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1685 – 1732John Gay (1685-1732)Died 4 December 1732, aged 47John Gay was an English poet and dramatist best known for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a satirical ballad opera that became one of the most popular works of the 18th-century London stage. He died of a fever in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey.