Author Birthdays for December
Billy Childish 65
Tuesday, December 1st 1959Jan Brett 75
Thursday, December 1st 1949Daniel Pennac 80
Friday, December 1st 1944Tahar Ben Jelloun 80
Friday, December 1st 1944John Crowley 82
Tuesday, December 1st 1942Woody Allen 89
Sunday, December 1st 1935Henry Williamson 129
Sunday, December 1st 1895Rex Stout 138
Wednesday, December 1st 1886Ann Patchett 61
Monday, December 2nd 1963George Saunders 66
Tuesday, December 2nd 1958Elizabeth Berg 76
Thursday, December 2nd 1948T. Coraghessan Boyle 76
Thursday, December 2nd 1948Botho Strauss 80
Saturday, December 2nd 1944Yael Dayan 85
Saturday, December 2nd 1939Nigel Calder 93
Wednesday, December 2nd 1931Iakovos Kambanelis 102
Saturday, December 2nd 1922Charles H. Wesley 133
Wednesday, December 2nd 1891Zlata Filipovic 44
Wednesday, December 3rd 1980Grace Andreacchi 70
Friday, December 3rd 1954Franz Josef Degenhardt 93
Thursday, December 3rd 1931F. Sionil José 100
Wednesday, December 3rd 1924Joseph Conrad 167
Thursday, December 3rd 1857Ludvig Holberg 340
Sunday, December 3rd 1684Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio 97
Sunday, December 4th 1927E.J. Kahn, Jr. 108
Monday, December 4th 1916Cornell Woolrich 121
Friday, December 4th 1903Katharine Susannah Prichard 141
Tuesday, December 4th 1883Rainer Maria Rilke 149
Saturday, December 4th 1875Samuel Butler 189
Friday, December 4th 1835Thomas Carlyle 229
Friday, December 4th 1795Lydia Millet 56
Thursday, December 5th 1968Peter Pohl 84
Thursday, December 5th 1940John Berendt 85
Tuesday, December 5th 1939James Lee Burke 88
Saturday, December 5th 1936Calvin Trillin 89
Thursday, December 5th 1935Joan Didion 90
Wednesday, December 5th 1934Hans Hellmut Kirst 110
Saturday, December 5th 1914Rose Wilder Lane 138
Sunday, December 5th 1886Ellis Parker Butler 155
Sunday, December 5th 1869Peter Handke 82
Sunday, December 6th 1942Elizabeth Yates 119
Wednesday, December 6th 1905Ira Gershwin 128
Sunday, December 6th 1896Osbert Sitwell 132
Tuesday, December 6th 1892Joyce Kilmer 138
Monday, December 6th 1886Evelyn Underhill 149
Monday, December 6th 1875Arthur Henry Adams 152
Friday, December 6th 1872Baldassare Castiglione 546
Friday, December 6th 1478Andrea Claudio Galluzzo 55
Sunday, December 7th 1969Harry Chapin 82
Monday, December 7th 1942Noam Chomsky 96
Friday, December 7th 1928Tatamkulu Afrika 104
Tuesday, December 7th 1920Kersti Merilaas 111
Sunday, December 7th 1913Joyce Cary 136
Friday, December 7th 1888Willa Cather 151
Sunday, December 7th 1873Paul Adam 162
Sunday, December 7th 1862Jackie Kessler 54
Tuesday, December 8th 1970Louis de Bernieres 70
Wednesday, December 8th 1954Bill Bryson 73
Saturday, December 8th 1951Mary Gordon 75
Thursday, December 8th 1949Kati-Claudia Fofonoff 77
Monday, December 8th 1947John Banville 79
Saturday, December 8th 1945Carmen Martín Gaite 99
Tuesday, December 8th 1925James Thurber 130
Saturday, December 8th 1894Amanda McKittrick Ros 164
Saturday, December 8th 1860Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 192
Saturday, December 8th 1832Ki Longfellow 80
Saturday, December 9th 1944Joanna Trollope 81
Thursday, December 9th 1943Ashleigh Brilliant 91
Saturday, December 9th 1933Jan Kresadlo 98
Thursday, December 9th 1926Jerome Beatty Jr. 108
Saturday, December 9th 1916Dalton Trumbo 119
Saturday, December 9th 1905Ödön von Horváth 123
Monday, December 9th 1901Leonie Fuller Adams 125
Saturday, December 9th 1899Jean de Brunhoff 125
Saturday, December 9th 1899George Grossmith 177
Thursday, December 9th 1847Joel Chandler Harris 179
Tuesday, December 9th 1845John Milton 416
Tuesday, December 9th 1608Cornelia Funke 66
Wednesday, December 10th 1958Jacquelyn Mitchard 71
Thursday, December 10th 1953Mercer Mayer 81
Friday, December 10th 1943Reginald Rose 104
Friday, December 10th 1920Clarice Lispector 104
Friday, December 10th 1920Rumer Godden 117
Tuesday, December 10th 1907Nelly Sachs 133
Thursday, December 10th 1891Pierre Louÿs 154
Saturday, December 10th 1870Emily Dickinson 194
Friday, December 10th 1830George MacDonald 200
Friday, December 10th 1824Diana Palmer 78
Wednesday, December 11th 1946Thomas McGuane 85
Monday, December 11th 1939Jim Harrison 87
Saturday, December 11th 1937Grace Paley 102
Monday, December 11th 1922Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 106
Wednesday, December 11th 1918Naguib Mahfouz 113
Monday, December 11th 1911Ronald McKie 115
Saturday, December 11th 1909Robert Henriques 119
Monday, December 11th 1905Harriet Adams 132
Sunday, December 11th 1892Vassilis Alexakis 81
Sunday, December 12th 1943Thomas Powers 84
Thursday, December 12th 1940John Osborne 95
Thursday, December 12th 1929Chinghiz Aitmatov 96
Wednesday, December 12th 1928Patrick O'Brian 110
Saturday, December 12th 1914Hans Keilson 115
Sunday, December 12th 1909Manès Sperber 119
Tuesday, December 12th 1905Gustave Flaubert 203
Wednesday, December 12th 1821Emma Bull 70
Monday, December 13th 1954James Wright 97
Tuesday, December 13th 1927Ross Macdonald 109
Monday, December 13th 1915Kenneth Patchen 113
Wednesday, December 13th 1911Heinrich Heine 227
Wednesday, December 13th 1797Kelley Armstrong 56
Novelist
Saturday, December 14th 1968Amy Hempel 73
Friday, December 14th 1951Gerard Reve 101
Novelist
Friday, December 14th 1923Shirley Jackson 108
Thursday, December 14th 1916Muriel Rukeyser 111
Monday, December 15th 1913Betty Smith 128
Tuesday, December 15th 1896Philip K. Dick 96
Sunday, December 16th 1928Randall Garrett 97
Friday, December 16th 1927Arthur C. Clarke 107
Sunday, December 16th 1917Noël Coward 125
Saturday, December 16th 1899George Santayana 161
Wednesday, December 16th 1863Jane Austen 249
Saturday, December 16th 1775William Safire 95
Tuesday, December 17th 1929Penelope Fitzgerald 108
Sunday, December 17th 1916Ford Madox Ford 151
Wednesday, December 17th 1873Jules de Goncourt 194
Friday, December 17th 1830Saki 154
Sunday, December 18th 1870Cyril Collard 67
Thursday, December 19th 1957Salvador Elizondo 92
Monday, December 19th 1932Italo Svevo 163
Thursday, December 19th 1861Nalo Hopkinson 64
Tuesday, December 20th 1960Sandra Cisneros 70
Monday, December 20th 1954Hortense Calisher 113
Wednesday, December 20th 1911John Fletcher 445
Thursday, December 20th 1579Frank Moorhouse 86
Wednesday, December 21st 1938John Harvey 86
Wednesday, December 21st 1938Intizar Hussain 101
Friday, December 21st 1923Heinrich Böll 107
Friday, December 21st 1917Seicho Matsumoto 115
Tuesday, December 21st 1909Anthony Powell 119
Thursday, December 21st 1905Albert Payson Terhune 152
Saturday, December 21st 1872Eduard Uspenskiy 87
Wednesday, December 22nd 1937Kenneth Rexroth 119
Friday, December 22nd 1905Sara Coleridge 201
Monday, December 22nd 1823Donna Tartt 61
Monday, December 23rd 1963Avi 87
Thursday, December 23rd 1937Robert Bly 98
Thursday, December 23rd 1926Manuel Lopes 117
Monday, December 23rd 1907Norman Maclean 122
Tuesday, December 23rd 1902Stephenie Meyer 51
Monday, December 24th 1973Christopher Buckley 72
Wednesday, December 24th 1952Nicholas Meyer 79
Monday, December 24th 1945Mary Higgins Clark 97
Saturday, December 24th 1927Herbert Reinecker 110
Thursday, December 24th 1914Fritz Leiber 114
Saturday, December 24th 1910Juan Ramón Jiménez 143
Saturday, December 24th 1881Johnny Gruelle 144
Friday, December 24th 1880Thomas Murner 549
Friday, December 24th 1475Jimmy Buffett 78
Wednesday, December 25th 1946Joe Gores 93
Friday, December 25th 1931Carlos Castaneda 99
Friday, December 25th 1925Rod Serling 100
Thursday, December 25th 1924Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah 103
Sunday, December 25th 1921Quentin Crisp 116
Friday, December 25th 1908Dorothy Wordsworth 253
Wednesday, December 25th 1771Robert Muchamore 52
Tuesday, December 26th 1972Elizabeth Kostova 60
Saturday, December 26th 1964David Sedaris 68
Wednesday, December 26th 1956Alejo Carpentier 120
Monday, December 26th 1904Jean Toomer 130
Wednesday, December 26th 1894Henry Miller 133
Saturday, December 26th 1891René Bazin 171
Monday, December 26th 1853E. D. E. N. Southworth 205
Sunday, December 26th 1819Sarah Jane Vowell 55
Saturday, December 27th 1969Wendy Coakley-Thompson 58
Tuesday, December 27th 1966Cokie Roberts 81
Monday, December 27th 1943Wilfrid Sheed 94
Saturday, December 27th 1930Onni Palaste 107
Thursday, December 27th 1917Charles Olson 114
Tuesday, December 27th 1910Louis Bromfield 128
Sunday, December 27th 1896Carl Zuckmayer 128
Sunday, December 27th 1896Andy McNab 65
Monday, December 28th 1959Manuel Puig 92
Wednesday, December 28th 1932Simon Raven 97
Wednesday, December 28th 1927Sam Levenson 113
Thursday, December 28th 1911William Gaddis 102
Friday, December 29th 1922Enys Tregarthen - Nellie Cornwall 173
Monday, December 29th 1851Rudyard Kipling 159
Saturday, December 30th 1865Nicholas Sparks 59
Friday, December 31st 1965Susan Shwartz 75
Saturday, December 31st 1949Connie Willis 79
Monday, December 31st 1945Edward Bunker 91
Sunday, December 31st 1933Bob Shaw 93
Thursday, December 31st 1931Dal Stivens 113
Sunday, December 31st 1911Horacio Quiroga 146
Tuesday, December 31st 1878