Born: 13 April 1906 · Died: 22 December 1989 · Age at death: 83
How old was Samuel Beckett when he died?
Samuel Beckett died aged 83. He was born on 13 April 1906 and died on 22 December 1989.
Irish writer of Waiting for Godot and Endgame, a pioneer of the Theatre of the Absurd who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know?He once worked as an assistant and secretary to the fellow Irish writer James Joyce.
Quick facts
Date of birth13 April 1906
Date of death22 December 1989
Age at death83
NationalityIrish
BirthplaceFoxrock, Ireland
Occupationwriter, linguist, film director
Editor's Take:
Samuel Beckett changed modern theatre with a play in which, famously, nothing happens twice. Born in Dublin, he moved to Paris and worked as an assistant to James Joyce. During the war he served in the French Resistance. He wrote many of his best works in French and translated them himself. Waiting for Godot, about two men waiting for someone who never comes, premiered in 1953. His later plays grew ever more stark and strange. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
Key Milestones
1938: Murphy – first novel
1945: Croix de Guerre for Resistance work
1953: Waiting for Godot – Paris premiere
1957: Endgame – play
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
Samuel Beckett's birthday is April 13. He was born on April 13, 1906 in Foxrock, Ireland.
How old was Samuel Beckett when he died?
Samuel Beckett died on December 22, 1989, aged 83.
Who shares a birthday with Samuel Beckett?
Famous people who share Samuel Beckett's April 13 birthday include Garry Kasparov, Seamus Heaney, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Catherine de' Medici and Julius Nyerere.
