Eugene Ionesco — French Dramatist born on November 26, 1912, died on March 28, 1994

Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way... (wikipedia)