Today in Writer History (Part 9)
Literature Topics: Author - Essayist - Journalist - Jurist - Novelist - Playwright - Poetess - Poetry - Scholar
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Famous Birthdays
Results 801 - 900 of 2,720
1883-07-29 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1883-08-07 - J Ringelnatz, writer
1883-08-11 - Ernst Stadler, writer
1883-09-16 - T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
1883-10-22 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer (Brest-Litovsk)
1883-10-26 - Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883-11-23 - Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Along the water front)
1883-12-28 - A Wolfenstein, writer
1884-01-02 - Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
1884-01-13 - Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)
1884-03-11 - Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
1884-03-13 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1884-03-13 - Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)
1884-04-02 - Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958))
1884-06-19 - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
1884-07-13 - Francis B Young, British physician/writer (White Ladies)
1884-08-10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1884-08-16 - Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo)
1884-08-29 - Ehm Welk, writer
1884-10-10 - Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Bint)
1884-12-14 - Regina Ullmann, writer
1885-01-15 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
1885-01-16 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
1885-01-17 - E Ball-Hennings, writer
1885-01-25 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
1885-02-02 - Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi)
1885-02-24 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
1885-03-06 - Ring Lardner, US, writer (You Know Me Al)
1885-04-17 - Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales)
1885-04-17 - Karen Blixen-Finecke, [Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa)
1885-04-17 - Tania Blixen, writer
1885-04-29 - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
1885-05-10 - Fritz v Unruh, writer
1885-06-26 - Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac)
1885-06-28 - Berthold Viertel, writer
1885-07-25 - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
1885-08-17 - Kurt Hiller, writer
1885-09-07 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, US, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930)
1885-09-11 - David Herbert "DH" Lawrence, England, writer (Lady Chatterly's Lover)
1885-10-28 - V Chlebnikov, writer
1885-11-09 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885-12-06 - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (The General)
1886-01-14 - Hugh Lofting, England, writer & illustrator (Dr Dolittle)
1886-01-28 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1886-02-16 - Van Wyck Brooks, NJ, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain)
1886-04-08 - Margaret A Barnes, writer
1886-04-24 - Kurt Pinthus, writer
1886-05-02 - Gottfried Benn, writer
1886-05-10 - Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
1886-05-30 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1886-06-19 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song)
1886-07-05 - Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer/painter/cartoonist (Pallieter)
1886-07-23 - Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat
1886-07-24 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
1886-09-08 - Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack)
1886-09-25 - John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1886-10-16 - Armin T Wegner, writer
1886-11-07 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26]
1886-11-17 - Crane Wilbur, Athens NY, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo)
1886-12-01 - Rex Stout, mystery writer (Nero Wolf)
1886-12-01 - Willem E Crown, Antillian writer
1886-12-23 - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Message from the Madhouse)
1887-01-19 - Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner)
1887-02-09 - Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love)
1887-02-11 - John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen)
1887-02-18 - Nikos Kasandsakis, writer
1887-02-26 - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
1887-05-07 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
1887-05-09 - Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer
1887-05-16 - J van Hoddis, writer
1887-05-18 - Ernst Wiechert, writer
1887-06-07 - William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily)
1887-06-13 - Bruno Frank, writer
1887-08-30 - Adam Kuckhoff, writer
1887-09-01 - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer
1887-09-26 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
1887-10-04 - Francis Bull, Norway, writer (Norsk literature historian)
1887-10-30 - Georg Heym, writer
1887-11-03 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964)
1888-01-16 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1888-02-10 - G Ungaretti, writer
1888-02-17 - Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)
1888-03-05 - Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
1888-03-08 - Stuart Chase, NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste)
1888-03-19 - Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1888-03-20 - S V Vegesack, writer
1888-03-29 - Adrianus M de Jong, Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak)
1888-04-03 - Neville Cardus, cricketer (doyen of cricket writers)
1888-04-06 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
1888-04-26 - Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
1888-05-25 - Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock)
1888-06-10 - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1888-07-18 - Sydney Horler, English detective writer
1888-07-22 - Raymond Chandler, Chic, mystery writer (Farewell My Lovely)
1888-07-23 - Raymond Chandler, writer
1888-07-26 - M Jouhandeau, writer
1888-08-15 - T E Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
1888-08-31 - Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (La Obra de Trajano)
1888-10-14 - Kathrin Mansfield, NZ writer (Aloe, Garden Party)
1888-10-25 - Francois Pauwels, Dutch writer/attorney
Famous Deaths
Results 801 - 900 of 2,101
1937-07-10 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga), dies at 71
1937-08-22 - David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
1937-09-10 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1937-10-16 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1938-03-01 - G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
1938-03-03 - Arthur Koestler, writer, dies at 32
1938-03-16 - Egon Friedell, writer, dies
1938-04-02 - Alice Berend, writer, dies
1938-05-04 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
1938-06-07 - Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1938-06-22 - C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
1938-08-03 - Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
1938-08-04 - Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70
1938-09-15 - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 62
1938-09-21 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
1938-10-24 - Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68
1938-11-20 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1938-12-08 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
1938-12-23 - Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies at 70
1938-12-27 - O Mandelstam, writer, dies
1939-02-16 - Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26
1939-03-07 - John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (b. 1885)
1939-04-11 - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
1939-05-22 - Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45
1939-06-05 - Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
1939-06-06 - Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65
1939-06-13 - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64
1939-06-26 - Ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65
1939-09-09 - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9]
1939-09-18 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1939-10-23 - Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1939-12-19 - Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70
1940-01-01 - Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
1940-01-04 - Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59
1940-01-18 - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74
1940-01-31 - René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
1940-02-01 - Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
1940-03-10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1940-03-16 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1940-05-14 - Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
1940-05-14 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38
1940-05-23 - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
1940-06-07 - James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39
1940-06-16 - Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
1940-06-21 - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
1940-06-21 - W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49
1940-09-03 - Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59
1940-09-26 - Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48
1940-09-27 - Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
1940-12-22 - Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37
1941-01-06 - Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60
1941-02-02 - Johannes Schlaf, writer, dies at 78
1941-03-08 - Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64
1941-03-13 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
1941-03-17 - Isaak E Babel, writer, dies at 46
1941-03-17 - Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46
1941-04-04 - Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29
1941-06-01 - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
1941-06-15 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1941-07-21 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1941-08-07 - Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80
1941-08-31 - Marian Zwetajewa, writer, dies
1941-10-26 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1941-10-31 - Herwarth Walden, writer, dies at 63
1941-12-09 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
1942-01-14 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
1942-02-23 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60
1942-04-08 - Alfred Mombert, writer, dies
1942-04-15 - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
1942-04-25 - Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
1942-04-30 - J van Hoddis, writer, dies at 54
1942-06-15 - Vera Figner, writer, dies
1942-07-26 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1942-10-10 - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
1942-11-19 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
1942-12-24 - K Balmont, writer, dies at 75
1943-02-13 - William Walraven, journalist/writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at 55
1943-03-23 - Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
1943-04-30 - Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
1943-07-01 - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943-08-05 - Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55
1943-08-21 - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
1943-08-24 - Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies
1943-10-18 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's Youth), dies at 55
1943-10-19 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered
1943-10-29 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55
1943-12-02 - Nordahl Grieg, writer, dies
1943-12-22 - Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866)
1943-12-23 - Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64
1944-01-04 - Kaj Munk, [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies
1944-01-21 - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74
1944-01-31 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
1944-02-04 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1944-03-05 - Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
1944-03-11 - Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
1944-03-28 - Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75
1944-04-05 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
1944-08-25 - Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies
1944-09-25 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1944-10-16 - John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78
