Dario Fo

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The 6 Deadliest Earthquakes Since 1950

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The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

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Born	March 24, 1926 • Italy
Died	October 13, 2016 (aged 90) • Milan • Italy
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1997)
Notable Works	“Mistero Buffo”

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Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Woody Allen

American actor and director

Tyler Perry

American playwright, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director

Ben Elton

British actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and dramatist

Athol Fugard

South African dramatist, actor, and director

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

Ettore Petrolini

Italian actor and author

Giuseppe Parini

Italian author

Gino Cervi

Italian actor

Giovambattista Andreini

Italian actor and author

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Eugene O’Neill

American dramatist

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Albert Camus

French author

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Harold Pinter

British dramatist

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