August LitBirthdays

August

August 1 Chuck D (Carlton Ridenhour) Francis Scott Key Herman Melville	August 2 Isabel Allende James Baldwin Homer Banks Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai)	August 3 Lauren Liebenberg Leon Uris Juliana Horatia Ewing
August 4 Robert Hayden Helen Thomas Barack Obama	August 5 Guy de Maupassant Abbé Pierre (Henri Marie Joseph Grouès)	August 6 Louella Parsons Alfred Tennyson M. Night Shyamalan
August 7 Justin Kawika Young Sofia Rotaru Garrison Keillor	August 8 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Mel Tillis	August 9 Izaak Walton Jean Piaget Marvin Minsky
August 10 Abay Ibrahim Qunanbayuli	August 11 Jim Lee Alex Haley	August 12 George Soros Sue Monk Kidd
August 13 Amélie Nothomb Dan Fogelberg Kamila Shamsie	August 14 Bryce Courtenay Steve Martin Danielle Steel Gary Larson	August 15 Julia Child Sri Aurobindo Mikao Usui
August 16 Charles Bukowski Diana Wynne Jones	August 17 Herta Müller Gene (Geneva) Stratton-Porter	August 18 Mika Elsa Morante Brian Aldiss
August 19 Eamonn Fingleton Ogden Nash Jerzy Andrzejewski	August 20 Isaac Hayes Musa Geshaev H. P.(Howard Phillips) Lovecraft	August 21 Jules Michelet Friz Freleng
August 22 Irmtraud Morgner	August 23 Ephraim Kishon Nazik al-Mala’ika	August 24 Jorge Luis Borges Stephen Fry Ali Smith Yan Lianke
August 25 Charles Wright Taslima Nasrin	August 26 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)	August 27 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
August 28 Tasha Tudor Ai Weiwei	August 29 Dorothy Tennov René Depestre	August 30 Camilla Läckberg Eriksson Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
August 31 DuBose Heyward William Saroyan

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July LitBirthdays

July

July 1 Twyla Tharp Irna Phillips Juan Carlos Onetti	July 2 Wisława Szymborska Evelyn Lau Wibo (“Wim” Willem Louis Joseph Boost)	July 3 Alan Schwarz Julian Assange Kid Sister Franz Kafka
July 4 Guram Rcheulishvili Colin Welland Neil Simon Mao Dun Nathaniel Hawthorne Ann Landers	July 5 Armin Kõomägi Jody Lynn Nye Bill Watterson Veronica Guerin	July 6 Andrew Martin The Dalai Lama Louisa Tuthill
July 7 Lesego Rampolokeng David McCullough Helene Johnson Lillien Jane Martin	July 8 Tom Egeland Anna Quindlen Freeway (Leslie Edward Pridgen)	July 9 Patrice Barbara Cartland Masami Tsuda Anne Born
July 10 Mildred Wirt Benson Arja Uusitalo Alice Munro	July 11 Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng,) Suzanne Nadine Vega Amitav Ghosh	July 12 Oscar Hammerstein II Pablo Neruda
July 13 Helga Königsdorf Cameron Crowe Wole Soyinka	July 14 Natalia Ginzburg Isaac Bashevis Singer Angélique Kidjo Laura Numeroff	July 15 Jacques Rivière Dorothy Fields Iris Murdoch
July 16 Mari Evans Ross King Saint Clare of Assisi	July 17 Erle Stanley Gardner Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון) Michael Francis Gilbert	July 18 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Alfian Sa’at Elizabeth Gilbert Nelson Mandela
July 19 Norman Manea Garth Nix A.J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin Vladimir Mayakovsky	July 20 Simin Beh’bahāni (Persian: سیمین بهبهانی) Olga Hahn Neurath Imam Bukhari (Muhammed Al-Bukhari) (Elizabeth) Dilys Powell Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)	July 21 Mohammed Dib Ernest Miller Hemingway Suso Cecchi d’Amico
July 22 Ala Ghawas Kokia (Akiko Yoshida 吉田亜紀子) Emma Lazarus Albert Brooks Enrique Laso	July 23 Milisav Popović Raymond Chandler Eugène François Vidocq	July 24 Alexandre Dumas Patrick Bruce (Pat) Oliphant Colleen Doran Banana Yoshimoto
July 25 Maria Gripe Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh, AKA Gordon Daviot) Diam’s (Mélanie Georgiades)	July 26 George Bernard Shaw Aldous Huxley Carl G. Jung	July 27 Hilde Domin Elizabeth Hardwick Bobbie Gentry
July 28 Helen Beatrix Potter Francis Veber	July 29 Chester Himes Nathalie Handal Ruud Janssen	July 30 Barbara Kopple Salvador Novo Emily Jane Brontë
July 31 Pam Withers J. K. Rowling

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June Litbirthdays

June

June 1 Casper de Vries Marie Knight Naguib Surur Mircea Cărtărescu	June 2 Xiao Hong Dorothy West	June 3 Rumer (Sarah Joyce) Pedro Mir (Irwin) Allen Ginsberg
June 4 Jacques Roumain Margrit Schriber Jin Au-Yeung	June 5 Elena Piscopia Pu Songling Federico Garcia Lorca Michael Scott Moore	June 6 Vlado Georgiev 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	June 9 André Juillard George Axelrod Cole Porter
June 10 Maurice Sendak  Benjamin Millepied Samartha Vashishtha Saul Bellow Terence Rattigan	June 11 Bill Findlay 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) Waylon Jennings

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June 16 Lamont Dozier Joyce Carol Oates	June 17 Jeph Jacques  Nino (Kazunari Ninomiya)	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)	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 Nawal Al Zoghbi Frédéric Dard Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure)	June 30 José Emilio Pacheco David Frum James Goldman

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May LitBirthdays

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 Rey Valera 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 Ghostface Killah
May 10 Nayantara Sahgal  Bono (Paul David Hewson) Olga Bancic	May 11 Andre Gregory  John Michael Hayes Irving Berlin	May 12 Wu Wenjun Claribel Alegria Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky
May 13 Stephen Colbert Clive Barnes Daphne du Maurier	May 14 Eoin Colfer Sofia Carmina Coppola Che Guevara Luis Llorens Torres	May 15 Asala Nasri 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 Elena Poniatowska Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) Lorraine Hansberry	May 20 Sirivennela (Chembolu SeethaRama Sastry) Honoré de Balzac Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) Joe  (John Robert) Cocker	May 21 (Liv) Marit Bergman Manly Wade Wellman
May 22 Betty Williams Bernie Taupin Georges Remi / Hergé Arthur Conan Doyle	May 23 Sebastian Cordero Walter Reisch Pär Lagerkvist Carl Linnaeus	May 24 Patti LaBelle Joseph Brodsky Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov Bob Dylan
May 25 Alastair Campbell  Naim Frashëri Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Ludlum	May 26 Peggy Lee (Norma Egstrom) Nobuhiro Watsuki Frankie Manning Stevie (Stephanie Lynn) Nicks	May 27 Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov  John Cheever Rachel Carson Dashiell Hammett
May 28 Muriel Barbery Patrick White Ian Fleming  John Fogerty	May 29 Leah Goldberg (לאה גולדברג; ) G.K. Chesterton	May 30 Agnes Varda Vizma Belševica
May 31 Svetlana Alexievich Judith Wright Walt Whitman

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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 Kiyosaki 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)   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

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Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year!

Good Morning!

(Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds (dubbed by Betty Noyes) sing and dance Good Morning! in the 1952 film Singin’ in the Rain)

A Sunny Day!

(The Three Tenors – Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, José Carreras – sing about their sunny day, O Sole Mio)

Kingdom Choir sings Stand by Me at wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

24 Hours in New York – On the Town

https://goo.gl/xhsze9

The Ladies Face Another Day

(Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain sing Natural Woman in the 1998 Divas concert)

https://goo.gl/DUT32u

Let It Be

performed by Carol Woods and Timothy T. Mitchum in film Across the Universe

Mending Hearts

Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette sing
Silver Threads and Golden Needles

https://goo.gl/R1Q74O

Sisters

Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Dionne Warwick sing
Everything You Touch Is a Song

https://goo.gl/GXRu4O

or long medley with “There’s a Place…”
https://goo.gl/NJRUUk

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Acapella Soul

Circle of Life

December LitBirthdays

December

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

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