Anne Frank12 June 1929, German
Writer
Mary-Kate Olsen13 June 1986, American
Actress, Fashion Designer
Michael J. Fox09 June 1961, Canadian
Actor
Salman Rushdie19 June 1947, British
Joan Collins23 May 1933, British
Actress & Author
Laura Ingraham19 June 1964, American
Radio Host, Author and Political Commentator
Richard Ayoade12 June 1977, British
Actor
Walt Whitman31 May 1819, American
Poet & humanist
Allen Ginsberg03 June 1926, American
Poet
Ian Fleming28 May 1908, British
Author of James Bond Series
Steve-O13 June 1974, Canadian, British, American
Actor
Joan Rivers08 June 1933, American
Actress
Ralph Waldo Emerson25 May 1803, American
American Lecturer, Philosopher, Essayist & Poet
Marquis de Sade02 June 1740, French
Erotic Novelist
Gary Burghoff24 May 1943, American
Actor
Rosanne Cash24 May 1955, American
Singer-Songwriter, author
Rachel Carson27 May 1907, American
Marine biologist
Thomas Hardy02 June 1840, British
Novelist & Poet
Chris Colfer27 May 1990, American
Actor
Joyce Meyer04 June 1943, American
Author
Christina Crawford11 June 1939, American
Author, Actress
Harriet Beecher Stowe14 June 1811, American
American author
Eileen Davidson15 June 1959, American
Actress
Cilla Black27 May 1943, British
Singer
Mariette Hartley21 June 1940, American
Actress
Federico García Lorca05 June 1898, Spanish
Poet
Thomas Mann06 June 1875, Swiss, German
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Randolph Churchill28 May 1911, British
Journalist, Politician
Kazi Nazrul Islam24 May 1899, Bangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Svetlana Alexievich31 May 1948, Belarusian
Write and Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Alex Garland26 May 1970, British
Novelist, Screenwriter, Film Director
Mona Simpson14 June 1957, American
Author
Harlan Ellison27 May 1934, American
Writer
Robin Sharma16 June 1964, Canadian, Mauritian
Writer, Public Speaker
Vikram Seth20 June 1952, Indian
Writer
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Ben Jonson11 June 1572, British
Dramatist, Poet & Actor
Aaron McGruder29 May 1974, American
Writer, Cartoonist & Public Speaker
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Jose Rizal19 June 1861, Filipino
Saul Bellow10 June 1915, American
Novelist
Suze Orman05 June 1951, American
Author, Television Personality, Motivational
Michael Porter23 May 1947, American
Economist, Researcher, Author, Advisor, Speaker
Fernando Pessoa13 June 1888, Portuguese
Orhan Pamuk07 June 1952, Turkish
Larry McMurtry03 June 1936, American
Novelist
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
John Cheever27 May 1912, American
Novelist & Short Story Writer
Thomas Moore28 May 1779, Irish
Poet, Singer, Songwriter, & Entertainer
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810, American
James Weldon Johnson17 June 1871, American
Author
Gwendolyn Brooks07 June 1917, American
Poet
Joseph Brodsky24 May 1940, Russian
Essayist & Poet
Ruth Graham10 June 1920, Chinese, American
Philanthropist, Poet, Author
Jamaica Kincaid25 May 1949, American
Novelist
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
John W. Campbell08 June 1910, American
Science Fiction Writer
Hélène Cixous05 June 1937, Algerian
Professor
John Hersey17 June 1914, American
American writer
Henry Lawson17 June 1867, Australian
Writer
Charles Kingsley12 June 1819, British
Priest
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle22 May 1859, British, Scottish
Writer & Physician
Frances Burney13 June 1752, British
Novelist
Theodore Roethke25 May 1908, American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
Judith Wright31 May 1915, Australian
Poet, Environmentalist, Campaigner for Aboriginal
Bertha von Suttner09 June 1843, Austrian
Pacifist, First Woman to Receive the Nobel Peace
W B Yeats13 June 1865, Irish
Poet & Dramatist
Augusto Roa Bastos13 June 1917, Paraguayan
Novelist
Oscar Milosz28 May 1877, French
Poet
David Wagoner05 June 1926, American
Poet, Novelist, Professor
Amy Clampitt15 June 1920, American
Poet
Gilbert K. Chesterton29 May 1874, British
Writer
Jerzy Kosiński14 June 1933, American
Novelist
Metin Hara14 June 1982, Turkish
Author, Spiritual Healer, Adriana Lima’s
Aleksa Šantić27 May 1868, Bosnian
Poet
Miljenko Jergović28 May 1966, Bosnian
Prose writer
Ken Jennings23 May 1974, American
Software engineer, Blogger, Non-fiction writer,
James VI and I19 June 1566
Poet, Writer
Alanis Morissette01 June 1974, Canadian, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer, Actor, Composer,
Christopher Lloyd18 June 1960, American
screenwriter, film producer
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Poet, Philosopher, Politician, Playwright
Arthur Conan Doyle22 May 1859, British
Physician, Writer, Poet, Cricketer, Novelist,
Judith Kerr14 June 1923, British
Writer, Illustrator, Autobiographer, Children's
Newt Gingrich17 June 1943, American
Politician, Novelist, Writer
G. K. Chesterton29 May 1874, British
Journalist, Poet, Novelist, Autobiographer,
Jade Goody05 June 1981
Nurse, Autobiographer, Writer, Socialite
John Edwards10 June 1953, American
Politician, Lawyer, Writer, Podcaster
Rick Riordan05 June 1964, American
American author
Greg Daniels13 June 1963, American
Screenwriter
Ian McEwan21 June 1948, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, Film
Dustin Lance Black10 June 1974, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer, Film
Cornel West02 June 1953, American
Theologian, Philosopher, University teacher,
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Politician, Journalist, Physician, Physicist,
Melissa Mathison03 June 1950, American
Screenwriter
Richard Strauss11 June 1864, German
Composer, Conductor, Librettist, Writer
Heston Blumenthal27 May 1966, British
Chef, Writer
T. D. Jakes09 June 1957, American
Priest, Author, Writer