Author Birthdays for June
Khawar Rizvi 83
Poet
Wednesday, June 1st 1938Colleen McCullough 84
Novelist
Tuesday, June 1st 1937Bill Deedes 108
Journalist
Sunday, June 1st 1913John Van Druten 120
Playwright
Saturday, June 1st 1901Charles Kay Ogden 132
Non-Fiction
Saturday, June 1st 1889John Masefield 143
Poet, Children's Literature
Saturday, June 1st 1878Ferdinand Raimund 231
Playwright
Tuesday, June 1st 1790Dante Alighieri 756
Poet
Monday, June 1st 1265Carol Shields 86
Sunday, June 2nd 1935Lester del Rey 106
Wednesday, June 2nd 1915Barbara Rym 108
Monday, June 2nd 1913Karl Adolph Gjellerup 164
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, June 2nd 1857Thomas Hardy 181
Tuesday, June 2nd 1840Marquis de Sade 281
Thursday, June 2nd 1740Larry McMurtry 85
Wednesday, June 3rd 1936Marion Zimmer Bradley 91
Tuesday, June 3rd 1930Allen Ginsberg 95
Thursday, June 3rd 1926Buddy Wakefield 47
Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1974Joe Hill 49
Novelist
Sunday, June 4th 1972John Hockenberry 65
Journalist
Monday, June 4th 1956Val McDermid 66
Novelist
Saturday, June 4th 1955Wendy Pini 70
Comic Book Writer
Monday, June 4th 1951Kenneth G. Ross 80
Playwright, Screenwriter
Wednesday, June 4th 1941Robert Fulghum 84
Essayist, Novelist
Friday, June 4th 1937Maurice Shadbolt 89
Novelist
Saturday, June 4th 1932Ruth Westheimer 93
Non-Fiction
Monday, June 4th 1928Elizabeth Jolley 98
Novelist
Monday, June 4th 1923Jacques Roumain 114
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1907Patience Strong 114
Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1907Mabel Lucie Attwell 142
Children's Literature
Wednesday, June 4th 1879Apollon Maykov 200
Poet
Monday, June 4th 1821Ken Follett 72
Sunday, June 5th 1949Margaret Drabble 82
Monday, June 5th 1939Alfred Kazin 106
Saturday, June 5th 1915Federico Garcia Lorca 123
Sunday, June 5th 1898Geraldine McCaughrean 70
Novelist
Wednesday, June 6th 1951Stephen Dixon 85
Saturday, June 6th 1936Harry Crews 86
Thursday, June 6th 1935Maxine Kumine 96
Saturday, June 6th 1925Thomas Mann 146
Sunday, June 6th 1875Alexander Pushkin 222
Thursday, June 6th 1799Louise Erdrich 67
Monday, June 7th 1954Orhan Pamuk 69
Saturday, June 7th 1952Elizabeth Bowen 122
Wednesday, June 7th 1899Sara Paretsky 74
Sunday, June 8th 1947John W. Campbell 111
Wednesday, June 8th 1910David Koepp 58
Screenwriter
Sunday, June 9th 1963Aaron Sorkin 60
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, June 9th 1961Patricia Cornwell 65
Novelist
Saturday, June 9th 1956Gregory Maguire 67
Novelist
Wednesday, June 9th 1954Deyda Hydara 75
Journalist
Sunday, June 9th 1946James Kelman 75
Novelist
Sunday, June 9th 1946Joe Haldeman 78
Novelist
Wednesday, June 9th 1943Charles Webb 82
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1939Keith Laumer 96
Novelist
Tuesday, June 9th 1925George Axelrod 99
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, June 9th 1922John Gillespie Magee, Jr. 99
Poet
Friday, June 9th 1922Jurij Brězan 105
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1916Bertha von Suttner 178
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1843Maurice Sendak 93
Children's Literature
Sunday, June 10th 1928Saul Bellow 106
Thursday, June 10th 1915Athol Fugard 89
Saturday, June 11th 1932William Styron 96
Thursday, June 11th 1925Sonia Manzano 71
Monday, June 12th 1950Anne Frank 92
Wednesday, June 12th 1929Brigid Brophy 92
Wednesday, June 12th 1929Djuna Barnes 129
Novelist
Sunday, June 12th 1892Audrey Niffenegger 58
Thursday, June 13th 1963Maurice G. Dantec 62
Saturday, June 13th 1959Whitley Strieber 76
Wednesday, June 13th 1945Dorothy L. Sayers 128
Tuesday, June 13th 1893William Butler Yeats 156
Tuesday, June 13th 1865John Edgar Wideman 80
Saturday, June 14th 1941Jerzy Kosinski 88
Wednesday, June 14th 1933Yasunari Kawabata 122
Wednesday, June 14th 1899Harriet Beecher Stowe 210
Friday, June 14th 1811Chris Morris 59
Satirist, Screenwriter
Friday, June 15th 1962Ana Castillo 68
Monday, June 15th 1953Amy Clampitt 101
Tuesday, June 15th 1920Joyce Carol Oates 83
Thursday, June 16th 1938Ron Padgett 79
Wednesday, June 17th 1942John Hersey 107
Wednesday, June 17th 1914Richard Powers 64
Tuesday, June 18th 1957Amy Bloom 68
Thursday, June 18th 1953Chris Van Allsburg 72
Saturday, June 18th 1949Gail Godwin 84
Friday, June 18th 1937Salman Rushdie 74
Thursday, June 19th 1947Tobias Wolff 76
Tuesday, June 19th 1945E. Lynn Harris 66
Monday, June 20th 1955Vikram Seth 69
Friday, June 20th 1952Lillian Hellman 116
Tuesday, June 20th 1905Ian McEwan 73
Monday, June 21st 1948Francoise Sagan 86
Friday, June 21st 1935Mary McCarthy 109
Friday, June 21st 1912Jean-Paul Sartre 116
Wednesday, June 21st 1905Dan Brown 57
Monday, June 22nd 1964Joanna Scott 61
Wednesday, June 22nd 1960Octavia Butler 74
Sunday, June 22nd 1947Erich Maria Remarque 123
Wednesday, June 22nd 1898Julian Hawthorne 175
Monday, June 22nd 1846David Leavitt 60
Friday, June 23rd 1961Alexandru Odobescu 187
Monday, June 23rd 1834Lawrence Block 83
Friday, June 24th 1938Anita Desai 84
Thursday, June 24th 1937Ambrose Bierce 179
Friday, June 24th 1842Rebecca Harding Davis 190
Friday, June 24th 1831Nicholas Mosley 98
Monday, June 25th 1923George Orwell 118
Thursday, June 25th 1903Moses Hadas 121
Monday, June 25th 1900Robert Erskine Childers 151
Saturday, June 25th 1870J. J. Abrams 55
Screenwriter
Monday, June 27th 1966Dan Jurgens 62
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, June 27th 1959Anita Diamant 70
Novelist
Wednesday, June 27th 1951James P. Hogan 80
Novelist
Friday, June 27th 1941Ivan Doig 82
Novelist
Tuesday, June 27th 1939Kirkpatrick Sale 84
Non-Fiction
Sunday, June 27th 1937Lucille Clifton 85
Poet, Children's Literature
Saturday, June 27th 1936Frank O'Hara 95
Poet
Sunday, June 27th 1926Robert Aickman 107
Novelist
Saturday, June 27th 1914João Guimarães Rosa 113
Novelist
Saturday, June 27th 1908Catherine Cookson 115
Novelist
Wednesday, June 27th 1906Lafcadio Hearn 171
Journalist
Thursday, June 27th 1850Louise von François 204
Novelist
Friday, June 27th 1817Mark Helprin 74
Saturday, June 28th 1947Eric Ambler 112
Monday, June 28th 1909Floyd Dell 134
Tuesday, June 28th 1887Luigi Pirandello 154
Friday, June 28th 1867Antoine de Saint-Exupery 121
Friday, June 29th 1900Czeslaw Milosz 110
Friday, June 30th 1911William Hamilton Maxwell 229
Novelist
Saturday, June 30th 1792John Gay 336
Saturday, June 30th 1685
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