1888 - 1953
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene O'Neill has received more than 2,482,025 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Eugene O'Neill is the 586th most popular writer (down from 531st in 2019), the 614th most popular biography from United States (down from 506th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Writer.
Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright who is most famous for his plays "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
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Among writers, Eugene O'Neill ranks 586 out of 5,794. Before him are Juana Inés de la Cruz, Walther von der Vogelweide, Edward Bernays, Thomas Hardy, Oliver Sacks, and Denis of Portugal. After him are Aulus Gellius, Demetrius Vikelas, Alexander Herzen, Vuk Karadžić, Mihai Eminescu, and Anthony Burgess.
1648 - 1695
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 580
1170 - 1230
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 581
1891 - 1995
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 582
1840 - 1928
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 583
1933 - 2015
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 584
1261 - 1325
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 585
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 586
123 - 180
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 587
1835 - 1908
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 588
1812 - 1870
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 589
1787 - 1864
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 590
1850 - 1889
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 591
1917 - 1993
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 592
Among people born in 1888, Eugene O'Neill ranks 27. Before him are Friedrich Fromm, Johannes Itten, Roland Garros, Alexander Friedmann, Anton Makarenko, and Friedrich Olbricht. After him are Frits Zernike, Andrei Tupolev, Selman Waksman, Inge Lehmann, Maurice Chevalier, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Among people deceased in 1953, Eugene O'Neill ranks 17. Before him are Mary of Teck, Vladimir Tatlin, Francis Picabia, Emmerich Kálmán, Hans Fritzsche, and Ivan Bunin. After him are Raoul Dufy, Guccio Gucci, Erich Mendelsohn, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Hugo Sperrle, and Richard Walther Darré.
1888 - 1945
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 21
1888 - 1967
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 22
1888 - 1918
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 23
1888 - 1925
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 24
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 25
1888 - 1944
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 26
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 27
1888 - 1966
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 28
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 29
1888 - 1973
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 30
1888 - 1993
HPI: 72.69
Rank: 31
1888 - 1972
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 32
1888 - 1975
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 33
1867 - 1953
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 11
1885 - 1953
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 12
1879 - 1953
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 13
1882 - 1953
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 14
1900 - 1953
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 15
1870 - 1953
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 16
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 17
1877 - 1953
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 18
1881 - 1953
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 19
1887 - 1953
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 20
1918 - 1953
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 21
1885 - 1953
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 22
1895 - 1953
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 23
Among people born in United States, Eugene O'Neill ranks 614 out of 15,968. Before him are Dolly Parton (1946), Gwen Stefani (1969), Ellen Burstyn (1932), Oliver Stone (1946), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), and Owen Chamberlain (1920). After him are John Huston (1906), Kenny Rogers (1938), Harold Lasswell (1902), Robert McNamara (1916), Kary Mullis (1944), and John Browning (1855).
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 608
1969 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 609
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 610
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 611
1932 - 2020
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 612
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 613
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 614
1906 - 1987
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 615
1938 - 2020
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 616
1902 - 1978
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 617
1916 - 2009
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 618
1944 - 2019
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 619
1855 - 1926
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 620
Among writers born in United States, Eugene O'Neill ranks 66. Before him are Ellen G. White (1827), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Harper Lee (1926), Harriet Tubman (1820), George R. R. Martin (1948), and Dean Koontz (1945). After him are Robert Ludlum (1927), Patricia Highsmith (1921), Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), Louise Hay (1926), Thomas Harris (1940), and L. Ron Hubbard (1911).
1827 - 1915
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 60
1811 - 1896
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 61
1926 - 2016
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 62
1820 - 1913
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 63
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 64
1945 - Present
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 65
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 66
1927 - 2001
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 67
1921 - 1995
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 68
1867 - 1957
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 69
1926 - 2017
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 70
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 71
1911 - 1986
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 72