Author Birthdays for January
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg 87
Friday, January 1st 1937Joe Orton 91
Sunday, January 1st 1933Ernest Tidyman 96
Sunday, January 1st 1928J.D. Salinger 105
Wednesday, January 1st 1919E.M. Forster 145
Wednesday, January 1st 1879Mariano Azuela 151
Wednesday, January 1st 1873Maria Edgeworth 257
Thursday, January 1st 1767Hans Herbjørnsrud 86
Sunday, January 2nd 1938Seiichi Morimura 91
Monday, January 2nd 1933Charles Beaumont 95
Wednesday, January 2nd 1929Isaac Asimov 104
Friday, January 2nd 1920J.R.R. Tolkien 132
Saturday, January 2nd 1892Mendele Moicher Sforim 188
Saturday, January 2nd 1836Alex Wheatle 61
Thursday, January 3rd 1963Francesca Lia Block 62
Wednesday, January 3rd 1962Blanche d'Alpuget 80
Monday, January 3rd 1944Henry Handel Richardson 154
Monday, January 3rd 1870Nabila Jamshed 36
Monday, January 4th 1988Nabila Jamshed 36
Monday, January 4th 1988Mark Leyner 68
Wednesday, January 4th 1956Doris Kearns Goodwin 81
Monday, January 4th 1943Gao Xingjian 84
Thursday, January 4th 1940Carl Sandburg 146
Friday, January 4th 1878Jacob Grimm 239
Tuesday, January 4th 1785Michael O'Donoghue 84
Friday, January 5th 1940Ngugi wa Thiong'o 86
Wednesday, January 5th 1938Umberto Eco 92
Tuesday, January 5th 1932William De Witt Snodgrass 98
Tuesday, January 5th 1926Friedrich Dürrenmatt 103
Wednesday, January 5th 1921Stella Gibbons 122
Sunday, January 5th 1902Allen Appel 79
Saturday, January 6th 1945E.L. Doctorow 93
Tuesday, January 6th 1931Jacobo Timerman 101
Saturday, January 6th 1923Vincent Serventy 108
Thursday, January 6th 1916Alan Watts 109
Wednesday, January 6th 1915Wright Morris 114
Thursday, January 6th 1910Kahlil Gibran 141
Saturday, January 6th 1883Nicholson Baker 67
Monday, January 7th 1957Shobhaa De 76
Wednesday, January 7th 1948William Peter Blatty 96
Saturday, January 7th 1928Zora Neale Hurston 121
Wednesday, January 7th 1903Terry Brooks 80
Saturday, January 8th 1944Stephen Hawking 82
Thursday, January 8th 1942Robert Littell 89
Tuesday, January 8th 1935Alexandra Ripley 90
Monday, January 8th 1934Dennis Wheatley 127
Friday, January 8th 1897Storm Jameson 133
Thursday, January 8th 1891Wilkie Collins 200
Thursday, January 8th 1824Hal Niedzviecki 53
Saturday, January 9th 1971Robert Drewe 81
Saturday, January 9th 1943John Dunning 82
Friday, January 9th 1942Anne Rivers Siddons 88
Thursday, January 9th 1936Wilbur Smith 91
Monday, January 9th 1933Algis Budrys 93
Friday, January 9th 1931Judith Krantz 96
Monday, January 9th 1928Simone de Beauvoir 116
Thursday, January 9th 1908Karel Capek 134
Thursday, January 9th 1890Gilbert Abbott à Beckett 213
Wednesday, January 9th 1811Antonio Muñoz Molina 68
Tuesday, January 10th 1956William Levy 85
Tuesday, January 10th 1939Peter Barnes 93
Saturday, January 10th 1931Philip Levine 96
Tuesday, January 10th 1928Robinson Jeffers 137
Monday, January 10th 1887Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi 141
Wednesday, January 10th 1883Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 227
Tuesday, January 10th 1797Marc Acito 58
Tuesday, January 11th 1966Jasper Fforde 63
Wednesday, January 11th 1961Jim Hightower 81
Monday, January 11th 1943Jerome Bixby 101
Thursday, January 11th 1923Nikos Kavvadias 114
Tuesday, January 11th 1910Alan Paton 121
Sunday, January 11th 1903David Mitchell 55
Sunday, January 12th 1969David Brooks 71
Novelist
Monday, January 12th 1953Walter Mosley 72
Saturday, January 12th 1952Haruki Murakami 75
Wednesday, January 12th 1949William Nicholson 76
Monday, January 12th 1948Paul Jarrico 109
Tuesday, January 12th 1915Ferenc Molnár 146
Saturday, January 12th 1878Jack London 148
Wednesday, January 12th 1876Lorrie Moore 67
Sunday, January 13th 1957Jay McInerney 69
Thursday, January 13th 1955Edmund White 84
Saturday, January 13th 1940Ron Goulart 91
Friday, January 13th 1933Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 98
Wednesday, January 13th 1926Michael Bond 98
Wednesday, January 13th 1926A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 123
Sunday, January 13th 1901Clark Ashton Smith 131
Friday, January 13th 1893Anchee Min 67
Monday, January 14th 1957Rosina Lippi 68
Saturday, January 14th 1956Mary Robison 75
Friday, January 14th 1949Taylor Branch 77
Tuesday, January 14th 1947Lars Forssell 96
Saturday, January 14th 1928Yukio Mishima 99
Wednesday, January 14th 1925Andy Rooney 105
Tuesday, January 14th 1919Tillie Olsen 112
Sunday, January 14th 1912Anatoly Rybakov 113
Saturday, January 14th 1911Emily Hahn 119
Saturday, January 14th 1905John Dos Passos 128
Tuesday, January 14th 1896Hugh Lofting 138
Thursday, January 14th 1886Pierre Loti 174
Monday, January 14th 1850Zachris Topelius 206
Wednesday, January 14th 1818Jose Dalisay, Jr. 70
Friday, January 15th 1954Robert Silverberg 89
Tuesday, January 15th 1935Ernest J. Gaines 91
Sunday, January 15th 1933Nâzim Hikmet 122
Wednesday, January 15th 1902William Heinesen 124
Monday, January 15th 1900Osip Mandelstam 133
Thursday, January 15th 1891Mazo de la Roche 145
Wednesday, January 15th 1879Arsen Kotsoyev 152
Monday, January 15th 1872Molière 402
Saturday, January 15th 1622Garth Ennis 54
Friday, January 16th 1970Brian Castro 74
Monday, January 16th 1950Magdalen Nabb 77
Thursday, January 16th 1947Susan Sontag 91
Monday, January 16th 1933William Kennedy 96
Monday, January 16th 1928Stirling Silliphant 106
Wednesday, January 16th 1918Nat Schachner 129
Wednesday, January 16th 1895Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 56
Wednesday, January 17th 1968Sebastian Junger 62
Wednesday, January 17th 1962Luis López Nieves 74
Tuesday, January 17th 1950Robert Cormier 99
Saturday, January 17th 1925Nevil Shute 125
Tuesday, January 17th 1899Ronald Firbank 138
Sunday, January 17th 1886Compton Mackenzie 141
Wednesday, January 17th 1883May Gibbs 147
Wednesday, January 17th 1877Tomás Carrasquilla 166
Sunday, January 17th 1858Anne Brontë 204
Monday, January 17th 1820Ellen Wood 210
Monday, January 17th 1814Benjamin Franklin 318
Sunday, January 17th 1706Raymond Briggs 90
Thursday, January 18th 1934Robert Anton Wilson 92
Monday, January 18th 1932Vitomil Zupan 110
Sunday, January 18th 1914C. M. Eddy, Jr. 128
Saturday, January 18th 1896A.A. Milne 142
Wednesday, January 18th 1882Ioan Slavici 176
Tuesday, January 18th 1848Montesquieu 335
Tuesday, January 18th 1689Edwidge Danticat 55
Sunday, January 19th 1969Julian Barnes 78
Saturday, January 19th 1946Nina Bawden 99
Monday, January 19th 1925Jean-François Revel 100
Saturday, January 19th 1924Patricia Highsmith 103
Wednesday, January 19th 1921Boris Savinkov 145
Sunday, January 19th 1879Edgar Allan Poe 215
Thursday, January 19th 1809Bill Maher 68
Friday, January 20th 1956Edward Hirsch 74
Friday, January 20th 1950Nancy Kress 76
Tuesday, January 20th 1948Robert Olen Butler 79
Saturday, January 20th 1945Qurratulain Hyder 98
Wednesday, January 20th 1926Joy Adamson 114
Thursday, January 20th 1910George Burns 128
Monday, January 20th 1896Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 151
Monday, January 20th 1873Nathaniel Parker Willis 218
Monday, January 20th 1806Eugène Sue 220
Friday, January 20th 1804Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 308
Monday, January 20th 1716M. K. Hobson 55
Tuesday, January 21st 1969Forrest Gander 68
Saturday, January 21st 1956Ludwig Thoma 157
Monday, January 21st 1867Imre Madách 201
Tuesday, January 21st 1823Francis Wheen 67
Tuesday, January 22nd 1957Joseph Wambaugh 87
Friday, January 22nd 1937Harilal Upadhyay 108
Saturday, January 22nd 1916Henry Bauchau 111
Wednesday, January 22nd 1913Robert E. Howard 118
Monday, January 22nd 1906Arkady Gaidar 120
Friday, January 22nd 1904Isabel Paterson 138
Friday, January 22nd 1886Johan August Strindberg 175
Monday, January 22nd 1849Lord Byron 236
Tuesday, January 22nd 1788Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 295
Saturday, January 22nd 1729Elvira Lindo 62
Tuesday, January 23rd 1962Derek Walcott 94
Thursday, January 23rd 1930Walter Michael Miller, Jr. 101
Tuesday, January 23rd 1923Camilla Collett 211
Saturday, January 23rd 1813Stendhal 241
Novelist
Thursday, January 23rd 1783Benjamin Urrutia 74
Tuesday, January 24th 1950Eugen Roth 129
Thursday, January 24th 1895Vicki Baum 136
Tuesday, January 24th 1888Ethel Turner 152
Wednesday, January 24th 1872Edith Wharton 162
Friday, January 24th 1862E. T. A. Hoffmann 248
Wednesday, January 24th 1776Pierre Beaumarchais 292
Thursday, January 24th 1732Frances Brooke 300
Monday, January 24th 1724William Congreve 354
Friday, January 24th 1670Stephen Chbosky 54
Sunday, January 25th 1970James Gordon Farrell 89
Friday, January 25th 1935Russell Braddon 103
Tuesday, January 25th 1921Yojiro Ishizaka 124
Thursday, January 25th 1900Hakushu Kitahara 139
Sunday, January 25th 1885Virginia Woolf 142
Wednesday, January 25th 1882W. Somerset Maugham 150
Sunday, January 25th 1874Michael Madhusudan Dutt 200
Sunday, January 25th 1824Robert Burns 265
Thursday, January 25th 1759Shannon Hale 50
Saturday, January 26th 1974Jonathan Carroll 75
Wednesday, January 26th 1949Corrado Augias 89
Saturday, January 26th 1935Jules Feiffer 95
Saturday, January 26th 1929Philip José Farmer 106
Saturday, January 26th 1918François Coppée 182
Wednesday, January 26th 1842James Grippando 66
Monday, January 27th 1958Alexander Stuart 69
Thursday, January 27th 1955Ethan Mordden 75
Thursday, January 27th 1949Bruce Weigl 75
Thursday, January 27th 1949Clarissa Pinkola Estés 79
Saturday, January 27th 1945D.M. Thomas 89
Sunday, January 27th 1935Mordecai Richler 93
Tuesday, January 27th 1931Gastón Suárez 95
Sunday, January 27th 1929Ilya Ehrenburg 133
Tuesday, January 27th 1891Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 188
Wednesday, January 27th 1836Lewis Carroll 192
Friday, January 27th 1832Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 198
Friday, January 27th 1826David Strauss 216
Wednesday, January 27th 1808Arnaldur Indriðason 63
Saturday, January 28th 1961John Perkins 79
Sunday, January 28th 1945Alan Alda 88
Tuesday, January 28th 1936Ismail Kadare 88
Tuesday, January 28th 1936David Lodge 89
Monday, January 28th 1935Nien Cheng 109
Thursday, January 28th 1915Aleksander Kaminski 121
Wednesday, January 28th 1903Valentin Kataev 127
Thursday, January 28th 1897Marthe Bibesco 138
Thursday, January 28th 1886Colette 151
Tuesday, January 28th 1873José Martí 171
Friday, January 28th 1853Brian Wood 52
Saturday, January 29th 1972Germaine Greer 85
Sunday, January 29th 1939Edward Abbey 97
Saturday, January 29th 1927Paddy Chayefsky 101
Monday, January 29th 1923Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 157
Tuesday, January 29th 1867Romain Rolland 158
Monday, January 29th 1866Anton Chekhov 164
Sunday, January 29th 1860Judith Tarr 69
Sunday, January 30th 1955Les Barker 77
Thursday, January 30th 1947Michael Dorris 79
Tuesday, January 30th 1945Gregory Benford 83
Thursday, January 30th 1941Richard Brautigan 91
Monday, January 30th 1933Allan W. Eckert 93
Friday, January 30th 1931Shirley Hazzard 93
Friday, January 30th 1931Lloyd Alexander 100
Wednesday, January 30th 1924Anton Hansen Tammsaare 146
Wednesday, January 30th 1878Connie Booth 80
Monday, January 31st 1944Derek Jarman 82
Saturday, January 31st 1942Kenzaburo Oe 89
Thursday, January 31st 1935Norman Mailer 101
Wednesday, January 31st 1923Thomas Merton 109
Sunday, January 31st 1915John O'Hara 119
Tuesday, January 31st 1905Zane Grey 152
Wednesday, January 31st 1872