Author Birthdays for December
Billy Childish 64
Tuesday, December 1st 1959Jan Brett 74
Thursday, December 1st 1949Daniel Pennac 79
Friday, December 1st 1944Tahar Ben Jelloun 79
Friday, December 1st 1944John Crowley 81
Tuesday, December 1st 1942Woody Allen 88
Sunday, December 1st 1935Henry Williamson 128
Sunday, December 1st 1895Rex Stout 137
Wednesday, December 1st 1886Ann Patchett 60
Monday, December 2nd 1963George Saunders 65
Tuesday, December 2nd 1958Elizabeth Berg 75
Thursday, December 2nd 1948T. Coraghessan Boyle 75
Thursday, December 2nd 1948Botho Strauss 79
Saturday, December 2nd 1944Yael Dayan 84
Saturday, December 2nd 1939Nigel Calder 92
Wednesday, December 2nd 1931Iakovos Kambanelis 101
Saturday, December 2nd 1922Charles H. Wesley 132
Wednesday, December 2nd 1891Zlata Filipovic 43
Wednesday, December 3rd 1980Grace Andreacchi 69
Friday, December 3rd 1954Franz Josef Degenhardt 92
Thursday, December 3rd 1931F. Sionil José 99
Wednesday, December 3rd 1924Joseph Conrad 166
Thursday, December 3rd 1857Ludvig Holberg 339
Sunday, December 3rd 1684Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio 96
Sunday, December 4th 1927E.J. Kahn, Jr. 107
Monday, December 4th 1916Cornell Woolrich 120
Friday, December 4th 1903Katharine Susannah Prichard 140
Tuesday, December 4th 1883Rainer Maria Rilke 148
Saturday, December 4th 1875Samuel Butler 188
Friday, December 4th 1835Thomas Carlyle 228
Friday, December 4th 1795Lydia Millet 55
Thursday, December 5th 1968Peter Pohl 83
Thursday, December 5th 1940John Berendt 84
Tuesday, December 5th 1939James Lee Burke 87
Saturday, December 5th 1936Calvin Trillin 88
Thursday, December 5th 1935Joan Didion 89
Wednesday, December 5th 1934Hans Hellmut Kirst 109
Saturday, December 5th 1914Rose Wilder Lane 137
Sunday, December 5th 1886Ellis Parker Butler 154
Sunday, December 5th 1869Peter Handke 81
Sunday, December 6th 1942Elizabeth Yates 118
Wednesday, December 6th 1905Ira Gershwin 127
Sunday, December 6th 1896Osbert Sitwell 131
Tuesday, December 6th 1892Joyce Kilmer 137
Monday, December 6th 1886Evelyn Underhill 148
Monday, December 6th 1875Arthur Henry Adams 151
Friday, December 6th 1872Baldassare Castiglione 545
Friday, December 6th 1478Andrea Claudio Galluzzo 54
Sunday, December 7th 1969Harry Chapin 81
Monday, December 7th 1942Noam Chomsky 95
Friday, December 7th 1928Tatamkulu Afrika 103
Tuesday, December 7th 1920Kersti Merilaas 110
Sunday, December 7th 1913Joyce Cary 135
Friday, December 7th 1888Willa Cather 150
Sunday, December 7th 1873Paul Adam 161
Sunday, December 7th 1862Jackie Kessler 53
Tuesday, December 8th 1970Louis de Bernieres 69
Wednesday, December 8th 1954Bill Bryson 72
Saturday, December 8th 1951Mary Gordon 74
Thursday, December 8th 1949Kati-Claudia Fofonoff 76
Monday, December 8th 1947John Banville 78
Saturday, December 8th 1945Carmen Martín Gaite 98
Tuesday, December 8th 1925James Thurber 129
Saturday, December 8th 1894Amanda McKittrick Ros 163
Saturday, December 8th 1860Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 191
Saturday, December 8th 1832Ki Longfellow 79
Saturday, December 9th 1944Joanna Trollope 80
Thursday, December 9th 1943Ashleigh Brilliant 90
Saturday, December 9th 1933Jan Kresadlo 97
Thursday, December 9th 1926Jerome Beatty Jr. 107
Saturday, December 9th 1916Dalton Trumbo 118
Saturday, December 9th 1905Ödön von Horváth 122
Monday, December 9th 1901Leonie Fuller Adams 124
Saturday, December 9th 1899Jean de Brunhoff 124
Saturday, December 9th 1899George Grossmith 176
Thursday, December 9th 1847Joel Chandler Harris 178
Tuesday, December 9th 1845John Milton 415
Tuesday, December 9th 1608Cornelia Funke 65
Wednesday, December 10th 1958Jacquelyn Mitchard 70
Thursday, December 10th 1953Mercer Mayer 80
Friday, December 10th 1943Reginald Rose 103
Friday, December 10th 1920Clarice Lispector 103
Friday, December 10th 1920Rumer Godden 116
Tuesday, December 10th 1907Nelly Sachs 132
Thursday, December 10th 1891Pierre Louÿs 153
Saturday, December 10th 1870Emily Dickinson 193
Friday, December 10th 1830George MacDonald 199
Friday, December 10th 1824Diana Palmer 77
Wednesday, December 11th 1946Thomas McGuane 84
Monday, December 11th 1939Jim Harrison 86
Saturday, December 11th 1937Grace Paley 101
Monday, December 11th 1922Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 105
Wednesday, December 11th 1918Naguib Mahfouz 112
Monday, December 11th 1911Ronald McKie 114
Saturday, December 11th 1909Robert Henriques 118
Monday, December 11th 1905Harriet Adams 131
Sunday, December 11th 1892Vassilis Alexakis 80
Sunday, December 12th 1943Thomas Powers 83
Thursday, December 12th 1940John Osborne 94
Thursday, December 12th 1929Chinghiz Aitmatov 95
Wednesday, December 12th 1928Patrick O'Brian 109
Saturday, December 12th 1914Hans Keilson 114
Sunday, December 12th 1909Manès Sperber 118
Tuesday, December 12th 1905Gustave Flaubert 202
Wednesday, December 12th 1821Emma Bull 69
Monday, December 13th 1954James Wright 96
Tuesday, December 13th 1927Ross Macdonald 108
Monday, December 13th 1915Kenneth Patchen 112
Wednesday, December 13th 1911Heinrich Heine 226
Wednesday, December 13th 1797Kelley Armstrong 55
Novelist
Saturday, December 14th 1968Amy Hempel 72
Friday, December 14th 1951Gerard Reve 100
Novelist
Friday, December 14th 1923Shirley Jackson 107
Thursday, December 14th 1916Muriel Rukeyser 110
Monday, December 15th 1913Betty Smith 127
Tuesday, December 15th 1896Philip K. Dick 95
Sunday, December 16th 1928Randall Garrett 96
Friday, December 16th 1927Arthur C. Clarke 106
Sunday, December 16th 1917Noël Coward 124
Saturday, December 16th 1899George Santayana 160
Wednesday, December 16th 1863Jane Austen 248
Saturday, December 16th 1775William Safire 94
Tuesday, December 17th 1929Penelope Fitzgerald 107
Sunday, December 17th 1916Ford Madox Ford 150
Wednesday, December 17th 1873Jules de Goncourt 193
Friday, December 17th 1830Saki 153
Sunday, December 18th 1870Cyril Collard 66
Thursday, December 19th 1957Salvador Elizondo 91
Monday, December 19th 1932Italo Svevo 162
Thursday, December 19th 1861Nalo Hopkinson 63
Tuesday, December 20th 1960Sandra Cisneros 69
Monday, December 20th 1954Hortense Calisher 112
Wednesday, December 20th 1911John Fletcher 444
Thursday, December 20th 1579Frank Moorhouse 85
Wednesday, December 21st 1938John Harvey 85
Wednesday, December 21st 1938Intizar Hussain 100
Friday, December 21st 1923Heinrich Böll 106
Friday, December 21st 1917Seicho Matsumoto 114
Tuesday, December 21st 1909Anthony Powell 118
Thursday, December 21st 1905Albert Payson Terhune 151
Saturday, December 21st 1872Eduard Uspenskiy 86
Wednesday, December 22nd 1937Kenneth Rexroth 118
Friday, December 22nd 1905Sara Coleridge 200
Monday, December 22nd 1823Donna Tartt 60
Monday, December 23rd 1963Avi 86
Thursday, December 23rd 1937Robert Bly 97
Thursday, December 23rd 1926Manuel Lopes 116
Monday, December 23rd 1907Norman Maclean 121
Tuesday, December 23rd 1902Stephenie Meyer 50
Monday, December 24th 1973Christopher Buckley 71
Wednesday, December 24th 1952Nicholas Meyer 78
Monday, December 24th 1945Mary Higgins Clark 96
Saturday, December 24th 1927Herbert Reinecker 109
Thursday, December 24th 1914Fritz Leiber 113
Saturday, December 24th 1910Juan Ramón Jiménez 142
Saturday, December 24th 1881Johnny Gruelle 143
Friday, December 24th 1880Thomas Murner 548
Friday, December 24th 1475Jimmy Buffett 77
Wednesday, December 25th 1946Joe Gores 92
Friday, December 25th 1931Carlos Castaneda 98
Friday, December 25th 1925Rod Serling 99
Thursday, December 25th 1924Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah 102
Sunday, December 25th 1921Quentin Crisp 115
Friday, December 25th 1908Dorothy Wordsworth 252
Wednesday, December 25th 1771Robert Muchamore 51
Tuesday, December 26th 1972Elizabeth Kostova 59
Saturday, December 26th 1964David Sedaris 67
Wednesday, December 26th 1956Alejo Carpentier 119
Monday, December 26th 1904Jean Toomer 129
Wednesday, December 26th 1894Henry Miller 132
Saturday, December 26th 1891René Bazin 170
Monday, December 26th 1853E. D. E. N. Southworth 204
Sunday, December 26th 1819Sarah Jane Vowell 54
Saturday, December 27th 1969Wendy Coakley-Thompson 57
Tuesday, December 27th 1966Cokie Roberts 80
Monday, December 27th 1943Wilfrid Sheed 93
Saturday, December 27th 1930Onni Palaste 106
Thursday, December 27th 1917Charles Olson 113
Tuesday, December 27th 1910Louis Bromfield 127
Sunday, December 27th 1896Carl Zuckmayer 127
Sunday, December 27th 1896Andy McNab 64
Monday, December 28th 1959Manuel Puig 91
Wednesday, December 28th 1932Simon Raven 96
Wednesday, December 28th 1927Sam Levenson 112
Thursday, December 28th 1911William Gaddis 101
Friday, December 29th 1922Enys Tregarthen - Nellie Cornwall 172
Monday, December 29th 1851Rudyard Kipling 158
Saturday, December 30th 1865Nicholas Sparks 58
Friday, December 31st 1965Susan Shwartz 74
Saturday, December 31st 1949Connie Willis 78
Monday, December 31st 1945Edward Bunker 90
Sunday, December 31st 1933Bob Shaw 92
Thursday, December 31st 1931Dal Stivens 112
Sunday, December 31st 1911Horacio Quiroga 145
Tuesday, December 31st 1878