, 1754, Volhynia – September 10, 1821, Końskowola ), is considered the most distinguished Polish comic dramatist and satirist of the Enlightenment period.

Les Lettres Portugaises ), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues ( 1628 – 1685 ), a minor peer, diplomat, secretary to the Prince of Conti, and friend of Madame de Sévigné, the poet Boileau, and the dramatist Jean Racine.

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List ( October 5, 1848 – May 17, 1919 ) was an Austrian / German ( Viennese ) poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic revivalism, Germanic mysticism, Runic Revivalism and Runosophy in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and continues to be so today.