Authors' Birthdays/December

1st

• Jan Brett (1949)
• Charles Finney, U.S. author (1905)
• Hornaday, William Temple ( 01dec1854 - 6mar1937 )
• Rex Stout, ( 01dec1886 - 27oct1975 ) mystery writer from Indiana, creator of Nero Wolfe (1886)

2nd

• New Zealand-born Rewi Alley, who lived and wrote in China for over 60 years (1897)
• Balfour, Graham ( 02dec1858 - 26oct1929 )
• English sci-fi author Brian Lumley (1937)
• Don Lessem (1951)
• David Macauley (1946)
• Masson, David ( 02dec1822 - 6oct1907 )
• Margriet Ruurs (1952)
• Ward, Sir Adolphus William ( 02dec1837 - 19jun1924 )

3rd

• Barbara Brooks Wallace (1922)
• Brown, Arthur Judson ( 03dec1856 - )
• Claretie, Jules Arsene Arnaud ( 03dec1840 - 23dec1913)
• Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad (1857; birthdate also given as Dec. 6; d. 1924), born Joez Teodor Konrad Nanecz Korzeniowski, famous for short stories "Heart of Darkness" (1902) and "The Secret Sharer" (1912) and the novel Lord Jim, among others ( 03dec1857 - 3aug1924 )
• Fyffe, Charles Alan ( 03dec1845 - 19feb1892 )
• Holberg, Baron Holberg, Ludvig ( 03dec1684 - 28jan1754 )
• Moore, John Bassett ( 03dec1860 - 12nov1947 )
• Lasker, Edward ( 03dec1885 - 23mar1981 )
• Piero Ventura (1937)

4th

• Arber, Edward ( 04dec1836 - 23nov1912 )
• English writer Samuel Butler (1835); ( 04dec1835 - 18jun1902 )
• Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (04dec1795 - 4feb1881)
• Godfrey, Thomas ( 04dec1736 - 3aug1763 )
• Kandinsky, Wassily ( 04dec1866 - 13dec1944 )
• Nekrasov, Nicholas Alexeyevich ( 04dec1821 - 27dec1877 )
• Nicholson, Meredith ( 04dec1866 - 21dec1947 )
• German poet Rainer Maria Rilke ( 04dec1875 - 29dec1926 ); author of "Rear Window"
• Cornell Woolrich (1903)
• George Ancona (1929)
• Bruce Hiscock (1940)
• Munro Leaf (1905-1976)

5th

• Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary ( 05dec1822 - 27jun1907 )
• Blades, William ( 05dec1824 - 28apr1890 )
• Brown, Alice ( 05dec1856 - 21jun1948 )
• Cantu, Cesare ( 05dec1804 - 11mar1895 )
• U.S. writer Joan Didion (1934);
• German (Austrian-born) novelist and playwright Peter Handke (1942), who wrote the screenplay for Wings of Desire.
• Harve Zemach (1933)
• Lee, Sir Sidney ( 05dec1859 - 3mar1926 )
• Christina Rossetti, British writer ( 05dec1830 - 29dec1894 ) (1830);
• Taylor, Henry Osborn ( 05dec1856 - 13apr1941 )
• New York author, columnist, and satirist Calvin Trillin (1935);
• prolific Mississippi-born (Syracuse, NY-raised) African American novelist, journalist, and biographer John A[lfred] Williams (1925);
• Worsfold, William Basil ( 05dec1858 - 26sep1939 )

6th

• Barham, Richard Harris ( 06dec1788 - 17jun1845 )
• Castiglione, Baldassare ( 06dec1478 - 2feb1529 )
• Boston-born editor, poet, and critic William Stanley Braithwaite (1878, d. 1962)
• Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad (1857; birthdate also given as Dec. 3; d.1924), born Joez Teodor Konrad Nanecz Korzeniowski, famous for short stories Heart of Darkness (1902) and The Secret Sharer (1912) and the novel Lord Jim
• John Reynolds Gardiner (1944)
• Broadway lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896)
• Greenwell, Dora ( 06dec1821 - 29mar1882 )
• Hay, Marie, Frau Herbert von Hindenburg ( 06dec1873 - 13dec1938 )
• Ingoldsby, Thomas ( 06dec1788 - 17jun1845 )
• Johnson, Reginald Brimley ( 06dec1867 - 18may1932 )
• "Trees" poet [Alfred] Joyce Kilmer (1886);
• Jim Kjelgaard (1910-1959)
• Max Muller, Friedrich ( 06dec1823 - 28oct1900 )
• Cornelia Meigs (1884-1973)
• Moodie, Susanna ( 06dec1803 - 8apr1885 )
• Mrs Stuart Moore ( 06dec1875 - 15jun1941 )
• Muller, Friedrich Max ( 06dec1823 - 28oct1900 )
• London poet and writer Osbert Sitwell (1892);
• Underhill, Evelyn ( 06dec1875 - 15jun1941 )
• Warner, Sylvia Townsend ( 06dec1893 - 1may1978 )
• Elizabeth Yates (1905-2001)

7th

• Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary (1888)
• 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner Willa [Sibert] Cather ( 07dec1873 - 24apr1947 ), born near Winchester, Virginia, and raised in Nebraska, author of O Pioneers! (1913) and My Antonia (1918), among others;
• Japanese poet Yosano Akiko (1878);
• M.I.T. linguist and leftist Noam Chomsky (1928)
• prolific African-American playwright, poet, and newspaper columnist Pearl [Michelle] Cleage (1948) aka Pearl Cleage Lomax
• Anne Fine (1947)
• Steve Parker (1952)
• Skinner, Constance Lindsay ( 07dec1877 - 27mar1939 )
• John R. Tunis (1889-1975)

8th

• Pittsburgh native and novelist Hervey Allen ( 08dec1889 - 28dec1949), author of Anthony Adverse
• Mary Azarian (1940)
• 1903 Nobel Prize winner, Norwegian dramatist, poet, novelist, and politician Bjornstjerne [Martinius] Bjornson ( 08dec1832 - 26apr1910 )
• Miriam Chaikin (1928)
• Coleridge, Ernest Hartley ( 08dec1846 - 19feb1920 )
• Irish novelist and poet Padraic Colum ( 08dec1881 - 12jan1972 )
• Crabb, George ( 08dec1778 - 4dec1851 )
• British writer of travel books, zoological treatises, novels, and an autobiography, [George] Norman Douglas ( 08dec1868 - 9feb1952 )
• Geddie, John ( 08dec1848 - 20jan1937 )
• Giles, Herbert Allen ( 08dec1845 - 13feb1935 )
• NY-born novelist Mary Gordon (1949)
• American (born Georgia) journalist, short-story writer, novelist, and creator of Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris (1848; d.1908)
• Kristi Holl (1951)
• Roman poet Horace (65 B.C.; 8 B.C.), born Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace in Latin);
• Howard, Sir Albert ( 08dec1873 - 20oct1947 )
• King, Leonard William ( 08dec1869 - 20aug1919 )
• Welsh novelist Richard Llewellyn (1906)
• Mavor, James ( 08dec1854 - nov1925 )
• McLaughlin, Marie L. ( 08dec1842 - )
• Miller, William ( 08dec1864 - 23oct1945 )
• Kin Platt (1911)
• U.S. poet, short story writer, and critic Delmore Schwartz (1913);
• Ohio humorist James Thurber (1894-1961)
• Timrod, Henry ( 08dec1828 - 6oct1867 )
• Edwin Tunis (1897)

9th

• Poet John Milton (1608)
• Babar creator Jean de Brunhoff (1899)
• Ohio native, African American poet and critic Samuel W[ashington] Allen (1917), who considers the black church a major influence on his poetry
• Maryland-born African American poet, novelist, non-fiction writer, and co-founder of the Philadelphia Writers' Workshop, Sara E. Wright (1928)
• Joan Blos (1928)
• Mary Downing Hahn (1937)
• Lynn Hall (1973)
• Burnet, John ( 09dec1863 - 26may1928 )
• Grossmith, George ( 09dec1847 - 1mar1912 )
• Harris, Joel Chadler ( 09dec1848 - 3jul1908 )
• Hoare, Sir Richard Colt ( 09dec1758 - 19may1838 )
• Kropotkin, Prince Peter Alexeievitch ( 09dec1842 - 8feb1921 )
• Milton, John ( 09dec1608 - 8nov1674 )
• Slattery, Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis ( 09dec1867 - 12mar1930 )
• Whibley, Charles ( 09dec1859 - 4mar1930 )
• Whiston, William ( 09dec1667 - 22aug1752 )

10th

• Scottish fantasy author George MacDonald (1824-1905); wrote The Light Princess)
• "the Belle of Amherst" (Massachusetts), poet Emily [Elizabeth] Dickinson (1830; d.1886)
• German/Jewish poet and 1966 Nobelist Nelly Sachs
• William Plomer, writer on South Africa (1903)
• British children's writer Mary Norton (1903), who penned the Borrowers stories
• English author Rumer Godden (1907-1998)
• Washington state native, poet Carolyn Kizer (1925)
• California-born mystery writer and creator of J.W. Jackson, Philip R. Craig (1933)
• Robert Hofsinde (1902)
• Mercer Mayer (1943)
• Mary Norton (1903)
• Ann Turner (1945)
• Douglas Wood (1951)
• Dickinson, Emily ( 10dec1830 - 15may1886 )
• Eggleston, Edward ( 10dec1837 - 2sep1902 )
• Holcroft, Thomas ( 10dec1745 - 23mar1809 )
• Louys, Pierre ( 10dec1870 - 4jun1925 )
• MacDonald, George ( 10dec1824 - 18?sep1905 )
• O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington ( 10dec1890 - 24feb1941 )
• O'Brian, Edward Joseph Harrington ( 10dec1898 - 24feb1941 )
• Pollock, Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick ( 10dec1845 - 18jan1937 )
• Waddington, John ( 10dec1810 - 24sep1880 )

11th

• Parisian writer Alfred de Musset (1810; see Musset's grave!)
• Turkish poet and author Kemal Bey (1840)
• Egyptian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Naguib Mahfouz (1911), who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Russian writer and 1970 Nobelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
• writer Grace Paley (1922)
• Michigan poet and novelist Jim Harrison (1937), who wrote the three-volume Legends of the Fall
• another Michigan native, novelist Thomas McGuane (1939)
• William Joyce (1957)
• Bevans, Edward John ( 11dec1856 - 17oct1921 )
• Huxley, Leonard ( 11dec1860 - 3may1933 )
• Key, Ellen ( 11dec1849 - apr1926 )
• Leblanc, Maurice ( 11dec1864 - 6dec1941 )
• Rogers, Benjamin Bickley ( 11dec1828 - 22sep1919 )

12th

• French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821; d.1880), whose first novel, Madame Bovary (1857), is considered his greatest
• French playwright Maurice Donnay (1859)
• English playwright John Osborne (1929)
• Barbara Emberley (1932)
• Darwin, Erasmus ( 12dec1731 - 18apr1802 )
• Flaubert, Gustave ( 12dec1821 - 8may1880 )
• George, Stefan ( 12dec1868 - 4dec1933 )
• Stone, William Johnson ( 12dec1872 - 28feb1901 )

13th

• German poet, essayist, and travel writer Heinrich Heine (1797; d.1856), best known for his ironical lyrics and ballads, many of which are set to music
• Pennsylvania playwright Marc Connelly (1890)
• U.S. poet and novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911)
• detective novelist Ross MacDonald (1915)
• Lucia M. Gonzalez (1957)
• Tamora Pierce (1954)
• Leonard Weisgard (1916-2000)
• Drummond, William, of Hawthornden ( 13dec1585 - 4dec1649 )
• Heine, Heinrich ( 13dec1797 - 17feb1856 )
• Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn ( 13dec1815 - 18jul1881 )
• Brooks, Phillips ( 13dec1835 - 23jan1893 )
• Mabie, Hamilton Wright ( 13dec1845 - 31dec1916 )
• Lowell, Abbott Lawrence ( 13dec1856 - 6jan1943 )
• Dallas Lore Sharp (1870-1919), American naturalist
• Carr, Emily ( 13dec1871 - 2mar1945 )

14th

• U.S. short story writer Shirley Jackson (1919)
• Chicago native and poet Carolyn M[arie] Rodgers (1945), once a member of the black arts movement
• Lorna Balian (1929)
• Rhoda Blumberg (1917)
• Marilyn Hafner (1925)
• John Neufeld (1938)
• Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
• Havergal, Frances Ridley ( 14dec1836 - 3jun1879 )

15th

• Novelist Betty Smith (1906; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
• U.S. poet Muriel Rukeyser (1913)
• controversial Irish writer Edna O'Brien (1932)
• Detroit native, African American novelist Donald Goines (1937?; d.1974) aka Al C. Clark, known for grim novels about drug users and prostitutes
• Henrik Drescher (1955)
• Deborah Savage (1955)
• Baldwin, James ( 15dec1841 - 30aug1925 )
• Carter, Elizabeth ( 16dec1717 - 19feb1806 )
• Graves, Charles L. ( 15dec1856 - 17apr1944 )

16th

• English novelist Jane Austen (1775; d.1817)
• Spanish poet and philosopher George Santayana ( 16dec1863 - 26sep1952)
• playwright and 1942 Academy Award winner Sir Noel Coward (1899)
• Sir V[ictor] S[awdon] Pritchett, author and literary critic (1900)
• futurist Arthur C. Clarke (1917)
• Chicago-born writer Philip K. Dick (1928)
• Quentin Blake (1932)
• Bill Brittain (1930)
• Laurene Krasny Brown (1945)
• Peter Dickinson (1927)
• Marie Hall Ets (1893-1984)
• Judith Gorog (1938)
• E. B. Lewis (1956)
• Austen, Jane ( 16dec1775 - 18jul1817 )
• Bates, Arlo ( 16dec1850 - sep1918 )
• Coward, Noel ( 16dec1899 - 26mar1973 )
• Cram, Ralph Adams ( 16dec1863 - 22sep1942 )
• Mitford, Mary Russell ( 16dec1787 - 10jan1855 )
• Pollard, Albert Frederick ( 16dec1869 - 3aug1948 )

17th

• U.S. poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807)
• French novelist Jules de Goncourt (1830)
• very prolific English novelist, critic, biographer, and editor Ford Madox Ford (1873; d.1939), born Ford Hermann Hueffer, whose harrowing experiences in World War I influenced many of his novels
• South African novelist, autobiographer, and literary critic Ezekiel Mphahlele (1919) aka Es'kia Mphahlele and Bruno Eseki, whose novels include The Wanderers (1971) and Chirundu (1981)
• Baltimore-born sci-fi/fantasy writer Jack Chalker (1944)
• David Kherdian (1931)
• William Lipkind (1904)
• Beethoven, Ludwig van ( 17dec1770 - 26mar1827 )
• Brown, Peter Hume ( 17dec1850 - 30nov1918 )
• Davy, Sir Humphry ( 17dec1773 - 29may1829 )
• Elliot, Hon. Arthur Ralph Douglas ( 17dec1846 - 12feb1923 )
• Faguet, Emile ( 17dec1847 - 7jun1916 )
• Ford, Ford Madox ( 17dec1873 - 26jun1939 )
• de Goncourt, Jules ( 17dec1830 - 20jun1870 )
• Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick ( 17dec1785 - 17oct1859 )
• Whittier, John Greenleaf ( 17dec1807 - 7sep1892 )

18th

• English playwright Christopher Fry (1907)
• U.S. sci-fi writer Alfred Bester (1913)
• Georgia native, African-American actor, dramatist, screenwriter, and novelist Ossie Davis (1917), who wrote the play Purlie Victorious (1961) and its musical adaptation Purlie (1970), about a Southern black preacher who hopes to establish a racially integrated church
• U.S. fantasy writer Sterling Lanier (1927)
• English fantasy author Michael Moorcock (1939)
• Carla Greene (1916)
• Marilyn Sachs (1927)
• Abbott, Lyman ( 18dec1835 - 22oct1992 )
• Howitt, William ( 18dec1792 - 3mar1879 )
• Lane-Poole, Stanley Edward ( 18dec1854 - 29dec1931 )
• Munro, H[ector] H[ugo] ( 18dec1870 - 13Nov1916), more popularly known as Saki,
• Murray, Sir John ( 18dec1851 - 30nov1928 )
• Poole, Stanley Edward Lane ( 18dec1854 - 29dec1931 )
• Thompson, Francis ( 18dec1859 - 13nov1907 )

19th

• Su Tung Po, Chinese poet and essayist (1036)
• Italo Svevo, Trieste novelist (1861)
• 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner Oliver Lafarge (1901)
• French novelist and playwright Jean Genet (1910)
• Irish-born, Californian children's author Eve Bunting (1928)
• Garnett, Constance Clara ( 19dec1861 - 17dec1946 )
• Schmitz, Aaron Hector ( 19dec1861 - 13sep1928 )
• Svevo, Italo ( 19dec1861 - 13sep1928 )

20th

• Welsh writer T[heodore] F[rancis] Powys (1875)
• Novelist Hortense Calisher (1911)
• Michael Caduto (1955)
• LuLu Delacre (1957)
• Carol Farley (1936)
• Dennis Brindell Fradin (1945)
• M. B. Goffstein (1940)
• Abbott, Rev. Edwin A. ( 20dec1838 - 12oct1926 )
• Croker, John Wilson ( 20dec1780 - 10aug1857 )
• Jessopp, Rev. Augustus ( 20dec1823 - 12feb1914 )
• Judson, Harry Pratt ( 20dec1849 - 4mar1927 )
• Lowes, John Livingston ( 20dec1867 - 15aug1945 )

21st

• British Tory statesman and pioneer of the political novel Sir Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804; d.1881)
• French poet Gustave Kahn (1859; Kahn's poems in French)
• U.S. writer of dog novels Albert P[ayson] Terhune (1872)
• novelist Dame Rebecca West (1892)
• English novelist Anthony Powell (1905)
• German writer and 1972 Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Boll (1917)
• Michael Berenstain (1951)
• Susan Pearson (1946)
• Albert P. Terhune(1872-1942)
• Disraeli, Benjamin ( 21dec1804 - 19apr1881 )
• Fabre, Jean Henri ( 21dec1823 - 12oct1915 )
• Gould, Nat ( 21dec1857 - 25jul1919 )
• Haskins, Prof. Charles Homer ( 21dec1870 - 14may1937 )
• Ingram, Rev. James ( 21dec1774 - 4sep1850 )
• Ranke, Leopold von ( 21dec1795 - 23may1886 )
• Terhune, Albert Payson ( 21dec1872 - 18feb1942 )
• von Ranke, Leopold ( 21dec1795 - 23may1886 )

22nd

• E.A. Robinson
• English poet and parodist Charles Stuart Calverley (1831; d.1884), considered one of the most brilliant men of his time
• U.S. poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth (1905)
• Trudy Krisher (1946)
• Jerry Pinkney (1939)
• Bonnie Pryor (1942)
• William O. Steele (1917-1979)
• Butterworth, Hezekiah ( 22dec1839 - 5sep1905 )
• Calverley, C. S. ( 22dec1831 - 17dec1884 )
• Cotes, Mrs Everard ( 22dec1861 - 22jul1922 )
• Cotes, Mrs Everard ( 22dec1861 - 22jul1922 )
• Duncan, Sara Jeannette ( 22dec1861 - 22jul1922 )
• Robinson, Edwin Arlington ( 22dec1869 - 6apr1935 )
• Rutherford, Mark ( 22dec1831 - 14mar1913 )
• Wheeler, James Talboys ( 22dec1824 - 13jan1897 )
• White, William Hale ( 22dec1831 - 14mar1913 )

23rd

• Martin Opitz, German poet (1597)
• French writer Charles-Augustin de Sainte-Beuve (1804)
• Scottish author Samuel Smiles (1812; authored Jasmin)
• Chicago poet and first editor of the journal Poetry, Harriet Monroe (1860)
• Sicilian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896)
• U.S. poet, translator, and "Iron John" Robert Bly (1926)
• children's author Avi (1937)
• Keiko Kasza (1951)
• Richard Kennedy (1932)
• Bennett, De Robigne Mortimer ( 23dec1818 - 6dec1882 )
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth ( 23dec1823 - 9may1911 )
• Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin ( 23dec1804 - 13oct1869 )
• Smiles, Samuel ( 23dec1812 - 16apr1904 )
• Wilkins, William Henry ( 23dec1860 - 22dec1905 )

24th

• English poet and curate George Crabbe (1754; d.1832; 2 Crabbe poems), remembered for his portrayal of rural life;
• English poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822; d.1888)
• Spanish poet and journalist (born Andalusia) and 1956 Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881; d.1958), who left Spain at the start of the Spanish Civil War to live in the U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico
• U.S. fantasy writer Fritz Leiber (1910)
• NY mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark (1929)
• Margaret J. Anderson (1931)
• Debra Barracca (1953)
• Jay Bennett (1912)
• Mary Higgins Clark (1931)
• Gillian Cross (1945)
• John Langstaff (1920)
• Lynn Munsinger (1951)
• Arnold, Matthew ( 24dec1822 - 15apr1888 )
• Crabbe, George ( 24dec1754 - 3feb1832 )
• Gruelle, Johnny ( 24dec1880 - 9jan1938 )
• Morley, Viscount John ( 24dec1838 - 23sep1923 )
• Scribe, Eugene ( 24dec1791 - 20feb1861 )

25th

• English poet William Collins (1721; d.1759; selected Collins' poems)
• Pittsburgh native (West Virginia-raised) African-American novelist and scriptwriter William Demby (1922)
• U.S. mystic and writer Carlos Castaneda (1931)
• Ann Nolan Clark (1896-1995)
• Eth Clifford (1915)
• Charles Finger (1869-1941)
• Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938)
• Gennady Spirin (1948)
• Collins, William ( 25dec1721 - 12jun1759 )
• Edwards, Owen M. ( 25dec1858 - may1920 )
• Ginsburg, Christian David ( 25dec1831 - 7mar1914 )
• Hodgson, Shadworth Hollway ( 25dec1832 - 13jun1912 )
• Morris, Edward Ellis ( 25dec1843 - 1jan1902 )
• Newton, Isaac ( 25dec1642 - 20mar1727 )
• Orme, Robert ( 25dec1728 - 13jan1801 )
• Michael Sadleir (1888-1957), British novelist and publisher
• de Vinne, Theodore Low ( 25dec1828 - feb1914 )
• Wordsworth, Dorothy ( 25dec1771 - 25jan1855 )

26th

• English poet and scholar of history and languages, Thomas Gray (1716; d.1771), friend of Horace Walpole
• writer Henry Miller (1891)
• Washington D.C.-born poet, short story writer, dramatist, and essayist Jean Toomer (1894; d.1967) born Nathan Eugene Toomer, a child of mixed-race parents who considered himself simply ",;American" probably best known for his 1923 book Cane
• Jean Van Leeuwen (1937)
• Angell, Sir Norman ( 26dec1874 - 7oct1967 )
• Arndt, Ernst Moritz ( 26dec1769 - 29jan1860 )
• Babbage, Charles ( 26dec1792 - 18oct1871 )
• Bazin, Rene Francois Marie ( 26dec1853 - 20jul1932 )
• Boucicault, Dion ( 26dec1822? - 18sep1890 )
• Japp, Alexander Hay ( 26dec1837 - 29sep1905 )
• Southworth, Emma D. E. N. ( 26dec1819 - 30jun1899 )

27th

• Ohio writer and winner of 1926 Pulitzer for fiction Louis Bromfield (1896)
• English writer Wilfrid Sheed (1930)
• Ingri d'Aulaire (1904-1980)
• Ted Rand (1915)
• Diane Stanley (1943)
• Kepler, Johanes ( 27dec1571 - 15nov1630 )
• Lord, John ( 27dec1810 - 15dec1894 )
• Lighthall, William Douw ( 27dec1857 - 3aug1954 )
• Murphy, Arthur, Esq. ( 27dec1727 - 18jun1805 )

28th

• Spanish writer Pio Baroja y Nessa (1872)
• NYC-born author and philosopher Mortimer J. Adler (1902)
• NY writer and "Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling (1927)
• Argentinian writer, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig (1932)
• Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981)
• Barbara Dana (1940)
• Cynthia DeFelice (1951)
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (1927)
• Nancy Larrick (1910)
• Nancy Luenn (1954)
• Janet Lunn (1928)
• Emily Neville (1919)
• Baroja Nessi, Pio ( 28dec1872 - 30oct1956 )
• Eddington, Arthur Stanley ( 28dec1882 - 22nov1944 )
• Ervine, St. John Greer ( 28dec1883 - 24jan1971 )
• Geikie, Sir Archibald ( 28dec1835 - 10nov1924 )
• Meloney, Mrs W. B. ( 28dec1895 - 22jun1988 )
• Taussig, Francis William ( 28dec1859 - 11nov1940 )

29th

• Robert Ruark, U.S. writer of hunting and outdoors stories (1915).
• Richard Atwater (1892-1938)
• Molly Bang (1943)
• Irene Brady (1943)
• Jan Greenberg (1942)
• E. W. Hildick (1925)
• Tracy Campbell Pearson (1956)
• Ruth Robbins (1917)
• Chapin, Edwin Hubbell ( 29dec1814 - 26dec1880 )
• Gladstone, W. E. ( 29dec1809 - 19may1898 )
• Johnson, Andrew ( 29dec1808 - 31jul1875 )
• Queen Elizabeth , of Roumania ( 29dec1843 - 2may1916 )
• Sylvia, Carmen ( 29dec1843 - 2may1916 )
• Sylvia, Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Louise ( 29dec1843 - 2may1916 )

30th

• English author (born Bombay, India) and 1907 Nobelist [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865; d.1936), author of The Jungle Book (1894), Kim, and Just-So Stories (1902), among others;
• children's author Mercer Mayer (1943)
• Clayton Bess (1944)
• Sheila Garrigue (1931)
• Jane Langton (1922)
• Jane O'Connor (1947)
• Mary Rayner (1933)
• Tres Seymour (1966)
• Fontane, Theodor ( 30dec1819 - 20sep1898 )
• Kipling, Rudyard ( 30dec1865 - 18jan1936 )
• Leacock, Stephen Butler ( 30dec1869 - 28mar1944 )
• Moultrie, John ( 30dec1799 - 26dec1874 )
• Watson, Rev. John Shelby ( 30dec1804 - 6jul1884 )

31st

• Kansas native, African-American poet and journalist Frank Marshall Davis (1905; d. 1987), whose poetry protested the racial inequality of the 1930s and 40s
• Georgia-born (Chicago-raised) experimental fiction writer and poet Clarence Major (1936)
• British non-fiction writer Roy Sydney Porter (1946; d.2002)
• Margery Cuyler (1948)
• Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846-1919). Dutch revolutionary and writer.
• Bloomfield, Robert ( 3dec1766 - 9aug1823 )
• Fields, James Thomas ( 31dec1817 - 24apr1881 )
• Hall, Captain Basil ( 31dec1788 - 11sep1844 )
• Mrs. James Sadlier ( 31dec1820 - 5apr1903 )
• Sadlier, Mary Anne ( 31dec1820 - 5apr1903 )
• Selous, Frederick Courteney ( 31dec1851 - 4jan1917 )
• Sharp, Robert Farquharson ( 31dec1864 - 3aug1945 )
• Thomas, Edward ( 31dec1813 - 10feb1886 )
• Viereck, George Sylvester ( 31dec1884 - 18mar1962 )