Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician
Died when: 43 years 145 days (520 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who was best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).
He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
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