Author Birthdays for January

  • Adam Wisniewski-Snerg  86

    Friday, January 1st 1937
  • Joe Orton  90

    Sunday, January 1st 1933
  • Ernest Tidyman  95

    Sunday, January 1st 1928
  • J.D. Salinger  104

    Wednesday, January 1st 1919
  • E.M. Forster  144

    Wednesday, January 1st 1879
  • Mariano Azuela  150

    Wednesday, January 1st 1873
  • Maria Edgeworth  256

    Thursday, January 1st 1767
  • Hans Herbjørnsrud  85

    Sunday, January 2nd 1938
  • Seiichi Morimura  90

    Monday, January 2nd 1933
  • Charles Beaumont  94

    Wednesday, January 2nd 1929
  • Isaac Asimov  103

    Friday, January 2nd 1920
  • J.R.R. Tolkien  131

    Saturday, January 2nd 1892
  • Mendele Moicher Sforim  187

    Saturday, January 2nd 1836
  • Alex Wheatle  60

    Thursday, January 3rd 1963
  • Francesca Lia Block  61

    Wednesday, January 3rd 1962
  • Blanche d'Alpuget  79

    Monday, January 3rd 1944
  • Henry Handel Richardson  153

    Monday, January 3rd 1870
  • Nabila Jamshed  35

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Nabila Jamshed  35

    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Mark Leyner  67

    Wednesday, January 4th 1956
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin  80

    Monday, January 4th 1943
  • Gao Xingjian  83

    Thursday, January 4th 1940
  • Carl Sandburg  145

    Friday, January 4th 1878
  • Jacob Grimm  238

    Tuesday, January 4th 1785
  • Michael O'Donoghue  83

    Friday, January 5th 1940
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o  85

    Wednesday, January 5th 1938
  • Umberto Eco  91

    Tuesday, January 5th 1932
  • William De Witt Snodgrass  97

    Tuesday, January 5th 1926
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt  102

    Wednesday, January 5th 1921
  • Stella Gibbons  121

    Sunday, January 5th 1902
  • Allen Appel  78

    Saturday, January 6th 1945
  • E.L. Doctorow  92

    Tuesday, January 6th 1931
  • Jacobo Timerman  100

    Saturday, January 6th 1923
  • Vincent Serventy  107

    Thursday, January 6th 1916
  • Alan Watts  108

    Wednesday, January 6th 1915
  • Wright Morris  113

    Thursday, January 6th 1910
  • Kahlil Gibran  140

    Saturday, January 6th 1883
  • Nicholson Baker  66

    Monday, January 7th 1957
  • Shobhaa De  75

    Wednesday, January 7th 1948
  • William Peter Blatty  95

    Saturday, January 7th 1928
  • Zora Neale Hurston  120

    Wednesday, January 7th 1903
  • Terry Brooks  79

    Saturday, January 8th 1944
  • Stephen Hawking  81

    Thursday, January 8th 1942
  • Robert Littell  88

    Tuesday, January 8th 1935
  • Alexandra Ripley  89

    Monday, January 8th 1934
  • Dennis Wheatley  126

    Friday, January 8th 1897
  • Storm Jameson  132

    Thursday, January 8th 1891
  • Wilkie Collins  199

    Thursday, January 8th 1824
  • Hal Niedzviecki  52

    Saturday, January 9th 1971
  • Robert Drewe  80

    Saturday, January 9th 1943
  • John Dunning  81

    Friday, January 9th 1942
  • Anne Rivers Siddons  87

    Thursday, January 9th 1936
  • Wilbur Smith  90

    Monday, January 9th 1933
  • Algis Budrys  92

    Friday, January 9th 1931
  • Judith Krantz  95

    Monday, January 9th 1928
  • Simone de Beauvoir  115

    Thursday, January 9th 1908
  • Karel Capek  133

    Thursday, January 9th 1890
  • Gilbert Abbott à Beckett  212

    Wednesday, January 9th 1811
  • Antonio Muñoz Molina  67

    Tuesday, January 10th 1956
  • William Levy  84

    Tuesday, January 10th 1939
  • Peter Barnes  92

    Saturday, January 10th 1931
  • Philip Levine  95

    Tuesday, January 10th 1928
  • Robinson Jeffers  136

    Monday, January 10th 1887
  • Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi  140

    Wednesday, January 10th 1883
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff  226

    Tuesday, January 10th 1797
  • Marc Acito  57

    Tuesday, January 11th 1966
  • Jasper Fforde  62

    Wednesday, January 11th 1961
  • Jim Hightower  80

    Monday, January 11th 1943
  • Jerome Bixby  100

    Thursday, January 11th 1923
  • Nikos Kavvadias  113

    Tuesday, January 11th 1910
  • Alan Paton  120

    Sunday, January 11th 1903
  • David Mitchell  54

    Sunday, January 12th 1969
  • David Brooks  70
    Novelist
    Monday, January 12th 1953
  • Walter Mosley  71

    Saturday, January 12th 1952
  • Haruki Murakami  74

    Wednesday, January 12th 1949
  • William Nicholson  75

    Monday, January 12th 1948
  • Paul Jarrico  108

    Tuesday, January 12th 1915
  • Ferenc Molnár  145

    Saturday, January 12th 1878
  • Jack London  147

    Wednesday, January 12th 1876
  • Lorrie Moore  66

    Sunday, January 13th 1957
  • Jay McInerney  68

    Thursday, January 13th 1955
  • Edmund White  83

    Saturday, January 13th 1940
  • Ron Goulart  90

    Friday, January 13th 1933
  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun  97

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • Michael Bond  97

    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • A. B. Guthrie, Jr.  122

    Sunday, January 13th 1901
  • Clark Ashton Smith  130

    Friday, January 13th 1893
  • Anchee Min  66

    Monday, January 14th 1957
  • Rosina Lippi  67

    Saturday, January 14th 1956
  • Mary Robison  74

    Friday, January 14th 1949
  • Taylor Branch  76

    Tuesday, January 14th 1947
  • Lars Forssell  95

    Saturday, January 14th 1928
  • Yukio Mishima  98

    Wednesday, January 14th 1925
  • Andy Rooney  104

    Tuesday, January 14th 1919
  • Tillie Olsen  111

    Sunday, January 14th 1912
  • Anatoly Rybakov  112

    Saturday, January 14th 1911
  • Emily Hahn  118

    Saturday, January 14th 1905
  • John Dos Passos  127

    Tuesday, January 14th 1896
  • Hugh Lofting  137

    Thursday, January 14th 1886
  • Pierre Loti  173

    Monday, January 14th 1850
  • Zachris Topelius  205

    Wednesday, January 14th 1818
  • Jose Dalisay, Jr.  69

    Friday, January 15th 1954
  • Robert Silverberg  88

    Tuesday, January 15th 1935
  • Ernest J. Gaines  90

    Sunday, January 15th 1933
  • Nâzim Hikmet  121

    Wednesday, January 15th 1902
  • William Heinesen  123

    Monday, January 15th 1900
  • Osip Mandelstam  132

    Thursday, January 15th 1891
  • Mazo de la Roche  144

    Wednesday, January 15th 1879
  • Arsen Kotsoyev  151

    Monday, January 15th 1872
  • Molière  401

    Saturday, January 15th 1622
  • Garth Ennis  53

    Friday, January 16th 1970
  • Brian Castro  73

    Monday, January 16th 1950
  • Magdalen Nabb  76

    Thursday, January 16th 1947
  • Susan Sontag  90

    Monday, January 16th 1933
  • William Kennedy  95

    Monday, January 16th 1928
  • Stirling Silliphant  105

    Wednesday, January 16th 1918
  • Nat Schachner  128

    Wednesday, January 16th 1895
  • Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer  55

    Wednesday, January 17th 1968
  • Sebastian Junger  61

    Wednesday, January 17th 1962
  • Luis López Nieves  73

    Tuesday, January 17th 1950
  • Robert Cormier  98

    Saturday, January 17th 1925
  • Nevil Shute  124

    Tuesday, January 17th 1899
  • Ronald Firbank  137

    Sunday, January 17th 1886
  • Compton Mackenzie  140

    Wednesday, January 17th 1883
  • May Gibbs  146

    Wednesday, January 17th 1877
  • Tomás Carrasquilla  165

    Sunday, January 17th 1858
  • Anne Brontë  203

    Monday, January 17th 1820
  • Ellen Wood  209

    Monday, January 17th 1814
  • Benjamin Franklin  317

    Sunday, January 17th 1706
  • Raymond Briggs  89

    Thursday, January 18th 1934
  • Robert Anton Wilson  91

    Monday, January 18th 1932
  • Vitomil Zupan  109

    Sunday, January 18th 1914
  • C. M. Eddy, Jr.  127

    Saturday, January 18th 1896
  • A.A. Milne  141

    Wednesday, January 18th 1882
  • Ioan Slavici  175

    Tuesday, January 18th 1848
  • Montesquieu  334

    Tuesday, January 18th 1689
  • Edwidge Danticat  54

    Sunday, January 19th 1969
  • Julian Barnes  77

    Saturday, January 19th 1946
  • Nina Bawden  98

    Monday, January 19th 1925
  • Jean-François Revel  99

    Saturday, January 19th 1924
  • Patricia Highsmith  102

    Wednesday, January 19th 1921
  • Boris Savinkov  144

    Sunday, January 19th 1879
  • Edgar Allan Poe  214

    Thursday, January 19th 1809
  • Bill Maher  67

    Friday, January 20th 1956
  • Edward Hirsch  73

    Friday, January 20th 1950
  • Nancy Kress  75

    Tuesday, January 20th 1948
  • Robert Olen Butler  78

    Saturday, January 20th 1945
  • Qurratulain Hyder  97

    Wednesday, January 20th 1926
  • Joy Adamson  113

    Thursday, January 20th 1910
  • George Burns  127

    Monday, January 20th 1896
  • Johannes Vilhelm Jensen  150

    Monday, January 20th 1873
  • Nathaniel Parker Willis  217

    Monday, January 20th 1806
  • Eugène Sue  219

    Friday, January 20th 1804
  • Jean-Jacques Barthélemy  307

    Monday, January 20th 1716
  • M. K. Hobson  54

    Tuesday, January 21st 1969
  • Forrest Gander  67

    Saturday, January 21st 1956
  • Ludwig Thoma  156

    Monday, January 21st 1867
  • Imre Madách  200

    Tuesday, January 21st 1823
  • Francis Wheen  66

    Tuesday, January 22nd 1957
  • Joseph Wambaugh  86

    Friday, January 22nd 1937
  • Harilal Upadhyay  107

    Saturday, January 22nd 1916
  • Henry Bauchau  110

    Wednesday, January 22nd 1913
  • Robert E. Howard  117

    Monday, January 22nd 1906
  • Arkady Gaidar  119

    Friday, January 22nd 1904
  • Isabel Paterson  137

    Friday, January 22nd 1886
  • Johan August Strindberg  174

    Monday, January 22nd 1849
  • Lord Byron  235

    Tuesday, January 22nd 1788
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing  294

    Saturday, January 22nd 1729
  • Elvira Lindo  61

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1962
  • Derek Walcott  93

    Thursday, January 23rd 1930
  • Walter Michael Miller, Jr.  100

    Tuesday, January 23rd 1923
  • Camilla Collett  210

    Saturday, January 23rd 1813
  • Stendhal  240
    Novelist
    Thursday, January 23rd 1783
  • Benjamin Urrutia  73

    Tuesday, January 24th 1950
  • Eugen Roth  128

    Thursday, January 24th 1895
  • Vicki Baum  135

    Tuesday, January 24th 1888
  • Ethel Turner  151

    Wednesday, January 24th 1872
  • Edith Wharton  161

    Friday, January 24th 1862
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann  247

    Wednesday, January 24th 1776
  • Pierre Beaumarchais  291

    Thursday, January 24th 1732
  • Frances Brooke  299

    Monday, January 24th 1724
  • William Congreve  353

    Friday, January 24th 1670
  • Stephen Chbosky  53

    Sunday, January 25th 1970
  • James Gordon Farrell  88

    Friday, January 25th 1935
  • Russell Braddon  102

    Tuesday, January 25th 1921
  • Yojiro Ishizaka  123

    Thursday, January 25th 1900
  • Hakushu Kitahara  138

    Sunday, January 25th 1885
  • Virginia Woolf  141

    Wednesday, January 25th 1882
  • W. Somerset Maugham  149

    Sunday, January 25th 1874
  • Michael Madhusudan Dutt  199

    Sunday, January 25th 1824
  • Robert Burns  264

    Thursday, January 25th 1759
  • Shannon Hale  49

    Saturday, January 26th 1974
  • Jonathan Carroll  74

    Wednesday, January 26th 1949
  • Corrado Augias  88

    Saturday, January 26th 1935
  • Jules Feiffer  94

    Saturday, January 26th 1929
  • Philip José Farmer  105

    Saturday, January 26th 1918
  • François Coppée  181

    Wednesday, January 26th 1842
  • James Grippando  65

    Monday, January 27th 1958
  • Alexander Stuart  68

    Thursday, January 27th 1955
  • Ethan Mordden  74

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Bruce Weigl  74

    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Clarissa Pinkola Estés  78

    Saturday, January 27th 1945
  • D.M. Thomas  88

    Sunday, January 27th 1935
  • Mordecai Richler  92

    Tuesday, January 27th 1931
  • Gastón Suárez  94

    Sunday, January 27th 1929
  • Ilya Ehrenburg  132

    Tuesday, January 27th 1891
  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch  187

    Wednesday, January 27th 1836
  • Lewis Carroll  191

    Friday, January 27th 1832
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin  197

    Friday, January 27th 1826
  • David Strauss  215

    Wednesday, January 27th 1808
  • Arnaldur Indriðason  62

    Saturday, January 28th 1961
  • John Perkins  78

    Sunday, January 28th 1945
  • Alan Alda  87

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • Ismail Kadare  87

    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • David Lodge  88

    Monday, January 28th 1935
  • Nien Cheng  108

    Thursday, January 28th 1915
  • Aleksander Kaminski  120

    Wednesday, January 28th 1903
  • Valentin Kataev  126

    Thursday, January 28th 1897
  • Marthe Bibesco  137

    Thursday, January 28th 1886
  • Colette  150

    Tuesday, January 28th 1873
  • José Martí  170

    Friday, January 28th 1853
  • Brian Wood  51

    Saturday, January 29th 1972
  • Germaine Greer  84

    Sunday, January 29th 1939
  • Edward Abbey  96

    Saturday, January 29th 1927
  • Paddy Chayefsky  100

    Monday, January 29th 1923
  • Vicente Blasco Ibáñez  156

    Tuesday, January 29th 1867
  • Romain Rolland  157

    Monday, January 29th 1866
  • Anton Chekhov  163

    Sunday, January 29th 1860
  • Judith Tarr  68

    Sunday, January 30th 1955
  • Les Barker  76

    Thursday, January 30th 1947
  • Michael Dorris  78

    Tuesday, January 30th 1945
  • Gregory Benford  82

    Thursday, January 30th 1941
  • Richard Brautigan  90

    Monday, January 30th 1933
  • Allan W. Eckert  92

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Shirley Hazzard  92

    Friday, January 30th 1931
  • Lloyd Alexander  99

    Wednesday, January 30th 1924
  • Anton Hansen Tammsaare  145

    Wednesday, January 30th 1878
  • Connie Booth  79

    Monday, January 31st 1944
  • Derek Jarman  81

    Saturday, January 31st 1942
  • Kenzaburo Oe  88

    Thursday, January 31st 1935
  • Norman Mailer  100

    Wednesday, January 31st 1923
  • Thomas Merton  108

    Sunday, January 31st 1915
  • John O'Hara  118

    Tuesday, January 31st 1905
  • Zane Grey  151

    Wednesday, January 31st 1872
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