John Marston (playwright)

John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.

7 October 1576

Born on the same birth day (7 October): Bram van Vlerken • Břetislav Pojar • Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach • Felix Draeseke • Graeme Ferguson (filmmaker) • Gunnar Nielsen (Faroese footballer) • Henry A. Wallace • Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1887) • John Mellencamp • Julian Thompson (Royal Marines officer) • Malia Hosaka • Shura Cherkassky • Vaughn Monroe

Born in the same month (October 1576): Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland • Thomas Dudley