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Author Birthdays for December

  • Billy Childish  65

    Tuesday, December 1st 1959
  • Jan Brett  75

    Thursday, December 1st 1949
  • Tahar Ben Jelloun  80

    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • Daniel Pennac  80

    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • John Crowley  82

    Tuesday, December 1st 1942
  • Woody Allen  89

    Sunday, December 1st 1935
  • Henry Williamson  129

    Sunday, December 1st 1895
  • Rex Stout  138

    Wednesday, December 1st 1886
  • Ann Patchett  61

    Monday, December 2nd 1963
  • George Saunders  66

    Tuesday, December 2nd 1958
  • T. Coraghessan Boyle  76

    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Elizabeth Berg  76

    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Botho Strauss  80

    Saturday, December 2nd 1944
  • Yael Dayan  85

    Saturday, December 2nd 1939
  • Nigel Calder  93

    Wednesday, December 2nd 1931
  • Iakovos Kambanelis  102

    Saturday, December 2nd 1922
  • Charles H. Wesley  133

    Wednesday, December 2nd 1891
  • Zlata Filipovic  44

    Wednesday, December 3rd 1980
  • Grace Andreacchi  70

    Friday, December 3rd 1954
  • Franz Josef Degenhardt  93

    Thursday, December 3rd 1931
  • F. Sionil José  100

    Wednesday, December 3rd 1924
  • Joseph Conrad  167

    Thursday, December 3rd 1857
  • Ludvig Holberg  340

    Sunday, December 3rd 1684
  • Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio  97

    Sunday, December 4th 1927
  • E.J. Kahn, Jr.  108

    Monday, December 4th 1916
  • Cornell Woolrich  121

    Friday, December 4th 1903
  • Katharine Susannah Prichard  141

    Tuesday, December 4th 1883
  • Rainer Maria Rilke  149

    Saturday, December 4th 1875
  • Samuel Butler  189

    Friday, December 4th 1835
  • Thomas Carlyle  229

    Friday, December 4th 1795
  • Lydia Millet  56

    Thursday, December 5th 1968
  • Peter Pohl  84

    Thursday, December 5th 1940
  • John Berendt  85

    Tuesday, December 5th 1939
  • James Lee Burke  88

    Saturday, December 5th 1936
  • Calvin Trillin  89

    Thursday, December 5th 1935
  • Joan Didion  90

    Wednesday, December 5th 1934
  • Hans Hellmut Kirst  110

    Saturday, December 5th 1914
  • Rose Wilder Lane  138

    Sunday, December 5th 1886
  • Ellis Parker Butler  155

    Sunday, December 5th 1869
  • Peter Handke  82

    Sunday, December 6th 1942
  • Elizabeth Yates  119

    Wednesday, December 6th 1905
  • Ira Gershwin  128

    Sunday, December 6th 1896
  • Osbert Sitwell  132

    Tuesday, December 6th 1892
  • Joyce Kilmer  138

    Monday, December 6th 1886
  • Evelyn Underhill  149

    Monday, December 6th 1875
  • Arthur Henry Adams  152

    Friday, December 6th 1872
  • Baldassare Castiglione  546

    Friday, December 6th 1478
  • Andrea Claudio Galluzzo  55

    Sunday, December 7th 1969
  • Harry Chapin  82

    Monday, December 7th 1942
  • Noam Chomsky  96

    Friday, December 7th 1928
  • Tatamkulu Afrika  104

    Tuesday, December 7th 1920
  • Kersti Merilaas  111

    Sunday, December 7th 1913
  • Joyce Cary  136

    Friday, December 7th 1888
  • Willa Cather  151

    Sunday, December 7th 1873
  • Paul Adam  162

    Sunday, December 7th 1862
  • Jackie Kessler  54

    Tuesday, December 8th 1970
  • Louis de Bernieres  70

    Wednesday, December 8th 1954
  • Bill Bryson  73

    Saturday, December 8th 1951
  • Mary Gordon  75

    Thursday, December 8th 1949
  • Kati-Claudia Fofonoff  77

    Monday, December 8th 1947
  • John Banville  79

    Saturday, December 8th 1945
  • Carmen Martín Gaite  99

    Tuesday, December 8th 1925
  • James Thurber  130

    Saturday, December 8th 1894
  • Amanda McKittrick Ros  164

    Saturday, December 8th 1860
  • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson  192

    Saturday, December 8th 1832
  • Ki Longfellow  80

    Saturday, December 9th 1944
  • Joanna Trollope  81

    Thursday, December 9th 1943
  • Ashleigh Brilliant  91

    Saturday, December 9th 1933
  • Jan Kresadlo  98

    Thursday, December 9th 1926
  • Jerome Beatty Jr.  108

    Saturday, December 9th 1916
  • Dalton Trumbo  119

    Saturday, December 9th 1905
  • Ödön von Horváth  123

    Monday, December 9th 1901
  • Leonie Fuller Adams  125

    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • Jean de Brunhoff  125

    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • George Grossmith  177

    Thursday, December 9th 1847
  • Joel Chandler Harris  179

    Tuesday, December 9th 1845
  • John Milton  416

    Tuesday, December 9th 1608
  • Cornelia Funke  66

    Wednesday, December 10th 1958
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard  71

    Thursday, December 10th 1953
  • Mercer Mayer  81

    Friday, December 10th 1943
  • Clarice Lispector  104

    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Reginald Rose  104

    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Rumer Godden  117

    Tuesday, December 10th 1907
  • Nelly Sachs  133

    Thursday, December 10th 1891
  • Pierre Louÿs  154

    Saturday, December 10th 1870
  • Emily Dickinson  194

    Friday, December 10th 1830
  • George MacDonald  200

    Friday, December 10th 1824
  • Diana Palmer  78

    Wednesday, December 11th 1946
  • Thomas McGuane  85

    Monday, December 11th 1939
  • Jim Harrison  87

    Saturday, December 11th 1937
  • Grace Paley  102

    Monday, December 11th 1922
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  106

    Wednesday, December 11th 1918
  • Naguib Mahfouz  113

    Monday, December 11th 1911
  • Ronald McKie  115

    Saturday, December 11th 1909
  • Robert Henriques  119

    Monday, December 11th 1905
  • Harriet Adams  132

    Sunday, December 11th 1892
  • Vassilis Alexakis  81

    Sunday, December 12th 1943
  • Thomas Powers  84

    Thursday, December 12th 1940
  • John Osborne  95

    Thursday, December 12th 1929
  • Chinghiz Aitmatov  96

    Wednesday, December 12th 1928
  • Patrick O'Brian  110

    Saturday, December 12th 1914
  • Hans Keilson  115

    Sunday, December 12th 1909
  • Manès Sperber  119

    Tuesday, December 12th 1905
  • Gustave Flaubert  203

    Wednesday, December 12th 1821
  • Emma Bull  70

    Monday, December 13th 1954
  • James Wright  97

    Tuesday, December 13th 1927
  • Ross Macdonald  109

    Monday, December 13th 1915
  • Kenneth Patchen  113

    Wednesday, December 13th 1911
  • Heinrich Heine  227

    Wednesday, December 13th 1797
  • Kelley Armstrong  56
    Novelist
    Saturday, December 14th 1968
  • Amy Hempel  73

    Friday, December 14th 1951
  • Gerard Reve  101
    Novelist
    Friday, December 14th 1923
  • Shirley Jackson  108

    Thursday, December 14th 1916
  • Muriel Rukeyser  111

    Monday, December 15th 1913
  • Betty Smith  128

    Tuesday, December 15th 1896
  • Philip K. Dick  96

    Sunday, December 16th 1928
  • Randall Garrett  97

    Friday, December 16th 1927
  • Arthur C. Clarke  107

    Sunday, December 16th 1917
  • Noël Coward  125

    Saturday, December 16th 1899
  • George Santayana  161

    Wednesday, December 16th 1863
  • Jane Austen  249

    Saturday, December 16th 1775
  • William Safire  95

    Tuesday, December 17th 1929
  • Penelope Fitzgerald  108

    Sunday, December 17th 1916
  • Ford Madox Ford  151

    Wednesday, December 17th 1873
  • Jules de Goncourt  194

    Friday, December 17th 1830
  • Saki  154

    Sunday, December 18th 1870
  • Cyril Collard  67

    Thursday, December 19th 1957
  • Salvador Elizondo  92

    Monday, December 19th 1932
  • Italo Svevo  163

    Thursday, December 19th 1861
  • Nalo Hopkinson  64

    Tuesday, December 20th 1960
  • Sandra Cisneros  70

    Monday, December 20th 1954
  • Hortense Calisher  113

    Wednesday, December 20th 1911
  • John Fletcher  445

    Thursday, December 20th 1579
  • John Harvey  86

    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Frank Moorhouse  86

    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Intizar Hussain  101

    Friday, December 21st 1923
  • Heinrich Böll  107

    Friday, December 21st 1917
  • Seicho Matsumoto  115

    Tuesday, December 21st 1909
  • Anthony Powell  119

    Thursday, December 21st 1905
  • Albert Payson Terhune  152

    Saturday, December 21st 1872
  • Eduard Uspenskiy  87

    Wednesday, December 22nd 1937
  • Kenneth Rexroth  119

    Friday, December 22nd 1905
  • Sara Coleridge  201

    Monday, December 22nd 1823
  • Donna Tartt  61

    Monday, December 23rd 1963
  • Avi  87

    Thursday, December 23rd 1937
  • Robert Bly  98

    Thursday, December 23rd 1926
  • Manuel Lopes  117

    Monday, December 23rd 1907
  • Norman Maclean  122

    Tuesday, December 23rd 1902
  • Stephenie Meyer  51

    Monday, December 24th 1973
  • Christopher Buckley  72

    Wednesday, December 24th 1952
  • Nicholas Meyer  79

    Monday, December 24th 1945
  • Mary Higgins Clark  97

    Saturday, December 24th 1927
  • Herbert Reinecker  110

    Thursday, December 24th 1914
  • Fritz Leiber  114

    Saturday, December 24th 1910
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez  143

    Saturday, December 24th 1881
  • Johnny Gruelle  144

    Friday, December 24th 1880
  • Thomas Murner  549

    Friday, December 24th 1475
  • Jimmy Buffett  78

    Wednesday, December 25th 1946
  • Joe Gores  93

    Friday, December 25th 1931
  • Carlos Castaneda  99

    Friday, December 25th 1925
  • Rod Serling  100

    Thursday, December 25th 1924
  • Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah  103

    Sunday, December 25th 1921
  • Quentin Crisp  116

    Friday, December 25th 1908
  • Dorothy Wordsworth  253

    Wednesday, December 25th 1771
  • Robert Muchamore  52

    Tuesday, December 26th 1972
  • Elizabeth Kostova  60

    Saturday, December 26th 1964
  • David Sedaris  68

    Wednesday, December 26th 1956
  • Alejo Carpentier  120

    Monday, December 26th 1904
  • Jean Toomer  130

    Wednesday, December 26th 1894
  • Henry Miller  133

    Saturday, December 26th 1891
  • René Bazin  171

    Monday, December 26th 1853
  • E. D. E. N. Southworth  205

    Sunday, December 26th 1819
  • Sarah Jane Vowell  55

    Saturday, December 27th 1969
  • Wendy Coakley-Thompson  58

    Tuesday, December 27th 1966
  • Cokie Roberts  81

    Monday, December 27th 1943
  • Wilfrid Sheed  94

    Saturday, December 27th 1930
  • Onni Palaste  107

    Thursday, December 27th 1917
  • Charles Olson  114

    Tuesday, December 27th 1910
  • Louis Bromfield  128

    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Carl Zuckmayer  128

    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Andy McNab  65

    Monday, December 28th 1959
  • Manuel Puig  92

    Wednesday, December 28th 1932
  • Simon Raven  97

    Wednesday, December 28th 1927
  • Sam Levenson  113

    Thursday, December 28th 1911
  • William Gaddis  102

    Friday, December 29th 1922
  • Enys Tregarthen - Nellie Cornwall  173

    Monday, December 29th 1851
  • Rudyard Kipling  159

    Saturday, December 30th 1865
  • Nicholas Sparks  59

    Friday, December 31st 1965
  • Susan Shwartz  75

    Saturday, December 31st 1949
  • Connie Willis  79

    Monday, December 31st 1945
  • Edward Bunker  91

    Sunday, December 31st 1933
  • Bob Shaw  93

    Thursday, December 31st 1931
  • Dal Stivens  113

    Sunday, December 31st 1911
  • Horacio Quiroga  146

    Tuesday, December 31st 1878

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