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American Actresses
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Soccer Players
Rappers
Politicians
Writers
Kings
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Princes
Nobel Prize Winners
Fascists
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Writer birthdays
| K. Von Novack |
October 19, 1991 |
Brazilian writer |
| Taylor Swift |
December 13, 1989 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Peaches Geldof |
March 16, 1989 |
English writer |
| Esmée Denters |
November 23, 1988 |
Dutch singer-songwriter |
| Skye Sweetnam |
May 5, 1988 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Kate Nash |
July 6, 1987 |
English singer/songwriter |
| Paolo Nutini |
January 9, 1987 |
British singer/songwriter |
| Sam Duckworth |
January 30, 1986 |
British singer-songwriter known as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly |
| Robert O'Connor |
January 22, 1986 |
Irish singer-songwriter, actor and model |
| Lily Allen |
May 2, 1985 |
English singer and songwriter |
| Casey Dienel |
March 10, 1985 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Avril Lavigne |
September 27, 1984 |
Canadian singer-songwriter |
| Szilvia Molnar |
September 24, 1984 |
Swedish writer |
| Kaleth Morales |
June 9, 1984 |
Colombian singer and songwriter |
| Anna Nalick |
March 30, 1984 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Kirsty Crawford |
November 25, 1983 |
Scottish singer/songwriter |
| Travis MacRae |
September 27, 1983 |
Canadian singer-songwriter |
| Missy Higgins |
August 19, 1983 |
Australian singer-songwriter |
| Scott Moffatt |
March 30, 1983 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Max Vergara Poeti |
March 4, 1983 |
Colombian writer |
| Elan Sara DeFan |
March 1, 1983 |
Mexican singer-songwriter |
| Utada Hikaru |
January 19, 1983 |
American-born Japanese singer and songwriter |
| Ai Otsuka |
September 9, 1982 |
Japanese singer and songwriter |
| Andrew McMahon |
September 3, 1982 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Adam Bahner a.k.a. Tay Zonday |
July 6, 1982 |
American singer, songwriter and keyboardist |
| Matt Costa |
June 16, 1982 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Lennon Murphy |
March 31, 1982 |
American rock singer/songwriter and Suicide Girl |
| Joanna Newsom |
January 18, 1982 |
American harpist/singer-songwriter |
| Amy Lee |
December 13, 1981 |
American singer/songwriter (Evanescence) |
| Irina Denezhkina |
October 31, 1981 |
Russian writer |
| Jon Crocker |
October 31, 1981 |
American songwriter |
| Shane Tutmarc |
September 25, 1981 |
American songwriter/musician |
| Vanessa Amorosi |
August 8, 1981 |
Australian singer and songwriter |
| Ben Kweller |
June 16, 1981 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Devendra Banhart |
May 30, 1981 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Adam Green |
May 28, 1981 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Nate Cole |
May 19, 1981 |
American singer/songwriter (formerly of Plus One) |
| Alex Ubago |
January 21, 1981 |
Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter |
| Dustin Kensrue |
November 18, 1980 |
American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice) |
| Luke Munns |
September 20, 1980 |
Australian singer / songwriter |
| Tegan and Sara |
September 19, 1980 |
Canadian singer/songwriters |
| Darius Danesh |
August 19, 1980 |
Scottish singer-songwriter & actor |
| Vanessa Carlton |
August 16, 1980 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Jade Villalon |
August 12, 1980 |
American Singer/Songwriter |
| Bobby Henderson |
July 18, 1980 |
American writer, founded the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster |
| Ivana Wong |
June 18, 1980 |
Hong Kong singer and songwriter |
| Yalin |
March 30, 1980 |
Turkish singer and songwriter |
| Arash Markazi |
March 4, 1980 |
American sportswriter |
| Leela Majumdar |
February 26, 1980 |
Bengali writer |
| Regina Spektor |
February 18, 1980 |
Russian-born singer and songwriter |
| Conor Oberst |
February 15, 1980 |
American singer and songwriter (Bright Eyes) |
| Sarah Lewitinn |
February 3, 1980 |
American writer |
| Amerie |
January 12, 1980 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Ryan Key |
December 17, 1979 |
American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard) |
| Thea Gilmore |
November 25, 1979 |
British songwriter |
| Jared Hess |
July 18, 1979 |
Movie writer and director, (Napoleon Dynamite) |
| Ariane Moffatt |
April 26, 1979 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| Patrick Casey |
December 19, 1978 |
American screenwriter and actor |
| Nelly Furtado |
December 2, 1978 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Emil Steiner |
November 30, 1978 |
American writer |
| Ryan Leslie |
November 20, 1978 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Justin Brannan |
October 14, 1978 |
American musician, writer |
| Imogen Heap |
December 9, 1977 |
British singer and songwriter |
| Keren Cytter |
August 22, 1977 |
artist, filmmaker, and writer |
| Damien Saez |
August 1, 1977 |
French Musician, Songwriter, & Author |
| Alfian bin Sa'at |
July 18, 1977 |
Singaporean writer, poet and playwright |
| Jason Mraz |
June 23, 1977 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Siarhiej Balachonau |
April 24, 1977 |
Belarusian writer |
| Sean Watkins |
February 18, 1977 |
American guitarist and songwriter |
| Leigh Whannell |
January 17, 1977 |
Australian screenwriter/actor |
| Naimee Coleman |
December 8, 1976 |
Irish singer and songwriter |
| Jun Shibata |
November 19, 1976 |
Japanese singer and songwriter |
| Jodi Martin |
November 6, 1976 |
Australian singer-songwriter |
| Chace Ambrose |
September 9, 1976 |
American actor and writer |
| Steve Taylor |
August 27, 1976 |
British writer |
| Justin Lo |
July 1, 1976 |
Hong Kong singer and songwriter |
| Lee-Hom Wang |
May 17, 1976 |
American-born Taiwanese musician, singer, songwriter, and composer |
| Rob Malda |
May 10, 1976 |
American internet writer/editor (Slashdot) |
| Martha Wainwright |
May 8, 1976 |
Canadian musician and songwriter |
| Jose Sanchez Zolliker |
March 15, 1976 |
Mexican writer |
| Rashida Jones |
February 25, 1976 |
American actress, writer, model, and musician |
| Matt Skiba |
February 24, 1976 |
American singer/guitarist/songwriter (Alkaline Trio,Heavens) |
| Feist |
February 13, 1976 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Noel Clarke |
December 6, 1975 |
English actor and writer |
| Eka Kurniawan |
November 28, 1975 |
Indonesian writer |
| Thomas Kohnstamm |
November 24, 1975 |
American writer |
| Scott "Skippy" Chapman |
November 1, 1975 |
American singer/musician/songwriter |
| Svilen Noev |
September 22, 1975 |
Bulgarian singer-songwriter |
| Shannon Noll |
September 16, 1975 |
Australian singer and songwriter |
| Cherie Priest |
July 30, 1975 |
American writer |
| Amir-Abbas Fakhravar |
July 6, 1975 |
Iranian writer, journalist and student leader |
| K.T. Tunstall |
June 23, 1975 |
Scottish singer and songwriter |
| Jemma Griffiths |
June 18, 1975 |
Welsh singer-songwriter |
| Pamela Ribon |
April 4, 1975 |
American author, actress, and comedy writer |
| Hawksley Workman |
March 4, 1975 |
Canadian rock singer-songwriter |
| David Zingler |
January 28, 1975 |
American writer |
| Candy Lo |
October 18, 1974 |
Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress |
| Deo Grech |
October 16, 1974 |
Maltese television presenter, songwriter |
| Sam Roberts |
October 2, 1974 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Jeremy Castle |
August 2, 1974 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Alanis Morissette |
June 1, 1974 |
Canadian singer-songwriter |
| Derek Webb |
May 27, 1974 |
American singer and songwriter (Caedmons Call) |
| Andrzej Pilipiuk |
March 20, 1974 |
Polish writer |
| Billy Currington |
November 19, 1973 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Justin Haythe |
September 16, 1973 |
American writer |
| Jennifer Paige |
September 3, 1973 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Daniel Gildenlöw |
June 5, 1973 |
Swedish musician and songwriter |
| Josh Homme |
May 17, 1973 |
American musician and songwriter |
| Aviv Geffen |
May 10, 1973 |
Israeli singer/songwriter (Blackfield) |
| Kristian Lundin |
May 7, 1973 |
Swedish songwriter |
| Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
May 2, 1973 |
German film director and screenwriter |
| Matt Nathanson |
March 28, 1973 |
American singer-songwriter |
| David Draiman |
March 13, 1973 |
American musician and songwriter (Disturbed) |
| Geoff Johns |
January 25, 1973 |
American comic book writer |
| Kevin Parent |
December 12, 1972 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| Brian Molko |
December 10, 1972 |
Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo) |
| Angela Shelton |
December 5, 1972 |
American actress & writer |
| Robert Webb |
September 29, 1972 |
British actor, comedian, and writer |
| China Miéville |
September 6, 1972 |
English writer |
| Emily Robison |
August 16, 1972 |
American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks) |
| Reverend Jen Miller |
July 24, 1972 |
American poet, painter, writer and actress |
| Alon Hilu |
June 21, 1972 |
Israeli writer |
| Greg Berlanti |
May 24, 1972 |
American television writer and producer |
| Pat Green |
April 5, 1972 |
American Singer and Songwriter |
| Ken Hirai |
January 17, 1972 |
Japanese singer and songwriter |
| Masayoshi Yamazaki |
December 23, 1971 |
Japanese singer-songwriter |
| Jennifer Celotta |
November 11, 1971 |
American TV producer and writer |
| Roger Creager |
July 25, 1971 |
American country music singer-songwriter |
| Oliver Jones |
July 24, 1971 |
Australian singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and audio engineer |
| Ivan O. Godfroid |
May 26, 1971 |
Belgian writer |
| Touré |
March 20, 1971 |
American writer |
| Shavar Ross |
March 4, 1971 |
American actor-turned film director, writer, film producer and editor |
| Tristan Louis |
February 28, 1971 |
American writer |
| John Wozniak |
January 19, 1971 |
American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground) |
| Will Oldham |
December 24, 1970 |
American songwriter |
| Jack Ingram |
November 15, 1970 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Paula Kelley |
September 10, 1970 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Charlie Connelly |
August 22, 1970 |
English writer |
| John August |
August 4, 1970 |
American screenwriter |
| Kevin Smith |
August 2, 1970 |
American director and screenwriter |
| Thea Dorn |
July 23, 1970 |
German writer |
| Will Forte |
June 17, 1970 |
American writer, actor and comedian |
| Chris Rice |
June 11, 1970 |
singer/songwriter |
| Perry Blake |
May 10, 1970 |
Irish singer/songwriter |
| Dennis Bayne Culp |
April 23, 1970 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Miho Hatori |
April 5, 1970 |
Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto) |
| Dave Eggers |
March 12, 1970 |
American writer, editor, and publisher |
| Daniel Handler |
February 28, 1970 |
American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket |
| Michael A. Burstein |
February 27, 1970 |
American writer |
| Judd Winick |
February 12, 1970 |
writer and artist |
| Mitch Benn |
January 20, 1970 |
UK comedian, songwriter, actor |
| Dave Eggers |
January 8, 1970 |
American writer and publisher |
| Mark Millar |
December 24, 1969 |
Scottish comic book writer |
| Kathleen Hanna |
November 12, 1969 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Javier Grillo-Marxuach |
October 28, 1969 |
Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer |
| Trudi Canavan |
October 23, 1969 |
Australian writer |
| Trey Parker |
October 19, 1969 |
American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor |
| Jim Curtiss |
September 15, 1969 |
American writer |
| James Frey |
September 12, 1969 |
American writer |
| Jeremy Schaap |
August 23, 1969 |
American sportswriter |
| David Tao |
July 11, 1969 |
Taiwanese singer-songwriter |
| Jenji Kohan |
July 5, 1969 |
American television writer and producer |
| John Scalzi |
May 10, 1969 |
American writer |
| Wes Anderson |
May 1, 1969 |
American director and writer |
| Pauley Perrette |
March 27, 1969 |
American actress, photographer, poet, writer |
| Cathy Dennis |
March 25, 1969 |
English singer, songwriter, and actress |
| Stefie Shock |
March 9, 1969 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| Stina Nordenstam |
March 4, 1969 |
Swedish experimental pop singer, songwriter and musician |
| Darren Aronofsky |
February 12, 1969 |
American director and writer |
| Mo Rocca |
January 28, 1969 |
American writer and comedian |
| Michael Kulas |
January 27, 1969 |
Canadian singer/songwriter (James) |
| Patton Oswalt |
January 27, 1969 |
American actor and writer |
| Patrick K. Kroupa |
January 20, 1969 |
American writer, hacker |
| Lukas Moodysson |
January 17, 1969 |
Swedish film writer and director |
| Carla Bruni |
December 23, 1968 |
Italian-French model, songwriter and singer |
| Randall Wallace |
November 30, 1968 |
American screenwriter, producer and director |
| Jennifer Charles |
November 15, 1968 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Jeff Martin |
October 2, 1968 |
Canadian singer/songwriter |
| Walt Becker |
September 16, 1968 |
American director and writer |
| Jeff VanderMeer |
July 7, 1968 |
American writer |
| François Avard |
June 6, 1968 |
Canadian writer and scenarist |
| Craig McNeil |
April 19, 1968 |
American writer, lawyer, and military officer |
| Lisa Loeb |
March 11, 1968 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Warren Ellis |
February 16, 1968 |
British comic book writer |
| Axelle Red |
February 15, 1968 |
Belgian singer and songwriter |
| Sarah McLachlan |
January 28, 1968 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer |
January 17, 1968 |
Dutch writer |
| Ewa Bialolecka |
December 14, 1967 |
Polish writer |
| Rob Liefeld |
October 3, 1967 |
American comic book writer and artist |
| Gillian Welch |
October 2, 1967 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Alfred Gough |
August 22, 1967 |
American screenwriter |
| Brian Michael Bendis |
August 18, 1967 |
American comic book writer |
| Amélie Nothomb |
August 13, 1967 |
Belgian writer |
| Mathieu Kassovitz |
August 3, 1967 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Aline Brosh McKenna |
August 2, 1967 |
American screenwriter |
| Scott Oden |
June 24, 1967 |
American writer |
| Emma Anderson |
June 10, 1967 |
British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing (band)) |
| Phil Doyle |
May 26, 1967 |
Australian writer |
| Jason Whitlock |
April 27, 1967 |
American sportswriter |
| Dar Williams |
April 19, 1967 |
American musician and songwriter |
| Liz Phair |
April 17, 1967 |
American musician/songwriter |
| Artemis Gounaki |
April 7, 1967 |
composer, writer and music producer |
| Andrew Osmond |
March 4, 1967 |
English writer |
| Wendy Coakley-Thompson |
December 27, 1966 |
American writer |
| David Nicholls |
November 30, 1966 |
English novelist and screenwriter |
| Tahir Shah |
November 16, 1966 |
British travel writer and explorer |
| Jon Favreau |
October 19, 1966 |
American actor, writer and director |
| Johnny Vaughan |
July 16, 1966 |
English writer and broadcaster |
| J. J. Abrams |
June 27, 1966 |
American television writer and producer |
| Hope Sandoval |
June 24, 1966 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Adrienne Shelly |
June 24, 1966 |
American actress, director and screenwriter |
| Adrienne Shelly |
June 16, 1966 |
American actress, director and screenwriter |
| Julia Neigel |
April 19, 1966 |
German singer and songwriter |
| Johnny Rzeznik |
December 5, 1965 |
American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Goo Goo Dolls) |
| Max Mutchnick |
November 11, 1965 |
American TV writer and producer |
| Augusten Burroughs |
October 23, 1965 |
American writer |
| Roger Avary |
August 23, 1965 |
Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer |
| Rob Thomas |
August 15, 1965 |
American writer |
| Dennis Lehane |
August 4, 1965 |
American crime writer |
| J. K. Rowling |
July 31, 1965 |
British writer |
| Gail Simone |
July 29, 1965 |
comic book writer |
| Filip Topol |
June 12, 1965 |
Czech musician and writer |
| Eoin Colfer |
May 14, 1965 |
Irish writer |
| Frank Black |
April 6, 1965 |
American singer/songwriter (Pixies) |
| Steven T. Seagle |
March 31, 1965 |
American comic-book writer |
| Richard Daniel Roman |
March 16, 1965 |
English songwriter and record producer |
| Kevin Williamson |
March 14, 1965 |
American screenwriter |
| Andrew Collins |
March 4, 1965 |
English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster |
| Andrew Roachford |
January 22, 1965 |
English singer and songwriter |
| Dave Attell |
January 18, 1965 |
American writer and comedian |
| Andrew Stanton |
January 11, 1965 |
American animated films director, and screenwriter. |
| Muhammed al-Ahari |
January 6, 1965 |
American Muslim writer |
| Toby Mac |
October 22, 1964 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Michael J. Nelson |
October 11, 1964 |
American actor/writer |
| Marco Masini |
September 18, 1964 |
Italian singer-songwriter |
| Marti Noxon |
August 25, 1964 |
American television writer and producer |
| Brannon Braga |
August 14, 1964 |
American scriptwriter |
| Anastasia Ashman |
August 8, 1964 |
American writer |
| Joss Whedon |
June 23, 1964 |
American producer, director, and screenwriter |
| Caroline Link |
June 2, 1964 |
German film director and screenwriter |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan |
May 26, 1964 |
Irish-American writer |
| Andy Bell |
April 25, 1964 |
British singer and songwriter (band Erasure) |
| Glenn Carter |
March 27, 1964 |
English actor and singer-songwriter |
| Patty Griffin |
March 16, 1964 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Bret Easton Ellis |
March 7, 1964 |
American writer |
| Dmitri Lipskerov |
February 19, 1964 |
Russian writer |
| Johnny Marr |
October 31, 1963 |
English guitarist and songwriter (The Smiths) |
| Colin Channer |
October 13, 1963 |
Jamaican writer |
| Greg Glienna |
August 24, 1963 |
American screenwriter and director |
| Park Chan-wook |
August 23, 1963 |
Korean director and screenwriter |
| Tori Amos |
August 22, 1963 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Beverley Craven |
June 28, 1963 |
English singer-songwriter |
| Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin |
June 24, 1963 |
Russian writer |
| Richard Appel |
May 21, 1963 |
American writer |
| Page McConnell |
May 17, 1963 |
American musician and songwriter (Phish) |
| Robin Jarvis |
May 8, 1963 |
British writer |
| Sylvain Cossette |
May 8, 1963 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| Russell T. Davies |
April 27, 1963 |
Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who |
| Quentin Tarantino |
March 27, 1963 |
American director, writer, and producer |
| Natsuhiko Kyogoku |
March 26, 1963 |
Japanese writer |
| Roch Voisine |
March 26, 1963 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Fito Páez |
March 13, 1963 |
Argentine musician and songwriter |
| Laurell K. Hamilton |
February 19, 1963 |
American writer |
| Joshua Kadison |
February 8, 1963 |
American pianist and singer-songwriter |
| François Girard |
January 12, 1963 |
French Canadian film director and screenwriter |
| Joe Quesada |
December 1, 1962 |
American comic book writer and artist, and editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics |
| Daniel Keys Moran |
November 30, 1962 |
American writer |
| Victor Pelevin |
November 22, 1962 |
Russian writer |
| Dave Wong |
October 20, 1962 |
Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter |
| Jon Secada |
October 4, 1962 |
Cuban singer and songwriter |
| Diogo Mainardi |
September 22, 1962 |
Brazilian writer |
| Steve Albini |
July 22, 1962 |
writer and recording engineer |
| Joan Osborne |
July 8, 1962 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Steven Brill |
May 27, 1962 |
American film writer and director |
| Mo Willems |
May 24, 1962 |
American author and screenwriter |
| Lise Lyng Falkenberg |
May 17, 1962 |
Danish writer |
| Brett Gurewitz |
May 12, 1962 |
American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph) |
| Paul Heaton |
May 9, 1962 |
English singer/songwriter (Beautiful South) |
| Jenifer McKitrick |
May 5, 1962 |
American songwriter |
| Mark Waid |
March 21, 1962 |
American comic book writer |
| James McMurtry |
March 18, 1962 |
American folk singer/songwriter |
| Morioka Hiroyuki |
March 2, 1962 |
Japanese writer |
| Chuck Palahniuk |
February 21, 1962 |
American writer |
| David Foster Wallace |
February 21, 1962 |
American writer |
| Tyrone "Ty" Jones |
February 17, 1962 |
American screenwriter |
| Elvira Lindo |
January 23, 1962 |
Spanish writer and journalist |
| Florent Pagny |
November 6, 1961 |
French songwriter and singer |
| Louise Boije af Gennäs |
November 1, 1961 |
Swedish writer |
| Laurie Halse Anderson |
October 23, 1961 |
American writer |
| Irvine Welsh |
September 27, 1961 |
Scottish writer |
| John Logan |
September 24, 1961 |
American screenwriter |
| Mylène Farmer |
September 12, 1961 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Philip Ardagh |
September 11, 1961 |
British writer |
| Martin Gore |
July 23, 1961 |
English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode) |
| Curt Smith |
June 24, 1961 |
English musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears) |
| Aaron Sorkin |
June 9, 1961 |
American writer |
| Enya |
May 17, 1961 |
Irish singer and songwriter |
| Jean Leclerc |
May 14, 1961 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| Todd McFarlane |
March 16, 1961 |
Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur |
| Vince Russo |
January 24, 1961 |
American writer |
| Daniel Johnston |
January 22, 1961 |
American singer-songwriter and artist |
| Brian Helgeland |
January 17, 1961 |
American writer and film director |
| Nalo Hopkinson |
December 20, 1960 |
Canadian writer |
| Michelangelo Signorile |
December 19, 1960 |
American writer |
| Kevin Henkes |
November 27, 1960 |
American childrens book writer/illustrator |
| Neil Gaiman |
November 10, 1960 |
English writer |
| Marc Awodey |
November 4, 1960 |
American artist and writer |
| Jonathan FeBland |
October 19, 1960 |
English musician, writer and artist |
| Robbie Nevil |
October 2, 1960 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Jeff Groteboer |
September 23, 1960 |
American writer |
| Kurt Busiek |
September 16, 1960 |
American comic book writer |
| Seth Swirsky |
August 5, 1960 |
American songwriter |
| Ian Hislop |
July 13, 1960 |
English writer, editor of Private Eye |
| Vince Clarke |
July 3, 1960 |
British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure) |
| Terry Rossio |
July 2, 1960 |
American screenwriter |
| Dario de Judicibus |
June 25, 1960 |
Italian writer |
| Mick Hucknall |
June 8, 1960 |
English singer and songwriter (Simply Red) |
| Robert J. Sawyer |
April 29, 1960 |
Canadian writer |
| Yuri Andrukhovych |
March 13, 1960 |
Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist |
| Mikko Kuustonen |
March 4, 1960 |
Finnish singer and songwriter |
| Tony Grimaud |
February 25, 1960 |
Maltese-born singer and songwriter |
| Robert von Dassanowsky |
January 28, 1960 |
American cultural historian, writer, and producer |
| Nigella Lawson |
January 6, 1960 |
English chef and writer |
| Billy Childish |
December 1, 1959 |
English painter, writer and musician |
| Hal Hartley |
November 3, 1959 |
American film director and writer |
| Arto Salminen |
October 22, 1959 |
Finnish writer |
| Milco Mancevski |
October 18, 1959 |
Macedonian film director and screenwriter |
| Ron Drummond |
October 17, 1959 |
American writer |
| Ruud Janssen |
July 29, 1959 |
Dutch writer and artist |
| Rick Bragg |
July 26, 1959 |
American writer |
| Marc Cohn |
July 5, 1959 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Dan Jurgens |
June 27, 1959 |
American comic book writer |
| Marcella Detroit |
June 21, 1959 |
singer and songwriter (Shakespears Sister) |
| Andrew Eldritch |
May 15, 1959 |
English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy) |
| Paul Gross |
April 30, 1959 |
Canadian actor, director, and writer |
| Thanassis Papakonstantinou |
April 26, 1959 |
Greek singer and songwriter |
| Gene Callahan |
April 21, 1959 |
American writer |
| Carlton Cuse |
March 22, 1959 |
Mexican-born American TV writer and executive |
| Luc Besson |
March 18, 1959 |
French producer, writer, and director |
| Lisa Holton |
March 15, 1959 |
American writer |
| David Fury |
March 5, 1959 |
American television writer and producer |
| Per Gessle |
January 12, 1959 |
Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette) |
| Fran Walsh |
January 10, 1959 |
New Zealand screenwriter |
| Mike Scott |
December 14, 1958 |
British singer and songwriter (The Waterboys) |
| George Saunders |
December 2, 1958 |
American writer |
| Horse McDonald |
November 22, 1958 |
Scottish singer/songwriter |
| Charlie Kaufman |
November 1, 1958 |
American screenwriter |
| David Remnick |
October 29, 1958 |
American writer and editor of The New Yorker |
| Alan Jackson |
October 17, 1958 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Tim Robbins |
October 16, 1958 |
American actor, director, and writer |
| Charlie Kaufman |
September 20, 1958 |
American screenwriter |
| Danny Chan |
September 7, 1958 |
Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter |
| Michael Penn |
August 1, 1958 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Kate Bush |
July 30, 1958 |
English singer/songwriter |
| Marie Fredriksson |
May 30, 1958 |
Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette) |
| Neil Finn |
May 27, 1958 |
New Zealand singer and songwriter |
| Mitch Albom |
May 23, 1958 |
American writer |
| Charles Berling |
April 30, 1958 |
French actor, director and screenwriter |
| Benjamin Zephaniah |
April 15, 1958 |
British writer |
| Pete Wylie |
March 22, 1958 |
British singer/songwriter |
| Tony Barrell |
February 23, 1958 |
English writer and journalist |
| Ice-T |
February 16, 1958 |
American rapper, songwriter, and actor |
| Tomasz Pacynski |
February 4, 1958 |
Polish writer |
| Paul Rudnick |
December 29, 1957 |
American screenwriter/playwright |
| Billy Bragg |
December 20, 1957 |
English singer and songwriter |
| George Landress |
July 21, 1957 |
American songwriter, music producer and sound engineer |
| Alexandra Marinina |
July 16, 1957 |
Russian writer |
| Tim Kring |
July 9, 1957 |
American writer and producer |
| Danny Baker |
June 22, 1957 |
English comedy writer and radio presenter |
| Alan Ball |
May 13, 1957 |
American screenwriter, director, and producer |
| Koji Suzuki |
May 13, 1957 |
Japanese writer (Ring, Dark Water) |
| Jim White |
March 10, 1957 |
American folk singer-songwriter |
| Francis Wheen |
January 22, 1957 |
English writer and journalist |
| Anchee Min |
January 14, 1957 |
Chinese writer |
| Lorrie Moore |
January 13, 1957 |
American writer |
| Tim Kurkjian |
December 10, 1956 |
American baseball writer and analyst for ESPN |
| Mohsen Badawi |
November 10, 1956 |
Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer |
| Richard Curtis |
November 8, 1956 |
British screenwriter |
| Carrie Fisher |
October 21, 1956 |
American actress and writer |
| Peter David |
September 23, 1956 |
American writer |
| Diane Warren |
September 7, 1956 |
American song writer |
| Dick Lee |
August 24, 1956 |
Singaporean singer-songwriter |
| Bubbi Morthens |
June 6, 1956 |
Icelandic singer and songwriter |
| Robert Marien |
May 5, 1956 |
Quebec actor, singer and songwriter |
| David E. Kelley |
April 4, 1956 |
American writer and television producer |
| D.J. MacHale |
March 11, 1956 |
American author and television writer. |
| Étienne Daho |
January 14, 1956 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Antonio Muñoz Molina |
January 10, 1956 |
Spanish writer |
| Will Shetterly |
August 22, 1955 |
writer |
| Agnes Chan |
August 20, 1955 |
Hong Kong singer and writer |
| Vladimir Sorokin |
August 7, 1955 |
Russian writer |
| Billy Bob Thornton |
August 4, 1955 |
American actor and writer |
| William Wall |
July 6, 1955 |
Irish writer |
| Luka Bloom |
May 23, 1955 |
Irish singer/songwriter |
| Michael Callen |
April 11, 1955 |
American singer, songwriter and AIDS activist |
| Randy VanWarmer |
March 30, 1955 |
American singer, guitarist and songwriter |
| Tom Bodett |
February 23, 1955 |
American voice actor, radio personality, and writer |
| Mo Yan |
February 17, 1955 |
Chinese writer, author of Red Sorghum (novel) |
| John Grisham |
February 8, 1955 |
American writer |
| Jay McInerney |
January 13, 1955 |
American writer |
| Rockne S. O'Bannon |
January 12, 1955 |
screenwriter |
| Sandra Cisneros |
December 20, 1954 |
American writer |
| Joel Coen |
November 29, 1954 |
American film director, producer, and writer |
| Chris Difford |
November 4, 1954 |
English musician and songwriter |
| Deborah Blum |
October 19, 1954 |
American writer |
| Basia Trzetrzelewska |
September 30, 1954 |
Polish-born singer and songwriter |
| Charles Busch |
August 23, 1954 |
American director, writer, actor and drag queen |
| Ivan Stang |
August 21, 1954 |
American writer |
| Robert Menasse |
June 21, 1954 |
Austrian writer |
| Gregory Maguire |
June 9, 1954 |
American fantasy writer |
| Dan Hill |
June 3, 1954 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Jens Sparschuh |
May 14, 1954 |
German writer |
| Johnny Logan |
May 13, 1954 |
Irish singer and songwriter |
| Ray Parker Jr. |
May 1, 1954 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Irina Ratushinskaya |
March 4, 1954 |
Russian writer and dissident |
| Franco De Vita |
January 23, 1954 |
Venezuelan singer and songwriter |
| J. M. DeMatteis |
December 15, 1953 |
American comic book writer |
| Christine Pascal |
November 29, 1953 |
French actress, director and screenwriter |
| Alan Moore |
November 18, 1953 |
British comic book writer and novelist |
| Joyce Maynard |
November 5, 1953 |
American writer |
| Shelley Ackerman |
October 14, 1953 |
American astrologer, writer, singer |
| Anne Fadiman |
August 7, 1953 |
American writer, daughter of Clifton Fadiman |
| Patti Scialfa |
July 29, 1953 |
American singer, guitarist and songwriter |
| Peter Brown |
July 11, 1953 |
American singer, songwriter and producer |
| Zoogz Rift |
July 10, 1953 |
singer/songwriter and wrestling booker |
| Olav Stedje |
June 8, 1953 |
Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| Eric Bogosian |
April 24, 1953 |
American actor and writer |
| J. Neil Schulman |
April 16, 1953 |
American writer |
| Karla Bonoff |
December 27, 1952 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Andy Kim |
December 5, 1952 |
Canadian singer, songwriter |
| Keith Giffen |
November 30, 1952 |
American comic book writer and artist |
| Robin McKinley |
November 16, 1952 |
writer |
| Michael Cunningham |
November 6, 1952 |
American writer |
| Ayten Mutlu |
October 6, 1952 |
Turkish poet and writer |
| Clive Barker |
October 5, 1952 |
English writer |
| Karen Hesse |
August 29, 1952 |
American childrens writer |
| João Barreiros |
July 31, 1952 |
Portuguese writer |
| Phoebe Snow |
July 17, 1952 |
singer and songwriter |
| Voja Antonic |
July 12, 1952 |
Serbian inventor and writer |
| Tim Finn |
June 25, 1952 |
New Zealand singer/singwriter |
| Gino Vannelli |
June 16, 1952 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Diane Duane |
May 18, 1952 |
American writer |
| David Icke |
April 29, 1952 |
English writer |
| Pat Drummond |
April 2, 1952 |
Australian singer-songwriter |
| Richard Séguin |
March 27, 1952 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| Douglas Adams |
March 11, 1952 |
English writer |
| Mark Evanier |
March 2, 1952 |
American writer |
| Steven Barnes |
March 1, 1952 |
American writer |
| Daniel Balavoine |
February 5, 1952 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Louis Menand |
January 21, 1952 |
American writer and critic |
| R. Stevie Moore |
January 18, 1952 |
American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer |
| Maureen Dowd |
January 14, 1952 |
American writer |
| Scott Thurston |
January 10, 1952 |
American musician, songwriter |
| Ian Buruma |
December 28, 1951 |
Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East. |
| Peter May |
December 20, 1951 |
Scottish novelist and scriptwriter |
| Jan Eggum |
December 8, 1951 |
Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| Jean-Jacques Goldman |
October 11, 1951 |
French singer/songwriter |
| Bernard Cooper |
October 3, 1951 |
American writer |
| Andrés Caicedo |
September 29, 1951 |
Colombian writer |
| Jim Shooter |
September 27, 1951 |
American comic book writer |
| Orson Scott Card |
August 24, 1951 |
American writer |
| Andrew Gold |
August 2, 1951 |
American musician and songwriter |
| Cheryl Wheeler |
July 10, 1951 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Suze Orman |
June 5, 1951 |
American financial advisor, writer, and television personality. |
| Chazz Palminteri |
May 15, 1951 |
American actor, writer and director |
| Gérard Jugnot |
May 4, 1951 |
French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer |
| Tatyana Tolstaya |
May 3, 1951 |
Russian writer |
| Barry Brown |
April 19, 1951 |
American actor and writer |
| Ioan Mihai Cochinescu |
April 16, 1951 |
Romanian writer and photographer |
| Janis Ian |
April 7, 1951 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Lillebjørn Nilsen |
December 21, 1950 |
Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| Stephen Geyer |
November 21, 1950 |
American film & television songwriter |
| Jim Peterik |
November 11, 1950 |
American musician and songwriter (Survivor) |
| Debra Hill |
November 10, 1950 |
American screenwriter and film producer |
| Joe Queenan |
November 3, 1950 |
American writer |
| Massimo Mongai |
November 3, 1950 |
Italian writer |
| Fran Lebowitz |
October 27, 1950 |
American writer |
| Edward P. Jones |
October 5, 1950 |
American writer |
| John Sayles |
September 28, 1950 |
American director and screenwriter |
| Zachary Richard |
September 8, 1950 |
Louisiana singer and songwriter |
| Paul William Roberts |
September 5, 1950 |
Canadian writer |
| Jim Beaver |
August 12, 1950 |
American actor and writer |
| Steve Miller |
July 31, 1950 |
American writer |
| Freddy Moore |
July 19, 1950 |
American songwriter |
| Sandra Lee |
July 3, 1950 |
American writer and TV presenter |
| Lynsey De Paul |
June 11, 1950 |
British singer and songwriter |
| Melissa Mathison |
June 3, 1950 |
American screenwriter |
| Ian Bradley |
May 28, 1950 |
British writer, academic and theologian |
| Bernie Taupin |
May 22, 1950 |
English songwriter |
| Josiane Balasko |
April 15, 1950 |
French actress, director and screenwriter |
| Patrick Adams |
March 17, 1950 |
American record producer and songwriter |
| Ofelia Medina |
March 4, 1950 |
Mexican actress and screenwriter |
| Benjamin Urrutia |
January 24, 1950 |
Ecuadorian writer |
| Juan Gabriel |
January 7, 1950 |
Mexican singer and songwriter |
| Susan Shwartz |
December 31, 1949 |
American writer |
| Mary Gordon |
December 8, 1949 |
American writer |
| Jimmie Spheeris |
November 5, 1949 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Nick Tosches |
October 23, 1949 |
American writer |
| Katha Pollitt |
October 14, 1949 |
American writer |
| Bill James |
October 5, 1949 |
American baseball writer |
| Bruce Springsteen |
September 23, 1949 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Þórarinn Eldjárn |
August 22, 1949 |
an Icelandic writer |
| Jonathan Kellerman |
August 9, 1949 |
American writer |
| Yves Duteil |
July 24, 1949 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Robert Paquette |
July 2, 1949 |
French Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Véronique Sanson |
April 24, 1949 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Scott Turow |
April 12, 1949 |
American writer |
| Brenda Russell |
April 8, 1949 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Richard Thompson |
April 3, 1949 |
English musician and songwriter |
| Patrick Süskind |
March 26, 1949 |
German writer |
| Daniel Lavoie |
March 17, 1949 |
French Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Rob Cohen |
March 12, 1949 |
American film director, producer and writer |
| Carroll Baker |
March 4, 1949 |
Canadian country singer and songwriter |
| Joaquin Sabina |
February 12, 1949 |
Spanish singer and songwriter |
| Jim Corcoran |
February 10, 1949 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| Mary Robison |
January 14, 1949 |
American writer |
| Marshall Chapman |
January 7, 1949 |
American singer/songwriter |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle |
December 2, 1948 |
American writer |
| Hugh Moffatt |
November 10, 1948 |
American songwriter |
| Chris de Burgh |
October 15, 1948 |
Irish singer and songwriter |
| Zoran Živkovic |
October 5, 1948 |
Serbian writer |
| George R. R. Martin |
September 20, 1948 |
American writer |
| Lowell Ganz |
August 31, 1948 |
American screenwriter |
| Andrei Plesu |
August 23, 1948 |
Romanian writer, essayist |
| Ed Hinton |
July 21, 1948 |
American sportswriter |
| Catherine Breillat |
July 13, 1948 |
French director and screenwriter |
| Todd Rundgren |
June 22, 1948 |
American songwriter and record producer |
| Ian McEwan |
June 21, 1948 |
English writer |
| Andrzej Sapkowski |
June 21, 1948 |
Polish writer |
| Stevie Nicks |
May 26, 1948 |
American songwriter |
| Dan Simmons |
April 4, 1948 |
American writer |
| Arlette Cousture |
April 3, 1948 |
French-Canadian writer |
| William Gibson |
March 17, 1948 |
American writer |
| Richard Desjardins |
March 16, 1948 |
Quebec singer, songwriter and film director |
| James Ellroy |
March 4, 1948 |
American writer |
| Aldo Busi |
February 25, 1948 |
Italian writer |
| Keith Knudsen |
February 18, 1948 |
American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) |
| Al McKay |
February 2, 1948 |
American guitarist and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire) |
| William Nicholson |
January 12, 1948 |
English writer |
| Kati-Claudia Fofonoff |
December 8, 1947 |
Finnish writer |
| Michel Berger |
November 28, 1947 |
French songwriter |
| Steven E. de Souza |
November 17, 1947 |
American scriptwriter |
| Ebby Thust |
November 16, 1947 |
German Boxing promoter and writer |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
November 14, 1947 |
American writer |
| Patrice Leconte |
November 12, 1947 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Dave Loggins |
November 10, 1947 |
American songwriter and singer |
| Jim Steinman |
November 1, 1947 |
American songwriter |
| Laura Nyro |
October 18, 1947 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Robert Morace |
September 22, 1947 |
American writer |
| Enrique Krauze |
September 16, 1947 |
Mexican historian and writer |
| Ann Beattie |
September 8, 1947 |
American writer |
| Don Henley |
July 22, 1947 |
American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles) |
| Dave Barry |
July 3, 1947 |
American writer |
| Mark Helprin |
June 28, 1947 |
American writer |
| -minu |
June 16, 1947 |
Swiss columnist and writer |
| Paul Brady |
May 19, 1947 |
Northern Ireland singer/songwriter |
| Micheline Lanctôt |
May 12, 1947 |
American film actor, director and screenwriter |
| Peter Ham |
April 27, 1947 |
Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) |
| Claude Dubois |
April 24, 1947 |
Quebec singer and songwriter |
| David Leland |
April 20, 1947 |
British actor, director and screenwriter |
| Gerry Rafferty |
April 16, 1947 |
British musician and songwriter |
| Mike Chapman |
April 15, 1947 |
British songwriter |
| Larry Norman |
April 8, 1947 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Camille Paglia |
April 2, 1947 |
American feminist writer |
| Elton John |
March 25, 1947 |
English singer and songwriter |
| Tom Scholz |
March 10, 1947 |
American songwriter |
| Keri Hulme |
March 9, 1947 |
New Zealandic writer |
| David Franzoni |
March 4, 1947 |
American screenwriter |
| Jennifer Warnes |
March 3, 1947 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Alan Thicke |
March 1, 1947 |
Canadian actor and songwriter |
| Tim Buckley |
February 14, 1947 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Melanie Safka |
February 3, 1947 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Shobha De |
January 7, 1947 |
Indian writer |
| Jimmy Buffett |
December 25, 1946 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Benny Andersson |
December 16, 1946 |
Swedish musician, singer and songwriter (ABBA) |
| Terrence McKenna |
November 16, 1946 |
American writer |
| Roy Wood |
November 8, 1946 |
English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra) |
| Elfriede Jelinek |
October 20, 1946 |
Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Philip Pullman |
October 19, 1946 |
English writer |
| James Robert Baker |
October 18, 1946 |
American novelist, screenwriter |
| Tim O'Brien |
October 1, 1946 |
American writer |
| Joe Klein |
September 7, 1946 |
American writer |
| Freddie Mercury |
September 5, 1946 |
Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) |
| Walt Simonson |
September 2, 1946 |
American comic book artist & writer |
| Syreeta Wright |
August 3, 1946 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Fahmida Riaz |
July 28, 1946 |
Pakistani writer and feminist |
| Paul Schrader |
July 22, 1946 |
American film director and screenwriter |
| Peter Rosei |
June 17, 1946 |
Austrian writer |
| Harry Glasper |
June 12, 1946 |
English writer |
| Graham Gouldman |
May 10, 1946 |
British musician and songwriter (10cc) |
| Clint Holmes |
May 9, 1946 |
English-born American singer and songwriter |
| John Waters |
April 29, 1946 |
American film director and writer |
| Ginette Reno |
April 28, 1946 |
French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress |
| John Waters |
April 22, 1946 |
American film writer |
| Richard Cocciante |
February 20, 1946 |
French-Italian singer and songwriter |
| Kate McGarrigle |
February 6, 1946 |
Canadian folk music singer and songwriter |
| Syd Barrett |
January 6, 1946 |
English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd |
| Connie Willis |
December 31, 1945 |
American writer |
| Keith Hampshire |
November 23, 1945 |
English singer-songwriter |
| J. D. Souther |
November 3, 1945 |
American country-rock singer/songwriter & actor |
| Russ Ballard |
October 31, 1945 |
English rock singer/songwriter, guitarist (Argent) |
| Pat Conroy |
October 26, 1945 |
American writer |
| Don McLean |
October 2, 1945 |
American songwriter |
| Al Stewart |
September 5, 1945 |
Scottish singer and songwriter |
| Mustafa Balel |
September 1, 1945 |
Turkish writer |
| Ron Dante |
August 22, 1945 |
American songwriter and record producer (The Archies) |
| Kim Carnes |
July 20, 1945 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Kjell Albin Abrahamson |
June 23, 1945 |
Swedish journalist and writer. |
| Nicky Chinn |
May 16, 1945 |
English songwriter (Sweet, Suzi Quatro) |
| Annie Dillard |
April 30, 1945 |
American writer |
| Björn Ulvaeus |
April 25, 1945 |
Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA) |
| Megas |
April 7, 1945 |
Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer |
| Valerie Curtin |
March 31, 1945 |
American actress, writer, and producer |
| Douglas Hofstadter |
February 15, 1945 |
American academic and writer |
| Johnny Cymbal |
February 3, 1945 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Robert Olen Butler |
January 20, 1945 |
American writer |
| Eric Stewart |
January 20, 1945 |
English musician and songwriter (10cc) |
| Javed Akhtar |
January 17, 1945 |
Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter |
| Anna McGarrigle |
December 4, 1944 |
Canadian folk music singer and songwriter |
| Dionysis Savvopoulos |
December 2, 1944 |
Greek musician and songwriter |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun |
December 1, 1944 |
French writer of Moroccan origin |
| Daniel Pennac |
December 1, 1944 |
French writer born in Morocco |
| Joe Eszterhas |
November 23, 1944 |
Hungarian-born film producer and writer |
| James Toback |
November 23, 1944 |
American writer and director |
| Booker T. Jones |
November 12, 1944 |
American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MGs) |
| Bodil Malmsten |
August 19, 1944 |
Swedish writer |
| Jim Capaldi |
August 2, 1944 |
British musician and songwriter (Traffic) |
| Bobbie Gentry |
July 27, 1944 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Michel Polnareff |
July 3, 1944 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Boz Scaggs |
June 8, 1944 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Alain Souchon |
May 27, 1944 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Pierre Bachelet |
May 25, 1944 |
French singer and songwriter |
| W. G. Sebald |
May 18, 1944 |
German-born writer |
| John Milius |
April 11, 1944 |
American director and writer |
| Julia Phillips |
April 7, 1944 |
American film producer and writer |
| Pascal Danel |
March 31, 1944 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Terry Jacks |
March 29, 1944 |
Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist |
| John Sebastian |
March 17, 1944 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Townes Van Zandt |
March 7, 1944 |
American musician and songwriter (1997) |
| Ulrich Roski |
March 4, 1944 |
German singer-songwriter |
| Ken Grimwood |
February 27, 1944 |
American writer |
| Martina Newberry |
February 20, 1944 |
American poet, writer |
| Alan Parker |
February 14, 1944 |
British film director and writer |
| Alice Walker |
February 9, 1944 |
American writer |
| Jim Stafford |
January 16, 1944 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Mohammed Abed Elhai |
January 11, 1944 |
Sudanese writer and academic |
| Terry Brooks |
January 8, 1944 |
American writer |
| John Denver |
December 31, 1943 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Steven Bochco |
December 16, 1943 |
American television producer and writer |
| Terrence Malick |
November 30, 1943 |
American director and screenwriter. |
| Marilynne Robinson |
November 26, 1943 |
American writer |
| Angèle Arsenault |
October 1, 1943 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| James Alan McPherson |
September 16, 1943 |
American writer |
| Michael Ondaatje |
September 12, 1943 |
Sri Lankan-born writer |
| Louise Forestier |
August 10, 1943 |
French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress |
| Sammi Smith |
August 5, 1943 |
American country singer and songwriter |
| Lobo |
July 31, 1943 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Tony Joe White |
July 23, 1943 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Christine McVie |
July 12, 1943 |
British singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) |
| Muff Winwood |
June 15, 1943 |
British songwriter, producer and bassist (Spencer Davis Group) |
| Joe Haldeman |
June 9, 1943 |
science fiction writer |
| Harvey Andrews |
May 7, 1943 |
English singer and songwriter |
| Michael Palin |
May 5, 1943 |
British writer, actor, and comedian |
| Jonathan Lynn |
April 3, 1943 |
British actor and comedy writer |
| Richard Manuel |
April 3, 1943 |
Canadian musician and songwriter |
| Eric Idle |
March 29, 1943 |
English actor, writer, and composer |
| Nils-Aslak Valkeapää |
March 23, 1943 |
Finnish writer |
| Vivian Stanshall |
March 21, 1943 |
English musician, artist, actor, writer, Bonzo Dog Band |
| André Téchiné |
March 13, 1943 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Lucio Dalla |
March 4, 1943 |
Italian singer and songwriter |
| Graeme Garden |
February 18, 1943 |
Scottish writer |
| Barbara Lewis |
February 9, 1943 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Shawn Phillips |
February 3, 1943 |
American singer, guitarist and songwriter |
| Ronnie Milsap |
January 16, 1943 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin |
January 4, 1943 |
American writer |
| Harry Chapin |
December 7, 1942 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Peter Handke |
December 6, 1942 |
Austrian writer |
| Bob Lind |
November 25, 1942 |
American folk singer and songwriter |
| Michael Crichton |
October 23, 1942 |
American writer |
| Steve Tesich |
September 29, 1942 |
Serbian screenwriter |
| Bernard MacLaverty |
September 14, 1942 |
Northern Irish writer |
| C. J. Cherryh |
September 1, 1942 |
American writer |
| Isaac Hayes |
August 20, 1942 |
American singer, songwriter, and actor |
| Barbara George |
August 16, 1942 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Garrison Keillor |
August 7, 1942 |
American writer and radio host |
| Édith Butler |
July 27, 1942 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Bruce Woodley |
July 25, 1942 |
Australian singer, guitarist and songwriter (The Seekers) |
| Henry S. Taylor |
June 21, 1942 |
American writer |
| Sir Paul McCartney |
June 18, 1942 |
English singer and songwriter (The Beatles) |
| Billy Swan |
May 12, 1942 |
American songwriter and singer |
| Michel Fugain |
May 12, 1942 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Tommy Roe |
May 9, 1942 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Nickolas Ashford |
May 4, 1942 |
American record producer, songwriter, and musician (Ashford and Simpson) |
| Kitty Kelley |
April 4, 1942 |
American writer |
| Richard O'Brien |
March 25, 1942 |
English actor and writer, host of The Crystal Maze |
| Gloria Gaither |
March 4, 1942 |
American gospel songwriter |
| Terry Jones |
February 1, 1942 |
Welsh actor and writer |
| Derek Jarman |
January 31, 1942 |
British director and writer |
| Terenci Moix |
January 5, 1942 |
Spanish writer |
| Maurice White |
December 19, 1941 |
American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire) |
| Haseena Moin |
November 20, 1941 |
Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright |
| Bruce Welch |
November 2, 1941 |
English musician and songwriter (The Shadows) |
| Jackie Collins |
October 4, 1941 |
British writer |
| Anne Rice |
October 4, 1941 |
American writer |
| Otis Redding |
September 9, 1941 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Sergei Dovlatov |
September 3, 1941 |
Russian writer |
| Étienne Roda-Gil |
August 1, 1941 |
French songwriter and screenwriter |
| Brenton Wood |
July 26, 1941 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Ian Whitcomb |
July 10, 1941 |
English songwriter, entertainer and producer |
| Stéphane Venne |
July 2, 1941 |
French Canadian songwriter |
| Spalding Gray |
June 5, 1941 |
American actor and writer |
| Erasmo Carlos |
June 5, 1941 |
Brazilian singer and songwriter |
| Bob Dylan |
May 24, 1941 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Nora Ephron |
May 19, 1941 |
American screenwriter |
| George Will |
May 4, 1941 |
American writer |
| Bertrand Tavernier |
April 25, 1941 |
French director, screenwriter and actor |
| Bobby Russell |
April 19, 1941 |
American songwriter |
| Brian Holland |
February 15, 1941 |
American songwriter and producer |
| Tom Rush |
February 8, 1941 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Peter Pohl |
December 5, 1940 |
Swedish writer |
| Susan Harris |
October 28, 1940 |
American television writer and producer |
| Maxine Hong Kingston |
October 27, 1940 |
American writer |
| John Lennon |
October 9, 1940 |
British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) |
| Alan O'Day |
October 3, 1940 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Bill Medley |
September 19, 1940 |
American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers) |
| A.J. Quinnell |
June 25, 1940 |
British writer |
| Bruce Chatwin |
May 13, 1940 |
British writer |
| James L. Brooks |
May 9, 1940 |
American film producer and writer |
| Sharon Sheeley |
April 4, 1940 |
American songwriter |
| M.A. Numminen |
March 12, 1940 |
Finnish singer and writer |
| Germán Castro Caycedo |
March 3, 1940 |
Colombian writer and journalist |
| George Romero |
February 4, 1940 |
American director, screenwriter and producer |
| Johnny Russell |
January 23, 1940 |
American country singer and songwriter |
| Michael O'Donoghue |
January 5, 1940 |
American writer |
| Thomas McGuane |
December 11, 1939 |
American writer |
| Yael Dayan |
December 2, 1939 |
Israeli writer and politician |
| Margaret Atwood |
November 18, 1939 |
Canadian writer |
| John Cleese |
October 27, 1939 |
British actor and writer |
| Clive James |
October 7, 1939 |
Australian TV presenter and writer |
| Tommy Boyce |
September 29, 1939 |
American songwriter |
| Breyten Breytenbach |
September 16, 1939 |
South African writer and painter |
| George E. Slusser |
July 14, 1939 |
American scholar and writer |
| Michel Colombier |
May 23, 1939 |
French composer and songwriter |
| Ruggero Deodato |
May 7, 1939 |
Italian film director, actor and screen writer |
| Amos Oz |
May 4, 1939 |
Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist |
| Helen Prejean |
April 21, 1939 |
American writer |
| Seamus Heaney |
April 13, 1939 |
Irish writer, Nobel laureate |
| Alan Ayckbourn |
April 12, 1939 |
English writer |
| Ronald White |
April 5, 1939 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Bertrand Blier |
March 14, 1939 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Neil Sedaka |
March 13, 1939 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Claude Gauthier |
January 31, 1939 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Germaine Greer |
January 29, 1939 |
Australian writer |
| William Levy |
January 10, 1939 |
Dutch writer |
| Joel Hirschhorn |
December 18, 1938 |
American songwriter and composer |
| J. J. Cale |
December 5, 1938 |
American songwriter |
| Jean Rollin |
November 3, 1938 |
French director and screenwriter |
| Ben E. King |
September 28, 1938 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Judith Martin |
September 13, 1938 |
American etiquette writer |
| Janusz A. Zajdel |
August 15, 1938 |
Polish writer |
| Bill Withers |
July 4, 1938 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Lawrence Block |
June 24, 1938 |
an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer |
| Torgny Lindgren |
June 16, 1938 |
Swedish writer |
| Raymond Carver |
May 25, 1938 |
American writer |
| Carlos Monsiváis |
May 4, 1938 |
Mexican writer |
| Ernie Maresca |
April 21, 1938 |
American singer, songwriter and record executive |
| Jeff Barry |
April 3, 1938 |
American songwriter and record producer |
| Paul Evans |
March 5, 1938 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Lawrence Payton |
March 2, 1938 |
American singer and songwriter (The Four Tops) |
| Ishmael Reed |
February 22, 1938 |
American writer |
| Bobby "Boris" Pickett |
February 11, 1938 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo" |
January 6, 1938 |
Argentine writer and spiritual leader |
| Ngugi wa Thiongo |
January 5, 1938 |
Kenyan writer |
| Eduard Uspensky |
December 22, 1937 |
Russian writer |
| Jim Harrison |
December 11, 1937 |
American writer |
| Gail Sheehy |
November 27, 1937 |
American writer |
| Bill Anderson |
November 1, 1937 |
American country music singer and songwriter |
| Ron O'Neal |
September 1, 1937 |
American actor, director and screenwriter |
| Francis Veber |
July 28, 1937 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Pai Hsien-yung |
July 11, 1937 |
Taiwanese writer |
| Jerry Keller |
June 20, 1937 |
pop singer and songwriter |
| Jimmy Jones (singer) |
June 2, 1937 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Allan Carr |
May 27, 1937 |
American film producer and writer |
| Nélida Piñon |
May 3, 1937 |
Brazilian writer |
| Jill Paton Walsh |
April 29, 1937 |
English writer |
| David Ackles |
February 27, 1937 |
American singer songwriter |
| Ali El-Maak |
February 13, 1937 |
Sudanese writer |
| James Burke |
December 22, 1936 |
British writer |
| James Lee Burke |
December 5, 1936 |
American writer |
| Robert Barnard |
November 23, 1936 |
British mystery writer |
| Wolf Biermann |
November 15, 1936 |
German writer |
| Mort Shuman |
November 12, 1936 |
American songwriter and singer |
| Dale Hawkins |
August 22, 1936 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Andre Dubus |
August 11, 1936 |
American short-story writer |
| Assia Djebar |
August 4, 1936 |
Algerian writer and filmmaker |
| June Jordan |
July 9, 1936 |
American writer and teacher |
| Kris Kristofferson |
June 22, 1936 |
American singer/songwriter and actor |
| Tom T. Hall |
May 25, 1936 |
American singer and songwriter |
| M. Scott Peck |
May 22, 1936 |
American psychiatrist and writer |
| Paul Zindel |
May 15, 1936 |
American writer |
| Marge Piercy |
March 31, 1936 |
American writer |
| Fred Neil |
March 16, 1936 |
American singer-songwriter |
| Howard Greenfield |
March 15, 1936 |
American songwriter |
| Sam Myers |
February 19, 1936 |
American musician and songwriter |
| Marin Sorescu |
February 19, 1936 |
Romanian writer and novelist |
| Jean Auel |
February 18, 1936 |
American writer |
| Ismail Kadare |
January 28, 1936 |
Albanian writer |
| Alan Alda |
January 28, 1936 |
American actor, writer, and director |
| Anne Rivers Siddons |
January 9, 1936 |
American writer |
| Lewis Arquette |
December 14, 1935 |
American film actor, writer and producer |
| Adélia Prado |
December 13, 1935 |
Brazilian writer |
| Calvin Trillin |
December 5, 1935 |
American writer |
| Al Jackson |
November 27, 1935 |
American drummer, producer and songwriter |
| Agota Kristof |
October 30, 1935 |
Hungarian writer |
| Ann Rule |
October 22, 1935 |
American true-crime writer |
| Hank Cochran |
August 2, 1935 |
American country music singer and songwriter |
| Françoise Sagan |
June 21, 1935 |
French writer |
| Dennis Potter |
May 17, 1935 |
English writer |
| Larry Williams |
May 10, 1935 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Douglas Marland |
May 5, 1935 |
American television writer |
| Loretta Lynn |
April 14, 1935 |
American singer/songwriter |
| Erich von Däniken |
April 14, 1935 |
Swiss writer |
| Abelardo Castillo |
March 27, 1935 |
Argentine writer |
| Peter Bichsel |
March 24, 1935 |
Swiss writer |
| Susan Brownmiller |
February 15, 1935 |
American feminist and writer |
| Kenzaburo Oe |
January 31, 1935 |
Japanese writer, Nobel laureate |
| Richard Brautigan |
January 30, 1935 |
American writer and poet |
| Neil Downing |
January 2, 1935 |
Irish writer and musician |
| Joan Didion |
December 5, 1934 |
American writer |
| Robert Towne |
November 23, 1934 |
American writer, director, producer, and actor |
| Vassilis Vassilikos |
November 18, 1934 |
Greek writer, Greeces ambassador to UNESCO |
| Garry Marshall |
November 13, 1934 |
American producer, director, writer, and actor |
| Carl Sagan |
November 9, 1934 |
American astronomer and writer |
| Leonard Cohen |
September 21, 1934 |
Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Kate Millett |
September 14, 1934 |
American feminist writer |
| Piers Anthony |
August 6, 1934 |
English writer |
| Wendell Berry |
August 5, 1934 |
American poet, writer and farmer |
| Uwe Johnson |
July 20, 1934 |
German writer |
| Wole Soyinka |
July 13, 1934 |
Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Tom Springfield |
July 2, 1934 |
British singer and songwriter (The Springfields) |
| Claude Berri |
July 1, 1934 |
French actor, director and screenwriter |
| Georges Moustaki |
May 3, 1934 |
Egytian born Greek-French singer and songwriter |
| John D. Loudermilk |
March 31, 1934 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Del Close |
March 9, 1934 |
American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher |
| N. Scott Momaday |
February 27, 1934 |
American writer |
| Carole Eastman |
February 19, 1934 |
American screenwriter |
| Raymond Briggs |
January 18, 1934 |
English writer and illustrator |
| Alexandra Ripley |
January 8, 1934 |
American writer |
| Norman Rush |
October 24, 1933 |
American writer |
| Cees Nooteboom |
July 31, 1933 |
Dutch writer |
| Buddy Knox |
July 20, 1933 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Harry Browne |
June 17, 1933 |
American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst |
| Barbara Taylor Bradford |
May 10, 1933 |
English writer |
| Mike Stoller |
March 13, 1933 |
American songwriter |
| Costa-Gavras |
February 12, 1933 |
Greek director and writer |
| Jörn Donner |
February 5, 1933 |
Finnish writer/director |
| Susan Sontag |
January 16, 1933 |
American writer |
| Joe Orton |
January 1, 1933 |
English writer |
| Manuel Puig |
December 28, 1932 |
Argentine writer |
| Salvador Elizondo |
December 19, 1932 |
Mexican writer. |
| Robert Benton |
September 29, 1932 |
American screenwriter and director |
| Vladimir Voinovich |
September 26, 1932 |
Russian writer and dissident |
| Melvin Van Peebles |
August 21, 1932 |
American actor and screenwriter |
| V. S. Naipaul |
August 17, 1932 |
West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate |
| Fernando Arrabal |
August 11, 1932 |
Spanish writer |
| Maurice Shadbolt |
June 4, 1932 |
New Zealand writer |
| John Gregory Dunne |
May 25, 1932 |
American writer |
| Jim Fixx |
April 23, 1932 |
American athlete and writer |
| Ted Morgan |
March 30, 1932 |
Swiss-born writer |
| Otis Blackwell |
February 16, 1932 |
American songwriter and singer |
| Umberto Eco |
January 5, 1932 |
Italian writer |
| Bob Shaw |
December 31, 1931 |
Irish writer |
| Guy Debord |
December 28, 1931 |
French writer |
| Nigel Calder |
December 2, 1931 |
British science writer |
| Bob Crewe |
November 12, 1931 |
American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons) |
| Nawal el-Saadawi |
October 27, 1931 |
Egyptian writer |
| Ernst Hinterberger |
October 17, 1931 |
Austrian writer |
| William Goldman |
August 12, 1931 |
American screenwriter |
| Guy Fournier |
July 23, 1931 |
French Canadian author and screenwriter |
| Claude Fournier |
July 23, 1931 |
French Canadian film director and screenwriter |
| Alice Munro |
July 10, 1931 |
Canadian writer |
| Sébastien Japrisot |
July 4, 1931 |
French author, film director and sreenwriter |
| Greg |
May 5, 1931 |
Belgian comic-book writer (Achille Talon) (d, 1999) |
| Thomas Stuttaford |
May 4, 1931 |
British doctor and writer |
| Robert Enrico |
April 13, 1931 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Rolf Hochhuth |
April 1, 1931 |
German writer |
| Phil Phillips |
March 14, 1931 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Georges Dor |
March 10, 1931 |
Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter |
| John McPhee |
March 8, 1931 |
American writer and professor |
| Toni Morrison |
February 18, 1931 |
American writer, Nobel laureate |
| Larry Merchant |
February 11, 1931 |
American sportswriter |
| Peter Barnes |
January 10, 1931 |
English writer |
| Wilfrid Sheed |
December 27, 1930 |
English-born American writer |
| Jean Ferrat |
December 26, 1930 |
French singer and songwriter |
| Jimmy Breslin |
October 17, 1930 |
American writer |
| Lionel Bart |
August 1, 1930 |
English song-writer |
| Julie Bovasso |
August 1, 1930 |
American actor and writer |
| Alice Parizeau |
July 25, 1930 |
Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist |
| Guy Béart |
July 16, 1930 |
Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter |
| Gordon Pinsent |
July 12, 1930 |
Canadian actor, director, and writer |
| Alifa Rifaat |
June 5, 1930 |
Egyptian writer |
| John Barth |
May 22, 1930 |
American writer |
| José Jiménez Lozano |
May 13, 1930 |
Spanish writer |
| Paul Mazursky |
April 25, 1930 |
American film director and writer |
| Peter Stone |
February 27, 1930 |
American writer |
| Ruth Rendell |
February 17, 1930 |
English writer |
| John Junkin |
January 29, 1930 |
English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter |
| Derek Walcott |
January 23, 1930 |
West Indian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Chris Kenner |
December 25, 1929 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Howard Sackler |
December 19, 1929 |
American screenwriter |
| Hal Lindsey |
November 23, 1929 |
American evangelist and Christian writer |
| Aleksandar Popovic |
November 22, 1929 |
Serbian theatre writer |
| Marilyn French |
November 21, 1929 |
American feminist writer |
| Michael Ende |
November 12, 1929 |
German writer |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
November 11, 1929 |
German writer |
| Marilyn Bergman |
November 10, 1929 |
American composer and songwriter |
| Imre Kertész |
November 9, 1929 |
Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Yordan Radichkov |
October 24, 1929 |
Bulgarian writer |
| Larry Collins |
September 14, 1929 |
American writer |
| Lee Hazlewood |
July 9, 1929 |
American country singer, songwriter and producer |
| James Goldman |
June 30, 1929 |
American screenwriter |
| Brigid Brophy |
June 12, 1929 |
British writer |
| Adrienne Rich |
May 16, 1929 |
American writer |
| Sonny James |
May 1, 1929 |
American country music singer and songwriter |
| Ed Townsend |
April 16, 1929 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Hugo Claus |
April 5, 1929 |
Belgian writer |
| Milan Kundera |
April 1, 1929 |
Czech-born writer |
| Jules Feiffer |
January 26, 1929 |
American cartoonist and writer |
| Philip K. Dick |
December 16, 1928 |
American writer |
| Chinghiz Aitmatov |
December 12, 1928 |
Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer |
| Noam Chomsky |
December 7, 1928 |
American linguist and political writer |
| Carlos Fuentes |
November 11, 1928 |
Mexican writer |
| Gilles Vigneault |
October 27, 1928 |
Québécois poet, singer and songwriter |
| Torben Ulrich |
October 4, 1928 |
Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player |
| Alvin Toffler |
October 3, 1928 |
American writer and futurist |
| Romeo Muller |
August 7, 1928 |
American screenwriter |
| Ibn-e-Safi |
July 26, 1928 |
Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet |
| Harold Evans |
June 28, 1928 |
English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times 1967-1981 |
| Barry Took |
June 19, 1928 |
English comedy writer |
| Richard M. Sherman |
June 12, 1928 |
American songwriter |
| Maurice Sendak |
June 10, 1928 |
American writer |
| William Trevor |
May 24, 1928 |
Irish writer |
| Édouard Molinaro |
May 13, 1928 |
French film actor, director and screenwriter |
| Marco Ferreri |
May 11, 1928 |
Italian film director and screenwriter |
| Theodore Sorenson |
May 8, 1928 |
American writer |
| Cynthia Ozick |
April 17, 1928 |
American writer |
| James White |
April 7, 1928 |
Northern Irish science fiction writer |
| Maya Angelou |
April 4, 1928 |
American writer |
| Lefty Frizzell |
March 31, 1928 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Alan Sillitoe |
March 4, 1928 |
English writer |
| Larry Gelbart |
February 25, 1928 |
American comedy writer |
| Chuck Willis |
January 31, 1928 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Lars Forssell |
January 14, 1928 |
Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy |
| Domenico Modugno |
January 9, 1928 |
Italian singer and songwriter |
| William Peter Blatty |
January 7, 1928 |
American screenwriter |
| Daisaku Ikeda |
January 2, 1928 |
Japanese writer, president of SGI |
| Ernest Tidyman |
January 1, 1928 |
American writer |
| Agnes Nixon |
December 27, 1927 |
American television producer, director, and writer |
| James Booth |
December 19, 1927 |
British actor and screenwriter |
| Randall Garrett |
December 16, 1927 |
American writer |
| Ahmadou Kourouma |
November 24, 1927 |
Ivorian writer |
| Günter Grass |
October 16, 1927 |
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Harlan Howard |
September 8, 1927 |
American country music songwriter |
| Gérard Brach |
July 23, 1927 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Robert Ludlum |
May 25, 1927 |
American writer |
| Herbert W. Franke |
May 14, 1927 |
Austrian writer |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
May 7, 1927 |
German screenwriter |
| Kenneth Tynan |
April 2, 1927 |
English critic and writer |
| John Kander |
March 18, 1927 |
American songwriter |
| George Plimpton |
March 18, 1927 |
American writer and actor |
| Jean-Paul Desbiens |
March 7, 1927 |
Quebec writer and teacher |
| Gabriel García Márquez |
March 6, 1927 |
Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Joan Lowery Nixon |
February 3, 1927 |
American writer |
| Jan Kresadlo |
December 9, 1926 |
Czech writer |
| Poul Anderson |
November 25, 1926 |
American writer |
| Arne Bendiksen |
October 19, 1926 |
Norwegian singer and songwriter |
| Jan Morris |
October 2, 1926 |
English writer |
| James Lipton |
September 19, 1926 |
American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio |
| Jean Poiret |
August 17, 1926 |
French actor, director and screenwriter |
| Wallace Markfield |
August 12, 1926 |
American writer |
| Norman Wexler |
August 6, 1926 |
American screenwriter |
| Robert Sloman |
July 18, 1926 |
writer |
| Octavian Paler |
July 2, 1926 |
Romanian writer, journalist, |
| Ingeborg Bachmann |
June 25, 1926 |
Austrian writer |
| John Lucarotti |
May 20, 1926 |
TV writer |
| Frank Daniel |
April 14, 1926 |
Czech-born writer, director and teacher |
| Dario Fo |
March 24, 1926 |
Italian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Siegfried Lenz |
March 17, 1926 |
German writer |
| Neal Cassady |
February 8, 1926 |
American writer |
| Farman Fatehpuri |
January 26, 1926 |
Pakistani scholar, writer and linguist |
| Michael Bond |
January 13, 1926 |
British writer |
| Robert B. Sherman |
December 19, 1925 |
American songwriter |
| John Maddox |
November 27, 1925 |
British science writer and editor |
| William F. Buckley Jr. |
November 24, 1925 |
American writer |
| Johnny Mandel |
November 23, 1925 |
American songwriter |
| Yuli Daniel |
November 15, 1925 |
Russian writer |
| Dory Previn |
October 22, 1925 |
American songwriter |
| Laurent de Brunhoff |
August 30, 1925 |
French writer and illustrator |
| Thea Astley |
August 25, 1925 |
Australian writer, |
| Brian Aldiss |
August 18, 1925 |
English writer |
| Felice Bryant |
August 7, 1925 |
American country songwriter and singer |
| Ernst Jandl |
August 1, 1925 |
Austrian writer |
| Alexander Trocchi |
July 30, 1925 |
Scottish writer |
| Frantz Fanon |
July 20, 1925 |
West Indian psychiatrist and writer |
| Doc Pomus |
June 27, 1925 |
American blues singer/songwriter |
| Charlie Drake |
June 19, 1925 |
British actor, writer and singer |
| Keith Laumer |
June 9, 1925 |
science fiction writer |
| Tony Hillerman |
May 27, 1925 |
American writer |
| Boudleaux Bryant |
February 13, 1925 |
American songwriter |
| Russell Hoban |
February 4, 1925 |
American writer |
| Yukio Mishima |
January 14, 1925 |
Japanese writer |
| Rod Serling |
December 25, 1924 |
American television writer |
| Marguerite Andersen |
October 15, 1924 |
German writer |
| Joan Aiken |
September 4, 1924 |
English writer |
| Consuelo Velázquez |
August 29, 1924 |
Mexican songwriter |
| Ephraim Kishon |
August 23, 1924 |
Israeli writer |
| Robert Bolt |
August 15, 1924 |
English playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter |
| Gavin Lambert |
July 23, 1924 |
British-born screenwriter |
| Bulat Okudzhava |
May 9, 1924 |
Russian writer and musician |
| Terry Southern |
May 1, 1924 |
American screenwriter |
| Sir Clement Freud |
April 24, 1924 |
British writer, radio personality, and politician |
| Frédéric Back |
April 8, 1924 |
Canadian short film director and screenwriter |
| Johannes Mario Simmel |
April 7, 1924 |
Austrian writer |
| H. Richard Hornberger |
February 1, 1924 |
American writer |
| Lloyd Alexander |
January 30, 1924 |
American writer |
| Intizar Hussain |
December 21, 1923 |
Urdu writer and colomnist of Pakistan |
| Gerard Reve |
December 14, 1923 |
Dutch writer |
| Nadine Gordimer |
November 20, 1923 |
South African writer, Nobel laureate |
| Bert Kaempfert |
October 16, 1923 |
German orchestra leader and songwriter |
| Dannie Abse |
September 22, 1923 |
Welsh poet and writer |
| Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi |
August 4, 1923 |
Pakistani satirical and humor writer |
| Maria Gripe |
July 25, 1923 |
Swedish writer |
| Cyril M. Kornbluth |
July 23, 1923 |
American writer |
| Wislawa Szymborska |
July 2, 1923 |
Polish writer, Nobel laureate |
| Nicholas Mosley |
June 25, 1923 |
British writer |
| Elizabeth Jolley |
June 4, 1923 |
Australian writer |
| Avram Davidson |
April 23, 1923 |
American writer |
| John Mortimer |
April 21, 1923 |
English barrister and writer |
| Orrin Keepnews |
March 2, 1923 |
American writer and critic |
| Kuczka Péter |
March 1, 1923 |
Hungarian writer and editor |
| Norman Mailer |
January 31, 1923 |
American writer and journalist |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
January 29, 1923 |
American writer |
| Ivo Robic |
January 29, 1923 |
Croatian singer and songwriter |
| Jacobo Timerman |
January 6, 1923 |
Argentine writer |
| William Gaddis |
December 29, 1922 |
American writer |
| Stan Lee |
December 28, 1922 |
American comic book writer |
| Grace Paley |
December 11, 1922 |
American writer |
| Salil Chowdhury |
November 19, 1922 |
Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker |
| José Saramago |
November 16, 1922 |
Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate |
| Max Bygraves |
October 16, 1922 |
English singer/songwriter |
| Agustina Bessa-Luís |
October 15, 1922 |
Portuguese writer |
| Damon Knight |
September 19, 1922 |
American writer |
| Manolis Glezos |
September 9, 1922 |
Greek politician and writer |
| Hoyt Curtin |
September 9, 1922 |
American songwriter |
| Alain Robbe-Grillet |
August 18, 1922 |
French writer |
| Norman Lear |
July 27, 1922 |
American television writer and producer |
| Madeleine Ferron |
July 24, 1922 |
French Canadian writer |
| George Axelrod |
June 9, 1922 |
American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director |
| Juan Antonio Bardem |
June 2, 1922 |
Spanish director and screenwriter |
| Hal Clement |
May 30, 1922 |
American writer |
| Jakucho Setouchi |
May 15, 1922 |
Japanese writer and Buddhist nun |
| Marco Denevi |
May 12, 1922 |
Argentine writer |
| Carl Amery |
April 9, 1922 |
German writer |
| Ugo Tognazzi |
March 23, 1922 |
Italian actor, director and screenwriter |
| Harding Lemay |
March 16, 1922 |
American television scriptwriter and playwright |
| Jack Kerouac |
March 12, 1922 |
American writer |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini |
March 5, 1922 |
Italian writer and film director |
| Ray Anthony |
January 20, 1922 |
American trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter and actor |
| James Jones |
November 6, 1921 |
American writer |
| John W. Peterson |
November 1, 1921 |
American songwriter |
| Milton Subotsky |
September 27, 1921 |
American TV and film producer/screenwriter |
| Paulo Freire |
September 19, 1921 |
Brazilian educator & writer |
| Stanislaw Lem |
September 12, 1921 |
Polish writer |
| Willem Frederik Hermans |
September 1, 1921 |
Dutch writer |
| Brian Moore |
August 25, 1921 |
Irish-born writer |
| Jean Shepherd |
July 26, 1921 |
American writer |
| Frédéric Dard |
June 29, 1921 |
French writer |
| Hal David |
May 25, 1921 |
American lyricist and songwriter |
| Wolfgang Borchert |
May 20, 1921 |
German writer |
| Karel van het Reve |
May 19, 1921 |
Dutch writer |
| Farley Mowat |
May 12, 1921 |
Canadian writer and naturalist |
| Dario Moreno |
April 3, 1921 |
Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter |
| Wilson Harris |
March 4, 1921 |
Guyanese writer |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
January 5, 1921 |
Swiss writer |
| Reginald Rose |
December 10, 1920 |
American writer |
| Clarice Lispector |
December 10, 1920 |
Ukrainian-Brazilian writer |
| Oodgeroo Noonuccal |
November 3, 1920 |
Australian writer |
| Timothy Leary |
October 22, 1920 |
American writer and professor |
| Miguel Delibes |
October 17, 1920 |
Spanish writer |
| Frank Herbert |
October 8, 1920 |
American writer |
| Roger Angell |
September 19, 1920 |
American sports writer |
| Mario Benedetti |
September 14, 1920 |
Uruguayan writer |
| Ray Bradbury |
August 22, 1920 |
American writer |
| Enzo Biagi |
August 9, 1920 |
Italian journalist and writer |
| Pierre Berton |
July 12, 1920 |
Canadian journalist and writer |
| John Howard Griffin |
June 16, 1920 |
American writer |
| Otto Buchsbaum |
May 2, 1920 |
Austrian writer and ecological activist |
| Arthur Hailey |
April 5, 1920 |
American writer |
| Manolis Chiotis |
March 21, 1920 |
Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer |
| Boris Vian |
March 10, 1920 |
French writer and musician |
| Lucjan Wolanowski |
February 26, 1920 |
Polish journalist, writer and traveller |
| Jaan Kross |
February 19, 1920 |
Estonian writer |
| Alex Comfort |
February 10, 1920 |
physician and writer |
| Frederik Pohl |
November 26, 1919 |
American science fiction writer |
| Doris Lessing |
October 22, 1919 |
British writer |
| Kathleen Winsor |
October 16, 1919 |
American writer |
| Laurence J. Peter |
September 16, 1919 |
Canadian born educator and writer |
| Nelson Gidding |
September 15, 1919 |
American screenwriter |
| Gianni Brera |
September 8, 1919 |
(Giovanni Luigi Brera), Italian journalist and writer |
| Iris Murdoch |
July 15, 1919 |
Irish writer |
| Roger Lemelin |
April 7, 1919 |
Quebec novelist and television writer |
| Edwin Newman |
January 25, 1919 |
American journalist and writer |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
December 11, 1918 |
Russian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Dean Riesner |
November 3, 1918 |
film and television screenwriter |
| Zoltán Sztáray |
June 20, 1918 |
Hungarian writer |
| Bob Broeg |
March 18, 1918 |
American sports writer |
| Mickey Spillane |
March 9, 1918 |
American writer |
| Theodore Sturgeon |
February 26, 1918 |
American writer |
| Hank Locklin |
February 15, 1918 |
American country music singer and songwriter |
| Hella S. Haasse |
February 2, 1918 |
Dutch writer |
| Philip José Farmer |
January 26, 1918 |
American writer |
| Stirling Silliphant |
January 16, 1918 |
American writer |
| Onni Palaste |
December 27, 1917 |
Finnish writer |
| Heinrich Böll |
December 21, 1917 |
German writer and Nobel laureate |
| Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
December 16, 1917 |
British writer |
| Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee |
December 15, 1917 |
linguist and writer of Pakistan |
| Jessica Mitford |
September 11, 1917 |
British writer |
| Johannes Bobrowski |
April 9, 1917 |
German lyricist and writer |
| Samael Aun Weor |
March 16, 1917 |
Colombian writer |
| David Goodis |
March 2, 1917 |
American writer |
| Jane Bowles |
February 22, 1917 |
American writer and playwright |
| Penelope Fitzgerald |
December 17, 1916 |
British writer |
| Shirley Jackson |
December 14, 1916 |
American writer |
| Hugo Peretti |
December 6, 1916 |
American songwriter and record producer |
| Forrest J. Ackerman |
November 24, 1916 |
American writer |
| Sherwood Schwartz |
November 14, 1916 |
American television writer and producer |
| Roald Dahl |
September 13, 1916 |
British writer |
| Aleks Çaçi |
August 15, 1916 |
Albanian writer |
| Sibte Hassan |
July 31, 1916 |
Pakistani activist, journalist, and writer |
| Camilo José Cela |
May 11, 1916 |
Spanish writer, Nobel laureate |
| Morris West |
April 26, 1916 |
Australian writer |
| Beverly Cleary |
April 12, 1916 |
American writer |
| Horton Foote |
March 14, 1916 |
American author, playwright and screenwriter |
| William Alland |
March 4, 1916 |
American actor, producer, writer and director |
| Giorgio Bassani |
March 4, 1916 |
Italian writer |
| Jackie Gleason |
February 26, 1916 |
American actor, writer, composer, and comedian |
| Ernest Lehman |
December 8, 1915 |
American screenwriter |
| Roland Barthes |
November 12, 1915 |
French critic and writer |
| Paul Jarrico |
October 28, 1915 |
American screenwriter |
| Herman Wouk |
May 27, 1915 |
American writer |
| Theodore White |
May 6, 1915 |
American writer |
| Doris Fisher |
May 2, 1915 |
American songwriter |
| Joy Gresham |
April 18, 1915 |
American writer |
| Henry Kuttner |
April 7, 1915 |
American writer |
| Jay Livingston |
March 28, 1915 |
American composer and songwriter |
| Georgiy Zhzhonov |
March 22, 1915 |
Russian actor and writer |
| Hans Peter Keller |
March 11, 1915 |
German writer |
| Ketti Frings |
February 28, 1915 |
American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, |
| Vassilis Tsitsanis |
January 18, 1915 |
Greek singer and songwriter |
| Paul Jarrico |
January 12, 1915 |
American writer |
| Alan Watts |
January 6, 1915 |
English writer |
| Herbert Reinecker |
December 24, 1914 |
German writer |
| Archie Campbell |
November 7, 1914 |
American comedian, writer |
| Martin Gardner |
October 21, 1914 |
American mathematician and writer |
| Brendan Gill |
October 4, 1914 |
American writer |
| Daniel J. Boorstin |
October 1, 1914 |
American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress |
| Adolfo Bioy Casares |
September 15, 1914 |
Argentine writer |
| Tom Glazer |
September 2, 1914 |
American folk singer and songwriter |
| Julio Cortázar |
August 26, 1914 |
Argentine writer |
| Félix Leclerc |
August 2, 1914 |
Quebec singer, songwriter and writer |
| Hammond Innes |
July 15, 1914 |
English writer |
| Romain Gary |
May 8, 1914 |
Polish writer |
| Jan de Hartog |
April 22, 1914 |
Dutch writer |
| Norman Panama |
April 21, 1914 |
American screenwriter |
| Marguerite Duras |
April 4, 1914 |
French writer |
| Octavio Paz |
March 31, 1914 |
Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate |
| Edward Anhalt |
March 28, 1914 |
American screenwriter |
| Bohumil Hrabal |
March 28, 1914 |
Czech writer |
| Budd Schulberg |
March 27, 1914 |
American screenwriter and novelist |
| W.O. Mitchell |
March 13, 1914 |
Canadian writer |
| Ralph Ellison |
March 1, 1914 |
American writer |
| Pee Wee King |
February 18, 1914 |
American country musician and songwriter |
| Alfred Andersch |
February 4, 1914 |
German writer |
| Albert Camus |
November 7, 1913 |
French writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Vinicius de Moraes |
October 19, 1913 |
Brazilian poet and songwriter |
| Claude Simon |
October 10, 1913 |
French writer, Nobel laureate |
| Simon Carmiggelt |
October 7, 1913 |
Dutch journalist and writer |
| Bill Walsh |
September 30, 1913 |
American film producer and writer |
| Robertson Davies |
August 28, 1913 |
Canadian writer |
| Boris Pahor |
August 28, 1913 |
Slovenian writer |
| Cordwainer Smith |
July 11, 1913 |
American writer |
| Charles Trenet |
May 18, 1913 |
French singer and songwriter |
| René Clément |
March 18, 1913 |
French film director and screenwriter |
| Sergey Mikhalkov |
March 13, 1913 |
Russian writer |
| Taos Amrouche |
March 4, 1913 |
Algerian writer and singer |
| Irwin Shaw |
February 27, 1913 |
American writer |
| Daniel Taradash |
January 29, 1913 |
American screenwriter |
| Peter von Zahn |
January 29, 1913 |
German journalist and writer |
| James Van Heusen |
January 26, 1913 |
American songwriter |
| Gordon Parks |
November 30, 1912 |
American photographer, film director, composer and writer |
| Garson Kanin |
November 24, 1912 |
American writer |
| Mary McCarthy |
June 21, 1912 |
American writer |
| Jameel Jalibi |
June 12, 1912 |
Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist |
| Patrick White |
May 28, 1912 |
Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Richard Brooks |
May 18, 1912 |
American film director, writer and producer |
| Studs Terkel |
May 16, 1912 |
American writer |
| A. E. van Vogt |
April 26, 1912 |
Canadian writer |
| Lawrence Durrell |
February 27, 1912 |
British writer |
| Roy Fuller |
February 11, 1912 |
English writer |
| Naguib Mahfouz |
December 11, 1911 |
Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Odysseus Elytis |
November 2, 1911 |
Greek writer, Nobel laureate |
| Shriram Sharma Acharya |
September 20, 1911 |
Indian spiritual leader, saint, sage, visionary, freedom fighter,writer, poet |
| Sir William Golding |
September 19, 1911 |
English writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Paul Goodman |
September 9, 1911 |
American poet and writer |
| Mervyn Peake |
July 9, 1911 |
British writer and illustrator |
| Ernesto Sábato |
June 24, 1911 |
Argentinian writer |
| W.V. Awdry |
June 15, 1911 |
British childrens writer |
| Gardner Fox |
May 20, 1911 |
American writer |
| Lee Falk |
April 28, 1911 |
American comic strip writer |
| Hervé Bazin |
April 7, 1911 |
French writer |
| Smiley Burnette |
March 18, 1911 |
American singer and songwriter |
| Fritz Leiber |
December 24, 1910 |
American writer |
| Jean Genet |
December 19, 1910 |
French writer |
| Noel Rosa |
December 11, 1910 |
Brazilian songwriter |
| Abraham Polonsky |
December 5, 1910 |
American screenwriter |
| Antanas Škema |
November 29, 1910 |
Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director |
| William Bradford Huie |
November 13, 1910 |
American writer and publisher |
| Bruno Coquatrix |
August 5, 1910 |
French songwriter and music impresario |
| Roger MacDougall |
August 2, 1910 |
writer |
| David Rose |
June 15, 1910 |
American songwriter, composer and orchestra leader |
| Carmine Coppola |
June 11, 1910 |
American composer, director and songwriter |
| Peter De Vries |
February 27, 1910 |
American writer |
| Joy Adamson |
January 20, 1910 |
Austrian naturalist and writer |
| Nikos Kavvadias |
January 11, 1910 |
Greek poet and writer |
| Wright Morris |
January 6, 1910 |
American writer |
| James Agee |
November 27, 1909 |
American writer |
| Nigel Tranter |
November 23, 1909 |
British historian and writer |
| Dorothy Kingsley |
October 14, 1909 |
American screenwriter |
| Julius J. Epstein |
August 22, 1909 |
American screenwriter |
| Eric Ambler |
June 28, 1909 |
English writer |
| Eudora Welty |
April 13, 1909 |
American writer |
| Robert Charroux |
April 7, 1909 |
French writer |
| Nelson Algren |
March 28, 1909 |
American writer |
| August Derleth |
February 24, 1909 |
American writer |
| Wallace Stegner |
February 18, 1909 |
American writer |
| Nelson S. Bond |
November 23, 1908 |
American science fiction writer |
| Martha Gellhorn |
November 8, 1908 |
American writer |
| Edmond Pidoux |
October 25, 1908 |
Swiss writer |
| Johnny Green |
October 10, 1908 |
American songwriter, arranger and conductor |
| Joshua Logan |
October 5, 1908 |
American film director and writer |
| Richard Wright |
September 4, 1908 |
American writer |
| M. M. Kaye |
August 21, 1908 |
British writer |
| Joseph Mitchell |
July 27, 1908 |
American writer |
| M. F. K. Fisher |
July 3, 1908 |
American writer |
| Winston Graham |
June 30, 1908 |
British writer |
| João Guimarães Rosa |
June 27, 1908 |
Brazilian writer |
| Eden Ahbez |
April 15, 1908 |
American songwriter |
| René Daumal |
March 16, 1908 |
French Surrealist writer |
| Robert Rossen |
March 16, 1908 |
American film director, screenwriter and producer |
| Irving Fiske |
March 5, 1908 |
American writer, playwright, |
| Philip Dunne |
February 11, 1908 |
American screenwriter, director and producer |
| Paul Misraki |
January 28, 1908 |
French composer and songwriter |
| Sebastian Haffner |
December 27, 1907 |
German journalist and writer |
| Rumer Godden (Margaret Rumer Godden) |
December 10, 1907 |
British writer |
| Alberto Moravia |
November 28, 1907 |
Italian writer |
| L. Sprague de Camp |
November 27, 1907 |
American writer |
| Astrid Lindgren |
November 14, 1907 |
Swedish writer |
| Mary Hamman |
August 2, 1907 |
American writer |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
July 7, 1907 |
American writer |
| Jimmy Driftwood |
June 20, 1907 |
American songwriter and musician |
| Nicolas Bentley |
June 14, 1907 |
British writer and illustrator |
| Jacques Roumain |
June 4, 1907 |
Haitian writer |
| Dorothy West |
June 2, 1907 |
American writer |
| Rachel Carson |
May 27, 1907 |
American biologist and science writer |
| Leslie Charteris |
May 12, 1907 |
British author and screenwriter |
| "Braguinha" |
March 29, 1907 |
Brazilian songwriter |
| Mircea Eliade |
March 13, 1907 |
Romanian historian of religions and writer |
| Oscar Brodney |
February 18, 1907 |
American screenwriter |
| Klaus Mann |
November 18, 1906 |
German writer |
| Hannah Arendt |
October 14, 1906 |
German political theorist and writer |
| Jacques Becker |
September 15, 1906 |
French screenwriter and director |
| Clifford Odets |
July 18, 1906 |
American writer |
| Arturo Uslar Pietri |
May 16, 1906 |
Venezuelan writer |
| Enrique Laguerre |
May 6, 1906 |
Puerto Rican writer |
| Samuel Beckett |
April 13, 1906 |
Irish writer, Nobel laureate |
| Francisco Ayala |
March 16, 1906 |
Spanish writer |
| Giovanni D'Anzi |
January 1, 1906 |
Italian songwriter |
| Érico Lopes Veríssimo |
December 17, 1905 |
Brazilian writer |
| Mànes Sperber |
December 12, 1905 |
Austro-Hungarian-born writer |
| Robert Henriques |
December 11, 1905 |
British writer |
| Dalton Trumbo |
December 9, 1905 |
American writer |
| Erika Mann |
November 9, 1905 |
German writer |
| Ellery Queen |
October 20, 1905 |
pseudonym of two American writers |
| C. P. Snow |
October 15, 1905 |
British writer |
| Arthur Koestler |
September 5, 1905 |
Hungarian writer |
| Denys Watkins-Pitchford |
July 25, 1905 |
writer and illustrator |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
June 21, 1905 |
French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) |
| Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
May 24, 1905 |
Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Markos Vamvakaris |
May 10, 1905 |
Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter |
| John O'Hara |
January 31, 1905 |
American writer |
| Alejo Carpentier |
December 26, 1904 |
Cuban writer |
| Ding Ling |
October 12, 1904 |
Chinese writer |
| Christopher Isherwood |
August 26, 1904 |
English-born writer |
| Brett Halliday |
July 31, 1904 |
American writer |
| Salvador Novo |
July 30, 1904 |
Mexican writer |
| Harold Acton |
July 5, 1904 |
American writer and dilettante |
| Phil Harris |
June 24, 1904 |
American singer, songwriter and comedian |
| Cecil Day-Lewis |
April 27, 1904 |
Irish poet and writer |
| Emilio Fernández |
March 26, 1904 |
Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director |
| James T. Farrell |
February 27, 1904 |
American writer |
| Havank |
February 19, 1904 |
Dutch writer |
| MacKinlay Kantor |
February 4, 1904 |
American writer |
| Arkady Gaidar |
January 22, 1904 |
Russian childrens writer |
| Emily Hahn |
January 14, 1904 |
American writer |
| Cornell Woolrich |
December 4, 1903 |
American writer |
| Evelyn Waugh |
October 28, 1903 |
English writer |
| Nathanael West |
October 17, 1903 |
American writer |
| Vernon Duke |
October 10, 1903 |
American composer and songwriter |
| Frank O'Connor |
September 17, 1903 |
Irish-American short-story writer |
| Phyllis Whitney |
September 9, 1903 |
American writer |
| Irving Stone |
July 14, 1903 |
American writer |
| George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) |
June 25, 1903 |
British writer |
| Countee Cullen |
May 30, 1903 |
American writer |
| James Beard |
May 5, 1903 |
American chef and cookbook writer |
| Morley Callaghan |
February 22, 1903 |
Canadian writer |
| Anaïs Nin |
February 21, 1903 |
French writer |
| Georges Simenon |
February 13, 1903 |
Belgian writer |
| Aleksander Kaminski |
January 28, 1903 |
Polish writer |
| Alan Paton |
January 11, 1903 |
South African writer |
| Shen Congwen |
December 28, 1902 |
Chinese writer |
| Howard Koch |
December 2, 1902 |
American screenwriter |
| Arna Wendell Bontemps |
October 13, 1902 |
American writer |
| Jessamyn West |
July 18, 1902 |
American writer |
| Halldór Laxness |
April 23, 1902 |
Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Veniamin Kaverin |
April 6, 1902 |
Russian writer |
| Marcel Aymé |
March 29, 1902 |
French writer |
| John Steinbeck |
February 27, 1902 |
American writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Jean Bruller |
February 26, 1902 |
alias Vercors, French writer and illustrator |
| Kay Boyle |
February 19, 1902 |
American writer |
| Ödön von Horváth |
December 9, 1901 |
Hungarian-born writer |
| André Malraux |
November 3, 1901 |
French writer |
| Jaroslav Seifert |
September 23, 1901 |
Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| John Gunther |
August 30, 1901 |
American writer |
| Salvatore Quasimodo |
August 20, 1901 |
Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| John Van Druten |
June 1, 1901 |
English screen writer |
| Cornelia Otis Skinner |
May 30, 1901 |
American writer and actress |
| Whittaker Chambers |
April 1, 1901 |
American writer, editor, and defector |
| Charles Goren |
March 4, 1901 |
American bridge player and writer |
| C. L. R. James |
January 4, 1901 |
writer and journalist |
| Anna Seghers |
November 19, 1900 |
German writer |
| Eyvind Johnson |
July 29, 1900 |
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| Zelda Fitzgerald |
July 24, 1900 |
American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Nathalie Sarraute |
July 18, 1900 |
French writer |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
June 29, 1900 |
French writer |
| Eduardo De Filippo |
May 24, 1900 |
Italian actor and screenwriter |
| Hal Borland |
May 14, 1900 |
Writer |
| Sandor Marai |
April 11, 1900 |
Hungarian writer |
| Roberto Arlt |
April 2, 1900 |
Argentine writer |
| Herbert Biberman |
March 4, 1900 |
American screenwriter |
| Yojiro Ishizaka |
January 25, 1900 |
Japanese writer |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias |
October 19, 1899 |
Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Ernest Haycox |
October 1, 1899 |
American writer |
| Andrei Platonov |
September 1, 1899 |
Russian writer |
| Jorge Luis Borges |
August 24, 1899 |
Argentine writer |
| Gaylord DuBois |
August 24, 1899 |
American comic book writer |
| Charles Bennett |
August 2, 1899 |
British screenwriter |
| Ernest Hemingway |
July 21, 1899 |
American writer, Nobel laureate |
| E. B. White |
July 11, 1899 |
American writer |
| Marcel Achard |
July 5, 1899 |
French playwright, screenwriter and author |
| Yasunari Kawabata |
June 14, 1899 |
Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
April 22, 1899 |
Russian writer |
| Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay |
March 30, 1899 |
well known Bengali writer |
| Erich Kästner |
February 23, 1899 |
German writer |
| Lao She |
February 3, 1899 |
Chinese writer |
| C. S. Lewis |
November 29, 1898 |
Irish writer |
| Benjamin Fondane |
November 14, 1898 |
Romanian-French writer and filmmaker |
| Simon Vestdijk |
October 17, 1898 |
Dutch writer |
| Erich Maria Remarque |
June 22, 1898 |
German writer |
| Donald C. Peattie |
June 21, 1898 |
American botanist and writer |
| Vicente Aleixandre |
April 26, 1898 |
Spanish writer, Nobel laureate |
| Totò |
February 15, 1898 |
Italian actor, writer, and composer |
| Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
November 23, 1897 |
Indian writer |
| Sacheverell Sitwell |
November 15, 1897 |
English writer |
| Herman J. Mankiewicz |
November 7, 1897 |
American writer, director, and producer |
| Louis Aragon |
October 3, 1897 |
French writer |
| William Faulkner |
September 25, 1897 |
American writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Sally Benson |
September 3, 1897 |
American writer |
| Fred Rose |
August 24, 1897 |
American songwriter and publishing executive |
| Tarjei Vesaas |
August 20, 1897 |
Norwegian writer |
| Frank Capra |
May 18, 1897 |
American film producer, director, and writer |
| Paul Alverdes |
May 6, 1897 |
German writer |
| J. Fred Coots |
May 2, 1897 |
American songwriter |
| Humberto Mauro |
April 30, 1897 |
Brazillina director and screenwriter |
| Valentin Kataev |
January 28, 1897 |
Russian writer |
| Louis Bromfield |
December 27, 1896 |
American writer |
| Dawn Powell |
November 28, 1896 |
American writer |
| Yevgenia Ginzburg |
November 20, 1896 |
Russian writer |
| A. J. Cronin |
July 19, 1896 |
Scottish writer |
| Mao Dun |
July 4, 1896 |
Chinese writer |
| Moriz Seeler |
March 1, 1896 |
German writer and producer |
| Andre Breton |
February 18, 1896 |
French writer |
| Friedrich Glauser |
February 4, 1896 |
German-language Swiss writer |
| Helen Hooven Santmyer |
November 25, 1895 |
American writer |
| Antoni Slonimski |
November 15, 1895 |
Polish writer |
| Photios Kontoglou |
November 8, 1895 |
Greek writer, painter and iconographer |
| Caroline Gordon |
October 6, 1895 |
American writer and critic |
| Giovanni Comisso |
October 3, 1895 |
Italian writer |
| Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana |
September 10, 1895 |
Telugu writer |
| Edmund Wilson |
May 8, 1895 |
American writer |
| Júlio César de Mello e Souza |
May 6, 1895 |
Brazilian writer |
| Philippe Panneton |
April 30, 1895 |
French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer |
| Ngaio Marsh |
April 23, 1895 |
New Zealand writer |
| Eugen Roth |
January 24, 1895 |
German writer |
| Jean Toomer |
December 26, 1894 |
American writer |
| James Thurber |
December 8, 1894 |
American writer |
| Arthur Freed |
September 9, 1894 |
American songwriter and film producer |
| Isaac Babel |
July 18, 1894 |
Ukrainian writer |
| Isaac Babel |
July 13, 1894 |
Ukrainian writer |
| Josef von Sternberg |
May 29, 1894 |
Austrian-born writer and film director |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
May 27, 1894 |
French writer |
| Paul Green |
March 17, 1894 |
American writer |
| Frank Arnau |
March 9, 1894 |
German writer |
| John P. Marquand |
November 10, 1893 |
American writer |
| Mário de Andrade |
October 9, 1893 |
Brazilian writer and photographer |
| Giannis Skaribas |
September 28, 1893 |
Greek writer, dramatist, and poet |
| William March |
September 18, 1893 |
American writer |
| Dorothy Parker |
August 22, 1893 |
American writer |
| Hans Fallada |
July 21, 1893 |
German writer |
| Miroslav Krleža |
July 7, 1893 |
Croatian writer |
| William Moulton Marston |
May 9, 1893 |
American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) |
| Konstantine Gamsakhurdia |
May 3, 1893 |
Georgian writer and public benefactor |
| Walter Donaldson |
February 15, 1893 |
American songwriter |
| Clark Ashton Smith |
January 13, 1893 |
American writer |
| Rebecca West |
December 21, 1892 |
American writer |
| Guo Moruo |
November 16, 1892 |
Chinese writer |
| Ivo Andric |
October 9, 1892 |
Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Walter Benjamin |
July 15, 1892 |
German literary critic and writer |
| Bruno Schulz |
July 12, 1892 |
Polish writer and painter |
| Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky |
May 31, 1892 |
Russian writer |
| Alfonsina Storni |
May 29, 1892 |
Argentine writer |
| Lowell Thomas |
April 6, 1892 |
American travel writer |
| Vita Sackville-West |
March 9, 1892 |
English writer and gardener |
| Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
March 1, 1892 |
Japanese writer |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
February 22, 1892 |
American writer |
| J. R. R. Tolkien |
January 3, 1892 |
British writer |
| Henry Miller |
December 26, 1891 |
American writer |
| Nelly Sachs |
December 10, 1891 |
German-born writer and Nobel Prize laureate |
| Pär Lagerkvist |
May 23, 1891 |
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Mikhail Bulgakov |
May 15, 1891 |
Russian writer |
| Yvan Goll |
March 29, 1891 |
French-German writer |
| Kate Roberts |
February 13, 1891 |
Welsh nationalist and writer |
| Ilya Ehrenburg |
January 27, 1891 |
Russian writer |
| Rudolf Schlichter |
December 6, 1890 |
German artist and writer |
| Alfred Henschke |
November 4, 1890 |
ps. Klabund, German writer and poet |
| Conrad Richter |
October 13, 1890 |
American novelist and short story writer |
| Agatha Christie |
September 15, 1890 |
English writer |
| Jean Rhys |
August 24, 1890 |
British writer |
| H. P. Lovecraft |
August 20, 1890 |
American writer |
| Christopher Morley |
May 5, 1890 |
American writer |
| E. E. Smith |
May 2, 1890 |
American writer |
| Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
April 7, 1890 |
American conservationist and writer |
| Karel Capek |
January 9, 1890 |
Czech writer |
| Abel Gance |
October 25, 1889 |
French screenwriter |
| Teresa de la Parra |
October 5, 1889 |
Venezuelan writer |
| C. K. Scott-Moncrieff |
September 25, 1889 |
Scottish writer and translator |
| Zerna Sharp |
August 12, 1889 |
American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) |
| Conrad Aiken |
August 5, 1889 |
American writer |
| Jean Cocteau |
July 5, 1889 |
French writer |
| Charles Chaplin |
April 16, 1889 |
English actor, writer, and film producer |
| Gabriela Mistral |
April 7, 1889 |
Chilean writer, Nobel laureate |
| Maxwell Anderson |
December 15, 1888 |
American writer |
| Dale Carnegie |
November 24, 1888 |
American writer |
| Eugene O'Neill |
October 16, 1888 |
American writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Katherine Mansfield |
October 14, 1888 |
New Zealand writer |
| T. S. Eliot |
September 26, 1888 |
American-born writer and editor, Nobel Prize laureate |
| F. E. Sillanpää |
September 16, 1888 |
Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| T. E. Lawrence |
August 16, 1888 |
English writer and soldier |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon |
July 17, 1888 |
Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Anita Loos |
April 26, 1888 |
American writer |
| Georges Bernanos |
February 20, 1888 |
French writer |
| José Eustasio Rivera |
February 19, 1888 |
Colombian writer |
| Vicki Baum |
January 24, 1888 |
Austrian writer |
| Osip Brik |
January 16, 1888 |
Russian writer |
| Samuil Marshak |
November 3, 1887 |
Russian writer, translator and childrens poet |
| Edwin Keppel Bennett |
September 26, 1887 |
British writer |
| Blaise Cendrars |
September 1, 1887 |
Swiss writer |
| Kurt Schwitters |
June 20, 1887 |
German painter and writer |
| Howard Johnson |
June 2, 1887 |
American songwriter |
| Jeanie MacPherson |
May 18, 1887 |
American actress and screenwriter |
| Josef Capek |
March 23, 1887 |
Czech writer |
| John van Melle |
February 11, 1887 |
South African writer |
| Rose Wilder Lane |
December 5, 1886 |
American writer and reporter, daughter of Little House books writer Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Randolph Bourne |
May 30, 1886 |
American writer |
| Marthe Bibesco |
January 28, 1886 |
Romanian writer |
| Clara Nordström |
January 18, 1886 |
German writer and translator |
| Elinor Wylie |
September 7, 1885 |
American writer |
| Ring Lardner |
March 6, 1885 |
American writer |
| Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz |
February 24, 1885 |
Polish writer and painter |
| Sinclair Lewis |
February 7, 1885 |
American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| Zhou Zuoren |
January 16, 1885 |
Chinese writer |
| Huang Yuanyong |
January 15, 1885 |
Chinese writer |
| Panait Istrati |
August 10, 1884 |
Romanian writer |
| Yevgeny Zamyatin |
February 1, 1884 |
Russian writer |
| William Carlos Williams |
September 17, 1883 |
American writer |
| T. E. Hulme |
September 16, 1883 |
English writer |
| Porfirio Barba-Jacob |
July 29, 1883 |
Colombian poet and writer |
| Franz Kafka |
July 3, 1883 |
Czech writer |
| Fyodor Gladkov |
June 21, 1883 |
Russian writer |
| Urmuz |
March 17, 1883 |
Romanian writer |
| Elizabeth Craig |
February 16, 1883 |
British writer |
| Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi |
January 10, 1883 |
Russian writer |
| Khalil Gibran |
January 6, 1883 |
Lebanese writer |
| Max Eastman |
January 4, 1883 |
American writer |
| Jean Giraudoux |
October 29, 1882 |
French writer |
| Willem Elsschot |
May 7, 1882 |
Flemish writer |
| José Vasconcelos |
February 28, 1882 |
Mexican writer |
| Pádraic Ó Conaire |
February 28, 1882 |
Irish writer |
| Virginia Woolf |
January 25, 1882 |
English writer |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez |
December 24, 1881 |
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Stefan Zweig |
November 28, 1881 |
Austrian writer |
| Lu Xun |
September 25, 1881 |
Chinese writer |
| Charles Kay Ogden |
June 1, 1881 |
English writer and linguist |
| Mary Gladys Webb |
March 25, 1881 |
English writer |
| Roger Martin du Gard |
March 23, 1881 |
French writer, Nobel laureate |
| Thomas Sigismund Stribling |
March 4, 1881 |
American writer |
| Giovanni Papini |
January 9, 1881 |
Italian writer |
| Johnny Gruelle |
December 24, 1880 |
American cartoonist, childrens book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann |
| Sholom Asch |
November 1, 1880 |
Polish-born American writer |
| Grantland Rice |
November 1, 1880 |
American sports writer |
| Andrei Bely |
October 26, 1880 |
Russian writer |
| Damon Runyon |
October 4, 1880 |
American writer |
| Alexander Grin |
August 23, 1880 |
Russian writer |
| Carl Van Vechten |
June 17, 1880 |
American writer and photographer |
| Tudor Arghezi |
May 21, 1880 |
Romanian writer |
| Montague Summers |
April 10, 1880 |
English writer |
| Waldemar Bonsels |
February 21, 1880 |
German writer |
| Nunnally Johnson |
December 5, 1879 |
American screenwriter and producer |
| Alla Nazimova |
May 22, 1879 |
Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer |
| Boris Savinkov |
January 19, 1879 |
Russian writer |
| Hans Carossa |
December 15, 1878 |
German writer |
| C. F. Ramuz |
September 24, 1878 |
Swiss writer |
| Upton Sinclair |
September 20, 1878 |
American writer |
| Alfred Döblin |
August 10, 1878 |
German writer |
| Robert Walser |
April 15, 1878 |
Swiss writer |
| Egbert Van Alstyne |
March 4, 1878 |
American songwriter and pianist |
| Arishima Takeo |
March 4, 1878 |
Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist |
| Ferenc Molnár |
January 12, 1878 |
Hungarian writer |
| Hermann Hesse |
July 2, 1877 |
German-born writer, Nobel laureate |
| Isabelle Eberhardt |
February 17, 1877 |
explorer and writer who spent a lot of time in North Africa |
| Hugh McCrae |
October 4, 1876 |
Australian writer |
| Sherwood Anderson |
September 13, 1876 |
American writer |
| Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski |
May 27, 1876 |
Polish writer |
| Ivan Cankar |
May 10, 1876 |
Slovenian writer |
| Borisav "Bora" Stankovic |
March 31, 1876 |
Serbian writer |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs |
September 1, 1875 |
American writer |
| Thomas Mann |
June 6, 1875 |
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Rafael Sabatini |
April 29, 1875 |
Italian/British writer |
| Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic |
April 18, 1875 |
Croatian writer |
| Edgar Wallace |
April 1, 1875 |
English writer |
| Charles Fort |
August 6, 1874 |
American writer and researcher |
| Oswald Chambers |
July 24, 1874 |
Christian writer |
| Gertrude Stein |
February 3, 1874 |
American writer |
| Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
February 1, 1874 |
Austrian writer |
| W. Somerset Maugham |
January 25, 1874 |
English writer |
| Ford Madox Ford |
December 17, 1873 |
British writer |
| Dinko Šimunovic |
September 1, 1873 |
Croatian writer and poet |
| Dorothy Richardson |
May 17, 1873 |
English writer |
| Colette |
January 28, 1873 |
French writer |
| Bohdan Lepky |
November 9, 1872 |
Ukrainian writer and poet |
| Mikhail Kuzmin |
October 6, 1872 |
Russian writer |
| Sri Aurobindo |
August 15, 1872 |
Indian writer and philosopher |
| Alexander Roda Roda |
April 13, 1872 |
Austrian writer |
| Zane Grey |
January 31, 1872 |
American Western writer |
| Arsen Kotsoyev |
January 15, 1872 |
Russian writer |
| Stephen Crane |
November 1, 1871 |
American writer |
| Grazia Deledda |
September 27, 1871 |
Italian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Leonid Andreyev |
August 9, 1871 |
Russian writer |
| Kunikida Doppo |
July 15, 1871 |
Japanese writer |
| Marcel Proust |
July 10, 1871 |
French writer |
| John Millington Synge |
April 16, 1871 |
Irish writer |
| Heinrich Mann |
March 27, 1871 |
German writer |
| Nicolae Iorga |
January 17, 1871 |
Romanian writer |
| Saki |
December 18, 1870 |
British writer |
| Ivan Bunin |
October 22, 1870 |
Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin |
October 10, 1870 |
Russian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Aleksandr Kuprin |
September 7, 1870 |
Russian writer |
| Hilaire Belloc |
July 27, 1870 |
English writer |
| Frank Norris |
March 5, 1870 |
American writer |
| Stephen Butler Leacock |
December 30, 1869 |
British-born, Canadian writer and economist |
| André Gide |
November 22, 1869 |
French writer and Nobel laureate |
| Algernon Blackwood |
March 14, 1869 |
British writer |
| Else Lasker-Schüler |
February 11, 1869 |
German writer |
| Alexandra David-Néel |
October 24, 1868 |
French explorer and writer |
| Mary Hunter Austin |
September 9, 1868 |
American writer |
| Gertrude Bell |
July 14, 1868 |
English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator |
| Gaston Leroux |
May 6, 1868 |
French writer |
| Max Dauthendey |
July 25, 1867 |
German writer |
| Edward Frederic Benson |
July 24, 1867 |
English writer |
| Luigi Pirandello |
June 28, 1867 |
Italian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Wladyslaw Reymont |
May 7, 1867 |
Polish writer, Nobel laureate |
| Vicente Blasco Ibáñez |
January 29, 1867 |
Spanish writer |
| Ludwig Thoma |
January 21, 1867 |
German writer |
| Emily Greene Balch |
January 8, 1867 |
American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| H. G. Wells |
September 21, 1866 |
English writer |
| Jeppe Aakjær |
September 10, 1866 |
Danish writer |
| Tristan Bernard |
September 7, 1866 |
French writer |
| Jacinto Benavente |
August 12, 1866 |
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| Romain Rolland |
January 29, 1866 |
French writer, Nobel Laureate |
| Rudyard Kipling |
December 30, 1865 |
British writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Neltje Blanchan |
October 23, 1865 |
American writer |
| Lily Braun |
July 2, 1865 |
German writer |
| William Butler Yeats |
June 13, 1865 |
Irish writer, Nobel laureate |
| Nellie Bly |
May 5, 1865 |
American journalist and writer |
| Kazimierz Tetmajer |
February 12, 1865 |
Polish poet and writer |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
November 20, 1864 |
Swedish writer |
| Elinor Glyn |
October 17, 1864 |
British writer |
| Miguel de Unamuno |
September 29, 1864 |
Spanish writer and philosopher |
| Frank Wedekind |
July 24, 1864 |
German writer |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
July 20, 1864 |
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate |
| Otto Erich Hartleben |
June 3, 1864 |
German writer |
| Julije Kempf |
January 25, 1864 |
Croatian historian and writer |
| George Santayana |
December 16, 1863 |
Spanish philosopher and writer |
| Mary Eliza Church Terrell |
September 23, 1863 |
American writer |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio |
March 12, 1863 |
Italian writer |
| Mary Kingsley |
October 13, 1862 |
English writer and explorer |
| O. Henry |
September 11, 1862 |
American writer |
| Edith Wharton |
January 24, 1862 |
American writer |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
May 7, 1861 |
Indian writer, Nobel laureate |
| Hamlin Garland |
September 14, 1860 |
American writer |
| Anton Chekhov |
January 29, 1860 |
Russian writer |
| Vjenceslav Novak |
September 11, 1859 |
Croatian writer |
| Knut Hamsun |
August 4, 1859 |
Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
May 22, 1859 |
British physician and writer |
| Jerome Klapka Jerome |
May 2, 1859 |
English writer |
| Arthur Achleitner |
August 16, 1858 |
German writer |
| Charles W. Chesnutt |
June 20, 1858 |
American writer |
| Tomás Carrasquilla |
January 17, 1858 |
Colombian writer |
| Joseph Conrad |
December 3, 1857 |
Polish-born British writer |
| Henrik Pontoppidan |
July 24, 1857 |
Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Karl Adolph Gjellerup |
June 2, 1857 |
Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Jakub Bart-Cišinski |
August 20, 1856 |
Sorbian writer |
| Ivan Franko |
August 15, 1856 |
Ukrainian writer |
| George Bernard Shaw |
July 26, 1856 |
Irish writer, Nobel Laureate |
| Ludwig Ganghofer |
July 7, 1855 |
German writer |
| Olive Schreiner |
March 24, 1855 |
South African writer |
| Oscar Wilde |
October 16, 1854 |
Irish writer |
| Hans Jæger |
September 2, 1854 |
Norwegian writer and political activist |
| Alexandru Macedonski |
March 14, 1854 |
Romanian writer |
| Vladimir Korolenko |
July 27, 1853 |
Russian writer |
| George Moore |
February 24, 1852 |
Irish writer |
| Laza Lazarevic |
May 1, 1851 |
Serbian writer and psychiatrist |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
November 13, 1850 |
Scottish writer |
| Pierre Loti |
January 14, 1850 |
French writer |
| Sarah Orne Jewett |
September 3, 1849 |
American writer |
| August Strindberg |
January 22, 1849 |
Swedish writer |
| Guido von List |
October 5, 1848 |
German writer |
| Louisa Lawson |
February 17, 1848 |
Australian feminist, suffragist, and writer |
| Ioan Slavici |
January 18, 1848 |
Transylvanian writer |
| Émile Faguet |
December 17, 1847 |
French writer and critic |
| George Grossmith |
December 7, 1847 |
British actor and writer |
| Giuseppe Giacosa |
October 21, 1847 |
Italian writer |
| Boleslaw Prus |
August 20, 1847 |
Polish writer |
| Leon Bloy |
July 11, 1846 |
French writer |
| Comte de Lautréamont |
April 4, 1846 |
French writer |
| Rudolf Christoph Eucken |
January 5, 1846 |
German writer, Nobel laureate |
| Klas Pontus Arnoldson |
October 27, 1844 |
Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| Anatole France |
April 16, 1844 |
French writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Karl May |
February 25, 1842 |
German writer |
| Sidney Lanier |
February 3, 1842 |
American writer |
| Thomas Hardy |
June 2, 1840 |
English writer |
| Machado de Assis |
June 21, 1839 |
Brazilian writer |
| René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme |
March 16, 1839 |
French writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Phoebe Knapp |
March 9, 1839 |
American hymn writer |
| August Senoa |
November 14, 1838 |
Croatian writer |
| Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam |
November 7, 1838 |
French writer |
| Giuseppe Cesare Abba |
October 6, 1838 |
Italian patriot and writer |
| William Dean Howells |
March 1, 1837 |
American writer, historian, and politician |
| Bret Harte |
August 25, 1836 |
American writer |
| Virginie Loveling |
May 17, 1836 |
Belgian writer and poet |
| Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
January 27, 1836 |
Austrian writer |
| Mendele Moykher Sforim |
January 2, 1836 |
Jewish writer |
| Samuel Butler |
December 4, 1835 |
British writer |
| Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) |
November 30, 1835 |
American writer |
| Krišjanis Barons |
October 31, 1835 |
Latvian writer |
| Giosuè Carducci |
July 27, 1835 |
Italian writer, Nobel laureate |
| William Morris |
March 24, 1834 |
English writer and designer |
| Émile Gaboriau |
November 9, 1832 |
French writer |
| José Echegaray y Eizaguirre |
April 19, 1832 |
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Eduard Schlagintweit |
March 23, 1831 |
German writer |
| Nikolai Leskov |
February 16, 1831 |
Russian writer |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
September 13, 1830 |
Austrian writer |
| Hector Malot |
May 20, 1830 |
French writer |
| Paul Heyse |
March 15, 1830 |
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| Ignacio Mariscal |
July 5, 1829 |
Writer and Mexican diplomat |
| Henrik Ibsen |
March 20, 1828 |
Norwegian writer |
| Edmond François Valentin About |
February 14, 1828 |
French writer |
| George Meredith |
February 12, 1828 |
English writer |
| Petko Slavejkov |
November 17, 1827 |
Bulgarian writer |
| Goffredo Mameli |
September 5, 1827 |
Italian poet and writer |
| Stephen Foster |
July 4, 1826 |
American songwriter |
| Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin |
January 27, 1826 |
Russian writer |
| Imre Madách |
January 21, 1825 |
Hungarian writer |
| George MacDonald |
December 10, 1824 |
British writer and preacher |
| Henry Chadwick |
October 5, 1824 |
English-born American baseball writer and statistician |
| Théodore de Banville |
March 14, 1823 |
French writer |
| Edmond de Goncourt |
May 26, 1822 |
French writer |
| Edward Everett Hale |
April 3, 1822 |
American writer |
| Gustave Flaubert |
December 12, 1821 |
French writer |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
October 30, 1821 |
Russian writer |
| Henri Frederic Amiel |
September 27, 1821 |
Swiss writer |
| Multatuli |
March 2, 1820 |
Dutch writer |
| Theodor Fontane |
December 30, 1819 |
German writer |
| Herman Melville |
August 1, 1819 |
American writer |
| Gottfried Keller |
July 19, 1819 |
Swiss writer |
| Charles Kingsley |
June 12, 1819 |
English writer |
| Otto Ludwig |
February 12, 1818 |
German writer |
| Zacharias Topelius |
January 14, 1818 |
Finnish-Swedish writer |
| Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy |
August 24, 1817 |
Russian writer |
| Henry David Thoreau |
July 12, 1817 |
American writer and philosopher |
| Adolf Friedrich von Schack |
August 2, 1815 |
German writer |
| Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg |
September 8, 1814 |
French writer and historian |
| Sheridan le Fanu |
August 28, 1814 |
Irish writer |
| Christian Friedrich Hebbel |
March 18, 1813 |
German writer |
| Otto Ludwig |
February 11, 1813 |
German writer and critic |
| Camilla Collett |
January 23, 1813 |
Norwegian writer and feminist |
| Alexander Herzen |
April 6, 1812 |
Russian writer |
| Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |
January 15, 1812 |
Norwegian writer |
| Gilbert Abbott à Beckett |
January 9, 1811 |
English writer |
| Ferdinand Freiligrath |
June 17, 1810 |
German writer |
| Mariano José de Larra |
March 24, 1809 |
Spanish journalist and writer |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
January 19, 1809 |
American writer and poet |
| Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly |
November 2, 1808 |
French writer |
| Gérard de Nerval |
May 22, 1808 |
French writer |
| Esteban Echeverría |
September 2, 1805 |
Argentine writer |
| Hans Christian Andersen |
April 2, 1805 |
Danish writer |
| Peter Ernst von Lasaulx |
March 16, 1805 |
German philosopher and writer |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
July 4, 1804 |
American writer |
| George Sand |
July 1, 1804 |
French writer |
| Jacob Abbott |
November 14, 1803 |
American writer |
| Vladimir Odoevsky |
August 13, 1803 |
Russian philosopher and writer |
| Arnold Ruge |
September 13, 1802 |
German philosopher and writer |
| Victor Hugo |
February 26, 1802 |
French writer |
| Christian Dietrich Grabbe |
December 11, 1801 |
German writer |
| Amos Bronson Alcott |
November 29, 1799 |
American writer and educator |
| Almeida Garrett |
February 4, 1799 |
Portuguese writer |
| Wolfgang Menzel |
June 21, 1798 |
German writer |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
August 30, 1797 |
English writer |
| Annette von Droste-Hülshoff |
January 10, 1797 |
German writer |
| Thomas Carlyle |
December 4, 1795 |
British writer and historian |
| Frances Wright |
September 6, 1795 |
English writer and lecturer |
| Anna Brownell Jameson |
May 17, 1794 |
British writer |
| Sergei Aksakov |
October 1, 1791 |
Russian writer |
| Franz Grillparzer |
January 15, 1791 |
Austrian writer |
| Alphonse de Lamartine |
October 21, 1790 |
French writer |
| Joseph von Eichendorff |
March 10, 1788 |
German writer |
| Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé |
October 30, 1786 |
French Canadian writer |
| John Wilson |
May 18, 1785 |
Scottish writer |
| Bettina von Arnim |
April 4, 1785 |
German writer |
| Nicolai Grundtvig |
September 8, 1783 |
Danish writer and philosopher |
| Stendhal |
January 23, 1783 |
French writer |
| Adelbert von Chamisso |
January 30, 1781 |
German writer |
| Charles Nodier |
April 29, 1780 |
French writer |
| Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck |
November 25, 1778 |
British Christian writer |
| William Hazlitt |
April 10, 1778 |
English writer |
| Madame Récamier |
December 4, 1777 |
French writer |
| Heinrich von Kleist |
October 18, 1777 |
German writer |
| E.T.A. Hoffmann |
January 24, 1776 |
German writer |
| Jane Austen |
December 16, 1775 |
British writer |
| William Joseph Behr |
August 26, 1775 |
German writer |
| Thomas Dick |
November 24, 1774 |
Scottish scientific teacher and writer |
| Ludwig Tieck |
May 31, 1773 |
German writer |
| Étienne Aignan |
April 9, 1773 |
French writer |
| Novalis |
May 2, 1772 |
German writer |
| Johann August Apel |
September 17, 1771 |
German jurist and writer |
| Friedrich Hölderlin |
March 20, 1770 |
German writer |
| Jedrzej Sniadecki |
November 30, 1768 |
Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist |
| Benjamin Constant |
October 25, 1767 |
Swiss writer |
| Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just |
August 25, 1767 |
French revolutionary and writer |
| Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin |
December 1, 1766 |
Russian writer |
| Ann Radcliffe |
July 9, 1764 |
English writer |
| Jean Paul |
March 21, 1763 |
German writer |
| André Chénier |
October 30, 1762 |
French writer |
| William Thomas Beckford |
October 1, 1760 |
English writer and politician |
| Friedrich von Schiller |
November 10, 1759 |
German writer |
| Nathan Hale |
June 6, 1755 |
American writer and patriot |
| Joseph de Maistre |
April 1, 1753 |
French diplomat and writer |
| Friedrich Maximilian Klinger |
February 17, 1752 |
German writer |
| Tomas de Iriarte |
September 18, 1750 |
Spanish writer |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
August 28, 1749 |
German writer and scientist |
| Honore Mirabeau |
March 9, 1749 |
French writer and politician |
| John Aikin |
January 15, 1747 |
English doctor and writer |
| Johann Gottfried Herder |
August 25, 1744 |
German writer |
| Mikhail Shcherbatov |
July 22, 1733 |
Russian philosopher and writer |
| Giuseppe Parini |
May 23, 1729 |
Italian writer |
| Giacomo Casanova |
April 2, 1725 |
Italian adventurer and writer |
| Christopher Anstey |
October 31, 1724 |
English writer |
| Frances Brooke |
January 24, 1724 |
English writer |
| Jean-François Marmontel |
July 11, 1723 |
French historian and writer |
| John Home |
September 22, 1722 |
Scottish writer |
| Tiphaigne de la Roche |
February 19, 1722 |
French writer |
| Charles Bonnet |
March 13, 1720 |
Swiss naturalist and writer |
| Richard Hurd |
January 13, 1720 |
English bishop and writer |
| Jacques Cazotte |
October 17, 1719 |
French writer |
| Saverio Bettinelli |
July 18, 1718 |
Italian writer |
| Elizabeth Carter |
December 16, 1717 |
British writer |
| Thomas Gray |
December 26, 1716 |
English writer |
| Jean-Jacques Barthélemy |
January 20, 1716 |
French writer and numismatist |
| John Brown |
November 5, 1715 |
English writer |
| Richard Graves |
May 4, 1715 |
English writer |
| James Hervey |
February 26, 1714 |
English clergyman and writer |
| Guillaume Thomas François Raynal |
April 12, 1713 |
French writer |
| Edward Moore |
March 22, 1712 |
English writer |
| Mikhail Lomonosov |
November 19, 1711 |
Russian writer and polymath |
| Jupiter Hammon |
October 17, 1711 |
American writer |
| Bertinazzi |
December 2, 1710 |
Italian actor and writer |
| Sarah Fielding |
November 8, 1710 |
English writer |
| Alban Butler |
October 24, 1710 |
English Catholic priest and writer |
| Samuel Johnson |
September 18, 1709 |
English writer and lexicographer |
| Carlo Goldoni |
February 25, 1707 |
Italian writer |
| Lauritz de Thurah |
March 4, 1706 |
Danish architect and architectural writer |
| Charles Pinot Duclos |
February 12, 1704 |
French writer |
| Soame Jenyns |
January 1, 1704 |
English writer |
| Theophilus Cibber |
November 26, 1703 |
English actor and writer |
| Stanislaw Konarski |
September 30, 1700 |
Polish writer |
| Johann Christoph Gottsched |
February 2, 1700 |
German writer |
| Hermann Samuel Reimarus |
December 22, 1694 |
German philosopher and writer |
| Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée |
February 14, 1692 |
French writer |
| Samuel Richardson |
August 19, 1689 |
English writer |
| Alexis Piron |
July 9, 1689 |
French writer |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
May 26, 1689 |
English writer |
| Pierre de Marivaux |
February 4, 1688 |
French writer |
| Eustace Budgell |
August 19, 1686 |
English writer |
| Thomas Tickell |
December 17, 1685 |
English writer |
| John Gay |
June 30, 1685 |
British writer |
| Aaron Hill |
February 10, 1685 |
English writer |
| Ludvig Holberg |
December 3, 1684 |
Norwegian historian and writer |
| Matthew Decker |
March 18, 1679 |
English merchant and writer |
| Isaac Watts |
July 17, 1674 |
English hymnwriter |
| Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon |
January 15, 1674 |
French writer |
| Joseph Addison |
May 1, 1672 |
English politician and writer |
| Antoine Houdar de la Motte |
January 18, 1672 |
French writer |
| Alain-René Lesage |
May 8, 1668 |
French writer |
| Jonathan Swift |
November 30, 1667 |
Irish writer and satirist |
| Lady Grizel Baillie |
December 25, 1665 |
Scottish songwriter |
| Henry Wharton |
November 9, 1664 |
English writer |
| Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina |
January 20, 1664 |
Italian writer and jurist |
| Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre |
February 18, 1658 |
French writer |
| William Derham |
November 26, 1657 |
English minister and writer |
| Arai Hakuseki |
March 24, 1657 |
Japanese writer and politician |
| Richard Blackmore |
January 22, 1654 |
English physician and writer |
| Elkanah Settle |
January 1, 1648 |
English writer |
| Johann Heinrich Acker |
August 12, 1647 |
German writer |
| Jean de La Bruyère |
August 16, 1645 |
French writer |
| François-Timoléon de Choisy |
October 2, 1644 |
French writer |
| Pu Songling |
June 5, 1640 |
Chinese writer |
| Daniel Georg Morhof |
February 6, 1639 |
German writer and scholar |
| Philippe Quinault |
June 3, 1635 |
French writer |
| Esprit Fléchier |
June 10, 1632 |
French writer and bishop |
| John Aubrey |
March 12, 1626 |
English antiquary and writer |
| Paul Pellisson |
October 30, 1624 |
French writer |
| Jean Renaud de Segrais |
August 22, 1624 |
French writer |
| Avvakum |
November 20, 1621 |
Russian priest and writer |
| Jean de la Fontaine |
July 8, 1621 |
French writer |
| Antoine Furetière |
December 28, 1619 |
French writer |
| Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux |
November 7, 1619 |
French writer |
| Andreas Gryphius |
October 11, 1616 |
German writer |
| François de La Rochefoucauld |
September 15, 1613 |
French writer |
| Philip Warwick |
December 24, 1609 |
English writer and politician |
| Antonio Vieira |
February 6, 1608 |
Portuguese writer |
| Madeleine de Scudéry |
November 15, 1607 |
French writer |
| Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz |
May 23, 1606 |
Spanish writer |
| Thomas Browne |
October 19, 1605 |
English writer |
| Georges de Scudéry |
August 22, 1601 |
French writer |
| Baltasar Gracián y Morales |
January 8, 1601 |
Spanish writer |
| Jean Bolland |
August 18, 1596 |
Flemish Jesuit writer |
| Jean Chapelain |
December 4, 1595 |
French writer |
| Friedrich von Spee |
February 25, 1591 |
German writer |
| George Wither |
June 11, 1588 |
English writer |
| Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero |
March 16, 1585 |
Dutch writer |
| Hugo Grotius |
April 10, 1583 |
Dutch philosopher and writer |
| John Barclay |
January 28, 1582 |
Scottish writer |
| Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft |
March 16, 1581 |
Dutch historian and writer |
| Francisco de Quevedo |
September 17, 1580 |
Spanish writer |
| Luís Vélez de Guevara |
August 1, 1579 |
Spanish writer |
| Robert Burton |
February 8, 1577 |
English cleric and writer |
| John Marston |
October 7, 1576 |
English writer |
| Petrus Scriverius |
January 12, 1576 |
Dutch writer |
| Bartol Kašic |
August 15, 1575 |
Croatian writer and linguist |
| Joseph Hall |
July 1, 1574 |
English bishop and writer |
| Honoré d'Urfé |
February 11, 1568 |
French writer |
| Guillaume du Vair |
March 7, 1556 |
French writer |
| Philip Sidney |
November 30, 1554 |
English courtier, soldier, and writer |
| Philippe de Mornay |
November 5, 1549 |
French writer |
| Florent Chrestien |
January 26, 1541 |
French writer |
| Arnaud d'Ossat |
July 20, 1537 |
French diplomat and writer |
| Giovanni de' Bardi |
February 5, 1534 |
Italian writer |
| Michel de Montaigne |
February 28, 1533 |
French writer |
| Étienne de La Boétie |
November 1, 1530 |
French judge and writer |
| François Hotman |
August 23, 1524 |
French lawyer and writer |
| Jacques Amyot |
October 30, 1513 |
French writer |
| Antonio Francesco Grazzini |
March 22, 1503 |
Italian writer |
| Thomas Murner |
December 24, 1475 |
German writer |
| Princess Catherine of Portugal |
November 26, 1436 |
writer |
| Giovanni Boccaccio |
June 16, 1313 |
Italian writer |
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