1

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

2

Julia Donaldson, 72

3

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

4

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

5

Liv Hewson, 25

6

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 47

7

Willy Russell, 73

8

Sam Shepard (1943-2017)

9

Rupert Holmes, 74

10

George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)

11

Marilyn Vos Savant, 74

12

Neil Simon (1927-2018)

13

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

14

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

15

Paula Vogel, 69

16

Saki (1870-1916)

17

José Rivera, 65

18

Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)

19

August Strindberg (1849-1912)

20

August Wilson (1945-2005)

21

Juozas Grusas (1901-1986)

22

Wole Soyinka, 86

23

Howard Ashman (1950-1991)

24

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

25

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

26

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

27

Barney Simon (1932-1995)

28

Terrence McNally (1938-2020)

29

William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)

30

Gore Vidal (1925-2012)

31

Jason Miller (1939-2001)

32

George Middleton (1880-1967)

33

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

34

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)

35

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)

36

Berlie Doherty, 77

37

Grant Morrison, 61

38

Noel Coward (1899-1973)

39

Dennis Kelly, 50

40

Annie Baker, 39

41

Harold Pinter (1930-2008)

42

William Gilbert (1836-1911)

43

Anne Caldwell (1867-1936)

44

Tony Harrison, 83

45

Tracy Letts, 55

46

Gcina Mhlophe, 62

47

Robert Greene (1558-1592)

48

Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655)