Author Birthdays for January

Author Birthdays for January.

  • E.M. Forster
    Wednesday, January 1st 1879
  • Joe Orton
    Sunday, January 1st 1933
  • Ernest Tidyman
    Sunday, January 1st 1928
  • Mariano Azuela
    Wednesday, January 1st 1873
  • Maria Edgeworth
    Thursday, January 1st 1767
  • Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
    Friday, January 1st 1937
  • J.D. Salinger
    Wednesday, January 1st 1919
  • Seiichi Morimura
    Monday, January 2nd 1933
  • Hans Herbjørnsrud
    Sunday, January 2nd 1938
  • Mendele Moicher Sforim
    Saturday, January 2nd 1836
  • Isaac Asimov
    Friday, January 2nd 1920
  • Charles Beaumont
    Wednesday, January 2nd 1929
  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    Saturday, January 2nd 1892
  • Blanche d’Alpuget
    Monday, January 3rd 1944
  • Alex Wheatle
    Thursday, January 3rd 1963
  • Francesca Lia Block
    Wednesday, January 3rd 1962
  • Henry Handel Richardson
    Monday, January 3rd 1870
  • Nabila Jamshed
    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Mark Leyner
    Wednesday, January 4th 1956
  • Nabila Jamshed
    Monday, January 4th 1988
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Monday, January 4th 1943
  • Carl Sandburg
    Friday, January 4th 1878
  • Gao Xingjian
    Thursday, January 4th 1940
  • Jacob Grimm
    Tuesday, January 4th 1785
  • Michael O’Donoghue
    Friday, January 5th 1940
  • William De Witt Snodgrass
    Tuesday, January 5th 1926
  • Stella Gibbons
    Sunday, January 5th 1902
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    Wednesday, January 5th 1921
  • Umberto Eco
    Tuesday, January 5th 1932
  • Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    Wednesday, January 5th 1938
  • Wright Morris
    Thursday, January 6th 1910
  • Alan Watts
    Wednesday, January 6th 1915
  • E.L. Doctorow
    Tuesday, January 6th 1931
  • Kahlil Gibran
    Saturday, January 6th 1883
  • Allen Appel
    Saturday, January 6th 1945
  • Vincent Serventy
    Thursday, January 6th 1916
  • Jacobo Timerman
    Saturday, January 6th 1923
  • Shobhaa De
    Wednesday, January 7th 1948
  • Nicholson Baker
    Monday, January 7th 1957
  • Zora Neale Hurston
    Wednesday, January 7th 1903
  • William Peter Blatty
    Saturday, January 7th 1928
  • Storm Jameson
    Thursday, January 8th 1891
  • Robert Littell
    Tuesday, January 8th 1935
  • Dennis Wheatley
    Friday, January 8th 1897
  • Stephen Hawking
    Thursday, January 8th 1942
  • Terry Brooks
    Saturday, January 8th 1944
  • Alexandra Ripley
    Monday, January 8th 1934
  • Wilkie Collins
    Thursday, January 8th 1824
  • Judith Krantz
    Monday, January 9th 1928
  • Hal Niedzviecki
    Saturday, January 9th 1971
  • Wilbur Smith
    Monday, January 9th 1933
  • Karel Capek
    Thursday, January 9th 1890
  • Robert Drewe
    Saturday, January 9th 1943
  • Simone de Beauvoir
    Thursday, January 9th 1908
  • John Dunning
    Friday, January 9th 1942
  • Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
    Wednesday, January 9th 1811
  • Anne Rivers Siddons
    Thursday, January 9th 1936
  • Algis Budrys
    Friday, January 9th 1931
  • Robinson Jeffers
    Monday, January 10th 1887
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
    Tuesday, January 10th 1797
  • Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi
    Wednesday, January 10th 1883
  • Philip Levine
    Tuesday, January 10th 1928
  • Peter Barnes
    Saturday, January 10th 1931
  • William Levy
    Tuesday, January 10th 1939
  • Antonio Muñoz Molina
    Tuesday, January 10th 1956
  • Jasper Fforde
    Wednesday, January 11th 1961
  • Alan Paton
    Sunday, January 11th 1903
  • Nikos Kavvadias
    Tuesday, January 11th 1910
  • Marc Acito
    Tuesday, January 11th 1966
  • Jim Hightower
    Monday, January 11th 1943
  • Jerome Bixby
    Thursday, January 11th 1923
  • Ferenc Molnár
    Saturday, January 12th 1878
  • Paul Jarrico
    Tuesday, January 12th 1915
  • William Nicholson
    Monday, January 12th 1948
  • Walter Mosley
    Saturday, January 12th 1952
  • Haruki Murakami
    Wednesday, January 12th 1949
  • Jack London
    Wednesday, January 12th 1876
  • David Mitchell
    Sunday, January 12th 1969
  • Michael Bond
    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • Edmund White
    Saturday, January 13th 1940
  • Lorrie Moore
    Sunday, January 13th 1957
  • Clark Ashton Smith
    Friday, January 13th 1893
  • A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
    Sunday, January 13th 1901
  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    Wednesday, January 13th 1926
  • Jay McInerney
    Thursday, January 13th 1955
  • Ron Goulart
    Friday, January 13th 1933
  • Yukio Mishima
    Wednesday, January 14th 1925
  • John Dos Passos
    Tuesday, January 14th 1896
  • Robert Silverberg
    Tuesday, January 15th 1935
  • Nâz?m Hikmet
    Wednesday, January 15th 1902
  • Susan Sontag
    Monday, January 16th 1933
  • Compton Mackenzie
    Wednesday, January 17th 1883
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Sunday, January 17th 1706
  • A.A. Milne
    Wednesday, January 18th 1882
  • Patricia Highsmith
    Wednesday, January 19th 1921
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    Thursday, January 19th 1809
  • Nathaniel Parker Willis
    Monday, January 20th 1806
  • Eugène Sue
    Friday, January 20th 1804
  • Nancy Kress
    Tuesday, January 20th 1948
  • Robert Olen Butler
    Saturday, January 20th 1945
  • Qurratulain Hyder
    Wednesday, January 20th 1926
  • Edward Hirsch
    Friday, January 20th 1950
  • Forrest Gander
    Saturday, January 21st 1956
  • Isabel Paterson
    Friday, January 22nd 1886
  • Lord Byron
    Tuesday, January 22nd 1788
  • Joseph Wambaugh
    Friday, January 22nd 1937
  • Robert E. Howard
    Monday, January 22nd 1906
  • Arkady Gaidar
    Friday, January 22nd 1904
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
    Saturday, January 22nd 1729
  • Johan August Strindberg
    Monday, January 22nd 1849
  • Stendhal
    Thursday, January 23rd 1783
  • Camilla Collett
    Saturday, January 23rd 1813
  • Walter Michael Miller, Jr.
    Tuesday, January 23rd 1923
  • Derek Walcott
    Thursday, January 23rd 1930
  • Edith Wharton
    Friday, January 24th 1862
  • Robert Burns
    Thursday, January 25th 1759
  • W. Somerset Maugham
    Sunday, January 25th 1874
  • Virginia Woolf
    Wednesday, January 25th 1882
  • James Gordon Farrell
    Friday, January 25th 1935
  • Philip José Farmer
    Saturday, January 26th 1918
  • Bruce Weigl
    Thursday, January 27th 1949
  • Clarissa Pinkola Est
    Saturday, January 27th 1945
  • D.M. Thomas
    Sunday, January 27th 1935
  • Lewis Carroll
    Friday, January 27th 1832
  • David Lodge
    Monday, January 28th 1935
  • José Martí
    Friday, January 28th 1853
  • Alan Alda
    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • Ismail Kadare
    Tuesday, January 28th 1936
  • Valentin Kataev
    Thursday, January 28th 1897
  • Marthe Bibesco
    Thursday, January 28th 1886
  • Colette
    Tuesday, January 28th 1873
  • Edward Abbey
    Saturday, January 29th 1927
  • Germaine Greer
    Sunday, January 29th 1939
  • Paddy Chayefsky
    Monday, January 29th 1923
  • Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
    Tuesday, January 29th 1867
  • Romain Rolland
    Monday, January 29th 1866
  • Anton Chekhov
    Sunday, January 29th 1860
  • Richard Brautigan
    Monday, January 30th 1933
  • Thomas Merton
    Sunday, January 31st 1915
  • Norman Mailer
    Wednesday, January 31st 1923
  • Kenzaburo Oe
    Thursday, January 31st 1935
  • John O’Hara
    Tuesday, January 31st 1905

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