Famous Charts
Famous Birth & Death Charts
Birth and death are both fixed moments, so these charts never change. Every figure has a documented birth date and place, and those who have died have a documented death beside it, which is the chart nobody else draws. The rest are alive and have the one. Nothing here is estimated.
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45 figures in Writing, starting with W.
W45 figures
- Wallace StevensPoet
- Walter BenjaminCritic
- Walter CronkiteBroadcast journalist
- Walter IsaacsonBiographer
- Walter ScottNovelist & poet
- Walter WinchellJournalist
- Walt WhitmanPoet
- Washington IrvingWriter
- W. B. YeatsPoet & dramatist
- Wendell BerryWriter
- Wendy WassersteinPlaywright
- Wesley MorrisJournalist
- W. G. SebaldWriter
- W. H. AudenPoet
- Whitley StrieberWriter
- Wilfred OwenPoet
- Wilkie CollinsNovelist
- Willa CatherNovelist
- William BlakePoet & artist
- William Carlos WilliamsPoet & physician
- William Dean HowellsAuthor
- William FaulknerNovelist
- William F. Buckley Jr.Writer
- William GibsonNovelist
- William GoldingNovelist
- William GoldmanWriter
- William HazlittEssayist
- William H. GassWriter
- William Howard RussellWar correspondent
- William IngePlaywright
- William McIlvanneyNovelist
- William MorrisDesigner & writer
- William SaroyanNovelist
- William S. BurroughsNovelist
- William ShakespearePlaywright and poet
- William StyronNovelist
- William TrevorWriter
- William WordsworthPoet
- Wisława SzymborskaPoet
- Władysław ReymontNovelist
- Wole SoyinkaPlaywright & poet
- W. S. GilbertDramatist & librettist
- W. S. MerwinPoet
- W. Somerset MaughamNovelist & playwright
- Wyndham LewisPainter & writer
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The gallery answers what is in one person’s chart. These answer the other way round: everyone in the set who shares a placement, counted from their own birth data.