On this day in 1950: Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw died at age 94.
Irish dramatist and Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw, whose wit and intellect reshaped 20th-century theatre, died at the age of ...
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On this day in 2020: English writer John le Carré died at age 89
John Le Carré, born David John Moore Cornwell, was a master of espionage fiction who revolutionized the spy novel genre ...
On this day in 2017: Sam Shepard—whose plays adroitly blend images of the American West, Pop motifs, science fiction, and other elements of popular and youth culture—died at age 73
Sam Shepard, born Samuel Shepard Rogers III in 1943, was a prolific and influential figure in American arts. As a ...
On this day in 2017: American singer and songwriter Tom Petty died at age 66
Tom Petty, an iconic figure in the world of rock and roll, left an indelible mark on the music industry ...