Author Birthdays for January
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg 86
Friday, January 1st 1937Joe Orton 90
Sunday, January 1st 1933Ernest Tidyman 95
Sunday, January 1st 1928J.D. Salinger 104
Wednesday, January 1st 1919E.M. Forster 144
Wednesday, January 1st 1879Mariano Azuela 150
Wednesday, January 1st 1873Maria Edgeworth 256
Thursday, January 1st 1767Hans Herbjørnsrud 85
Sunday, January 2nd 1938Seiichi Morimura 90
Monday, January 2nd 1933Charles Beaumont 94
Wednesday, January 2nd 1929Isaac Asimov 103
Friday, January 2nd 1920J.R.R. Tolkien 131
Saturday, January 2nd 1892Mendele Moicher Sforim 187
Saturday, January 2nd 1836Alex Wheatle 60
Thursday, January 3rd 1963Francesca Lia Block 61
Wednesday, January 3rd 1962Blanche d'Alpuget 79
Monday, January 3rd 1944Henry Handel Richardson 153
Monday, January 3rd 1870Nabila Jamshed 35
Monday, January 4th 1988Nabila Jamshed 35
Monday, January 4th 1988Mark Leyner 67
Wednesday, January 4th 1956Doris Kearns Goodwin 80
Monday, January 4th 1943Gao Xingjian 83
Thursday, January 4th 1940Carl Sandburg 145
Friday, January 4th 1878Jacob Grimm 238
Tuesday, January 4th 1785Michael O'Donoghue 83
Friday, January 5th 1940Ngugi wa Thiong'o 85
Wednesday, January 5th 1938Umberto Eco 91
Tuesday, January 5th 1932William De Witt Snodgrass 97
Tuesday, January 5th 1926Friedrich Dürrenmatt 102
Wednesday, January 5th 1921Stella Gibbons 121
Sunday, January 5th 1902Allen Appel 78
Saturday, January 6th 1945E.L. Doctorow 92
Tuesday, January 6th 1931Jacobo Timerman 100
Saturday, January 6th 1923Vincent Serventy 107
Thursday, January 6th 1916Alan Watts 108
Wednesday, January 6th 1915Wright Morris 113
Thursday, January 6th 1910Kahlil Gibran 140
Saturday, January 6th 1883Nicholson Baker 66
Monday, January 7th 1957Shobhaa De 75
Wednesday, January 7th 1948William Peter Blatty 95
Saturday, January 7th 1928Zora Neale Hurston 120
Wednesday, January 7th 1903Terry Brooks 79
Saturday, January 8th 1944Stephen Hawking 81
Thursday, January 8th 1942Robert Littell 88
Tuesday, January 8th 1935Alexandra Ripley 89
Monday, January 8th 1934Dennis Wheatley 126
Friday, January 8th 1897Storm Jameson 132
Thursday, January 8th 1891Wilkie Collins 199
Thursday, January 8th 1824Hal Niedzviecki 52
Saturday, January 9th 1971Robert Drewe 80
Saturday, January 9th 1943John Dunning 81
Friday, January 9th 1942Anne Rivers Siddons 87
Thursday, January 9th 1936Wilbur Smith 90
Monday, January 9th 1933Algis Budrys 92
Friday, January 9th 1931Judith Krantz 95
Monday, January 9th 1928Simone de Beauvoir 115
Thursday, January 9th 1908Karel Capek 133
Thursday, January 9th 1890Gilbert Abbott à Beckett 212
Wednesday, January 9th 1811Antonio Muñoz Molina 67
Tuesday, January 10th 1956William Levy 84
Tuesday, January 10th 1939Peter Barnes 92
Saturday, January 10th 1931Philip Levine 95
Tuesday, January 10th 1928Robinson Jeffers 136
Monday, January 10th 1887Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi 140
Wednesday, January 10th 1883Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 226
Tuesday, January 10th 1797Marc Acito 57
Tuesday, January 11th 1966Jasper Fforde 62
Wednesday, January 11th 1961Jim Hightower 80
Monday, January 11th 1943Jerome Bixby 100
Thursday, January 11th 1923Nikos Kavvadias 113
Tuesday, January 11th 1910Alan Paton 120
Sunday, January 11th 1903David Mitchell 54
Sunday, January 12th 1969David Brooks 70
Novelist
Monday, January 12th 1953Walter Mosley 71
Saturday, January 12th 1952Haruki Murakami 74
Wednesday, January 12th 1949William Nicholson 75
Monday, January 12th 1948Paul Jarrico 108
Tuesday, January 12th 1915Ferenc Molnár 145
Saturday, January 12th 1878Jack London 147
Wednesday, January 12th 1876Lorrie Moore 66
Sunday, January 13th 1957Jay McInerney 68
Thursday, January 13th 1955Edmund White 83
Saturday, January 13th 1940Ron Goulart 90
Friday, January 13th 1933Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 97
Wednesday, January 13th 1926Michael Bond 97
Wednesday, January 13th 1926A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 122
Sunday, January 13th 1901Clark Ashton Smith 130
Friday, January 13th 1893Anchee Min 66
Monday, January 14th 1957Rosina Lippi 67
Saturday, January 14th 1956Mary Robison 74
Friday, January 14th 1949Taylor Branch 76
Tuesday, January 14th 1947Lars Forssell 95
Saturday, January 14th 1928Yukio Mishima 98
Wednesday, January 14th 1925Andy Rooney 104
Tuesday, January 14th 1919Tillie Olsen 111
Sunday, January 14th 1912Anatoly Rybakov 112
Saturday, January 14th 1911Emily Hahn 118
Saturday, January 14th 1905John Dos Passos 127
Tuesday, January 14th 1896Hugh Lofting 137
Thursday, January 14th 1886Pierre Loti 173
Monday, January 14th 1850Zachris Topelius 205
Wednesday, January 14th 1818Jose Dalisay, Jr. 69
Friday, January 15th 1954Robert Silverberg 88
Tuesday, January 15th 1935Ernest J. Gaines 90
Sunday, January 15th 1933Nâzim Hikmet 121
Wednesday, January 15th 1902William Heinesen 123
Monday, January 15th 1900Osip Mandelstam 132
Thursday, January 15th 1891Mazo de la Roche 144
Wednesday, January 15th 1879Arsen Kotsoyev 151
Monday, January 15th 1872Molière 401
Saturday, January 15th 1622Garth Ennis 53
Friday, January 16th 1970Brian Castro 73
Monday, January 16th 1950Magdalen Nabb 76
Thursday, January 16th 1947Susan Sontag 90
Monday, January 16th 1933William Kennedy 95
Monday, January 16th 1928Stirling Silliphant 105
Wednesday, January 16th 1918Nat Schachner 128
Wednesday, January 16th 1895Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 55
Wednesday, January 17th 1968Sebastian Junger 61
Wednesday, January 17th 1962Luis López Nieves 73
Tuesday, January 17th 1950Robert Cormier 98
Saturday, January 17th 1925Nevil Shute 124
Tuesday, January 17th 1899Ronald Firbank 137
Sunday, January 17th 1886Compton Mackenzie 140
Wednesday, January 17th 1883May Gibbs 146
Wednesday, January 17th 1877Tomás Carrasquilla 165
Sunday, January 17th 1858Anne Brontë 203
Monday, January 17th 1820Ellen Wood 209
Monday, January 17th 1814Benjamin Franklin 317
Sunday, January 17th 1706Raymond Briggs 89
Thursday, January 18th 1934Robert Anton Wilson 91
Monday, January 18th 1932Vitomil Zupan 109
Sunday, January 18th 1914C. M. Eddy, Jr. 127
Saturday, January 18th 1896A.A. Milne 141
Wednesday, January 18th 1882Ioan Slavici 175
Tuesday, January 18th 1848Montesquieu 334
Tuesday, January 18th 1689Edwidge Danticat 54
Sunday, January 19th 1969Julian Barnes 77
Saturday, January 19th 1946Nina Bawden 98
Monday, January 19th 1925Jean-François Revel 99
Saturday, January 19th 1924Patricia Highsmith 102
Wednesday, January 19th 1921Boris Savinkov 144
Sunday, January 19th 1879Edgar Allan Poe 214
Thursday, January 19th 1809Bill Maher 67
Friday, January 20th 1956Edward Hirsch 73
Friday, January 20th 1950Nancy Kress 75
Tuesday, January 20th 1948Robert Olen Butler 78
Saturday, January 20th 1945Qurratulain Hyder 97
Wednesday, January 20th 1926Joy Adamson 113
Thursday, January 20th 1910George Burns 127
Monday, January 20th 1896Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 150
Monday, January 20th 1873Nathaniel Parker Willis 217
Monday, January 20th 1806Eugène Sue 219
Friday, January 20th 1804Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 307
Monday, January 20th 1716M. K. Hobson 54
Tuesday, January 21st 1969Forrest Gander 67
Saturday, January 21st 1956Ludwig Thoma 156
Monday, January 21st 1867Imre Madách 200
Tuesday, January 21st 1823Francis Wheen 66
Tuesday, January 22nd 1957Joseph Wambaugh 86
Friday, January 22nd 1937Harilal Upadhyay 107
Saturday, January 22nd 1916Henry Bauchau 110
Wednesday, January 22nd 1913Robert E. Howard 117
Monday, January 22nd 1906Arkady Gaidar 119
Friday, January 22nd 1904Isabel Paterson 137
Friday, January 22nd 1886Johan August Strindberg 174
Monday, January 22nd 1849Lord Byron 235
Tuesday, January 22nd 1788Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 294
Saturday, January 22nd 1729Elvira Lindo 61
Tuesday, January 23rd 1962Derek Walcott 93
Thursday, January 23rd 1930Walter Michael Miller, Jr. 100
Tuesday, January 23rd 1923Camilla Collett 210
Saturday, January 23rd 1813Stendhal 240
Novelist
Thursday, January 23rd 1783Benjamin Urrutia 73
Tuesday, January 24th 1950Eugen Roth 128
Thursday, January 24th 1895Vicki Baum 135
Tuesday, January 24th 1888Ethel Turner 151
Wednesday, January 24th 1872Edith Wharton 161
Friday, January 24th 1862E. T. A. Hoffmann 247
Wednesday, January 24th 1776Pierre Beaumarchais 291
Thursday, January 24th 1732Frances Brooke 299
Monday, January 24th 1724William Congreve 353
Friday, January 24th 1670Stephen Chbosky 53
Sunday, January 25th 1970James Gordon Farrell 88
Friday, January 25th 1935Russell Braddon 102
Tuesday, January 25th 1921Yojiro Ishizaka 123
Thursday, January 25th 1900Hakushu Kitahara 138
Sunday, January 25th 1885Virginia Woolf 141
Wednesday, January 25th 1882W. Somerset Maugham 149
Sunday, January 25th 1874Michael Madhusudan Dutt 199
Sunday, January 25th 1824Robert Burns 264
Thursday, January 25th 1759Shannon Hale 49
Saturday, January 26th 1974Jonathan Carroll 74
Wednesday, January 26th 1949Corrado Augias 88
Saturday, January 26th 1935Jules Feiffer 94
Saturday, January 26th 1929Philip José Farmer 105
Saturday, January 26th 1918François Coppée 181
Wednesday, January 26th 1842James Grippando 65
Monday, January 27th 1958Alexander Stuart 68
Thursday, January 27th 1955Ethan Mordden 74
Thursday, January 27th 1949Bruce Weigl 74
Thursday, January 27th 1949Clarissa Pinkola Estés 78
Saturday, January 27th 1945D.M. Thomas 88
Sunday, January 27th 1935Mordecai Richler 92
Tuesday, January 27th 1931Gastón Suárez 94
Sunday, January 27th 1929Ilya Ehrenburg 132
Tuesday, January 27th 1891Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 187
Wednesday, January 27th 1836Lewis Carroll 191
Friday, January 27th 1832Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 197
Friday, January 27th 1826David Strauss 215
Wednesday, January 27th 1808Arnaldur Indriðason 62
Saturday, January 28th 1961John Perkins 78
Sunday, January 28th 1945Alan Alda 87
Tuesday, January 28th 1936Ismail Kadare 87
Tuesday, January 28th 1936David Lodge 88
Monday, January 28th 1935Nien Cheng 108
Thursday, January 28th 1915Aleksander Kaminski 120
Wednesday, January 28th 1903Valentin Kataev 126
Thursday, January 28th 1897Marthe Bibesco 137
Thursday, January 28th 1886Colette 150
Tuesday, January 28th 1873José Martí 170
Friday, January 28th 1853Brian Wood 51
Saturday, January 29th 1972Germaine Greer 84
Sunday, January 29th 1939Edward Abbey 96
Saturday, January 29th 1927Paddy Chayefsky 100
Monday, January 29th 1923Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 156
Tuesday, January 29th 1867Romain Rolland 157
Monday, January 29th 1866Anton Chekhov 163
Sunday, January 29th 1860Judith Tarr 68
Sunday, January 30th 1955Les Barker 76
Thursday, January 30th 1947Michael Dorris 78
Tuesday, January 30th 1945Gregory Benford 82
Thursday, January 30th 1941Richard Brautigan 90
Monday, January 30th 1933Allan W. Eckert 92
Friday, January 30th 1931Shirley Hazzard 92
Friday, January 30th 1931Lloyd Alexander 99
Wednesday, January 30th 1924Anton Hansen Tammsaare 145
Wednesday, January 30th 1878Connie Booth 79
Monday, January 31st 1944Derek Jarman 81
Saturday, January 31st 1942Kenzaburo Oe 88
Thursday, January 31st 1935Norman Mailer 100
Wednesday, January 31st 1923Thomas Merton 108
Sunday, January 31st 1915John O'Hara 118
Tuesday, January 31st 1905Zane Grey 151
Wednesday, January 31st 1872