What author died on stage while performing?

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Moliere whilst playing lead in 'The Imaginary Invalide'! Jan 10 03, 11:32 AM

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Definition: Author n. (fem. authoress) 1 writer, esp. of books. Writer: Someone who can write or engages in writing, especially for professional and/or artistic purposes. The principal financial rewards, apart from a rare 'best-seller' or 'blockbuster', are in films, television, lecturing, adjudicating, and winning a significant prize. Poets, novelists, and literary critics are, however, only a small minority of those for whom writing is a major part of their everyday work. Professional writers in this wider sense include journalists, scriptwriters for radio, television, and the motion-picture industry, advertising copywriters, and publicists, and writing is a key element in teaching, preaching, publishing, government, science, medicine, and commerce. Authors by Profession (vol. 1, 1978, From the Introduction of Printing until the Copyright Act 1911; vol. 2, 1984, From the Copyright Act 1911 until the End of 1981, London, Society of Authors). The Oxford Companion to the English Language Jan 10 03, 11:35 AM

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1. Moliere (1622-1673, born Jean Baptiste Poquelin) ...Moliere had a bad cough for the last decade of his life, which onstage he often made to seem the cough of the character he was playing. But Moliere was genuinely ill; he died on stage, playing the title role of 'The Imaginary Invalid.' http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/moliere.htm 2. Barbara Windsor, author of 'So Many Naughty Bits'. "Her affair with Sid James is detailed with typical frankness. When she finished the relationship, he warned her he wouldn't be able to survive without her and died on stage sixteen months later." http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/books_magazines/print_books/all_of_me_barbara_windsor/_review/201080 3.Tommy Cooper (1922-1984, Comedian) ...widely regarded as one of Britain's finest comedians ever ...by the mid-50's was regularly appearing in one-off TV specials, and in 1957 he was given his own show Cooper's Capers. He died on stage during a live broadcast from Her Majesty's Theatre. http://www.walesbooks.com/temp_book5bReview.htm "Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. But I think it's Colin." http://instructionaltechnology.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$97?mode=day 4. Talal Madah - composer/singer In Nov. 2000 he collapsed and died on stage during a concert. http://mygerbinosearch.bravepages.com/AboutSA.html 5. Eddie Holman Holman died on stage in a New Jersey performance in the mid-1970s, while singing... Jan 10 03, 11:36 AM

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