Luigi Pirandello died on 10 December 1936 in Rome, aged 69. An Italian dramatist and novelist, Pirandello wrote works that questioned the nature of reality, identity and illusion. His plays Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV and Right You Are, If You Think You Are broke with theatrical convention and influenced the theatre of the absurd. He also wrote novels such as The Late Mattia Pascal and hundreds of short stories, many set in his native Sicily. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. He was a member of the Fascist party, and he founded the Teatro d'Arte in Rome in the 1920s.
Before and after
- 19 October 1936Death of Lu Xun
- 25 November 1936Anti-Comintern Pact
- December 1936Paracuellos massacres
- from 5 December 1936 to 9 October 1991Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
- 10 December 1936Death of Luigi Pirandello
- 17 December 1936Birth of Pope Francis
- 1937Discovery of technetium
- 1937Guernica
- 1937Nanjing Massacre
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