1547 - Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright whose major work, Don Quixote, is considered the first modern European novel.
1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell
British novelist of the Victorian era, possibly best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë.
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright whose major work, Don Quixote, is considered the first modern European novel.
1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell
British novelist of the Victorian era, possibly best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë.
1897 - Herbert Agar
American journalist who won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The People's Choice.
1915 - Oscar Handlin
American historian who won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Uprooted.
American journalist who won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The People's Choice.
1915 - Oscar Handlin
American historian who won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Uprooted.
1923 - Stan Berenstain
American author and illustrator of children's books, known for the Berenstain Bears series he co-wrote with his wife Jan.
1927 - Elizabeth Peters
Pen name of American author Barbara Mertz, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels. As Elizabeth Peters, her main series involves Egyptologist Amelia Peabody.
1934 - Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-born American psychology professor best known for his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimum Experience.
American author and illustrator of children's books, known for the Berenstain Bears series he co-wrote with his wife Jan.
1927 - Elizabeth Peters
Pen name of American author Barbara Mertz, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels. As Elizabeth Peters, her main series involves Egyptologist Amelia Peabody.
1934 - Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-born American psychology professor best known for his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimum Experience.
1934 - Stuart Kaminsky
American mystery writer, recipient of both Edgar and Agatha awards.
1936 - James Fogle
American author of the autobiographical novel Drugstore Cowboy.
American mystery writer, recipient of both Edgar and Agatha awards.
1936 - James Fogle
American author of the autobiographical novel Drugstore Cowboy.
1959 - Jon Olav Fosse
Norwegian dramatist, 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
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