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Author Birthdays for January

  • Christopher Moore  68
    Novelist
    Tuesday, January 1st 1957
  • Adam Wisniewski-Snerg  88

    Friday, January 1st 1937
  • Joe Orton  92

    Sunday, January 1st 1933
  • Ernest Tidyman  97

    Sunday, January 1st 1928
  • J.D. Salinger  106
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 1st 1919
  • E.M. Forster  146

    Wednesday, January 1st 1879
  • Mariano Azuela  152

    Wednesday, January 1st 1873
  • Maria Edgeworth  258

    Thursday, January 1st 1767
  • Hans Herbjørnsrud  87

    Sunday, January 2nd 1938
  • Seiichi Morimura  92

    Monday, January 2nd 1933
  • Charles Beaumont  96

    Wednesday, January 2nd 1929
  • Isaac Asimov  105
    Novelist
    Friday, January 2nd 1920
  • J.R.R. Tolkien  133
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 2nd 1892
  • Mendele Moicher Sforim  189

    Saturday, January 2nd 1836
  • Alex Wheatle  62

    Thursday, January 3rd 1963
  • Francesca Lia Block  63

    Wednesday, January 3rd 1962
  • Blanche d'Alpuget  81

    Monday, January 3rd 1944
  • Henry Handel Richardson  155

    Monday, January 3rd 1870
  • Nabila Jamshed  37

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Nabila Jamshed  37

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Mark Leyner  69

    Wednesday, January 4th 1956
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin  82

    Monday, January 4th 1943
  • Gao Xingjian  85

    Thursday, January 4th 1940
  • Carl Sandburg  147
    Poet
    Friday, January 4th 1878
  • Jacob Grimm  240

    Tuesday, January 4th 1785
  • Michael O'Donoghue  85

    Friday, January 5th 1940
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o  87

    Wednesday, January 5th 1938
  • Umberto Eco  93

    Tuesday, January 5th 1932
  • William De Witt Snodgrass  99

    Tuesday, January 5th 1926
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt  104

    Wednesday, January 5th 1921
  • Stella Gibbons  123
    novelist, poet, journalist
    Sunday, January 5th 1902
  • Allen Appel  80

    Saturday, January 6th 1945
  • E.L. Doctorow  94

    Tuesday, January 6th 1931
  • Jacobo Timerman  102

    Saturday, January 6th 1923
  • Vincent Serventy  109

    Thursday, January 6th 1916
  • Alan Watts  110

    Wednesday, January 6th 1915
  • Wright Morris  115

    Thursday, January 6th 1910
  • Kahlil Gibran  142

    Saturday, January 6th 1883
  • Nicholson Baker  68

    Monday, January 7th 1957
  • Shobhaa De  77

    Wednesday, January 7th 1948
  • William Peter Blatty  97

    Saturday, January 7th 1928
  • Zora Neale Hurston  122

    Wednesday, January 7th 1903
  • Terry Brooks  81

    Saturday, January 8th 1944
  • Stephen Hawking  83

    Thursday, January 8th 1942
  • Robert Littell  90

    Tuesday, January 8th 1935
  • Alexandra Ripley  91

    Monday, January 8th 1934
  • Dennis Wheatley  128

    Friday, January 8th 1897
  • Storm Jameson  134

    Thursday, January 8th 1891
  • Wilkie Collins  201

    Thursday, January 8th 1824
  • Hal Niedzviecki  54

    Saturday, January 9th 1971
  • Robert Drewe  82

    Saturday, January 9th 1943
  • John Dunning  83

    Friday, January 9th 1942
  • Anne Rivers Siddons  89

    Thursday, January 9th 1936
  • Wilbur Smith  92

    Monday, January 9th 1933
  • Algis Budrys  94

    Friday, January 9th 1931
  • Judith Krantz  97

    Monday, January 9th 1928
  • Simone de Beauvoir  117

    Thursday, January 9th 1908
  • Karel Capek  135

    Thursday, January 9th 1890
  • Gilbert Abbott à Beckett  214

    Wednesday, January 9th 1811
  • Antonio Muñoz Molina  69

    Tuesday, January 10th 1956
  • William Levy  86

    Tuesday, January 10th 1939
  • Peter Barnes  94

    Saturday, January 10th 1931
  • Philip Levine  97

    Tuesday, January 10th 1928
  • Robinson Jeffers  138

    Monday, January 10th 1887
  • Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi  142

    Wednesday, January 10th 1883
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff  228

    Tuesday, January 10th 1797
  • Marc Acito  59

    Tuesday, January 11th 1966
  • Jasper Fforde  64
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 11th 1961
  • Jim Hightower  82

    Monday, January 11th 1943
  • Jerome Bixby  102

    Thursday, January 11th 1923
  • Nikos Kavvadias  115

    Tuesday, January 11th 1910
  • Alan Paton  122

    Sunday, January 11th 1903
  • David Mitchell  56

    Sunday, January 12th 1969
  • David Brooks  72
    Novelist
    Monday, January 12th 1953
  • Walter Mosley  73
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 12th 1952
  • Haruki Murakami  76

    Wednesday, January 12th 1949
  • William Nicholson  77

    Monday, January 12th 1948
  • Paul Jarrico  110

    Tuesday, January 12th 1915
  • Ferenc Molnár  147

    Saturday, January 12th 1878
  • Jack London  149
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 12th 1876
  • Lorrie Moore  68

    Sunday, January 13th 1957
  • Jay McInerney  70

    Thursday, January 13th 1955
  • Edmund White  85

    Saturday, January 13th 1940
  • Ron Goulart  92

    Friday, January 13th 1933
  • Michael Bond  99

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun  99

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • A. B. Guthrie, Jr.  124

    Sunday, January 13th 1901
  • Clark Ashton Smith  132

    Friday, January 13th 1893
  • Anchee Min  68

    Monday, January 14th 1957
  • Rosina Lippi  69

    Saturday, January 14th 1956
  • Mary Robison  76

    Friday, January 14th 1949
  • Taylor Branch  78

    Tuesday, January 14th 1947
  • Lars Forssell  97

    Saturday, January 14th 1928
  • Yukio Mishima  100

    Wednesday, January 14th 1925
  • Andy Rooney  106

    Tuesday, January 14th 1919
  • Tillie Olsen  113

    Sunday, January 14th 1912
  • Anatoly Rybakov  114

    Saturday, January 14th 1911
  • Emily Hahn  120

    Saturday, January 14th 1905
  • John Dos Passos  129

    Tuesday, January 14th 1896
  • Hugh Lofting  139

    Thursday, January 14th 1886
  • Pierre Loti  175

    Monday, January 14th 1850
  • Zachris Topelius  207

    Wednesday, January 14th 1818
  • Jose Dalisay, Jr.  71

    Friday, January 15th 1954
  • Robert Silverberg  90
    Novelist
    Tuesday, January 15th 1935
  • Ernest J. Gaines  92

    Sunday, January 15th 1933
  • Nâzim Hikmet  123

    Wednesday, January 15th 1902
  • William Heinesen  125

    Monday, January 15th 1900
  • Osip Mandelstam  134

    Thursday, January 15th 1891
  • Mazo de la Roche  146

    Wednesday, January 15th 1879
  • Arsen Kotsoyev  153

    Monday, January 15th 1872
  • Molière  403

    Saturday, January 15th 1622
  • Garth Ennis  55

    Friday, January 16th 1970
  • Brian Castro  75

    Monday, January 16th 1950
  • Magdalen Nabb  78

    Thursday, January 16th 1947
  • Susan Sontag  92

    Monday, January 16th 1933
  • William Kennedy  97

    Monday, January 16th 1928
  • Stirling Silliphant  107

    Wednesday, January 16th 1918
  • Nat Schachner  130

    Wednesday, January 16th 1895
  • Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer  57

    Wednesday, January 17th 1968
  • Sebastian Junger  63

    Wednesday, January 17th 1962
  • Luis López Nieves  75

    Tuesday, January 17th 1950
  • Robert Cormier  100

    Saturday, January 17th 1925
  • Nevil Shute  126

    Tuesday, January 17th 1899
  • Ronald Firbank  139

    Sunday, January 17th 1886
  • Compton Mackenzie  142

    Wednesday, January 17th 1883
  • May Gibbs  148

    Wednesday, January 17th 1877
  • Tomás Carrasquilla  167

    Sunday, January 17th 1858
  • Anne Brontë  205

    Monday, January 17th 1820
  • Ellen Wood  211

    Monday, January 17th 1814
  • Benjamin Franklin  319

    Sunday, January 17th 1706
  • Raymond Briggs  91

    Thursday, January 18th 1934
  • Robert Anton Wilson  93

    Monday, January 18th 1932
  • Vitomil Zupan  111

    Sunday, January 18th 1914
  • C. M. Eddy, Jr.  129

    Saturday, January 18th 1896
  • A.A. Milne  143
    MA YA
    Wednesday, January 18th 1882
  • Ioan Slavici  177

    Tuesday, January 18th 1848
  • Montesquieu  336

    Tuesday, January 18th 1689
  • Edwidge Danticat  56

    Sunday, January 19th 1969
  • Julian Barnes  79

    Saturday, January 19th 1946
  • Nina Bawden  100

    Monday, January 19th 1925
  • Jean-François Revel  101

    Saturday, January 19th 1924
  • Patricia Highsmith  104

    Wednesday, January 19th 1921
  • Boris Savinkov  146

    Sunday, January 19th 1879
  • Edgar Allan Poe  216
    Novelist, Poet
    Thursday, January 19th 1809
  • Bill Maher  69

    Friday, January 20th 1956
  • Edward Hirsch  75

    Friday, January 20th 1950
  • Nancy Kress  77

    Tuesday, January 20th 1948
  • Robert Olen Butler  80

    Saturday, January 20th 1945
  • Qurratulain Hyder  99

    Wednesday, January 20th 1926
  • Joy Adamson  115

    Thursday, January 20th 1910
  • George Burns  129

    Monday, January 20th 1896
  • Johannes Vilhelm Jensen  152

    Monday, January 20th 1873
  • Nathaniel Parker Willis  219

    Monday, January 20th 1806
  • Eugène Sue  221

    Friday, January 20th 1804
  • Jean-Jacques Barthélemy  309

    Monday, January 20th 1716
  • M. K. Hobson  56

    Tuesday, January 21st 1969
  • Forrest Gander  69

    Saturday, January 21st 1956
  • Ludwig Thoma  158

    Monday, January 21st 1867
  • Imre Madách  202

    Tuesday, January 21st 1823
  • Francis Wheen  68

    Tuesday, January 22nd 1957
  • Joseph Wambaugh  88

    Friday, January 22nd 1937
  • Harilal Upadhyay  109

    Saturday, January 22nd 1916
  • Henry Bauchau  112

    Wednesday, January 22nd 1913
  • Robert E. Howard  119

    Monday, January 22nd 1906
  • Arkady Gaidar  121

    Friday, January 22nd 1904
  • Isabel Paterson  139

    Friday, January 22nd 1886
  • Johan August Strindberg  176

    Monday, January 22nd 1849
  • Lord Byron  237
    Poet
    Tuesday, January 22nd 1788
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing  296

    Saturday, January 22nd 1729
  • Elvira Lindo  63

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1962
  • Derek Walcott  95

    Thursday, January 23rd 1930
  • Walter Michael Miller, Jr.  102

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1923
  • Camilla Collett  212

    Saturday, January 23rd 1813
  • Stendhal  242
    Novelist
    Thursday, January 23rd 1783
  • Benjamin Urrutia  75

    Tuesday, January 24th 1950
  • Eugen Roth  130

    Thursday, January 24th 1895
  • Vicki Baum  137

    Tuesday, January 24th 1888
  • Ethel Turner  153

    Wednesday, January 24th 1872
  • Edith Wharton  163

    Friday, January 24th 1862
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann  249

    Wednesday, January 24th 1776
  • Pierre Beaumarchais  293

    Thursday, January 24th 1732
  • Frances Brooke  301

    Monday, January 24th 1724
  • William Congreve  355

    Friday, January 24th 1670
  • Stephen Chbosky  55

    Sunday, January 25th 1970
  • James Gordon Farrell  90

    Friday, January 25th 1935
  • Russell Braddon  104

    Tuesday, January 25th 1921
  • Yojiro Ishizaka  125

    Thursday, January 25th 1900
  • Hakushu Kitahara  140

    Sunday, January 25th 1885
  • Virginia Woolf  143
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 25th 1882
  • W. Somerset Maugham  151
    Novelist
    Sunday, January 25th 1874
  • Michael Madhusudan Dutt  201

    Sunday, January 25th 1824
  • Robert Burns  266
    Poet
    Thursday, January 25th 1759
  • Shannon Hale  51

    Saturday, January 26th 1974
  • Jonathan Carroll  76

    Wednesday, January 26th 1949
  • Corrado Augias  90

    Saturday, January 26th 1935
  • Jules Feiffer  96

    Saturday, January 26th 1929
  • Philip José Farmer  107

    Saturday, January 26th 1918
  • François Coppée  183

    Wednesday, January 26th 1842
  • James Grippando  67

    Monday, January 27th 1958
  • Alexander Stuart  70

    Thursday, January 27th 1955
  • Bruce Weigl  76

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Ethan Mordden  76

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Clarissa Pinkola Estés  80

    Saturday, January 27th 1945
  • D.M. Thomas  90

    Sunday, January 27th 1935
  • Mordecai Richler  94

    Tuesday, January 27th 1931
  • Gastón Suárez  96

    Sunday, January 27th 1929
  • Ilya Ehrenburg  134

    Tuesday, January 27th 1891
  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch  189

    Wednesday, January 27th 1836
  • Lewis Carroll  193
    Novelist
    Friday, January 27th 1832
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin  199

    Friday, January 27th 1826
  • David Strauss  217

    Wednesday, January 27th 1808
  • Arnaldur Indriðason  64

    Saturday, January 28th 1961
  • John Perkins  80

    Sunday, January 28th 1945
  • Ismail Kadare  89

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • Alan Alda  89

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • David Lodge  90

    Monday, January 28th 1935
  • Nien Cheng  110

    Thursday, January 28th 1915
  • Aleksander Kaminski  122

    Wednesday, January 28th 1903
  • Valentin Kataev  128

    Thursday, January 28th 1897
  • Marthe Bibesco  139

    Thursday, January 28th 1886
  • Colette  152

    Tuesday, January 28th 1873
  • José Martí  172

    Friday, January 28th 1853
  • Brian Wood  53

    Saturday, January 29th 1972
  • Germaine Greer  86

    Sunday, January 29th 1939
  • Edward Abbey  98
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 29th 1927
  • Paddy Chayefsky  102
    Playwright Screenwriter Novelist
    Monday, January 29th 1923
  • Vicente Blasco Ibáñez  158

    Tuesday, January 29th 1867
  • Romain Rolland  159

    Monday, January 29th 1866
  • Anton Chekhov  165

    Sunday, January 29th 1860
  • Judith Tarr  70

    Sunday, January 30th 1955
  • Les Barker  78

    Thursday, January 30th 1947
  • Michael Dorris  80

    Tuesday, January 30th 1945
  • Gregory Benford  84

    Thursday, January 30th 1941
  • Richard Brautigan  92
    Novelist
    Monday, January 30th 1933
  • Allan W. Eckert  94

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Shirley Hazzard  94

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Lloyd Alexander  101

    Wednesday, January 30th 1924
  • Anton Hansen Tammsaare  147

    Wednesday, January 30th 1878
  • Connie Booth  81

    Monday, January 31st 1944
  • Derek Jarman  83

    Saturday, January 31st 1942
  • Kenzaburo Oe  90

    Thursday, January 31st 1935
  • Norman Mailer  102
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 31st 1923
  • Thomas Merton  110
    Poet, Essayist
    Sunday, January 31st 1915
  • John O'Hara  120

    Tuesday, January 31st 1905
  • Zane Grey  153
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 31st 1872

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