18. Tennessee Williams – Tried to open eye drop bottle with teeth, choked on cap.
17. Joe Orton – Bludgeoned to death by partner during domestic dispute.
16. Jean-Paul Sartre – Infected papercut.
15. Arthur Miller – Frowned for too long, too deep.
14. Noël Coward – Appeared in public without an ascot.
13. Samuel Beckett – Looked back, became pillar of salt.
12. T. S. Eliot – Shrinking sickness.
11. Oscar Wilde – Smothered by rain of flower petals.
10. Bertolt Brecht – Just vanished into the darkness one day. Just poof – gone.
9. Molière – Giants.
8. Lillian Hellman – Executed by Nazis, replaced with robot duplicate.
7. Eugene O’Neill – Gunned down in bank heist.
6. Anton Chekov – Failed to fire gun at right time.
5. Henrik Ibsen – Carried away by large, monstrous swan after visiting aunt.
4. Euripides – Dramatic Irony.
3. Christopher Marlowe – Syphilis from visiting time travelers.
2. Graham Greene – His old nemesis, The Red Spider Of Stalingrad.
1. William Shakespeare – Ran afoul of the Fairy Queen, cursed with a mortal life.