It Happened In History! Writers and Directors by Date of Birth
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January
J. D. Salinger 01 E. M. Forster 01 Isaac Asimov 02 J. R. R. Tolkien 03 Friedrich Dürrenmatt 05 E. L. Doctorow 06 Jack London 12 Susan Sontag 16 A. A. Milne 18 Federico Fellini 20 Edith Wharton 24 Lewis Carroll 27 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette 28 Anton Chekhov 29 Barbara Tuchman 30 Norman Mailer 31
February
S. J. Perelman 01 James Joyce 02 James Michener 03 Robert Coover 04 William S. Burroughs 05 Charles Dickens 07 Sidney Sheldon 11 Richard Ford 16 Amy Tan 19 Samuel Pepys 23 Anthony Burgess 25 Victor Hugo 27
March
Ralph Ellison 01 Tom Wolfe 02 James Ellroy 04 Frank Norris 05 Gabriel García Márquez 06 Ring Lardner 06 John McPhee 08 Vita Sackville-West 09 Jack Kerouac 12 Paul Eliot Green 17 John Updike 18 Philip Roth 19 Henrik Ibsen 20 Louis L'Amour 22 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 24 Flannery O'Connor 25 Thorne Smith 27 John Fowles 31
April
Emile Zola 02 Washington Irving 03 Arthur Hailey 05 Donald Barthelme 07 Paul Theroux 10 Eudora Welty 13 Henry James 15 Thornton Wilder 17 Charlotte Brontë 21 Henry Fielding 22 William Shakespeare 23 Sue Grafton 24 Marcus Aurelius 26 Harper Lee 28
May
William Inge 03 Orson Welles 06 Peter Carey 07 Harry Crews 07 Thomas Pynchon 08 Richard Adams 09 J. M. Barrie 09 Mari Sandoz 11 Farley Mowat 12 Katherine Anne Porter 15 Studs Terkel 16 Dorothy M. Richardson 17 Frank Capra 18 Lorraine Hansberry 19 Honoré de Balzac 20 Garry Wills 22 William Trevor 24 R. Waldo Emerson 25 Raymond Carver 25 Dashiell Hammett 27 John Cheever 27 Ian Fleming 28 G. K. Chesterton 29 Howard Hawks 30 Walt Whitman 31
June
Thomas Hardy 02 Allen Ginsberg 03 Larry McMurtry 03 Thomas Mann 06 Saul Bellow 10 William Styron 11 Anne Frank 12 Djuna Barnes 12 John Hersey 17 Salman Rushdie 19 Lizzie Borden 20 Billy Wilder 22 Dan Brown 22 Ambrose Bierce 24 George Orwell 25 Pearl Buck 26 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 28 Irving Wallace 30
July
George Sand 01 Franz Kafka 03 Nathaniel Hawthorne 04 Jean Cocteau 05 Robert A. Heinlein 07 Barbara Cartland 09 Dean Koontz 09 Marcel Proust 10 E. B. White 11 Henry David Thoreau 12 Isaac Bashevis Singer 14 Iris Murdoch 15 Hunter S. Thompson 18 Ernest Hemingway 21 Tom Robbins 22 Raymond Chandler 23 John D. MacDonald 24 George Bernard Shaw 26 Bharati Mukherjee 27 Beatrix Potter 28 J. K. Rowling 31
August
Herman Melville 01 James Baldwin 02 Leon Uris 03 Percy Shelley 04 Guy de Maupassant 05 Marjorie K. Rawlings 08 P. L. Travers 09 Alex Haley 11 William Maxwell 16 Mae West 17 Gene Roddenberry 19 Jacqueline Susann 20 E. Annie Proulx 22 Dorothy Parker 22 Ray Bradbury 22 Malcolm Cowley 24 Oscar Hijuelos 24 C. S. Forester 27 Mary Shelley 30 Robert Crumb 30 William Saroyan 31
September Edgar Rice Burroughs 01 Alison Lurie 03 Robert M. Pirsig 06 Grace Metalious 08 Leo Tolstoy 09 H. L. Mencken 12 Agatha Christie 15 James F. Cooper 15 Robert Benchley 15 John Gay 16 Samuel Johnson 18 William Golding 19 Upton Sinclair 20 H. G. Wells 21 Stephen King 21 Erich von Stroheim 22 Euripides 23 F. Scott Fitzgerald 24 William Faulkner 25 Shel Silverstein 25 Jane Smiley 26 Truman Capote 30
October
Daniel J. Boorstin 01 Graham Greene 02 James Herriot 03 Thomas Wolfe 03 Anne Rice 04 Caroline Gordon 06 Frank Herbert 08 Harold Pinter 10 Conrad Richter 13 Arna Bontemps 13 E. E. Cummings 14 P. G. Wodehouse 15 Oscar Wilde 16 Eugene O'Neill 16 Arthur Miller 17 Art Buchwald 20 Doris Lessing 22 Moss Hart 24 Anne Tyler 25 Pat Conroy 26 Evelyn Waugh 28 James Boswell 29
November
Stephen Crane 01 Sam Shepard 05 Albert Camus 07 Margaret Mitchell 08 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 11 Fyodor Dostoevsky 11 Astrid Lindgren 14 Shelby Foote 17 Martin Scorsese 17 Margaret Atwood 18 George Eliot 22 Robert Barnard 23 Laurence Sterne 24 James Agee 27 Mark Twain 30
December
Joseph Conrad 03 Thomas Carlyle 04 Willa Cather 07 James Thurber 08 Mary Gordon 08 Dalton Trumbo 09 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 11 Grace Paley 11 Gustave Flaubert 12 Ross Macdonald 13 Jane Austen 16 Ford Madox Ford 17 Kenneth Rexroth 22 Mary Higgins Clark 24 Rod Serling 25 Henry Miller 26 Manuel Puig 28 Robert Ruark 29 Rudyard Kipling 30
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