Rush Limbaugh12 January 1951, American
Radio Host, Political Commentator, Author, Former
Ben Shapiro15 January 1984, American
Political Commentator, Public Speaker
Shonda Rhimes13 January 1970, American
Television Producer
J. R. R. Tolkien03 January 1892, British, South African
Writer
Stan Lee28 December 1922, American
Creator of Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron
Edgar Allan Poe19 January 1809, American
Writer
Sean Hannity30 December 1961, American
Talk Show Host
Eartha Kitt17 January 1927, American
Singer
Nigella Lawson06 January 1960, British
Television Personality, Gourmet, Food Writer
Isaac Asimov02 January 1920, American
Writer, Professor
Rudyard Kipling30 December 1865, British
Author & Poet
Haruki Murakami12 January 1949, Japanese
Caroline Aherne24 December 1963, British
Comedian
Alan Watts06 January 1915, British, American
Philosopher, Writer & Speaker
Patti Smith30 December 1946, American
Singer
Rod Serling25 December 1924, American
Screenwriter, TV Producer, Narrator
J. D. Salinger01 January 1919, American
Writer
Mark Rylance18 January 1960, British
Actor
Yukio Mishima14 January 1925, Japanese
Playwright
Savitribai Phule03 January 1831, Indian
Social Reformer, Poet
Holly Madison23 December 1979, American
Author, Model, Reality TV Star
Jack London12 January 1876, American
Author
Simone de Beauvoir09 January 1908, French
Writer
Ree Drummond06 January 1969, American
Blogger
Morris Chestnut01 January 1969, American
Actor
Princess Michael of Kent15 January 1945, British
Author
Zora Neale Hurston07 January 1891, American
Folklorist, Anthropologist
Federico Fellini20 January 1920, Italian
Film Director and Scriptwriter
Diana Gabaldon11 January 1952, American
Author
Edmund Burke12 January 1729, Irish, British
Statesman
Susan Sontag16 January 1933, American
Continue Reading Below
Nicholas Sparks31 December 1965, American
Novelist
Fareed Zakaria20 January 1964, Indian, American
Journalist
Umberto Eco05 January 1932, Italian
Italian Semiotician, Philosopher
Simon Wiesenthal31 December 1908, Austrian
Nazi Hunter
E. M. Forster01 January 1879, British
Writer
A. A. Milne18 January 1882, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Nick Clooney13 January 1934, American
Journalist
Amy Sherman-Palladino17 January 1966, American
Director
Richard Briers14 January 1934, British
Actor
Henry Valentine Miller26 December 1891, American
Writer
Paula Deen19 January 1947, American
TV personality
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908, British
English Writer & Gay Icon
Moliere15 January 1622, French
Playwright, Actor and Stage Manager
Mirza Ghalib27 December 1797, Indian
Poet
Donna Tartt23 December 1963, American
Author
Rory Stewart03 January 1973, British
Political Leader
Anne Brontë17 January 1820, British
Writer
Ron Cephas Jones08 January 1957, American
Actor
Carlos Castaneda25 December 1925, American
Author
David Horowitz10 January 1939, American
Writer
Matthew Arnold24 December 1822, British
Poet
Carol Ann Duffy23 December 1955, British
Garth Ennis16 January 1970, British, American
Comics writer
Kamal Amrohi17 January 1918, Indian
Director
Charles Perrault12 January 1628, French
Author
Kuvempu29 December 1904, Indian
Novelist
Wilbur A. Smith09 January 1933, Central African
Novelist
René Girard25 December 1923, French
Philosopher
Paula Poundstone29 December 1959, American
Comedian
Andrea Tantaros30 December 1978, American
Political Analyst
Liu Xiaobo28 December 1955, Chinese
Chinese Human Rights Activist
Charlayne Woodard29 December 1953, American
Actress
Carl Sandburg06 January 1878, American
Writer & Editor
Willow Bay28 December 1963, American
Journalist
Burnie Burns18 January 1973, American
Screenplay Writer, Actor, Entrepreneur, Filmmaker
R. A. Salvatore20 January 1959, American
Novelist
C. L. R. James04 January 1901, Trinidadian, British
Journalist, Writer, Historian, Theorist, Socialist
Rigoberta Menchú09 January 1959, Guatemalan
Activist,Politician,Author
Vera Brittain29 December 1893, British
Writer
Junot Díaz31 December 1968, Dominican, American
Writer
Terry Brooks08 January 1944, American
Writer
Elijah Daniel09 January 1994, American
Comedian
Oscar Micheaux02 January 1884, American
Author
Vicki Iovine13 January 1954, American
Model, Writer, Lawyer
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887, American
Paul Bowles30 December 1910, American
Writer, Music Composer
Rubén Darío18 January 1867, Nicaraguan
Poet
Betty Aberlin30 December 1942, American
Actress
Robert W. Service16 January 1874, Canadian, French, British
Poet & Writer
Stephen Leacock30 December 1869, Canadian
Canadian writer
Nabaneeta Dev Sen13 January 1938, Indian
Writer
Edwidge Danticat19 January 1969, Haitian
Author
Emilia Lanier31 December 1569, British
Poet
Robin McGraw28 December 1953, American
Author, Entrepreneur, Television Personality
Alexander Woollcott19 January 1887, American
American critic
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal23 December 1952, Bangladeshi
Author
Hristo Botev06 January 1848, Bulgarian
Bulgarian Revolutionary
Khalil Gibran06 January 1883, Lebanese
Artist
Ernesto Cardenal20 January 1925, Nicaraguan
Poet, Revolutionary, Politician, Priest
Robert Cormier17 January 1925, American
American author
Angelus Silesius25 December 1624, German
Priest
Norman Angell26 December 1872, British
British Journalist & Author
Alexandra Ripley08 January 1934, American
American writer