Author Birthdays for July

  • Jean Stafford  106

    Thursday, July 1st 1915
  • James M. Cain  129

    Friday, July 1st 1892
  • George Sand  217

    Sunday, July 1st 1804
  • Wislawa Szymborska  98

    Monday, July 2nd 1923
  • Hermann Hesse  144

    Monday, July 2nd 1877
  • William Le Queux  157

    Saturday, July 2nd 1864
  • Dave Barry  74

    Thursday, July 3rd 1947
  • Tom Stoppard  84

    Saturday, July 3rd 1937
  • M.F.K. Fisher  113

    Friday, July 3rd 1908
  • Franz Kafka  138

    Tuesday, July 3rd 1883
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman  161

    Tuesday, July 3rd 1860
  • Richard Rhodes  84

    Sunday, July 4th 1937
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne  217

    Wednesday, July 4th 1804
  • Craig Nova  76

    Thursday, July 5th 1945
  • Jean Cocteau  132
    Poet, Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, July 5th 1889
  • Kathryn Hulme  121

    Friday, July 6th 1900
  • Robert Heinlein  114

    Sunday, July 7th 1907
  • J.F. Powers  104

    Sunday, July 8th 1917
  • Richard Aldington  129

    Friday, July 8th 1892
  • Dean Koontz  76

    Monday, July 9th 1945
  • Oliver Sacks  88

    Sunday, July 9th 1933
  • Fanny Fern  110

    Sunday, July 9th 1911
  • Alice Munro  90

    Friday, July 10th 1931
  • John Wyndham  118

    Friday, July 10th 1903
  • Marcel Proust  150
    Novelist
    Monday, July 10th 1871
  • Harold Bloom  91

    Friday, July 11th 1930
  • E. B. White  122

    Tuesday, July 11th 1899
  • Donald E. Westlake  88

    Wednesday, July 12th 1933
  • Pablo Neruda  117

    Tuesday, July 12th 1904
  • Henry David Thoreau  204

    Saturday, July 12th 1817
  • Woody Guthrie  109

    Sunday, July 14th 1912
  • Richard Pini   71
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, July 15th 1950
  • Richard Russo  72
    Novelist
    Friday, July 15th 1949
  • Iris Murdoch  102
    Novelist
    Tuesday, July 15th 1919
  • Linda Salzman  81

    Tuesday, July 16th 1940
  • Caroline Blackwood  90

    Thursday, July 16th 1931
  • Anita Brookner  93

    Monday, July 16th 1928
  • J. Michael Straczynski  67

    Saturday, July 17th 1954
  • James Purdy  98

    Tuesday, July 17th 1923
  • Christina Stead  119

    Thursday, July 17th 1902
  • Jared Hess  42
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, July 18th 1979
  • Alfian Sa'at  44
    Poet, Playwright
    Monday, July 18th 1977
  • Alan Morrison  47
    Poet
    Thursday, July 18th 1974
  • M.J. Alexander  60
    Poet, Playwright
    Tuesday, July 18th 1961
  • Hunter S. Thompson  82
    Journalist
    Tuesday, July 18th 1939
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko  88
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, July 18th 1933
  • Margaret Laurence  95
    Novelist
    Sunday, July 18th 1926
  • Robert Sloman  95
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, July 18th 1926
  • Clifford Odets  115
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Wednesday, July 18th 1906
  • Jessamyn West  119
    Novelist
    Friday, July 18th 1902
  • Nathalie Sarraute  121
    Novelist
    Wednesday, July 18th 1900
  • Rose Hartwick Thorpe  171
    Poet
    Thursday, July 18th 1850
  • Tristan Corbière  176
    Poet
    Friday, July 18th 1845
  • William Makepeace Thackeray  210
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 18th 1811
  • Garth Nix  58
    Novelist
    Friday, July 19th 1963
  • Aya Kitō  59
    Memoirist
    Thursday, July 19th 1962
  • Srđa Trifković  67
    Journalist
    Monday, July 19th 1954
  • Jayne Anne Phillips  69
    Novelist
    Saturday, July 19th 1952
  • Jayson Stark  70
    Journalist
    Thursday, July 19th 1951
  • Joseph Hansen  98
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 19th 1923
  • William A. Rusher  98
    Columnist
    Thursday, July 19th 1923
  • Miltos Sachtouris  102
    Poet
    Saturday, July 19th 1919
  • Eve Merriam  105
    Poet, Playwright
    Wednesday, July 19th 1916
  • A. J. Cronin  125
    Novelist
    Sunday, July 19th 1896
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky  128
    Poet, Playwright
    Wednesday, July 19th 1893
  • Ferdinand Brunetière  172
    Essayist
    Thursday, July 19th 1849
  • Gottfried Keller  202
    Novelist
    Monday, July 19th 1819
  • Heinrich Christian Boie  277
    Poet
    Sunday, July 19th 1744
  • Dan Shaughnessy  68
    Journalist
    Monday, July 20th 1953
  • Thomas Friedman  68
    Journalist
    Monday, July 20th 1953
  • Adrian Păunescu  78
    Poet, Journalist
    Tuesday, July 20th 1943
  • Periklis Korovesis  80
    Journalist
    Sunday, July 20th 1941
  • Uwe Johnson  87
    Novelist
    Friday, July 20th 1934
  • Cormac McCarthy  88
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 20th 1933
  • Giannis Agouris  91
    Journalist
    Sunday, July 20th 1930
  • Frantz Fanon  96
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, July 20th 1925
  • Thomas Berger  97
    Novelist
    Sunday, July 20th 1924
  • Stanisław Albinowski  98
    Journalist
    Friday, July 20th 1923
  • George Johnston  109
    Journalist, Novelist
    Saturday, July 20th 1912
  • Erik Axel Karlfeldt  157
    Poet
    Wednesday, July 20th 1864
  • Sir George Trevelyan  183
    Biographer
    Friday, July 20th 1838
  • Augustin Daly  183
    Playwright
    Friday, July 20th 1838
  • Petrarch  717
    Poet
    Sunday, July 20th 1304
  • Sarah Waters  55
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 21st 1966
  • Michael Connelly  65
    Novelist
    Saturday, July 21st 1956
  • Ed Hinton  73
    Journalist
    Wednesday, July 21st 1948
  • William S. Burroughs, Jr.  74
    Poet
    Monday, July 21st 1947
  • Tess Gallagher  78
    Poet, Playwright
    Wednesday, July 21st 1943
  • John Gardner  88
    Novelist
    Friday, July 21st 1933
  • Marshall McLuhan  110
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, July 21st 1911
  • Ernest Hemingway  122
    Novelist
    Friday, July 21st 1899
  • Hart Crane  127
    Poet
    Saturday, July 21st 1894
  • Hans Fallada  128
    Novelist
    Friday, July 21st 1893
  • Frances Parkinson Keyes  136
    Novelist
    Tuesday, July 21st 1885
  • Paul Reuter  205
    Journalist
    Sunday, July 21st 1816
  • Matthew Prior  357
    Poet
    Monday, July 21st 1664
  • Don Van Natta, Jr.  57
    Journalist
    Wednesday, July 22nd 1964
  • Paul Quarrington  68
    Novelist, Playwright
    Wednesday, July 22nd 1953
  • S. E. Hinton  73
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 22nd 1948
  • Paul Schrader  75
    Screenwriter
    Monday, July 22nd 1946
  • Tom Robbins  85
    Novelist
    Wednesday, July 22nd 1936
  • Bryan Forbes  95
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, July 22nd 1926
  • Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah  106
    Essayist
    Thursday, July 22nd 1915
  • Wayne Robbins  107
    Short Stories
    Wednesday, July 22nd 1914
  • Ormond Robbins  107
    Novelist
    Wednesday, July 22nd 1914
  • Stephen Vincent Benet  123
    Poet, Short Stories, Novelist
    Friday, July 22nd 1898
  • León de Greiff  126
    Poet
    Monday, July 22nd 1895
  • Janusz Korczak  143
    Children's Literature
    Monday, July 22nd 1878
  • Frederick Rolfe - Baron Corvo  161
    Novelist
    Sunday, July 22nd 1860
  • Emma Lazarus  172
    Poet
    Sunday, July 22nd 1849
  • Mikhail Shcherbatov  288
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, July 22nd 1733
  • Joel Stein  50
    Journalist
    Friday, July 23rd 1971
  • Thea Dorn  51
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 23rd 1970
  • Gardner Dozois  74
    Short Stories
    Wednesday, July 23rd 1947
  • Lisa Alther  77
    Novelist
    Sunday, July 23rd 1944
  • Claude Fournier  90
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, July 23rd 1931
  • Guy Fournier  90
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Thursday, July 23rd 1931
  • Hubert Selby, Jr.  93
    Novelist
    Monday, July 23rd 1928
  • Gérard Brach  94
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, July 23rd 1927
  • Gavin Lambert  97
    Screenwriter, Novelist
    Wednesday, July 23rd 1924
  • Cyril M. Kornbluth  98
    Novelist
    Monday, July 23rd 1923
  • Davis Grubb  102
    Novelist
    Wednesday, July 23rd 1919
  • M. H. Abrams  109
    Non-Fiction
    Tuesday, July 23rd 1912
  • Raymond Chandler  133
    Novelist
    Monday, July 23rd 1888
  • Mark Andrew Smith  42
    Comic Book Writer
    Tuesday, July 24th 1979
  • John Rosengren  57
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, July 24th 1964
  • Colleen Doran  58
    Comic Book Writer
    Wednesday, July 24th 1963
  • Marc Jampole  71
    Poet, Journalist
    Monday, July 24th 1950
  • Arliss Ryan  71
    Novelist
    Monday, July 24th 1950
  • Geoff McQueen  74
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, July 24th 1947
  • Alfred Balk  91
    Journalist
    Thursday, July 24th 1930
  • Madeleine Ferron  99
    Novelist
    Monday, July 24th 1922
  • John D. MacDonald  105
    Novelist
    Monday, July 24th 1916
  • Robert Graves  126
    Poet, Novelist
    Wednesday, July 24th 1895
  • Jun'ichirō Tanizaki  135
    Novelist
    Saturday, July 24th 1886
  • Edward Plunkett  143
    Novelist, Playwright
    Wednesday, July 24th 1878
  • Oswald Chambers  147
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, July 24th 1874
  • E. F. Benson  154
    Novelist
    Wednesday, July 24th 1867
  • Vicente Acosta  154
    Poet
    Wednesday, July 24th 1867
  • Frank Wedekind  157
    Playwright
    Sunday, July 24th 1864
  • Henrik Pontoppidan  164
    Novelist
    Friday, July 24th 1857
  • William Gillette  168
    Playwright
    Sunday, July 24th 1853
  • Alexandre Dumas  219
    Novelist
    Saturday, July 24th 1802
  • Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan  45
    Poet
    Sunday, July 25th 1976
  • Claude Zidi  87
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, July 25th 1934
  • Alice Parizeau  91
    Novelist, Journalist
    Friday, July 25th 1930
  • Midge Decter  94
    Journalist
    Monday, July 25th 1927
  • Maria Gripe  98
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, July 25th 1923
  • Elias Canetti  116
    Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, July 25th 1905
  • Denys Watkins-Pitchford  116
    Children's Literature
    Tuesday, July 25th 1905
  • Max Dauthendey  154
    Poet
    Thursday, July 25th 1867
  • Pieter Langendijk  338
    Playwright, Poet
    Sunday, July 25th 1683
  • Rick Bragg  62
    Journalist
    Sunday, July 26th 1959
  • Hart Hanson  64
    Screenwriter
    Friday, July 26th 1957
  • Bernice Rubens  93
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 26th 1928
  • Ibn-e-Safi  93
    Novelist, Poet
    Thursday, July 26th 1928
  • Ana Maria Matute  95
    Novelist
    Monday, July 26th 1926
  • Jan Berenstain  98
    Children's Literature
    Thursday, July 26th 1923
  • Jean Shepherd  100
    Short Stories
    Tuesday, July 26th 1921
  • Paul Gallico  124
    Novelist
    Monday, July 26th 1897
  • Aldous Huxley  127
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 26th 1894
  • André Maurois  136
    Novelist
    Sunday, July 26th 1885
  • Antonio Machado  146
    Poet
    Monday, July 26th 1875
  • Carl Jung  146
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, July 26th 1875
  • George Bernard Shaw  165
    Playwright
    Saturday, July 26th 1856
  • Cat Bauer  66

    Wednesday, July 27th 1955
  • Kathleen Norris  74

    Sunday, July 27th 1947
  • Bharati Mukherjee  81

    Saturday, July 27th 1940
  • Jack Higgins  92

    Saturday, July 27th 1929
  • Elizabeth Hardwick  105

    Thursday, July 27th 1916
  • Rayner Heppenstall  110

    Thursday, July 27th 1911
  • Julien Gracq  111

    Wednesday, July 27th 1910
  • Joseph Mitchell  113

    Monday, July 27th 1908
  • Hilaire Belloc  151

    Wednesday, July 27th 1870
  • Vladimir Korolenko  168

    Wednesday, July 27th 1853
  • Giosuè Carducci  186

    Monday, July 27th 1835
  • Alexandre Dumas, fils  197
    Novelist
    Tuesday, July 27th 1824
  • James Piotr Montague  42
    Journalist
    Saturday, July 28th 1979
  • William T. Vollman  62
    Novelist
    Tuesday, July 28th 1959
  • Sarah Schulman  63
    Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, July 28th 1958
  • John Feinstein  65
    Journalist
    Saturday, July 28th 1956
  • Randall Wallace  72
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, July 28th 1949
  • Fahmida Riaz  75
    Poet
    Sunday, July 28th 1946
  • Jim Davis  76
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, July 28th 1945
  • Tonia Marketaki  79
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, July 28th 1942
  • Francis Veber  84
    Screenwriter, Playwright
    Wednesday, July 28th 1937
  • Natalie Babbitt  89
    Children's Literature
    Thursday, July 28th 1932
  • Jean Roba  91
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, July 28th 1930
  • John Ashbery  94
    Poet
    Thursday, July 28th 1927
  • Malcolm Lowry  112
    Novelist, Poet
    Wednesday, July 28th 1909
  • Beatrix Potter  155
    Children's Literature
    Saturday, July 28th 1866
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins  177
    Poet
    Sunday, July 28th 1844
  • Fabre d'Églantine  271
    Poet, Playwright
    Tuesday, July 28th 1750
  • Chang-Rae Lee  56

    Thursday, July 29th 1965
  • Dean Pitchford  70

    Sunday, July 29th 1951
  • Harry Mulisch  94
    Novelist
    Friday, July 29th 1927
  • Edwin O'Connor  103

    Monday, July 29th 1918
  • Chester B. Himes  112

    Thursday, July 29th 1909
  • Stanley Kunitz  116

    Saturday, July 29th 1905
  • Eyvind Johnson  121

    Sunday, July 29th 1900
  • Don Marquis  143

    Monday, July 29th 1878
  • Eric Alfred Knudsen  149

    Monday, July 29th 1872
  • Booth Tarkington  152

    Thursday, July 29th 1869
  • Cherie Priest  46

    Wednesday, July 30th 1975
  • Kate Phillips  55

    Saturday, July 30th 1966
  • Patrick Modiano  76

    Monday, July 30th 1945
  • Alexander Trocchi  96

    Thursday, July 30th 1925
  • Willian Gass  97

    Wednesday, July 30th 1924
  • Emily Bronte  203

    Thursday, July 30th 1818
  • Samuel Rogers  258

    Saturday, July 30th 1763
  • Ahmad Akbarpour  51
    Novelist
    Friday, July 31st 1970
  • Dave Wedge  51
    Journalist
    Friday, July 31st 1970
  • J. K. Rowling  56
    Novelist
    Saturday, July 31st 1965
  • Andrew Marr  62
    Journalist
    Friday, July 31st 1959
  • João Barreiros  69
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 31st 1952
  • Steve Miller  71
    Short Stories
    Monday, July 31st 1950
  • Jonathan Dimbleby  77
    Journalist, Non-Fiction
    Monday, July 31st 1944
  • Yvon Deschamps  86
    Humorist
    Wednesday, July 31st 1935
  • Cees Nooteboom  88
    Novelist
    Monday, July 31st 1933
  • Lynne Reid Banks  92
    Novelist, Children's Literature
    Wednesday, July 31st 1929
  • Gilles Carle  93
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, July 31st 1928
  • Primo Levi  102
    Novelist
    Thursday, July 31st 1919
  • Irv Kupcinet  109
    Columnist
    Wednesday, July 31st 1912
  • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn  112
    Novelist, Non-Fiction
    Saturday, July 31st 1909
  • Brett Halliday  117
    Novelist
    Sunday, July 31st 1904
  • Premchand  141
    Novelist
    Saturday, July 31st 1880
  • Peter Rosegger  178
    Poet
    Monday, July 31st 1843

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