John Krasinski20 October 1979, American
Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Oscar Wilde16 October 1854, Irish
Playwright
Sacha Baron Cohen13 October 1971, British
Actor
Julie Andrews01 October 1935, British
Actress, Singer & Author
Aleister Crowley12 October 1875, British
F. Scott Fitzgerald24 September 1896, American
Novelist
Sharon Osbourne09 October 1952, British
Television host
Rumi30 September 1207, Afghan, Turkish
Great Poet
Marie Kondo09 October 1984, Japanese
Organizing Expert
Arthur Miller17 October 1915, American
John Dean14 October 1938, American
Author
T. S. Eliot26 September 1888, American
Poet
Truman Capote30 September 1924, American
Author
R. K. Narayan10 October 1906, Indian
Chuck Lorre18 October 1952, American
Writer, Television Producer, Director
Michael Crichton23 October 1942, American
Gore Vidal03 October 1925, American
Denis Villeneuve03 October 1967, Canadian
Film Director, Screenwriter, Playwright
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar26 September 1820, Indian
Social Reformer, Philosopher
William Faulkner25 September 1897, American
Writer, Nobel Laureate
Shel Silverstein25 September 1930, American
Poet
Deepak Chopra22 October 1946, American
Motivational Speaker, Writer
Elie Wiesel30 September 1928, Romanian, American
Writer
R. L. Stine08 October 1943, American
Pope John Paul I17 October 1912, Italian
Pope of Roman Catholic Church
Miguel de Cervantes29 September 1547, Spanish
Novelist
Virgil15 October 0070, Ancient Roman
Poet
Eugene O'Neill16 October 1888, American
Playwright
Emeril Lagasse15 October 1959, American
Chef, Restaurateur
Arthur Rimbaud20 October 1854, French
Poet
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Anne Rice04 October 1941, American
E. E. Cummings14 October 1894, American
Poet
Mario Puzo15 October 1920, American
Novelist, Screenwriter
Michael Morpurgo05 October 1943, British
Author
Continue Reading Below
Christina Hoff Sommers28 September 1950, American
Author, Philosopher
Andrea Dworkin26 September 1946, American
Feminist and Writer
Henri Bergson18 October 1859, French
Philosopher and Writer
Sherman Alexie07 October 1966, American
Novelist
Doris Lessing22 October 1919, British
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Katherine Mansfield14 October 1888, New Zealander
Oleg Gordievsky10 October 1938, Russian
Secret Agent
Michelangelo Antonioni29 September 1912, Italian
Film Director, Screenwriter, Editor
Elizabeth Gaskell29 September 1810, British
Novelist
Günter Grass16 October 1927, German
Novelist
R. D. Laing07 October 1927, French, Scottish
Psychiatrist
Amiri Baraka07 October 1934, American
Writer
Wallace Stevens02 October 1879, American
Poet
Tracy Griffith19 October 1965, American
Actress
Léopold Sédar Senghor09 October 1906, Senegalese
Senegalese Politician
Miguel de Unamuno29 September 1864, Spanish
Writer
Marie Stopes15 October 1880, British
Paleobotanist & Women’s Rights Activists
Alvin Toffler04 October 1928, American
Writer & Futurist
David Unaipon28 September 1872, Australian
Preacher
Elfriede Jelinek20 October 1946, Austrian
Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.15 October 1917, American
Historian
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan17 October 1817, Indian
Founder of Aligarh Muslim University
Leigh Hunt19 October 1784, British
English Essayist, Poet & Critic
Alphonsus Liguori27 September 1696, Italian
Philisopher, Spiritual Writer, Theologian
Alphonse de Lamartine21 October 1790, French
Writer
Ivan Bunin22 October 1870, Russian
Writer
Lin Yutang10 October 1895, Chinese
Writer
Grazia Deledda27 September 1871, Italian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Mário de Andrade09 October 1893, Brazilian
Poet
A. J. Liebling18 October 1904, American
Journalist
P G Wodehouse15 October 1881, British, American
Playwright and Author
John Reed22 October 1887, American
Journalist, Poet
Samuel Coleridge21 October 1772, British
Poet and Philosopher
Henry Graham Greene02 October 1904, British
Novelist
Charlotte Dean29 September 1982, American
Illustrator, Visual Artist
Fran Levstik28 September 1831, Slovenian
Writer
Miguel Ãngel Asturias19 October 1899, Guamanian
Poet
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco12 October 1908, Ecuadorian
Novelist, Essayist, Historian
Ivo Andric09 October 1892, Yugoslav
Novelist
Mariela Griffor29 September 1961, Chilean
Poet, Publisher, Diplomat
A.P. Herbert24 September 1890, British
Humorist, Novelist, Playwright & Law Reform
Jože Javoršek20 October 1920, Slovenian
Playwright
Shahabuddin Nagari06 October 1955, Bangladeshi
Poet
Rebecca Humphries03 October 1987, British
Actress, Playwright
Crazy Mohan16 October 1952, Indian
screenwriter
Artie Lange11 October 1967, American
Actor, Screenwriter, Television actor, Writer,
Zakir Naik18 October 1965, Indian
Physician, Writer, Intellectual, Preacher
Ursula K. Le Guin21 October 1929, American
American author of novels
Britt Ekland06 October 1942, Swedish
Actor, Writer, Autobiographer, Television
Piper Kerman28 September 1969, American
writer, memoirist
Mark Gatiss17 October 1966, British
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Novelist, Voice
Les Claypool29 September 1963, American
Bassist, Singer, Songwriter
Syed Ahmad Khan17 October 1817, Indian, British
Judge, Philosopher, Knight, Lawyer
Carrie Brownstein27 September 1974, American
Singer, Guitarist, Actor, Writer, Musician,
Matthew Cowles28 September 1944, American
Television actor, Film actor, Stage actor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge21 October 1772, British
Poet, Philosopher, Theologian, Writer, Literary
Philip Pullman19 October 1946, British
Writer, Novelist, University teacher, Playwright,
Clive Barker05 October 1952, British
Film director, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Stefan Molyneux24 September 1966, Canadian
Philosopher, Writer, Novelist, Podcaster, YouTuber
Robert Jordan17 October 1948, American
American author
Sonny Barger08 October 1938, American
Writer