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Date | Event |
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1603-11-17 |
English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. |
1618-10-29 |
English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. |
1765-03-09 |
After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide. |
1868-06-23 |
Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer" |
1897-07-25 |
Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. |
1909-02-02 |
Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
1914-01-16 |
Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia |
1923-12-14 |
Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings) |
1936-11-05 |
French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime |
1936-11-24 |
Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize |
1938-05-06 |
Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler) |
1966-05-23 |
The Beatles release "Paperback Writer" |
1966-06-10 |
Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK |
1966-06-25 |
Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
1974-02-13 |
Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR |
1986-10-21 |
US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut |
1988-10-14 |
Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize |
1989-01-16 |
Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague |
1993-01-24 |
Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. |
2008-05-04 |
Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep "Family Guy" and "American Dad" on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world's highest paid television writer |
2012-10-11 |
Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature |
2016-06-26 |
Conservative Writer George Will Drops Out of GOP Over Trump |
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3-02-19 |
Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl) |
866-09-19 |
Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912)/writer (Problematica) |
1304-02-24 |
Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa) |
1392-12-09 |
Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria) |
1406-01-13 |
Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Della vita civile) |
1436-11-26 |
Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463) |
1458-09-11 |
Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia) |
1469-05-03 |
Niccolo Machiavelli, Florence, Italy, politician/writer (Prince), d. 1527) |
1475-12-24 |
Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537) |
1501-02-24 |
Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna) |
1503-03-22 |
Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583) |
1515-03-28 |
Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint |
1530-11-01 |
Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563) |
1533-02-14 |
Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer (Vita Jesu Christi) |
1534-02-05 |
Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612) |
1537-07-20 |
Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604) |
1538-04-26 |
Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato) |
1538-12-10 |
Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd) |
1541-01-26 |
Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596) |
1549-03-11 |
Henric/Hendrik Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel) |
1549-11-05 |
Philippe de Mornay (or Philippe Du-Plessis-Mornay), French writer (d. 1623) |
1556-03-07 |
Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621) |
1565-09-28 |
Alessandro Tassoni, Modena Italy, political writer (Rape of Bucket) |
1567-08-21 |
Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint |
1568-02-11 |
Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625) |
1572-04-04 |
William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621) |
1574-07-01 |
Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656) |
1574-08-07 |
Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649) |
1575-08-15 |
Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650) |
1576-10-07 |
John Marston, English writer (d. 1634) |
1576-10-30 |
Enrico C Davila, Padua Italy, writer (Storia delguerre civili Francia) |
1577-02-08 |
Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy) |
1579-08-01 |
Luís Vélez de Guevara, Écija, Spanish writer |
1580-09-14 |
Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645) |
1581-03-16 |
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647) |
1585-02-12 |
Caspar Bartholin, Malmö, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy |
1586-08-17 |
Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg) |
1588-06-11 |
George Wither, English writer (d. 1667) |
1589-01-08 |
Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka) |
1591-02-25 |
Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635) |
1592-03-28 |
Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius], Moravia, Czech-speaking Moravian teacher, educator and writer |
1593-08-09 |
Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler) |
1594-03-25 |
Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer |
1594-11-17 |
Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer (Treasure of Health) |
1595-12-04 |
Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674) |
1596-08-18 |
Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665) |
1599-10-31 |
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680) |
1600-01-17 |
Calderon, writer |
1601-01-08 |
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658) |
1601-08-22 |
Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667) |
1604-08-04 |
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676) |
1605-10-16 |
Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer |
1605-10-19 |
Thomas Browne, British writer (Garden of Cyrus) |
1606-05-23 |
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682) |
1607-11-15 |
Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701) |
1609-10-05 |
Paul Fleming, writer |
1609-12-24 |
Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683) |
1613-09-15 |
François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680) |
1616-10-02 |
A Gryphius, writer |
1616-10-11 |
Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664) |
1618-04-13 |
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693) |
1619-11-07 |
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692) |
1619-12-28 |
Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) |
1620-11-10 |
Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705) |
1621-11-20 |
Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682) |
1623-06-19 |
Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal) |
1624-08-22 |
Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701) |
1624-10-30 |
Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693) |
1626-03-12 |
John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697) |
1627-09-27 |
Jacques-Benigne bossuet, French bishop and writer (Louis XIV court preacher), (d. 1704) |
1632-06-10 |
Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710) |
1638-02-14 |
Sybilla Schwarz, writer |
1639-02-06 |
Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691) |
1639-12-21 |
Jean Racin, writer |
1640-06-05 |
Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715) |
1644-10-02 |
François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) |
1645-08-16 |
Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696) |
1647-08-12 |
Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719) |
1647-11-08 |
Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer |
1648-01-01 |
Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724) |
1651-08-06 |
Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time) |
1652-01-07 |
Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian |
1654-01-22 |
Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729) |
1655-02-07 |
Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria) |
1657-02-11 |
Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds) |
1657-03-24 |
Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) |
1657-11-26 |
William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735) |
1658-02-18 |
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743) |
1660-03-28 |
Arnold Houbraken, Dutch schilder/writer |
1664-01-20 |
Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718) |
1666-04-17 |
Francois Valentijn, Dutch vicar/writer |
1667-04-29 |
John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope) |
1670-02-10 |
William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World) |
1672-01-18 |
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731) |
1672-03-12 |
Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729) |
1674-01-15 |
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762) |
1674-03-30 |
Jethro Tull, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised |
1674-07-17 |
Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican) |
1675-01-16 |
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755) |
1677-08-09 |
Jacob Campo Weyerman, South Neth's adventurer/painter/writer |
1679-03-18 |
Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759) |
1681-06-26 |
Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) |
1684-02-21 |
Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator) |
1685-06-30 |
John Gay, British writer (d. 1732) |
1685-12-17 |
Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740) |
1686-08-19 |
Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737) |
1688-02-04 |
Pierre De Marivaux, Paris France, writer (Marianne) |
1689-01-18 |
Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher/writer (Letters Persanes) |
1689-07-09 |
Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773) |
1692-02-14 |
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (d. 1754) |
1692-02-25 |
Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775) |
1694-09-22 |
Lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752) |
1694-11-21 |
Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d. 1778) |
1694-12-22 |
Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768) |
1695-04-08 |
Johann C Gunther, writer |
1696-10-13 |
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743) |
1700-09-30 |
Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773) |
1703-03-24 |
Jose F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer |
1703-11-26 |
Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758) |
1704-01-01 |
Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787) |
1704-02-12 |
Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772) |
1704-06-24 |
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771) |
1706-03-04 |
Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759) |
1706-12-17 |
Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire) |
1707-09-07 |
George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history |
1709-09-18 |
Samuel Johnson, Lichfield Staffordshire, England, lexicographer/writer (Boswell's Tour Guide) |
1710-10-24 |
Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773) |
1710-11-08 |
Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768) |
1710-12-02 |
Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783) |
1712-03-22 |
Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757) |
1713-04-12 |
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796) |
1714-02-26 |
James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758) |
1715-05-04 |
Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804) |
1715-08-06 |
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747) |
1715-11-05 |
John Brown, English writer (d. 1766) |
1716-01-20 |
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795) |
1716-12-16 |
Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798) |
1717-02-19 |
David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko), (d. 2013) |
1717-09-24 |
Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto) |
1717-12-16 |
Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806) |
1718-05-23 |
William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer |
1718-07-18 |
Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808) |
1718-09-08 |
Francois-Thomas the Baculard d'Arnaud, sentimental writer |
1719-10-17 |
Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792) |
1720-01-13 |
Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808) |
1720-03-13 |
Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793) |
1720-12-15 |
J F Beck, writer |
1721-03-19 |
Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized |
1722-02-19 |
Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774) |
1722-09-22 |
John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808) |
1722-12-01 |
A L Karschin, writer |
1723-07-11 |
Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799) |
1723-12-26 |
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807) |
1724-01-24 |
Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789) |
1724-10-31 |
Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805) |
1725-04-02 |
Giacomo Casanova, Venice, Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover |
1726-12-01 |
Eggert Olafsson, Icelandic writer |
1728-02-29 |
Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner) |
1728-03-22 |
Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter |
1730-01-03 |
Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician |
1730-02-21 |
Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter |
1730-08-27 |
Hamann, writer |
1731-02-25 |
Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer |
1731-09-09 |
Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787) |
1731-12-06 |
S von Laroche, writer |
1732-01-06 |
Matija A Reljkovic, Croatia, writer (Satir iliti divji covic) |
1732-11-09 |
Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776) |
1733-07-22 |
Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790) |
1737-01-19 |
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin) |
1737-09-21 |
Francis Hopkinson, US, writer/lawyer (helped design Stars & Stripes) |
1740-06-02 |
Marquis de Sade, Paris, French philosopher and writer (Justine). The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name. |
1740-10-20 |
Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women) |
1741-12-10 |
Agatha "Aagje" Deken, Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children) |
1742-07-01 |
Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg) |
1743-06-20 |
Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns |
1744-05-31 |
Richard Edgeworth, writer, Bath |
1746-03-05 |
Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain |
1746-09-04 |
Bernardus Bosch, Dutch Patriot/poet/writer, baptised |
1747-01-15 |
John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822) |
1749-03-09 |
Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791) |
1749-08-31 |
Radistschew, writer |
1750-09-18 |
Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias) |
1751-01-12 |
Jacob M R Lenz, writer (Das Leidende Weib) |
1753-02-07 |
Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa) |
1753-04-01 |
Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821) |
1754-11-26 |
Georg Forster, writer |
1756-03-03 |
William Godwin, philosopher/political writer (Caleb Williams) |
1758-08-09 |
Bruno Dalberg/Anonymus Belga, [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], writer |
1758-09-01 |
Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant |
1759-04-27 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader) |
1759-05-06 |
Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician |
1759-05-26 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley |
1760-05-10 |
J P Hebel, writer |
1760-10-01 |
William Beckford, British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek) |
1761-05-13 |
Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager) |
1761-07-25 |
Charlotte von Kalb, German writer |
1762-01-23 |
Christian A Vulpius, Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini) |
1762-10-30 |
André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794) |
1763-01-29 |
J G Seume, writer |
1763-03-21 |
Jean Paul, writer |
1764-02-15 |
Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker) |
1766-07-09 |
J Schopenhauer, writer |
1766-12-01 |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826) |
1767-08-25 |
Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794) |
1767-10-23 |
H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer |
1768-11-30 |
Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838) |
1769-02-04 |
Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer |
1769-08-30 |
Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer |
1770-03-20 |
Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843) |
1770-03-28 |
Sophie Mereau, writer |
1771-09-17 |
Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816) |
1772-01-04 |
Paul-Louis Courier, (de Mere), French writer/interpreter |
1772-03-10 |
Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde) |
1772-05-02 |
Novalis, writer |
1773-04-09 |
Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824 |
1773-05-31 |
Ludwig Tieck, writer |
1773-07-13 |
Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art) |
1774-10-18 |
Adolfs Muller, writer |
1774-11-24 |
Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857) |
1775-01-30 |
Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation) |
1775-08-26 |
William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851) |
1776-01-24 |
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine) |
1778-11-25 |
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856) |
1780-04-29 |
Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844) |
1780-08-19 |
Baranger, writer |
1781-01-30 |
A v Chamisso, writer |
1781-03-13 |
Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel) |
1782-03-04 |
Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson) |
1782-06-19 |
Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir) |
1782-10-11 |
Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw) |
1782-11-13 |
Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer (d. 1846) |
1783-01-23 |
Stendhal, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir) |
1783-04-03 |
Washington Irving, New York City New York, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow) |
1783-09-08 |
Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872) |
1784-10-19 |
Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron) |
1785-04-04 |
Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to the King) |
1785-05-18 |
John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854) |
1785-07-14 |
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851) |
1785-08-15 |
Thomas De Quincey, England, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater) |
1786-05-06 |
Ludwig Borne, writer |
1786-09-18 |
Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer |
1786-10-30 |
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871) |
1787-04-26 |
Ludwig Uhland, writer |
1787-12-16 |
Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855) |
1787-12-28 |
Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao |
1788-03-01 |
Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician |
1790-05-12 |
[Johannes] Carsten Hauch, Danish writer |
1790-10-21 |
Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René) |
1790-10-30 |
Rinse Posthumus, Frisian writer |
1791-04-24 |
Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland) |
1791-09-20 |
Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika) |
1792-06-19 |
Gustav Schwab, writer |
1793-03-03 |
Ch Sealsfield, writer |
1793-03-11 |
Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist |
1793-07-20 |
Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski) |
1794-05-17 |
Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer |
1795-02-08 |
Moritz G [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist/serial writer |
1795-09-06 |
Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852) |
1796-04-24 |
K L Immermann, writer |
1796-06-22 |
Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [OS] |
1796-07-03 |
Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS] |
1796-10-04 |
John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy) |
1796-10-24 |
August v Platen, writer |
1797-01-10 |
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848) |
1797-03-27 |
Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton) |
1797-10-04 |
J Gotthelf, writer |
1798-01-14 |
Isaac da Costa, Dutch writer/lawyer |
1798-04-02 |
H v Fallersleben, writer |
1798-06-21 |
Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873) |
1799-05-26 |
Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) |
1799-06-06 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS) |
1801-04-11 |
Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin) |
1801-12-11 |
Grabbe, writer |
1802-01-06 |
Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica) |
1802-09-13 |
Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880) |
1802-11-29 |
Wilhelm Hauff, writer |
1803-01-15 |
Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811) |
1803-04-07 |
Flora Tristan, writer |
1803-08-13 |
Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869) |
1803-11-14 |
Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879) |
1804-05-05 |
Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise) |
1804-12-23 |
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer (Informal Talk) |
1805-02-04 |
William H Ainsworth, English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood) |
1805-03-16 |
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861) |
1805-07-29 |
Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America) |
1805-09-02 |
Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851) |
1805-09-06 |
Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function) |
1806-01-20 |
Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag) |
1806-07-20 |
John Sterling, writer (Representative Victorian) |
1807-06-30 |
Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer) |
1807-07-22 |
Karolina Pawlowa, writer |
1808-05-22 |
G de Nerval, writer |
1808-06-27 |
Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide) |
1808-11-02 |
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889) |
1809-01-01 |
John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet) |
1809-03-31 |
Edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) |
1809-07-08 |
Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja) |
1809-09-21 |
Sophia Hawthorne, Salem Massachusetts, American writer, painter and illustator |
1810-03-27 |
A Glabbrenner, writer |
1810-04-06 |
Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos) |
1810-05-29 |
Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer |
1810-06-17 |
F Freiligrath, writer |
1810-12-11 |
Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine) |
1811-01-09 |
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856) |
1811-08-30 |
Thomas Gautier, writer |
1811-08-31 |
Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus) |
1812-01-15 |
Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer |
1812-04-06 |
Aaron Bernstein, writer |
1812-04-06 |
Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870) |
1812-05-23 |
Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) |
1812-06-18 |
Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov) |
1813-02-11 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865) |
1813-03-18 |
Friedrich Hebbel, writer |
1813-03-20 |
Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High) |
1814-01-10 |
Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer) |
1814-08-28 |
Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873) |
1814-09-08 |
Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874) |
1814-09-13 |
Nicolas Beets, [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura= |
1814-10-03 |
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon & other poems) |
1815-08-02 |
Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894) |
1815-08-29 |
Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction) |
1815-10-17 |
Emanuel Geibel, writer |
1816-07-13 |
Gustav Freytag, writer |
1817-01-31 |
Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia) |
1817-04-18 |
George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe) |
1817-05-31 |
Georg Herwegh, writer |
1817-08-24 |
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, writer and playwright (d. 1875) |
1817-09-05 |
Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS] |
1818-02-12 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei) |
1818-09-13 |
Olivier Gloux, [Aimard], Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste) |
1818-10-22 |
Leconte de Lisle, writer |
1819-02-08 |
John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite) |
1819-02-19 |
Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer |
1819-07-19 |
Gottfried Keller, writer |
1819-09-06 |
Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi) |
1819-12-30 |
Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest) |
1820-02-02 |
Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne) |
1820-03-02 |
Multatuli, writer |
1820-03-02 |
Eduard Douwes Dekker, [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar) |
1821-02-11 |
Hermann Allmers, writer |
1821-03-23 |
Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper) |
1821-04-23 |
Pierre Dupont, song writer |
1821-07-03 |
F Kornberger, writer |
1821-09-27 |
Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Grains de Mil) |
1821-12-10 |
Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny) |
1822-02-08 |
Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres) |
1822-04-26 |
Frederick Law Olmsted, Hartford, Connecticut, writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park) |
1822-05-20 |
Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo) |
1822-05-26 |
E de Goncourt, writer |
1822-10-15 |
Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer |
1823-03-14 |
Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891) |
1823-06-30 |
Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2 Tudors) |
1823-08-11 |
Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe) |
1825-01-11 |
Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer (d. 1878 |
1825-01-21 |
Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864) |
1825-10-11 |
C F Meyer, writer |
1826-01-06 |
Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
1826-02-16 |
Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus) |
1826-04-20 |
Dina M Craik, writer |
1826-08-06 |
Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915) |
1826-12-18 |
Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz) |
1827-09-05 |
Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849) |
1827-10-21 |
Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer |
1827-11-17 |
Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895) |
1828-02-14 |
Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885) |
1828-05-08 |
Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901) |
1828-09-09 |
Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS] |
1828-10-08 |
Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic |
1828-12-23 |
Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter) |
1829-02-13 |
Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator) |
1829-05-01 |
Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice |
1829-07-05 |
Ignacio Mariscal, Writer and Mexican diplomat (d. 1910) |
1829-07-08 |
Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer |
1830-01-02 |
Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer |
1830-03-15 |
Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910) |
1830-03-26 |
Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer |
1830-05-20 |
Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family) |
1830-09-13 |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916) |
1831-01-26 |
Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) |
1831-02-16 |
Nikolai Leskow, writer |
1831-03-23 |
Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866) |
1831-03-29 |
Amelia Barr, writer |
1831-06-26 |
Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace) |
1831-07-09 |
Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer |
1831-12-22 |
Mark Rutherford, writer |
1832-06-10 |
Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India) |
1832-10-12 |
Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin) |
1832-10-16 |
Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat |
1832-11-09 |
Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873) |
1833-02-07 |
Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas) |
1833-03-26 |
Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist |
1833-09-30 |
Ferdinand von Saar, writer |
1834-02-09 |
Felix Dahn, writer |
1834-03-06 |
George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896) |
1834-09-09 |
Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant) |
1834-09-17 |
Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer |
1834-10-10 |
Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit) |
1835-02-14 |
Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes) |
1835-07-27 |
Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907) |
1835-10-31 |
Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923) |
1836-01-02 |
Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917) |
1836-01-27 |
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism) |
1836-05-17 |
Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923) |
1836-08-14 |
Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen) |
1836-12-15 |
Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel) |
1837-01-05 |
A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] |
1837-02-24 |
Rosalía de Castro, Santiago de Compostela Galician writer and poet ('Séculos Escuros') (d.1885) |
1837-04-03 |
John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake) |
1837-05-31 |
Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror) |
1837-10-29 |
Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals) |
1838-02-16 |
Henry Adams, Boston Mass, historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams) |
1838-06-04 |
Servaas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Lute & Flute) |
1838-06-17 |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Bengali writer and poet (Vande Mataram) |
1838-10-06 |
Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910) |
1838-11-07 |
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889) |
1839-03-09 |
Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908) |
1839-05-08 |
Francis W Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer |
1839-06-21 |
Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner) |
1839-06-21 |
Machado de Assis, writer |
1839-08-04 |
Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism) |
1839-09-02 |
Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty) |
1839-09-25 |
[Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist |
1840-03-05 |
Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights) |
1840-04-19 |
Andrea Bezzola, writer |
1840-05-13 |
L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon) |
1840-06-03 |
Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight) |
1840-08-17 |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League) |
1840-09-02 |
Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros) |
1840-09-28 |
Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs |
1840-10-05 |
John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics) |
1841-09-13 |
Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer |
1842-02-25 |
Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou) |
1842-04-25 |
Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila) |
1842-06-24 |
Ambrose Bierce, Meigs County, Ohio, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust) |
1843-02-22 |
Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia) |
1843-12-29 |
Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916) |
1844-03-04 |
Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother) |
1844-04-16 |
Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921) |
1844-10-12 |
George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years) |
1846-03-20 |
Auguste Bender, writer |
1846-04-04 |
Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870) |
1846-04-30 |
Rosalie Amstein, writer |
1846-05-25 |
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900) |
1846-06-04 |
Josef Sittard, music writer |
1846-07-11 |
Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917) |
1846-08-16 |
Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene) |
1846-08-22 |
B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket) |
1846-10-21 |
Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore) |
1847-04-07 |
J P Jacobsen, writer |
1847-06-06 |
Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen) |
1847-08-20 |
Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912) |
1847-12-09 |
George Grossmith, English actor/writer (d. 1912) |
1847-12-17 |
Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916) |
1848-01-18 |
Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925) |
1848-02-05 |
Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain) |
1848-02-17 |
Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920) |
1848-02-24 |
C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did) |
1848-08-12 |
Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) |
1848-10-05 |
Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919) |
1849-02-04 |
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux) |
1849-02-18 |
Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer/politician (Garman og Worse) |
1849-07-19 |
Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906) |
1849-12-21 |
James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal) |
1850-01-14 |
Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923) |
1850-02-16 |
Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid) |
1850-08-03 |
Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper) |
1851-01-27 |
Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega) |
1851-04-24 |
Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) |
1851-05-01 |
Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891) |
1851-09-15 |
Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish countess/writer (Sirena Negra) |
1852-03-05 |
Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple) |
1852-03-22 |
Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer |
1852-08-22 |
Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy) |
1852-10-31 |
Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Revolt of Mother) |
1853-04-30 |
Alfred v Berger, writer |
1853-07-27 |
Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921) |
1853-11-12 |
Oskar Panizza, writer |
1853-12-21 |
Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter) |
1854-03-14 |
Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920) |
1854-05-27 |
Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium) |
1854-08-12 |
Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer |
1854-09-02 |
Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910) |
1855-03-24 |
Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) |
1855-05-15 |
Eduard von Keyserling, Baltic German writer (Dritte Stiege) |
1855-05-21 |
Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) |
1855-07-07 |
Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920) |
1855-10-12 |
Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Death of My Cat) [or 9/12] |
1855-12-30 |
Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity) |
1856-02-14 |
Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life & Loves) |
1856-02-15 |
Frank Harris, Galway England, writer |
1856-03-07 |
Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne) |
1856-06-30 |
Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers) |
1856-08-20 |
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909) |
1856-08-27 |
Iwan Franko, writer |
1856-09-23 |
William Archer, Scotland, writer (Green Goddess) |
1857-01-09 |
Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights) |
1857-04-20 |
Hermann Bang, writer |
1857-04-29 |
Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e) |
1857-07-21 |
A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer |
1857-07-24 |
Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917) |
1857-09-30 |
Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge) |
1858-01-27 |
Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer |
1858-05-11 |
Carl Hauptmann, writer |
1858-06-20 |
Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932) |
1858-08-16 |
Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927) |
1859-02-13 |
Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist |
1859-05-02 |
Jerome Klapka Jerome, English writer (d. 1927) |
1859-05-03 |
Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy) |
1859-07-13 |
Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter |
1859-08-04 |
Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920) |
1859-09-11 |
Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905) |
1859-09-21 |
Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave) |
1859-10-20 |
John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) |
1860-02-06 |
Johan [Eliza J] de Meester, Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje) |
1860-02-24 |
Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types) |
1860-04-03 |
Frederik W van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden) |
1860-09-14 |
Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940) |
1861-01-14 |
Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf) |
1861-02-13 |
Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian) |
1861-04-19 |
Warden Oncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish farmer/writer |
1861-04-27 |
Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte) |
1861-06-18 |
Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores) |
1861-09-11 |
Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio) |
1862-03-02 |
John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays) |
1862-06-21 |
Johannes Schlaf, writer |
1862-09-11 |
O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910) |
1862-10-13 |
Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900) |
1862-11-15 |
Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer |
1862-12-07 |
Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde) |
1862-12-14 |
Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS] |
1862-12-16 |
Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la robe) |
1862-12-26 |
Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [NS] |
1863-01-01 |
Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back) |
1863-03-12 |
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder) |
1863-04-12 |
Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding School) |
1863-04-26 |
Arno Holz, writer |
1863-06-10 |
Louis M A Couperus, Dutch poet/writer (Eline Vere) |
1863-07-19 |
Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men) |
1863-11-18 |
Richard Dehmel, writer |
1863-12-07 |
Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Forest King) |
1864-01-25 |
Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934) |
1864-02-22 |
Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte) |
1864-04-01 |
Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer |
1864-04-30 |
Frans Netscher, Dutch writer/journalist (Studies of nude model) |
1864-07-18 |
Ricarda Huch, writer |
1864-09-22 |
Louis Van Deyssel, writer (Small Republic, One Love) |
1864-09-28 |
Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch) |
1864-11-28 |
James Allen English writer (d. 1912) |
1864-12-03 |
Herman Heijermans Jr, Dutch writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City) |
1865-02-12 |
Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland) |
1865-02-19 |
Adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic) |
1865-03-10 |
Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/writer/sport-organizer |
1865-05-05 |
Nellie Bly, [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman], American journalist and writer (d. 1922) |
1865-06-28 |
Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories) |
1865-07-02 |
Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen) |
1865-08-02 |
Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism) |
1865-08-15 |
Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga) |
1865-09-08 |
Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top) |
1865-09-23 |
Emmuska Orczy, Tarnaörs Hungary, Hungarian-born British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel) |
1865-10-04 |
Max Halbe, writer |
1865-10-11 |
Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Mot Karnaval) |
1865-10-23 |
Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918) |
1865-12-28 |
Félix E Vallotton, Switz/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna) |
1866-01-20 |
Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg) |
1866-01-29 |
Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915) |
1866-01-31 |
Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man) |
1866-02-07 |
Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus) |
1866-03-07 |
Paul Ernst, writer |
1866-05-26 |
John Eigenhuis, writer (Tough Workers) |
1866-06-20 |
Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer/detective writer |
1866-07-11 |
R Beer-Hofmann, writer |
1866-09-10 |
Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930) |
1866-09-21 |
H. G. Wells, Bromley, Kent, English writer (War of the Worlds, Kipps), (d. 1946) |
1866-09-27 |
Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Fra Cancelliraadens Dage) |
1867-01-21 |
Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921) |
1867-01-29 |
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) |
1867-04-23 |
Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones) |
1867-06-15 |
K Balmont, writer |
1867-06-28 |
Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934) |
1867-08-12 |
Edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology) |
1867-08-13 |
Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit) |
1867-08-23 |
Marcel Schwob, Frans writer/journalist (Le Croisade des Enfants) |
1867-12-22 |
Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic |
1867-12-25 |
Alfred Kerr, writer |
1868-01-19 |
Gustav Meyrink, writer |
1868-02-23 |
William E B Du Bois, Great Barrington Massachusetts, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk) |
1868-03-03 |
Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer |
1868-04-26 |
Robert Herrick, US writer (Common lot) |
1868-05-06 |
Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927) |
1868-05-28 |
Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue) |
1868-07-28 |
Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran) |
1868-09-09 |
Mary Austin, Ill, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain) |
1868-10-24 |
Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969) |
1868-12-02 |
Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme) |
1869-02-07 |
Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura) |
1869-02-11 |
Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945) |
1869-02-27 |
Alice Hamilton, physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws) |
1869-03-14 |
Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951) |
1869-03-25 |
Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer |
1869-04-01 |
Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom) |
1869-06-26 |
Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954) |
1869-09-04 |
Geert A D Wumkes, Frisian theologist/writer (Frision Movement) |
1869-11-22 |
Andre Gide, Paris, France, writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) |
1870-01-02 |
Ernst Barlach, writer |
1870-02-18 |
William Laurel Harris, American mural painter, writer (d. 1924) |
1870-03-05 |
[B] Franc[lin] Norris, US, writer (McTeague, Octopus) |
1870-08-27 |
Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet |
1870-10-10 |
Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935) |
1870-11-29 |
Andre Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer (Le petit roi) |
1871-01-26 |
Warner Fabian, [Samuel H Adams], US journalist/writer (Average Jones) |
1871-02-09 |
Franc S Finzgar, Slovenian clergyman/writer (Our Blood) |
1871-05-04 |
Mynona, writer |
1871-05-06 |
Ch Morgenstern, writer |
1871-05-18 |
Franiska zu Reventlow, writer |
1871-06-17 |
Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania |
1871-07-15 |
Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908) |
1871-08-21 |
Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh) |
1871-09-23 |
Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer |
1871-09-27 |
Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936) |
1871-10-03 |
Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard) |
1872-01-15 |
Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944) |
1872-01-18 |
Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami) |
1872-02-06 |
Theodor Lessing, writer [or Feb 8] |
1872-03-20 |
Karin Michaelis, writer |
1872-04-13 |
A Roda Roda, writer |
1872-07-22 |
David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina) |
1872-08-24 |
Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review) |
1872-10-01 |
Israel Querido, Dutch writer (Menschenwee) |
1872-10-06 |
Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936) |
1872-10-08 |
John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone) |
1872-10-27 |
Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer (Etiquette) |
1872-11-09 |
Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941) |
1872-12-08 |
J C Powys, writer |
1872-12-28 |
Pío Baroja y Nessi, San Sebastián, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer) |
1873-01-19 |
Hans E Blaich, writer |
1873-06-21 |
Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle) |
1873-07-06 |
Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich) |
1873-09-28 |
Waclaw Rawicz, [Berent], Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer |
1874-01-04 |
Sven Fleuron, writer |
1874-03-05 |
Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party) |
1874-04-28 |
Karl Kraus, writer |
1874-04-30 |
Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer |
1874-05-27 |
Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos) |
1874-05-29 |
G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], London, English writer (Man Who Made Gold) |
1874-06-13 |
Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer |
1874-07-24 |
Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917) |
1874-07-29 |
August Stramm, writer |
1874-08-06 |
Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932) |
1874-09-18 |
Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten) |
1874-10-14 |
Margarete Susman, writer |
1874-12-12 |
Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa) |
1875-04-18 |
Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938) |
1875-04-29 |
Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950) |
1875-05-04 |
Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine) |
1875-08-26 |
John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme) |
1875-10-17 |
Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer (Yes & No!) |
1875-10-31 |
Seerp Anema, poet/writer (Dutch Coasts) |
1875-11-14 |
Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater |
1875-12-20 |
T F Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green) |
1876-01-09 |
Hans Bethge, writer |
1876-01-12 |
Jack London, American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild) |
1876-01-17 |
Olga Fastrova, writer |
1876-02-23 |
Agnes M Royden, writer |
1876-03-31 |
Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927) |
1876-05-27 |
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945) |
1876-06-23 |
Irvin S Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest) |
1876-08-12 |
Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton) |
1876-09-07 |
C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938) |
1876-10-04 |
Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958) |
1876-10-11 |
G von Le Fort, writer |
1876-12-15 |
Ferdinand Hardekopf, writer |
1876-12-20 |
Jan Van Oudshoorn, [Jan K Feylbrief], Dutch writer (Maze of Senses) |
1876-12-22 |
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ital writer (Futurism e Futurista) |
1877-02-17 |
Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904) |
1877-02-26 |
Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet/writer (socialism) |
1877-04-10 |
Alfred Kubin, writer |
1877-05-26 |
Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte) |
1877-06-09 |
Rudolf Borchardt, writer |
1877-06-24 |
Aleksei M Remizov, Russian writer (Iveren) |
1877-09-28 |
Stanner E V Taylor, St Louis MO, director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona) |
1877-12-14 |
Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music writer/composer (Leiecyclys) |
1878-01-04 |
Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories) |
1878-01-14 |
Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French writer |
1878-01-21 |
Egon Friedell, Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe) |
1878-01-22 |
Constance Collier, Windsor England, actress/writer (Kitty, Whirlpool) |
1878-02-02 |
Christian Gauss, educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake) |
1878-03-10 |
Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea) |
1878-03-14 |
Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future) |
1878-03-24 |
Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer |
1878-04-15 |
Robert Walser, writer |
1878-06-12 |
James O Curwood, US, journalist/writer (Kazan the wolfdog) |
1878-07-24 |
Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods) |
1878-08-02 |
Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales) |
1878-08-10 |
Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957) |
1878-08-14 |
Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Aage og Else) |
1878-09-20 |
Upton Beall Sinclair, Baltimore, Maryland, US writer (Jungle), (d. 1968) |
1878-09-24 |
C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947) |
1878-11-25 |
Georg Kaiser, writer |
1878-12-15 |
Hans Carossa, writer |
1879-01-11 |
Antonio Beltramelli, writer |
1879-01-19 |
Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925) |
1879-02-24 |
Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun) |
1879-03-04 |
Bernhard Kellermann, writer |
1879-03-08 |
M Lichnowsky, writer |
1879-04-20 |
Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance) |
1879-04-28 |
Franz Arnold, writer |
1879-06-16 |
Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy) |
1879-09-25 |
Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963) |
1879-09-26 |
Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria, writer (Fairy, Samodiva Fee) |
1879-11-20 |
Franz Pfemfert, writer |
1880-01-01 |
Shalom Asch, Poland, yiddish writer (Motke Ganev) |
1880-02-21 |
Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952) |
1880-03-26 |
Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens) |
1880-04-10 |
Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948) |
1880-05-01 |
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo) |
1880-05-21 |
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967) |
1880-06-10 |
Margit Kaffka, writer |
1880-06-17 |
Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964) |
1880-06-19 |
Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung) |
1880-07-20 |
Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer |
1880-08-23 |
Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932) |
1880-09-14 |
Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes) |
1880-09-14 |
Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961) |
1880-10-04 |
Damon Runyon, Manhattan, Kansas, journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work), (d. 1946) |
1880-10-14 |
Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Sak och sken) |
1880-10-26 |
Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934) |
1880-11-06 |
Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959) |
1880-11-21 |
Franz Hessel, writer |
1880-12-24 |
Johnny Gruelle, Arcola Illinois, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939) |
1880-12-28 |
Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet |
1881-01-09 |
Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo) |
1881-02-13 |
Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin) |
1881-02-16 |
Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet) |
1881-02-19 |
Paul Zech, writer |
1881-03-04 |
Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965) |
1881-03-13 |
Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer |
1881-03-25 |
Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!) |
1881-03-25 |
Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927) |
1881-04-14 |
Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater) |
1881-04-17 |
Anton Wildgans, writer |
1881-05-27 |
Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer |
1881-06-01 |
Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957) |
1881-07-06 |
Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel) |
1881-07-12 |
Ludwig Rubiner, writer [or June 12] |
1881-07-19 |
Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad) |
1881-08-01 |
Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer |
1881-09-25 |
Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936) |
1881-10-11 |
Stark Young, US critic/writer (So Red the Rose) |
1881-10-15 |
P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves) |
1881-10-30 |
Lena Christ, writer |
1881-12-31 |
Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song) |
1882-01-14 |
Hendrik W van Loon, Netherland, commentator/writer (Story of America) |
1882-01-27 |
Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italy, writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano) |
1882-05-04 |
Wilhelm Lehmann, writer |
1882-05-07 |
Willem Elsschot, [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend) |
1882-05-23 |
James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool) |
1882-06-04 |
Karl Valentin, German comic/writer |
1882-07-18 |
Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet/historian (Paraguay) |
1882-07-31 |
Grete Gulbransson, writer |
1882-08-02 |
Johannes Tralow, writer |
1882-08-30 |
Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi/writer |
1882-10-29 |
Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944) |
1882-11-02 |
Leo Perutz, writer |
1883-01-01 |
Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer/journalist (La Torre, Tre Croci) |
1883-01-10 |
Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS] |
1883-02-03 |
Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy) |
1883-02-16 |
Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980) |
1883-03-09 |
Umberto Saba, writer |
1883-03-17 |
Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923) |
1883-04-13 |
Demjan Bednyi, writer |
1883-04-24 |
Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30] |
1883-04-25 |
Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show) |
1883-04-27 |
Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter |
1883-06-21 |
Feodor Gladkov, Russian socialist writer (Cement) (d. 1958) |
1883-07-29 |
Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942) |
1883-08-07 |
J Ringelnatz, writer |
1883-08-11 |
Ernst Stadler, writer |
1883-09-16 |
T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917) |
1883-10-22 |
Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer (Brest-Litovsk) |
1883-10-26 |
Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970) |
1883-11-23 |
Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Along the water front) |
1883-12-28 |
A Wolfenstein, writer |
1884-01-02 |
Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame) |
1884-01-13 |
Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan) |
1884-03-11 |
Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet) |
1884-03-13 |
Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit) |
1884-03-13 |
Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926) |
1884-04-02 |
Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958)) |
1884-06-19 |
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974) |
1884-07-13 |
Francis B Young, British physician/writer (White Ladies) |
1884-08-10 |
Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935) |
1884-08-16 |
Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo) |
1884-08-29 |
Ehm Welk, writer |
1884-10-10 |
Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Bint) |
1884-12-14 |
Regina Ullmann, writer |
1885-01-15 |
Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915) |
1885-01-16 |
Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967) |
1885-01-17 |
E Ball-Hennings, writer |
1885-02-02 |
Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi) |
1885-02-24 |
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939) |
1885-03-06 |
Ringgold "Ring" Lardner, US sports writer (You Know Me Al) |
1885-04-17 |
Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales) |
1885-04-17 |
Karen Blixen-Finecke, [pen name Isak Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa) |
1885-04-29 |
Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter) |
1885-05-10 |
Fritz v Unruh, writer |
1885-06-26 |
Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac) |
1885-06-28 |
Berthold Viertel, writer |
1885-07-25 |
Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida) |
1885-08-17 |
Kurt Hiller, writer |
1885-09-07 |
Harry Sinclair Lewis, US, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930) |
1885-09-11 |
David Herbert Lawrence (DH), Eastwood Nottinghamshire, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (d. 1930) |
1885-11-09 |
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922) |
1885-12-06 |
Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (The General) |
1886-01-14 |
Hugh Lofting, England, writer & illustrator (Dr Dolittle) |
1886-01-28 |
Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973) |
1886-02-16 |
Van Wyck Brooks, NJ, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain) |
1886-04-08 |
Margaret A Barnes, writer |
1886-04-24 |
Kurt Pinthus, writer |
1886-05-02 |
Gottfried Benn, writer |
1886-05-10 |
Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker) |
1886-05-30 |
Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918) |
1886-06-19 |
Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song) |
1886-07-05 |
Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer/painter/cartoonist (Pallieter) |
1886-07-23 |
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat |
1886-07-24 |
Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting) |
1886-09-08 |
Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack) |
1886-09-13 |
Alain LeRoy Locke, African American writer and philosopher "Father of the Harlem Renaissance" |
1886-10-16 |
Armin T Wegner, writer |
1886-11-07 |
Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26] |
1886-11-17 |
Crane Wilbur, Athens NY, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo) |
1886-12-01 |
Rex Stout, Noblesville Indiana, American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels) |
1886-12-01 |
Willem E Crown, Antillian writer |
1886-12-23 |
Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Message from the Madhouse) |
1887-01-19 |
Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner) |
1887-02-09 |
Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love) |
1887-02-11 |
John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen) |
1887-02-18 |
Nikos Kasandsakis, Heraklion, Crete, Greek writer and philosopher (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ) |
1887-02-26 |
Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936) |
1887-05-07 |
Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) |
1887-05-09 |
Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer |
1887-05-16 |
J van Hoddis, writer |
1887-05-18 |
Ernst Wiechert, writer |
1887-06-07 |
William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily) |
1887-06-13 |
Bruno Frank, writer |
1887-08-30 |
Adam Kuckhoff, writer |
1887-09-01 |
Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer |
1887-09-26 |
Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958) |
1887-10-04 |
Francis Bull, Norway, writer (Norsk literature historian) |
1887-10-30 |
Georg Heym, writer |
1887-11-03 |
Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964) |
1888-01-16 |
Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945) |
1888-02-10 |
G Ungaretti, writer |
1888-02-17 |
Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder) |
1888-03-05 |
Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood) |
1888-03-08 |
Stuart Chase, NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste) |
1888-03-19 |
Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus) |
1888-03-20 |
S V Vegesack, writer |
1888-03-29 |
Adrianus M de Jong, Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak) |
1888-04-06 |
Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader) |
1888-05-25 |
Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock) |
1888-06-10 |
Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse) |
1888-07-18 |
Sydney Horler, English detective writer |
1888-07-23 |
Raymond Chandler, Chic, mystery writer (Farewell My Lovely) |
1888-07-26 |
M Jouhandeau, writer |
1888-08-16 |
T E Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer |
1888-08-31 |
Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (La Obra de Trajano) |
1888-10-14 |
Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry), Wellington New Zealand, short story writer (Aloe, Garden Party) |
1888-10-25 |
Francois Pauwels, Dutch writer/attorney |
1888-10-26 |
E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros) |
1888-11-26 |
Franz Jung, writer |
1888-12-07 |
Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children) |
1888-12-15 |
Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/writer (Kati)/politician |
1888-12-23 |
Friedrich Wolf, writer |
1889-02-06 |
Siegfried Kracauer, writer |
1889-02-10 |
Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom) |
1889-03-27 |
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat |
1889-04-06 |
Gabriela Mistral, writer |
1889-04-22 |
Ludwig Renn, writer |
1889-04-23 |
Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher |
1889-05-18 |
G Gunnarson, writer |
1889-05-20 |
Margery Allingham, detective story writer |
1889-07-02 |
Cor Hermus, Dutch actor/director/writer (A Mother) |
1889-07-05 |
Jean Cocteau, France, writer/artist/director (Le Potamak, Orphée) |
1889-07-17 |
Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden Mass., US detective writer (Perry Mason), (d. 1970) |
1889-07-29 |
Karl Otten, writer |
1889-08-05 |
Conrad P Aiken, US, Pulitzer poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation) |
1889-08-12 |
Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981) |
1889-08-23 |
A Lichtenstein, writer |
1889-09-23 |
Walter Lippmann, New York City New York, American journalist/political writer (Public Opinion) |
1889-09-25 |
C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930) |
1889-10-05 |
Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936) |
1889-10-06 |
Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Noce I Dnie) |
1889-12-08 |
W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse) |
1889-12-11 |
Paul Kornfeld, writer |
1889-12-30 |
Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren) |
1890-01-09 |
Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined the word "robot" |
1890-01-09 |
Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co) |
1890-02-11 |
John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer |
1890-02-18 |
Lauri SA Haarla, Finnish (stage)writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja) |
1890-03-12 |
A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour |
1890-03-26 |
Jozef Arras, Flemish writer |
1890-05-03 |
B Traven, writer |
1890-06-25 |
Marchwitza, writer |
1890-07-08 |
W Hasenvlever, writer |
1890-08-04 |
Erich Weinert, writer |
1890-08-20 |
H. P. Lovecraft, Providence, Rhode Island, American horror writer (At the Mountains of Madness, Weird Tales) |
1890-08-24 |
Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979) |
1890-09-15 |
Agatha Christie, Torquay Devon, British crime writer (Murder on Orient Express), (d. 1976) |
1890-09-24 |
Alan Herbert, England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen) |
1890-10-05 |
Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer |
1890-10-13 |
Conrad Richter, writer (Light in the Forest) |
1890-10-21 |
Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters) |
1890-10-29 |
Claire Goll, writer |
1890-11-04 |
Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Bracke, Borgia) |
1890-12-06 |
Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955) |
1891-01-07 |
Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960) |
1891-01-08 |
Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986) |
1891-01-09 |
August Gailit, Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor) |
1891-01-26 |
Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw) |
1891-01-27 |
Ilja Ehrenburg, writer |
1891-02-13 |
Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985) |
1891-02-17 |
Georg Britting, writer |
1891-03-14 |
John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa) |
1891-03-24 |
John Knittel, writer |
1891-03-29 |
Ivan Goll, writer |
1891-04-19 |
Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet (La Ronda) |
1891-05-22 |
J R Becher, writer |
1891-05-23 |
Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974) |
1891-06-06 |
Vladislac Vancura, writer |
1891-06-22 |
Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (White Enemy) |
1891-06-28 |
Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968) |
1891-07-08 |
Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Poor Part, Bruidstijd) |
1891-07-08 |
Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day) |
1891-08-25 |
Alberto Savinio, [Andrea de Chirico], Italian writer/composer |
1891-09-03 |
Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer |
1891-12-02 |
Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987) |
1892-01-03 |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings) |
1892-01-06 |
Ludwig Berger, writer |
1892-02-05 |
George Saiko, writer |
1892-02-17 |
Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad) |
1892-03-01 |
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa) |
1892-03-09 |
Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang) |
1892-04-23 |
Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer |
1892-04-23 |
R Huelsenbeck, writer |
1892-05-31 |
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968) |
1892-06-20 |
S M Tretjakow, writer |
1892-07-08 |
Richard Aldington, writer |
1892-07-12 |
Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942) |
1892-07-15 |
Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer |
1892-07-21 |
Anton Schnack, German writer/poet |
1892-10-28 |
Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch) |
1892-11-16 |
Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978) |
1892-11-27 |
Pedro Salinas, writer |
1892-12-06 |
F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame) |
1893-01-15 |
Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies, Cardiff Wales, composer/writer/actor (Truth Game) |
1893-01-31 |
Freya Stark, English explorer/ travel writer |
1893-04-20 |
Hermann Ungar, writer |
1893-05-03 |
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975) |
1893-05-09 |
William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947) |
1893-07-07 |
Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981) |
1893-07-20 |
Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came) |
1893-07-21 |
Hans Fallada, writer |
1893-08-22 |
Dorothy Parker, NJ, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967) |
1893-09-17 |
Abel J Herzberg, Russ/Dutch writer (Persecution of Jews) |
1893-09-18 |
William March, [Campbell], US, writer (Company K) |
1893-10-09 |
M de Andrade, writer |
1893-11-10 |
John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960) |
1893-11-14 |
Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Madonna dei filosofi) |
1893-12-01 |
Ernst Toller, writer |
1894-01-22 |
Charles Morgan, England, writer (Fountain) |
1894-03-09 |
Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976) |
1894-04-07 |
Gerald Brenan, English writer |
1894-05-27 |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961) |
1894-06-13 |
Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarmija, Marija) [or Jul 13] |
1894-06-21 |
Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968) |
1894-07-13 |
Isaak Babel, Rus short-story writer/dramatist (Red Calvary) [or 6/13] |
1894-07-22 |
O M Graf, writer |
1894-08-24 |
Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark) |
1894-08-31 |
Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982) |
1894-09-02 |
Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist/writer (Hotel Savoy) |
1894-09-19 |
Cornelis Rijnsdorp, writer (Kings Children) |
1894-12-10 |
Gertrud Kolmar, writer |
1894-12-17 |
Hans Henny Jahnn, writer |
1894-12-26 |
Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967) |
1895-01-13 |
Anton Betzner, writer |
1895-01-14 |
George Richard Samways, children's writer |
1895-01-24 |
Eugen Roth, writer |
1895-03-05 |
Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle) |
1895-03-30 |
Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant) |
1895-04-15 |
Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte) |
1895-04-16 |
Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948) |
1895-04-23 |
Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982) |
1895-04-30 |
Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960) |
1895-05-02 |
Alfred Kurella, writer |
1895-05-06 |
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974) |
1895-05-08 |
Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore) |
1895-05-11 |
Jan Parandowski, writer |
1895-06-10 |
Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision) |
1895-07-08 |
Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (God & the Worms) |
1895-07-24 |
Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26] |
1895-08-19 |
Andrzejewski, writer |
1895-08-19 |
Arnoldt Bronnen, writer |
1895-09-10 |
Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976). |
1895-10-04 |
Sergei Jessenin, writer |
1895-10-06 |
Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries) |
1895-10-11 |
H Schiebelhuth, writer |
1895-10-19 |
Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer |
1895-11-08 |
Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965) |
1895-11-15 |
Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976) |
1895-11-25 |
Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986) |
1895-12-04 |
Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag) |
1896-01-08 |
Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South) |
1896-01-18 |
C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967) |
1896-02-02 |
Jane Wilde, writer |
1896-02-03 |
Johannes Urzidil, writer |
1896-02-04 |
Friedrich Glauser, writer |
1896-02-07 |
Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jorgen Stein) |
1896-02-18 |
Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966) |
1896-02-22 |
Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City) |
1896-03-01 |
Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942) |
1896-03-10 |
Nancy Cunard, writer |
1896-03-13 |
Dorothy Aldis, writer |
1896-03-22 |
Giulia D De Albertis, writer |
1896-03-24 |
Gianna Manzini, writer |
1896-04-29 |
Walter Mehring, writer |
1896-05-17 |
Hannah Tillich, writer |
1896-07-04 |
Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981) |
1896-07-16 |
Mauritius R J Dekker [Boris Robazki], Dutch writer (Merkteken) |
1896-07-19 |
A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981) |
1896-07-24 |
Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom) |
1896-08-08 |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wash DC, writer (Yearling) |
1896-08-21 |
Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho) |
1896-08-21 |
Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun) |
1896-09-12 |
Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Il Libro Dell'Alpe) |
1896-09-25 |
Elsa Triolet, writer |
1896-11-07 |
Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975) |
1896-11-20 |
Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977) |
1896-11-22 |
Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [OS] |
1896-11-28 |
Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965) |
1896-12-03 |
John Urzidil, Austria/US writer (Die erbeuteten Frauen) |
1896-12-04 |
Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS] |
1896-12-23 |
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard) |
1896-12-27 |
Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926) |
1897-03-19 |
L O'Flaherty, writer |
1897-04-16 |
John B Glubb, British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs) |
1897-05-06 |
Paul Alverdes, German writer (Pfeiferstube) |
1897-05-11 |
Izak W van der Merwe, [Boerneef], S Afr writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek) |
1897-06-11 |
Bruno Frei, writer |
1897-06-20 |
Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973) |
1897-07-24 |
Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer) |
1897-07-30 |
Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer (Fascism is War!) |
1897-08-07 |
Franz J Weinrich, [Heinrich Lerse], German writer (Himmlisches) |
1897-08-11 |
Louise Bogan, Maine, writer (Sleeping Fury) |
1897-08-11 |
Enid Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world (Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure) |
1897-08-31 |
Marianne Bruns, writer |
1897-09-03 |
Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972) |
1897-09-10 |
Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962) |
1897-09-18 |
John Mens, writer (People Without Money) |
1897-09-26 |
Victor O Stomps, writer |
1897-09-28 |
Muchtar Auesow, writer |
1897-10-03 |
Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982) |
1897-11-23 |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999) |
1897-11-28 |
Uno Choyo, writer |
1897-11-29 |
Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Little Emperor) |
1897-12-02 |
Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China) |
1897-12-03 |
Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Without My Cloak) |
1897-12-06 |
O W Cisek, writer |
1897-12-10 |
Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Power of Love) |
1897-12-26 |
Willie Corsari, [Wilhelmina A Schmidt], Dutch writer |
1898-01-11 |
Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Fiskerne, Slaven) |
1898-01-22 |
Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch writer (Arid Earth) |
1898-01-28 |
Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi |
1898-01-29 |
Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist/writer (History of Sascha) |
1898-02-10 |
Joseph Kessel, French journalist/writer (Army of the Shadows) |
1898-02-26 |
Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer |
1898-02-27 |
Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History) |
1898-03-29 |
Cecil Lewis, airman/writer |
1898-03-30 |
Heinz Risse, writer |
1898-04-01 |
Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica) |
1898-04-23 |
Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov) |
1898-04-26 |
Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977) |
1898-05-07 |
Vera Chapman, writer |
1898-05-10 |
Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization) |
1898-05-24 |
Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando) |
1898-05-25 |
Gustav Regler, writer |
1898-05-31 |
Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter |
1898-06-21 |
Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964) |
1898-07-09 |
Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer/journalist (Mary, Revolt in Congo) |
1898-07-11 |
Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], Dutch writer/Radio Orange |
1898-08-09 |
David de Jong, Dutch writer (Mutiny on the Canal) |
1898-08-28 |
Ludwig Turek, writer |
1898-09-15 |
John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado) |
1898-10-17 |
Mildred Knopf, cookbook writer |
1898-10-17 |
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet (5th Seal) |
1898-11-14 |
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944) |
1898-11-28 |
Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [OS] |
1898-12-10 |
Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS] |
1899-02-03 |
Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966) |
1899-02-23 |
Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974) |
1899-02-24 |
Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall) |
1899-03-03 |
Juri Olescha, writer |
1899-03-30 |
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, well known Bengali writer (d. 1970) |
1899-05-21 |
Ilse Lagner, writer |
1899-05-31 |
Leonid Leonow, writer |
1899-06-14 |
Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968) |
1899-06-24 |
Bruce Marshall, writer |
1899-07-11 |
E. B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style), (d. 1985) |
1899-08-09 |
Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins), (d. 1996) |
1899-08-24 |
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths) |
1899-08-24 |
Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer (Rose, Black King) |
1899-09-13 |
Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer |
1899-09-30 |
Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic |
1899-10-01 |
Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950) |
1899-10-09 |
Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War) |
1899-10-20 |
Marnix Gijsen, [baron Jan-Albert Goris], Flemish writer (Grote God Pan) |
1899-11-23 |
Norman Hunter, writer |
1899-12-04 |
Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Frisian farmer/writer |
1900-01-05 |
Paula Ludwig, writer |
1900-01-25 |
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving) |
1900-01-25 |
Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986) |
1900-01-28 |
Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange) |
1900-02-01 |
Stephen Potter, humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders) |
1900-02-19 |
Giorgos Seferis, writer |
1900-02-22 |
Seán Ó Faoláin [John Whelan], Irish short story writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk) |
1900-02-28 |
Laura Z Hobson, writer |
1900-03-15 |
Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer |
1900-04-02 |
Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942) |
1900-04-06 |
Leo Robin, US writer (Thanks For the Memory) |
1900-04-11 |
Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989) |
1900-04-19 |
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth) |
1900-04-28 |
Bruno Apitz, writer |
1900-06-08 |
Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer (Last general) |
1900-06-19 |
Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret) |
1900-06-25 |
Izak D du Plessis, South African writer/director (3rd World) |
1900-06-29 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944) |
1900-07-06 |
Emil Barth, writer |
1900-07-06 |
Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012) |
1900-07-18 |
Nathalie Sarraute [Tcherniak], Ivanovo, Russia, writer and lawyer (Portrait of a Man Unknown, The Golden Fruits) |
1900-07-19 |
Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer |
1900-07-20 |
Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life) |
1900-09-06 |
Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois) |
1900-10-26 |
Karin Boye, writer |
1900-12-21 |
Wischnewski, writer |
1901-01-04 |
C. L. R. James, writer and journalist (d. 1989) |
1901-01-08 |
Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer (L'amour responsable) |
1901-01-30 |
H E Nossak, writer |
1901-01-31 |
Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer |
1901-02-07 |
Bob den Doolaard, [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers) |
1901-02-15 |
Christmas Humphreys, England, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen) |
1901-02-22 |
Stefan Lorant, writer |
1901-04-01 |
Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961) |
1901-04-05 |
Chester Bowles, Mass, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal) |
1901-04-11 |
Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens) |
1901-04-14 |
Martin Kessel, writer |
1901-05-02 |
Lev N Lunts, Russia, writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth) |
1901-05-02 |
Willi Bredel, writer |
1901-05-21 |
Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador) |
1901-05-30 |
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay) |
1901-06-01 |
John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957) |
1901-06-15 |
Peter Shankland, film maker/writer |
1901-07-25 |
Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat) |
1901-08-15 |
Hans Lorbeer, writer |
1901-08-28 |
Cornelis J Kelk, Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet) |
1901-10-14 |
Willem A Wagenaar, journalist/writer (Shanghai) |
1901-10-15 |
Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats) |
1901-12-09 |
Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938) |
1901-12-21 |
Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer |
1902-01-14 |
F C Terborgh, [Reijnier Flaes], Dutch writer (De Turkenoorlog) |
1902-01-26 |
Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens) |
1902-01-26 |
Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz) |
1902-02-26 |
Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la Mer) |
1902-03-11 |
Josef Martin Bauer, writer |
1902-03-20 |
Kathryn Forbes, short story writer (mama's bank account) |
1902-03-22 |
Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain) |
1902-03-29 |
Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967) |
1902-04-06 |
Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989) |
1902-04-21 |
Bernard J H "Ben" Stroman, recensent/writer (Jomtof & Blue Beard) |
1902-04-23 |
Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
1902-05-03 |
Seton I Miller, Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul) |
1902-05-20 |
Hans Sahl, writer |
1902-06-05 |
Hugo Huppert, writer |
1902-06-08 |
Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusian Diary) |
1902-07-05 |
Frank Waters, writer |
1902-07-09 |
Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand) |
1902-07-10 |
G Weisenborn, writer |
1902-07-12 |
Gunther Anders, writer |
1902-07-20 |
Dilys Powell, English writer (Descent from Parnassus) |
1902-08-15 |
Jan RT Campert, writer (Song the 18 dead) |
1902-09-10 |
Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Wegwerkers) |
1902-09-22 |
F R Boschvogel, [French LJ Ramon], Flemish writer (War of Worlds) |
1902-09-25 |
Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche) |
1902-12-17 |
Simon Drach, writer |
1902-12-28 |
Shen Congwen, writer |
1903-01-07 |
Albrecht Haushofer, writer |
1903-01-11 |
Alan Paton, South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country) |
1903-02-01 |
Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (The Bees Novel) |
1903-02-06 |
Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty) |
1903-02-13 |
Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black) |
1903-02-21 |
Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977) |
1903-03-22 |
Jochen Klepper, writer |
1903-03-24 |
Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life) |
1903-04-03 |
Peter Huchel, writer |
1903-04-15 |
Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16] |
1903-04-27 |
Frank Belknap Long, American writer (Rim of the Unknown) |
1903-05-09 |
Walter Dehmel, writer |
1903-05-28 |
Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Golden Sail) |
1903-06-17 |
Michail Swetlow, writer |
1903-06-18 |
Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Le diable ouch corps) |
1903-06-23 |
Anthony Veiller, NYC, writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge) |
1903-06-23 |
Hans C Branner, Danish writer (Toys, Horse Rider) |
1903-06-25 |
George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], Bihar, British India, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984), (d. 1950) |
1903-08-22 |
René Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism) |
1903-08-25 |
Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992) |
1903-08-29 |
Ernst Kreuder, writer |
1903-09-09 |
Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008) |
1903-09-26 |
Gerhard Nebel, writer |
1903-12-04 |
Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Negro) |
1903-12-13 |
Jewgeni Petrow, writer |
1903-12-13 |
John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WW I)/official war painter |
1903-12-19 |
Theo Harych, writer |
1904-01-14 |
Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997) |
1904-01-22 |
Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941) |
1904-02-07 |
Milton Krims, writer (Speed) |
1904-02-17 |
Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], Dutch writer (Jesus' Robe) |
1904-02-19 |
Havank, [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache) |
1904-03-04 |
George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3... |
1904-03-06 |
Hugh Williams, actor/writer (Charley's Aunt, Bank Holiday) |
1904-03-11 |
Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes) |
1904-05-22 |
Anne de Vries, writer (Bartje) |
1904-06-11 |
Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer |
1904-06-24 |
Kurt Kusenberg, German writer (Wein Auf Lebenszeit) |
1904-07-30 |
Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974) |
1904-07-31 |
Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977) |
1904-08-26 |
Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin) |
1904-09-06 |
Karlo Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross) |
1904-09-14 |
Anton Zischka, Austrian writer (Lebendiges Europa) |
1904-10-06 |
Horst Lange, writer |
1904-10-12 |
Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986) |
1904-10-12 |
Lester Dent, American writer (d. 1959) |
1904-10-13 |
Jutta Hecker, writer |
1904-11-04 |
Walter Bauer, writer |
1904-11-08 |
Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990) |
1904-12-26 |
Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo) |
1905-01-31 |
Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend) |
1905-02-02 |
Ayn Rand, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, writer and philosopher (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead) |
1905-02-07 |
Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration) |
1905-02-11 |
Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Dutch/Indonesian writer (Camp diary) |
1905-02-20 |
Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat) |
1905-03-01 |
Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom) |
1905-03-09 |
Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase) |
1905-03-24 |
Andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country) |
1905-03-24 |
Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007) |
1905-04-02 |
Kurt Adler, therapist/writer |
1905-04-08 |
Hans Scherfig, Danish marxist/writer (Idealister, Frydenholm) |
1905-04-08 |
Helen B M Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side) |
1905-04-27 |
Julian Stryjkowski, writer |
1905-05-24 |
Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965) |
1905-06-18 |
John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer |
1905-06-21 |
Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined) |
1905-07-20 |
Molly Mary Nesta Keane, writer |
1905-07-21 |
Diana Trilling, writer |
1905-07-25 |
Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990) |
1905-08-08 |
Wachtang Ananjan, writer |
1905-08-31 |
Dore Schary, producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City) |
1905-09-04 |
Mary Renault, [Mary Challens], writer (King Must Die, Funeral Games) |
1905-09-05 |
Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer (Arrow in Blue) |
1905-09-27 |
Vjekoslav Kaleb, Yugoslavia, writer (Splendor of the Fabric) |
1905-09-30 |
Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer (Red Shoes) |
1905-10-15 |
C. P. Snow, British writer (d. 1980) |
1905-12-09 |
Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun) |
1905-12-11 |
Robert Henriques, English writer (d. 1967) |
1905-12-12 |
Manès Sperber, Austrian-born writer (d. 1984) |
1905-12-17 |
Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975) |
1905-12-31 |
Tadeusz Breza, writer |
1906-01-03 |
Roman Brandstaetter, writer |
1906-01-28 |
Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show) |
1906-02-08 |
Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep) |
1906-03-03 |
Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir) |
1906-03-16 |
Francisco Ayala, writer |
1906-04-08 |
Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea) |
1906-04-16 |
Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, Dutch soccer star/writer |
1906-04-23 |
Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer |
1906-04-25 |
Sally Salminen, writer |
1906-05-06 |
Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005) |
1906-05-16 |
Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas) |
1906-06-06 |
Stefan Andres, writer |
1906-06-23 |
Wolfgang Koeppen, writer |
1906-06-26 |
Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia) |
1906-07-09 |
Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer (Secret Resistance) |
1906-07-27 |
Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000) |
1906-08-03 |
Leonard Huizinga, Dutch journalist/writer (Adriaan & Olivier) |
1906-08-05 |
John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown) |
1906-08-08 |
Andre Demedts, Flemish writer (Rainfall of the Days) |
1906-08-25 |
Mollie Panter-Downes, writer |
1906-09-22 |
Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor |
1906-09-25 |
Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer |
1906-09-25 |
Phyllis Pearsall, East Dulwich, London, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company) |
1906-09-30 |
John I M Stewart, British detective writer (Comedy of Terrors) |
1906-09-30 |
Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer |
1906-10-05 |
Leopold Kohr, writer/mentor of Fritz Schumacher |
1906-10-16 |
Dino Buzzati, writer |
1906-12-11 |
Birago Diop, Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs) |
1907-02-17 |
Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White) |
1907-03-03 |
Aar van de Werfhorst, [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer |
1907-03-20 |
Hugh MacLennan, Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer |
1907-03-24 |
Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer |
1907-04-18 |
Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing) |
1907-04-26 |
Theun de Vries, writer (February; PC Hooft prize 1981) |
1907-05-09 |
Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame) |
1907-05-12 |
Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint) |
1907-05-13 |
Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites) |
1907-05-25 |
Rachel Carson, conservationist/writer (silent springs) |
1907-05-27 |
Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring) |
1907-06-04 |
Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944) |
1907-06-05 |
Rolf Bongs, writer |
1907-06-11 |
Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon) |
1907-06-14 |
Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978) |
1907-08-02 |
Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984) |
1907-08-09 |
Berta Waterstradt, writer |
1907-08-29 |
Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/US writer (Looking For a Bluebird) |
1907-09-06 |
Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer |
1907-09-12 |
Joe Lederer, Austrian actress/writer (Drei Tage Liebe) |
1907-09-21 |
Helen Foster Snow, writer |
1907-11-13 |
Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan) |
1907-12-10 |
Michael Blankfort, US, writer/producer/director |
1907-12-23 |
Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005) |
1907-12-27 |
Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (d. 1999) |
1908-01-18 |
Jacob Bronowski, Łódź, Poland, Polish-born British mathematician and science writer best known as the presenter of the BBC television series, The Ascent of Man |
1908-01-23 |
Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer |
1908-01-28 |
Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor/director/writer (Fear) |
1908-02-15 |
Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer (Reade Runen) |
1908-02-26 |
Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007) |
1908-03-04 |
Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [NS=Mar 17] |
1908-03-05 |
Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990) |
1908-03-16 |
Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo) |
1908-03-17 |
Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS=Mar 4] |
1908-03-22 |
Albrecht Goes, writer |
1908-03-26 |
Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) |
1908-03-27 |
Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book) |
1908-04-11 |
Leo Rosten, writer/humourist |
1908-05-01 |
Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone) |
1908-06-17 |
Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer |
1908-06-23 |
Paulus Akkerman, [Paul fen Nijenborn], Frisian writer (Each om Each) |
1908-06-27 |
João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967) |
1908-06-28 |
Mason Curry, Magazine Writer |
1908-06-29 |
Paul Lebeau, Flemish writer (Last Rose, Xanthippe) |
1908-06-30 |
Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003) |
1908-07-01 |
Paul Hardy, Belgian writer (Best of Painted Furniture) |
1908-07-03 |
Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer (Vertigo) |
1908-07-03 |
M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992) |
1908-07-14 |
Chaim Raphael, writer |
1908-07-25 |
Joseph Mitchell, writer |
1908-08-18 |
Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu) |
1908-08-18 |
Edgar Faure, thriller writer/PM of France (1952, 52-56) |
1908-08-20 |
Jeanne Stern, writer |
1908-08-21 |
M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004) |
1908-08-28 |
Roger Tory Peterson, NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds) |
1908-09-09 |
Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate) |
1908-09-15 |
Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain) |
1908-10-10 |
David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer |
1908-10-12 |
Paul Engle, American writer (d. 1991) |
1908-10-13 |
Werner Reinowski, writer |
1908-10-25 |
Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004) |
1908-11-08 |
Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998) |
1908-11-23 |
Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006) |
1908-12-27 |
Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Black Banners) |
1909-01-30 |
Saul David Alinsky, Chicago Illinois, radical writer (John L Lewis) |
1909-02-08 |
Henry Roth, writer |
1909-02-11 |
Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/director (Sleuth) |
1909-02-24 |
August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) |
1909-02-25 |
John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer |
1909-03-07 |
Greta Schoon, writer |
1909-03-14 |
Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin) |
1909-03-29 |
Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke) |
1909-04-07 |
Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978) |
1909-04-27 |
Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (That Infidel Place) |
1909-05-01 |
Janis Ritsos, writer |
1909-05-05 |
Miklos Radnoti, writer |
1909-05-24 |
Louis Fornberg, writer |
1909-05-28 |
John Schepens, [Jean Baudoux], Flemish journalist/writer (Polyfoto) |
1909-06-25 |
Daniel Fuchs, US writer (Summer in Williamsburg) |
1909-06-28 |
Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer (Epitaph for a Spy) |
1909-08-19 |
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds) |
1909-08-22 |
Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (A Farm) |
1909-10-10 |
Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet |
1909-11-25 |
Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer |
1909-12-01 |
Jan Koplowitz, writer |
1909-12-12 |
Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer |
1909-12-21 |
Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992) |
1910-01-01 |
Russ Bender, actor/writer (Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster) |
1910-01-02 |
Ulrich Becher, writer |
1910-01-06 |
Wright Morris, US writer |
1910-02-01 |
Michael Kanin, Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year) |
1910-03-09 |
Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor) |
1910-03-15 |
An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race) |
1910-03-22 |
Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea) |
1910-04-02 |
Joeri German, Russian writer |
1910-04-28 |
Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996) |
1910-06-03 |
Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer |
1910-06-08 |
John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell) |
1910-06-13 |
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999) |
1910-07-02 |
Hans Gunther Adler, German writer |
1910-07-27 |
Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer |
1910-07-27 |
Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton) |
1910-08-02 |
Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors) |
1910-08-02 |
Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993) |
1910-08-09 |
Robert H van Gulik, Dutch diplomat/writer (Judge Ti) |
1910-08-17 |
R Peyrefitte, writer |
1910-08-25 |
J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer |
1910-08-30 |
Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes) |
1910-09-15 |
Richard Baerlein, racing writer |
1910-09-23 |
Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer (Murder in the Oval Office) |
1910-09-27 |
Giles William Playfair, writer |
1910-11-13 |
William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher (d. 1986) |
1910-11-14 |
Eric Lawson Malpass, writer |
1910-12-05 |
Abraham L Polonsky, US writer/director (Tell them Willie Boy is Here) |
1910-12-30 |
Paul Frederic Bowles, US composer/writer (Shelting Sky) |
1911-01-14 |
Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998) |
1911-02-08 |
Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer |
1911-02-12 |
Frank Hercules, writer |
1911-02-16 |
Hal Porter, Australia, writer (Tilted Cross, Paper Chase) |
1911-02-23 |
Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic |
1911-03-13 |
L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics) |
1911-04-01 |
Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys, Dutch soccer star/writer |
1911-04-08 |
Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist |
1911-04-10 |
Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu) |
1911-04-17 |
Jean-Pierre Herve Bazin, writer |
1911-04-28 |
Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999) |
1911-04-30 |
Luise Rinser, writer |
1911-05-15 |
Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann) |
1911-05-16 |
Olaff J de Landell, [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer |
1911-05-20 |
Annie M G Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke) |
1911-05-27 |
Torolf Elster, Norwegian journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati) |
1911-06-02 |
Xia Hong, writer |
1911-06-12 |
Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician (New Class) |
1911-06-15 |
W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997) |
1911-06-24 |
Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer |
1911-06-30 |
Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980) |
1911-07-09 |
Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968) |
1911-07-12 |
Johanna Moosdorf, writer |
1911-07-21 |
Marshall McLuhan, Canada, writer (Medium is the Massage) |
1911-08-23 |
Albert Alberts, writer/journalist (French battle) |
1911-09-09 |
Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972) |
1911-09-16 |
Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom) |
1911-10-19 |
Hilde Spiel, writer |
1911-11-12 |
Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates) |
1911-11-18 |
Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000) |
1911-12-11 |
Nagib Machfus, Egyptian writer (Nobel 1988) |
1911-12-15 |
Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991) |
1911-12-24 |
Malcolm MacEwen, writer |
1912-01-06 |
Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer |
1912-01-18 |
William Sansom, English writer (Loving Eye) |
1912-01-27 |
Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling, Indian/British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet) |
1912-02-15 |
George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien) |
1912-02-19 |
Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer (Niekochana) |
1912-02-27 |
Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999) |
1912-03-15 |
Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan) |
1912-04-20 |
Soewarsil Djojopoespito, Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line) |
1912-05-02 |
Marten Toonder, writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel) |
1912-05-06 |
Barend Roest Crollius, painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth) |
1912-05-08 |
Gertrud Fussenegger, [Dorn], Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende) |
1912-05-15 |
Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer |
1912-05-27 |
John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle) |
1912-05-30 |
Julian Gustave Symons, writer |
1912-06-12 |
Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist |
1912-06-29 |
John Toland, US, political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971) |
1912-07-01 |
Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer |
1912-07-27 |
Hilde Domin, writer |
1912-08-10 |
Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (O Pais do Carnaval) |
1912-08-14 |
Eva Strittmatter, writer |
1912-08-23 |
Jara Ribnikar, writer |
1912-09-02 |
Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (magic realism) |
1912-09-20 |
Marianne Kunvari, writer |
1912-10-06 |
Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator |
1912-10-10 |
Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist |
1912-12-08 |
Jura Soyfer, writer |
1913-01-01 |
Eliot Janeway, financial writer (Economics of Chaos) |
1913-01-14 |
Tillie Olsen, American writer (Tell Me a Riddle) |
1913-01-29 |
Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001) |
1913-02-14 |
Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head) |
1913-02-20 |
Rex Tucker, TV writer/director |
1913-02-26 |
Hermann Lenz, writer |
1913-03-02 |
Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans, Dutch humorist/writer (Pieter Bas) |
1913-03-03 |
Roger Caillois, French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes) |
1913-03-04 |
Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976) |
1913-03-13 |
Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer |
1913-03-18 |
Rene Clement, Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning) |
1913-04-04 |
Jerome Weidman, US writer (Tenderloin) |
1913-06-17 |
Felix Hartlaub, writer |
1913-06-18 |
Sylvia Porter, financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book) |
1913-06-23 |
Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal) |
1913-07-01 |
Jo Sinclair, writer |
1913-07-11 |
Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966) |
1913-08-03 |
Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-born television comedy writer (d. 2007) |
1913-08-11 |
Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955) |
1913-08-21 |
Victor Rosow, writer |
1913-08-26 |
Tschakowski, writer |
1913-09-12 |
Kenneth Lo, cookery writer/restaurateur |
1913-10-06 |
Meret Oppenheim, writer |
1913-10-10 |
Claude Simon, writer |
1913-10-19 |
Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Le ragazze di San Frediano) |
1913-12-08 |
Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah) |
1914-01-18 |
Arno Schmidt, writer |
1914-01-26 |
Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher (Puffin Club) |
1914-02-04 |
Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head) |
1914-02-07 |
Ralph Whitlock, writer |
1914-02-17 |
Per-Jakez Helias, writer/teacher |
1914-03-01 |
Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast) |
1914-03-13 |
W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998) |
1914-03-28 |
Bohumil Hrabal, writer |
1914-03-31 |
Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas) |
1914-04-22 |
Hans Baumann, writer |
1914-04-22 |
Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory) |
1914-04-25 |
Claude Mauriac, writer |
1914-04-25 |
Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948) |
1914-04-26 |
Horace Leonard Gold, Sci-Fi writer/editor |
1914-05-08 |
Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980) |
1914-05-09 |
Josef Muller-Brockmann, graphic designer/writer |
1914-05-12 |
Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet/writer |
1914-05-23 |
Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth) |
1914-05-24 |
George Tabori, writer |
1914-06-04 |
Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer/journalist |
1914-06-08 |
KuBa, writer |
1914-06-14 |
Winifred Milius Lubell, New York, American illustrator and writer (The Outer Lands) (d. 2012) |
1914-06-22 |
Lilo Hardel, writer |
1914-06-27 |
Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor/writer (Farce Major) |
1914-06-29 |
Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo, Thaba-Nchu Orange Free State, South African member of parliament (ANC) and noted writer ("Call me Woman") |
1914-07-17 |
James Purdy, Hicksville, Ohio, writer (The House of the Solitary Maggot), (disputed birthdate, 1923), (d. 2009) |
1914-07-18 |
John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat) |
1914-08-15 |
Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer |
1914-08-26 |
Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984) |
1914-08-27 |
Catherine Marshall, editor/writer |
1914-09-15 |
Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999) |
1914-10-04 |
Brendan Gill, writer/critic (New Yorker magazine) |
1914-10-17 |
Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman) |
1914-11-22 |
Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer |
1914-12-27 |
Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red) |
1915-01-01 |
Francois Bondy, writer |
1915-01-06 |
Alan Watts, Kent England, writer (Book on the Taboo) |
1915-01-06 |
John C. Lilly, U.S. psychoanalyst, writer (d. 2001) |
1915-01-12 |
Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997) |
1915-01-20 |
C W Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology) |
1915-03-11 |
Karl Krolow, writer |
1915-03-22 |
Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005) |
1915-04-04 |
Jan Drda, Czech writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani) |
1915-04-04 |
Lars G Ahlin, Swedish writer (Death of Me) |
1915-04-13 |
Bert [Albert L F] Peleman, [Dirk Dyckmans], Flemish writer |
1915-04-13 |
Stephan Hermlin, writer |
1915-04-15 |
Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist |
1915-04-16 |
Gerard McLarnon, actor/writer |
1915-04-18 |
Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960) |
1915-04-25 |
William Goyen, writer |
1915-05-06 |
Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President) |
1915-06-05 |
Alfred Kazin, US writer/literature critic (Inmost Leaf) |
1915-07-01 |
Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion & Carpenter) |
1915-07-04 |
Christine Lavant, writer |
1915-08-03 |
Sal Santen, Dutch writer |
1915-08-24 |
James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987) |
1915-08-26 |
Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint) |
1915-10-15 |
W Weyrauch, writer |
1915-12-08 |
George Scheuer, writer/journalist |
1915-12-09 |
Herbert Huncke, writer |
1915-12-20 |
Aziz Nesin, writer |
1915-12-29 |
Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value) |
1916-01-06 |
Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007) |
1916-01-29 |
Barbara Skelton, writer |
1916-03-04 |
Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure) |
1916-03-08 |
R W Schnell, writer |
1916-04-12 |
Brian Connell, writer/broadcaster |
1916-04-12 |
Beverly Cleary, American writer |
1916-05-11 |
C J Cela, writer |
1916-05-28 |
Walker Percy, Birmingham Ala, writer (Adventures of a Bad Catholic) |
1916-06-25 |
Theodore P Toynbee, British journalist/writer (Savage Days, Barricade) |
1916-07-06 |
Unica Zorn, writer |
1916-08-15 |
Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer |
1916-08-18 |
Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo) |
1916-08-28 |
C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) [or May 28] |
1916-09-14 |
Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater) |
1916-10-03 |
Angeles Alvarino Deleira, biologist/oceanographer/writer |
1916-10-27 |
Kazimierz Brandys, writer |
1916-11-11 |
Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman |
1916-12-04 |
Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (d. 1994) |
1916-12-09 |
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog) |
1916-12-14 |
Shirley Jackson, San Francisco, California, writer (Road Through the Wall), (d. 1965) |
1916-12-17 |
Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000) |
1916-12-19 |
Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea) |
1917-01-06 |
Guillermo Rosario, Dutch Antilles, writer (E rais ku no ke muri) |
1917-01-08 |
Peter Taylor, US writer |
1917-02-22 |
Jane Bowles, writer |
1917-03-02 |
David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967) |
1917-03-03 |
Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer (Elevator, Women) |
1917-03-16 |
Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977) |
1917-04-09 |
Johannes Bobrowski, writer |
1917-04-28 |
Joop Waasdorp, Dutch writer (Naked Life) |
1917-04-28 |
Robert Woodruff Anderson, New York, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father) |
1917-05-21 |
Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes) |
1917-07-24 |
John Hillaby, writer/traveller |
1917-08-17 |
P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love) |
1917-08-17 |
Safa Khulusi, writer |
1917-11-23 |
Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer |
1917-12-15 |
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (d. 2005) |
1917-12-27 |
Onni Palaste, Finnish writer |
1918-01-30 |
Jarl Andre Bjerke, [Bernhard Borge], Norwegian poet/writer |
1918-03-09 |
Mickey Spillane, [Frank], Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury) |
1918-03-15 |
Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde) |
1918-03-18 |
Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005) |
1918-03-20 |
Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer |
1918-04-13 |
Audrey Barker, writer |
1918-04-23 |
Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt) |
1918-05-16 |
Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro Paramo) |
1918-06-20 |
Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer |
1918-06-22 |
Cicely Saunders, Barnet, Hertfordshire, English Nurse, physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice (d. 2005) |
1918-06-28 |
Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads) |
1918-07-29 |
Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer |
1918-08-03 |
James MacGregor Burns, political writer (The Lion & the Fox) |
1918-08-07 |
Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter |
1918-08-18 |
Elsa Morante, writer |
1918-10-13 |
Robert Walker, Salt Lake City Utah, actor/writer (Bataan, Mme Curie) |
1918-10-29 |
Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007) |
1918-12-11 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Kislovodsk, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970), (d. 2008) |
1918-12-12 |
Nilda Pinto, [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P], Curacao writer (Nanzi) |
1919-02-06 |
Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years) |
1919-03-07 |
Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian writer (Twilight in Djakarta) |
1919-04-30 |
Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer |
1919-07-02 |
Jean Craighead George, American writer |
1919-07-31 |
Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz) |
1919-09-08 |
Gianni Brera, (Giovanni Luigi Brera), Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992) |
1919-09-10 |
Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer |
1919-09-16 |
Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990) |
1919-10-15 |
Edwin C Tubb, Brits sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall) |
1919-10-16 |
Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003) |
1919-12-29 |
Pieter Terpstra, Dutch journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T) |
1920-01-01 |
Roger Peacock, writer |
1920-01-02 |
Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy) |
1920-01-04 |
Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Fortunata y Jacinta) |
1920-01-22 |
Piet Van Lishout, Flemish writer (Eva & I) |
1920-02-10 |
Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living) |
1920-02-13 |
Bryant Boudleaux, Shellman Ga, rock writer (Bye Bye Love) |
1920-02-15 |
Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Devil Sails to US, Niggers) |
1920-02-16 |
Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist |
1920-02-19 |
Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007) |
1920-02-26 |
Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006) |
1920-03-06 |
Roger Price, Charleston WV, actor/writer (Who's There, Droodles) |
1920-03-10 |
Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959) |
1920-03-21 |
Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970) |
1920-03-31 |
Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco, Dutch writer (Bitter Herb) |
1920-04-01 |
Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun) |
1920-04-11 |
Marlen Haushofer, writer |
1920-04-17 |
Bengt N Anderberg, Swedish poet/writer (Kain) |
1920-04-29 |
Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster |
1920-05-02 |
Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000) |
1920-05-15 |
Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet |
1920-06-05 |
Cornelius Ryan, US historian/writer (Italians: Face of a Nation) |
1920-06-11 |
Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers) |
1920-06-18 |
Aster Berkhof, [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ) |
1920-08-02 |
Louis Pauwels, writer/editor |
1920-08-02 |
Phyllis James, mystery writer |
1920-08-03 |
P D James, mystery writer (Cover Her Face) |
1920-08-03 |
Phyllis D "P D" James, English thriller writer (Innocent Blood) |
1920-08-07 |
Jan Walravens, Flemish writer (Motionless at Sea) |
1920-08-09 |
Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer |
1920-08-16 |
Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel) |
1920-08-22 |
W Schnurre, writer |
1920-08-30 |
Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud) |
1920-09-01 |
Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller) |
1920-10-09 |
Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas) |
1920-10-17 |
Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer |
1920-10-31 |
Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer (Whip Hand, High Stakes) |
1920-11-03 |
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993) |
1920-12-07 |
Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002) |
1920-12-10 |
Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977) |
1921-01-13 |
Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000) |
1921-01-19 |
Patricia Highsmith, [Plangman], US/Swiss writer (Strangers on a Train) |
1921-01-20 |
Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer |
1921-02-04 |
Betty Friedan, Peoria, Illinois, American feminist writer and feminist (Feminine Mystique) |
1921-02-15 |
Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985) |
1921-02-24 |
Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer |
1921-03-15 |
Madelyn Pugh, American television writer |
1921-03-23 |
Wolfgang Altendorfer, writer |
1921-05-06 |
Erich Freid, writer |
1921-05-12 |
Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist |
1921-05-20 |
W Borchert, writer |
1921-06-11 |
Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer |
1921-06-12 |
H C Artmann, writer |
1921-06-12 |
Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007) |
1921-06-29 |
Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000) |
1921-07-12 |
Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer |
1921-07-26 |
Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999) |
1921-08-05 |
Terry Becker, The Writer |
1921-08-07 |
M J bin Gorion, writer |
1921-08-11 |
Alex Haley, Ithaca New York, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), (d. 1992) |
1921-09-01 |
Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid) |
1921-09-19 |
Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997) |
1921-09-30 |
Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer |
1921-10-20 |
Hans Warren, Dutch writer/poet/critic (Secret Diary) |
1921-11-27 |
Ole Sarvig, Danish writer/critic (Limbo, Glem Ikke) |
1921-12-29 |
Dobrica Cosic, writer |
1922-01-11 |
Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986) |
1922-01-25 |
Jules P de Palm, Antilles writer |
1922-02-15 |
Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable) |
1922-02-16 |
Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist/writer (Het Vrije Volk) |
1922-03-08 |
H Kipphardt, writer |
1922-03-12 |
Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues) |
1922-03-13 |
Jim Rodger, sports writer |
1922-03-15 |
Louis Boon, writer |
1922-03-16 |
Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer |
1922-03-25 |
Tobias Schneebaum, New York City, American writer, anthropologist and explorer (d. 2005) |
1922-04-09 |
Carl Amery, writer |
1922-04-11 |
Antoine Blondin, writer |
1922-04-27 |
Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor |
1922-05-12 |
Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998) |
1922-05-15 |
Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun |
1922-05-22 |
Bernie Diamond, The Letter Writer |
1922-05-30 |
Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003) |
1922-06-27 |
Herbert Ziergiebel, writer |
1922-07-10 |
Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director (Le Scandale) |
1922-07-24 |
Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer |
1922-07-26 |
Blake Edwards, OK, writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's) |
1922-07-27 |
Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The Family) |
1922-08-09 |
Philip Larkin, Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill) |
1922-08-17 |
Paul Wiens, writer |
1922-08-23 |
Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer |
1922-08-25 |
Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer |
1922-08-29 |
Emile Habibi, writer |
1922-09-04 |
Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician (d. 1992) |
1922-09-09 |
Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer |
1922-10-10 |
Boeli [Willem C] van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde) |
1922-10-15 |
Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer |
1922-11-15 |
Giorgio Manganelli, writer |
1922-11-16 |
José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate |
1922-12-11 |
Grace Paley, writer (1970 Arts & Letters Award) |
1922-12-16 |
Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist |
1922-12-29 |
William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998) |
1923-01-06 |
Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999) |
1923-01-08 |
Iva Michiels, [Rik Ceuppens], Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa) |
1923-01-10 |
Ingeborg Drewitz, writer |
1923-01-21 |
Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer |
1923-01-25 |
Eva Zeller, writer |
1923-02-05 |
Stephen J Cannell, TV producer/writer |
1923-03-01 |
Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999) |
1923-03-02 |
Orrin Keepnews, American writer and critic |
1923-03-04 |
Patrick Moore, England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy), (d. 2012) |
1923-03-11 |
A X Gwerder, writer |
1923-03-27 |
Shūsaku Endō, Tokyo Japan, writer ("Silence") |
1923-03-29 |
Julia Montgomery Walsh, political consultant/writer |
1923-03-30 |
Herbert Asmodi, writer |
1923-04-17 |
Norman Potter, cabinetmaker designer/writer |
1923-04-18 |
Leif Panduro, Danish writer ('k Have varnish on traditions) |
1923-04-21 |
John Mortimer, English barrister and writer |
1923-04-23 |
James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland) |
1923-05-12 |
Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) |
1923-06-04 |
Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007) |
1923-06-25 |
Dorothy Gilman, mystery writer |
1923-06-25 |
Nicholas Mosley, British writer |
1923-07-10 |
G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987) |
1923-07-23 |
Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958) |
1923-07-25 |
Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007) |
1923-08-04 |
Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer |
1923-08-30 |
Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969) |
1923-09-22 |
Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer |
1923-09-24 |
Ladislav Fuks, writer |
1923-10-05 |
Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child) |
1923-12-05 |
Tendrjakow, writer |
1923-12-10 |
Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z) |
1923-12-14 |
Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings, Dear Guys) |
1923-12-16 |
Tip [Silvio A] Marugg, Antillian writer (Weekend pilgrimage) |
1923-12-21 |
Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan |
1923-12-23 |
Leonard Stern, NYC, producer/TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart) |
1924-01-30 |
Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007) |
1924-02-01 |
H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997) |
1924-02-17 |
Margaret Truman, Mo, pres daughter/writer (Murder at FBI)/pianist |
1924-03-08 |
Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer |
1924-03-15 |
Juij Bondarew, writer |
1924-03-28 |
Gerhart Fritsch, writer |
1924-04-07 |
Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer |
1924-04-24 |
Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician |
1924-05-01 |
Terry Southern, writer |
1924-05-02 |
Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004) |
1924-06-14 |
Solouchin, writer |
1924-06-17 |
Gotthold Gloger, writer |
1924-06-19 |
Wassil Bykau, writer |
1924-06-27 |
Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer |
1924-07-11 |
Claus Bremer, writer |
1924-07-19 |
Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino) |
1924-08-17 |
Evan S Connell, US writer |
1924-08-22 |
James Kirkwood, LA CA, actor/writer (Hired Wife) |
1924-08-23 |
Ephraim Kishon, writer |
1924-09-04 |
Joan Aiken, Romania, writer of children's songs |
1924-09-27 |
Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakia, writer and publisher (End of the Nylon Age, The Cowards) (d. 2012) |
1924-10-05 |
Jose Donoso, writer |
1924-10-15 |
Marguerite Andersen, German writer |
1924-10-18 |
Frank Liedel, [Leo van Assche], Flemish writer (Kaperbrief) |
1924-10-29 |
Zbigniew Herbert, writer |
1924-12-25 |
Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery) |
1925-01-07 |
Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird) |
1925-01-20 |
E Cardenal, writer |
1925-01-20 |
Eugen Gomringer, writer |
1925-01-21 |
Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway writer |
1925-02-07 |
H Eisenreich, writer |
1925-02-27 |
Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer |
1925-03-21 |
Peter Brook, London, director (1776)/TV writer |
1925-05-27 |
Tony Hillerman, American writer |
1925-06-03 |
Gerhard Zwerenz, writer |
1925-06-07 |
Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder & Lightning) |
1925-06-18 |
Rex Collings, writer/publisher |
1925-07-07 |
Yvonne Mitchell, London England, writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan) |
1925-07-24 |
Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica) |
1925-08-01 |
Ernst Jandl, writer |
1925-08-07 |
Felice Bryant, Milwaukee, rock writer (Bye Bye Love) |
1925-08-17 |
John Hawkes, US writer (2nd Skin) |
1925-08-25 |
Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004) |
1925-08-26 |
Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999) |
1925-08-30 |
Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator |
1925-10-08 |
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic |
1925-10-11 |
Elmore Leonard, US writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up), (d. 2013) |
1925-10-13 |
Frank D Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses) |
1925-10-28 |
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006) |
1925-11-15 |
Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988) |
1925-11-24 |
Alun Owen, North Wales, writer (Hard Days Night)/actor (Servant) |
1925-11-27 |
John Maddox, British science writer and editor |
1925-12-10 |
Carolyn Ashley Kizer, US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985) |
1925-12-19 |
Tankred Torst, writer |
1926-01-13 |
Michael Bond, British writer |
1926-01-17 |
Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer |
1926-01-22 |
Tom Blackburn, writer |
1926-02-04 |
John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer |
1926-02-08 |
Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968) |
1926-03-12 |
John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn) |
1926-03-17 |
Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende) |
1926-03-21 |
Andre Delvaux, Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta) |
1926-04-14 |
Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996) |
1926-05-04 |
G Reinshagen, writer |
1926-06-14 |
Hermann Kant, writer |
1926-06-27 |
Frank O'Hara, writer |
1926-07-01 |
Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster |
1926-07-02 |
Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007) |
1926-07-17 |
Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer |
1926-07-18 |
Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005) |
1926-07-18 |
Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987) |
1926-07-19 |
Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo) |
1926-07-23 |
Ludvik Vaculik, writer |
1926-08-06 |
Christa Reinig, writer |
1926-08-12 |
Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002) |
1926-08-14 |
René Goscinny, French song/cartoon text writer (Asterix) |
1926-08-17 |
Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro) |
1926-09-16 |
John Knowles, US writer (Morning in Antibes) |
1926-09-19 |
James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio |
1926-10-02 |
Jan Morris, travel writer (Among the Cities, Hong Kong, Journeys) |
1926-10-15 |
Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) |
1926-11-23 |
Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials) |
1926-12-09 |
Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995) |
1926-12-17 |
Jeremy Brooks, writer |
1927-01-12 |
Leopold Ahsen, writer |
1927-02-03 |
Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003) |
1927-02-28 |
Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer |
1927-03-06 |
Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature) |
1927-03-07 |
Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006) |
1927-03-17 |
Nancy Sheehan, writer |
1927-03-18 |
George Plimpton, NYC, sports writer (Paper Lion) |
1927-03-24 |
Martin Walser, writer |
1927-04-24 |
Patrick Bowles, writer/translator |
1927-05-01 |
Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor) |
1927-05-14 |
Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer |
1927-05-27 |
Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper) |
1927-05-28 |
Francois Nourissier, French writer (Un petit bourgeois) |
1927-05-29 |
Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer |
1927-07-05 |
W M Diggelmann, writer |
1927-07-18 |
Ludwig Harig, writer |
1927-07-19 |
Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant) |
1927-07-29 |
Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Message to King Rat) |
1927-07-31 |
Walter Vogt, writer |
1927-08-08 |
Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/poet (Lady of the Night: A flower) |
1927-08-08 |
Juri Kasakow, writer |
1927-09-14 |
Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997) |
1927-10-16 |
Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
1927-10-20 |
Oskar Pastior, writer |
1927-11-24 |
Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003) |
1927-12-16 |
G Randall P D Garrett, US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!) |
1927-12-18 |
Sterling Lanier, US, writer (Hiero's Journey) |
1927-12-27 |
Agnes Nixon, American television producer, director, and writer |
1927-12-31 |
Dieter Noll, writer |
1928-01-02 |
Gerhard Amanshauser, writer |
1928-01-02 |
Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer |
1928-01-16 |
William Kennedy, US writer |
1928-02-25 |
Larry Gelbart, writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, M*A*S*H) |
1928-02-25 |
Richard Stern, US writer |
1928-03-03 |
Gudrun Pausewang, Eastern Bohemia, German writer |
1928-03-04 |
Alan Sillitoe, Brit, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) |
1928-04-01 |
Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa) |
1928-04-04 |
Monty Norman, composer/writer |
1928-04-23 |
Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet |
1928-05-05 |
Pierre Schoendoerffer, Chamalieres, France, director and screen-writer (The Anderson Platoon), (d. 2012) |
1928-05-24 |
William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune) |
1928-06-02 |
John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher |
1928-06-05 |
Otto V Walter, writer |
1928-06-13 |
Jean Villain, writer |
1928-06-19 |
Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002) |
1928-06-28 |
Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times |
1928-07-03 |
Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance) |
1928-07-03 |
G B Fuchs, writer |
1928-07-04 |
Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic |
1928-07-18 |
Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer |
1928-07-19 |
John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown) |
1928-07-20 |
Pavel Kohout, writer |
1928-07-26 |
Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980) |
1928-08-31 |
Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer |
1928-09-02 |
Peter Mansfield, writer |
1928-10-04 |
Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player |
1928-10-21 |
Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA (Angola) |
1928-10-24 |
Gabriel Laub, Polish writer |
1928-12-12 |
Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer (Jamila) |
1928-12-22 |
Piero Angelo, Italian writer (Control) |
1928-12-31 |
Veijo Meri, writer |
1929-02-06 |
Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer |
1929-03-09 |
Marie Cardinal, writer |
1929-03-13 |
J D Slater, writer |
1929-03-29 |
Yayoi Kusama, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japanese artist and writer |
1929-04-01 |
Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being) |
1929-04-05 |
Hugo Claus, Flemish writer/director (Cool Lover, Sugar) |
1929-04-06 |
Willis Hall, British writer |
1929-04-29 |
W Kempowski, writer |
1929-05-03 |
Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist |
1929-05-14 |
Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer, (d. 2013) |
1929-05-16 |
Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters), (d. 2012) |
1929-05-26 |
Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea) |
1929-06-06 |
Viktor Konezki, writer |
1929-07-07 |
R Baumgart, writer |
1929-07-24 |
Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist |
1929-08-08 |
Rose Nyland, writer |
1929-08-31 |
Julio Ramon Ribeyro, writer |
1929-09-14 |
Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005) |
1929-10-24 |
James Brosnan, baseball player/writer (Long Season) |
1929-10-24 |
Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004) |
1929-10-25 |
Peter Rohmkorf, writer |
1929-11-09 |
Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate (2002) |
1929-11-11 |
H M Enzensberger, writer |
1929-11-12 |
Michael Ende, writer |
1929-11-23 |
Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer |
1929-12-08 |
Goffredo Parise, writer |
1929-12-17 |
William Safire, political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon), (d. 2009) |
1929-12-30 |
Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004) |
1930-01-23 |
Derek Walcott, St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992) |
1930-01-29 |
John Junkin, actor/writer (A Hard Day's Night) |
1930-02-12 |
Gerhard Rohm, writer |
1930-02-17 |
Ruth Rendell, English writer |
1930-02-23 |
Gerry Davis, writer |
1930-02-23 |
Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus) |
1930-02-25 |
Erica Pedretti, writer |
1930-02-27 |
Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003) |
1930-03-27 |
Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching) |
1930-04-08 |
Julien Van Remoortere, [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist) |
1930-04-12 |
Bryan Magee, writer |
1930-04-25 |
Paul Mazursky, Brooklyn, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson) |
1930-05-11 |
Stanley L Elkin, Brooklyn New York, American writer/professor (Living End) |
1930-06-05 |
Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996) |
1930-07-06 |
Francoise Mallet-Joris, [F Lilar], Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders) |
1930-07-06 |
H J Heise, writer |
1930-07-12 |
Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer |
1930-07-25 |
Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990) |
1930-08-01 |
Lionel Bart [Begleiter], Stepney, London, English pop music composer and writer (Oliver!) |
1930-08-03 |
James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father) |
1930-08-08 |
Terry Nation, writer (Dr Who, Blake 7) |
1930-09-25 |
H Heckmann, writer |
1930-12-15 |
Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer (Girl with Green Eyes, Casualties of Peace) |
1930-12-27 |
Wilfrid Sheed, England, writer (Boys of Winter, Hack) |
1931-01-10 |
Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004) |
1931-01-16 |
Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist |
1931-01-20 |
Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife) |
1931-01-25 |
Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio |
1931-01-27 |
John Hopkins, writer |
1931-02-10 |
Thomas Bernhard, writer |
1931-02-16 |
A Kolleritsch, writer |
1931-02-28 |
Jack Thieuloy, writer |
1931-03-07 |
Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White) |
1931-03-13 |
Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday) |
1931-03-22 |
Igor Hajek, translator/writer |
1931-04-07 |
Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness) |
1931-05-02 |
Phil Bruns, American actor and writer (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), (d. 2012) |
1931-05-04 |
Thomas Stuttaford, British doctor and writer |
1931-05-05 |
Greg, Belgian comic-book writer (Achille Talon) (d, 1999) |
1931-05-16 |
Peter Levi, poet/writer |
1931-06-23 |
Urs Jaeggi, writer |
1931-07-15 |
Clive Cussler, Aurora Illinois, writer (Raise The Titantic, Sahara) |
1931-07-16 |
Caroline Blackwood, writer |
1931-08-14 |
Frederic Raphael, writer (After the War, California Time) |
1931-08-29 |
Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist |
1931-10-17 |
Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer |
1931-10-27 |
Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer |
1931-12-17 |
Yvonne Keuls, [Bamberg], Dutch writer (Jan Rap & Co) |
1931-12-25 |
Carlos Castaneda, US, writer/mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within) |
1931-12-30 |
Richard Christ, writer |
1932-01-12 |
Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer |
1932-02-04 |
Ivan Davis, Electra Texas, pianist/writer (Hunger, Corn is Green) |
1932-02-14 |
Alexander Kluge, writer |
1932-02-16 |
A Appelfeld, writer |
1932-02-20 |
Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007) |
1932-03-09 |
Heere Heeresma, Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid) |
1932-03-28 |
Sven Oskar Lindqvist, Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu) |
1932-03-30 |
Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer |
1932-03-31 |
John Jakes, Chicago, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters) |
1932-04-13 |
Barney Simon, theatre director/writer |
1932-04-21 |
Elaine May, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American comedienne/writer/actress (New Leaf, Primary Colors) |
1932-04-23 |
Jim Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running) |
1932-05-08 |
Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican writer (d. 2007) |
1932-05-21 |
G Wohmann, writer |
1932-05-25 |
John Grogery Dunne, US writer (Up Close & Personal, True Confessions) |
1932-06-01 |
Philo [Rolf] Bregstein, Dutch writer (Dingen die niet Voorbijgaan) |
1932-06-04 |
Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer |
1932-06-11 |
Athol Fugard, Middleburg South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot) |
1932-06-27 |
Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer |
1932-07-10 |
Jorgen Becker, writer |
1932-08-11 |
Fernando Arrabal, Spanish song/romance writer (Baal Babilonia) |
1932-08-31 |
Benito Wogatzki, writer |
1932-09-29 |
Robert Benton, Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer) |
1932-12-19 |
Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer |
1932-12-28 |
Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer |
1932-12-28 |
Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer (Blood of Requited Love) |
1933-02-01 |
Reynolds Price, US writer (Strengthened by a Pale Green Light) |
1933-04-17 |
Penelope Lively, writer |
1933-04-24 |
Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer and biographer |
1933-05-08 |
Alistair Service, writer/publisher |
1933-06-16 |
Joachim Nowotny, writer |
1933-06-17 |
Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst (d. 2006) |
1933-07-18 |
Aad Nuis, Dutch writer/undersecretary of Education (D66) |
1933-07-21 |
Brigitte Reimann, writer |
1933-07-21 |
John C Gardner, scholar/writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues) |
1933-07-31 |
Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer |
1933-08-13 |
Madhur Jaffrey, cookbook writer/actress (Shakespeare Wallah) |
1933-08-16 |
Reiner Kunze, writer |
1933-08-22 |
Irmtraud Morgner, writer |
1933-10-06 |
Horst Bingle, writer |
1933-10-24 |
Norman Rush, American writer |
1934-01-08 |
Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004) |
1934-03-27 |
Istvan Csurka, Budapest, Hungary, politician and writer, (d. 2012) |
1934-05-13 |
Adolf Muschg, writer |
1934-05-25 |
David J Burke, Liverpool England, writer |
1934-06-01 |
Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis) |
1934-06-21 |
Wulf Kirsten, writer |
1934-07-03 |
Manfred Bieler, writer |
1934-07-17 |
Rainer Kisch, writer |
1934-07-20 |
Uwe Johnson, German writer |
1934-08-05 |
Wendell Berry, American poet, writer and farmer |
1934-09-23 |
Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer (Hour of the Lynx) |
1934-10-07 |
Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer |
1934-10-07 |
[Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music) |
1934-10-26 |
Ulrich Plentzdorf, writer |
1934-11-18 |
Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador |
1935-01-28 |
David John Lodge, English writer (Soul & Bodies) |
1935-03-21 |
Hubert Fichte, writer |
1935-03-23 |
Barry Cryer, comedian/writer (Goodies Rule-OK, All You Need is Cash) |
1935-03-24 |
Peter Bichsel, writer |
1935-03-27 |
Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer |
1935-03-31 |
Judith Rossner, US, writer (August) |
1935-04-06 |
John Pepper Clark, Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat) |
1935-04-14 |
Erich von Däniken, Zofingen, Aargau, Swiss writer (Chariots of the Gods) |
1935-05-05 |
Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (Gen Hospital) |
1935-05-19 |
F R Fries, writer |
1935-05-29 |
Andre P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season) |
1935-06-07 |
Harry Crews, US writer/actor (Indian Runner), (d. 2012) |
1935-06-12 |
Christoph Meckel, writer |
1935-08-12 |
Karl Mickel, writer |
1935-08-23 |
Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum) |
1935-08-27 |
Frank Yablans, NYC, writer (North Dallas Forty) |
1935-08-29 |
William Friedkin, Chicago, Illinois, American director/producer/writer (The Exorcist, The French Connection) |
1935-09-20 |
Keith J Roberts, England, writer (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell) |
1935-10-07 |
Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler's List) |
1935-10-30 |
Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer |
1935-11-18 |
Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer |
1935-12-13 |
Thomas Wakefield, writer |
1935-12-31 |
Rolf Haufs, writer |
1936-01-09 |
Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer |
1936-02-18 |
Jean Auel, American writer |
1936-03-01 |
Jean-Edern Hallier, writer |
1936-03-07 |
Georges Perec, French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee) |
1936-03-18 |
Hans Peter Bleuel, writer |
1936-03-28 |
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru, writer (Aunt Julia)/pres candidate |
1936-05-11 |
Ulrich Berkes, writer |
1936-05-17 |
Lars Gustafsson, writer |
1936-05-22 |
M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005) |
1936-05-25 |
Tom T Hall, Olive Hill Ky, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA) |
1936-06-25 |
Paul Nowee, Dutch western writer (Eagle's Eye) |
1936-06-28 |
Gisela Kraft, writer |
1936-08-04 |
Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker |
1936-08-30 |
Fabrizia Ramondino, writer |
1936-09-05 |
Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist |
1936-10-04 |
Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer |
1936-10-05 |
Vaclav Havel, writer/pres Czechoslovakia (1989-92) |
1936-11-15 |
Wolf Biermann, writer |
1936-11-23 |
Robert Barnard, British mystery writer |
1936-11-29 |
Gerti Tetzner, writer |
1936-12-05 |
James Lee Burke, American writer |
1936-12-06 |
David Ossman, Santa Monica, California, American writer and comedian (The Firesign Theatre) |
1936-12-17 |
Frank Martinus Arion, [F Efraim M], Antilles, writer (Double Play) |
1936-12-22 |
James Burke, British writer |
1937-01-09 |
K Schlesinger, writer |
1937-01-22 |
Joseph Wambaugh, East Pittsburgh Pa, police writer (Onion Fields) |
1937-01-25 |
Kathleen Tynan Halton, writer |
1937-01-31 |
Steve Karmen, Bronx NY, jingle writer (I Love NY, This Bud's for You) |
1937-02-13 |
Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992) |
1937-03-08 |
Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind) |
1937-03-20 |
Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor |
1937-04-29 |
Jill Paton Walsh, English writer |
1937-05-02 |
Gisela Elsner, writer |
1937-05-02 |
Lorenzo Music, Brooklyn New York, American writer/actor/voice (Carlton-Rhoda, Garfield) |
1937-05-03 |
Nélida Piñon, Brazilian writer |
1937-05-08 |
Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Labia Majora) |
1937-05-20 |
Teddy Randazzo, song writer (I'm on the Outside Looking In) |
1937-06-07 |
Bert sugar, Washington D.C., sports writer (Sting like a Bee), (d. 2012) |
1937-07-11 |
Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer |
1937-07-17 |
Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer |
1937-08-21 |
Robert Stone, US writer (Who'll Stop the Rain, WUSA) |
1937-09-30 |
Jurek Becker, writer |
1937-10-19 |
Nicholas Palmer, television writer/producer |
1937-11-30 |
Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Writer |
1937-12-11 |
Jim Harrison, American writer |
1937-12-31 |
Nicolas Born, writer |
1938-01-05 |
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer |
1938-01-06 |
Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader |
1938-01-31 |
Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta) |
1938-02-18 |
Elke Erb, writer |
1938-04-03 |
Jeff Barry, Brooklyn New York, American rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her) |
1938-05-04 |
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer |
1938-05-12 |
Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident |
1938-05-17 |
Trinus Riemersma, Dutch-Frisian writer (Conquest of Leeuwarden) |
1938-05-21 |
Urs Widmer, writer |
1938-05-25 |
Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season) |
1938-06-16 |
Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer |
1938-06-24 |
Lawrence Block, American writer |
1938-07-28 |
Robert Hughes, [Studley Forrest], Australia, writer/critic (Barcelona) |
1938-08-05 |
Tim Preece, The Ghost Writer |
1938-08-15 |
Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer |
1938-08-22 |
Dale Hawkins, music writer (Suzy Q) |
1938-08-24 |
Mason Williams, Abilene Tx, writer (Smother Brothers Hour) |
1938-12-28 |
Richard Sudhalter, British(?) writer/jazz musician |
1938-12-29 |
Mike Getz, The Writer |
1939-01-10 |
William Levy, Dutch writer |
1939-01-12 |
Helmut Eisendle, writer |
1939-01-12 |
Jacobus M "Jacques" Hamelink, Dutch writer/poet (Cold Unrest) |
1939-02-05 |
Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book) |
1939-03-05 |
Charles Fuller, US writer (Zooman, Soldier Story) |
1939-03-08 |
George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy) |
1939-03-15 |
Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man) |
1939-04-21 |
Helen Prejean, American writer |
1939-04-22 |
Jason Miller, Scranton PA, actor/writer (Exorcist, Light of Day) |
1939-05-07 |
Volker Braun, writer |
1939-05-29 |
Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage) |
1939-06-17 |
Hanna Johansen, writer |
1939-07-03 |
Jay Tarses, Balt Md, actor/writer (Open All Night, Duck Factory) |
1939-07-14 |
George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer |
1939-07-16 |
Marion Pitt, social worker/writer |
1939-09-27 |
Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer |
1939-10-07 |
Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer |
1939-10-09 |
Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer (Lettres Clandestines) |
1939-12-02 |
Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician |
1939-12-05 |
Horst Bastian, writer |
1939-12-11 |
Thomas McGuane, US, writer (Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks) |
1940-01-05 |
Michael O'Donoghue, Sauquoit, New York, American writer and performer (Saturday Night Live, Scrooged) |
1940-03-03 |
Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist |
1940-03-07 |
Harald Gerlach, writer |
1940-03-12 |
M.A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer |
1940-04-02 |
Peter Haining, writer/editor (Anatomy of Witchcraft) |
1940-04-20 |
Jan Cremer, Dutch writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer) |
1940-05-13 |
Bruce Chatwin, England, writer (On the Black Hill) |
1940-06-25 |
A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005) |
1940-09-14 |
Leo H Ferrier, Suriname writer (Atman) |
1940-09-24 |
Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994) |
1940-10-28 |
Susan Harris, American television writer and producer |
1940-12-05 |
Peter Pohl, Swedish writer |
1940-12-07 |
Kumar Shahani, writer/director (Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan) |
1940-12-29 |
Brigitte Kronauer, writer |
1940-12-29 |
Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist (Come off that Roof) |
1941-03-13 |
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(d. 2008) |
1941-03-18 |
Wolfgang Bauer, writer |
1941-04-10 |
Paul Theroux, American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast) |
1941-05-19 |
Jane Brody, writer/nutritionist |
1941-05-28 |
Guntram Vesper, writer |
1941-06-14 |
John Edgar Widerman, US writer |
1941-07-05 |
Barbara Frischmuth, writer |
1941-09-03 |
Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990) |
1941-10-04 |
Roy Blount, Jr., American writer |
1941-10-10 |
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist |
1941-10-21 |
Marina Ripa, Rome Italy, countess/writer (My First 40 Years) |
1941-10-25 |
Anne Tyler, American writer (Accidental Tourist) |
1941-11-20 |
Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright |
1941-12-04 |
Humberto Solas, director/writer (Lucia) |
1942-01-05 |
Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003) |
1942-03-02 |
John Irving, NH, short-story writer (World According to Garp) |
1942-03-25 |
Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer (Rocky Horror Show) |
1942-03-27 |
Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007) |
1942-04-08 |
Eduard Visser, Dutch writer (Fyffes are now called Chiquita) |
1942-04-13 |
Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer. |
1942-04-17 |
Mario Brenta, writer/director (Maicol, Barnabo of the Mountains) |
1942-05-11 |
Rachel Billington, British writer |
1942-06-21 |
Henry S. Taylor, American writer |
1942-06-24 |
Gerhart Roth, writer |
1942-07-09 |
Hermann Burger, writer |
1942-07-25 |
Felix Ph Ingold, writer |
1942-08-22 |
Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993) |
1942-09-14 |
Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer |
1942-12-06 |
Peter Handke, Austrian writer |
1942-12-19 |
Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer |
1943-01-04 |
Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer |
1943-01-06 |
Osvaldo Soriano, writer |
1943-02-01 |
Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer |
1943-02-13 |
F C Delius, writer |
1943-02-18 |
Graeme Garden, Scottish writer |
1943-03-01 |
Franz Hohler, writer |
1943-03-03 |
Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point) |
1943-03-13 |
Andre Techine, director/writer (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous) |
1943-03-23 |
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001) |
1943-04-03 |
Jonathan Lynn, Bath England, writer/actor (Greedy, Bar Mitzvah Boy) |
1943-04-08 |
James Herbert, London, horror writer (The Rats), (d. 2013) |
1943-05-15 |
Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director (All in the Family) |
1943-06-05 |
Ann Craft, researcher/writer |
1943-06-09 |
Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer |
1943-08-21 |
Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor |
1943-09-12 |
Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer |
1943-09-16 |
James Alan McPherson, American writer |
1943-10-08 |
R. L. Stine, Columbus, Ohio, children's book writer (Goosebumps) |
1943-11-26 |
Marilynne Robinson, American writer |
1944-01-11 |
Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989) |
1944-01-29 |
Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet (Venus in Holland) |
1944-02-21 |
Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work) |
1944-02-28 |
Colin Nutley, director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack) |
1944-03-07 |
Jorgen Theobaldy, writer |
1944-03-14 |
Peter Paul Zahl, writer |
1944-03-15 |
Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans) |
1944-04-08 |
Christoph Hein, writer |
1944-04-11 |
John Milius, writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday) |
1944-05-02 |
F Innerhofer, writer |
1944-05-10 |
Marie-France Pisier, Daclat, Vietnam, French actress and writer (Love on the Run, Cousin cousine) |
1944-05-12 |
Eva Demski, writer |
1944-05-18 |
W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001) |
1944-06-27 |
Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet (Intimate Acts) |
1944-07-21 |
Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian/English writer (Price of Bride) |
1944-08-19 |
Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer |
1944-08-21 |
Peter Weir, Sydney Aust, director/writer (Witness, Dead Poets Society) |
1944-09-06 |
Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist |
1944-11-16 |
Hugo Dittberner, writer |
1944-12-01 |
Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin |
1944-12-01 |
Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco |
1944-12-20 |
G Wolfgruber, writer |
1945-01-22 |
Michael Cristofer, actor/writer (Little Drummer Girl) |
1945-01-30 |
Michael Dorris, writer |
1945-02-15 |
Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer |
1945-02-19 |
Thomas Brasch, writer |
1945-03-04 |
Dieter Meier, Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello) |
1945-03-14 |
Herman[us J] van Veen, Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer |
1945-03-31 |
Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer |
1945-04-07 |
Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer |
1945-04-30 |
Annie Dillard, American writer (An American Childhood) |
1945-04-30 |
Claude van de Berge, [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory) |
1945-05-04 |
Monika van Paemel, Belgian writer (Accursed Fathers) |
1945-06-04 |
Daniel Topolski, writer/photographer/rowing coach |
1945-06-19 |
Tobias Wolff, US writer (This Boy's Life) |
1945-06-23 |
Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer. |
1945-07-13 |
Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Duvelsmoer) |
1945-09-01 |
Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer |
1945-10-16 |
Paul Monette, writer |
1945-10-26 |
Pat Conroy, American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides) |
1945-10-27 |
John Kane, actor/writer |
1946-01-19 |
Julian Barnes, England, writer (Before She Met Me) |
1946-01-21 |
Vincent Placoly, Martinique, writer (L'eau-de-mort guildive) |
1946-01-25 |
Silvio Blatter, writer |
1946-02-25 |
F Xaver Kroetz, writer |
1946-03-12 |
Peter Whalley, British television writer and author |
1946-03-19 |
Bigas Luna, director/writer (Anguish) |
1946-04-14 |
Tom Monteleone, US writer (Dark Star & Illumination) |
1946-06-10 |
Mensje F van Keulen-van der Steen, Dutch writer (Bleeker's Summer) |
1946-06-12 |
Harry Glasper, English writer |
1946-06-17 |
Peter Rosei, Austrian writer |
1946-06-28 |
Robert L Asprin, US, sci-fi writer (Thieves World, Cold Cash War) |
1946-07-28 |
Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist |
1946-08-11 |
Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (228) |
1946-08-31 |
Jerome Corsi, American writer |
1946-10-10 |
Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer |
1946-10-17 |
Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor |
1946-10-19 |
Philip Pullman, English writer |
1946-10-20 |
Elfriede Jelinek, writer |
1946-12-14 |
Anthonius A M "Ton" Kors, Dutch writer (Hannie Schaft) |
1946-12-16 |
Adriaan van Dis, Dutch TV host/writer (Promised Country) |
1946-12-17 |
Eugene Levy, Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV) |
1947-01-07 |
Shobha De, Indian writer |
1947-02-17 |
Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer (Terror From Within) |
1947-03-03 |
Clifton Snider, American poet and writer |
1947-03-09 |
Keri Hulme, New Zealandic writer |
1947-03-30 |
Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist, tour guide, journalist, academic teacher, engineer |
1947-05-01 |
Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer |
1947-05-12 |
catherine yronwode, American writer and editor |
1947-05-14 |
Karin Struck, writer |
1947-05-26 |
Piers Gray, critic/writer |
1947-06-16 |
-minu, Swiss columnist and writer |
1947-06-28 |
Mark Helprin, US writer |
1947-07-02 |
Larry David, Brooklyn NY, actor/comedian/writer (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) |
1947-07-24 |
Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer |
1947-08-07 |
Ann Beattie, writer |
1947-09-08 |
Ann Beattie, Wash DC, short story writer (NYer Magazine) |
1947-09-16 |
Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer |
1947-09-22 |
Robert Morace, American writer |
1947-09-28 |
Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer |
1947-11-14 |
P J O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money) |
1947-11-16 |
Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer |
1947-12-04 |
Ursula Krechel, writer |
1947-12-08 |
Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi writer |
1948-01-12 |
William Nicholson, English writer |
1948-01-20 |
Nancy Kress, American writer |
1948-02-23 |
Doug Moench, American comic book writer |
1948-02-25 |
Aldo Busi, Italian writer |
1948-03-04 |
James Ellroy, American writer |
1948-03-14 |
Billy Crystal, Long Beach, New York, American actor, writer, producer (Soap, City Slickers) |
1948-04-03 |
Arlette Cousture, French-Canadian writer |
1948-04-04 |
Dan Simmons, American writer |
1948-04-13 |
Amy Robinson, Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets) |
1948-06-21 |
Ian McEwan, English writer |
1948-06-21 |
Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer |
1948-07-17 |
Ron Asheton, Washington DC, guitarist and song writer (Iggy Pop), (d. 2009). |
1948-08-23 |
Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist |
1948-09-10 |
Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer |
1948-10-05 |
Zoran Živković, Serbian writer |
1948-11-23 |
Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer |
1948-11-29 |
David Rintoul, The Ghost Writer |
1948-12-02 |
T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer |
1948-12-14 |
Boudewijn Buch, Dutch writer/TV host |
1949-01-01 |
Peter Dormer, arts writer |
1949-01-14 |
Lawrence Kasdan, Miami FL, director/writer (Accidental Tourist) |
1949-01-14 |
Mary Robison, American writer |
1949-02-09 |
Janet Issaca Ashford, writer |
1949-02-19 |
William Messner-Loebs, American comics writer |
1949-03-26 |
Patrick Süskind, German writer |
1949-03-30 |
Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer/director/writer |
1949-04-01 |
Gill Scott-Heron, US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon) |
1949-04-12 |
Scott Turow, American writer |
1949-05-18 |
Stuart Gannes, Detroit Mich, writer (Fortune) |
1949-08-09 |
Jonathan Kellerman, American writer |
1949-08-22 |
Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer |
1949-10-05 |
Bill James [George William James], Holton Kansas, American baseball writer and statistician |
1949-10-14 |
Katha Pollitt, American writer |
1949-10-23 |
Nick Tosches, American writer |
1949-12-07 |
Tom Waits, California, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine) |
1949-12-31 |
Susan Shwartz, American writer |
1950-01-17 |
Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer |
1950-01-24 |
Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer |
1950-04-22 |
Jancis Robinson, wine writer/broadcaster |
1950-05-28 |
Ian Bradley, British writer and academic |
1950-08-12 |
Jim Beaver, American actor and writer |
1950-09-05 |
Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer |
1950-10-05 |
Edward P. Jones, American writer |
1950-11-03 |
Joe Queenan, American writer |
1950-11-03 |
Massimo Mongai, Italian writer |
1950-11-16 |
John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist |
1951-04-16 |
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer |
1951-04-19 |
Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978) |
1951-05-03 |
Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer |
1951-05-21 |
Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor (SNL, Stuart Saves His Family) |
1951-06-04 |
Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist |
1951-06-05 |
Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality. |
1951-08-15 |
Ann Biderman, American film and television writer |
1951-09-27 |
Jim Shooter, American comic book writer |
1951-09-29 |
Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977) |
1951-10-03 |
Bernard Cooper, American writer |
1951-11-06 |
John Falsey, American television writer and producer |
1951-11-09 |
Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer |
1951-11-27 |
Kathryn Bigelow, San Carlos, California, American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) |
1951-12-28 |
Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East. |
1952-01-14 |
Maureen Dowd, American writer |
1952-01-21 |
Louis Menand, American writer and critic |
1952-03-01 |
Steven Barnes, American writer |
1952-03-02 |
Mark Evanier, American writer |
1952-04-29 |
David Icke, English writer |
1952-05-25 |
Al Sarrantonio, American writer |
1952-06-14 |
Leon Wieseltier, American writer. |
1952-07-12 |
Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer |
1952-07-31 |
João Barreiros, Portuguese writer |
1952-08-29 |
Karen Hesse, American children's writer |
1952-09-10 |
Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer (Punisher) |
1952-10-06 |
Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer |
1952-10-21 |
Patti Davis [Patricia Ann Reagan], singer/actress/writer, Ronald and Nancy's daughter |
1952-11-06 |
Michael Cunningham, American writer |
1952-11-16 |
Robin McKinley, American writer |
1952-11-30 |
Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist |
1953-04-16 |
J. Neil Schulman, American writer |
1953-06-26 |
James Anderson, writer |
1953-07-20 |
Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer |
1953-08-07 |
Anne Fadiman, American writer; daughter of Clifton Fadiman |
1953-08-10 |
Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer |
1953-08-21 |
Ivan Stang, American writer |
1953-09-29 |
Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director/writer (Leola, Night Zoo) |
1953-10-14 |
Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer |
1953-11-05 |
Joyce Maynard, American writer |
1953-11-18 |
Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist |
1953-12-14 |
Joe Toplyn, Boston, comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman) |
1953-12-15 |
J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer |
1954-01-15 |
Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer |
1954-02-07 |
Brian Morton, Scottish writer |
1954-02-09 |
Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor |
1954-03-09 |
Keven Wade, Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls) |
1954-05-14 |
Jens Sparschuh, German writer |
1954-05-18 |
Martyn Wiley, writer/broadcaster |
1954-06-09 |
Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer |
1954-06-15 |
James Belushi, The Ghost Writer |
1954-06-21 |
Robert Menasse, Austrian writer |
1954-08-16 |
James Cameron, Kapuskasing Ontario, writer/director (True Lies, Titanic) |
1954-10-19 |
Deborah Blum, American writer |
1954-12-20 |
Sandra Cisneros, American writer |
1955-01-25 |
Errol Trotman-Harewood, The Ghost Writer |
1955-02-08 |
John Grisham, writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief) |
1955-02-08 |
Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer |
1955-02-16 |
Guy Gallo, New Orleans LA, writer (Under the Volcano) |
1955-03-10 |
Juliusz Machulski, Poland, director/writer/actor (Do It Yourself) |
1955-04-09 |
Kate Heyhoe, American food writer |
1955-06-01 |
Ralph Morse, British actor, singer and writer of historical dramas |
1955-06-04 |
Paul Stewart, English writer |
1955-06-23 |
Maggie Greenwald, American film director and writer |
1955-07-06 |
William Wall, Irish writer |
1955-07-09 |
Fred Norris, comedy writer/singer (Howard Stern Show) |
1955-08-07 |
Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer |
1955-08-22 |
Will Shetterly, writer |
1955-11-13 |
John Lanzillotto, The Technical Writer |
1956-01-10 |
Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer |
1956-01-13 |
Jay McInerney, writer (Bright Lights, Big City) |
1956-03-05 |
Mark Handley, writer (Nell) |
1956-03-06 |
Peter Roebuck, cricketer (Somerset opening batsman & SMH writer) |
1956-03-11 |
D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer |
1956-04-04 |
David E. Kelley, American writer and TV producer |
1956-04-08 |
Jim Piddock, English actor, writer and producer |
1956-04-28 |
Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster |
1956-09-07 |
Diane Warren, American song writer |
1956-09-17 |
Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher |
1956-09-23 |
Peter David, American writer |
1956-10-06 |
Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist |
1956-11-26 |
Don Lake, Canadian television writer |
1957-01-13 |
Lorrie Moore, American writer |
1957-01-14 |
Anchee Min, Chinese writer |
1957-01-17 |
Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer |
1957-01-22 |
Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist |
1957-01-27 |
Frank Miller, US, comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns) |
1957-02-07 |
Richard Cook, British jazz writer (d. 2007) |
1957-03-07 |
Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer |
1957-05-25 |
Edward Lee, American writer |
1957-07-09 |
Tim Kring, American writer and producer |
1957-07-16 |
Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer |
1957-07-26 |
Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer |
1957-08-01 |
Taylor Negron [Brad Taylor], Glendale, California, American actor and writer (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Easy Money) |
1957-11-14 |
Frank Affolter, pianist/writer/composer (If Nobody Does) |
1957-11-14 |
Michael J Fitzgerald, American writer |
1957-12-25 |
Jan Rot, Dutch composer/writer (Wrong Nights) |
1958-02-03 |
Lizzie Borden, director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls) |
1958-02-04 |
Werner Schwab, writer |
1958-02-04 |
Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer |
1958-02-07 |
Matt Ridley, British science writer |
1958-02-19 |
Helen Fielding, English writer |
1958-03-09 |
Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer |
1958-03-16 |
Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004) |
1958-04-15 |
Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer |
1958-04-15 |
Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer |
1958-05-23 |
Mitch Albom, American writer |
1958-08-04 |
Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer |
1958-09-10 |
Chris Columbus, writer/director (Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months) |
1958-09-11 |
Phoef Sutton, American television writer and producer |
1958-10-20 |
Neil Barry, The Italian Writer |
1958-10-29 |
David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker |
1958-12-02 |
George Saunders, American writer |
1958-12-27 |
Steffen Mensching, writer |
1959-03-05 |
David Fury, American television writer and producer |
1959-03-15 |
Lisa Holton, American writer |
1959-03-18 |
Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director |
1959-03-22 |
Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive |
1959-04-30 |
Paul Gross, Calgary Alberta, Canadian actor, director, and writer |
1959-06-27 |
Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer |
1959-07-26 |
Rick Bragg, American writer |
1959-07-29 |
Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist |
1959-10-17 |
Ron Drummond, American writer |
1959-10-22 |
Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005) |
1959-11-03 |
Hal Hartley, American film director and writer |
1959-12-01 |
Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician |
1960-01-06 |
Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer |
1960-01-28 |
Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer |
1960-03-13 |
Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist |
1960-03-23 |
Terry Sweeney, St Albans NY, writer/comedian (SNL) |
1960-04-24 |
Paula Yates, London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes) |
1960-04-29 |
Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer |
1960-07-13 |
Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye |
1960-08-16 |
Timothy Hutton, The Ghost Writer |
1960-09-16 |
Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer |
1960-11-04 |
Marc Awodey, American artist and writer |
1960-11-10 |
Neil Gaiman, English writer |
1960-11-27 |
Kevin Henkes, American children's book writer/illustrator |
1960-12-19 |
Michelangelo Signorile, American writer |
1960-12-20 |
Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian writer |
1961-01-17 |
Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director |
1961-01-24 |
Vince Russo, American writer |
1961-03-25 |
Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer |
1961-04-11 |
Vincent Gallo, Buffalo, New York, American actor, director, writer (Buffalo '66, The Brown Bunny) |
1961-06-09 |
Aaron Sorkin, American writer |
1961-07-15 |
Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter |
1961-08-13 |
Stuart Maconie, English music writer and broadcaster |
1961-09-11 |
Philip Ardagh, British writer |
1961-09-27 |
Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer |
1961-10-23 |
Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer |
1961-11-01 |
Kim Krizan, California, writer/actress (Slacker, Dazed & Confused) |
1961-11-01 |
Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer and novelist |
1961-11-24 |
Arundhati Roy, Indian writer |
1961-12-18 |
Thomas Strittmatter, writer |
1961-12-29 |
Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer |
1962-01-03 |
Ulrike Lang, writer |
1962-01-12 |
Joe Quesada, American comic book writer |
1962-01-23 |
Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist |
1962-02-21 |
Chuck Palahniuk, American writer |
1962-02-21 |
David Foster Wallace, American writer |
1962-03-02 |
Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer |
1962-03-21 |
Mark Waid, American comic book writer |
1962-05-17 |
Craig Ferguson, Glasgow, Scottish actor, writer and comedian |
1962-05-17 |
Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer |
1962-05-27 |
Steven Brill, American film writer and director |
1962-07-08 |
Rob Burnett, North Caldwell NJ, head writer (David Letterman) |
1962-07-22 |
Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac) |
1962-09-22 |
Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer |
1962-11-22 |
Victor Pelevin, Russian writer |
1962-11-30 |
Daniel Keys Moran, American writer |
1963-01-14 |
Steven Soderbergh, Atlanta, Georgia, American producer, director, writer (Ocean's Eleven, Traffic) |
1963-02-19 |
Laurell K. Hamilton, American writer |
1963-03-26 |
Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer |
1963-04-27 |
Russell T. Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who |
1963-05-08 |
Robin Jarvis, British writer |
1963-05-21 |
Richard Appel, American writer |
1963-06-24 |
Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer |
1963-08-29 |
Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer |
1963-10-13 |
Colin Channer, Jamaican writer |
1963-11-13 |
Thilo Timothy Newman, Hamburg Germany, writer (Freejack, Alien) |
1963-12-24 |
Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress |
1964-01-20 |
Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer |
1964-02-19 |
Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer |
1964-03-07 |
Bret Easton Ellis, American writer |
1964-05-07 |
Mustapha Zerqti, Moroccan/Neth writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd) |
1964-08-08 |
Anastasia Ashman, American writer |
1964-08-24 |
Dana Gould, American comedian and writer |
1964-08-25 |
Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer |
1964-08-25 |
Volker Langhoff, The Ghost Writer |
1964-09-03 |
Spike Feresten, American television writer |
1965-01-06 |
Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer |
1965-01-18 |
Dave Attell, American writer and comedian |
1965-04-25 |
Peter Wick, Long Strange Trip, or The Writer, the Naked Girl, and the Guy with a Hole in His Head |
1965-05-14 |
Eoin Colfer, Irish writer |
1965-06-12 |
Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer |
1965-07-31 |
J. K. Rowling, Gloucestershire England, writer (Harry Potter) |
1965-08-04 |
Dennis Lehane, American crime writer |
1965-08-15 |
Rob Thomas, American writer |
1965-09-05 |
Christopher Nolan, Ireland, handicapped writer (Under Eye of Clock) |
1965-10-23 |
Augusten Burroughs, American writer |
1965-11-11 |
Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer |
1965-11-30 |
Lee Klein, American Writer |
1965-12-15 |
Clayton Nemrow, The Ghost Writer |
1965-12-28 |
Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France (1984) |
1965-9-10 |
Marko Sanginetto, The Writer |
1965-9-29 |
Michael Ming, The Writer |
1966-06-27 |
J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer |
1966-07-16 |
Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster |
1966-10-13 |
Robert Seeliger, The Ghost Writer |
1966-10-17 |
Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer |
1966-10-19 |
Jon Favreau, actor/writer (Swingers) |
1966-10-28 |
Andy Richter, Yorkville IL, writer/sidekick (Conan O'Brien) |
1966-11-16 |
Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer |
1966-11-20 |
Jill Thompson, American comic book writer and artist |
1966-12-13 |
Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker |
1966-12-27 |
Wendy Coakley-Thompson, American writer |
1967-01-25 |
Mark Bamford, American writer/director |
1967-03-04 |
Andrew Osmond, English writer |
1967-04-07 |
Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer |
1967-05-26 |
Phil Doyle, Australian writer |
1967-06-12 |
Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director and writer |
1967-07-07 |
Jason R Rich, Irvington NY, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk) |
1967-08-13 |
Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer |
1967-08-18 |
Brian Michael Bendis, American comic book writer |
1967-10-03 |
Rob Liefeld, American comic book writer and artist |
1967-10-10 |
Jonathan Littell, French-American writer |
1967-12-14 |
Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer |
1968-01-12 |
Heather Mills, Aldershot England, model/writer (Out on a Limb) |
1968-01-17 |
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer |
1968-01-29 |
Edward Burns, Queens, New York, American actor, director, writer (Brothers McMullen, Saving Private Ryan) |
1968-02-16 |
Warren Ellis, British comic book writer |
1968-04-19 |
Craig McNeil, American writer, lawyer, and military officer |
1968-06-06 |
François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist |
1968-07-07 |
Jeff VanderMeer, American writer |
1968-07-09 |
Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Darkness & Deep), dies at 73 |
1968-07-24 |
Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist |
1968-09-06 |
Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer |
1968-09-11 |
Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director |
1968-09-16 |
Walt Becker, American director and writer |
1969-01-17 |
Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director |
1969-01-27 |
Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer |
1969-01-28 |
Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian |
1969-02-12 |
Darren Aronofsky, American director and writer |
1969-03-27 |
Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer |
1969-05-01 |
Wes Anderson, American director and writer |
1969-05-03 |
Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor |
1969-05-10 |
John Scalzi, American writer |
1969-07-05 |
Jenji Kohan, American television writer and producer |
1969-09-03 |
Noah Baumbach, Brooklyn, New York, writer, director and independent film maker (The Squid and the Whale) |
1969-09-12 |
James Frey, American writer |
1969-09-15 |
Jim Curtiss, American writer |
1969-12-16 |
Jerry Johnson, The Writer |
1970-02-12 |
Judd Winick, writer and artist |
1970-02-27 |
Michael A. Burstein, American writer |
1970-02-28 |
Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket |
1970-03-12 |
Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher |
1970-05-18 |
Tina Fey, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, American writer/actress (Saturday Night Live) |
1970-05-25 |
Michael B Enyaer, writer (Pilot One) |
1970-06-17 |
Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian |
1970-07-23 |
Thea Dorn, German writer |
1970-07-31 |
Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer |
1970-08-22 |
Charlie Connelly, English writer |
1971-01-07 |
Tina Anderson, American comic book writer |
1971-02-28 |
Tristan Louis, American writer |
1971-03-04 |
Shavar Ross, American actor-turned film director, writer, film producer and editor |
1971-03-20 |
Touré, American writer |
1971-04-14 |
Peter Gibson, American writer |
1971-08-07 |
Katia Boutin, The Ghost Writer |
1971-10-27 |
Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer |
1971-11-11 |
Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer |
1972-02-04 |
Denis Behnke, The Ghost Writer |
1972-05-24 |
Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer |
1972-06-21 |
Alon Hilu, Israeli writer |
1972-09-06 |
China Miéville, English writer |
1972-09-29 |
Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer |
1972-12-05 |
Angela Shelton, American actress & writer |
1973-01-25 |
Geoff Johns, American comic book writer |
1973-07-25 |
Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer |
1973-09-16 |
Justin Haythe, American writer |
1973-11-08 |
Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model |
1973-11-19 |
Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer |
1974-03-20 |
Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer |
1974-04-08 |
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nigerian American writer |
1974-04-24 |
Eric Kripke, American television writer, director and producer |
1974-10-14 |
Jay Walker, Writer's Block |
1974-10-17 |
Ariel Levy, American feminist writer |
1975-01-28 |
David Zingler, American writer |
1975-02-13 |
Iván González, Puerto Rican writer and musician |
1975-02-24 |
Maurizio Giuliano, writer and traveller |
1975-04-25 |
Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer |
1975-06-13 |
Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director |
1975-06-24 |
Chad Michael, The Writer |
1975-11-24 |
Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer |
1975-11-28 |
Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer |
1975-12-06 |
Noel Clarke, English actor and writer |
1975-12-07 |
Nikola Wapzarow, writer |
1975-12-19 |
Jon Smith, British writer |
1976-02-25 |
Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, and musician |
1976-03-02 |
Glenn Rubenstein, American writer and journalist |
1976-03-15 |
Jose Sanchez Zolliker, Mexican writer |
1976-05-10 |
Rob Malda, American internet writer/editor (Slashdot) |
1976-09-09 |
Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer |
1976-12-29 |
Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer |
1977-03-19 |
Jorma Taccone, American writer and comedian |
1977-04-15 |
Jeremiasz Prokopowicz, The Ghost Writer |
1977-04-24 |
Siarhey Balakhonau, Belarusian writer |
1977-07-18 |
Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright |
1978-05-04 |
Shaenon K. Garrity, American webcomics writer and artist |
1978-05-05 |
Morgan Pehme, American filmmaker and writer |
1978-06-03 |
Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and song-writer |
1978-10-14 |
Justin Brannan, American musician, writer |
1978-11-30 |
Emil Steiner, American writer |
1979-12-11 |
Rider Strong, San Francisco, California, American actor, writer and director (Boy Meets World) |
1980-01-22 |
Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese Writer |
1980-02-03 |
Sarah Lewitinn, American writer |
1981-10-31 |
Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer |
1981-11-07 |
Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker |
1981-11-13 |
Rivkah, American comic book writer and artist |
1981-9-14 |
Nyasha Hatendi, The Ghost Writer |
1982-04-15 |
Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer |
1982-05-26 |
David Reed, British writer and comedian |
1982-06-24 |
Brian Fitzgerald, American writer |
1982-08-31 |
G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer |
1983-03-04 |
Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer |
1983-11-14 |
C E Gadda, writer |
1984-05-28 |
J.R. Writer, Killa Season |
1984-09-24 |
Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer |
1985-09-20 |
David Allen, American composer and writer |
1986-07-03 |
Steven Emerson, Writer's Cramp |
1987-11-19 |
Nuno Nolasco, The Italian Writer |
1988-01-04 |
Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer |
1988-05-09 |
Skye Regan, Canadian Actress and Writer |
1988-9-14 |
Jonathan Butler, The Copy-Writer |
1990-04-03 |
Naani Bandreddi, Rudra: The Writer |
1992-9-27 |
Zachary Schramm, Writer's Day |
1995-02-11 |
Justin Ryan, Writer's Cramp |
Date | Event |
---|---|
1735-07-09 |
Author, poet, critic and lexicographer and writer of the first English dictionary Dr. Samuel Johnson (25) marries the widow Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 21 years his senior. |
1806-10-14 |
German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar |
1811-01-01 |
Writer James Fenimore Cooper (21) weds Susan Augusta de Lancey in Mamaroneck, New York |
1816-12-30 |
English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft |
1836-05-16 |
US writer Edgar Allan Poe (26) marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm |
1842-07-09 |
American writer "The Scarlett Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne (38) marries painter and illustrator Sophia Peabody (33) in the Peabody's home, Boston |
1850-03-14 |
French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine |
1862-09-23 |
Russian writer ("War and peace") Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician |
1870-02-02 |
American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY |
1871-12-25 |
Writer Ambrose Bierce (29) weds Mary Ellen Day |
1880-05-16 |
British writer Mary Anne Evans, pen name George Eliot, aged 60 marries John Cross, 20 years her junior |
1884-05-29 |
Irish writer Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd at St. James Church, Paddington, London |
1893-01-18 |
British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London |
1896-03-24 |
Writer "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad (39) marries Englishwoman Jessie George (23) |
1912-04-09 |
Detective writer Erle Stanley Gardner (22) weds Natalie Talbert |
1913-04-12 |
Author Upton Sinclair (34) weds writer Mary Craig (31) |
1916-03-22 |
British writer ('Lord of the Rings'), poet and professor J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien marries Edith Mary Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick |
1917-05-24 |
Writer Walter Lippmann (27) weds Faye Albertson |
1920-04-03 |
Novelist and short story writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (23) weds novelist Zelda Sayre (19) at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral |
1923-03-23 |
Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana, Cuba |
1924-06-24 |
American writer Henry Miller (31) marries 2nd wife June Smerth (21) in Hoboken, New Jersey. |
1924-08-28 |
British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36) |
1925-04-15 |
Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna Slonim (23) in Berlin |
1925-07-04 |
American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell (24) marries 2nd husband John Marsh (29) |
1927-10-15 |
Writer Graham Greene (23) weds Vivien Dayrell-Browning at St. Mary's Church in Hampstead, North London |
1928-07-19 |
Physicist Enrico Fermi (26) weds writer Laura Capon in Rome, Italy |
1928-08-25 |
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna |
1929-11-13 |
Writer E. B. White (30) weds literary editor Katharine Angell (37) |
1930-09-11 |
Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26) |
1931-07-04 |
Irish writer (Ulysses) James Joyce and Nora Barnacle finally marry in London registry office after meeting in 1904. |
1937-07-11 |
Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall |
1938-03-26 |
Writer Walter Lippmann (48) weds second wife Helen Byrne Armstrong |
1940-01-02 |
Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla. |
1940-04-07 |
Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (21) weds Natalya Reshetovskaya |
1941-06-03 |
Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn |
1941-11-05 |
Writer and veterinary surgeon James Herriot (25) weds Joan Catherine Danbury |
1943-10-20 |
British Children's writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London |
1944-08-22 |
Writer Jack Kerouac (22) weds author Edie Kerouac Parker |
1945-06-13 |
"Three Smart Girls" actress Deanna Durbin (23) weds film writer, producer and actor Felix Jackson at The Little Church Of The West in Las Vegas |
1947-09-27 |
Fantasy and sci-fiction writer Ray Bradbury (27) weds Marguerite McClure (25) |
1950-06-14 |
American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries 2nd wife Kleo Apostolides |
1950-08-17 |
Short story writer Dorothy Parker (57) weds screenwriter Alan Campbell (46) |
1950-11-17 |
Writer Jack Kerouac (28) weds Joan Haverty |
1953-07-02 |
British writer ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") Ronald Dhal marries American actress Patricia Neal |
1955-03-17 |
Erotic writer Anaïs Nin marries actor Rupert Pole at Quartzsite, Arizona, while still married to her first husband |
1956-06-16 |
British Poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes marries American writer and poet (The Bell Jar) Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn, London. |
1958-03-27 |
Latin American and magic realism leading novelist and short story writer "One Hundred years of Solitude" Gabriel Garc |
1958-03-27 |
Writer Gabriel García Márquez (31) weds Mercedes Barcha |
1959-04-01 |
American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries 3rd wife Anne Williams Rubinstein |
1966-06-15 |
English writer of blockbusters, Jackie Collins weds 2nd husband Oscar Lerman |
1966-07-06 |
American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries 4th wife Nancy Hackett |
1966-11-18 |
Writer Jack Kerouac (44) weds Stella Kerouac |
1967-08-04 |
Writer Jorge Luis Borges (67) weds old friend Elsa Astete Millán |
1968-08-09 |
Detective writer Erle Stanley Gardner (79) weds his long-time secretary Agnes Jean Bethell |
1969-06-22 |
Writer and producer R. L. Stine (25) weds editor Jane Waldhorn |
1971-11-11 |
Swedish director and writer Ingmar Bergman (53) weds actress Ingrid von Rosen (41) |
1973-04-18 |
American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries 5th wife Leslie (Tessa) Busby |
1975-07-20 |
"The Exorcist" writer William Peter Blatty (47) weds tennis player Linda Tuero (24) in Las Vegas |
1976-02-02 |
Actress Gloria Swanson (76) weds writer William Dufty (60) |
1976-04-14 |
The Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein (32) weds writer and director Nora Ephron (34) at a civil ceremony in Manhattan |
1978-11-04 |
"The Nanny" actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20) |
1980-11-27 |
British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48) |
1982-10-17 |
Actor Robert Goulet (48) weds artist/writer Vera Novak in Las Vegas, Nevada |
1983-08-16 |
musician Paul Simon weds actress and writer Carrie Fisher |
1986-04-26 |
Writer Jorge Luis Borges (86) weds author Maria Kodama (49) in Paraguay |
1986-06-21 |
The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof (34) weds broadcaster and writer Paula Yates (27) in Las Vegas |
1986-11-15 |
Golfer Byron Nelson (74) weds advertising copy writer Peggy Simmons (42) |
1992-08-16 |
Comedian Janeane Garofalo (27) weds writer Robert Cohen in Las Vegas |
1993-03-31 |
Actor and writer Larry David (45) weds environmental activist Laurie Lennard (35) |
1993-11-13 |
"Ladyhawke" actress Michelle Pfeiffer (35) weds television writer and producer David E. Kelley (37) in Santa Barbara, California |
1995-05-07 |
Eldest son of Shirley Jones and screenplay writer Shaun Cassidy (36) weds actress Susan Diol (30) in Westwood, California |
1998-06-27 |
The "Murphy Brown" actress Faith Ford (33) weds personal trainer and writer Campion Murphy (35) on Clint Eastwood's 22-acre Mission Ranch in Carmel, California |
1999-07-28 |
"Sixteen Candles" actress Molly Ringwald (31) weds French writer Valery Lamerignere in Bordeaux, France |
2001-04-04 |
Actress and model Brooke Shields (35) weds sitcom writer Chris Henchy (37) in Catalina Island, California |
2001-06-03 |
Writer and actress Tina Fey (31) weds "Saturday Night Live" composer Jeff Richmond (40) on a Greek Orthodox ceremony at The Merion Tribute House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
2004-07-03 |
Actress Tori Spelling (31) weds actor-writer Charlie Shanian (35) at her parents 56,000-square foot mansion in Bel Air, California |
2004-08-28 |
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Mariska Hargitay (40) weds actor-writer Peter Hermann (37) at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, California |
2004-10-02 |
"Married ... With Children" actress Katey Sagal (50) weds "The Shield" writer Kurt Sutter (42) in Los Feliz, California |
2005-06-09 |
"Good Morning, Miami" actor Mark Feuerstein (34) weds TV writer/producer Dana Klein at The Four Seasons-Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, California |
2005-09-02 |
"Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (43) weds director and writer Noah Baumbach (36) in Los Angeles |
2005-09-24 |
"King of Queens" actor-comedian Patton Oswalt (36) weds writer Michelle McNamara in Los Angeles |
2005-10-09 |
"The O.C." writer and talk show host Regis Philbin's daughter Jennifer Joy Philbin (31) weds NBC comedy series "The Office" writer Michael Schur (32) at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York City |
2006-04-29 |
"The O.C." actress Amanda Righetti (23) weds film director and writer Jordan Alan in Oahu, Hawaii |
2007-01-09 |
"Ugly Betty" actress Ashley Jensen (37) weds actor and writer Terence Beesley in a ceremony in the woods of Big Sur, California |
2007-05-05 |
Actress and singer Brittany Murphy (29) weds writer and director Simon Monjack (37) at their home in Los Angeles City |
2008-05-31 |
"Law & Order" actress Alana De La Garza (31) weds writer Michael Roberts in Orlando, Orange County, Florida |
2009-05-09 |
"The O.C." actress Autumn Reeser (28) weds writer-director Jesse Warren (31) under a 200-year old oak tree at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, California |
2010-01-09 |
Food writer and former fashion model Sophie Dahl (32) weds British jazz singer Jamie Cullum (30) in Hampshire, England |
2010-03-15 |
Stand-up comedian and writer Sacha Baron Cohen (40) weds actress Isla Fisher (36) in Paris, France |
2010-09-25 |
Actress Emily Deschanel (33) weds writer-actor David Hornsby (34) in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles |
2011-08-13 |
"The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd (44) weds TV writer Lamar Sally at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, Illinois |
2012-06-02 |
Actress Drew Barrymore (37) weds writer Will Kopelman in Montecito, California |
2012-07-07 |
"The Office" Ellie Kemper (32) weds former "Conan O'Brien" writer Michael Koman at the Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in New York City |
2013-06-28 |
Writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell (43) weds physician Brent Ridge in Sharon Springs, New York |
2013-07-13 |
TV host Jimmy Kimmel (45) weds co-head writer Molly McNearney in Ojai, California |
2014-05-25 |
Happy Endings actress Casey Wilson (33) weds comedy writer David Caspe (35) in Ojai, California |
Date | Event |
---|---|
1924-10-16 |
American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien (Red) Upshaw |
1937-12-09 |
Writer Walter Lippmann (48) divorces first wife Faye Albertson after 20 years of marriage |
2006-04-20 |
Actor-writer Charlie Shanian (39) divorces former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling (32) only 15 months after their lavish $1-million wedding |
2007-07-13 |
Environmental activist Laurie Lennard (49) divorces writer Larry David (60) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage |
2010-11-15 |
"Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (48) divorces writer Noah Baumbach (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage |
Date | Event |
---|---|
79-08-25 |
Gaius Plinius Secundus, [Pliny the Elder], Roman admiral/writer, dies during eruption of Mount Vesuvius |
899-10-26 |
Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies |
1078-02-22 |
Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies |
1092-10-14 |
Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated |
1113-06-19 |
Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies |
1125-10-21 |
Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer |
1133-12-18 |
Hildebert, French writer |
1142-04-21 |
Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079) |
1213-02-22 |
Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies |
1296-11-01 |
Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230) |
1298-07-14 |
Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies |
1331-10-27 |
Aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies |
1345-04-14 |
Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287) |
1412-04-02 |
Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer (b. ????) |
1425-07-21 |
Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)/writer, dies |
1438-09-09 |
Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies |
1449-05-20 |
Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies |
1463-06-04 |
Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65 |
1463-06-17 |
Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436) |
1471-05-01 |
Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91 |
1478-02-22 |
Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies |
1483-06-25 |
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer |
1498-07-27 |
Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77 |
1501-05-22 |
Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66 |
1502-02-01 |
Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies |
1517-10-02 |
John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 |
1529-02-02 |
Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478) |
1529-02-08 |
Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478) |
1535-03-01 |
Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies |
1536-02-03 |
Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies |
1549-01-28 |
Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80 |
1553-12-14 |
Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485) |
1554-06-19 |
Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53 |
1557-08-01 |
Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490) |
1561-02-26 |
Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer |
1563-08-18 |
Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530) |
1569-05-10 |
Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer |
1571-02-14 |
Benvenuto Cellini, Ital sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70 |
1573-12-30 |
Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504) |
1580-07-25 |
Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47 |
1580-08-19 |
Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71 |
1582-10-04 |
Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies |
1583-02-18 |
Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503) |
1584-03-10 |
Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532) |
1584-08-22 |
Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530) |
1585-06-20 |
Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52 |
1587-04-08 |
John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516) |
1592-09-03 |
Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558) |
1592-09-13 |
Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533) |
1594-04-29 |
Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer |
1596-10-03 |
Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541) |
1604-03-13 |
Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537) |
1611-02-08 |
Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies |
1612-01-04 |
Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62 |
1612-11-20 |
John Harington, English writer (b. 1561) |
1613-09-15 |
Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581) |
1615-08-15 |
Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies |
1616-04-23 |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69 |
1616-04-23 |
El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (b. 1539) |
1616-10-17 |
John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560) |
1616-11-23 |
Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552) |
1617-10-11 |
Franchois Vranck, economist/writer (Deduction), dies at about 62 |
1617-11-10 |
Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer |
1620-01-17 |
Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59 |
1620-03-09 |
Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59 |
1621-06-21 |
Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564) |
1621-08-03 |
Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556) |
1621-08-15 |
John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582) |
1622-12-28 |
Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 |
1623-11-11 |
Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549) |
1625-06-01 |
Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568) |
1627-05-23 |
Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet/writer, dies |
1629-06-24 |
Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies at 67 |
1630-02-12 |
Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566) |
1635-04-25 |
Alessandro Tassoni, Ital political writer (Rape of Bucket), dies at 69 |
1635-08-07 |
Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591) |
1636-12-09 |
Giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90 |
1636-12-09 |
Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566) |
1638-12-10 |
Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49 |
1643-09-20 |
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer |
1644-11-10 |
Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579) |
1645-08-28 |
Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583) |
1647-01-29 |
Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565) |
1648-02-02 |
George Abbot, English writer |
1649-09-06 |
Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies |
1650-10-21 |
Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies |
1652-10-20 |
Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611) |
1653-05-26 |
Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588) |
1654-02-18 |
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594) |
1654-06-27 |
Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67 |
1654-12-05 |
Jean François Sarrazin, French writer |
1656-02-27 |
Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies |
1656-09-08 |
Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574) |
1658-11-15 |
Jacobus Revius, [Reefsen], theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72 |
1658-12-06 |
Gracian, writer, dies |
1659-06-03 |
Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619) |
1661-08-07 |
Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608) |
1662-05-23 |
John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605) |
1664-07-16 |
A Gryphius, writer, dies at 47 |
1665-09-12 |
Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596) |
1667-05-02 |
George Wither, English writer (b. 1588) |
1667-07-11 |
John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried |
1669-05-14 |
Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601) |
1669-05-16 |
Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 |
1670-11-15 |
Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius], Czech-speaking Moravian teacher, educator and writer, dies at 78 |
1673-12-15 |
Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623) |
1674-02-22 |
Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595) |
1674-03-08 |
Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597) |
1674-06-14 |
Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600) |
1676-07-25 |
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604) |
1676-08-17 |
Grimmelshausen, writer, dies |
1676-10-28 |
Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595) |
1679-04-18 |
Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies |
1679-10-12 |
William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617) |
1680-02-17 |
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599) |
1680-03-17 |
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer, dies |
1680-09-11 |
Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621) |
1682-04-14 |
Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621) |
1682-09-08 |
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606) |
1682-10-19 |
Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605) |
1683-01-15 |
Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609) |
1683-12-15 |
Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593) |
1686-04-19 |
Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610) |
1688-05-14 |
Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619) |
1690-10-03 |
Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648) |
1691-02-01 |
George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56 |
1691-07-30 |
Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639) |
1692-11-06 |
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619) |
1693-02-07 |
Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624) |
1693-04-09 |
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618) |
1693-05-25 |
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634) |
1693-12-13 |
Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies |
1695-03-05 |
Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664) |
1696-04-17 |
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (b. 1626) |
1696-05-10 |
Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645) |
1699-01-21 |
Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616) |
1701-03-15 |
Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624) |
1701-06-02 |
Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607) |
1701-09-15 |
Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638) |
1703-05-16 |
Charles Perrault, French author/fairy tale writer, dies at 75 |
1704-04-12 |
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer, dies at 77 |
1706-12-03 |
Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637) |
1707-01-10 |
Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621) |
1707-06-16 |
Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625) |
1708-04-30 |
Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies |
1708-12-22 |
Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) |
1710-02-16 |
Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632) |
1711-03-19 |
Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637) |
1713-02-15 |
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies |
1713-05-20 |
Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635) |
1715-01-07 |
François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651) |
1715-02-25 |
Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640) |
1718-01-06 |
Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664) |
1719-06-17 |
Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47 |
1719-09-07 |
John Harris, English writer |
1719-09-21 |
Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647) |
1719-10-14 |
Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer), dies at 59 |
1720-04-21 |
Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646) |
1723-02-26 |
Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653) |
1723-03-15 |
Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27 |
1724-02-12 |
Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648) |
1724-10-02 |
François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644) |
1725-06-29 |
Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657) |
1727-08-06 |
Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 |
1729-10-09 |
Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654) |
1731-12-26 |
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672) |
1734-02-01 |
John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649) |
1735-04-05 |
William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657) |
1735-09-18 |
Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51 |
1736-07-16 |
Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies |
1737-05-04 |
Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686) |
1742-03-23 |
Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670) |
1743-04-29 |
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658) |
1743-08-05 |
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696) |
1745-10-19 |
Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), dies at 77 |
1747-03-09 |
Jacob Campo Weyerman, S Neth adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69 |
1747-05-28 |
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715) |
1749-08-13 |
J E Schlegel, writer, dies |
1749-12-10 |
Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], writer (Voltaire), dies at 42 |
1750-02-08 |
Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685) |
1750-05-03 |
John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680) |
1750-06-15 |
Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684) |
1754-01-28 |
Ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69 |
1754-05-14 |
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692) |
1754-12-12 |
Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701) |
1755-02-10 |
Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689) |
1755-03-02 |
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675) |
1756-02-25 |
Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693) |
1757-03-01 |
Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712) |
1761-07-04 |
Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689) |
1762-06-17 |
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674) |
1762-08-21 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689) |
1763-02-12 |
Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688) |
1764-05-10 |
Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies |
1764-09-23 |
Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703) |
1766-12-12 |
Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) |
1768-03-01 |
Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694) |
1768-03-18 |
Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies |
1768-05-16 |
Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81 |
1769-12-13 |
C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54 |
1772-03-26 |
Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704) |
1773-01-21 |
Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) |
1773-05-15 |
Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710) |
1773-08-03 |
Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700) |
1773-08-22 |
George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709) |
1773-11-16 |
John Hawkesworth, English writer |
1774-08-11 |
Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722) |
1775-06-23 |
Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692) |
1775-11-21 |
John Hill, British writer |
1776-04-29 |
Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713) |
1778-05-30 |
Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42 |
1778-07-03 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies |
1778-08-11 |
Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies |
1778-08-28 |
Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies |
1779-06-29 |
Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51 |
1783-09-06 |
Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710) |
1784-07-31 |
Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher, dies at 70 |
1784-12-13 |
Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709) |
1785-04-14 |
William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715) |
1785-11-18 |
Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725) |
1787-12-18 |
Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704) |
1788-03-29 |
Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies |
1789-01-23 |
Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724) |
1790-04-17 |
Benjamin Franklin, US, US Founding Father, inventor ambassador and writer (Poor Richards Almanac), dies at 84 |
1790-06-29 |
Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis), dies |
1790-12-12 |
Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733) |
1791-04-19 |
Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies |
1791-05-09 |
Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 |
1791-10-10 |
C F D Schubart, writer, dies |
1791-10-12 |
A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 |
1792-05-24 |
Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies |
1792-08-25 |
Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719) |
1794-04-13 |
Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741) |
1794-06-08 |
G A Borger, writer, dies |
1795-04-30 |
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716) |
1796-03-06 |
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713) |
1797-03-02 |
Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 |
1797-07-11 |
Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740) |
1798-01-22 |
Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66 |
1798-02-13 |
Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24 |
1798-02-25 |
Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716) |
1798-06-04 |
Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer/writer/librarian and womanizer, dies at 73 |
1799-02-24 |
Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 |
1799-12-31 |
Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723) |
1800-03-29 |
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714) |
1801-03-25 |
Novalis, writer, dies at 28 |
1801-09-01 |
Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies |
1802-09-24 |
Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749) |
1803-02-18 |
J W L Gleim, writer, dies |
1803-06-22 |
Wilhelm Heinse, writer, dies |
1803-08-28 |
Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies |
1803-10-08 |
Vittorio A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 |
1803-11-05 |
Ch de Laclos, writer, dies |
1804-05-24 |
Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73 |
1804-11-23 |
Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715) |
1805-08-03 |
Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724) |
1805-11-08 |
Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87 |
1805-12-27 |
Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65 |
1806-02-19 |
Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717) |
1806-10-31 |
Sophie Mereau, writer, dies at 36 |
1807-02-18 |
S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75 |
1807-04-18 |
Erasmus Darwin, physician writer and botanist (Influence), dies (b. 1731) |
1807-12-19 |
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723) |
1808-05-28 |
Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720) |
1808-09-05 |
John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722) |
1808-09-13 |
Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718) |
1809-06-08 |
Thomas Paine, English/American writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72 |
1810-06-13 |
J G Seume, writer, dies at 47 |
1811-01-08 |
Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies |
1812-02-06 |
Carlo Goldoni, writer, dies at 104 |
1812-11-15 |
Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57 |
1813-01-20 |
C M Wieland, writer, dies at 79 |
1814-01-21 |
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) |
1814-06-15 |
Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84 |
1814-09-22 |
A W Iffland, writer, dies |
1814-12-02 |
Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and writer (Justine), dies at 74. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name. |
1815-01-21 |
M Claudius, writer, dies at 74 |
1816-08-09 |
Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771) |
1817-10-16 |
Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies |
1818-02-28 |
Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56 |
1819-03-10 |
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, writer, dies |
1819-03-23 |
August v Kotzebue, writer, dies |
1819-06-26 |
Slome Duikelar, [Abraham J Swalff], Yiddish writer, dies |
1821-02-26 |
Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753) |
1822-04-03 |
Friedrich Bertuch, writer, dies |
1822-06-25 |
Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46 |
1824-02-08 |
Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71 |
1824-05-26 |
Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751) |
1824-06-21 |
Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773) |
1825-04-10 |
Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53 |
1825-04-16 |
John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84 |
1825-11-14 |
Jean Paul, writer, dies at 62 |
1826-04-03 |
Reginald Heber, bishop & hymn writer, dies |
1826-06-03 |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766) |
1826-09-22 |
J P Hebel, writer, dies at 66 |
1826-10-03 |
Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies |
1827-06-26 |
Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies |
1827-11-18 |
Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24 |
1830-01-17 |
W Waiblinger, writer, dies |
1830-12-08 |
H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63 |
1831-01-21 |
Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 |
1832-02-22 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, dies at 82 |
1832-03-22 |
J W Goethe, writer, dies at 82 |
1832-09-21 |
Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies |
1833-05-10 |
Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74 |
1834-09-16 |
Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies |
1835-03-25 |
Friederike Blum, writer, dies |
1835-05-16 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies |
1835-12-05 |
August v Platen, writer, dies at 39 |
1836-04-07 |
William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756) |
1836-09-12 |
Grabbe, writer, dies at 34 |
1837-02-10 |
Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 |
1837-02-12 |
Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 |
1837-02-13 |
Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 |
1837-06-14 |
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798) |
1837-06-19 |
Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle |
1838-04-17 |
J Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71 |
1838-08-21 |
A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 |
1839-04-11 |
John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59 |
1840-08-25 |
K L Immermann, writer, dies at 44 |
1841-01-03 |
Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82 |
1841-04-29 |
A Bertrand, writer, dies |
1841-10-09 |
Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60 |
1842-04-07 |
Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 |
1842-07-28 |
C Brentano, writer, dies at 63 |
1842-10-02 |
William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies |
1842-12-07 |
Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789) |
1844-09-27 |
Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies |
1844-10-12 |
Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies |
1844-11-14 |
Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41 |
1845-05-02 |
August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48 |
1845-05-15 |
Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76 |
1846-01-10 |
Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75 |
1846-02-09 |
Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies |
1846-02-22 |
Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [OS] |
1846-03-06 |
Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [NS] |
1847-05-20 |
Mary Lamb, writer, dies |
1848-05-25 |
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797) |
1848-05-31 |
Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805) |
1848-06-27 |
Zschokke, writer, dies |
1849-09-03 |
Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies |
1849-10-07 |
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40 |
1850-01-27 |
J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85 |
1850-08-18 |
H de Balzac, writer, dies at 51 |
1850-08-22 |
Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48 |
1851-01-19 |
Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805) |
1851-05-22 |
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755) |
1851-08-01 |
William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775) |
1852-03-04 |
Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright, dies at 43 |
1852-04-02 |
Theodor Althaus, writer, dies |
1852-05-12 |
John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies |
1852-09-14 |
James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62 |
1853-04-28 |
Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79 |
1854-02-17 |
Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71 |
1854-04-15 |
Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773) |
1854-10-22 |
J Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57 |
1854-12-09 |
Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799) |
1855-01-25 |
Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83 |
1855-01-26 |
Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) |
1855-05-27 |
Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies |
1856-08-29 |
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) |
1856-08-30 |
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811) |
1857-07-29 |
Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774) |
1859-01-20 |
B v Arnim, writer, dies at 73 |
1859-04-30 |
Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67 |
1859-07-20 |
Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies |
1859-08-10 |
George Staunton, writer |
1859-09-28 |
Rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies |
1859-12-16 |
Wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73 |
1860-05-14 |
Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801) |
1861-05-09 |
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805) |
1861-06-29 |
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55 |
1862-02-21 |
Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 |
1862-05-06 |
Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44 |
1862-11-13 |
Ludwig Uhland, writer, dies at 75 |
1863-09-20 |
Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78 |
1863-12-13 |
Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50 |
1863-12-24 |
W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52 |
1864-02-15 |
Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies |
1864-05-17 |
N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 |
1864-05-19 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (Scarlet Letter), dies at 59 |
1864-05-26 |
Ch Sealsfield, writer, dies at 71 |
1865-01-16 |
Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828) |
1865-02-25 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 |
1865-06-15 |
Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide |
1865-12-24 |
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793) |
1866-01-15 |
M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies |
1869-10-13 |
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Fren writer (Tableau Historique), dies |
1870-01-21 |
Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812) |
1870-06-09 |
Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58 |
1870-06-20 |
Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39 |
1870-11-24 |
Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846) |
1870-12-05 |
Alexandre Dumas, French writer, dies at 68 |
1871-01-10 |
Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 |
1871-01-29 |
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786) |
1871-04-21 |
Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies |
1871-12-16 |
Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73 |
1872-04-20 |
Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62 |
1872-09-02 |
Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783) |
1872-10-23 |
Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61 |
1872-11-28 |
Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780) |
1872-12-31 |
Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38 |
1873-02-07 |
Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814) |
1873-04-28 |
A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88 |
1873-05-14 |
Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797) |
1873-09-20 |
Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies |
1873-09-28 |
Emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37 |
1874-01-08 |
Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814) |
1874-01-19 |
H v Fallersleben, writer, dies at 75 |
1874-07-12 |
Fritz Reuter, writer, dies at 63 |
1875-01-23 |
Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55 |
1875-02-03 |
Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66 |
1875-04-07 |
Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57 |
1875-08-04 |
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70 |
1875-10-24 |
Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer |
1875-12-20 |
Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 |
1876-02-24 |
Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67 |
1876-03-18 |
F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65 |
1876-04-03 |
Henriette Davidis, writer, dies |
1876-05-24 |
Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46 |
1876-06-01 |
Christo Botew, writer, dies |
1876-06-07 |
George Sand, writer, dies at 71 |
1876-07-15 |
Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82 |
1876-09-25 |
A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66 |
1877-12-12 |
Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48 |
1879-02-11 |
Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 |
1879-09-28 |
Nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered |
1879-10-14 |
F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58 |
1879-10-28 |
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799) |
1880-03-25 |
Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies |
1881-02-02 |
Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59 |
1881-05-03 |
Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies |
1881-05-11 |
Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 |
1881-07-26 |
George Borrow, writer, dies |
1881-11-07 |
John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791) |
1881-12-13 |
August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43 |
1882-01-03 |
William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76 |
1882-12-06 |
A Trollope, writer, dies |
1883-09-03 |
Iwan Turgenjew, writer, dies at 64 |
1884-04-06 |
Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68 |
1884-06-18 |
Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentine writer (Crime of War), dies at 74 |
1884-08-01 |
Heinrich Laube, writer, dies |
1885-01-06 |
Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72 |
1885-02-14 |
Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832) |
1885-05-22 |
Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83 |
1885-05-29 |
Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63 |
1885-07-15 |
Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet in the Galician language ('Séculos Escuros') (b. 1837) |
1886-01-18 |
Michal Czajchovski, [Sadik Pasja], writer, dies |
1886-04-09 |
Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60 |
1886-05-01 |
Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) |
1887-02-19 |
Eduard Douwes Dekker (pen name Multatuli), Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 |
1887-09-14 |
Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies |
1888-12-02 |
Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47 |
1889-04-23 |
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808) |
1889-08-19 |
Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60 |
1889-09-23 |
Wilkie (William) Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies (b. 1824) |
1890-07-15 |
Gottfried Keller, writer, dies at 70 |
1890-09-03 |
Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63 |
1890-10-20 |
Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821) |
1890-10-26 |
Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies |
1891-03-15 |
Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) |
1891-09-28 |
Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72 |
1891-10-15 |
Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837) |
1891-12-11 |
Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies |
1892-01-02 |
George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90 |
1892-10-06 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83 |
1893-07-07 |
Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42 |
1893-12-14 |
Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86 |
1894-01-19 |
Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, dies at 58 |
1894-04-08 |
Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55 |
1894-07-05 |
Betty Paoli, writer, dies |
1894-07-18 |
Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75 |
1894-10-07 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809) |
1895-03-05 |
Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64 |
1895-03-06 |
Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813) |
1895-03-09 |
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59 |
1895-04-30 |
Gustav Freytag, writer, dies at 78 |
1895-10-31 |
Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62 |
1895-11-27 |
French writer and playwright Alexandre Dumas (b. 1824), son of the French author of the same name |
1895-12-25 |
Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32 |
1895-12-30 |
LP Hartley, British writer, dies |
1896-02-15 |
E J Nicholson, writer, dies |
1896-03-26 |
Nanny v Hof, writer, dies |
1896-03-28 |
E Rundle Charles, writer, dies |
1896-05-13 |
Nora Perry, writer, dies |
1896-10-03 |
William Morris, artist and writer associated with Arts and Crafts movement, dies at 62 London |
1897-02-06 |
Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable), dies |
1897-05-23 |
Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34 |
1897-12-16 |
Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies at 57 |
1898-01-14 |
Lewis Carroll, writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65 |
1898-03-12 |
Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818) |
1898-03-31 |
Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies |
1898-09-14 |
Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies |
1898-11-28 |
C F Meyer, writer, dies at 73 |
1899-01-10 |
Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69 |
1899-01-25 |
Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies |
1899-03-14 |
Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76 |
1899-03-18 |
Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35 |
1899-05-15 |
Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70 |
1899-10-28 |
C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies |
1900-01-20 |
John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81 |
1900-08-16 |
Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies |
1900-10-20 |
Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go), dies at 70 |
1901-06-16 |
Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies |
1902-05-05 |
Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65 |
1902-06-18 |
Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66 |
1902-09-28 |
Emile Zola, French writer (Nana/Germinal/J'accuse), dies at 62 |
1902-10-25 |
Frank Norris, writer, dies at 32 |
1902-10-25 |
[B] Frank[lin] Norris, US writer (Pit), dies at 32 |
1903-02-22 |
Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies |
1903-03-04 |
Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68 |
1903-03-13 |
Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88 |
1903-07-17 |
James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69 |
1903-07-30 |
Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65 |
1903-08-28 |
Frederick Law Olmsted, American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park) dies aged 81 |
1904-02-01 |
Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76 |
1904-02-22 |
Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832) |
1904-04-16 |
Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812) |
1904-05-07 |
Peter Hille, writer, dies |
1904-07-15 |
Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44 |
1904-10-21 |
Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877) |
1905-02-12 |
Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies |
1905-02-15 |
Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77 |
1905-09-21 |
Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64 |
1905-10-28 |
Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies |
1906-03-30 |
Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73 |
1906-04-06 |
Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57 |
1906-06-11 |
Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50 |
1906-07-19 |
Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849) |
1906-09-19 |
Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816) |
1907-02-16 |
Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1835) |
1907-03-19 |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70 |
1907-05-12 |
J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59 |
1907-08-24 |
Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58 |
1907-11-01 |
Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33 |
1908-01-04 |
Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70 |
1908-01-09 |
Wilhelm Busch, writer, dies |
1908-01-14 |
Holger Drachmann, writer, dies |
1908-01-25 |
Ouida, English writer (b. 1839) |
1908-03-12 |
Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61 |
1908-06-09 |
Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46 |
1908-07-10 |
Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78 |
1908-07-10 |
Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839) |
1908-09-29 |
Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69 |
1908-12-22 |
Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 |
1909-05-18 |
George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81 |
1909-06-24 |
Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849) |
1909-07-22 |
D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65 |
1909-08-15 |
Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866) |
1909-10-16 |
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856) |
1909-10-18 |
Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies |
1910-01-29 |
Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52 |
1910-02-01 |
Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44 |
1910-02-08 |
Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854) |
1910-03-20 |
Félix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89 |
1910-04-26 |
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77 |
1910-05-22 |
Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46 |
1910-07-03 |
Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies |
1910-10-30 |
J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies |
1910-11-20 |
Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS] |
1911-03-07 |
Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68 |
1912-01-03 |
Felix Dahn, writer, dies at 77 |
1912-01-16 |
Georg Heym, writer, dies at 24 |
1912-01-29 |
Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54 |
1912-03-01 |
George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847) |
1912-03-30 |
Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70 |
1912-04-20 |
Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies at 64 |
1912-05-14 |
August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63 |
1912-05-19 |
Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847) |
1912-06-09 |
Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852) |
1912-10-30 |
Preston Lockwood, British(?) actor/writer, dies |
1913-07-08 |
Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880) |
1914-01-11 |
Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist, dies at 71 |
1914-03-31 |
Ch Morgenstern, writer, dies at 42 |
1914-04-02 |
Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830) |
1914-06-06 |
Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies |
1914-06-21 |
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843) |
1914-07-11 |
Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies |
1914-09-22 |
Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27 |
1914-09-25 |
A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25 |
1914-10-30 |
Ernst Stadler, writer, dies at 31 |
1914-11-04 |
Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27 |
1915-03-11 |
Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826) |
1915-04-17 |
Johannes P Kelly, [Kellij], Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60 |
1915-09-02 |
August Stramm, writer, dies at 41 |
1916-01-15 |
Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850) |
1916-02-06 |
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867) |
1916-02-14 |
Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at 36 |
1916-02-28 |
Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72 |
1916-03-12 |
M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39 |
1916-05-13 |
Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies |
1916-05-28 |
Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856) |
1916-06-07 |
Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847) |
1916-06-14 |
João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865) |
1916-09-04 |
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) |
1916-09-27 |
Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61 |
1916-11-14 |
Saki, British writer (b. 1870) |
1917-02-16 |
Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848) |
1917-04-24 |
Oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies |
1917-05-01 |
Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies |
1917-12-08 |
Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836) |
1918-03-09 |
[Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53 |
1918-07-25 |
Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47 |
1918-08-29 |
Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 |
1918-10-13 |
Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies |
1918-11-29 |
Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40 |
1918-12-02 |
Margit Kaffka, writer, dies at 38 |
1919-01-08 |
Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59 |
1919-02-05 |
Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62 |
1919-05-21 |
Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship's doctor/writer, dies |
1919-08-30 |
Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies |
1919-09-12 |
Leonid N Andrejev, Russ journalist/writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48 |
1919-10-08 |
Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies |
1919-10-13 |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857) |
1920-01-01 |
Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 |
1920-02-08 |
Richard Dehmel, writer, dies at 56 |
1920-02-26 |
Ludwig Rubiner, writer, dies at 38 |
1920-03-08 |
Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69 |
1920-03-21 |
Federigo Tozzi, Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37 |
1920-04-10 |
Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53 |
1920-06-30 |
Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38 |
1920-09-16 |
Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32 |
1920-12-12 |
Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 |
1921-05-12 |
Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies |
1921-05-22 |
Marie E Wilton, writer, dies |
1921-06-18 |
Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies |
1921-06-18 |
Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37 |
1921-08-08 |
Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59 |
1921-08-26 |
Ludwig Thoma, writer, dies |
1921-09-13 |
Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59 |
1921-09-30 |
Oskar Panizza, writer, dies at 77 |
1921-12-25 |
Korolenko, writer, dies |
1922-01-27 |
Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81 |
1922-10-28 |
Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies |
1923-01-03 |
Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39 |
1923-01-09 |
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand short story writer (Dove's Nest), dies of tuberculosis at 34 |
1923-03-08 |
Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835) |
1923-06-10 |
Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies |
1923-07-16 |
Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60 |
1923-10-14 |
Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies |
1923-11-23 |
Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883) |
1923-11-26 |
Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60 |
1923-12-01 |
Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836) |
1923-12-12 |
Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 |
1924-01-28 |
Simon Abramsz, Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56 |
1924-02-24 |
Edmond Picard, Fren/Belgium writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87 |
1924-03-29 |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71 |
1924-05-06 |
Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47 |
1924-05-08 |
Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23 |
1924-05-10 |
Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58 |
1924-06-03 |
Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40 |
1924-06-30 |
Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42 |
1924-08-03 |
Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66 |
1924-10-09 |
Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873) |
1924-10-12 |
Anatole France, writer, dies at 80 |
1924-10-13 |
Anatole France, [Jacques Thibault], writer (Ecrivain Francais), dies |
1924-12-29 |
Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) |
1925-02-18 |
James Lane Allen, US writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75 |
1925-05-12 |
Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51 |
1925-05-13 |
Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies |
1925-05-14 |
Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies |
1925-06-04 |
Pierre Louys, [PF Louis], French writer (Aphrodite), dies |
1925-07-13 |
Gerben Postma [Ids], Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare), dies |
1925-08-01 |
John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61 |
1925-08-17 |
Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848) |
1925-09-29 |
E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36 |
1925-10-24 |
Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56 |
1925-12-23 |
A S C Wallis, [Adele von Antal-Opzoomer], writer (Vorstengunst), dies |
1925-12-25 |
Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30 |
1925-12-29 |
Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 |
1926-05-21 |
Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40 |
1926-06-04 |
Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks & Radiates), dies |
1926-08-01 |
Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies |
1926-10-06 |
Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies |
1926-10-13 |
Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Driftekaren), dies at 61 |
1926-12-12 |
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77 |
1926-12-29 |
Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 |
1927-03-03 |
Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878) |
1927-03-31 |
Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875) |
1927-04-15 |
Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868) |
1927-05-28 |
Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies |
1927-07-24 |
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892) |
1927-07-25 |
Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies |
1927-07-30 |
Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies |
1927-08-13 |
James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49 |
1927-09-29 |
Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858) |
1927-10-22 |
Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876) |
1927-11-23 |
S Przybyszewski, writer, dies |
1928-03-18 |
Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32 |
1928-04-29 |
Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 |
1928-05-04 |
Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63 |
1928-06-17 |
Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies |
1928-08-14 |
Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37 |
1928-09-13 |
Italo Svevo, [Ettore Schmitz], Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66 |
1928-12-01 |
José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888) |
1928-12-16 |
Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885) |
1929-01-09 |
Heiner Muller, writer, dies |
1929-08-23 |
Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies |
1929-10-04 |
John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37 |
1929-10-26 |
Arno Holz, writer, dies at 66 |
1929-10-28 |
Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36 |
1930-02-06 |
Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17 |
1930-02-24 |
Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74 |
1930-03-02 |
David Herbert Lawrence (DH), English poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44 |
1930-03-12 |
Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851) |
1930-03-13 |
Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77 |
1930-03-15 |
Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51 |
1930-03-29 |
Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies |
1930-04-14 |
W Majakowski, writer, dies at 36 |
1930-07-07 |
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71 |
1930-08-29 |
William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844) |
1931-01-09 |
Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies |
1931-05-17 |
Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies |
1931-10-21 |
A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69 |
1932-02-10 |
R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76 |
1932-04-27 |
Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899) |
1932-05-03 |
Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51 |
1932-06-12 |
René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies |
1932-06-16 |
Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies |
1932-06-19 |
Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies |
1932-07-25 |
Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936] |
1932-08-05 |
Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies |
1932-08-10 |
Slang, writer, dies |
1932-08-20 |
Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59 |
1932-12-04 |
Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64 |
1932-12-12 |
Egon Richter, writer, dies |
1933-01-28 |
Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classicist/writer, dies at 80 |
1933-01-31 |
John Galsworthy, England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel 1932), dies at 65 |
1933-05-13 |
Paul Ernst, writer, dies at 67 |
1933-07-15 |
Irving Babbitt, US writer (Democracy & Leadership), dies at 67 |
1933-09-25 |
Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885) |
1933-10-11 |
Josef Hofmiller, writer, dies |
1933-12-26 |
Lunatscharski, writer, dies |
1934-01-01 |
Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60 |
1934-01-08 |
Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880) |
1934-01-15 |
Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70 |
1934-03-26 |
Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51 |
1934-06-06 |
Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864) |
1934-07-06 |
Warden Uncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73 |
1934-08-30 |
Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79 |
1934-10-09 |
J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered |
1934-11-16 |
Joachim Ringelantz, writer, dies |
1935-04-18 |
Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884) |
1935-05-20 |
Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68 |
1935-08-30 |
Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies at 62 |
1935-09-26 |
Andy Adams, US writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76 |
1935-12-14 |
Stanley G Weinbaum, US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies |
1935-12-21 |
Kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45 |
1935-12-28 |
Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies |
1936-02-22 |
Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74 |
1936-03-19 |
John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63 |
1936-04-23 |
Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889) |
1936-06-12 |
Karl Kraus, writer, dies at 62 |
1936-06-14 |
G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies at 62 |
1936-06-16 |
Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies |
1936-06-18 |
Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68 |
1936-08-11 |
Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885) |
1936-10-05 |
Jan J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship doc/writer (Seaman's Grave), dies at 38 |
1936-10-19 |
Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881) |
1936-10-28 |
E G Winkler, writer, dies |
1936-12-10 |
Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69 |
1937-02-01 |
Marguerite Audoux, writer, dies |
1937-02-13 |
C A Bernoulli, writer, dies |
1937-03-06 |
Frank Vosper, actor/writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37 |
1937-03-10 |
Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884) |
1937-03-15 |
H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (At the Mountains of Madness, Weird Tales), dies at 46 |
1937-04-04 |
Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69 |
1937-06-19 |
James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies |
1937-07-10 |
Johan[nes] B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga), dies at 71 |
1937-08-22 |
David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies |
1937-09-10 |
Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892) |
1937-10-16 |
Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899) |
1938-03-01 |
G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74 |
1938-03-16 |
Egon Friedell, writer, dies |
1938-04-02 |
Alice Berend, writer, dies |
1938-05-04 |
Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48 |
1938-06-07 |
Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies |
1938-06-22 |
C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876) |
1938-08-03 |
Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies |
1938-08-04 |
Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70 |
1938-09-15 |
Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 37 |
1938-09-21 |
Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874) |
1938-10-24 |
Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68 |
1938-11-20 |
Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895) |
1938-12-08 |
Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896) |
1938-12-23 |
Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies at 70 |
1938-12-27 |
O Mandelstam, writer, dies |
1939-02-16 |
Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26 |
1939-03-07 |
John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (b. 1885) |
1939-04-11 |
SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50 |
1939-05-22 |
Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45 |
1939-06-05 |
Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies |
1939-06-06 |
Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 |
1939-06-13 |
Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64 |
1939-06-26 |
Ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65 |
1939-09-09 |
S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9] |
1939-09-18 |
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885) |
1939-10-23 |
Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67 |
1939-12-19 |
Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70 |
1940-01-01 |
Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865) |
1940-01-04 |
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 |
1940-01-18 |
Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 |
1940-01-31 |
René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56 |
1940-02-01 |
Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888) |
1940-03-10 |
Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891) |
1940-03-16 |
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 81 |
1940-05-14 |
Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies |
1940-05-14 |
Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38 |
1940-05-23 |
Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 |
1940-06-07 |
James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39 |
1940-06-16 |
DuBose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies |
1940-06-21 |
Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40 |
1940-06-21 |
W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49 |
1940-09-03 |
Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59 |
1940-09-26 |
Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48 |
1940-09-27 |
Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48 |
1940-12-22 |
Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37 |
1941-01-06 |
Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60 |
1941-02-02 |
Johannes Schlaf, writer, dies at 78 |
1941-03-08 |
Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64 |
1941-03-13 |
Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46 |
1941-03-17 |
Isaak E Babel, writer, dies at 46 |
1941-03-17 |
Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46 |
1941-04-04 |
Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29 |
1941-06-01 |
Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies |
1941-06-15 |
Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875) |
1941-07-21 |
Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872) |
1941-08-07 |
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80 |
1941-08-31 |
Marian Zwetajewa, writer, dies |
1941-10-26 |
Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904) |
1941-10-31 |
Herwarth Walden, writer, dies at 63 |
1941-12-09 |
Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865) |
1942-01-14 |
Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883) |
1942-02-23 |
Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60 |
1942-04-08 |
Alfred Mombert, writer, dies |
1942-04-15 |
Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61 |
1942-04-25 |
Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52 |
1942-04-30 |
J van Hoddis, writer, dies at 54 |
1942-06-15 |
Vera Figner, writer, dies |
1942-07-26 |
Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900) |
1942-10-10 |
Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68 |
1942-11-19 |
Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892) |
1942-12-24 |
K Balmont, writer, dies at 75 |
1943-02-13 |
William Walraven, journalist/writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at 55 |
1943-03-23 |
Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72 |
1943-04-30 |
Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85 |
1943-07-01 |
Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
1943-08-05 |
Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55 |
1943-08-21 |
Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 |
1943-08-24 |
Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies |
1943-10-18 |
Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's Youth), dies at 55 |
1943-10-19 |
Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered |
1943-10-29 |
Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55 |
1943-12-02 |
Nordahl Grieg, writer, dies |
1943-12-22 |
Beatrix Potter, English children's writer and illustrator ("The Tale of Peter Rabbit") dies aged 77 |
1943-12-23 |
Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64 |
1944-01-04 |
Kaj Munk, [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies |
1944-01-21 |
Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74 |
1944-01-31 |
Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882) |
1944-02-04 |
Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872) |
1944-03-05 |
Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 |
1944-03-11 |
Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62 |
1944-03-28 |
Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75 |
1944-04-05 |
Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90 |
1944-08-25 |
Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies |
1944-09-25 |
Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68 |
1944-10-16 |
John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78 |
1944-10-24 |
Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54 |
1944-11-30 |
Max Halbe, writer, dies at 79 |
1944-12-02 |
Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67 |
1944-12-30 |
Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78 |
1945-01-03 |
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879) |
1945-01-10 |
Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67 |
1945-01-22 |
A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61 |
1945-02-22 |
Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888) |
1945-02-23 |
Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62 |
1945-02-25 |
Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893) |
1945-03-04 |
Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900) |
1945-03-07 |
Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82 |
1945-03-16 |
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52 |
1945-03-27 |
Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42 |
1945-04-03 |
Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43 |
1945-04-10 |
Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887) |
1945-04-23 |
Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42 |
1945-04-28 |
Hans Bloesch, writer, dies |
1945-05-15 |
Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886) |
1945-06-20 |
Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58 |
1945-06-21 |
Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53 |
1945-08-20 |
A Roda Roda, writer, dies at 73 |
1945-08-26 |
Franz Werfel, Czech/German/US poet/writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54 |
1945-09-20 |
William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884) |
1945-09-26 |
R Beer-Hofmann, writer, dies at 78 |
1946-02-01 |
Hans Betghe, writer, dies at 70 |
1946-02-04 |
Margarete Boie, writer, dies |
1946-02-05 |
George Arliss, actor/writer (Dr Syn, Voltaire), dies at 77 |
1946-04-12 |
F Guicciardi, writer, dies |
1946-06-06 |
Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83 |
1946-06-16 |
Ludwig Winder, writer, dies |
1946-08-13 |
H. G. Wells, English writer, dies at 79 |
1946-09-07 |
Paul Zech, writer, dies at 65 |
1946-09-09 |
Mynona, writer, dies at 74 |
1946-09-11 |
Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72) |
1946-12-10 |
Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer, dies at 66 |
1946-12-25 |
W C Fields, writer/comedian (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies at 67 |
1947-01-24 |
Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60 |
1947-02-05 |
Hans Fallada, writer, dies at 53 |
1947-04-12 |
Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies |
1947-04-24 |
Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873) |
1947-05-23 |
C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68 |
1947-09-26 |
Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61 |
1947-10-08 |
Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78 |
1947-10-13 |
Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter, dies |
1947-11-17 |
Ricarda Huch, writer, dies at 83 |
1948-01-07 |
Raoul Auernheimer, writer, dies |
1948-01-08 |
Kurt Schwitters, writer, dies at 60 |
1948-02-09 |
Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at 65 |
1948-03-03 |
Antonin Artaud, writer, dies at 51 |
1948-03-10 |
Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900) |
1948-03-31 |
Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62 |
1948-04-08 |
Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40 |
1948-06-30 |
Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78 |
1948-07-04 |
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882) |
1948-07-05 |
G Bernanos, writer, dies at 60 |
1948-08-10 |
E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63 |
1948-08-10 |
Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880) |
1948-09-08 |
Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876) |
1948-10-12 |
Alfred Kerr, writer, dies at 80 |
1948-10-31 |
Cissy van Marxfield, [Setske Beek-de Han], writer, dies |
1948-11-23 |
Stanner E V Taylor, US director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71 |
1949-05-21 |
Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42 |
1949-05-22 |
Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies |
1949-06-10 |
Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882) |
1949-08-16 |
Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48 |
1949-10-06 |
Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70 |
1949-12-03 |
Elin Pelin, writer, dies |
1949-12-28 |
W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60 |
1950-01-11 |
Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at 77 |
1950-02-27 |
Ivan Goll, writer, dies at 58 |
1950-03-12 |
L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78 |
1950-04-08 |
Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63 |
1950-05-06 |
Agnes Smedley, writer, dies |
1950-08-24 |
Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63 |
1950-08-27 |
Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41 |
1950-09-06 |
Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886) |
1950-09-29 |
Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies |
1950-10-13 |
Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899) |
1950-10-31 |
Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72 |
1950-11-25 |
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) |
1950-12-14 |
Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65 |
1951-01-10 |
Harry Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65 |
1951-01-10 |
Sinclair Lewis, writer, dies at 65 |
1951-02-19 |
Andre Gide, French writer (Nobel 1947), dies of pneumonia at 81 |
1951-03-06 |
Ivor Novello, actor/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at 58 |
1951-03-07 |
Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58 |
1951-04-09 |
Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies |
1951-05-25 |
Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887) |
1951-05-30 |
Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64 |
1951-06-02 |
John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71 |
1951-07-31 |
J of Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences), dies |
1951-08-28 |
Robert Walker, actor/writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32 |
1951-12-05 |
Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871) |
1951-12-10 |
Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869) |
1951-12-23 |
Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66 |
1952-01-26 |
Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87 |
1952-02-16 |
Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies |
1952-02-19 |
Knut Hamsun, writer, dies at 92 |
1952-04-05 |
Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75 |
1952-04-23 |
Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at 60 |
1952-06-13 |
Max Pulver, writer, dies |
1952-08-12 |
David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884) |
1952-09-19 |
Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies |
1952-10-03 |
Alfred Neumann, German writer, dies at 56 |
1952-12-30 |
Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies |
1953-04-14 |
Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84 |
1953-04-20 |
Erich Weinert, writer, dies at 62 |
1953-04-22 |
Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N], Dutch writer, dies at 75 |
1953-05-28 |
Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904) |
1953-08-11 |
Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies |
1953-09-24 |
Berthold Viertel, writer, dies at 68 |
1953-10-05 |
Friedrich Wolf, writer, dies at 64 |
1953-11-08 |
Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83 |
1953-11-08 |
John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66 |
1953-12-19 |
Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies |
1954-01-01 |
Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890) |
1954-01-16 |
Michail M Prishvin, Russian writer, dies |
1954-03-28 |
Francis B Young, Brit physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 |