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2009 Frank McCourt, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan, New York

2007 Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75

2006 Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland

2006 Karin Struck, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 dies

2005 Robert Sheckley, American Author

2005 Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author

2005 Shelby Foote, American Author

2005 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author

2004 Alistair Cooke, radio commentator/author, Masterpiece Theater, dies at 95

2003 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide

2003 Carol Shields, Canadian Author

2003 Carol Shields, author, The Stone Diaries, dies at 68

2003 Kathleen Winsor, American Author

2003 Paul Zindel, playwright/YA author, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, dies at 66

2003 Adam Osborne, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

2002 Walter Lord, American Author

2002 Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

2001 Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, dies at 66

2001 Anthony Storr, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression', dies

2001 Auberon Waugh, British Author

2000 Edward Gorey, author, Amphigorey, dies at 75

2000 Craig Claiborne, food author, New York Times, dies at 79

2000 Patrick O'Brian, author of sea-faring novels, Aubrey-Maturin series, dies at 85

1999 Sarah Delany, author/teacher, Having Our Say, dies at 109

1998 Allen Drury, author/journalist, Advise and Consent, dies at 80

1998 Kay Thompson, American Author

1998 Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist/author, dies at 108

1998 Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69

1998 Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58

1998 Jo Clayton, author, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58

1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

1997 Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83

1997 Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71

1997 James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90

1997 William S. Burroughs, author, Naked Lunch, dies at 83

1997 Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phe, nomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', dies from heart failure

1997 Helene Hanff, author, 84 Charing Cross Road, dies at 80

1997 Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany

1996 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85

1996 Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90

1996 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86

1996 William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59

1996 Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74

1996 Idries Shah, Indian Author

1996 James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66

1996 Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine, dies at 59

1996 Og Mandino, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine

1996 Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78

1996 Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77

1996 Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81

1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51

1996 Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81

1996 William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83

1995 Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69

1995 Robertson Davies (author), dies at 82

1995 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84

1995 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84

1995 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53

1995 Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73

1995 Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82

1995 Ellis Peters, British Author

1995 Elleston Trevor, author, dies

1995 Aziz Nesin, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, dies at 79

1995 Tristan Jones, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, dies at 71

1995 Stanley Elkin, American Author

1995 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67

1995 Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90

1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50

1995 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81

1995 Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74

1995 Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81

1995 Frederic Ramsey, Jr., folklorist/author, dies at 80

1995 Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44

1995 James Herriot, Scottish author (All Creatures Great and Small), dies at 78

1995 Rachid Mimouni, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction', dies of hepatitis in Paris, France, at age 49

1995 Arthur S Taylor, Jr., U.S. drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65

1995 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70

1995 George Woodcock, author, dies at 82

1995 Jean Tardieu, author, dies at 91

1995 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48

1995 Rose Kennedy, American Author

1994 Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70

1994 Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82

1994 Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Netherlands/South African economist/author, dies

1994 Mary Durack, poet, author, historian, dies at 81

1994 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78

1994 Lesley Peacock, jazz photogrpaher/author, dies

1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37

1994 Nyanaponika, Siegmund Feniger, German scholar/author, dies at 93

1994 Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96

1994 Warwick Hutton, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen, dies at 55 of cancer in Cambridge, England

1994 Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77

1994 Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66

1994 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46

1994 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85

1994 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69

1994 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69

1994 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71

1994 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70

1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74

1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89

1994 Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

1994 Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93

1994 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96

1994 James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52

1994 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies

1994 A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93

1994 Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90

1994 John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69

1994 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81

1994 Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74

1994 Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30

1994 Samuel Selvon, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, dies at 70

1994 Ralph Ellison, American Author

1994 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59

1994 Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer

1994 Charles Bukowski, author and poet, dies of leukemia at 73

1994 Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61

1993 Margaret Landon, U.S. author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at 90

1993 Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81

1993 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88

1993 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72

1993 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31

1993 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95

1993 Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91

1993 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81

1993 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61

1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author

1993 Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author, Heir, dies at 85

1993 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78

1993 Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81

1993 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91

1993 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75

1993 Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50

1992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77

1992 Audre Lorde, St. Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies

1992 William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92

1992 James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50

1992 Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62

1992 Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88

1992 Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth, dies

1992 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S. author (American Glass Animals), dies

1992 U.S. actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone

1992 M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83

1992 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies

1992 Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72

1992 Anita Colby, U.S. model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77

1992 Jacob "Bob" de Uyl, journalist/author (Restless Travel), dies at 61

1991 Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Philadelphia

1991 Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45

1991 Theodore Geisel, author (Dr. Seuss), dies of cancer at 87

1991 Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48

1991 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77

1991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57

1991 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81

1990 Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years

1990 Horst Bienek, German author, dies

1990 Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies

1990 Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74

1990 K L Poll, journalist/author, dies

1990 Hugh MacLennan, Canadian Author

1990 Anya Seton, U.S. author, dies

1990 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78

1990 Norman Maclean, American Author

1990 Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74

1990 Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany

1990 Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70

1990 Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57

1989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87

1989 Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77

1989 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

1989 Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81

1989 Earl Nightingale, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs, dies

1989 Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62

1989 U.S. authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"

1989 Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria

1988 Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86

1988 Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69

1988 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82

1988 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83

1988 Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies

1987 [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60

1987 Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing

1987 Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84

1987 James A. Baldwin, American Author

1987 Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83

1987 Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83

1987 Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73

1987 Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75

1987 Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76

1987 Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71

1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76

1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60

1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91

1986 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75

1986 Virginia C. Andrews, American Author

1986 Paul Tournier, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings, dies from carcinoma, Troinex, Switzerland

1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86

1986 Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80

1986 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (Deuxieme Sexe), dies at 86

1986 Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82

1986 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65

1986 L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74

1986 Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumiere du Soir), dies at 86

1985 Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, U.S., sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85

1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature

1985 Charlotte White, U.S. author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86

1985 Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr. Palomar), dies at 61

1985 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67

1985 Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick and Jane), dies

1984 Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74

1984 Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37

1984 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59

1984 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fur ein Lacheln), dies at 72

1984 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72

1983 Mignon McLaughlin, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value', dies in Coral Gables, Florida

1983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78

1983 Benjamin V Cohen, U.S. author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88

1983 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65

1983 Rebecca West, Irish Author

1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65

1982 Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80

1982 Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80

1982 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining

1982 Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85

1982 Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr. Futurity), dies at 53

1981 Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96

1981 Ariel Durant, U.S. author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83

1981 Anita Loos, U.S. (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88

1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65

1981 A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84

1980 Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83

1980 Katherine A Porter, U.S. author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90

1980 Henry Miller, American Author

1980 Anna van Wageningen-Salomons, Dut author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94

1980 Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69

1979 Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65

1979 Jean Stafford, U.S. author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63

1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78

1978 Nicolas Bentley, British Author

1978 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, author (Ginger Star), dies at 62

1978 Faith Baldwin, U.S. author (They Who Love), dies at 84

1978 Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73

1978 Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author (Presenea), dies at 76

1977 Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66

1977 HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78

1977 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies

1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize

1977 William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer

1977 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, U.S., sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72

1976 Andre Malraux, Berger, author (Conquerors)/Minister of Culture, dies

1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76

1976 Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85

1976 Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47

1976 Lin Yutang, Chinese Author

1976 Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66

1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53

1975 James Blish, American Author

1975 James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54

1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78

1975 Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies

1975 Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75

1975 Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73

1975 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77

1974 Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66

1974 Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at 62

1974 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83

1974 Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53

1974 Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67

1974 Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83

1974 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48

1973 Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75

1973 Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91

1973 M Revis, Willem Fisherman, author 'People that Mutiny', dies at 68

1973 Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80

1973 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67

1972 Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91

1972 Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76

1972 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63

1972 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76

1972 Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper

1972 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72

1972 Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65

1972 Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66

1972 Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author

1971 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, U.S. author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62

1971 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72

1971 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82

1971 Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79

1970 Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91

1970 French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia

1970 Jan Drda, Czechoslovakian author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55

1970 Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45

1970 Napolean Hill, American Author

1970 Unica Zurn, author, painter, dies at 54

1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1970 Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80

1970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68

1970 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78

1970 Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61

1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72

1969 Sarah Vowell, American Author

1969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67

1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union

1969 Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies

1969 Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies

1969 Leonard Woolf, British Author

1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64

1969 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73

1969 Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84

1969 Max Eastman, American Author

1969 Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87

1969 John Wyndham, Parkes Lucas B Harris, author (Chrysalids), dies at 65

1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83

1968 John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66

1968 Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70

1968 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81

1968 Upton B Sinclair, U.S. author (Jungle), dies at 90

1968 Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies

1968 Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78

1968 Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47

1968 Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82

1968 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60

1968 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76

1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87

1968 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71

1968 Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78

1968 Edna Ferber, U.S. author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80

1968 Fannie Hurst, U.S. author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78

1968 Warren Ellis, British Author

1967 Manuel A Fraai, Curaeaos author (Silly Aguero), dies at 70

1967 French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia

1967 Carson McCullers, U.S. author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50

1967 Esther Forbes, American Author

1967 Albertine Sarrazin, French author (La Traversiere), dies at 29

1967 Bruce Barton, American Author

1967 Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies

1967 Poppy Z. Brite, American Author

1967 J Langston Hughes, U.S. author (Tambourines to Glory), dies at 65

1967 French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia

1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years

1967 Meg Cabot, American Author

1966 Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88

1966 Sarah Zettel, American Author

1966 Matt Drudge, American Celebrity, author of "The Drudge Report"

1966 Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle and Blessing), dies at 75

1966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53

1966 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70

1966 Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66

1966 Mari Sandoz, U.S. author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64

1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in U.S.S.R.

1966 Kathleen Norris, U.S. author, dies at 85

1965 Nicholas Sparks, born in Omaha, Nebraska, bestselling author, writer, novelist, wrote, 'A Walk to Remember', author of novels including, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'The Last Song', 'The Notebook'

1965 William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91

1965 Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66

1965 E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75

1965 Joel Rane, author, Step on Up

1965 Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45

1965 J. K. Rowling, English Author

1965 Chris A. Bridges, American Author

1965 Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57

1965 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76

1965 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70

1965 Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62

1965 Kevin Williamson, American Author

1965 George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65

1964 Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77

1964 Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60

1964 H[enry] Beam Piper, U.S., sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60

1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

1964 Tavis Smiley, American Author

1964 Dan Brown, American Author

1964 Margaret Haddix, American Author

1964 Rachel L Carson, U.S. biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56

1964 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46

1964 Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67

1963 Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69

1963 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Hamilton, author (Silver Chair), dies at 64

1963 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87

1963 C. S. Lewis, English Author

1963 Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80

1963 Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73

1963 Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Le siecle of Gueux), dies at 89

1963 William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies

1963 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64

1962 Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

1962 Tammy Bruce, American Author

1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85

1962 Herman Hesse, German Author

1962 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62

1962 Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79

1962 David Foster Wallace, born in New York, author, novelist, short story and literary fiction writer

1961 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, Dutch author: Rick's Report, AIDS Diary

1961 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64

1961 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97

1961 Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65

1961 Tom Holt, born in London, author, British novelist, writes mythopoeic novels that parody mythology, history, literature

1961 Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68

1961 J H F Gronloh, Nescio, author (Above the Vale), dies at 80

1961 Jim Goad, Australian Author

1961 Daniel Clowes, American Author

1961 Dashiell Hammett, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66

1960 Richard N Wright, U.S. author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France

1960 Neil Gaiman, British Author

1960 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63

1960 Chuck D, born in Roosevelt, New York, rapper, author, leader, Public Enemy, created politically, socially conscious rap music, focused on hip hop genre, albums include, 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show', 'Fear of a Black Planet'

1960 Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet (North-South), dies at 70

1960 Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies

1960 Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Australia author (Town like Alice), dies at 60

1960 Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46

1960 Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79

1959 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68

1959 Ben Okri, born in London, of Nigerian descent, poet, author, won Booker Prize 1991, for book 'The Famished Road', described as a magic realist

1958 Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75

1958 Cornelia Funke, German Author

1958 Warner Fabian, S Adams, U.S. author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87

1958 Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61

1958 Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author

1958 Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62

1958 Meredith Ann Pierce, U.S., sci-fi author, Darkangel

1958 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93

1958 Francis Carco(pino), French author/critic (L'homme traque), dies at 71

1958 Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author, How World Begun

1958 Magdalene Szekely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58

1958 Ice-T, born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow, musician, pioneer of gangsta rap, songwriter, actor, Grammy Award winner, author

1958 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42

1957 Susan Powter, diet guru/author/talk show host, Susan Powter Show

1957 Dorothy Sayers, Atherton Fleming, author (Whose body), dies at 64

1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

1957 Eric S. Raymond, American Author

1957 Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88

1957 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies

1957 Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind

1957 Lord Dunsany, Edward J M D Plunkett, author (Jorkens), dies at 79

1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1957 Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59

1957 Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87

1957 Faye Resnick, author, Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary

1957 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78

1957 Duncan Goodhew, born in England, Olympic gold medalist, most famous swimmer in the UK, author, motivational speaker

1957 Christopher Morley, American Author

1957 Wyndham Lewis, English Author

1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90

1957 Valery Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75

1956 Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61

1956 Michael Connelly, American Author

1956 Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75

1956 Anthony Bourdain, American Author

1956 Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, U.S., sci-fi author, Hawk of May

1956 Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54

1956 David Guterson, American Author

1956 A. A. Milne, English Author

1955 Tracy [Raye] Hickman, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning

1955 Connie Palmen, Dutch author/widow of Ischa Meoer

1955 Steven Brust, Karl Zoltan, U.S., sci-fi author, Yendi, Jhereg

1955 W H van Eemlandt, Haasse, author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies

1955 Timothy Garton Ash, British Author

1955 Michael Pollan, born in Long Island, New York, professor of journalism, U of C, Berkeley, author, columnist, activist, wrote, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma', 'The Botany of Desire', 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto'

1955 Judith Tarr, U.S., sci-fi author, Isle of Glass, Ars Magica

1955 Jay McInerney, author, Bright Lights, Big City

1954 James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54

1954 Sandra Cisneros, American Author

1954 Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die'

1954 Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author

1954 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31

1954 Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Froken Liwin), dies at 78

1954 Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, U.S., sci-fi author, Enigma, Empery

1954 Lawrence Watt-Evans, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Sword of Bheleu

1954 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67

1954 Bruce Sterling, U.S., sci-fi author, Involution Ocean, Schismatrix

1954 Anne Lamott, born in San Fransisco, California, author and activist, wrote 'Grace: Thoughts on Faith' and 'Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith'

1954 Dean Inge, English Author

1954 Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory

1954 Michael Bergdahl, American Author

1953 Jennifer Roberson, U.S., sci-fi author, Shapechangers, Sword-Maker

1953 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82

1953 Anna Quindlen, American author, journalist, and New York Times columnist

1953 Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79

1953 Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author, Kir Royal, actress, Shogun

1953 Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, dies at 93

1953 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60

1953 John Shirley, U.S., sci-fi author, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona

1953 Debbie Steinbach, born in Fullerton, California, professional golfer, author, instructor, twelve-year LPGA Tour veteran, founder of Venus Golf, wrote, 'Venus on the Fairway', has provided over 5,000 individual golf lessons

1953 Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89

1952 Somtow Sucharitkul, SP Somtow, Thailand, science fiction author, Utopia Hunters

1952 Mel Smith, author, Morons From Outer Space

1952 Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82

1952 Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993

1952 Robert R[ick] McCammon, U.S., sci-fi author, Baal, Mystery Walk

1952 Marianne Williamson, born in Houston, Texas, spiritual activist, author, speaker, lecturer, wrote, 'A Course in Miracles', a program about choosing love over fear, 'A Return to Love', breakthrough success attributed to appearance on Oprah Winfrey

1952 Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne

1952 Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, U.S., sci-fi author, Door into Fire

1952 Alice Hoffman, American Author

1952 Douglas Adams, born in England, author, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1952 Tim[othy] Powers, U.S., sci-fi author, Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves

1951 Charles de Lint, Netherlands, sci-fi author, Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow

1951 Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist/author (London sketches), dies at 65

1951 Terry McMillan, American Author

1951 Nicholas Yermakov, U.S., sci-fi author, Epiphany, Jehad, Clique

1951 Timothy Zahn, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Cobra Strike

1951 Orson Scott Card, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War

1951 Greg[ory Dale] Bear, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity

1951 Emmet Fox, American Author

1951 James Norman Hall, American Author

1951 Suze Orman, American Author

1951 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65

1951 Roxanne Pulitzer, born in Glendale California, author, Prize Pulitzer

1951 Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51

1951 Frans Kellendonk, author, Ruin, The Good for Nothing

1950 Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Caverns, Reefs, Lava

1950 Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83

1950 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author

1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94

1950 Fran Lebowitz, author/actress, Resident Alien

1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American Author

1950 Wally Lamb, born in America, author, novelist, featured in Oprah's Book Club, books include 'The Hour I First Believed' 'I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison', 'She's Come Undone', 'I Know This Much is True'

1950 Nora Roberts, American Author

1950 David Brin, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman

1950 Carel P de Haseth, Curaeaos author/publisher, Bida after kolo

1950 James P[aul] Blaylock, U.S., sci-fi author, Elfin Ship, Homunculus

1950 Helene Weijel, author, In the Street Without a Coat

1950 Peggy Noonan, author, What I Saw at the Revolution

1950 Mercedes R. Lackey, U.S., sci-fi author, Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn

1950 Mercedes Lackey, American Author

1950 Tim Russert, born in New York, American television journalist, author, lawyer, 'Meet the Press' moderator

1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74

1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76

1950 Voranc Prezikov, Lovro Kuhar, Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56

1950 Harry Blomberg, Swedish author (Jacobs Drom), dies at 56

1950 Glyn Ford, born in Gloucester, England, politician, author, Labor Party, member of Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party, Member of European Parliament for South West England, expert on Asia, wrote, 'North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival'

1950 Gloria Naylor, U.S. author, Women of Brewster Place

1950 George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46

1949 Hervey Allen, American Author

1949 R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, U.S., sci-fi author, Damiano's Lute, Raphael

1949 Mary Gordon, U.S., author

1949 Gayl Jones, U.S. author and poet, Corregidora, Song for Anninho

1949 Peter Ackroyd, British Author

1949 Martin Amis, British Author

1949 Joyce Brothers, psychologist/author/columnist

1949 Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

1949 Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67

1949 Ken Follet, born in Cardiff, Wales, author, sold over 100 million copies of books including 'The Key to Rebecca', 'World Without End'

1949 Graham Swift, British Author

1949 Christopher Hitchens, American Author

1949 Larry Wall, Canadian Author

1949 Elizabeth George, American Author

1949 Jonathan Carroll, American Author

1948 Dick Morris, American Author

1948 Spider Robinson, Canada, sci-fi author, 3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret

1948 Bokke RS Pollema journalist/author (Lock of hair and loen), dies at 65

1948 Diane Ackerman, born in Waukegan, Illinois, American poet, author and naturalist, wrote 'Wife of Light' and 'A Natural History of Love'

1948 Shakti Gawain, author, personal development expert, environmentalist, wrote series of successful books, including 'Creative Visualization' and 'Creating True Prosperity', books have sold over 10 million copies, co-founder, New World Library Publishing Company

1948 George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, U.S., sci-fi author, Wild Cards

1948 Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, U.S., sci-fi author, Black Flame

1948 Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Trek II, III, IV

1948 Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author, Ghost Dance, Labyrinth

1948 Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author, Day of Wrath

1948 Ian Mcewan, British Author

1948 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57

1948 Terry Pratchett, English Author

1948 Terry Prachett, English Author

1948 Dan Simmons, American Author

1948 Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugos, Dune

1948 Pamela Sargent, U.S., sci-fi author, Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives

1948 William Gibson, born in Canada, sci-fi author, Neuromancer, Count Zero

1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning

1948 Patricia [Anne] McKillip, U.S., sci-fi author, Fool's Run

1948 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38

1948 Lynn Abbey, American Author

1947 Brian C Daley, U.S., sci-fi author, Exploits of Han Solo, Tron

1947 St-Georges de Bouchelier, French author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71

1947 Arthur Machen, Welsh Author, dies

1947 Wolfgang Borchert, German author (Draussen vor of the Tur), dies at 26

1947 Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82

1947 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66

1947 Stephen King, U.S., sci-fi author, Carrie, Shining, Kujo

1947 Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author, Don't Bite the Sun

1947 Willy Russell, author/playwright, Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita

1947 Daniele Steel, New York City, author, Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Daddy

1947 Dave Barry, born in Armonk, New York, humorist, author, Pulitzer-prize winner for Commentary 1988, wrote columns for the Miami Herald, books include 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry Turns 40', Dave Barry's Greatest Hits', 'Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys', style capitalizes on absurdities

1947 Octavia E[stelle] Butler, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Wild Seed

1947 Linda Chavez, American Author

1947 Sara Paretsky, American Author

1947 Karin Struck, born in Germany, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996

1947 Stephen R. Donaldson, U.S., sci-fi author, Lord Foul's Bane

1947 Willa Cather, American Author

1947 Robert Kiyosaki, American Author

1947 James Patterson, American Author

1947 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author

1947 John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow'

1947 Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke

1947 George Alec Effinger, U.S., sci-fi author, Nick of Time

1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71

1946 Alan Dean Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Midworld, Flinx in Flux

1946 Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, author/Radio Orange, dies

1946 Deepak Chopra, born in Punjab, British India, author, speaker, physician, co-founded the Chopra Center, made cameo appearance in movie, 'The Love Guru', 2008

1946 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author

1946 Jerome Corsi, American Author

1946 Humphrey Carpenter, English Author

1946 H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79

1946 H. G. Wells, English Author

1946 Gertrude Stein, American Author

1946 Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72

1946 Michael Shea, U.S., sci-fi author, Fat Face, Polyphemus

1946 Robert Asprin, American Author

1946 Elizabeth A. Lynn, U.S., sci-fi author, Watchtower, Red Hawk

1946 Janet E[llen] Morris, U.S., sci-fi author, Golden Sword, Tempus

1946 Mike Murdock, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, author, televangelist, pastor, Wisdom Center ministry, Fort Worth, Texas, hosts Wisdom Keys with Mick Murdock television program, mentored with Jimmie Swaggart, preached with Tammy Faye Bakker

1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, U.S., sci-fi author, Wetware

1946 Phyllis Eisenstein, U.S., sci-fi author, Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile

1946 Dan Millman, born in America, author, wrote, published 14 self-help books focusing on human potential, wrote 'The Life You Were Born to Live'

1945 Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39

1945 Karl Edward Wagner, U.S., sci-fi author, Bloodstone, Night Winds

1945 Tracy Kidder, American Author

1945 Rachid Mimouni, born in Boudouaou, Algeria, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction'

1945 Michael Bishop, U.S., sci-fi author, Nebula, Stolen Faces

1945 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes

1945 David A[llen] Drake, U.S., sci-fi author, Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot

1945 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer

1945 Margot Asquith, English Author

1945 Dean Koontz, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Quest, Beastchild

1945 Mark J. Green, born in Brooklyn, New York, lawyer and author, Closed Enterprise System

1945 Elizabeth Moon, American Author

1945 Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards

1945 Douglas R Hofstadter, New York City, author, Godel, Escher, Bach

1945 Clarissa Pinkola Estes, born in Indiana, writer, psychologist, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, author, wrote bestseller, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'

1945 [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author, High Kings

1945 Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74

1945 Barry Holstein Lopez, U.S. author, Of Wolves and Men

1945 Barry Lopez, American Author

1944 Jack L[aurence] Chalker, U.S., sci-fi author, Saga of Well World

1944 Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43

1944 Claudia Dreifus, interviewer/author, 7 Stories

1944 Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author, Deryni Rising, Saint Camber

1944 Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, Witling, True Names

1944 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991

1944 Molly Ivins, born in California, newspaper columnist, author, political commentator

1944 Glen [Charles] Cook, U.S., sci-fi author, Shadowline, Star's End

1944 Janet Dailey, U.S., author

1944 Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, western author, dies

1944 Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer

1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80

1944 Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover

1944 Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, U.S., sci-fi author, Jaws of Menx

1944 Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55

1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52

1944 Richard Ford, U.S. author, Sportswriter

1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested

1944 David Gerrold, Jerrold David Friedman, author, World of Star Trek

1944 Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

1944 Terry Brooks, U.S., sci-fi author, Sword of Shannara

1944 Henry Kravis, author, The Money Machine

1943 John Bouber, Blom, actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22

1943 Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38

1943 Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

1943 Neale Donald Walsch, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, author, wrote series of books titled, 'Conversations With God', which include, 'What God Wants', 'Happier than God', 'Friendship with God', ' Communion with God'

1943 Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author, Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid

1943 A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58

1943 Nelson DeMille, American Author

1943 Edward Cowie, born in Birmingham, England, composer, orchestral, chamber, choral works, conductor, painter, author

1943 Joe [William] Haldeman, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart

1943 Joe Haldeman, American Author

1943 Ian Watson, born in UK, sci-fi author, Book of Being, Whores of Babylon

1943 Ewald Vanvugt, author, Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love

1943 Leo Frankowski, U.S., sci-fi author, High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord

1942 Joe McGinniss, Rye, New York, author, Selling of President 1968

1942 John Crowley, U.S., sci-fi author, Deep, Beasts, Novelty

1942 Tom Peters, born in Baltimore, Maryland, writer, author, speaker, consultant, business management practices expert, co-wrote, 'In Search of Excellence', believes the least amount of overhead business processes can produce empowering decision-makers within an entire company organization

1942 Shere Hite, author/sex therapist

1942 Donna Leon, American Author

1942 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, U.S., sci-fi author, Hotel Transylvania

1942 Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author, Summerfair

1942 C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherry, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy

1942 Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer, Titanic in 1985

1942 James Topping, author of CP/M

1942 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69

1942 Barry B[rookes] Longyear, U.S., sci-fi author, City of Baraboo

1942 Kitty Kelley, author, Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

1942 Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Towers of Toron, Neveryona

1942 Erica Jong, born in New York City, author, Fear of Flying

1942 Jacqueline Lichtenberg, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy

1942 Ama Ata Aidoo, born in Saltpond, Ghana, Ghanaian author and playwright, wrote 'The Dilemma of a Ghost'

1942 Paul Preuss, U.S., sci-fi author, Medusa Encounter, Starfire

1942 Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author, Sideshow, Eros Ascending

1942 Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host, Nathan Sid, In Africa

1941 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author

1941 Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday

1941 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46

1941 Anne Rice, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, author, Interview with a Vampire

1941 James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author, Giants' Star

1941 Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies

1941 Michael Pennington, actor/author, Return of Sherlock Holmes

1941 Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn

1941 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/author, Mussert

1941 George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59

1941 Virginia Woolf, British Author

1941 Stephen Dobyns, U.S. author and poet, Cold Dog Soup

1940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44

1940 Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist

1940 Alfonso Hernandez Cata, Cuban author (El parage), dies

1940 Maxine Hong Kingston, U.S., author

1940 Frances FitzGerald, New York City, journalist/author, Fire in the Lake

1940 George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker

1940 Timothy Severin, author/explorer

1940 Norman [Richard] Spinrad, U.S., sci-fi author, Child of Fortune

1940 Norman Spinrad, American Author

1940 Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (& dodsnat), dies at 72

1940 Abbas Kiarostami, author/director, Under the Olive Trees, Close Up

1940 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987

1940 Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies

1940 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56

1940 Richard Monaco, U.S., sci-fi author, Grail War, Final Quest

1940 Jeffrey Archer, born in England, Tory-Commons, author, Matter of Honor

1940 Russell Banks, American Author

1940 Selma O Lagerlof, Swed author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel-09), dies at 81

1940 Thomas M[ichael] Disch, U.S., sci-fi author, Genocides, 102 H-Bombs

1939 Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author, Alien Heat, Bull and Spear

1939 Margaret E Atwood, author and poet

1939 Auberon Waugh, British Author

1939 Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author, Revelations, Beyond Apollo

1939 Warwick Hutton, born in Britain, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen

1939 M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Gameplayers of Zan

1939 Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter, Mommie Dearest

1939 Margaret Drabble, British author, Needle's Eye

1939 Patrick Cormack, born in Grimsby, England, politician, journalist, author, historian, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire

1939 Ken Blanchard, born in Orange, New Jersey, author, professional speaker, management expert, co-wrote, 'The One Minute Manager' with Spencer Johnson, sold over 13 million copies in 37 languages, wrote more than 30 successful books

1939 Amos Oz, Jerusalem Israel, author, My Michael

1939 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75

1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57

1939 Jim Bouton, born in Newark, New Jersey, pitcher, New York Yankees, author of Ball Four

1939 Adam Osborne, born in Thailand, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

1939 Jo Clayton, U.S., sci-fi author, Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters

1939 Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, U.S., sci-fi author, Spider Jane, Heart's Blood

1939 Rachel English, London, author, My 1st 500

1939 Germaine Greer, born in Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author, Female Eunich

1939 Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author

1939 Charles Eastman, Sioux Author

1938 Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator

1938 Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc), dies at 48

1938 Stewart Brand, American Author

1938 Yuji Takahashi, born in Japan, composer, author, pianist, performer, grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists

1938 Judith Martin, author/journalist/columnist, Miss Manners

1938 Frederick Forsyth, author, Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File

1938 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67

1938 Carmen Callil, born in Melbourne, Australia, publisher, author, founder, Virago Press, publisher of Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal, kid books author

1938 Margaret Forster, British Author

1938 Larry Niven, U.S., sci-fi author, 5 Hugo, Neutron Star

1938 Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75

1938 Henry Newbolt, English Author

1938 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at 65

1938 David Irving, British Author

1938 Michael J[oseph] Kurland, U.S., sci-fi author, Infernal Device

1938 Ishmael Reed, U.S., author, Last Days of Louisiana Red

1938 Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64

1938 Judy Blume, author, Wifey

1938 John Bellairs, U.S., sci-fi author, Chessmen of Doom

1937 John [Thomas] Sladek, U.S., sci-fi author, Tik-Tok, Bugs

1937 Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author, Compleat Crow, Psychomech

1937 Gail Sheehy, author, Hustling

1937 Jackie Collins, London, author, Bitch, Stud

1937 Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar'

1937 Albertine Sarrazin, French author, L'astragale, La Cavale

1937 Andrew J[efferson V] Offutt, U.S., sci-fi author, Undying Wizard

1937 Jared Diamond, American Author

1937 William George Rushton, London, actor/author/cartoonist, TW3

1937 Edith Wharton, American Author

1937 Brooke Hayward, born in Los Angeles, California, author, Haywire

1937 Mirabel Morgan, author, Total Woman

1937 Gail Godwin, U.S., author, Perfectionists, Odd Woman

1937 Erich Segal, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, Love Story, Oliver's Story

1937 Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine

1937 Robert Fulghum, American Author

1937 Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author, 6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber

1937 George Carlin, born in New York, American comedian, actor, author, Grammy Award winner

1937 Victoria Glendinning, author, Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions

1937 Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, born in UK, sci-fi author, Collision Course

1937 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58

1937 Christopher Tugendhat, born in England, born Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat of Widdington in the County of Essex, politician, Conservative Party, journalist, author, businessman

1937 Joanna Russ, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Female Man, Alyx

1937 Jilly Cooper, British Author

1937 Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75

1936 Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author, Steal this Book

1936 K Schippers, Gerard Stigter, Dutch author

1936 Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, dies at 76

1936 Lu Xun, Chinese Author

1936 Gordon Honeycombe, broadcaster/author

1936 Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99

1936 Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64

1936 Richard L[ouis] Tierney, U.S., sci-fi author, Winds of Zarr

1936 Tom Robbins, American Author

1936 Richard Bach, born in Oak Park, Illinois, writer, author, best-sellers include, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah', genres include aviation, fantasy, philosophy

1936 Lars Gustafsson, born in Vasteras, Sweden, professor, University of Texas at Austin, author, wrote 'The Death of a Beekeeper'

1936 Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, U.S., sci-fi author, Jupiter Theft

1936 Marge Piercy, author, Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers

1936 Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright, Are You Lonesome Tonight

1936 Margaret Mahy, New Zealander Author

1936 Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet, Dimri i Madh

1936 Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author, Instant Replay

1936 Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70

1936 Betty Rollin, actress, Crossing Delancey, author, Last Wish

1935 Calvin Trillin, author, New Yorker

1935 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

1935 Randolph Stow, author and poet, Suburbs of Hell

1935 Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, femnist/author, Ms

1935 Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, German author, dies at 89

1935 Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1935 Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi/author (Hokhmat Ha-kodesh), dies

1935 Michael Holroyd, born in London, England, author, biographer, wrote biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John

1935 Christoph Meckel, born in Berlin, Germany, graphic artist, writer, author, works include 'Georg Heym: Gedichte'

1935 Carol Shields, Canadian Author

1935 Erich von Daniken, author, Chariots of the Gods

1935 Anna Katharine Green, American Author

1935 John Gross, author, Age of Kipling, Dickens and 20th Century

1935 Judith Rossner, author, Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1935 Tony Campolo, born in America, pastor, speaker, author, promotes evangelical reform, leader, 'Red Letter Christian' movement, focusing on Christ's teachings, wrote, 'A Reasonable Faith', known for famous sermon, 'It's Friday, But Sunday's Coming!'

1935 Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author, Against Our Wills

1935 Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78

1935 David Lodge, British Author

1935 Raymond Briggs, English author, Fungus the Bogeyman

1935 Paul O[sborne] Williams, U.S., sci-fi author, Ends of the Circle

1935 Robert Silverberg, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Regan's Planet

1934 Carl Sagan, Brooklyn, astronomer/author/professor, Cosmos, Broca's Brain

1934 Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet and author, Charlotte Life or Theater

1934 Dick Schaap, sportscaster/author, Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay

1934 John Brunner, Kilian Houston, UK, sci-fi author, 100th Millennium

1934 Kate Millett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, feminist/author, Sexual Politics

1934 Vincent Bugliosi, attorney/author, Helter-Skelter

1934 Delilah L Beasley, U.S. author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61

1934 Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author, Drowned Ammet, Witch Week

1934 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author, Chthon, Phthor

1934 [James] Thorne Smith, U.S., sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout)

1934 Harlan [Jay] Ellison, U.S., sci-fi author, 7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5

1934 Jan Klusak, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer, author of incidental music, and music for television, film

1934 David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War

1934 [Navarre] Scott Momaday, U.S. author, House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969

1933 Earnest P van Altena, author/interpreter, Chansons van Earnest

1933 David Reuben, author, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex

1933 Augustine Birrell, English Author

1933 Gerald Masters, South African/British author, Pan Book of Dates

1933 Eric Salzman, born in America, author, composer, record producer, music critic, wrote for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune

1933 Nancy Friday, American Author

1933 Irmtraud Morgner, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society

1933 Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, U.S., sci-fi author, Mercenary, Red Dragon

1933 John Bradshaw, born in Houston, Texas, educator, speaker, author, popularized dysfunctional family, wrote 'Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child'

1933 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69

1933 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1933 Barbara Taylor Bradford, author

1933 Boris Strugatski, U.S.S.R., sci-fi author, Tale of Troika

1933 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies

1933 Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author

1933 William Davis, author/broadcaster, Battle at Bull Run

1933 Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author, Web of Wizardry, Space Trap

1933 Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography'

1933 Sara Teasdale, American Author

1933 Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters'

1933 Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, U.S., sci-fi author, Deadwalk, Plunder

1933 Sonia Garmers, Justina, Curaeao, author, Dear Queen

1932 Ben[jamin William] Bova, U.S., sci-fi author, Exiled from Earth

1932 Carry van Bruggen, de Haan, Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51

1932 Marian Christy, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author, Invasions of Privacy

1932 Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left

1932 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center

1932 Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna

1932 Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author, Cat Karina

1932 Mike Royko, born in Chicago, journalist, Symphony Daily News, author, Boss

1932 Robert [Franklin] Adams, U.S., sci-fi author, Castaways in Time

1932 Carlene Polite, U.S. dancer/activist/author, Sister X

1932 Robert L[ull] Forward, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragon's Egg, Starquake

1932 Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author

1932 Gavin Lyall, author, Conduct of Major Maxim

1932 Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56

1932 Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style

1932 Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema

1932 Gay Talese, author, Honor Thy Father

1932 Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster

1932 Robert Anton Wilson, U.S., sci-fi author, Trick Top Hat

1932 Umberto Eco, author, Name of the Rose

1931 Bob Shaw, UK, sci-fi author, Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo

1931 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69

1931 Dervla Murphy, travel author, Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule

1931 Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author, Nude on Fence

1931 Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP, D-66, author, Winters in Wartime

1931 John Le Carre, English Author

1931 Brian Glanville, author/journalist

1931 Kristin Hunter, Eggleston, U.S. author, God Bless the Child

1931 Frank Harris, Irish Author

1931 Alice Munro, author, Dance of the Happy Shades

1931 Julian May, U.S., sci-fi author, Golden Torc, Magnificat

1931 Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee'

1931 David Eddings, U.S., sci-fi author, Belgariad, Malloreon

1931 Andres Burnier, criminologist/author, Jongensuur

1931 Colin Wilson, author, Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries

1931 Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author, Real Lace: America's Irish Rich

1931 Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, U.S., sci-fi author, Soldier of Arete

1931 Bill Gilbert, born in Washington D.C., sports author, They Also Served, Big E

1931 Jane Rule, Canadian Author

1931 Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper

1931 John McPhee, author, Back to ----

1931 Tom Wolfe, Richmond Virginia, journalist and author, wrote The Right Stuff

1931 Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator, Showtime

1931 Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist

1931 Shirley Hazzard, Australian author, Transit of Venus

1931 Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1931 Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author, Man of Earth

1931 E. L. Doctorow, American Author

1930 John Morressy, U.S., sci-fi author, Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane

1930 J. G. Ballard, British Author

1930 Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author, Christmas in Biafra

1930 J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author, Drowned World

1930 Ornelio Martina, Antillian author/governor of Curaeao

1930 Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author, Towers of February

1930 Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73

1930 Colin Dexter, born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, author, crime writer of 13 detective novels and 33 episode television series featuring fictional character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, portrayed by John Thaw

1930 Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62

1930 Jim Rohn, born in Idaho, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, joined direct sales organization of John Earl Shoaff, became millionaire by age 31, shared rags to riches story and personal development philosophy with over 4 million people worldwide, authored 17 books, audio, video programs

1930 Cherry Barbara Grimm, Lockett, New Zealand, sci-fi author, Nearest Fire

1930 Warren Burger, U.S., author, The Midas Touch

1930 D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author, Synthajoy, Radio Plays

1930 Frank McCourt, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland

1930 Thomas Sowell, author/activist

1930 Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, U.S., sci-fi author, Thongor of Lemuria

1930 Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author, Storm Queen

1930 Barbara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author, Little Gloria Happy At Last

1930 Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, U.S., sci-fi author, Book of Swords

1930 Fred Saberhagen, American Author

1930 Herbert Croly, American Author

1930 Stanley Elkin, American Author

1930 Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63

1930 Bryan Magee, born in Hoxton, England, broadcaster, author, politician, presented current affairs television show This Week, made philosophy accessible with his 'Men of Ideas' television series

1930 Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

1930 Harry Mathews, American Author

1930 Kenneth Anger, American Author

1930 Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post

1930 Jennifer P Johnston, Irish author, Fool's sanctuary

1929 Mary Higgins Clark, born in Bronx, New York, author, Cry in the Night, Stillwatch

1929 Marilyn French, U.S. author, The Women's Room

1929 Renate Rubinstein, Tamar, German/Ned's author/columnist, Tamar

1929 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, Death of Artemio Cruz

1929 Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author, Verhor von Habana

1929 Ursula K. Le Guin, U.S., sci-fi author, Tombs of Atuan

1929 Ursula K. LeGuin, American Author

1929 Robert Coles, Milton Massachusetts, author, Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973

1929 Ira Levin, author, Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day

1929 Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois

1929 Shirley Ann Grau, author, Keepers of the House

1929 Eric Carle, American Author

1929 Tristan Jones, born in Liverpool, England, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, wrote about sailing in books and articles

1929 Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator

1929 Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author, Ipcress File, Fighter

1929 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel

1929 Jules Feiffer, New York City, cartoonist, Passionella, author, Little Murders

1929 John Naisbitt, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, author, public speaker, futures studies, wrote, 'Megatrends', 1982, sold over 9 million copies in 57 countries, special assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson

1928 Philip K[indred] Dick, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo-1963, Blade Runner

1928 Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies

1928 1st celebration of Author's Day

1928 Thomas Burnett Swann, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of Minotaur

1928 Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave

1928 Elie Wiesel, Romania, author, Souls on Fire, Nazi hunter, Nobel 1986

1928 Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author and poet

1928 Leo P[atrick] Kelley, U.S., sci-fi author, Dead Moon, Vacation in Space

1928 Robert Sheckley, American Author

1928 Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author, 1st Family, Blood River

1928 Pavel Kohout, born in Czechoslovakia, director/author, Poor Murderer

1928 Maurice Sendak, New York City, author/illustrator, Where The Wild Things Are

1928 Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Hamlet Trap

1928 Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies

1928 Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor, John F. Kennedy, author, 1000 Days

1928 Cynthia Ozick, U.S., author, Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories

1928 James White, sci-fi author, Star Surgeon, Star Healer

1928 Tom Sharpe, English historian/author, Riotous Assembly, Want

1928 Michael Harrington, St. Louis, socialist/author, Fragments of Century

1928 Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author, Tormenta de verano

1928 Andrew M Greeley, author/reverend

1928 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster

1928 Judith Krantz, born in New York City, author, Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle

1928 William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist

1927 Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author, Heartsease

1927 Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44

1927 Gunther Grass, German Author

1927 Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator

1927 James Goldman, author/playwright, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

1927 Jerome K. Jerome, English Author

1927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S., author, American Glass Animals

1927 Zilpha Keatly Snyder, U.S., sci-fi author, Headless Cupid

1927 Anthony Lewis, columnist New York Times and author, Gideon's Trumpet

1927 Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department

1927 Jakov Lind, German/British author, Counting My Footsteps

1927 Galway Kinnell, born in Providence, Rhode Island, author, Body Rags, Book of Nightmares

1927 Edward Abbey, U.S. author, Desert Solitaire

1926 Poul [William] Anderson, U.S., sci-fi author, 7 Hugos, Mirkheim

1926 Alan Owen, English author, Maggie May, Ronnie Barker Show

1926 Zig Ziglar, American Author

1926 Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing

1926 Alfred Slote, author, Love and Tennis, Omega Station

1926 John R[obert] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, White Regiment, Lizard War

1926 Alice Adams, U.S. author

1926 J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, nee Janet Asimov, author, 2nd Experiment

1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author and poet

1926 Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Seed of Light, All Fool's Day

1926 Harper Lee, author, To Kill a Mockingbird

1926 Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76

1926 Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies

1926 Anne McCaffrey, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragonflight, Dragondrums

1926 Richard DeVos, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, World War II veteran, businessman, author, billionaire, co-founder Amway - now Alticor, owner Orlando Magic, wrote 'Hope from My Heart: Ten Lessons For Life'

1926 James Merrill, U.S. poet and author, Scripts for the Pageant

1926 Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author, My Life

1926 Libera Carlier, Flemish author, Action Station Go!

1926 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life'

1926 Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author, Change of Use

1925 William F. Buckley, Jr., born in New York City, conservative author, commentator, founded 'The National Review'

1925 Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author

1925 Dieter Wellershoff, German author, Minotaur

1925 Gore Vidal, born in West Point, New York, author, Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln

1925 Arkadi N Strugazki, U.S.S.R., sci-fi author, Tale of the Troika

1925 Brian Aldiss, born in East Dereham, England, science fiction author, 'The Helliconia Trilogy' and 'Hothouse'

1925 Norris McWhirter, author, Guinness Book of World Records

1925 Ross McWhirter, author, Guinness Book of World Records

1925 A. C. Benson, British Author

1925 John Keith Laumer, Anthony LeBaron, U.S., science fiction author, Retief's War

1925 Tony Hillerman, American Author

1925 George MacDonald Fraser, poet and author, Flashman at the Charge

1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author, Deathworld Trilogy

1925 Harry Harrison, American Author

1925 Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment

1925 Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist, Curious Sofa

1925 Nina David, Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon, poet/author, dies

1925 Pramudya Ananta Tur, Javanese author, Anak semua bangsa

1925 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author

1925 Russell Hoban, U.S. children's book author, Riddley Walker/Pilgermann

1925 Nina [Mary] Bawden, English author, Afternoon of a Good Woman

1924 Ida Haendel, Polish violinist and author, Woman with Violin

1924 Herman Heijermans, Jr., author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies

1924 Truman Capote, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, author, In Cold Blood

1924 James A. Baldwin, American Author

1924 Idries Shah, Indian Author

1924 Bulat S Okudzjava, Russian author, Student!

1924 August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62

1924 Raf de Linde, Raphael van Hecke, author, Vaarwel on Gertrude

1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71

1924 Renos Apostolidis, Greek author and poet, Katigoro

1924 Hans Berghuis, Dutch author and poet, 3 Women, Adam

1924 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome

1924 Margaret Beda Nicholson, author, No Medals for the Major

1924 Lloyd Alexander, born in Pennsylvania, American author, wrote children's fantasy novels, 'Cricket' magazine creator

1924 Jean Francois Revel, French journalist/author, Ni Marx ni Jesus

1923 Sara A. Lidman, Swedish author, Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi

1923 Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine

1923 Nadine Gordimer, South African author, July's people, Nobel 1991

1923 French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59

1923 Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author, The Arch

1923 Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author, Genetic General

1923 Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian Author

1923 Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author, Sky Music

1923 Italo Calvino, born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba, author, Winter's Night a Traveler

1923 Reninca, Renee Lauwers, Flemish author, Seed in the Wind

1923 Serafina K "Sera" Anstadt, Polish/Dutch actress/author

1923 Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66

1923 Erik Aalbaek Jensen, Danish vicar/author, Perleporten

1923 Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73

1923 Tom Blackburn, born in Raton, New Mexico, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, wrote lyrics to The Ballad of Davy Crockett

1923 Virginia C. Andrews, American Author

1923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places

1923 Samuel Selvon, born in Trinidad, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, wrote 'The Lonely Londoners', focusing on West Indians' immigration to Britain, cultural differences

1923 Avram Davidson, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!

1923 Paula Fox, U.S. children's books author, Poor George

1923 Lloyd Biggle, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Silence is Deadly

1923 Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director, Doctor Noir

1923 Brendan Behan, born in Dublin, Ireland, author and poet, Hostage

1923 Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Texas, journlist/author, WNBC, New York Daily News

1923 Walter M[ichael] Miller, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, View from Stars

1922 Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51

1922 Lyman Abbott, American Author

1922 Damon [Francis] Knight, U.S., sci-fi author, CV, Beyond the Barrier

1922 William Henry Hudson, British Author

1922 Mavis Gallant, Canadian Author

1922 [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82

1922 Leo Kraft, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, author, educator, recorded on CRI label, studied composition with Karol Rathaus, Randall Thompson, Nadio Boulander

1922 James E. Gunn, U.S., sci-fi author, Station in Space, Immortal

1922 Terje Stigen, Norwegian author, Det siste paradiset

1922 Harry Clement Stubbs, U.S., sci-fi author, Needle, Iceworld

1922 Dennis Compton, author/crickleter

1922 Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author, Tripods Trilogy

1922 Colin Fletcher, author, Walking Through Time

1922 Mervyn Jones, author, Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers

1922 Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Me, author/publisher, Cosmopolitan

1922 Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian, Reluctant Jester

1922 Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author, Fast Lady

1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin

1921 Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984

1921 Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author

1921 Paulo Freire, born in Recife, Brazil, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phenomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'

1921 Stanislaw Lem, born in Poland, sci-fi author, Solaris, Invincible

1921 Jacqueline Susann, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, author, Valley of the Dolls

1921 James Houston, born in Toronto, author/filmmaker, Tikta'Liktak

1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author, Telepath, Power of X

1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader

1921 James Blish, American Author

1921 Wilson Harris, Guayanese author

1921 Earl Nightingale, born in Los Angeles, California, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs

1921 F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Star Rebel

1921 John Bouber, Blom, actor/author, Fool of Heideloo

1921 Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author

1920 Vaino Linna, born in Urjala, Finland, author, wrote Finnish books, Under the North Star translated into English by Richard Impola

1920 Paul T B Rodenko, poet and author, Stolen Lover

1920 Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57

1920 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, U.S., sci-fi author, Dune

1920 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author, Anna and her Father

1920 Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Illinois, sci-fi author, Fahrenheit 451

1920 Pierre Berton, Canadian Author

1920 John Howard Griffin, U.S., photographer/author, Black Like Me

1920 Amy Clampitt, born in New Providence, Iowa, poet, author, professor at Amherst College, College of William and Mary, Smith College, received Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship

1920 Ruth Graham, born in China, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, author, poet, writer, philanthropist

1920 Anthony Storr, born in London, England, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression'

1920 William D Howells, U.S. author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83

1920 Richard Adams, author, Day Gone By

1920 Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, U.S., sci-fi author, Dark Universe, Last Leap

1919 Frederik Pohl, U.S., sci-fi author, 3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl

1919 Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30

1919 Kathleen Winsor, American Author

1919 Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, John Boyd, U.S., sci-fi author, IQ Merchant

1919 Aya Zikken, author, Atlasvlinder, Rameh

1919 Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator

1919 Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong'

1919 Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62

1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author, Coney Island of the Mind

1919 Edwin Newman, New York City, newscaster/journalist/author, NBC-TV, Comment

1919 Nora Beloff, journalist/author

1919 Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austrian author, dies at 59

1918 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83

1918 Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42

1918 Jon Trausti, Gudmundur Magnusson, Iceland author (Godir), dies

1918 Marten Baersma, MH Bottema, Fries author, dies at 28

1918 Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast

1918 E. Howard Hunt, born in New York, American author, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy, involved in Watergate

1918 Richard Hoggart, author/warden, Goldsmith's College London

1918 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51)

1918 Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize

1918 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60

1918 Vernon Howard, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth

1918 Theodore Sturgeon, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, It, Caviar

1918 Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse, Dutch author, Cider for Poor People

1917 Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi author, 2001, 2010, Childhood's End

1917 Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, science fiction author, inventor, wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey'

1917 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix

1917 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, U.S., sci-fi author, Earth War

1917 Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister

1917 Margaret Taylor Burroughs, U.S. author/house painter, Black Queen

1917 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, U.S., sci-fi author, Anything Box

1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient

1917 Walter Lord, American Author

1917 Magda Szabo, Hungary, author, Az oz, Abigel

1917 Jessica Mitford, author, American Way of Death

1917 Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries

1917 Robert Conquest, English author, Back to Life

1917 Robert Anderson, author, Tea and Sympathy

1917 Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author, Amsterdam Affair

1917 Robert [Albert] Bloch, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Psycho

1917 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author

1916 Jack London, author, dies at 40

1916 Shelby Foote, American Author

1916 Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade

1916 Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright

1916 Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author, Crystal Cave

1916 Roald Dahl, Norway, sci-fi author, Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables

1916 Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, U.S., sci-fi author, Puzzle Planet

1916 Jack Vance, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume

1916 Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books

1916 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author

1916 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author, Family dictionary

1916 Unica Zurn, born in Berlin, Germany, author, painter, wrote anagram poems and held automatic drawing exhibitions

1916 Odilon Redon, French painter/author (A soi-mame), dies at 76

1916 Harold Robbins, New York City, author, Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy

1916 Camilo Jose Cela, Spain, author, La Colmena-1951

1916 Beverly Cleary, American Author

1916 Irving Wallace, Author

1915 Charles L[eonard] Harness, U.S., sci-fi author, Paradox Men, Wolfhead

1915 William Howell Masters, sex author/physician

1915 Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey

1915 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, U.S., sci-fi author, Ginger Star

1915 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76

1915 William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms

1915 Alice B[radley] Sheldon, U.S., sci-fi author, Byte Beautiful

1915 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter, Mensch op Weg

1915 Saul Bellow, born in Lachine, Quebec, author, Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976

1915 Lester del Rey, U.S., sci-fi author, Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars

1915 Monica Dickens, author/founder, US Samaritians

1915 Emil [Theodore] Petaja, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Mill, Tramontane

1915 Henry Kuttner, U.S., sci-fi author, Dark World, As You Were

1915 Richard Thomas Condon, author

1915 Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author, Das Spiegellabyrinth

1915 Paul Ferris, British author

1915 Patrick Leigh Fermor, author

1915 Jann Willem Holsbergen, author, Zakenmensen Fair as Gold

1915 Frederic Ramsey, Jr., folklorist/author

1914 [Arthur] Wilson "Bob" Tucker, U.S., sci-fi author, Time Masters

1914 R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, U.S., sci-fi author, Devil is Dead

1914 Marius Hendrikus Flothuis, Dutch composer/author, Mozart biography

1914 Brendan Gill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine

1914 Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize

1914 Laurie Lee, male poet and author, I Can't Stay Long

1914 Vance Packard, Granville Summit, Pennsylvania, author, Hidden Persuaders

1914 Claude Mauriac, born in France, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust

1914 Charles Hubert Sisson, author and poet, Christopher Homm

1914 Jakub Arbes, Czechoslovakian author (Andel Miru), dies at 73

1914 Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service

1914 Ralph Ellison, American Author

1914 Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum

1914 Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84

1913 Alfred Bester, U.S., science fiction author, Decievers, Starlight

1913 Stuart J[ames] Byrne, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Man, God Man

1913 Claude Simon, born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, writer, prize-winning author, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature, identified with the nouveau roman movement

1913 Edith Mary Ellis Peters Pargeter, author

1913 Ellis Peters, British Author

1913 Daan Wildschut, painter/glazenier/author

1913 Ralph Hammond Innes, English author

1913 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, U.S., sci-fi author, Space Lords

1913 Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president, Antsa

1913 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter

1913 Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician

1913 Mignon McLaughlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value'

1913 Barbara Pym, romantic author, Very Private Eye

1913 Earl Blackwell, born in Atlanta, Georgia, author, Celebrity Register

1913 Stefan Heym, German/U.S. author, Crusaders, Family Benda

1913 William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author

1913 Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, Australia, poet, author, historian, wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country

1913 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author

1913 Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44

1912 John W. Pritchard, Ian Wallace, U.S., sci-fi author, Megalomania

1912 Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree

1912 Anton Koolhaas, author, Weird White

1912 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83

1912 Ian Serraillier, children author

1912 Andrew Long, Scottish author, Blue Book of Fairy Tales

1912 Mary Lavin MacDonald Scott, author

1912 Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner

1912 George Woodcock, author

1912 A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Canada, sci-fi author, Wizard of Linn

1912 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author, Empress of Outer Space

1912 Peter Bull, actor/author, Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr. Strangelove

1912 Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, Hot Club of France

1912 Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch, female, author

1912 Edmund George Love, U.S., teacher/historian/author, A Small Bequest, =

1912 Barbara Tuchman, U.S., historian/author, Pulitzer, Guns of August

1912 Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist, Cloak, Aufruf

1912 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author and poet, Spielball der Gotter

1911 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian

1911 Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author

1911 James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author, Lion Game

1911 Viktor P. Nekrasov, Ukrainian author, Vokopach Stalingrada

1911 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, U.S., sci-fi author, Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman

1911 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, U.S., sci-fi author, Judgment Night

1910 Fritz [Reuter] Leiber, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Bazaar of the Bizarre

1910 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82

1910 Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, dies at 79

1910 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher

1910 Jacquetta Hawker, English archaeologist/author, A Country

1910 Jurgen Rausch, German philosopher/author, End of the Playboys

1910 Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

1910 Kalman Mikszath, Hungarian author (Szent Peter Esernyoje), dies at 63

1910 Peter De Vries, Chicago, author, Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon

1910 Joy Adamson, naturalist/author, Born Free

1910 Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation

1909 James Agee, American author, African Queen, Death in Family

1909 Hotze de Roos, Dutch youth book author, Chameleon

1909 Nigel Tranter, author/historian, River Realm, Robert the Bruce

1909 Paul de Vree, Flemish author, Between Doubt and Tears

1909 Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder, Vrij Netherland

1909 John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century

1909 Neil R[onald] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, Space War, Twin Worlds

1909 Laura Hillenbrand, American Author

1909 David Brock, American Author

1909 Helen Fielding, British Author

1909 James Bovard, Author

1909 Tom Bodett, American Author

1909 Sheri S. Tepper, American Author

1909 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator

1909 Edgar Pangborn, U.S., sci-fi author, Judgment of Eve, Davy

1909 Keith Davis, voice tutor/author

1908 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist

1908 Nigel M Balchin, Mark Spade, English author, Business for Pleasure

1908 Harry Kemelman, U.S. detective author, rabbi-omnibus

1908 Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union

1908 Hans Werner Richter, German author, Socially Responsible Cinema

1908 Kay Thompson, American Author

1908 Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77

1908 Fanny Leys, Flemish author, Ontwijding

1908 Ann Lane Petry, U.S. journalist/author, Street

1908 Richard Wright, U.S., author, Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children

1908 Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author, Daily Express

1908 Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author, Bestiari

1908 Ian Lancaster Fleming, born in London, England, author, James Bond

1908 Ludovic Halevy, French Author

1908 Jack [Stewart] Williamson, U.S., sci-fi author, Cometeers

1908 Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter and author, Op Art

1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, author, Cheaper by the Dozen

1908 Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author, Hondo, Jubal Sackett

1908 Louis L'Amour, American Author

1908 Frank G Slaughter, author, Sangaree

1908 Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist

1908 Simone de Beauvoir, France, author, Mandarins, 2nd Sex

1907 Rumer Godden, England, author, Thursday's Children

1907 Jo Boer, Dutch author, Catharina and the Magnolias

1907 Jacques Barzun, France, author, The House of Interlect

1907 Alberto Moravia, Pincherle, Italian author, Indifferent Ones

1907 L[yon] Sprague de Camp, U.S., sci-fi author, Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei

1907 Jim Bishop, author, The Day Lincoln was Shot

1907 Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author and poet

1907 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children book author, Pipi Longstocking

1907 Maurits Mok, Dutch author and poet, Cheese and Bread Game

1907 Roger Vailland, French author, La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir

1907 Miguel Torga, Adolfo Correia da Rocha, Portuguese author

1907 Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author

1907 Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77

1907 Robert A[nson] Heinlein, U.S., sci-fi author, 4 Hugos, Red Planet

1907 John Hadfield, author/publisher, Love on a Branch Line

1907 Nicolas Bentley, British Author

1907 Dorothy West, U.S. journalist/author, Living is Easy

1907 Gerald Abrahams, born in Liverpool, author, Teach Yourself Chess

1907 Hugh MacLennan, Canadian Author

1907 E. W. Swanton, author and sports commentator

1907 Anton Ingolic, Slavic author, After Splavih, After Prelomu

1906 H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole

1906 Klaus Mann, German/US author, Mephisto, son of Thomas Mann

1906 Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies

1906 Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO, Primary Education

1906 Fredric [William] Brown, U.S., sci-fi author, Martians Go Home

1906 Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author, Ballade pa Nytorv

1906 Francis Walder, Francois Waldburger, Belgian author

1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, Charles' wife

1906 Eleanor Estes, author, Ginger Pye, Moffats

1906 Alexis Curvers, Belgian author, Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond

1906 Robert E[rvin] Howard, U.S., sci-fi author, Conan the Conqueror

1905 Charles Finney, U.S., author, Circus of Dr. Lao

1905 Wazyk, Adam Wagman, Polish poet and author, Eyes and Mouth

1905 Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian author

1905 Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann

1905 Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent

1905 Pentti Haanpaa, Finnish author, Yhdeksan Miehen Saappaat

1905 George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess and Curdie), dies at 80

1905 Sven Johan Stolpe, Swedish author, Latt, snabb och om

1905 Daniel M K "Daan" Inghelram, Flemish author, Angelique

1905 Edgar P. Snow, U.S. author/journalist: Red star over China

1905 Lionel Trilling, author, 1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination

1905 Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jimenez), dies at 80

1905 Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77

1905 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St. Jorgen), dies at 58

1905 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author, Sputniki

1905 Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer, Stroom

1905 Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides

1904 Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie

1904 Nancy Mitford, English author, Love in a cold climate

1904 Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies

1904 Marya Mannes, New York City, author, The Reporter

1904 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, U.S., sci-fi author, Danger Planet

1904 Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54

1904 Karen Aabye, Danish author, Less bedstemor there jomfru

1904 Thanasis Petsalis, Greek author, I Mavrolyki

1904 Christopher Isherwood, American Author

1904 M Revis, Willem Fisherman, author, Gelakte Brain

1904 Clifford D[onald] Simak, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Empire, Way Station

1904 Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987

1904 Rudolf Arnheim, born in Berlin, German-born author, art and film theorist, philosopher, psychologist

1904 Jean Helion, artist/author, They Shall Not Have Me

1904 Samuel Smiles, Scottish Author

1904 Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss, children's author, "Horton Hears a Who!"

1904 James Thomas Farrell, U.S., author, Studs Lonigan trilogy

1904 Adelle Davis, author, Lets Stay Healthy, nutritionist, died of cancer

1904 Buzurg Alavi, Persian author, Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha

1904 S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist, Around the World in 80 Days

1904 S. J. Perelman, Author

1904 Theodore Brameld, author/educator, Use of Explosive Ideas

1903 Erskine P Caldwell, author, Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre

1903 William Plomer, Transvaal, author, Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa

1903 Kathleen, Kitty, Rosalind Muggeridge, author

1903 Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies

1903 Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, Albert Helman, Suriname author

1903 Jean Tardieu, author

1903 Evelyn Waugh, English Author

1903 Irving Stone, U.S., author, Love is Eternal, Lust for Life

1903 John Wyndham P L B Harris, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of the Triffids

1903 Marcia Davenport, American Author

1903 Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author, After Dark, Devil's Planet

1903 James Beard, U.S., culinary expert/author, Delights and Prejudices

1903 Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author, Kamrathustru-Wife and Comrade

1903 Rabbe A. Enckell, Finnish author and poet, Lutad about Brunnen

1903 Morley Callaghan, Canada, author, Toronto Star, Native Argosy

1903 Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French author, Un Enfant a Dit

1902 Mortimer J Adler, New York City, author, Encyclopedia Brittanica

1902 Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author, regional novels

1902 Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author and poet, Az Ismertlen Illyes

1902 Hermine Heijermans, Dutch actress/author

1902 Mathilde Wesendonk, German author and poet, dies at 73

1902 Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author, True Believer

1902 Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin, 1926-37

1902 Bret Harte, American Author

1902 Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor, Netherlands Antilles, author

1902 Quentin Reynolds, New York City, newscaster, Its News to Me, author, FBI

1902 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet and author, Lutin Sauvage

1902 John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, author, Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962

1902 Max Kommerell, German literary/author, Die Gefangenen

1902 Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author, Das Klavichord

1902 Norman Maclean, American Author

1902 Heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author, Moorkeerl

1902 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, Cold Comfort Farm

1901 Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author, Presenea

1901 Irja A Browallius, Swedish author, Syndon pa Skruke

1901 John Gunther, born in Chicago, Illinois, author/host, John Gunther's High Road

1901 Barbara Cartland, romance author, Camfield #69

1901 Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, Obscure Blood

1901 Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author, Cheyenne Autumn

1901 Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author, Gyasz/Galilei

1901 Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, Mieke-serial

1901 Rene Jules Dubos, France, U.S. microbiologist/author, Health and Disease

1901 Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76

1900 Oda Schaefer, German author and poet, Die Windharfe, Ladies Only

1900 Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author, Myth Makers

1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46

1900 Anna Seghers, Netty Radvanyi-Reiling, German author, 7th Cross

1900 Howard Thurman, theologian/author, Deep River, Deep in the Hunger

1900 Margaret Mitchell, author, Gone With the Wind

1900 Rene Crevel, French author, Mon corps et moi, Detours

1900 Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author, La victoria no viene sola

1900 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author, Kordian into Cham

1900 Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28

1900 Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author, Undercurrent, Coral Reef

1900 Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author, Earste Keur

1900 Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author, House is not a Home

1900 Ferenc Kormendy, Hungarian/US author, Budapest Kaland

1899 Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author, Babar the Elephant

1899 William R Burnett, U.S., author, Little Caesar

1899 Eddy du Perron, Dutch author and poet

1899 Horatio Alger, Jr., Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies

1899 Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author, regional novels

1899 Maxwell Maltz, born in America, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals

1899 Erich Kastner, Dresden German author, Emil and the Detective

1898 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, UK, sci-fi author, Silver Chair

1898 C. S. Lewis, English Author

1898 Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet and author, His Master's Voice

1898 Guomundur G Hagalin, Iceland author, Kristun/d into Hamravik

1898 Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78

1898 Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author, Flowering of New England

1898 Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russian/Australia author, Students

1898 Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author, Kaputt

1898 Edward Bellamy, U.S. author (Looking Backward), dies

1898 Paul Tournier, born in Geneva, Switzerland, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings

1898 Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor, De Standaard 1929-39

1897 Manuel A. Neat, Curaeaos author, Nobleza di Coerazon

1897 Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet and author, People's Palace

1897 Dorothy Day, author, Stump the Authors

1897 Naomi Mitchison, author, African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill

1897 Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author, Mark of Zorro, Applause

1897 William Faulkner, Mississippi, author, Sound and Fury-Nobel 1949

1897 Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author, Det Store Spelet

1897 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author, Waters of Babylon

1897 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author, Village by the River

1896 Eslanda Goode, U.S. anthropology/author under Paul Robeson

1896 , Lady Huxley, Juliette Baillot, author

1896 Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author, Il giorno del giudizio

1896 Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher

1896 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author, Volga

1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald, St. Paul, Minnesota, author, Great Gatsby

1896 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author, Volga

1896 Archibald J Cronin, England, author, Citadel, Shining Victory

1896 William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies

1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe, U.S. author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85

1896 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author, Time Tunnel, Land of Giants

1896 Henry M de Montherlant, French stage author, La Reine Morte

1896 Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton

1896 Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author, Janne Kubik

1895 Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet, Loke Saar Havre

1895 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author, Jazz Player

1895 Henry Williamson, English Author

1895 Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author, An American Verdict

1895 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author, Appearance at Kallista

1895 Lin Yutang, Chinese Author

1895 Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author, Sinner and the Girl

1895 Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author

1895 Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author

1895 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general

1895 Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author/illustrator, Off With Their Heads

1895 Vardis A Fisher, U.S. author, Darkness and Deep

1895 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet and author, Der Halbe Mensch

1894 John B[oynton] Priestly, author, Good Companions, wed Jessica Hawkes

1894 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden

1894 Aldous Huxley, born in Surrey, England, author, Brave New World

1894 Mark van Doren, born in Illinois, author, Happy Critic, Transients

1894 Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author, Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon

1894 Adela Rogers St. John, journalist/author, Foreign Correspondent

1894 James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor/author/director, dies at 51

1893 Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist/author, Flemish Resurrection

1893 Harry Blomberg, Swedish author, Master Jacob

1893 Evert S J Kruythoff, Ned Antillean author, conservation flora

1893 Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author

1893 Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle, New York, author/novelist, They Who Love

1893 English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit

1893 Voranc Prezikov, Lovro Kuhar, Slovenian author, Samorastniki

1893 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

1893 Anita Loos, author, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1893 Pal Szabo, Hungarian farmer and author, Talpalatnyi Fold

1893 Beatrice Wood, potter, artist and author

1893 Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58

1893 Freya Stark, English explorist/author

1893 Clarke Ashton Smith, U.S., sci-fi author, Lost Worlds, Genius Loci

1892 Rebecca West, Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author

1892 Rebecca West, Cicily I F Andrews, English author, Meaning of Treason

1892 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author/mayor of Palmeira

1892 George William Curtis, American Author

1892 John Kieran, New York City, columnist/author, Natural History of New York City

1892 Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, born in China, author, Good Earth-Nobel 1938

1892 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author, Bespokojnaja Joenostj,

1892 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author, Povestj Zjizni,

1892 Thorne Smith, author, Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb

1892 Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate, R-1940, author, One World

1891 Henry Miller, author, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus

1891 Mary Dorna, Dutch author

1891 Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author

1891 Esther Forbes, American Author

1891 Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and resistance fighter

1891 David Vogel, Ukraine, author, Huwelijksleven

1891 Watze Cuperus, Frisian author, Swart mar leaflik

1891 Karel MJF Cruysberghs, Flemish author

1891 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author, Ararat/Sud a nap

1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj

1890 [Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author, Rembrandt

1890 Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79

1890 Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author, Songs of Jamaica, Banjo

1890 Franz Werfel, Austria, author, 40 Days of Musa Dagh

1890 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76

1890 Rose Kennedy, American Author

1890 Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author

1890 Christopher Morley, author, Kitty Foil

1890 E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, U.S., sci-fi author, Triplanetary

1890 Marten Baersma, MH Bottema, Friesan author, De ljochte kimen

1889 Ion Creanga, Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52

1889 Hervey Allen, American Author

1889 Cissy van Marxfield, Setske Beek-de Haan, Dutch author

1889 Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S.

1889 Sarah Delany, author/teacher

1889 Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music

1889 Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet, Coeur de Chevre

1889 Bruce F Cummings, English author, Journal of a Disappointed Man

1889 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34

1889 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom

1889 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56

1888 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist, Bric Brac

1888 Benjamin Cremieux, French author, Le premier the la Classe

1888 Dale Carnegie, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People

1888 Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol

1888 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander Author

1888 Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70

1888 S S Van Dine, William Huntingdon Wright, author, Canary Murder Case

1888 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

1888 Louisa May Alcott, U.S. author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55

1888 Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75

1888 Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian/US author, Men Never Know

1887 Rene Maran, Martinique, author, Batouala, Prix Goncourt

1887 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author, Erziehung vor Verdun

1887 Rie Cramer, Marie Holman, Dutch cartoonist/author

1887 Edith Sitwell, English poet and author, Wheels

1887 Edna Ferber, U.S., author, American Beauty, Cimarron

1887 James Norman Hall, American Author

1887 Josef Capek, Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic, Kulhavy Poutnik

1887 Mary Ellen Chase, U.S. linguistic/author, White Gate

1887 Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author, Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award

1887 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73

1887 Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet, Le Gaie Tristezze

1887 Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine

1886 Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author, Good Behaviour

1886 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author

1886 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67

1886 Bruce Barton, American Author

1886 Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies

1886 Ned Buntline, Edward Zane Carroll Judson, author, dies

1886 Francis Carcopino, French author/critic, L'Homme Traque

1886 Emmet Fox, American Author

1886 Karl Barth, born in Basel, Switzerland, theologian and author, Action in Waiting

1886 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author, Between Heaven and Earth

1886 Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author, Madrid Escenas

1886 Ventura Garcia Calderon, Peruvian diplomat/author

1886 Sax Rohmer, England, author, Dr. Fu Manchu

1885 Johannes Kneppelhout, Klikspaan, Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71

1885 Will Durant, U.S., author/historian, Story of Civilization

1885 Ernest Claes, Belgian author, Saints from Zichem

1885 Franz T Csokor, Austrian author, Writings on the Wall

1885 Edna Ferber, author, playwright

1885 Victor Hugo, French Author

1885 Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies

1885 Susanna Moodie, British Author

1884 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and author, Bird Phoenix

1884 Apie Prince, Dutch author, Me Own Way

1884 Earl Biggers, author, "Charlie Chan" detective series

1884 A[braham P] Merritt, U.S., sci-fi author, Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!

1884 Arthur Ransome, English author, Swallows and Amazons

1883 Napolean Hill, American Author

1883 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist

1883 Scott Nearing, U.S. sociologist/pacifist/author, The Good Life

1883 Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia, author, Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika

1883 Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author, Lock of Hair

1883 William Chambers, author/publisher, dies

1883 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies

1883 Max Eastman, American Author

1882 Anthony Trollope, English Author

1882 Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter, Tarr, Apes of God

1882 Will Vesper, German author, Vom grossen Krieg

1882 Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author, To the Invisible

1882 George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury

1882 Virginia Woolf, born in London, author, Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse

1882 Alan Alexander Milne, English author, Winnie-the-Pooh

1882 A. A. Milne, English Author

1881 Lu Xun, Chinese Author

1881 Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, Eline vs. S, Dutch author

1881 Ethel Mary Dell, English author, Storm Drift

1881 Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35

1881 Mary MacLane, born in Winnipeg, Canada, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month

1881 Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40

1881 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author, Less bror Harris

1881 Carry van Bridges, de Haan, Dutch author, Heleen, Eva

1880 Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf

1880 Leonard Woolf, British Author

1880 Robert [Edler von] Musil, Austrian author, Young Torless

1880 Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author

1880 Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author

1880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many

1880 Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52

1880 Ida Grafin von Hahn-Hahn, author (Aus der Gesellschaft), dies at 74

1879 Karel van den Oever, Flemish author and poet, Geuzenstad

1879 Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author, Heroic Suite

1879 Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63

1879 Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67

1879 Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish, stage, author, Tille

1879 Marie Koenen, author/wife of Felix Rutten, Wassend Cereal

1878 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, El Crimen del Otro

1878 Upton Sinclair, American Author

1878 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm

1877 Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and author, Emergency Horn

1877 Herman Hesse, German Author

1877 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 58

1877 Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, Theodora, Dutch author/actress, Dead Water

1877 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author and poet, L'homme Jeune

1876 Sherwood Anderson, born in Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher, Winesburg

1876 Alfred L. Kroeber, Hoboken, New Jersey, author, Anthropologist looks at History

1876 George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71

1876 Saint-Georges de Bouchelier, French author, Le Rois Sans Couronne

1876 Ivan Cankar, Slavs author, Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica

1876 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, dies at 70

1876 Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author

1875 Wladyslaw Orkan, Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky, Pol author, Nowele Zebrane

1875 Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos and indians), dies

1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S., sci-fi author, Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga

1875 Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author

1875 Eliphas Levi, French Author

1875 Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author, Un homme si simple

1875 Isadore Gilbert Mudge, U.S., librarian and author, Thackeray Dictionary

1875 Annette Kolb, German/French author, Small Fanfare

1875 Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author, Ulla Bella

1874 Edmond Flegenheimer, Swiss/French author, Ecoute Israel

1874 Clarence Shepard Day, New York City, author, Life with Father

1874 Eugene Baie, Belgian author, Sub rosa et sub umbra

1874 Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning

1874 Michel H. Campen, author/critic, Bikoerim

1874 Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curaeao, dies at 86

1874 Elsa Beskow, Maartman, Swedish children's book/fairy tales author

1874 Gertrude Stein, Penn, author, Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

1874 Thornton Waldo Burgess, author, Peter Rabbit

1873 Willa Cather, U.S., author, My Antonia

1873 Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52

1873 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author, Kvinnen og Den

1873 Otto zur Linde, German author, Charon

1873 Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43

1873 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist, Pages from My Life

1873 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author

1872 Robert marquess of Flers, French author, Habit Vert

1872 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70

1871 Emanuel Querido, Joost Mendes, author/publisher

1871 Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928

1871 John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75

1871 Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author, Jesse and Maria

1870 Saki, Hector Hugo Munro, Burma, author, Reginald, When William Came

1870 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author, Pojedinok

1870 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author, Pojedinok

1870 Ada Negri, Italian poet and author, Il Libro di Mara

1869 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54

1869 Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies

1869 Margot SE Scharten-Antink, Dutch author, Catherina, Sprotje

1869 Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60

1869 Herbert David Croly, U.S. author, Promise of American Life

1869 Herbert Croly, American Author

1868 Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author, Wrakken

1868 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author and poet, dies at about 60

1868 Patty Smith Hill, author and songwriter, Happy Birthday To You

1868 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62

1868 Catharina A. M. de Savornin Lohman, Dutch author, Belief

1867 Marie Bregendahl, Danish author, Holger Hauge og hans Hustru

1867 John Galsworthy, England, author, Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932

1867 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author, Ewige Hochzeit

1867 Natsume Soseki [Natsume Kinnosuke], Japanese author, Kokoro

1867 Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisconsin, kid book author, Little House on Prarie

1867 Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author

1867 Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic, Fiery Particles

1866 Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72

1866 H. G. Wells, born in Bromley, England, author, Time Machine

1866 Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet, Vredens Born

1866 Beatrix Potter, born in England, children's author, Tale of Peter Rabbit

1866 Gelett Burgess, author, Purple Cow

1865 Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author, Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907

1865 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author

1865 Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright, Victoria Regina

1865 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author, Will Power

1864 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author

1864 Walter Savage Landor, author, dies

1864 Richard Harding Davis, U.S., journalist/author, In The Fig

1864 Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist, Children of Ghetto

1864 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists

1864 Margot Asquith, English Author

1864 Frank Bacon, actor/author, Lightnin

1863 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author, Dizionario Moderno

1863 Hans Aanrud, Norse author, Solve Solfeng

1863 Arthur Machen, Welsh Author

1862 Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author, Before Dawn-Nobel 1912

1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, U.S., politician/author, Progressive

1862 Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor

1862 Henry Newbolt, English Author

1862 August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor

1862 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet, Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya

1862 A. C. Benson, British Author

1862 Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72

1862 Mori Ogai [Mori Rintaro], Japanese author, Maihime/Gan

1862 Edith Wharton, American Author

1862 Bozena Nemcova, Barnora Panklova, Czechoslovakian author, dies at 41

1861 Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist

1861 Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author, Im Kampf um Gott

1861 Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/translator/forger, dies at 69

1860 Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author, Buffalo Wind-1938

1860 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist

1860 Dean Inge, English Author

1860 Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies

1860 Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, Monsieur Venus

1860 Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author, Journal

1859 Thomas De Quincey, English Author

1859 Washington Irving, U.S. author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies

1859 Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author, Lonely Flowers

1859 Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, Salmos do Prisoneiro

1859 Katharine Lee Bates, U.S., author, America the Beautiful

1859 Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher, found Inst of Music

1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice

1859 Jerome K. Jerome, English Author

1859 Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austria, author, Lebensabend

1859 Kenneth Grahame, author, Wind, Willows

1859 Sholem Aleichem, Solomon Rabinowitz, author, Fiddler on the Roof

1859 Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature

1858 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73

1858 Edith Nesbit, England, children books author, Railway Children

1858 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist and author, From Life

1858 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic, dies at 54

1858 Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author

1858 Charles Eastman, Sioux Author

1858 Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author, Frutos de mi Tierra

1858 Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author, Boken om Lillebror

1857 George Gissing, English author, Thyrza, Crown of Life

1857 Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author, 52 Years of Research

1857 Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author, HW Knife Day

1857 Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet (A la paz), dies at 84

1856 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration

1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins, author, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1856 Violet Paget, Vernon Lee, British author, Satan the master

1856 Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81

1856 Henry Rider Haggard, author, King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn

1856 Elbert Hubbard, U.S., editor/publisher/author, Message to Garcia

1856 L. Frank Baum, American Author

1856 L'udovit Stur, Slovaaks author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at 40

1855 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet

1855 Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38

1855 Dorothy Wordsworth, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet, dies at 83

1854 Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist, Pass the Bile

1854 Francis Marion Crawford, British author

1854 James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author, The Golden Bough

1853 Howard Pyle, illustrator, painter and author, King Stork

1853 Gustav Falke, German author and poet, Der Mann im Nebel

1852 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg

1852 Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician

1852 Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author, Tjoma Kartashov

1852 William Scarborough, Macon, Georgia, linguist/author, Birds of Aristophanes

1852 Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author, Tjoma Kartashov

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author, Treasure Island

1850 Eugene Field, author/journalist, Little Boy Blue

1850 Guy de Maupassant, born in France, author, Boule de Suif

1850 Lafcadio Hearn, U.S., journalist/author, Chita

1850 Edward Bellamy, author, Looking Backward

1850 Kate Chopin, American Author

1850 Augustine Birrell, English Author

1849 Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism

1849 Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman

1849 Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book, My Secret Garden

1849 Sarah Orne Jewett, born in Maine, author, Country of the Pointed Firs

1849 William Osler, born in Canada, physician/author, circulatory system

1848 Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies

1847 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author, Dracula

1847 George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author, violent revolutions

1847 Cornelie Huygens, feminist/author, Barthold Meryan

1847 Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83

1846 Anna Katharine Green, American Author

1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905

1845 Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz, Queiros, Portuguese author, Contos

1844 Andrew Lang, born in Scotland, author, The Blue Fairy Book

1843 Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author, Power of the Soil

1843 Washington Allston, U.S. painter/author, dies at 63

1843 [Joaquim] Theofilo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician

1843 Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80

1842 Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author

1842 Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle, French author (Lamiel), dies at 59

1841 William Henry Hudson, British Author

1841 Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author, And fremmed Fugl

1840 Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet and author, Fatherland-1872

1840 Hugo Verriest, Flemish author and poet, Flemish Movement

1840 Jakub Arbes, Czechoslovakian author, Moderni Upiri

1840 Gerald Griffin, American Author

1840 Odilon Redon, French painter/author, La nuit, Raves

1839 Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies

1839 Helene Mercier, Dutch author/social reformer

1839 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic, Roccaverdina

1838 August Senoa, Croatian author, Zlatarevo zlato

1837 Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author, Amintiti the Copilarie

1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Author

1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy

1836 Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author, Salon/Nouvelle Revue

1836 Bret Harte, U.S., author, Outcasts of Poker Flat

1836 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies

1835 Lyman Abbott, American Author

1835 Samuel Butler, England, author, Erewhom, Way of All Flesh

1835 Mark Twain, Samuel L Clemens, author, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

1835 Emile Gaboriau, author, father of French detective novels

1835 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter

1835 Richard Garnett, English author, Ananda the Miracle Worker

1834 Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author, El Zarco

1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902

1834 Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere Massachusetts, author, Lost at Sea, Work and Win

1834 Ludovic Halevy, French Author

1833 Robert Green Ingersoll, New York, author/politician/agnostic, Attorney General-R-Illinois

1833 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61

1833 Marie-Antoine Careme, author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at 48

1832 Louisa May Alcott, Germantown, Pennsylvania, author, Little Women

1832 Jules Valles, French journalist/communard/author, L'insurge

1832 John George Nicolay, U.S., author, Abe Lincoln's biographer

1831 Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author, Ramona

1831 Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, Der Hungerpastor

1831 Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79

1830 Martinus W van der Aa, author/Dutch head-editor, The Time

1829 Charles Dudley Warner, Massachusetts, newspaperman/author, Being a Boy

1829 Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author, Roland Blake

1829 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author, Blood to Bridge

1827 Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies

1827 Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author, Overbetuwsche Novellen

1827 Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur

1826 Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Italian author, Pinocchio

1826 Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66

1825 Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

1825 Richard D. Blackmore, England, author, Norie, Lorna Doone

1824 George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author, Princess and Curdie

1824 Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Spanish author, Pepita Jimenez

1824 George William Curtis, American Author

1823 Thomas Hughes, England, author, Tom Brown's School Days

1823 Francis Parkman, American historian/author, Oregon Trail

1823 Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58

1823 Ann Radcliffe, English Author

1822 Edward Everett Hale, U.S., clergyman/author, Man without a Country

1822 Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author, Goethe

1821 Claire E J, countess the Remusat/Vergennes/author (Salon), dies at 41

1821 Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68

1821 Ernest Feydeau, French author, Georges Feydeau

1820 Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies

1820 Nadar, Felix Tournachon, French painter, cartoonist, author and ballonist

1820 Bozena Nemcova, Barnora Panklova, Czechoslovakian author, Babicka

1819 George Eliot, Mary A Evans, England, author, Silas Marner

1819 Herman Melville, U.S., author, Moby Dick, Billy Budd

1819 Julia Ward Howe, U.S., author/lecturer, Battle Hymn of the Republic

1819 Louise Otto, Germany, author and feminist

1819 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer

1818 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach

1818 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach

1818 Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72

1818 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author, Gloria e Martirio

1817 Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author, Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902

1817 Theodor Storm, German judge/author, Imense China

1817 Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Swiss Author

1816 Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68

1815 Thomas Couture, French painter/author

1815 Ida von Duringsfeld, German author, Vd Schelde bis zur Mas

1814 Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author, dies at 79

1814 John Lothrop Motley, U.S., historian/author, Rise of Dutch Rep

1814 Ellen Wood, English author, East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey

1813 Hermann Kurz, German author and poet

1813 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author, Pensees

1812 Samuel Smiles, born in Scotland, author, Self-Help, Character, Duty

1812 Berthold Auerbach, German author, Schwarzwalder Dorfgeschichten

1811 Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author

1811 Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, Rozeken Pot

1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, Uncle Tom's Cabin

1811 Vissarion Belinsky, born in Sveaborg, Finland, Russian author, Literary Review

1810 Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism

1810 Eliphas Levi, French Author

1809 Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author, dies at 46

1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, physician/author, Old Ironsides

1809 Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author, Pit and the Pendulum

1808 Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author, Future

1808 Martha Finley, children's book author

1807 Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies

1806 Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author

1805 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, Knife

1805 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author, Nachsommer

1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales

1805 Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author

1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Massachusetts, author, House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter

1804 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic

1803 Gerald Griffin, American Author

1803 Susanna Moodie, British Author

1803 Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit, Punch Mag

1802 Alexandre Dumas Pere, France, author, 3 Musketeers

1802 Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60

1802 Victor Hugo, born in France, author, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables

1802 Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany

1802 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer, Gramatica

1801 Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28

1801 John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author, Dream of Gerontius

1800 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author, Povesti

1800 Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, dies at 71

1800 William Chambers, author/publisher, Basis of Communication and Coding

1799 Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Author

1798 Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St. Peterburg jail

1798 Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life, dies at age 73

1797 Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author

1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born in London, England, author, Frankenstein

1797 Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68

1796 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author

1796 George Catlin, U.S., author/painter, American Indian scenes

1796 Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools

1796 John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author

1795 Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author

1794 Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician, dies

1793 Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author

1793 Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85

1792 Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author, Adv of Younger Son

1791 Lydia Sigourney, U.S., religious author, How to Be Happy

1791 Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/interpreter/forger

1791 John Howard Payne, U.S., author/actor/diplomat, Home Sweet Home

1789 Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire

1789 Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author, Tomorrow- og Aftensange

1788 Sarah Josepha Hale, author, Mary Had a Little Lamb

1787 Robert Lowth, English Author

1785 Thomas Love Peacock, English author, Headlong Hall

1785 Karl A. Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author, Die Sterner

1784 Samuel Johnson, English Author

1781 Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78

1780 William Hone, England, author/bookseller, Every-Day Book

1780 Claire EJ, countess of Remusat/Vergennes/French author, Salon

1779 Washington Allston, U.S. painter/author

1779 Clement Clarke Moore, U.S., author, 'Twas the Night Before Xmas

1777 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69

1776 Julie de Lespinasse, French Author

1775 Margaretha J de Neufville, author, Small Pligten

1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer and author, Marine Sextant

1772 Novalis, born in Oberwiederstedt, Germany, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night'

1772 Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet, El Duque de Viseo

1771 Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cumberland, England, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet

1771 Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author

1771 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author

1771 Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author, Das Goldmacherdorf

1771 Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Bremer Beitrage), dies at 56

1771 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66

1770 Etienne P de Senancour, French author, Obermann

1766 Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Swiss Author

1765 Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author, Sea Songs

1764 Ann Radcliffe, English Author

1763 Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author

1763 Caroline von Wolzogen, von Lengefeld, German author

1762 Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet

1760 Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Schaferfest), dies at 63

1760 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer, Marseillaise

1760 Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect

1759 Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician

1758 Elizabeth Hamilton, author, Cats: A Celebration

1756 Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author

1754 Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47

1753 August G Meissner, German author

1752 Fanny Burney, England, author, Camille, Evelina

1747 Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79

1746 Joachim H Campe, German author, Robinson of the Jungere

1741 Johann J Angel, German author, Herr Lorenz Stark

1741 Theodor Gotlieb von Hippel, East Prussian author/mayor of Koningsberg

1738 Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author and poet, Sara Burgerhart

1735 Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author

1733 Ann-Therese de Marguent de Lambert, French marquess/author, dies at 86

1732 Julie de Lespinasse, French Author

1731 Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70

1729 Michael Dennis, jesuit/author

1729 Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry

1729 Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry

1728 Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author

1726 Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies

1725 Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life

1714 Gottlieb W. Rabener, German author, Vom Misbrauch of the Satire

1710 Robert Lowth, English Author

1709 Samuel Johnson, English Author

1705 Ninon de L'Enclos, French Author

1703 Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies

1697 Friederike C Neuber, German actress and author, Allerkostbarste Schatz

1696 James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia

1696 Jean de La Bruyere, French author, dies at 50

1692 Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon, Insel Felsenburg

1691 Carolus van der Abeele, Flemish jesuit/author, Introduction l'amour

1690 Gedeon Tallemant van de Reaux, French author (Historiettes), dies at 71

1688 John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies

1686 Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer, Lettera Famigliare

1685 John Gay, author, Baggars' Opera

1684 John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48

1673 Moliare, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French author (Learned Lady), dies

1672 Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73

1668 Alain R Lesage, French author, Turcaret ou le Financier

1667 David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies

1666 Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57

1655 Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author, dies at 36

1654 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies

1649 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies

1648 Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63

1645 Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64

1645 Jean de La Bruyere, French author

1643 Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author

1640 Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies

1633 George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author, Character of a Trimmer

1632 John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40

1628 John Bunyan, England, cleric/author, Pilgrim's Progress

1627 Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author, experiments with color

1625 James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58

1619 Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux, French author, Historiettes

1616 William Shakesphere, English author (Hamlet)

1611 James Harrington, England, political author, Commonwealth of Oceans

1608 Francisco M de Melo, Portuguese author, Epanaforas

1602 William Lilly, England, astrologer, author, and almanac compiler

1596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico

1592 John Eliot, St. Germans Cornwall, English MP/author

1587 John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies

1573 Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies

1563 Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54

1561 Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author

1556 Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing

1553 Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49

1549 Philippe du Plessis, France, author

1542 Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies

1533 Peter Bornemisza, Hungarian vicar/author/publisher, Tragoedia

1527 Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57

1514 Tahmasp I, shah of Persia, 1524 - 1576, author, Tazkire-i Shah

1501 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59

1500 Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author, Perseus

1492 Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright

1492 Andreas Alicatus, Italian author

1471 Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55

1466 Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author, In Praise of Folly

1441 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet and author, Mahbub al-kulub

1400 Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London

1391 Eduard, Dom Duarte, King of Portugal, 1433 - 1438, author

1321 Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies

1272 David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies

1171 Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies

994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain

967 Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies

833 Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63


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