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Author Birthdays for December

  • Billy Childish  67

    Tuesday, December 1st 1959
  • Jan Brett  77

    Thursday, December 1st 1949
  • Tahar Ben Jelloun  82

    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • Daniel Pennac  82

    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • John Crowley  84

    Tuesday, December 1st 1942
  • Woody Allen  91

    Sunday, December 1st 1935
  • Henry Williamson  131

    Sunday, December 1st 1895
  • Rex Stout  140

    Wednesday, December 1st 1886
  • Ann Patchett  63

    Monday, December 2nd 1963
  • George Saunders  68

    Tuesday, December 2nd 1958
  • T. Coraghessan Boyle  78

    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Elizabeth Berg  78

    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Botho Strauss  82

    Saturday, December 2nd 1944
  • Yael Dayan  87

    Saturday, December 2nd 1939
  • Nigel Calder  95

    Wednesday, December 2nd 1931
  • Iakovos Kambanelis  104

    Saturday, December 2nd 1922
  • Charles H. Wesley  135

    Wednesday, December 2nd 1891
  • Zlata Filipovic  46

    Wednesday, December 3rd 1980
  • Grace Andreacchi  72

    Friday, December 3rd 1954
  • Franz Josef Degenhardt  95

    Thursday, December 3rd 1931
  • F. Sionil José  102

    Wednesday, December 3rd 1924
  • Joseph Conrad  169

    Thursday, December 3rd 1857
  • Ludvig Holberg  342

    Sunday, December 3rd 1684
  • Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio  99

    Sunday, December 4th 1927
  • E.J. Kahn, Jr.  110

    Monday, December 4th 1916
  • Cornell Woolrich  123

    Friday, December 4th 1903
  • Katharine Susannah Prichard  143

    Tuesday, December 4th 1883
  • Rainer Maria Rilke  151

    Saturday, December 4th 1875
  • Samuel Butler  191

    Friday, December 4th 1835
  • Thomas Carlyle  231

    Friday, December 4th 1795
  • Lydia Millet  58

    Thursday, December 5th 1968
  • Peter Pohl  86

    Thursday, December 5th 1940
  • John Berendt  87

    Tuesday, December 5th 1939
  • James Lee Burke  90

    Saturday, December 5th 1936
  • Calvin Trillin  91

    Thursday, December 5th 1935
  • Joan Didion  92

    Wednesday, December 5th 1934
  • Hans Hellmut Kirst  112

    Saturday, December 5th 1914
  • Rose Wilder Lane  140

    Sunday, December 5th 1886
  • Ellis Parker Butler  157

    Sunday, December 5th 1869
  • Peter Handke  84

    Sunday, December 6th 1942
  • Elizabeth Yates  121

    Wednesday, December 6th 1905
  • Ira Gershwin  130

    Sunday, December 6th 1896
  • Osbert Sitwell  134

    Tuesday, December 6th 1892
  • Joyce Kilmer  140

    Monday, December 6th 1886
  • Evelyn Underhill  151

    Monday, December 6th 1875
  • Arthur Henry Adams  154

    Friday, December 6th 1872
  • Baldassare Castiglione  548

    Friday, December 6th 1478
  • Andrea Claudio Galluzzo  57

    Sunday, December 7th 1969
  • Harry Chapin  84

    Monday, December 7th 1942
  • Noam Chomsky  98

    Friday, December 7th 1928
  • Tatamkulu Afrika  106

    Tuesday, December 7th 1920
  • Kersti Merilaas  113

    Sunday, December 7th 1913
  • Joyce Cary  138

    Friday, December 7th 1888
  • Willa Cather  153

    Sunday, December 7th 1873
  • Paul Adam  164

    Sunday, December 7th 1862
  • Jackie Kessler  56

    Tuesday, December 8th 1970
  • Louis de Bernieres  72

    Wednesday, December 8th 1954
  • Bill Bryson  75

    Saturday, December 8th 1951
  • Mary Gordon  77

    Thursday, December 8th 1949
  • Kati-Claudia Fofonoff  79

    Monday, December 8th 1947
  • John Banville  81

    Saturday, December 8th 1945
  • Carmen Martín Gaite  101

    Tuesday, December 8th 1925
  • James Thurber  132

    Saturday, December 8th 1894
  • Amanda McKittrick Ros  166

    Saturday, December 8th 1860
  • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson  194

    Saturday, December 8th 1832
  • Ki Longfellow  82

    Saturday, December 9th 1944
  • Joanna Trollope  83

    Thursday, December 9th 1943
  • Ashleigh Brilliant  93

    Saturday, December 9th 1933
  • Jan Kresadlo  100

    Thursday, December 9th 1926
  • Jerome Beatty Jr.  110

    Saturday, December 9th 1916
  • Dalton Trumbo  121

    Saturday, December 9th 1905
  • Ödön von Horváth  125

    Monday, December 9th 1901
  • Leonie Fuller Adams  127

    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • Jean de Brunhoff  127

    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • George Grossmith  179

    Thursday, December 9th 1847
  • Joel Chandler Harris  181

    Tuesday, December 9th 1845
  • John Milton  418

    Tuesday, December 9th 1608
  • Cornelia Funke  68

    Wednesday, December 10th 1958
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard  73

    Thursday, December 10th 1953
  • Mercer Mayer  83

    Friday, December 10th 1943
  • Clarice Lispector  106

    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Reginald Rose  106

    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Rumer Godden  119

    Tuesday, December 10th 1907
  • Nelly Sachs  135

    Thursday, December 10th 1891
  • Pierre Louÿs  156

    Saturday, December 10th 1870
  • Emily Dickinson  196

    Friday, December 10th 1830
  • George MacDonald  202

    Friday, December 10th 1824
  • Diana Palmer  80

    Wednesday, December 11th 1946
  • Thomas McGuane  87

    Monday, December 11th 1939
  • Jim Harrison  89

    Saturday, December 11th 1937
  • Grace Paley  104

    Monday, December 11th 1922
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  108

    Wednesday, December 11th 1918
  • Naguib Mahfouz  115

    Monday, December 11th 1911
  • Ronald McKie  117

    Saturday, December 11th 1909
  • Robert Henriques  121

    Monday, December 11th 1905
  • Harriet Adams  134

    Sunday, December 11th 1892
  • Vassilis Alexakis  83

    Sunday, December 12th 1943
  • Thomas Powers  86

    Thursday, December 12th 1940
  • John Osborne  97

    Thursday, December 12th 1929
  • Chinghiz Aitmatov  98

    Wednesday, December 12th 1928
  • Patrick O'Brian  112

    Saturday, December 12th 1914
  • Hans Keilson  117

    Sunday, December 12th 1909
  • Manès Sperber  121

    Tuesday, December 12th 1905
  • Gustave Flaubert  205

    Wednesday, December 12th 1821
  • Emma Bull  72

    Monday, December 13th 1954
  • James Wright  99

    Tuesday, December 13th 1927
  • Ross Macdonald  111

    Monday, December 13th 1915
  • Kenneth Patchen  115

    Wednesday, December 13th 1911
  • Heinrich Heine  229

    Wednesday, December 13th 1797
  • Kelley Armstrong  58
    Novelist
    Saturday, December 14th 1968
  • Amy Hempel  75

    Friday, December 14th 1951
  • Gerard Reve  103
    Novelist
    Friday, December 14th 1923
  • Shirley Jackson  110

    Thursday, December 14th 1916
  • Muriel Rukeyser  113

    Monday, December 15th 1913
  • Betty Smith  130

    Tuesday, December 15th 1896
  • Philip K. Dick  98

    Sunday, December 16th 1928
  • Randall Garrett  99

    Friday, December 16th 1927
  • Arthur C. Clarke  109

    Sunday, December 16th 1917
  • Noël Coward  127

    Saturday, December 16th 1899
  • George Santayana  163

    Wednesday, December 16th 1863
  • Jane Austen  251

    Saturday, December 16th 1775
  • William Safire  97

    Tuesday, December 17th 1929
  • Penelope Fitzgerald  110

    Sunday, December 17th 1916
  • Ford Madox Ford  153

    Wednesday, December 17th 1873
  • Jules de Goncourt  196

    Friday, December 17th 1830
  • Saki  156

    Sunday, December 18th 1870
  • Cyril Collard  69

    Thursday, December 19th 1957
  • Salvador Elizondo  94

    Monday, December 19th 1932
  • Italo Svevo  165

    Thursday, December 19th 1861
  • Nalo Hopkinson  66

    Tuesday, December 20th 1960
  • Sandra Cisneros  72

    Monday, December 20th 1954
  • Hortense Calisher  115

    Wednesday, December 20th 1911
  • John Fletcher  447

    Thursday, December 20th 1579
  • John Harvey  88

    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Frank Moorhouse  88

    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Intizar Hussain  103

    Friday, December 21st 1923
  • Heinrich Böll  109

    Friday, December 21st 1917
  • Seicho Matsumoto  117

    Tuesday, December 21st 1909
  • Anthony Powell  121

    Thursday, December 21st 1905
  • Albert Payson Terhune  154

    Saturday, December 21st 1872
  • Eduard Uspenskiy  89

    Wednesday, December 22nd 1937
  • Kenneth Rexroth  121

    Friday, December 22nd 1905
  • Sara Coleridge  203

    Monday, December 22nd 1823
  • Donna Tartt  63

    Monday, December 23rd 1963
  • Avi  89

    Thursday, December 23rd 1937
  • Robert Bly  100

    Thursday, December 23rd 1926
  • Manuel Lopes  119

    Monday, December 23rd 1907
  • Norman Maclean  124

    Tuesday, December 23rd 1902
  • Stephenie Meyer  53

    Monday, December 24th 1973
  • Christopher Buckley  74

    Wednesday, December 24th 1952
  • Nicholas Meyer  81

    Monday, December 24th 1945
  • Mary Higgins Clark  99

    Saturday, December 24th 1927
  • Herbert Reinecker  112

    Thursday, December 24th 1914
  • Fritz Leiber  116

    Saturday, December 24th 1910
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez  145

    Saturday, December 24th 1881
  • Johnny Gruelle  146

    Friday, December 24th 1880
  • Thomas Murner  551

    Friday, December 24th 1475
  • Jimmy Buffett  80

    Wednesday, December 25th 1946
  • Joe Gores  95

    Friday, December 25th 1931
  • Carlos Castaneda  101

    Friday, December 25th 1925
  • Rod Serling  102

    Thursday, December 25th 1924
  • Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah  105

    Sunday, December 25th 1921
  • Quentin Crisp  118

    Friday, December 25th 1908
  • Dorothy Wordsworth  255

    Wednesday, December 25th 1771
  • Robert Muchamore  54

    Tuesday, December 26th 1972
  • Elizabeth Kostova  62

    Saturday, December 26th 1964
  • David Sedaris  70

    Wednesday, December 26th 1956
  • Alejo Carpentier  122

    Monday, December 26th 1904
  • Jean Toomer  132

    Wednesday, December 26th 1894
  • Henry Miller  135

    Saturday, December 26th 1891
  • René Bazin  173

    Monday, December 26th 1853
  • E. D. E. N. Southworth  207

    Sunday, December 26th 1819
  • Sarah Jane Vowell  57

    Saturday, December 27th 1969
  • Wendy Coakley-Thompson  60

    Tuesday, December 27th 1966
  • Cokie Roberts  83

    Monday, December 27th 1943
  • Wilfrid Sheed  96

    Saturday, December 27th 1930
  • Onni Palaste  109

    Thursday, December 27th 1917
  • Charles Olson  116

    Tuesday, December 27th 1910
  • Louis Bromfield  130

    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Carl Zuckmayer  130

    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Andy McNab  67

    Monday, December 28th 1959
  • Manuel Puig  94

    Wednesday, December 28th 1932
  • Simon Raven  99

    Wednesday, December 28th 1927
  • Sam Levenson  115

    Thursday, December 28th 1911
  • William Gaddis  104

    Friday, December 29th 1922
  • Enys Tregarthen - Nellie Cornwall  175

    Monday, December 29th 1851
  • Rudyard Kipling  161

    Saturday, December 30th 1865
  • Nicholas Sparks  61

    Friday, December 31st 1965
  • Susan Shwartz  77

    Saturday, December 31st 1949
  • Connie Willis  81

    Monday, December 31st 1945
  • Edward Bunker  93

    Sunday, December 31st 1933
  • Bob Shaw  95

    Thursday, December 31st 1931
  • Dal Stivens  115

    Sunday, December 31st 1911
  • Horacio Quiroga  148

    Tuesday, December 31st 1878

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