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Author Birthdays for January

  • Christopher Moore  69
    Novelist
    Tuesday, January 1st 1957
  • Adam Wisniewski-Snerg  89

    Friday, January 1st 1937
  • Joe Orton  93

    Sunday, January 1st 1933
  • Ernest Tidyman  98

    Sunday, January 1st 1928
  • J.D. Salinger  107
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 1st 1919
  • E.M. Forster  147

    Wednesday, January 1st 1879
  • Mariano Azuela  153

    Wednesday, January 1st 1873
  • Maria Edgeworth  259

    Thursday, January 1st 1767
  • Hans Herbjørnsrud  88

    Sunday, January 2nd 1938
  • Seiichi Morimura  93

    Monday, January 2nd 1933
  • Charles Beaumont  97

    Wednesday, January 2nd 1929
  • Isaac Asimov  106
    Novelist
    Friday, January 2nd 1920
  • J.R.R. Tolkien  134
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 2nd 1892
  • Mendele Moicher Sforim  190

    Saturday, January 2nd 1836
  • Alex Wheatle  63

    Thursday, January 3rd 1963
  • Francesca Lia Block  64

    Wednesday, January 3rd 1962
  • Blanche d'Alpuget  82

    Monday, January 3rd 1944
  • Henry Handel Richardson  156

    Monday, January 3rd 1870
  • Nabila Jamshed  38

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Nabila Jamshed  38

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Mark Leyner  70

    Wednesday, January 4th 1956
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin  83

    Monday, January 4th 1943
  • Gao Xingjian  86

    Thursday, January 4th 1940
  • Carl Sandburg  148
    Poet
    Friday, January 4th 1878
  • Jacob Grimm  241

    Tuesday, January 4th 1785
  • Michael O'Donoghue  86

    Friday, January 5th 1940
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o  88

    Wednesday, January 5th 1938
  • Umberto Eco  94

    Tuesday, January 5th 1932
  • William De Witt Snodgrass  100

    Tuesday, January 5th 1926
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt  105

    Wednesday, January 5th 1921
  • Stella Gibbons  124
    novelist, poet, journalist
    Sunday, January 5th 1902
  • Allen Appel  81

    Saturday, January 6th 1945
  • E.L. Doctorow  95

    Tuesday, January 6th 1931
  • Jacobo Timerman  103

    Saturday, January 6th 1923
  • Vincent Serventy  110

    Thursday, January 6th 1916
  • Alan Watts  111

    Wednesday, January 6th 1915
  • Wright Morris  116

    Thursday, January 6th 1910
  • Kahlil Gibran  143

    Saturday, January 6th 1883
  • Nicholson Baker  69

    Monday, January 7th 1957
  • Shobhaa De  78

    Wednesday, January 7th 1948
  • William Peter Blatty  98

    Saturday, January 7th 1928
  • Zora Neale Hurston  123

    Wednesday, January 7th 1903
  • Terry Brooks  82

    Saturday, January 8th 1944
  • Stephen Hawking  84

    Thursday, January 8th 1942
  • Robert Littell  91

    Tuesday, January 8th 1935
  • Alexandra Ripley  92

    Monday, January 8th 1934
  • Dennis Wheatley  129

    Friday, January 8th 1897
  • Storm Jameson  135

    Thursday, January 8th 1891
  • Wilkie Collins  202

    Thursday, January 8th 1824
  • Hal Niedzviecki  55

    Saturday, January 9th 1971
  • Robert Drewe  83

    Saturday, January 9th 1943
  • John Dunning  84

    Friday, January 9th 1942
  • Anne Rivers Siddons  90

    Thursday, January 9th 1936
  • Wilbur Smith  93

    Monday, January 9th 1933
  • Algis Budrys  95

    Friday, January 9th 1931
  • Judith Krantz  98

    Monday, January 9th 1928
  • Simone de Beauvoir  118

    Thursday, January 9th 1908
  • Karel Capek  136

    Thursday, January 9th 1890
  • Gilbert Abbott à Beckett  215

    Wednesday, January 9th 1811
  • Antonio Muñoz Molina  70

    Tuesday, January 10th 1956
  • William Levy  87

    Tuesday, January 10th 1939
  • Peter Barnes  95

    Saturday, January 10th 1931
  • Philip Levine  98

    Tuesday, January 10th 1928
  • Robinson Jeffers  139

    Monday, January 10th 1887
  • Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi  143

    Wednesday, January 10th 1883
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff  229

    Tuesday, January 10th 1797
  • Marc Acito  60

    Tuesday, January 11th 1966
  • Jasper Fforde  65
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 11th 1961
  • Jim Hightower  83

    Monday, January 11th 1943
  • Jerome Bixby  103

    Thursday, January 11th 1923
  • Nikos Kavvadias  116

    Tuesday, January 11th 1910
  • Alan Paton  123

    Sunday, January 11th 1903
  • David Mitchell  57

    Sunday, January 12th 1969
  • David Brooks  73
    Novelist
    Monday, January 12th 1953
  • Walter Mosley  74
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 12th 1952
  • Haruki Murakami  77

    Wednesday, January 12th 1949
  • William Nicholson  78

    Monday, January 12th 1948
  • Paul Jarrico  111

    Tuesday, January 12th 1915
  • Ferenc Molnár  148

    Saturday, January 12th 1878
  • Jack London  150
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 12th 1876
  • Lorrie Moore  69

    Sunday, January 13th 1957
  • Jay McInerney  71

    Thursday, January 13th 1955
  • Edmund White  86

    Saturday, January 13th 1940
  • Ron Goulart  93

    Friday, January 13th 1933
  • Michael Bond  100

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun  100

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • A. B. Guthrie, Jr.  125

    Sunday, January 13th 1901
  • Clark Ashton Smith  133

    Friday, January 13th 1893
  • Anchee Min  69

    Monday, January 14th 1957
  • Rosina Lippi  70

    Saturday, January 14th 1956
  • Mary Robison  77

    Friday, January 14th 1949
  • Taylor Branch  79

    Tuesday, January 14th 1947
  • Lars Forssell  98

    Saturday, January 14th 1928
  • Yukio Mishima  101

    Wednesday, January 14th 1925
  • Andy Rooney  107

    Tuesday, January 14th 1919
  • Tillie Olsen  114

    Sunday, January 14th 1912
  • Anatoly Rybakov  115

    Saturday, January 14th 1911
  • Emily Hahn  121

    Saturday, January 14th 1905
  • John Dos Passos  130

    Tuesday, January 14th 1896
  • Hugh Lofting  140

    Thursday, January 14th 1886
  • Pierre Loti  176

    Monday, January 14th 1850
  • Zachris Topelius  208

    Wednesday, January 14th 1818
  • Jose Dalisay, Jr.  72

    Friday, January 15th 1954
  • Robert Silverberg  91
    Novelist
    Tuesday, January 15th 1935
  • Ernest J. Gaines  93

    Sunday, January 15th 1933
  • Nâzim Hikmet  124

    Wednesday, January 15th 1902
  • William Heinesen  126

    Monday, January 15th 1900
  • Osip Mandelstam  135

    Thursday, January 15th 1891
  • Mazo de la Roche  147

    Wednesday, January 15th 1879
  • Arsen Kotsoyev  154

    Monday, January 15th 1872
  • Molière  404

    Saturday, January 15th 1622
  • Garth Ennis  56

    Friday, January 16th 1970
  • Brian Castro  76

    Monday, January 16th 1950
  • Magdalen Nabb  79

    Thursday, January 16th 1947
  • Susan Sontag  93

    Monday, January 16th 1933
  • William Kennedy  98

    Monday, January 16th 1928
  • Stirling Silliphant  108

    Wednesday, January 16th 1918
  • Nat Schachner  131

    Wednesday, January 16th 1895
  • Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer  58

    Wednesday, January 17th 1968
  • Sebastian Junger  64

    Wednesday, January 17th 1962
  • Luis López Nieves  76

    Tuesday, January 17th 1950
  • Robert Cormier  101

    Saturday, January 17th 1925
  • Nevil Shute  127

    Tuesday, January 17th 1899
  • Ronald Firbank  140

    Sunday, January 17th 1886
  • Compton Mackenzie  143

    Wednesday, January 17th 1883
  • May Gibbs  149

    Wednesday, January 17th 1877
  • Tomás Carrasquilla  168

    Sunday, January 17th 1858
  • Anne Brontë  206

    Monday, January 17th 1820
  • Ellen Wood  212

    Monday, January 17th 1814
  • Benjamin Franklin  320

    Sunday, January 17th 1706
  • Raymond Briggs  92

    Thursday, January 18th 1934
  • Robert Anton Wilson  94

    Monday, January 18th 1932
  • Vitomil Zupan  112

    Sunday, January 18th 1914
  • C. M. Eddy, Jr.  130

    Saturday, January 18th 1896
  • A.A. Milne  144
    MA YA
    Wednesday, January 18th 1882
  • Ioan Slavici  178

    Tuesday, January 18th 1848
  • Montesquieu  337

    Tuesday, January 18th 1689
  • Edwidge Danticat  57

    Sunday, January 19th 1969
  • Julian Barnes  80

    Saturday, January 19th 1946
  • Nina Bawden  101

    Monday, January 19th 1925
  • Jean-François Revel  102

    Saturday, January 19th 1924
  • Patricia Highsmith  105

    Wednesday, January 19th 1921
  • Boris Savinkov  147

    Sunday, January 19th 1879
  • Edgar Allan Poe  217
    Novelist, Poet
    Thursday, January 19th 1809
  • Bill Maher  70

    Friday, January 20th 1956
  • Edward Hirsch  76

    Friday, January 20th 1950
  • Nancy Kress  78

    Tuesday, January 20th 1948
  • Robert Olen Butler  81

    Saturday, January 20th 1945
  • Qurratulain Hyder  100

    Wednesday, January 20th 1926
  • Joy Adamson  116

    Thursday, January 20th 1910
  • George Burns  130

    Monday, January 20th 1896
  • Johannes Vilhelm Jensen  153

    Monday, January 20th 1873
  • Nathaniel Parker Willis  220

    Monday, January 20th 1806
  • Eugène Sue  222

    Friday, January 20th 1804
  • Jean-Jacques Barthélemy  310

    Monday, January 20th 1716
  • M. K. Hobson  57

    Tuesday, January 21st 1969
  • Forrest Gander  70

    Saturday, January 21st 1956
  • Ludwig Thoma  159

    Monday, January 21st 1867
  • Imre Madách  203

    Tuesday, January 21st 1823
  • Francis Wheen  69

    Tuesday, January 22nd 1957
  • Joseph Wambaugh  89

    Friday, January 22nd 1937
  • Harilal Upadhyay  110

    Saturday, January 22nd 1916
  • Henry Bauchau  113

    Wednesday, January 22nd 1913
  • Robert E. Howard  120

    Monday, January 22nd 1906
  • Arkady Gaidar  122

    Friday, January 22nd 1904
  • Isabel Paterson  140

    Friday, January 22nd 1886
  • Johan August Strindberg  177

    Monday, January 22nd 1849
  • Lord Byron  238
    Poet
    Tuesday, January 22nd 1788
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing  297

    Saturday, January 22nd 1729
  • Elvira Lindo  64

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1962
  • Derek Walcott  96

    Thursday, January 23rd 1930
  • Walter Michael Miller, Jr.  103

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1923
  • Camilla Collett  213

    Saturday, January 23rd 1813
  • Stendhal  243
    Novelist
    Thursday, January 23rd 1783
  • Benjamin Urrutia  76

    Tuesday, January 24th 1950
  • Eugen Roth  131

    Thursday, January 24th 1895
  • Vicki Baum  138

    Tuesday, January 24th 1888
  • Ethel Turner  154

    Wednesday, January 24th 1872
  • Edith Wharton  164

    Friday, January 24th 1862
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann  250

    Wednesday, January 24th 1776
  • Pierre Beaumarchais  294

    Thursday, January 24th 1732
  • Frances Brooke  302

    Monday, January 24th 1724
  • William Congreve  356

    Friday, January 24th 1670
  • Stephen Chbosky  56

    Sunday, January 25th 1970
  • James Gordon Farrell  91

    Friday, January 25th 1935
  • Russell Braddon  105

    Tuesday, January 25th 1921
  • Yojiro Ishizaka  126

    Thursday, January 25th 1900
  • Hakushu Kitahara  141

    Sunday, January 25th 1885
  • Virginia Woolf  144
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 25th 1882
  • W. Somerset Maugham  152
    Novelist
    Sunday, January 25th 1874
  • Michael Madhusudan Dutt  202

    Sunday, January 25th 1824
  • Robert Burns  267
    Poet
    Thursday, January 25th 1759
  • Shannon Hale  52

    Saturday, January 26th 1974
  • Jonathan Carroll  77

    Wednesday, January 26th 1949
  • Corrado Augias  91

    Saturday, January 26th 1935
  • Jules Feiffer  97

    Saturday, January 26th 1929
  • Philip José Farmer  108

    Saturday, January 26th 1918
  • François Coppée  184

    Wednesday, January 26th 1842
  • James Grippando  68

    Monday, January 27th 1958
  • Alexander Stuart  71

    Thursday, January 27th 1955
  • Bruce Weigl  77

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Ethan Mordden  77

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Clarissa Pinkola Estés  81

    Saturday, January 27th 1945
  • D.M. Thomas  91

    Sunday, January 27th 1935
  • Mordecai Richler  95

    Tuesday, January 27th 1931
  • Gastón Suárez  97

    Sunday, January 27th 1929
  • Ilya Ehrenburg  135

    Tuesday, January 27th 1891
  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch  190

    Wednesday, January 27th 1836
  • Lewis Carroll  194
    Novelist
    Friday, January 27th 1832
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin  200

    Friday, January 27th 1826
  • David Strauss  218

    Wednesday, January 27th 1808
  • Arnaldur Indriðason  65

    Saturday, January 28th 1961
  • John Perkins  81

    Sunday, January 28th 1945
  • Ismail Kadare  90

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • Alan Alda  90

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • David Lodge  91

    Monday, January 28th 1935
  • Nien Cheng  111

    Thursday, January 28th 1915
  • Aleksander Kaminski  123

    Wednesday, January 28th 1903
  • Valentin Kataev  129

    Thursday, January 28th 1897
  • Marthe Bibesco  140

    Thursday, January 28th 1886
  • Colette  153

    Tuesday, January 28th 1873
  • José Martí  173

    Friday, January 28th 1853
  • Brian Wood  54

    Saturday, January 29th 1972
  • Germaine Greer  87

    Sunday, January 29th 1939
  • Edward Abbey  99
    Novelist
    Saturday, January 29th 1927
  • Paddy Chayefsky  103
    Playwright Screenwriter Novelist
    Monday, January 29th 1923
  • Vicente Blasco Ibáñez  159

    Tuesday, January 29th 1867
  • Romain Rolland  160

    Monday, January 29th 1866
  • Anton Chekhov  166

    Sunday, January 29th 1860
  • Judith Tarr  71

    Sunday, January 30th 1955
  • Les Barker  79

    Thursday, January 30th 1947
  • Michael Dorris  81

    Tuesday, January 30th 1945
  • Gregory Benford  85

    Thursday, January 30th 1941
  • Richard Brautigan  93
    Novelist
    Monday, January 30th 1933
  • Allan W. Eckert  95

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Shirley Hazzard  95

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Lloyd Alexander  102

    Wednesday, January 30th 1924
  • Anton Hansen Tammsaare  148

    Wednesday, January 30th 1878
  • Connie Booth  82

    Monday, January 31st 1944
  • Derek Jarman  84

    Saturday, January 31st 1942
  • Kenzaburo Oe  91

    Thursday, January 31st 1935
  • Norman Mailer  103
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 31st 1923
  • Thomas Merton  111
    Poet, Essayist
    Sunday, January 31st 1915
  • John O'Hara  121

    Tuesday, January 31st 1905
  • Zane Grey  154
    Novelist
    Wednesday, January 31st 1872

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