June LitBirthdays 2020

June

June 1 Casper de Vries Marie Knight Naguib Surur Mircea Cărtărescu	June 2 Xiao Hong Dorothy West	June 3 Pedro Mir (Irwin) Allen Ginsberg
June 4 Jacques Roumain Margrit Schriber	June 5 Elena Piscopia Pu Songling Federico Garcia Lorca Michael Scott Moore	June 6 Isaiah Berlin Alexander (or Aleksandr) (Sergeyevich) Pushkin
June 7 Louise Erdrich (Karen Louise Erdrich) Gwendolyn Brooks Nikki Giovanni Orhan Pamuk	June 8 Karin Alvtegen Tim Berners-Lee Sara Paretsky Marguerite Yourcenar Alicia Boole Stott	June 9 André Juillard George Axelrod Cole Porter
June 10 Maurice Sendak Benjamin Millepied Samartha Vashishtha Saul Bellow Terence Rattigan	June 11 Siavash Ghomayshi Yasunari Kawabata	June 12 Tess Gerritsen Anne Frank
June 13 Anis Mojgani Dorothy Leigh Sayers William Butler Yeats	June 14 Ernesto Che Guevara John Thomson Margaret Bourke-White Mona Simpson	June 15 Ibn-e-Insha (ابن انشاء) Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson)

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June 16 Lamont Dozier Joyce Carol Oates	June 17 Jeph Jacques	June 18 Lidia Jorge Sammy Cahn Paul McCartney
June 19 Aung San Suu Kyi Pauline Kael Salman Rushdie	June 20 Enn Vetemaa Amos Tutuola Anna Laetitia Barbauld	June 21 John Agard Benazir Bhutto Jean-Paul Sartre Mary McCarthy
June 22 Moana Maniapoto Abbas Kiarostami Persian: عباس کیارستمی Kaarina Helakisa Sándor Weöres Dan Brown	June 23 Steven Dietz Anna Akhmatova Alfred Kinsey Patrick Monahan	June 24 Julia Kristeva Anita Desai Saint John of the Cross Mercedes Lackey
June 25 Ricky Gervais George Orwell Anthony Bourdain Yann Martel	June 26 Ya’akov Cohen (also spelled Cahan) (Hebrew: יעקב כהן) Yves Beauchemin Noriaki Kubo (The Kubo) Pearl S. Buck	June 27 Paul L. Dunbar Bob Keeshan Helen Keller Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
June 28 Mariko Nanba (南波真理子) Aimee Bender Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sophie Hannah	June 29 Frédéric Dard Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure)	June 30 José Emilio Pacheco David Frum James Goldman

May LitBirthdays

May

May 1 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Judy Collins Ignazio Silone (Secondino Tranquilli) Helen Bamber	May 2 Satyajit Ray Ichiyo Higuchi (Higuchi Natsu) Kwon-taek Im May 2 is Holocaust Remembrance Day	May 3 Betty Comden Leslie Marmon Silko Yehuda Amichai
May 4 Rüdiger Nehberg Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Boris J. Kochanowsky	May 5 Thomas Boberg Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly) Soren Kierkegaard Tammy Wynette	May 6 George Clooney Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman Sujata Bhatt Sigmund Freud
May 7 William Dempsey Valgardson Volker Braun Rabindranath Tagore Robert Browning	May 8 Beth Henley Gary Snyder Sirkka Hämäläinen	May 9 Nada El-Hage Lucian Blaga
May 10 Nayantara Sahgal Olga Bancic	May 11 Andre Gregory John Michael Hayes Irving Berlin	May 12 Claribel Alegria Wu Wenjun Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky
May 13 Daphne du Maurier Clive Barnes Stephen Colbert	May 14 Eoin Colfer Sofia Carmina Coppola Che Guevara Luis Llorens Torres	May 15 L. Frank Baum Katherine Anne Porter Jakucho Setouchi

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May 16 Olga Berggolts Studs Terkel	May 17 Jien (Jichin-daikasho) Dennis Potter	May 18 Tina Fey Omar Khayyam
May 19 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) Elena Poniatowska Lorraine Hansberry	May 20 Sirivennela (Chembolu SeethaRama Sastry) Honoré de Balzac	May 21 (Liv) Marit Bergman Manly Wade Wellman
May 22 Hergé (Georges Remi) Betty Williams Bernie Taupin Arthur Conan Doyle	May 23 Carl Linnaeus Sebastian Cordero Walter Reisch Pär Lagerkvist	May 24 Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov Patti LaBelle Joseph Brodsky Bob Dylan
May 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Ludlum Naim Frashëri	May 26 Peggy Lee (Norma Egstrom) Frankie Manning Nobuhiro Watsuki	May 27 Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov John Cheever Rachel Carson Dashiell Hammett
May 28 Muriel Barbery Patrick White Ian Fleming	May 29 Leah Goldberg (לאה גולדברג; ) G.K. Chesterton Abdul Rahman Munif ( عبد الرحمن منيف‎)	May 30 Vizma Belševica Agnes Varda
May 31 Svetlana Alexievich Judith Wright Walt Whitman

April LitBirthdays

Author Birthdays in the Month of April

April 1 John Wilmot Susan Boyle Milan Kundera Edmond Rostand	April 2 Joanna Chmielewska Émile François Zola	April 3 Herb Caen Washington Irving Unni Lindell
April 4 Andrei Tarkovsky Maya Angelou	April 5 Amalia Guglielminetti Booker T. Washington Stewart Lee	April 6 Leonora Carrington Lowell Thomas
April 7 Daniel Ellsberg Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga)	April 8 Robert Toru Kiyosaki Trina Schart Hyman	April 9 Paule Marshall (Paule Burke)
April 10 Peter Morgan George William Russell John M. (Mike) Ford	April 11 Clive Exton Attila József	April 12 Tama Janowitz Gary Soto Tom Clancy
April 13 Drago Jančar Eudora Welty Seamus Heaney	April 14 Loretta Lynn Daniel Clowes Erich von Däniken	April 15 Benjamin Zephaniah Leonardo da Vinci Henry James (David) Wiley Miller

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April 16 Diane Middlebrook Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Thibault)	April 17 Giusy Ferreri Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)	April 18 Rithy Panh Costas [or Kostas] Ferris George Henry Lewes
April 19 Sandro Petraglia Maria Ember Etheridge Knight	April 20 Asia Alfasi Erna Brodber John Paul Stevens	April 21 Elaine May Queen Elizabeth II Kole Omotosho
April 22 Damien Broderick Kseniya Simonova Immanuel Kant Ana Maria Shua	April 23 Michael Moore Fadil Hadzic William Shakespeare	April 24 Eric Bogosian Carl (Friedrich Georg) Spitteler (pseudonym Carl Felix Tandem) Karan Mahajan
April 25 Grace Rasp Nuri Albert Uderzo	April 26 Ğabdulla Tuqay Marcus Aurelius Carol Burnett I.M. Pei	April 27 Edwin Morgan Cecil Day Lewis (pseudonym Nicholas Blake) Russell T Davies
April 28 Carolyn Forché (Nelle) Harper Lee Jay Leno	April 29 Egon Erwin Kisch Jerry Seinfeld	April 30 Jaroslav Hašek Willie Nelson Aatish Kapadia

December LitBirthdays

December (12)

December 1 Candace Bushnell Rex Stout Woody Allen Richard Pryor	December 2 Yaël Dayan (Hebrew: יעל דיין‎ ) Jüri Reinvere Botho Strauss Elizabeth Berg Ann Patchett	December 3 Boris A. Novak Jean-Luc Godard Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) Daniel Bedingfield Alaíde Foppa de Solórzano
December 4 Wen Shaoxian (溫紹賢) Frances Power Cobbe Rainer Maria Rilke Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter)	December 5 Rose Wilder Lane Walt Disney Miloš Đukelić Joan Didion	December 6 Martin Hirsch Eve Curie Labouisse James Elphinston Ira Gershwin Tomson Highway
December 7 Noam Chomsky Willa Cather Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi [عبدالرحمن صوفی] Dom Joseph Pothier	December 8 Horace Delmore Schwartz Nicki Minaj	December 9 Imogen Heap Joel Chandler Harris Grace Hopper Edoardo Sanguineti Avraham B. Yehoshua
December 10 Marina Orlova ( Марина Владимировна Орлова ) Emily Dickinson Maria Benitez (Maria Bibiana Benitez Constanza)	December 11 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын ) Subramanya Bharathi Harriet Stratemeyer Adams Teri Garr	December 12 Christian Metz Robert Lepage Gustave Flaubert
December 13 James Wright Amy Lee Heinrich Heine	December 14 Tove Ditlevsen Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame) Lucrecia Martel	December 15 Donald Goines (pseudonym Al C Clark) Betty Smith (Elisabeth Wehner) Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof

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December 16 Benny Andersson Noel Coward Barbara Smith Ed Ruscha	December 17 Es’kia Mphahlele John Greenleaf Whittier William Safire	December 18 Hal Kanter Alfred Bester Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov
December 19 Péter Tímár Gisèle Freund Su Tung-p’o [Su Shi]	December 20 Kate Atkinson Nalo Hopkinson Väinö Linna	December 21 Edward Hoagland Heinrich Boll Ivan Blatný
December 22 Eduard Uspensky Giacomo Puccini Kenneth Rexroth	December 23 Alison Sudol Katie Underwood Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	December 24 Mary Higgins Clark Herbert Reinecker Isador Feinstein Stone
December 25 Sheila Heti Dido (Florian Armstrong) Rod Serling	December 26 David Sedaris Narendra Prasad Alejo Carpentier	December 27 Greg Mortenson Mirza Ghalib Kevin Patterson
December 28 Liu Xiaobo Shen Congwen (Shen Ts’ung-wen) 沈從文 Mortimer J. Adler	December 29 Gilbert Adair William Gaddis Dallas Austin	December 30 Julia Briggs Alfredo Bracchi Joseph Rudyard Kipling
December 31 Machi Tawara Siné Odetta Holmes Gordon Ronnie del Carmen