John Wood

male, 79 years old
John Wood, CBE, (born January 1, 1930) is an English actor. Wood was born in Derbyshire. Known as a stage actor, he has played extensively in...
Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt

male, 66 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of...
Stanley Wells

Stanley Wells

male, 79 years old
Stanley William Wells (born May 21 1930) is a Shakespeare scholar, who was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare...
Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

female, 66 years old (Mississippi, United States)
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (born 8 March, 1943 in London) is two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actress born into the...

John Hall

male, deceased (1635)
John Hall (died 1635) was a physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare. He was born at Carlton, Bedfordshire and studied at Queens' College,...
Eduardo de Filippo

Eduardo de Filippo

male, deceased (1984)
Eduardo De Filippo, often called simply Eduardo (May 24, 1900 - October 31, 1984) was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet....
David Crystal

David Crystal

male, 68 years old
Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales,...
Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed

male, 72 years old
Brian Blessed is an English actor, who came to fame as PC 'Fancy' Smith in the BBC TV police drama series "Z Cars". He is a highly charismatic man...
George Chapman

George Chapman

male, deceased (1634)
George Chapman (ca. 1559 - May 12 1634) was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the...
Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate

male, 51 years old
Jonathan Bate CBE (born June 26, 1958) is a British scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He was educated at Sevenoaks School and...