Birthdate: April 27, 1945

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: October 2

August Wilson, also known as "theater's poet of black America,” was a renowned playwright. He is best remembered for The Pittsburgh Cycle, his series of 10 plays that focused on the 20th-century African-American community. Two of his plays, Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, were turned into movies.