Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love and 5x Tony-winning playwright, has died. He was 88.

United Agents announced on Saturday that Stoppard died “peacefully” at his Dorset, England home, where he was surrounded by family.

“He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language,” the statement reads, according to the Associated Press. “It was an honor to work with Tom and to know him.”

Mick Jagger remembered Stoppard as “was my favourite playwright,” adding in a social media post, “He leaves us with a majestic body of intellectual and amusing work. I will always miss him.”

Piers Morgan called Stoppard “one of the world‘s greatest dramatists. What a writer! Sad news.”

Born July 3, 1937 in then Zlín, Czechoslovakia, Stoppard attended boarding school in the Indian Himalayas after his Jewish family fled Nazi occupation, before settling in the UK after World War II. There, Stoppard began working as a theater critic and playwright.

After penning short radio plays in the ’50s, Stoppard completed his first stage play A Walk on the Water [Enter a Free Man] in 1960, before it took the stage in Hamburg, Germany in ’63. His career took off in 1966 when he debuted Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Edinburgh Festival.

Stoppard’s other plays include The Gamblers, Tango, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night & Day, Arcadia, The Invention of Love and Leopoldstadt.

As a screenwriter, Stoppard penned Empire of the Sun (1987) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), in addition to working on Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (2005).