Authors in History (Part 5)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 401 - 500 of 1,808

• 1888-11-22 Tarzan of the Apes date of birth, according to author Edgar Rice Burroughs
• 1888-11-24 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends & Influence People)
• 1888-12-27 Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (Metropolis), born in Tauperlitz, Döhlau, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1954)
• 1889-02-10 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
• 1889-03-12 Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
• 1889-05-01 John Evans, English cricket batsman (1 Test) and author ('The Escaping Club'), born in Newtown, Hampshire (d. 1960)
• 1889-09-07 Bruce Frederick Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man), born in barnstaple, England (d. 1919)
• 1889-09-19 Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany, American author and teacher, born in Lynch's Station, Campbell County, Virginia (d. 1999)
• 1889-11-24 Cissy van Marxfield [Setske Beek-de Haan], Dutch author
• 1890-01-11 Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (one of the modernist Group of Five), born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1954)
• 1890-03-25 Marten Baersma [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
• 1890-05-02 E. E. Smith, American food engineer and sci-fi author (Triplanetary), born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin (d. 1965)
• 1890-05-05 Christopher Morley, American author (Kitty Foil), born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (d. 1957)
• 1890-06-10 Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author
• 1890-09-10 Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet (Mirror Man, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)
• 1890-09-15 Claude McKaye, Jamaican-American author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo), born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica (d. 1948)
• 1890-10-18 [Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt)
• 1890-11-15 Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
• 1891-01-03 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
• 1891-03-28 Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author
• 1891-04-30 Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Swart mar leaflik), born in Blije, Netherlands (d. 1966)
• 1891-05-15 David Vogel, Russian-born Hebrew writer (Huwelijksleven), born in Satanov, Russian Empire (d. 1944)
• 1891-08-26 Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author
• 1891-09-11 William Thomas Walsh, American author (Isabella of Spain), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 1949)
• 1891-11-05 Mary Dorna [Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman], Dutch author, born in Amsterdam (d. 1971)
• 1891-12-02 Charles H. Wesley, American author and historian (The History of Alpha Phi Alpha), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1987)

• 1892-02-18 Wendell Wilkie, American Presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World), (d. 1944)
• 1892-03-27 Thorne Smith, American sci-fi author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb), born in Annapolis, Maryland (d. 1934)
• 1892-04-15 Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author (The Hiding Place) and Holocaust survivor, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1983)
• 1892-05-19 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Povestj Zjizni) [OS]
• 1892-05-31 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) [NS]
• 1892-06-12 Djuna Barnes, American author (Nightwood), born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (d. 1982)
• 1892-06-26 Pearl S. Buck, American author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), born in Hillsboro, West Virginia (d. 1973)
• 1892-08-02 John Kieran, American columnist and author (Natural History of NYC), born in NYC, New York (d. 1981)
• 1892-10-27 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), born in Quebrangulo, Brazil (d. 1953)
• 1892-12-25 Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author (Meaning of Treason), born in London
• 1893-01-13 Clarke Ashton Smith, American sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
• 1893-03-03 Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author
• 1893-08-10 Voranc Prezikov [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki)
• 1893-10-01 Faith Baldwin, American author (They Who Love), born in New Rochelle, New York (d. 1978)
• 1893-11-11 Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian essayist, activist and founder of the Brazilian Christian Democracy, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1983)
• 1893-11-14 Evert S J Kruythoff, Ned Antillean author (conservation flora)
• 1893-12-31 Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist & author (Flemish Resurrection), born in Saint-Gilles, Brussels (d. 1975)
• 1894-05-20 Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent)
• 1894-06-13 Mark van Doren, American poet and author (Happy Critic, Transients), born in Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois (d. 1972)

• 1894-08-17 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian, poet and author (Jorden), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1965)
• 1894-08-29 E. Franklin Frazier, American sociologist and author (The Negro Family in the United States), born in Baltimore (d. 1962)
• 1894-10-18 H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
• 1894-10-21 Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
• 1894-10-24 Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author, born in Darbhanga district, Bihar, British India (d. 1987)
• 1895-01-16 Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
• 1895-01-24 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch)
• 1895-03-29 Ernst Jünger, German author and entomologist (Storm of Steel), born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1998)
• 1895-03-31 Vardis Fisher, American author (Darkness & Deep), born in Annis, Idaho (d. 1968)
• 1895-05-02 Alfred Kurella, German author and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Germany, born in Brieg, Silesia (d. 1975)
• 1895-05-02 Peggy Bacon, American author and illustrator (Off With Their Heads), born in Ridgefield, Connecticut (d. 1987)
• 1895-08-10 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, born in Saint Petersburg (d. 1958)
• 1895-10-08 Jeanne Gabrielle Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl), born in Amsterdam (d. 1984)
• 1895-10-18 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista)
• 1895-11-05 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (The Scoundrel), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
• 1895-11-16 Michael Arlen [Dikran Kouyoumdjian], British author and scriptwriter (An American Verdict), born in Ruse, Bulgaria (d. 1956)
• 1895-11-17 Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
• 1895-12-01 Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
• 1895-12-19 Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)
• 1896-01-20 Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet, composer, and musicologist (Janne Kubrik; Stenkol), born in Helsinki (d. 1961)
• 1896-04-21 Henry de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte), born in Paris (d. 1972)
• 1896-06-16 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
• 1896-06-16 Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
• 1896-09-20 Fjodor Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga), born in Pavlovka, Russia (d. 1960) [NS=Oct 2]

• 1896-11-16 Joan Lindsay, Australian author (Picnic at Hanging Rock), born in St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia (d. 1984)
• 1896-11-23 Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher
• 1896-11-27 Giovanni Battista Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1961)
• 1896-12-05 Lady Huxley [Marie Juliette Baillot], Swiss sculptor and author, born in Auvernier, Switzerland (d. 1994)
• 1897-01-08 Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
• 1897-04-17 Antonius Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River), born in Wijlre, Netherlands (d. 1961)
• 1897-05-22 Robert Neumann, Austrian-British author (Waters of Babylon), born in Vienna (d. 1975)
• 1897-06-08 John G. Bennett, British scientist and author, born in London (d. 1974)
• 1897-06-20 Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (co-author of The Threepenny Opera), born in Peckelsheim, Westphalia, German Empire (d. 1973)

• 1897-08-20 Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian poet and author (Det Store Spelet), born in Vinje, Telemark, Norway (d. 1970)

• 1897-10-08 Rouben Mamoulian, American movie director and author (The Mark of Zorro, Applause), born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 1987)
• 1897-11-01 Naomi Mitchison, Scottish author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1999)
• 1897-11-15 Sacheverell Sitwell, English author (People's Palace), born in Scarborough, England (d. 1988)
• 1897-12-01 Manuel A Neat, Curacaos author (Nobleza di Coerazon)
• 1897-12-30 Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
• 1898-01-06 Jan Filip Boon, Flemish journalist & editor (De Standaard 1929-39), born in Halle, Belgium (d. 1960)
• 1898-01-23 Freda Utley, British scholar & author, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1978)
• 1898-05-23 Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
• 1898-06-09 Curzio Malaparte [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt)
• 1898-06-27 Ajla Rachmanova, Russian-Austrian author (Students), born in Kasli, Russia (d. 1991)
• 1898-07-22 Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
• 1898-08-20 Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author (The Emigrants) and historian, born in Moshultamåla, Sweden (d. 1973)
• 1898-08-24 Malcolm Cowley, American author (Flowering of New England), born in Belsano, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
• 1898-09-16 H. A. Rey, American children's author and creator of "Curious George", born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1977)
• 1898-11-12 Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 401 - 500 of 1,216

• 1957-07-19 Curzio Malaparte [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59
• 1957-07-28 Edith Abbott, American social worker and educator (University of Chicago Social Sciences), dies at 80
• 1957-08-24 Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, British priest, broadcaster and author (Viaduct Murder), dies at 69
• 1957-11-26 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies at 80
• 1958-02-03 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
• 1958-04-08 Ethel Turner, Australian author (Seven Little Australians), dies at 88
• 1958-04-08 George Jean Nathan, American editor, author and critic (American Mercury), dies at 76
• 1958-06-26 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93
• 1958-07-22 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, dies at 62
• 1958-10-08 Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
• 1958-11-16 Warner Fabian [S Adams], American author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87
• 1958-12-22 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75
• 1959-02-20 Laurence Housman, English author and playwright (Victoria Regina), dies at 93
• 1959-06-01 Sax Rohmer [Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward], English author (Dr Fu Manchu novels), (b. 1883)
• 1959-06-17 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68
• 1959-07-15 Vance Palmer, Australian author, dies at 73
• 1959-08-09 Emil František Burian, Czech author and composer, dies at 55

• 1960-01-09 Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (Abbey Series), dies at 79
• 1960-01-12 Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Aust author (Town like Alice), dies at 60
• 1960-01-28 Zora Neale Hurston, American author, dies at 69
• 1960-07-28 Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola), dies at 60
• 1960-09-10 Fjodor Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63
• 1960-09-14 M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
• 1960-09-18 John Evans, English cricket batsman (1 Test) and author ('The Escaping Club'), dies at 71
• 1960-09-22 Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), dies at 78
• 1960-10-05 Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist and author (Anthropologist looks at History), dies at 84
• 1960-11-28 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children), dies at 52

• 1961-07-12 Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
• 1961-08-02 Giovanni Battista Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio), dies at 64
• 1961-08-14 Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
• 1961-09-23 Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet, composer, and musicologist (Janne Kubrik; Stenkol), dies at 65
• 1961-11-01 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist and author, dies at 97
• 1961-11-09 Antonius Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River), dies at 64
• 1962-03-11 Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
• 1962-05-12 Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67

• 1962-08-01 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62
• 1962-11-23 H. J. Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62
• 1963-03-29 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64
• 1963-09-10 Eugène Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra), dies at 89
• 1963-11-01 Elsa Maxwell, American author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80

• 1963-11-22 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87
• 1964-01-06 Edgar Maass, German/American author (Verdun), dies at 67
• 1964-01-10 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46

• 1964-08-12 Ian Fleming, English author (James Bond novels), dies at 56
• 1964-09-03 Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
• 1964-11-05 Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children's author and illustrator, dies at 85
• 1964-11-11 H[enry] Beam Piper, American sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
• 1964-11-29 Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher and author (Bartje), dies at 60
• 1964-12-09 Edith Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels), dies at 77
• 1965-03-13 George Călinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
• 1965-03-17 Quentin Reynolds, American newscaster (Its News to Me) and author (FBI), dies at 62
• 1965-04-08 Erik A. Blomberg, Swedish art historian, poet and author, dies at 70
• 1965-05-03 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
• 1965-05-11 Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57
• 1965-07-28 Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (boy detectives club books), dies at 70

• 1965-08-14 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and author (Walk at Dawn), dies at 80
• 1965-09-30 E. E. Smith, American food engineer and sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75
• 1965-11-16 Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66
• 1965-12-16 William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91
• 1966-01-18 Kathleen Norris, American author, dies at 85
• 1966-03-10 Mari Sandoz, American author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
• 1966-04-13 Georges Duhamel, French author (Vie et aventures de Salavin, 5 vol.), dies at 81
• 1966-08-06 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53
• 1966-08-18 Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle & Blessing), dies at 75
• 1966-12-26 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright and author (Poverty), dies at 91
• 1967-06-03 Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies
• 1967-09-29 Carson McCullers, American author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50
• 1968-02-23 Fannie Hurst, American author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
• 1968-04-16 Edna Ferber, American author and playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron), dies at 82
• 1968-05-01 Harold Nicolson, English diplomat and author (Good Behaviour), dies at 71

• 1968-06-09 Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
• 1968-07-14 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76
• 1968-07-22 Giovannino Guareschi, Italian author (Don Camillo, Peppone, dies at 60
• 1968-09-02 Ernest Claes, Belgian author (The White), dies at 82
• 1968-09-24 Robert Arthur Ley, English sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
• 1968-11-04 Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78
• 1968-11-07 Willem A. Wagenaar, Dutch journalist and author (3,000 meter), dies at 67

• 1968-11-26 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist and author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81

• 1969-01-05 Franz Theodor Csokor, Austrian author (Gottes General), dies at 83
• 1969-01-11 Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
• 1969-03-11 John Wyndham, American sci-fi author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
• 1969-03-23 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer and philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
• 1969-04-05 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73
• 1969-07-24 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
• 1969-08-14 Leonard Woolf, English author and husband of Virginia Woolf, dies at 88
• 1969-08-27 Erika Mann, German-American author (Other Germany) and daughter of Thomas Mann, dies at 63

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