Author Birthdays for January
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg 84
Friday, January 1st 1937Joe Orton 88
Sunday, January 1st 1933Ernest Tidyman 93
Sunday, January 1st 1928J.D. Salinger 102
Wednesday, January 1st 1919E.M. Forster 142
Wednesday, January 1st 1879Mariano Azuela 148
Wednesday, January 1st 1873Maria Edgeworth 254
Thursday, January 1st 1767Hans Herbjørnsrud 83
Sunday, January 2nd 1938Seiichi Morimura 88
Monday, January 2nd 1933Charles Beaumont 92
Wednesday, January 2nd 1929Isaac Asimov 101
Friday, January 2nd 1920J.R.R. Tolkien 129
Saturday, January 2nd 1892Mendele Moicher Sforim 185
Saturday, January 2nd 1836Alex Wheatle 58
Thursday, January 3rd 1963Francesca Lia Block 59
Wednesday, January 3rd 1962Blanche d'Alpuget 77
Monday, January 3rd 1944Henry Handel Richardson 151
Monday, January 3rd 1870Nabila Jamshed 33
Monday, January 4th 1988Nabila Jamshed 33
Monday, January 4th 1988Mark Leyner 65
Wednesday, January 4th 1956Doris Kearns Goodwin 78
Monday, January 4th 1943Gao Xingjian 81
Thursday, January 4th 1940Carl Sandburg 143
Friday, January 4th 1878Jacob Grimm 236
Tuesday, January 4th 1785Michael O'Donoghue 81
Friday, January 5th 1940Ngugi wa Thiong'o 83
Wednesday, January 5th 1938Umberto Eco 89
Tuesday, January 5th 1932William De Witt Snodgrass 95
Tuesday, January 5th 1926Friedrich Dürrenmatt 100
Wednesday, January 5th 1921Stella Gibbons 119
Sunday, January 5th 1902Allen Appel 76
Saturday, January 6th 1945E.L. Doctorow 90
Tuesday, January 6th 1931Jacobo Timerman 98
Saturday, January 6th 1923Vincent Serventy 105
Thursday, January 6th 1916Alan Watts 106
Wednesday, January 6th 1915Wright Morris 111
Thursday, January 6th 1910Kahlil Gibran 138
Saturday, January 6th 1883Nicholson Baker 64
Monday, January 7th 1957Shobhaa De 73
Wednesday, January 7th 1948William Peter Blatty 93
Saturday, January 7th 1928Zora Neale Hurston 118
Wednesday, January 7th 1903Terry Brooks 77
Saturday, January 8th 1944Stephen Hawking 79
Thursday, January 8th 1942Robert Littell 86
Tuesday, January 8th 1935Alexandra Ripley 87
Monday, January 8th 1934Dennis Wheatley 124
Friday, January 8th 1897Storm Jameson 130
Thursday, January 8th 1891Wilkie Collins 197
Thursday, January 8th 1824Hal Niedzviecki 50
Saturday, January 9th 1971Robert Drewe 78
Saturday, January 9th 1943John Dunning 79
Friday, January 9th 1942Anne Rivers Siddons 85
Thursday, January 9th 1936Wilbur Smith 88
Monday, January 9th 1933Algis Budrys 90
Friday, January 9th 1931Judith Krantz 93
Monday, January 9th 1928Simone de Beauvoir 113
Thursday, January 9th 1908Karel Capek 131
Thursday, January 9th 1890Gilbert Abbott à Beckett 210
Wednesday, January 9th 1811Antonio Muñoz Molina 65
Tuesday, January 10th 1956William Levy 82
Tuesday, January 10th 1939Peter Barnes 90
Saturday, January 10th 1931Philip Levine 93
Tuesday, January 10th 1928Robinson Jeffers 134
Monday, January 10th 1887Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi 138
Wednesday, January 10th 1883Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 224
Tuesday, January 10th 1797Marc Acito 55
Tuesday, January 11th 1966Jasper Fforde 60
Wednesday, January 11th 1961Jim Hightower 78
Monday, January 11th 1943Jerome Bixby 98
Thursday, January 11th 1923Nikos Kavvadias 111
Tuesday, January 11th 1910Alan Paton 118
Sunday, January 11th 1903David Mitchell 52
Sunday, January 12th 1969David Brooks 68
Novelist
Monday, January 12th 1953Walter Mosley 69
Saturday, January 12th 1952Haruki Murakami 72
Wednesday, January 12th 1949William Nicholson 73
Monday, January 12th 1948Paul Jarrico 106
Tuesday, January 12th 1915Ferenc Molnár 143
Saturday, January 12th 1878Jack London 145
Wednesday, January 12th 1876Lorrie Moore 64
Sunday, January 13th 1957Jay McInerney 66
Thursday, January 13th 1955Edmund White 81
Saturday, January 13th 1940Ron Goulart 88
Friday, January 13th 1933Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 95
Wednesday, January 13th 1926Michael Bond 95
Wednesday, January 13th 1926A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 120
Sunday, January 13th 1901Clark Ashton Smith 128
Friday, January 13th 1893Anchee Min 64
Monday, January 14th 1957Rosina Lippi 65
Saturday, January 14th 1956Mary Robison 72
Friday, January 14th 1949Taylor Branch 74
Tuesday, January 14th 1947Lars Forssell 93
Saturday, January 14th 1928Yukio Mishima 96
Wednesday, January 14th 1925Andy Rooney 102
Tuesday, January 14th 1919Tillie Olsen 109
Sunday, January 14th 1912Anatoly Rybakov 110
Saturday, January 14th 1911Emily Hahn 116
Saturday, January 14th 1905John Dos Passos 125
Tuesday, January 14th 1896Hugh Lofting 135
Thursday, January 14th 1886Pierre Loti 171
Monday, January 14th 1850Zachris Topelius 203
Wednesday, January 14th 1818Jose Dalisay, Jr. 67
Friday, January 15th 1954Robert Silverberg 86
Tuesday, January 15th 1935Ernest J. Gaines 88
Sunday, January 15th 1933Nâzim Hikmet 119
Wednesday, January 15th 1902William Heinesen 121
Monday, January 15th 1900Osip Mandelstam 130
Thursday, January 15th 1891Mazo de la Roche 142
Wednesday, January 15th 1879Arsen Kotsoyev 149
Monday, January 15th 1872Molière 399
Saturday, January 15th 1622Garth Ennis 51
Friday, January 16th 1970Brian Castro 71
Monday, January 16th 1950Magdalen Nabb 74
Thursday, January 16th 1947Susan Sontag 88
Monday, January 16th 1933William Kennedy 93
Monday, January 16th 1928Stirling Silliphant 103
Wednesday, January 16th 1918Nat Schachner 126
Wednesday, January 16th 1895Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 53
Wednesday, January 17th 1968Sebastian Junger 59
Wednesday, January 17th 1962Luis López Nieves 71
Tuesday, January 17th 1950Robert Cormier 96
Saturday, January 17th 1925Nevil Shute 122
Tuesday, January 17th 1899Ronald Firbank 135
Sunday, January 17th 1886Compton Mackenzie 138
Wednesday, January 17th 1883May Gibbs 144
Wednesday, January 17th 1877Tomás Carrasquilla 163
Sunday, January 17th 1858Anne Brontë 201
Monday, January 17th 1820Ellen Wood 207
Monday, January 17th 1814Benjamin Franklin 315
Sunday, January 17th 1706Raymond Briggs 87
Thursday, January 18th 1934Robert Anton Wilson 89
Monday, January 18th 1932Vitomil Zupan 107
Sunday, January 18th 1914C. M. Eddy, Jr. 125
Saturday, January 18th 1896A.A. Milne 139
Wednesday, January 18th 1882Ioan Slavici 173
Tuesday, January 18th 1848Montesquieu 332
Tuesday, January 18th 1689Edwidge Danticat 52
Sunday, January 19th 1969Julian Barnes 75
Saturday, January 19th 1946Nina Bawden 96
Monday, January 19th 1925Jean-François Revel 97
Saturday, January 19th 1924Patricia Highsmith 100
Wednesday, January 19th 1921Boris Savinkov 142
Sunday, January 19th 1879Edgar Allan Poe 212
Thursday, January 19th 1809Bill Maher 65
Friday, January 20th 1956Edward Hirsch 71
Friday, January 20th 1950Nancy Kress 73
Tuesday, January 20th 1948Robert Olen Butler 76
Saturday, January 20th 1945Qurratulain Hyder 95
Wednesday, January 20th 1926Joy Adamson 111
Thursday, January 20th 1910George Burns 125
Monday, January 20th 1896Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 148
Monday, January 20th 1873Nathaniel Parker Willis 215
Monday, January 20th 1806Eugène Sue 217
Friday, January 20th 1804Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 305
Monday, January 20th 1716M. K. Hobson 52
Tuesday, January 21st 1969Forrest Gander 65
Saturday, January 21st 1956Ludwig Thoma 154
Monday, January 21st 1867Imre Madách 198
Tuesday, January 21st 1823Francis Wheen 64
Tuesday, January 22nd 1957Joseph Wambaugh 84
Friday, January 22nd 1937Harilal Upadhyay 105
Saturday, January 22nd 1916Henry Bauchau 108
Wednesday, January 22nd 1913Robert E. Howard 115
Monday, January 22nd 1906Arkady Gaidar 117
Friday, January 22nd 1904Isabel Paterson 135
Friday, January 22nd 1886Johan August Strindberg 172
Monday, January 22nd 1849Lord Byron 233
Tuesday, January 22nd 1788Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 292
Saturday, January 22nd 1729Elvira Lindo 59
Tuesday, January 23rd 1962Derek Walcott 91
Thursday, January 23rd 1930Walter Michael Miller, Jr. 98
Tuesday, January 23rd 1923Camilla Collett 208
Saturday, January 23rd 1813Stendhal 238
Novelist
Thursday, January 23rd 1783Benjamin Urrutia 71
Tuesday, January 24th 1950Eugen Roth 126
Thursday, January 24th 1895Vicki Baum 133
Tuesday, January 24th 1888Ethel Turner 149
Wednesday, January 24th 1872Edith Wharton 159
Friday, January 24th 1862E. T. A. Hoffmann 245
Wednesday, January 24th 1776Pierre Beaumarchais 289
Thursday, January 24th 1732Frances Brooke 297
Monday, January 24th 1724William Congreve 351
Friday, January 24th 1670Stephen Chbosky 51
Sunday, January 25th 1970James Gordon Farrell 86
Friday, January 25th 1935Russell Braddon 100
Tuesday, January 25th 1921Yojiro Ishizaka 121
Thursday, January 25th 1900Hakushu Kitahara 136
Sunday, January 25th 1885Virginia Woolf 139
Wednesday, January 25th 1882W. Somerset Maugham 147
Sunday, January 25th 1874Michael Madhusudan Dutt 197
Sunday, January 25th 1824Robert Burns 262
Thursday, January 25th 1759Shannon Hale 47
Saturday, January 26th 1974Jonathan Carroll 72
Wednesday, January 26th 1949Corrado Augias 86
Saturday, January 26th 1935Jules Feiffer 92
Saturday, January 26th 1929Philip José Farmer 103
Saturday, January 26th 1918François Coppée 179
Wednesday, January 26th 1842James Grippando 63
Monday, January 27th 1958Alexander Stuart 66
Thursday, January 27th 1955Ethan Mordden 72
Thursday, January 27th 1949Bruce Weigl 72
Thursday, January 27th 1949Clarissa Pinkola Estés 76
Saturday, January 27th 1945D.M. Thomas 86
Sunday, January 27th 1935Mordecai Richler 90
Tuesday, January 27th 1931Gastón Suárez 92
Sunday, January 27th 1929Ilya Ehrenburg 130
Tuesday, January 27th 1891Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 185
Wednesday, January 27th 1836Lewis Carroll 189
Friday, January 27th 1832Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 195
Friday, January 27th 1826David Strauss 213
Wednesday, January 27th 1808Arnaldur Indriðason 60
Saturday, January 28th 1961John Perkins 76
Sunday, January 28th 1945Alan Alda 85
Tuesday, January 28th 1936Ismail Kadare 85
Tuesday, January 28th 1936David Lodge 86
Monday, January 28th 1935Nien Cheng 106
Thursday, January 28th 1915Aleksander Kaminski 118
Wednesday, January 28th 1903Valentin Kataev 124
Thursday, January 28th 1897Marthe Bibesco 135
Thursday, January 28th 1886Colette 148
Tuesday, January 28th 1873José Martí 168
Friday, January 28th 1853Brian Wood 49
Saturday, January 29th 1972Germaine Greer 82
Sunday, January 29th 1939Edward Abbey 94
Saturday, January 29th 1927Paddy Chayefsky 98
Monday, January 29th 1923Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 154
Tuesday, January 29th 1867Romain Rolland 155
Monday, January 29th 1866Anton Chekhov 161
Sunday, January 29th 1860Judith Tarr 66
Sunday, January 30th 1955Les Barker 74
Thursday, January 30th 1947Michael Dorris 76
Tuesday, January 30th 1945Gregory Benford 80
Thursday, January 30th 1941Richard Brautigan 88
Monday, January 30th 1933Allan W. Eckert 90
Friday, January 30th 1931Shirley Hazzard 90
Friday, January 30th 1931Lloyd Alexander 97
Wednesday, January 30th 1924Anton Hansen Tammsaare 143
Wednesday, January 30th 1878Connie Booth 77
Monday, January 31st 1944Derek Jarman 79
Saturday, January 31st 1942Kenzaburo Oe 86
Thursday, January 31st 1935Norman Mailer 98
Wednesday, January 31st 1923Thomas Merton 106
Sunday, January 31st 1915John O'Hara 116
Tuesday, January 31st 1905Zane Grey 149
Wednesday, January 31st 1872