Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906 and died on December 22, 1989. Samuel Beckett would have been 83 years old at the time of death or 106 years old today.
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The author of the masterpiece Waiting for Godot (a play written around 1950), was also a novelist, a short story writer, a poet and an essayist.
His works have been said to be deeply pessimistic...