Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).

10 November 1728

Born on the same birth day (10 November): Andrés Avelino Cáceres • Bernard Babior • Federico Dimarco • Friedrich Schiller • Louis III, Prince of Condé • Maeve Sherlock • Marko Blaževski • Winston Churchill (novelist)

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