Authors in History (Part 12)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1101 - 1,200 of 1,808

• 1931-03-08 John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
• 1931-03-10 Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)

• 1931-04-09 Bill Gilbert, sports author (They Also Served, Big E), born in Washington, D.C.
• 1931-04-17 Joyce Molyneux, British chef and author
• 1931-05-07 Gene Wolfe, American sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete), born in NYC, New York
• 1931-05-23 Barbara Barrie [Berman], American actress and author (Breaking Away, Barney Miller), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1931-05-28 Stephen Birmingham, American author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2015)
• 1931-06-26 Colin Wilson, English author (Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries), born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England (d. 2013)
• 1931-07-03 Andres Burnier [Catharina Irma Dessaur], Dutch criminologist and author (Jongensuur), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2002)
• 1931-07-07 David Eddings, American sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
• 1931-07-10 Alice Munro, Canadian author (Dance of the Happy Shades) and Nobel laureate 2013, born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada
• 1931-07-10 Julian May, American sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)
• 1931-07-23 Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter, born in Waterloo, Quebec
• 1931-08-07 Charles E. Rice, American legal scholar and author, born in New York (d. 2015)
• 1931-08-12 William Goldman, American screenwriter and author (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2018)
• 1931-09-12 Kristin Hunter, African-American author (God Bless the Child), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2008)
• 1931-09-24 Brian Glanville, English journalist and football writer, born in Hendon, London
• 1931-11-15 Jan Terlouw, Dutch politician (D-66) and author (Winters in Wartime)
• 1931-11-28 Dervla Murphy, Irish travel author (Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule), born in Lismore, Ireland
• 1931-11-28 Rinus Ferdinandusse, Dutch editor and author (Nude on Fence), born in Goes, Netherlands
• 1931-12-02 Edwin Meese, American author and 75th United States Attorney General (1985-88), born in Oakland, California
• 1931-12-03 Franz Josef Degenhardt, German poet and author, born in Schwelm, Westphalia, Germany (d. 2011)
• 1931-12-31 Bob Shaw, Northern Irish sci-fi author (Light of Other Days, The Ragged Astronauts), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 1996)
• 1932-01-05 Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher & author (Name of the Rose), born in Alessandria, Piedmont (d. 2016)
• 1932-01-18 Robert Anton Wilson, American sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2007)
• 1932-01-26 Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
• 1932-02-07 Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father)
• 1932-02-12 Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003)
• 1932-02-14 Alexander Kluge, German author and film director (Yesterday Girl), born in Halberstadt, Province of Saxony
• 1932-03-22 Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster, author and journalist (5 x US Chess C'ship; 20+ books), born in NYC, New York (d. 2010)
• 1932-05-09 Gavin Lyall, British author (Conduct of Major Maxim, The Secret Servant), born in Birmingham, Warwickshire (d. 2003)
• 1932-05-19 Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
• 1932-05-29 Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1932-06-10 Gardner McKay, American actor and author (Adventures in Paradise, Pleasure Seekers, Boots & Saddles), born in NYC, New York (d. 2001)
• 1932-07-22 Tom Robbins, American author (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues), born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina
• 1932-08-14 Lee Hoffman, American author (The Valdez Horses), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
• 1932-08-27 Antonia Fraser, British author and biographer (Mary Queen of Scots), born in London, England
• 1932-08-28 Carlene Polite, American dancer, activist and author (Sister X), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2009)
• 1932-08-31 Robert [Franklin] Adams, American sci-fi author (Castaways in Time)
• 1932-09-19 Mike Royko, American journalist (Chicago Daily News) and author (Boss), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1997)
• 1932-09-28 Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canadian sci-fi author (Cat Karina)
• 1932-09-30 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
• 1932-10-06 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women's International Center)
• 1932-10-23 Vasily Belov, Northern Krai, USSR, author (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), (d. 2012)
• 1932-11-08 Ben Bova, American sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2020) [1]
• 1932-11-09 Marian Christy, American author (Invasions of Privacy), born in Ridgefield, Connecticut
• 1933-01-09 Sonia Garmers, Curaçao writer (Dear Queen), born in Curaçao
• 1933-01-13 Ron Goulart, American sci-fi author (Deadwalk, Plunder)
• 1933-01-15 Ernest J. Gaines, African-American author, born in Oscar, Louisiana

• 1933-02-12 Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)
• 1933-03-06 William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
• 1933-04-10 Rokusuke Ei, Japanese author and lyricist (Sukiyaki), born in Asakusa, Tokyo (d. 2016)
• 1933-04-15 Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction author (Tale of Troika), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 2012)
• 1933-05-10 Barbara Taylor Bradford, author
• 1933-07-09 Oliver Sacks, English Neurologist and author (Awakenings), born in London (d. 2015)
• 1933-07-12 Donald E. Westlake, American author (The Hunter), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2008)
• 1933-07-20 Cormac McCarthy, American author
• 1933-08-07 Jerry Pournelle, American polymath and sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 2017)
• 1933-08-09 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author, born in Nogisaka, Tokyo
• 1933-09-11 William Luther Pierce, American author and activist, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2002)
• 1933-10-10 Gerald Masters, South African-British author (Pan Book of Dates)
• 1933-11-29 David Reuben, author (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex)
• 1933-12-11 Ernst van Altena, Dutch author and interpreter (Chansons van Earnest), born in Amsterdam (d. 1999)
• 1933-12-15 Donald Woods, South African journalist, anti-apartheid activist and author (Biko, Asking for Trouble), born in Elliotdale, South Africa (d. 2001)
• 1933-12-31 Edward Bunker, American author & actor, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2005)
• 1934-02-17 Barry Humphries, Australian comedian, actor and author known for his stage alter egos (Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson), born in Melbourne, Victoria
• 1934-02-27 N. Scott Momaday, American author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969), born in Lawton, Oklahoma
• 1934-03-13 Barry Hughart, American author of fantasy novels (Bridge of Birds), born in Peoria, Illinois
• 1934-03-20 David Malouf, Australian author
• 1934-04-10 David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (Pulitzer 1964), born in NYC, New York (d. 2007)
• 1934-05-19 Ruskin Bond, Indian author
• 1934-05-27 Harlan Ellison, American sci-fi author and screenwriter (Star Trek-"The City on the Edge of Forever"), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2018)
• 1934-07-23 Nicholas Barrington, British high commissioner (Pakistan) and author (A passage to Nuristan: exploring the mysterious Afghan hinterland)
• 1934-08-06 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor)
• 1934-08-16 Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
• 1934-08-18 Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney and author (Helter-Skelter), born in Hibbing, Minnesota (d. 2015)
• 1934-09-14 Kate Millett, American feminist and author (Sexual Politics), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2017)
• 1934-09-24 John Brunner, Britsih sci-fi author (100th Millennium), born in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England (d. 1995)
• 1934-09-27 Dick Schaap, sportscaster/author (Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay)
• 1934-10-09 Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author, first female president of Smith College, born in Hillston, Australia (d. 2018)
• 1934-11-04 Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet and author (Charlotte Life or Theater), born in Amsterdam
• 1934-11-09 Carl Sagan, American astronomer, author, professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
• 1934-12-05 Joan Didion, American author and journalist (The year of Magical Thinking), born in Sacramento, California
• 1935-01-15 Robert Silverberg, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1935-01-17 Paul O[sborne] Williams, American sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)
• 1935-01-18 Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman), born in Wimbledon, London
• 1935-02-15 Susan Brownmiller, feminist author (Against Our Wills), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1935-03-01 Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)
• 1935-03-12 John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
• 1935-05-07 Isobel Warren, Canadian author and journalist
• 1935-05-09 Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children's books (Mr. Men and Little Miss), born in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire (d. 1988)
• 1935-07-05 John Gilmore, American true crime author (Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
• 1935-07-31 Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist, born in Montreal, Quebec
• 1935-07-31 Mort Crim, American broadcast journalist, author, and inspiration for the Ron Burgundy character in the "Anchorman" films, born in West Frankfort, Illinois
• 1935-08-20 Ron Paul, American author and politician (3 times presidential candidate, 1988, 2008, 12), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 1935-08-22 E. Annie Proulx, American author (Postcards), born in Norwich, Connecticut
• 1935-08-27 Michael Holroyd, author
• 1935-09-05 Werner Erhard, American author and lecturer (founded EST), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1101 - 1,200 of 1,216

• 2013-02-19 Donald Richie, American-born author and (Japanese) film critic, dies at 88
• 2013-03-22 Aya Zikken, Dutch author (Atlasvlinder, Rameh), dies at 93
• 2013-03-25 Anthony Lewis, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize 195,1963) & author, dies from kidney and heart failure at 85
• 2013-05-16 Bernard Waber, American children's book author, dies from kidney failure at 88
• 2013-05-26 Jack Vance, American sci-fi author, dies at 96
• 2013-06-06 Tom Sharpe, British satirist and author, dies from complications from diabetes at 85
• 2013-06-08 John Boyd [Boyd Bradfield Upchurch], American sci-fi author (The Last Starship from Earth), dies at 93
• 2013-06-09 Iain Banks, Scottish author, dies from gallbladder cancer at 59
• 2013-06-23 Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter, dies at 87
• 2013-07-19 Mel Smith, English comedian and author, dies from a heart attack at 60
• 2013-08-03 Farman Fatehpuri [Syed Dildar Ali], Urdu scholar, linguist, critic and author, dies of natural causes at 87
• 2013-08-20 Elmore Leonard, American author (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up), dies from complications from a stroke at 87
• 2013-09-02 Frederik Pohl, American sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl), dies at 93
• 2013-10-01 Tom Clancy, American author (Rainbow Six, The Hunt for Red October), dies aged 66
• 2013-10-09 Mark "Chopper" Read, Australian criminal and crime author (Chopper: From the Inside), dies from liver cancer at 58
• 2013-10-12 Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), dies from a heart attack at 62
• 2013-11-19 Charlotte Zolotow, American author and publisher of children's books (When the Wind Stops), dies at 98
• 2013-11-20 Sylvia Browne, American author and self-proclaimed medium dubbed "America's most controversial psychic," dies at 77
• 2014-02-16 Michael Shea, American sci-fi author (World Fantasy Award: Nifft the Lean, Growlimb), dies at 67
• 2014-03-10 Joe McGinniss, American author (The Selling of the President 1968), dies at 71
• 2014-04-10 Richard Hoggart, British author (The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life) and warden (Goldsmith's College London), dies at 95
• 2014-05-06 Farley Mowat, Canadian author, dies at 92
• 2014-05-09 Mary Stewart, British sci-fi author (Crystal Cave), dies at 97

• 2014-06-06 Eric Hill, British children's books author and illustrator (Where's Spot), dies at 86
• 2014-06-15 Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon), dies from complications from pneumonia at 86
• 2014-07-01 Walter Dean Myers, African-American author, dies at 76
• 2014-07-13 Nadine Gordimer, South African author & Nobel laureate, dies at 90
• 2014-07-25 Bel Kaufman, American author (Up the Down Staircase), dies at 103
• 2014-08-05 Chapman Pincher, British journalist and author (about secret service), dies at 100
• 2014-10-28 Galway Kinnell, American author, dies from leukemia at 87
• 2015-01-04 Barbara Tizard, British educator and author, dies at 88
• 2015-01-29 Colleen McCullough, Australian author (Tim, Indecent Obsession, The Thorn Birds), dies at 77
• 2015-02-27 Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest, author and civil rights activist, dies at 91
• 2015-03-02 Mal Peet, British children's author, dies at 67

• 2015-04-12 Sheila Kitzinger, British author, anthropologist & child birth educator, dies at 86
• 2015-05-24 Tanith Lee, British Science-fiction author (The Flat-Earth Cycle), dies of cancer at 67
• 2015-06-06 Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney and author (Helter-Skelter), dies at 80
• 2015-07-21 E. L. Doctorow, American author (Ragtime, Billy Bathgate), dies at 84
• 2015-08-29 Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (Universe Within You), dies at 75
• 2015-08-30 Oliver Sacks, English Neurologist and author (Awakenings), dies at 82
• 2015-09-03 Adrian Cadbury, British confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance, dies at 86
• 2015-09-19 Jackie Collins, British-American author (The Stud, Lucky), dies of cancer at 77
• 2015-10-02 Steve Camacho, West Indian cricket batsman, author, administrator (11 Tests, CEO WI Cricket Board), dies at 69
• 2015-10-05 Henning Mankell, Swedish playwright and author (Wallander novels), dies of cancer at 67
• 2015-10-09 Gordon Honeycombe, British broadcaster/author, dies at 79
• 2015-11-16 Stephen Birmingham, American author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich, dies at 86

• 2016-04-10 Howard Marks, British drug dealer and author (Mr Nice), dies at 70
• 2016-06-26 Barbara Goldsmith, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last), dies at 85
• 2016-06-27 Alvin Toffler, American author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave), dies at 87

• 2016-07-04 Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian author and director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up, Taste of Cherry), dies at 76
• 2016-07-07 Rokusuke Ei, Japanese author and lyricist (Sukiyaki), dies at 83
• 2016-09-28 Gloria Naylor, American author (Women of Brewster Place), dies at 66
• 2016-10-13 John Gilmore, American true crime author (Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder), dies at 81
• 2016-11-23 Joe Esposito, American author and friend of Elvis, dies at 78
• 2016-12-05 Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author (Transit of Venus), dies at 85
• 2016-12-05 Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author, dies at 94
• 2016-12-24 Richard Adams, English author (Watership Down), dies at 96
• 2017-01-02 John Berger, English art critic & author (Ways of Seeing), dies at 90

• 2017-02-17 Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author of Polyhedron models, dies at 97
• 2017-03-10 Robert James Waller, American author (Bridges of Madison County), dies at 77
• 2017-03-19 Jimmy Breslin, American author and columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday), dies at 88
• 2017-04-24 Robert M. Pirsig, American author (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), dies at 88
• 2017-06-15 John Robert Jones [John Dalmas], American sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War), dies at 90
• 2017-07-03 Spencer Johnson, American author (Who Moved My Cheese?), dies of pancreatic cancer at 78
• 2017-08-18 Brian Aldiss, British sci-fi author (Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, Helliconia trilogy), dies at 92
• 2017-08-23 Susan Vreeland, American author (The Passion of Artemisia), dies at 71
• 2017-10-17 Julian May, American sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat), dies at 86
• 2017-11-01 Katie Lee, American folk singer, environmentalist and author (Colorado River Songs), dies at 98
• 2017-11-04 Gilbert Rogin, American journalist and author (The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated), dies at 87
• 2017-12-11 Aline Griffith, American-born Spanish aristocrat, Countess of Romanones, spy and author, dies at 94
• 2017-12-18 Jonghyun [Kim Jong-hyun], South Korean singer-songwriter, radio host, and author (SHINee), commits suicide at 27
• 2017-12-28 Sue Grafton, American author of detective novels ("A" Is for Alibi), dies at 77
• 2018-01-20 Bob Smith, American author and a groundbreaking gay comedian (The Tonight Show, Funny Gay Males), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
• 2018-01-22 Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi author (The Left Hand of Darkness, Tombs of Atuan), dies at 88
• 2018-01-24 Jack Ketchum [Dallas William Mayr], American horror fiction author (Off Season, Red, The Woman), dies of cancer at 71

• 2018-03-08 Kate Wilhelm, American fiction author (Hugo Award: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang), dies of respiratory failure at 89
• 2018-03-08 Sir Wilson Harris, Guyanese author (Palace of the Peacock, Jonestown, The Ghost of Memory), dies of natural causes at 96
• 2018-03-13 Dr. T Berry Brazelton, American child development paediatrician, author, TV host (What Every Baby Knows), who developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), dies at 99
• 2018-03-24 Lawrence K. Grossman, American news executive (PBS, NBC-TV) and author (The Electronic Republic), dies of Parkinson’s disease and cancer at 86
• 2018-05-01 Reg Gadney, British author, dies at 77
• 2018-05-01 Chuck Missler, American evangelist and author, dies at 83
• 2018-05-01 Bob Woffinden, British journalist and author, dies of mesothelioma at 89
• 2018-05-02 Kottayam Pushpanath, Indian author, dies at 80
• 2018-05-04 Bobbie Louise Hawkins, American poet and author, dies at 87
• 2018-05-06 Brad Steiger, American author and paranormal researcher, dies at 82
• 2018-05-11 Josh Greenfeld, American author & screenwriter (A Child Called Noah), dies at 90
• 2018-05-14 Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author (The Right Stuff), dies at 88
• 2018-06-01 Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author, first female president of Smith College, dies at 83
• 2018-06-08 Anthony Bourdain, American-French celebrity chef, author, and TV personality considered one of the most influential chefs in the world (No Reservations, Parts Unknown), commits suicide by hanging at 61
• 2018-06-28 Harlan Ellison, American sci-fi author and screenwriter (Star Trek-"The City on the Edge of Forever"), dies at 84

• 2018-10-03 Leon M. Lederman, American experimental physicist (1982 Nobel Prize for research on quarks and leptons) and author (The God Particle), dies from complications of dementia at 96
• 2018-11-16 William Goldman, American screenwriter and author (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), dies at 87

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