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Author Birthdays for December

  • Billy Childish  66

    Tuesday, December 1st 1959
  • Jan Brett  76

    Thursday, December 1st 1949
  • Tahar Ben Jelloun  81

    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • Daniel Pennac  81

    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • John Crowley  83

    Tuesday, December 1st 1942
  • Woody Allen  90

    Sunday, December 1st 1935
  • Henry Williamson  130

    Sunday, December 1st 1895
  • Rex Stout  139

    Wednesday, December 1st 1886
  • Ann Patchett  62

    Monday, December 2nd 1963
  • George Saunders  67

    Tuesday, December 2nd 1958
  • T. Coraghessan Boyle  77

    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Elizabeth Berg  77

    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Botho Strauss  81

    Saturday, December 2nd 1944
  • Yael Dayan  86

    Saturday, December 2nd 1939
  • Nigel Calder  94

    Wednesday, December 2nd 1931
  • Iakovos Kambanelis  103

    Saturday, December 2nd 1922
  • Charles H. Wesley  134

    Wednesday, December 2nd 1891
  • Zlata Filipovic  45

    Wednesday, December 3rd 1980
  • Grace Andreacchi  71

    Friday, December 3rd 1954
  • Franz Josef Degenhardt  94

    Thursday, December 3rd 1931
  • F. Sionil José  101

    Wednesday, December 3rd 1924
  • Joseph Conrad  168

    Thursday, December 3rd 1857
  • Ludvig Holberg  341

    Sunday, December 3rd 1684
  • Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio  98

    Sunday, December 4th 1927
  • E.J. Kahn, Jr.  109

    Monday, December 4th 1916
  • Cornell Woolrich  122

    Friday, December 4th 1903
  • Katharine Susannah Prichard  142

    Tuesday, December 4th 1883
  • Rainer Maria Rilke  150

    Saturday, December 4th 1875
  • Samuel Butler  190

    Friday, December 4th 1835
  • Thomas Carlyle  230

    Friday, December 4th 1795
  • Lydia Millet  57

    Thursday, December 5th 1968
  • Peter Pohl  85

    Thursday, December 5th 1940
  • John Berendt  86

    Tuesday, December 5th 1939
  • James Lee Burke  89

    Saturday, December 5th 1936
  • Calvin Trillin  90

    Thursday, December 5th 1935
  • Joan Didion  91

    Wednesday, December 5th 1934
  • Hans Hellmut Kirst  111

    Saturday, December 5th 1914
  • Rose Wilder Lane  139

    Sunday, December 5th 1886
  • Ellis Parker Butler  156

    Sunday, December 5th 1869
  • Peter Handke  83

    Sunday, December 6th 1942
  • Elizabeth Yates  120

    Wednesday, December 6th 1905
  • Ira Gershwin  129

    Sunday, December 6th 1896
  • Osbert Sitwell  133

    Tuesday, December 6th 1892
  • Joyce Kilmer  139

    Monday, December 6th 1886
  • Evelyn Underhill  150

    Monday, December 6th 1875
  • Arthur Henry Adams  153

    Friday, December 6th 1872
  • Baldassare Castiglione  547

    Friday, December 6th 1478
  • Andrea Claudio Galluzzo  56

    Sunday, December 7th 1969
  • Harry Chapin  83

    Monday, December 7th 1942
  • Noam Chomsky  97

    Friday, December 7th 1928
  • Tatamkulu Afrika  105

    Tuesday, December 7th 1920
  • Kersti Merilaas  112

    Sunday, December 7th 1913
  • Joyce Cary  137

    Friday, December 7th 1888
  • Willa Cather  152

    Sunday, December 7th 1873
  • Paul Adam  163

    Sunday, December 7th 1862
  • Jackie Kessler  55

    Tuesday, December 8th 1970
  • Louis de Bernieres  71

    Wednesday, December 8th 1954
  • Bill Bryson  74

    Saturday, December 8th 1951
  • Mary Gordon  76

    Thursday, December 8th 1949
  • Kati-Claudia Fofonoff  78

    Monday, December 8th 1947
  • John Banville  80

    Saturday, December 8th 1945
  • Carmen Martín Gaite  100

    Tuesday, December 8th 1925
  • James Thurber  131

    Saturday, December 8th 1894
  • Amanda McKittrick Ros  165

    Saturday, December 8th 1860
  • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson  193

    Saturday, December 8th 1832
  • Ki Longfellow  81

    Saturday, December 9th 1944
  • Joanna Trollope  82

    Thursday, December 9th 1943
  • Ashleigh Brilliant  92

    Saturday, December 9th 1933
  • Jan Kresadlo  99

    Thursday, December 9th 1926
  • Jerome Beatty Jr.  109

    Saturday, December 9th 1916
  • Dalton Trumbo  120

    Saturday, December 9th 1905
  • Ödön von Horváth  124

    Monday, December 9th 1901
  • Leonie Fuller Adams  126

    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • Jean de Brunhoff  126

    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • George Grossmith  178

    Thursday, December 9th 1847
  • Joel Chandler Harris  180

    Tuesday, December 9th 1845
  • John Milton  417

    Tuesday, December 9th 1608
  • Cornelia Funke  67

    Wednesday, December 10th 1958
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard  72

    Thursday, December 10th 1953
  • Mercer Mayer  82

    Friday, December 10th 1943
  • Clarice Lispector  105

    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Reginald Rose  105

    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Rumer Godden  118

    Tuesday, December 10th 1907
  • Nelly Sachs  134

    Thursday, December 10th 1891
  • Pierre Louÿs  155

    Saturday, December 10th 1870
  • Emily Dickinson  195

    Friday, December 10th 1830
  • George MacDonald  201

    Friday, December 10th 1824
  • Diana Palmer  79

    Wednesday, December 11th 1946
  • Thomas McGuane  86

    Monday, December 11th 1939
  • Jim Harrison  88

    Saturday, December 11th 1937
  • Grace Paley  103

    Monday, December 11th 1922
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  107

    Wednesday, December 11th 1918
  • Naguib Mahfouz  114

    Monday, December 11th 1911
  • Ronald McKie  116

    Saturday, December 11th 1909
  • Robert Henriques  120

    Monday, December 11th 1905
  • Harriet Adams  133

    Sunday, December 11th 1892
  • Vassilis Alexakis  82

    Sunday, December 12th 1943
  • Thomas Powers  85

    Thursday, December 12th 1940
  • John Osborne  96

    Thursday, December 12th 1929
  • Chinghiz Aitmatov  97

    Wednesday, December 12th 1928
  • Patrick O'Brian  111

    Saturday, December 12th 1914
  • Hans Keilson  116

    Sunday, December 12th 1909
  • Manès Sperber  120

    Tuesday, December 12th 1905
  • Gustave Flaubert  204

    Wednesday, December 12th 1821
  • Emma Bull  71

    Monday, December 13th 1954
  • James Wright  98

    Tuesday, December 13th 1927
  • Ross Macdonald  110

    Monday, December 13th 1915
  • Kenneth Patchen  114

    Wednesday, December 13th 1911
  • Heinrich Heine  228

    Wednesday, December 13th 1797
  • Kelley Armstrong  57
    Novelist
    Saturday, December 14th 1968
  • Amy Hempel  74

    Friday, December 14th 1951
  • Gerard Reve  102
    Novelist
    Friday, December 14th 1923
  • Shirley Jackson  109

    Thursday, December 14th 1916
  • Muriel Rukeyser  112

    Monday, December 15th 1913
  • Betty Smith  129

    Tuesday, December 15th 1896
  • Philip K. Dick  97

    Sunday, December 16th 1928
  • Randall Garrett  98

    Friday, December 16th 1927
  • Arthur C. Clarke  108

    Sunday, December 16th 1917
  • Noël Coward  126

    Saturday, December 16th 1899
  • George Santayana  162

    Wednesday, December 16th 1863
  • Jane Austen  250

    Saturday, December 16th 1775
  • William Safire  96

    Tuesday, December 17th 1929
  • Penelope Fitzgerald  109

    Sunday, December 17th 1916
  • Ford Madox Ford  152

    Wednesday, December 17th 1873
  • Jules de Goncourt  195

    Friday, December 17th 1830
  • Saki  155

    Sunday, December 18th 1870
  • Cyril Collard  68

    Thursday, December 19th 1957
  • Salvador Elizondo  93

    Monday, December 19th 1932
  • Italo Svevo  164

    Thursday, December 19th 1861
  • Nalo Hopkinson  65

    Tuesday, December 20th 1960
  • Sandra Cisneros  71

    Monday, December 20th 1954
  • Hortense Calisher  114

    Wednesday, December 20th 1911
  • John Fletcher  446

    Thursday, December 20th 1579
  • John Harvey  87

    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Frank Moorhouse  87

    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Intizar Hussain  102

    Friday, December 21st 1923
  • Heinrich Böll  108

    Friday, December 21st 1917
  • Seicho Matsumoto  116

    Tuesday, December 21st 1909
  • Anthony Powell  120

    Thursday, December 21st 1905
  • Albert Payson Terhune  153

    Saturday, December 21st 1872
  • Eduard Uspenskiy  88

    Wednesday, December 22nd 1937
  • Kenneth Rexroth  120

    Friday, December 22nd 1905
  • Sara Coleridge  202

    Monday, December 22nd 1823
  • Donna Tartt  62

    Monday, December 23rd 1963
  • Avi  88

    Thursday, December 23rd 1937
  • Robert Bly  99

    Thursday, December 23rd 1926
  • Manuel Lopes  118

    Monday, December 23rd 1907
  • Norman Maclean  123

    Tuesday, December 23rd 1902
  • Stephenie Meyer  52

    Monday, December 24th 1973
  • Christopher Buckley  73

    Wednesday, December 24th 1952
  • Nicholas Meyer  80

    Monday, December 24th 1945
  • Mary Higgins Clark  98

    Saturday, December 24th 1927
  • Herbert Reinecker  111

    Thursday, December 24th 1914
  • Fritz Leiber  115

    Saturday, December 24th 1910
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez  144

    Saturday, December 24th 1881
  • Johnny Gruelle  145

    Friday, December 24th 1880
  • Thomas Murner  550

    Friday, December 24th 1475
  • Jimmy Buffett  79

    Wednesday, December 25th 1946
  • Joe Gores  94

    Friday, December 25th 1931
  • Carlos Castaneda  100

    Friday, December 25th 1925
  • Rod Serling  101

    Thursday, December 25th 1924
  • Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah  104

    Sunday, December 25th 1921
  • Quentin Crisp  117

    Friday, December 25th 1908
  • Dorothy Wordsworth  254

    Wednesday, December 25th 1771
  • Robert Muchamore  53

    Tuesday, December 26th 1972
  • Elizabeth Kostova  61

    Saturday, December 26th 1964
  • David Sedaris  69

    Wednesday, December 26th 1956
  • Alejo Carpentier  121

    Monday, December 26th 1904
  • Jean Toomer  131

    Wednesday, December 26th 1894
  • Henry Miller  134

    Saturday, December 26th 1891
  • René Bazin  172

    Monday, December 26th 1853
  • E. D. E. N. Southworth  206

    Sunday, December 26th 1819
  • Sarah Jane Vowell  56

    Saturday, December 27th 1969
  • Wendy Coakley-Thompson  59

    Tuesday, December 27th 1966
  • Cokie Roberts  82

    Monday, December 27th 1943
  • Wilfrid Sheed  95

    Saturday, December 27th 1930
  • Onni Palaste  108

    Thursday, December 27th 1917
  • Charles Olson  115

    Tuesday, December 27th 1910
  • Louis Bromfield  129

    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Carl Zuckmayer  129

    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Andy McNab  66

    Monday, December 28th 1959
  • Manuel Puig  93

    Wednesday, December 28th 1932
  • Simon Raven  98

    Wednesday, December 28th 1927
  • Sam Levenson  114

    Thursday, December 28th 1911
  • William Gaddis  103

    Friday, December 29th 1922
  • Enys Tregarthen - Nellie Cornwall  174

    Monday, December 29th 1851
  • Rudyard Kipling  160

    Saturday, December 30th 1865
  • Nicholas Sparks  60

    Friday, December 31st 1965
  • Susan Shwartz  76

    Saturday, December 31st 1949
  • Connie Willis  80

    Monday, December 31st 1945
  • Edward Bunker  92

    Sunday, December 31st 1933
  • Bob Shaw  94

    Thursday, December 31st 1931
  • Dal Stivens  114

    Sunday, December 31st 1911
  • Horacio Quiroga  147

    Tuesday, December 31st 1878

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