Author Birthdays for January
Adam Wisniewski-Snerg 85
Friday, January 1st 1937Joe Orton 89
Sunday, January 1st 1933Ernest Tidyman 94
Sunday, January 1st 1928J.D. Salinger 103
Wednesday, January 1st 1919E.M. Forster 143
Wednesday, January 1st 1879Mariano Azuela 149
Wednesday, January 1st 1873Maria Edgeworth 255
Thursday, January 1st 1767Hans Herbjørnsrud 84
Sunday, January 2nd 1938Seiichi Morimura 89
Monday, January 2nd 1933Charles Beaumont 93
Wednesday, January 2nd 1929Isaac Asimov 102
Friday, January 2nd 1920J.R.R. Tolkien 130
Saturday, January 2nd 1892Mendele Moicher Sforim 186
Saturday, January 2nd 1836Alex Wheatle 59
Thursday, January 3rd 1963Francesca Lia Block 60
Wednesday, January 3rd 1962Blanche d'Alpuget 78
Monday, January 3rd 1944Henry Handel Richardson 152
Monday, January 3rd 1870Nabila Jamshed 34
Monday, January 4th 1988Nabila Jamshed 34
Monday, January 4th 1988Mark Leyner 66
Wednesday, January 4th 1956Doris Kearns Goodwin 79
Monday, January 4th 1943Gao Xingjian 82
Thursday, January 4th 1940Carl Sandburg 144
Friday, January 4th 1878Jacob Grimm 237
Tuesday, January 4th 1785Michael O'Donoghue 82
Friday, January 5th 1940Ngugi wa Thiong'o 84
Wednesday, January 5th 1938Umberto Eco 90
Tuesday, January 5th 1932William De Witt Snodgrass 96
Tuesday, January 5th 1926Friedrich Dürrenmatt 101
Wednesday, January 5th 1921Stella Gibbons 120
Sunday, January 5th 1902Allen Appel 77
Saturday, January 6th 1945E.L. Doctorow 91
Tuesday, January 6th 1931Jacobo Timerman 99
Saturday, January 6th 1923Vincent Serventy 106
Thursday, January 6th 1916Alan Watts 107
Wednesday, January 6th 1915Wright Morris 112
Thursday, January 6th 1910Kahlil Gibran 139
Saturday, January 6th 1883Nicholson Baker 65
Monday, January 7th 1957Shobhaa De 74
Wednesday, January 7th 1948William Peter Blatty 94
Saturday, January 7th 1928Zora Neale Hurston 119
Wednesday, January 7th 1903Terry Brooks 78
Saturday, January 8th 1944Stephen Hawking 80
Thursday, January 8th 1942Robert Littell 87
Tuesday, January 8th 1935Alexandra Ripley 88
Monday, January 8th 1934Dennis Wheatley 125
Friday, January 8th 1897Storm Jameson 131
Thursday, January 8th 1891Wilkie Collins 198
Thursday, January 8th 1824Hal Niedzviecki 51
Saturday, January 9th 1971Robert Drewe 79
Saturday, January 9th 1943John Dunning 80
Friday, January 9th 1942Anne Rivers Siddons 86
Thursday, January 9th 1936Wilbur Smith 89
Monday, January 9th 1933Algis Budrys 91
Friday, January 9th 1931Judith Krantz 94
Monday, January 9th 1928Simone de Beauvoir 114
Thursday, January 9th 1908Karel Capek 132
Thursday, January 9th 1890Gilbert Abbott à Beckett 211
Wednesday, January 9th 1811Antonio Muñoz Molina 66
Tuesday, January 10th 1956William Levy 83
Tuesday, January 10th 1939Peter Barnes 91
Saturday, January 10th 1931Philip Levine 94
Tuesday, January 10th 1928Robinson Jeffers 135
Monday, January 10th 1887Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi 139
Wednesday, January 10th 1883Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 225
Tuesday, January 10th 1797Marc Acito 56
Tuesday, January 11th 1966Jasper Fforde 61
Wednesday, January 11th 1961Jim Hightower 79
Monday, January 11th 1943Jerome Bixby 99
Thursday, January 11th 1923Nikos Kavvadias 112
Tuesday, January 11th 1910Alan Paton 119
Sunday, January 11th 1903David Mitchell 53
Sunday, January 12th 1969David Brooks 69
Novelist
Monday, January 12th 1953Walter Mosley 70
Saturday, January 12th 1952Haruki Murakami 73
Wednesday, January 12th 1949William Nicholson 74
Monday, January 12th 1948Paul Jarrico 107
Tuesday, January 12th 1915Ferenc Molnár 144
Saturday, January 12th 1878Jack London 146
Wednesday, January 12th 1876Lorrie Moore 65
Sunday, January 13th 1957Jay McInerney 67
Thursday, January 13th 1955Edmund White 82
Saturday, January 13th 1940Ron Goulart 89
Friday, January 13th 1933Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 96
Wednesday, January 13th 1926Michael Bond 96
Wednesday, January 13th 1926A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 121
Sunday, January 13th 1901Clark Ashton Smith 129
Friday, January 13th 1893Anchee Min 65
Monday, January 14th 1957Rosina Lippi 66
Saturday, January 14th 1956Mary Robison 73
Friday, January 14th 1949Taylor Branch 75
Tuesday, January 14th 1947Lars Forssell 94
Saturday, January 14th 1928Yukio Mishima 97
Wednesday, January 14th 1925Andy Rooney 103
Tuesday, January 14th 1919Tillie Olsen 110
Sunday, January 14th 1912Anatoly Rybakov 111
Saturday, January 14th 1911Emily Hahn 117
Saturday, January 14th 1905John Dos Passos 126
Tuesday, January 14th 1896Hugh Lofting 136
Thursday, January 14th 1886Pierre Loti 172
Monday, January 14th 1850Zachris Topelius 204
Wednesday, January 14th 1818Jose Dalisay, Jr. 68
Friday, January 15th 1954Robert Silverberg 87
Tuesday, January 15th 1935Ernest J. Gaines 89
Sunday, January 15th 1933Nâzim Hikmet 120
Wednesday, January 15th 1902William Heinesen 122
Monday, January 15th 1900Osip Mandelstam 131
Thursday, January 15th 1891Mazo de la Roche 143
Wednesday, January 15th 1879Arsen Kotsoyev 150
Monday, January 15th 1872Molière 400
Saturday, January 15th 1622Garth Ennis 52
Friday, January 16th 1970Brian Castro 72
Monday, January 16th 1950Magdalen Nabb 75
Thursday, January 16th 1947Susan Sontag 89
Monday, January 16th 1933William Kennedy 94
Monday, January 16th 1928Stirling Silliphant 104
Wednesday, January 16th 1918Nat Schachner 127
Wednesday, January 16th 1895Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 54
Wednesday, January 17th 1968Sebastian Junger 60
Wednesday, January 17th 1962Luis López Nieves 72
Tuesday, January 17th 1950Robert Cormier 97
Saturday, January 17th 1925Nevil Shute 123
Tuesday, January 17th 1899Ronald Firbank 136
Sunday, January 17th 1886Compton Mackenzie 139
Wednesday, January 17th 1883May Gibbs 145
Wednesday, January 17th 1877Tomás Carrasquilla 164
Sunday, January 17th 1858Anne Brontë 202
Monday, January 17th 1820Ellen Wood 208
Monday, January 17th 1814Benjamin Franklin 316
Sunday, January 17th 1706Raymond Briggs 88
Thursday, January 18th 1934Robert Anton Wilson 90
Monday, January 18th 1932Vitomil Zupan 108
Sunday, January 18th 1914C. M. Eddy, Jr. 126
Saturday, January 18th 1896A.A. Milne 140
Wednesday, January 18th 1882Ioan Slavici 174
Tuesday, January 18th 1848Montesquieu 333
Tuesday, January 18th 1689Edwidge Danticat 53
Sunday, January 19th 1969Julian Barnes 76
Saturday, January 19th 1946Nina Bawden 97
Monday, January 19th 1925Jean-François Revel 98
Saturday, January 19th 1924Patricia Highsmith 101
Wednesday, January 19th 1921Boris Savinkov 143
Sunday, January 19th 1879Edgar Allan Poe 213
Thursday, January 19th 1809Bill Maher 66
Friday, January 20th 1956Edward Hirsch 72
Friday, January 20th 1950Nancy Kress 74
Tuesday, January 20th 1948Robert Olen Butler 77
Saturday, January 20th 1945Qurratulain Hyder 96
Wednesday, January 20th 1926Joy Adamson 112
Thursday, January 20th 1910George Burns 126
Monday, January 20th 1896Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 149
Monday, January 20th 1873Nathaniel Parker Willis 216
Monday, January 20th 1806Eugène Sue 218
Friday, January 20th 1804Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 306
Monday, January 20th 1716M. K. Hobson 53
Tuesday, January 21st 1969Forrest Gander 66
Saturday, January 21st 1956Ludwig Thoma 155
Monday, January 21st 1867Imre Madách 199
Tuesday, January 21st 1823Francis Wheen 65
Tuesday, January 22nd 1957Joseph Wambaugh 85
Friday, January 22nd 1937Harilal Upadhyay 106
Saturday, January 22nd 1916Henry Bauchau 109
Wednesday, January 22nd 1913Robert E. Howard 116
Monday, January 22nd 1906Arkady Gaidar 118
Friday, January 22nd 1904Isabel Paterson 136
Friday, January 22nd 1886Johan August Strindberg 173
Monday, January 22nd 1849Lord Byron 234
Tuesday, January 22nd 1788Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 293
Saturday, January 22nd 1729Elvira Lindo 60
Tuesday, January 23rd 1962Derek Walcott 92
Thursday, January 23rd 1930Walter Michael Miller, Jr. 99
Tuesday, January 23rd 1923Camilla Collett 209
Saturday, January 23rd 1813Stendhal 239
Novelist
Thursday, January 23rd 1783Benjamin Urrutia 72
Tuesday, January 24th 1950Eugen Roth 127
Thursday, January 24th 1895Vicki Baum 134
Tuesday, January 24th 1888Ethel Turner 150
Wednesday, January 24th 1872Edith Wharton 160
Friday, January 24th 1862E. T. A. Hoffmann 246
Wednesday, January 24th 1776Pierre Beaumarchais 290
Thursday, January 24th 1732Frances Brooke 298
Monday, January 24th 1724William Congreve 352
Friday, January 24th 1670Stephen Chbosky 52
Sunday, January 25th 1970James Gordon Farrell 87
Friday, January 25th 1935Russell Braddon 101
Tuesday, January 25th 1921Yojiro Ishizaka 122
Thursday, January 25th 1900Hakushu Kitahara 137
Sunday, January 25th 1885Virginia Woolf 140
Wednesday, January 25th 1882W. Somerset Maugham 148
Sunday, January 25th 1874Michael Madhusudan Dutt 198
Sunday, January 25th 1824Robert Burns 263
Thursday, January 25th 1759Shannon Hale 48
Saturday, January 26th 1974Jonathan Carroll 73
Wednesday, January 26th 1949Corrado Augias 87
Saturday, January 26th 1935Jules Feiffer 93
Saturday, January 26th 1929Philip José Farmer 104
Saturday, January 26th 1918François Coppée 180
Wednesday, January 26th 1842James Grippando 64
Monday, January 27th 1958Alexander Stuart 67
Thursday, January 27th 1955Ethan Mordden 73
Thursday, January 27th 1949Bruce Weigl 73
Thursday, January 27th 1949Clarissa Pinkola Estés 77
Saturday, January 27th 1945D.M. Thomas 87
Sunday, January 27th 1935Mordecai Richler 91
Tuesday, January 27th 1931Gastón Suárez 93
Sunday, January 27th 1929Ilya Ehrenburg 131
Tuesday, January 27th 1891Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 186
Wednesday, January 27th 1836Lewis Carroll 190
Friday, January 27th 1832Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 196
Friday, January 27th 1826David Strauss 214
Wednesday, January 27th 1808Arnaldur Indriðason 61
Saturday, January 28th 1961John Perkins 77
Sunday, January 28th 1945Alan Alda 86
Tuesday, January 28th 1936Ismail Kadare 86
Tuesday, January 28th 1936David Lodge 87
Monday, January 28th 1935Nien Cheng 107
Thursday, January 28th 1915Aleksander Kaminski 119
Wednesday, January 28th 1903Valentin Kataev 125
Thursday, January 28th 1897Marthe Bibesco 136
Thursday, January 28th 1886Colette 149
Tuesday, January 28th 1873José Martí 169
Friday, January 28th 1853Brian Wood 50
Saturday, January 29th 1972Germaine Greer 83
Sunday, January 29th 1939Edward Abbey 95
Saturday, January 29th 1927Paddy Chayefsky 99
Monday, January 29th 1923Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 155
Tuesday, January 29th 1867Romain Rolland 156
Monday, January 29th 1866Anton Chekhov 162
Sunday, January 29th 1860Judith Tarr 67
Sunday, January 30th 1955Les Barker 75
Thursday, January 30th 1947Michael Dorris 77
Tuesday, January 30th 1945Gregory Benford 81
Thursday, January 30th 1941Richard Brautigan 89
Monday, January 30th 1933Allan W. Eckert 91
Friday, January 30th 1931Shirley Hazzard 91
Friday, January 30th 1931Lloyd Alexander 98
Wednesday, January 30th 1924Anton Hansen Tammsaare 144
Wednesday, January 30th 1878Connie Booth 78
Monday, January 31st 1944Derek Jarman 80
Saturday, January 31st 1942Kenzaburo Oe 87
Thursday, January 31st 1935Norman Mailer 99
Wednesday, January 31st 1923Thomas Merton 107
Sunday, January 31st 1915John O'Hara 117
Tuesday, January 31st 1905Zane Grey 150
Wednesday, January 31st 1872