April LitBirthdays

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	April 6 Leonora Carrington Lowell Thomas
April 7 Daniel Ellsberg Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga)	April 8 Robert Toru Trina Schart Hyman	April 9 George David Weiss Paule Marshall (Paule Burke)
April 10 Peter Morgan George William Russell John M. (Mike) Ford	April 11 Clive Exton Attila József	April 12 Thomas Dybdahl 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 Gerry Rafferty Diane Middlebrook Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Thibault)	April 17 Ray Kluun 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)
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

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LitBirthday Judith Jones

Happy Birthday Judith Jones!

Judith Jones (born March 10, 1924) – U.S. editor and writer

Read the Wikipedia article about Judith Jones here

Read about Judith Jones relationship with cookbooks and Julia Child here and here

March Litbirthdays

March

March 1 Ralph Ellison Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Shantabai Kamble	March 2 Janos Arany Evgeny Baratynsky Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (Seeley Regester)	March 3 Yury (Karlovich) Olesha George Miller (George Miliotis) Caroline Lamarche
March 4 Robert Orben Miriam Makeba Khaled Hosseini Robert Emmet	March 5 MC Solaar Elisabeth Badinter	March 6 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Andrzej Wajda Teru Miyamoto
March 7 Georges Perec Robin Becker Muhsin Al-Ramli (Arabic: ) محسن الرملي‎	March 8 Kenneth Grahame Hafid Bouazza Carole Bayer Sager	March 9 Robert James (Bobby) Fischer Mickey (Frank Morrison) Spillane Ismael Serrano Tecumseh
March 10 Lorenzo Da Ponte Keren Ann Zeidel (Hebrew: קרן אן זיידל‎) Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)	March 11 Lea Hernandez Douglas Adams Ezra Jack Keats Jean “Binta” Breeze Alba de Cespedes	March 12 Naomi Shihab Nye Virginia Hamilton Tian Han 田汉 Jack (Jean Lous) Kerouac
March 13 Lisa Lutz André Téchiné Mahmoud Darwish Common, U.S. rapper	March 14 Pam Ayres Horton Foote, Jr. Caryl Phillips	March 15 Ben Okri Veronica Maggio Will.i.am Madelyn Pugh

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March 16 Zoe Jenny Sully Prudhomme Richard Matthew Stallman James Madison	March 17 Yokomitsu Riichi (横光 利一) Nat King Cole	March 18 Queen Latifah Luc Besson Christa Wolf, John Updike
March 19 John Burnside Valerio Zurlini Philip Roth	March 20 Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Vera Panova Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell	March 21 Ved Mehta Phyllis McGinley Slavoj Žižek
March 22 Beverley Knight Louis L’Amour Lawrence Dearborn LaMoore	March 23 Plantu (Jean Plantureux) Emmy Noether Akira Kurosawa	March 24 Kate (Catherine Merrial) Webb Lawrence Ferlinghetti
March 25 Gloria Steinem Toni Cade Bambara Thom Loverro Dorothy Fontana	March 26 Bob Woodward Robert Frost Tennessee Williams	March 27 Julia Alvarez Budd (Seymour Wilson) Schulberg Ai Qing (艾青) (Jiang Haicheng) Michael Aris Abelardo Castillo
March 28 Jennifer Weiner Dimcho Debelianov (Димчо Дебелянов) Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov) Lauren Weisberger	March 29 Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου) Andrija Maurović Lennart Meri	March 30 Thierry Cabot Céline Dion Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: শরদিন্দু বন্দোপাধ্যায়) Moses Maimonides
March 31 Octavio Paz Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut René Descartes

February 17 – Michel Rivgauche

Happy Birthday Michel Rivgauche!

Michel Rivgauche (born February 17, 1923) French lyricist

Read about Michel Rivgauche here (in French)
The discography of Michel Rivgauche is here

Here’s a short film clip of Michel Rivgauche in 1965:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYS9hLEebuk

Edith Piaf performs “La Foule” (lyrics by Michel Rivgauche)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzFJAJvyb6Y

February LitBirthdays

February

February 1 Big Boi Langston Hughes Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin	February 2 Xuân Diệu Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. James Joyce	February 3 Paul Auster Marlon Riggs James Michener
February 4 Abdul Rahman Badawi Buell Gordon Gallagher Betty Friedan	February 5 Andrew Greeley Adassa Jermain Wesley Loguen Jovan Dučić	February 6 Pramoedya Ananta Toer Melvin B. Tolson Anne Spencer Christopher Marlowe Nay Win Myint
February 7 Gay Talese Chris Rock Eubie Blake Charles Dickens	February 8 Nancy Oliver Mae Street Kidd Ron Tyson John Grisham	February 9 Carole King Alice Walker Cassandra Steen Amy Lowell
February 10 Johan Harstad Michael Anthony Roberta Flack Ivri Lider	February 11 Celeste O. Norfleet Jarena Lee Florynce Kennedy Lydia Maria Child John Langalibalele Dube	February 12 Michel Joseph Martelly “Sweet Micky” George Elliott Clarke Abraham Lincoln Charles Darwin
February 13 Mark Watson Lenard Duane Moore Faiz Ahmad Faiz Georges Simenon	February 14 Beejan Olfat Richard Allen Carlton Moss Dwele Frederick Douglass Eric Andersen	February 15 Miep Gies Brian Holland Masuji Ibuse Adam Nadasdy

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February 16 Elisabeth Eybers Otis Blackwell Paul Gilroy Ice-T	February 17 Julia de Burgos Huey Newton Lupe Fiasco	February 18 Leonard (Len) Deighton Audre Lorde Toni Morrison Nikos Kazantzakis
February 19 Jaan Kross Clifton Taulbert Eileen Jackson Southern Andre Breton	February 20 Nevena Stefanova Linda Brown Ellis Cose Buffy Sainte Marie	February 21 Hakan Nesser Claudia Jones Corey Harris Anais Nin Hanne-Vibeke Holst
February 22 Danilo Kis William Whipper Ishmael Reed James Russell Lowell	February 23 Aziz Ansari Claude Brown W.E.B. DuBois	February 24 Alain Mabanckou Kasi Lemmons Grant Allen
February 25 Russell Atkins George Schuyler Mary Coyle Chase George Harrison	February 26 Adem Demaçi Fats Domino Sharon Bell Mathis Victor Hugo Jela Krečič	February 27 Charlayne Hunter-Gault J. Rawls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
February 28 Adelle McQueen Anthony Kelley Jeanne Cherhal	February 29 Natasha Beaulieu

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January LitBirthdays

January is National Hot Tea Month

January 1 Happy New Year! Edward Morgan Forster Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi René de Ceccatty	January 2 André Aciman Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Isaac Asimov Lynda Barry	January 3 Rodrigo de la Cadena John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Marcus Tullius Cicero Savitri Bai Phule
January 4 Harlan Coben Gao Xingjian	January 5 Hayao Miyazaki 宮崎 駿 Umberto Eco	January 6 Carl Sandburg Karin Slaughter Idris Davies C.D. Wright
January 7 Nicholson Baker Shobhaa Dé Zora Neale Hurston	January 8 Stephen Hawking Terence Dean “Terry” Brooks Gaston Miron Fanny Bullock Workman	January 9 Simone de Beauvoir Hayim Nachman Bialik Thorvald Steen
January 10 Peter Barnes Louise Carver Fran Walsh	January 11 Alan Paton Siti Nurhaliza Sulamith Wülfing	January 12 Jack London Ferenc Molnár Inoue Takehiko Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹)
January 13 Shahnon Ahmad Flora Nwapa Jay McInerney	January 14 LL Cool J Emily Hahn Albert Schweitzer	January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Sonya Kovalevsky Giles Milton Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Mikki Doyle (Miriam Leventhal)

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January 16 Garth Ennis Robert W. Service Laura Riding	January 17 Anne Bronte Benjamin Franklin Brian Thomas Helgeland	January 18 A.A. Milne A.A. Milne too Sally Morgan
January 19 Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe too Breda Smolnikar	January 20 Ernesto Cardenal Nancy Kress Uni Arge	January 21 Judith Merril Richie Havens Eva Ibbotson
January 22 Subhash Ram Prajapati Arkady Gaidar Francis Bacon	January 23 Elvira Lindo Derek Walcott	January 24 Marguerite Durand Edith Wharton Vítězslava Kaprálová
January 25 Gloria Naylor Virginia Woolf David Grossman	January 26 Shinjo Mayu Jules Feiffer Henry Jaglom	January 27 Eliette Abécassis Mordecai Richler Djavan
January 28 Colette José Martí Arnaldur Indriðason Frank Darabont	January 29 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Leslie Bricusse Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov Germaine Greer Grazyna Miller	January 30 Lady Anne Clifford Jack Spicer Anton Tammsaare
January 31 Daniel Tammet Arnold Geulincx K.Maro Kenzaburō Ōe

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December 31 – Ronnie del Carmen

Happy Birthday Ronnie del Carmen!

Ronnie del Carmen (born December 31, 1959) U.S./Filipino director, screenwriter, artist, designer of animated films – Inside Out (2015); Ratatouille (2007)

Read the Wikipedia aritcle about Ronnie del Carmen

See some of Ronnie del Carmen’s pre-Pixar art here

Ronnie del Carmen talks about his inspiration for making Inside Out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN6mjgfJZc&app=desktop

And del Carmen talks about collaborating as co-director of Inside Out with Pete Docter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rt_CsFWDbk