Influential Authors Of North America and Great Britain By church82274 Jan 1, 1345 Geoffrey Chaucer is Born Exact Birthdate is unknown. May 1, 1400 Death of Chaucer Exact Date of Death is unknown. Apr 26, 1564 Birth Of William Shakespeare Born In Stratford-upon-Avon Apr 26, 1616 Death Of William Shakespeare Mar 6, 1806 Birth Of Elizabeth Browning May 31, 1819 Birth Of Walt Whitman Dec 24, 1822 Birth Of Matthew Arnold Dec 5, 1830 Birth Of Christina Rossetti Dec 10, 1830 Birth Of Emily Dickinson Jun 29, 1861 Death Of Elizabeth Browning Jun 13, 1865 Birth of William Butler Yeats Dec 30, 1865 Birth of Rudyard Kipling Feb 2, 1882 Birth of James Joyce May 15, 1886 Death of Emily Dickinson Apr 5, 1888 Death of Matthew Arnold Sep 26, 1888 Birth of T.S. Eliot Oct 16, 1888 Birth of Eugene O'Neil Jan 3, 1892 Birth of J.R.R Tolkien Mar 26, 1892 Death Of Walt Whitman Dec 29, 1894 Death Of Christina Rossetti Nov 29, 1898 Birth of C.S Lewis Jul 21, 1899 Birth of Ernest Hemingway Feb 1, 1902 Birth of Langston Hughes Sep 13, 1916 Birth of Roald Dahl Jan 18, 1936 Death of Rudyard Kipling Jan 28, 1939 Death of William Butler Yeats Jan 13, 1941 Death of James Joyce Nov 27, 1953 Death of Eugene O'Neil Jul 2, 1961 Death of Hemingway Nov 22, 1963 Death of C.S. Lewis Jan 4, 1965 Death of T.S Eliot May 22, 1967 Death of Langston Hughes Sep 2, 1973 Death of Tolkien Nov 23, 1990 Death of Roald Dahl