William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

male, deceased (1616)
poet, macbeth, hamlet, English poet, Authors whose works are in the public domain, Lord Chamberlain's Men…tragedy
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's...

Newcastle Tragedy

female
Australian, murder victim, Murder in Australia, The Newcastle Tragedy, 1927 in Australia
The Newcastle Tragedy was the murder of Mary Buckley at her Newcastle townhouse in 1927. Buckley's husband had stumbled into Newcastle Police...

Scott Street Tragedy

male
Australian, murder victim, Murder in Australia, The Scott Street Tragedy, The Newcastle Tragedy, 1911 in Australia
The Scott Street Tragedy was the murder of Timothy Daly in Newcastle, Australia on 16 July, 1911. The 26-year-old boot maker was found dead with a...
Tori Amos

Tori Amos

female, 46 years old
Harpsichordist, pianist, singer, Little Earthquakes, Y Can't Tori Read, From the Choirgirl Hotel…tragedy
Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter,...
Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

male, deceased (1953)
Nobel laureate in Literature, Parkinson's disease, society, Tony Award winner, Noh, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner…tragedy
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the...
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

male, deceased (1593)
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, Kingdom of England, elizabethan, English Renaissance theatre, tragedy, tragedian
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William...
Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton

male, deceased (1627)
from the City of London, Christ's Hospital Old Blue, masque, English Renaissance dramatist, pageant, tragedy
Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most...
Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks

male, 43 years old
Roman Catholic, University of Notre Dame alumni, Taekwondo practitioner, English American, Irish-American, from North Carolina…tragedy
Nicholas Charles Sparks born December 12, 1965 is an internationally bestselling American author. He writes novels with themes that include...
Sophocles

Sophocles

male
ancient greek, Lenaea, Dionysia, chorus, City Dionysia, The Oedipus Cycle…tragedy
Sophocles (ancient Greek: ; 495 BC - 406 BC) was the second of three great ancient Greek tragedians. He was preceded by Aeschylus, and was followed...
Euripides

Euripides

male
poet, Slavery in antiquity, hero, greek mythology, attic, tragedy
Euripides (Ancient Greek:) (ca. 480 BC-406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and...