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Author Birthdays for January

  • Christopher Moore  67
    Novelist
    Tuesday, January 1st 1957
  • Adam Wisniewski-Snerg  87

    Friday, January 1st 1937
  • Joe Orton  91

    Sunday, January 1st 1933
  • Ernest Tidyman  96

    Sunday, January 1st 1928
  • J.D. Salinger  105
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 1st 1919
  • E.M. Forster  145

    Wednesday, January 1st 1879
  • Mariano Azuela  151

    Wednesday, January 1st 1873
  • Maria Edgeworth  257

    Thursday, January 1st 1767
  • Hans Herbjørnsrud  86

    Sunday, January 2nd 1938
  • Seiichi Morimura  91

    Monday, January 2nd 1933
  • Charles Beaumont  95

    Wednesday, January 2nd 1929
  • Isaac Asimov  104
    Novelist
    Friday, January 2nd 1920
  • J.R.R. Tolkien  132
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 2nd 1892
  • Mendele Moicher Sforim  188

    Saturday, January 2nd 1836
  • Alex Wheatle  61

    Thursday, January 3rd 1963
  • Francesca Lia Block  62

    Wednesday, January 3rd 1962
  • Blanche d'Alpuget  80

    Monday, January 3rd 1944
  • Henry Handel Richardson  154

    Monday, January 3rd 1870
  • Nabila Jamshed  36

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Nabila Jamshed  36

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Mark Leyner  68

    Wednesday, January 4th 1956
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin  81

    Monday, January 4th 1943
  • Gao Xingjian  84

    Thursday, January 4th 1940
  • Carl Sandburg  146
    Poet
    Friday, January 4th 1878
  • Jacob Grimm  239

    Tuesday, January 4th 1785
  • Michael O'Donoghue  84

    Friday, January 5th 1940
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o  86

    Wednesday, January 5th 1938
  • Umberto Eco  92

    Tuesday, January 5th 1932
  • William De Witt Snodgrass  98

    Tuesday, January 5th 1926
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt  103

    Wednesday, January 5th 1921
  • Stella Gibbons  122
    novelist, poet, journalist
    Sunday, January 5th 1902
  • Allen Appel  79

    Saturday, January 6th 1945
  • E.L. Doctorow  93

    Tuesday, January 6th 1931
  • Jacobo Timerman  101

    Saturday, January 6th 1923
  • Vincent Serventy  108

    Thursday, January 6th 1916
  • Alan Watts  109

    Wednesday, January 6th 1915
  • Wright Morris  114

    Thursday, January 6th 1910
  • Kahlil Gibran  141

    Saturday, January 6th 1883
  • Nicholson Baker  67

    Monday, January 7th 1957
  • Shobhaa De  76

    Wednesday, January 7th 1948
  • William Peter Blatty  96

    Saturday, January 7th 1928
  • Zora Neale Hurston  121

    Wednesday, January 7th 1903
  • Terry Brooks  80

    Saturday, January 8th 1944
  • Stephen Hawking  82

    Thursday, January 8th 1942
  • Robert Littell  89

    Tuesday, January 8th 1935
  • Alexandra Ripley  90

    Monday, January 8th 1934
  • Dennis Wheatley  127

    Friday, January 8th 1897
  • Storm Jameson  133

    Thursday, January 8th 1891
  • Wilkie Collins  200

    Thursday, January 8th 1824
  • Hal Niedzviecki  53

    Saturday, January 9th 1971
  • Robert Drewe  81

    Saturday, January 9th 1943
  • John Dunning  82

    Friday, January 9th 1942
  • Anne Rivers Siddons  88

    Thursday, January 9th 1936
  • Wilbur Smith  91

    Monday, January 9th 1933
  • Algis Budrys  93

    Friday, January 9th 1931
  • Judith Krantz  96

    Monday, January 9th 1928
  • Simone de Beauvoir  116

    Thursday, January 9th 1908
  • Karel Capek  134

    Thursday, January 9th 1890
  • Gilbert Abbott à Beckett  213

    Wednesday, January 9th 1811
  • Antonio Muñoz Molina  68

    Tuesday, January 10th 1956
  • William Levy  85

    Tuesday, January 10th 1939
  • Peter Barnes  93

    Saturday, January 10th 1931
  • Philip Levine  96

    Tuesday, January 10th 1928
  • Robinson Jeffers  137

    Monday, January 10th 1887
  • Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi  141

    Wednesday, January 10th 1883
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff  227

    Tuesday, January 10th 1797
  • Marc Acito  58

    Tuesday, January 11th 1966
  • Jasper Fforde  63
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 11th 1961
  • Jim Hightower  81

    Monday, January 11th 1943
  • Jerome Bixby  101

    Thursday, January 11th 1923
  • Nikos Kavvadias  114

    Tuesday, January 11th 1910
  • Alan Paton  121

    Sunday, January 11th 1903
  • David Mitchell  55

    Sunday, January 12th 1969
  • David Brooks  71
    Novelist
    Monday, January 12th 1953
  • Walter Mosley  72
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 12th 1952
  • Haruki Murakami  75

    Wednesday, January 12th 1949
  • William Nicholson  76

    Monday, January 12th 1948
  • Paul Jarrico  109

    Tuesday, January 12th 1915
  • Ferenc Molnár  146

    Saturday, January 12th 1878
  • Jack London  148
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 12th 1876
  • Lorrie Moore  67

    Sunday, January 13th 1957
  • Jay McInerney  69

    Thursday, January 13th 1955
  • Edmund White  84

    Saturday, January 13th 1940
  • Ron Goulart  91

    Friday, January 13th 1933
  • Michael Bond  98

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun  98

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • A. B. Guthrie, Jr.  123

    Sunday, January 13th 1901
  • Clark Ashton Smith  131

    Friday, January 13th 1893
  • Anchee Min  67

    Monday, January 14th 1957
  • Rosina Lippi  68

    Saturday, January 14th 1956
  • Mary Robison  75

    Friday, January 14th 1949
  • Taylor Branch  77

    Tuesday, January 14th 1947
  • Lars Forssell  96

    Saturday, January 14th 1928
  • Yukio Mishima  99

    Wednesday, January 14th 1925
  • Andy Rooney  105

    Tuesday, January 14th 1919
  • Tillie Olsen  112

    Sunday, January 14th 1912
  • Anatoly Rybakov  113

    Saturday, January 14th 1911
  • Emily Hahn  119

    Saturday, January 14th 1905
  • John Dos Passos  128

    Tuesday, January 14th 1896
  • Hugh Lofting  138

    Thursday, January 14th 1886
  • Pierre Loti  174

    Monday, January 14th 1850
  • Zachris Topelius  206

    Wednesday, January 14th 1818
  • Jose Dalisay, Jr.  70

    Friday, January 15th 1954
  • Robert Silverberg  89
    Novelist
    Tuesday, January 15th 1935
  • Ernest J. Gaines  91

    Sunday, January 15th 1933
  • Nâzim Hikmet  122

    Wednesday, January 15th 1902
  • William Heinesen  124

    Monday, January 15th 1900
  • Osip Mandelstam  133

    Thursday, January 15th 1891
  • Mazo de la Roche  145

    Wednesday, January 15th 1879
  • Arsen Kotsoyev  152

    Monday, January 15th 1872
  • Molière  402

    Saturday, January 15th 1622
  • Garth Ennis  54

    Friday, January 16th 1970
  • Brian Castro  74

    Monday, January 16th 1950
  • Magdalen Nabb  77

    Thursday, January 16th 1947
  • Susan Sontag  91

    Monday, January 16th 1933
  • William Kennedy  96

    Monday, January 16th 1928
  • Stirling Silliphant  106

    Wednesday, January 16th 1918
  • Nat Schachner  129

    Wednesday, January 16th 1895
  • Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer  56

    Wednesday, January 17th 1968
  • Sebastian Junger  62

    Wednesday, January 17th 1962
  • Luis López Nieves  74

    Tuesday, January 17th 1950
  • Robert Cormier  99

    Saturday, January 17th 1925
  • Nevil Shute  125

    Tuesday, January 17th 1899
  • Ronald Firbank  138

    Sunday, January 17th 1886
  • Compton Mackenzie  141

    Wednesday, January 17th 1883
  • May Gibbs  147

    Wednesday, January 17th 1877
  • Tomás Carrasquilla  166

    Sunday, January 17th 1858
  • Anne Brontë  204

    Monday, January 17th 1820
  • Ellen Wood  210

    Monday, January 17th 1814
  • Benjamin Franklin  318

    Sunday, January 17th 1706
  • Raymond Briggs  90

    Thursday, January 18th 1934
  • Robert Anton Wilson  92

    Monday, January 18th 1932
  • Vitomil Zupan  110

    Sunday, January 18th 1914
  • C. M. Eddy, Jr.  128

    Saturday, January 18th 1896
  • A.A. Milne  142
    MA YA
    Wednesday, January 18th 1882
  • Ioan Slavici  176

    Tuesday, January 18th 1848
  • Montesquieu  335

    Tuesday, January 18th 1689
  • Edwidge Danticat  55

    Sunday, January 19th 1969
  • Julian Barnes  78

    Saturday, January 19th 1946
  • Nina Bawden  99

    Monday, January 19th 1925
  • Jean-François Revel  100

    Saturday, January 19th 1924
  • Patricia Highsmith  103

    Wednesday, January 19th 1921
  • Boris Savinkov  145

    Sunday, January 19th 1879
  • Edgar Allan Poe  215
    Novelist, Poet
    Thursday, January 19th 1809
  • Bill Maher  68

    Friday, January 20th 1956
  • Edward Hirsch  74

    Friday, January 20th 1950
  • Nancy Kress  76

    Tuesday, January 20th 1948
  • Robert Olen Butler  79

    Saturday, January 20th 1945
  • Qurratulain Hyder  98

    Wednesday, January 20th 1926
  • Joy Adamson  114

    Thursday, January 20th 1910
  • George Burns  128

    Monday, January 20th 1896
  • Johannes Vilhelm Jensen  151

    Monday, January 20th 1873
  • Nathaniel Parker Willis  218

    Monday, January 20th 1806
  • Eugène Sue  220

    Friday, January 20th 1804
  • Jean-Jacques Barthélemy  308

    Monday, January 20th 1716
  • M. K. Hobson  55

    Tuesday, January 21st 1969
  • Forrest Gander  68

    Saturday, January 21st 1956
  • Ludwig Thoma  157

    Monday, January 21st 1867
  • Imre Madách  201

    Tuesday, January 21st 1823
  • Francis Wheen  67

    Tuesday, January 22nd 1957
  • Joseph Wambaugh  87

    Friday, January 22nd 1937
  • Harilal Upadhyay  108

    Saturday, January 22nd 1916
  • Henry Bauchau  111

    Wednesday, January 22nd 1913
  • Robert E. Howard  118

    Monday, January 22nd 1906
  • Arkady Gaidar  120

    Friday, January 22nd 1904
  • Isabel Paterson  138

    Friday, January 22nd 1886
  • Johan August Strindberg  175

    Monday, January 22nd 1849
  • Lord Byron  236
    Poet
    Tuesday, January 22nd 1788
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing  295

    Saturday, January 22nd 1729
  • Elvira Lindo  62

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1962
  • Derek Walcott  94

    Thursday, January 23rd 1930
  • Walter Michael Miller, Jr.  101

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1923
  • Camilla Collett  211

    Saturday, January 23rd 1813
  • Stendhal  241
    Novelist
    Thursday, January 23rd 1783
  • Benjamin Urrutia  74

    Tuesday, January 24th 1950
  • Eugen Roth  129

    Thursday, January 24th 1895
  • Vicki Baum  136

    Tuesday, January 24th 1888
  • Ethel Turner  152

    Wednesday, January 24th 1872
  • Edith Wharton  162

    Friday, January 24th 1862
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann  248

    Wednesday, January 24th 1776
  • Pierre Beaumarchais  292

    Thursday, January 24th 1732
  • Frances Brooke  300

    Monday, January 24th 1724
  • William Congreve  354

    Friday, January 24th 1670
  • Stephen Chbosky  54

    Sunday, January 25th 1970
  • James Gordon Farrell  89

    Friday, January 25th 1935
  • Russell Braddon  103

    Tuesday, January 25th 1921
  • Yojiro Ishizaka  124

    Thursday, January 25th 1900
  • Hakushu Kitahara  139

    Sunday, January 25th 1885
  • Virginia Woolf  142
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 25th 1882
  • W. Somerset Maugham  150
    Novelist
    Sunday, January 25th 1874
  • Michael Madhusudan Dutt  200

    Sunday, January 25th 1824
  • Robert Burns  265
    Poet
    Thursday, January 25th 1759
  • Shannon Hale  50

    Saturday, January 26th 1974
  • Jonathan Carroll  75

    Wednesday, January 26th 1949
  • Corrado Augias  89

    Saturday, January 26th 1935
  • Jules Feiffer  95

    Saturday, January 26th 1929
  • Philip José Farmer  106

    Saturday, January 26th 1918
  • François Coppée  182

    Wednesday, January 26th 1842
  • James Grippando  66

    Monday, January 27th 1958
  • Alexander Stuart  69

    Thursday, January 27th 1955
  • Bruce Weigl  75

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Ethan Mordden  75

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Clarissa Pinkola Estés  79

    Saturday, January 27th 1945
  • D.M. Thomas  89

    Sunday, January 27th 1935
  • Mordecai Richler  93

    Tuesday, January 27th 1931
  • Gastón Suárez  95

    Sunday, January 27th 1929
  • Ilya Ehrenburg  133

    Tuesday, January 27th 1891
  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch  188

    Wednesday, January 27th 1836
  • Lewis Carroll  192
    Novelist
    Friday, January 27th 1832
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin  198

    Friday, January 27th 1826
  • David Strauss  216

    Wednesday, January 27th 1808
  • Arnaldur Indriðason  63

    Saturday, January 28th 1961
  • John Perkins  79

    Sunday, January 28th 1945
  • Ismail Kadare  88

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • Alan Alda  88

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • David Lodge  89

    Monday, January 28th 1935
  • Nien Cheng  109

    Thursday, January 28th 1915
  • Aleksander Kaminski  121

    Wednesday, January 28th 1903
  • Valentin Kataev  127

    Thursday, January 28th 1897
  • Marthe Bibesco  138

    Thursday, January 28th 1886
  • Colette  151

    Tuesday, January 28th 1873
  • José Martí  171

    Friday, January 28th 1853
  • Brian Wood  52

    Saturday, January 29th 1972
  • Germaine Greer  85

    Sunday, January 29th 1939
  • Edward Abbey  97
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 29th 1927
  • Paddy Chayefsky  101
    Playwright Screenwriter Novelist
    Monday, January 29th 1923
  • Vicente Blasco Ibáñez  157

    Tuesday, January 29th 1867
  • Romain Rolland  158

    Monday, January 29th 1866
  • Anton Chekhov  164

    Sunday, January 29th 1860
  • Judith Tarr  69

    Sunday, January 30th 1955
  • Les Barker  77

    Thursday, January 30th 1947
  • Michael Dorris  79

    Tuesday, January 30th 1945
  • Gregory Benford  83

    Thursday, January 30th 1941
  • Richard Brautigan  91
    Novelist
    Monday, January 30th 1933
  • Allan W. Eckert  93

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Shirley Hazzard  93

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Lloyd Alexander  100

    Wednesday, January 30th 1924
  • Anton Hansen Tammsaare  146

    Wednesday, January 30th 1878
  • Connie Booth  80

    Monday, January 31st 1944
  • Derek Jarman  82

    Saturday, January 31st 1942
  • Kenzaburo Oe  89

    Thursday, January 31st 1935
  • Norman Mailer  101
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 31st 1923
  • Thomas Merton  109
    Poet, Essayist
    Sunday, January 31st 1915
  • John O'Hara  119

    Tuesday, January 31st 1905
  • Zane Grey  152
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 31st 1872

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