Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among the few to gain equal success in comedy and tragedy. He was also a prolific writer of masques and pageants.

18 April 1580

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Ahmed I • Chloe Bennet • Esther Afua Ocloo • Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić • Jane Leeves • Jean-Féry Rebel • Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg • Keith DeCandido • Lucrezia Borgia • Olena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova • Peter Hordern • Robert Greenberg • Waldemar Hammenhög

Born in the same month (April 1580): William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke