English-Canadian playwright

Caryl Churchill

Caryl Lesley Churchill is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), A Number (2002), and Love and Information (2012), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for the contemporary stage". In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, six out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright.

Born

1938

September 3

Died

Living

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1930s

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1938 Born

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301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
590 Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).
673 King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of Nîmes (France) and rival for the throne.

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The world in 1938

When Caryl arrived

april 18 Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938).
april 25 U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
april 5 Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.
august 18 The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Albert DeSalvo 1931– American serial killer known as the Boston Strangler (died 1973) August Alsina 1992– American singer-songwriter Cristobal Huet 1975– French ice hockey player Damon Stoudamire 1973– American basketball player and coach Louis Sullivan 1856– American architect and educator, designed the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building (died 1924) Maurice Papon 1910– French civil servant and convicted war criminal (died 2007) Mohammad Shami 1990– Indian cricketer Myles Jack 1995– American football player Redfoo 1975– American singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer

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Alan Bond 1938–2015 English-Australian businessman (died 2015) Alberto Fujimori 1938–2024 Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, President of Peru (died 2024) Andrew Clennel Palmer 1938–2019 British engineer (born 1938) Anthony Giddens 1938– English sociologist and academic Anthony James Leggett 1938– English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026) Billy Shaw 1938–2024 American football player (died 2024) Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) Daniel Buren 1938– French sculptor and painter David Eden Lane 1938– American white supremacist (died 2007)

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