Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry

male, deceased (1907)
Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 - November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was...
Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon

male, 45 years old
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the...
Dan Deacon

Dan Deacon

male
Dan Deacon is a Baltimore, Maryland-based absurdist electronic music composer/performer. He attended Purchase College in Purchase, New York where...
Andy Kaufman

Andy Kaufman

male, deceased (1984)
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 - May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer and performance artist. Though many refer to him as a...
Daniil Kharms

Daniil Kharms

male, deceased (1942)
Daniil Kharms (2 February, 1942) was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.
Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

male, 51 years old
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. He first gained attention as the lead singer and...
Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen

male, 83 years old
Leslie William Nielsen OC is a Canadian-American comedian and actor. Although Nielsen’s acting career crossed a variety of genres in both te...
Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley

male, deceased (2005)
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005) was an American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his...
Beck Hansen

Beck Hansen

male, 39 years old
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist,...
N. F. Simpson

N. F. Simpson

male, 90 years old
Norman Frederick Simpson (born 29 January, 1919) is an English playwright closely associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. To his friends, he is...