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Dr. Seuss
(Children's Author And Illustrator)
Dr. Seuss
37
Birthdate: March 2, 1904
Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Died: September 24, 1991

Dr. Seuss was an American children's author, illustrator, and political cartoonist. He is credited with writing some of the most famous children's books ever, including The Cat in the Hat. His works were translated into over 20 languages and sold more than 600 million copies by the time of his death. Many of his creations were adapted into animated cartoons.

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Victor Hugo
(French Writer of the Romantic Movement Best Known for His Novel 'Les Misérables' and Play 'Ruy Blas')
Victor Hugo
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Birthdate: February 26, 1802
Birthplace: Besançon, Doubs, France
Died: May 22, 1885

Victor Hugo was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist of the Romantic movement. Regarded as one of the best-known and greatest French writers of all time, Victor Hugo wrote abundantly during his career that spanned over six decades. Thanks to his works, such as Hernani and Cromwell, Victor Hugo was one of the leading figures of the Romantic literary movement.

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Jack Kerouac
(Novelist and Poet Best Known for His Novels: ‘On the Road', ‘The Dharma Bums’ and ‘Big Sur’)
Jack Kerouac
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Birthdate: March 12, 1922
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 21, 1969
Jack Kerouac is remembered as a prominent figure of the Beat Generation. His works, consisting of several novels and poems, with their focus on spirituality, drugs, travel, sex, and jazz, paved the way for the hippie movement. He is best known for his pathbreaking novel On the Road
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Nobel Prize Winner in Literature)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Birthdate: March 6, 1927
Birthplace: Aracataca, Colombia
Died: April 17, 2014

Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, also known as “Gabo,” is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the magic realism literary style. His novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera have achieved cult status. He previously worked as a journalist.

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Douglas Adams
(Author of the BBC Radio Comedy Series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
Douglas Adams
8
Birthdate: March 11, 1952
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: May 11, 2001

English author, screenwriter, and essayist, Douglas Adams, is most remembered for his comedy science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As a screenwriter, he wrote two stories for the TV series Doctor Who. He advocated for environmentalism and spoke about environmental issues in his non-fiction radio series Last Chance to See.

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Philip Roth
(One of the Most Awarded American Writers of His Generation)
Philip Roth
11
Birthdate: March 19, 1933
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Died: May 22, 2018

Philip Roth was a novelist and short-story writer best remembered for creating the fictional character Nathan Zuckerman, who featured in many of his novels. The recipient of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, he also received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize. Roth was one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. Born a Jew, he became an atheist later on.

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W. H. Auden
(One of the Greatest Authors of 20th Century)
W. H. Auden
9
Birthdate: February 21, 1907
Birthplace: York, England, United Kingdom
Died: September 29, 1973

W. H. Auden was an Anglo-American poet. His poetry was noted for its technical achievement and versatility. He wrote poems on love, political and social themes, and cultural and psychological themes. Throughout his career, Auden was both influential and controversial. His personal life also attracted attention as he had sexual relationships with men, which was unusual at the time.

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Christopher Marlowe
(Playwright, Poet)
Christopher Marlowe
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Birthdate: February 26, 1564
Birthplace: Canterbury, Kent, England
Died: May 30, 1593

English playwright, poet, and translator, Christopher Marlowe, was one of the major literary figures of the Elizabethan era. It is believed that he greatly influenced his contemporary William Shakespeare. He led a troubled life and died young under mysterious circumstances. Despite his early death, he is regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the 16th century London.  

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Wilfred Owen
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Birthdate: March 18, 1893
Birthplace: Oswestry
Died: November 4, 1918

Wilfred Owen was an English soldier and poet. One of the most important poets during World War I, Owen wrote about the horrors of gas warfare. His life and career inspired a docudrama titled Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale where he was portrayed by Samuel Barnett. In 1989, the Wilfred Owen Association was established to commemorate his life and poetry.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(First American poet to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5
Birthdate: February 27, 1807
Birthplace: Portland, Maine, United States
Died: March 24, 1882
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Henrik Ibsen
(Norwegian-Danish Playwright and Theatre Director)
Henrik Ibsen
6
Birthdate: March 20, 1828
Birthplace: Skien, Telemark, Norway
Died: May 23, 1906

Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian theatre director and playwright. One of the most influential and popular playwrights of his generation, Ibsen is credited with co-founding modernism in theatre, for which he is often called the father of realism. After William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen is the world's most often performed dramatist. His works have influenced other playwrights like George Bernard Shaw.

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Tom Wolfe
(American author)
Tom Wolfe
7
Birthdate: March 2, 1931
Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia, United States
Died: March 14, 2018
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(English poet of the Victorian era, best known for her 'Sonnets From the Portuguese' and 'Aurora Leigh.)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6
Birthdate: March 6, 1806
Birthplace: Kelloe, Durham, England
Died: June 29, 1861
 14 
William Gibson
(Science-Fiction Writer Known for His Novel ‘Neuromancer’ and a Pinoeer of 'Cyberpunk' Genre)
William Gibson
6
Birthdate: March 17, 1948
Birthplace: Conway, South Carolina, United States

William Gibson is an American-Canadian essayist and speculative fiction writer. He is widely credited with pioneering cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre. His early works, which he produced during the late-1970s and early-1980s, helped create an iconography for the information age even before the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s. William Gibson is also credited with coining the term cyberspace.

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Anthony Burgess
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Birthdate: February 25, 1917
Birthplace: Harpurhey, Lancashire, England
Died: November 22, 1993
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Ralph Waldo Ellison
3
Birthdate: March 1, 1914
Birthplace: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Died: April 16, 1994
 17 
John Steinbeck
(American Writer and Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature)
John Steinbeck
5
Birthdate: February 27, 1902
Birthplace: Salinas, California, United States
Died: December 20, 1968

Famous for his novels The Grapes of Wrath and Tortilla Flat, John Ernst Steinbeck was noted for his sympathy for the plight of workers in his books. The Nobel laureate, who said he did not deserve the prize, authored 33 books, some of which were best sellers during his time. His books were also adapted into films.

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Dave Eggers
(American Writer Known for His Best Selling Memoir 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius')
Dave Eggers
4
Birthdate: March 12, 1970
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dave Eggers is an American writer, publisher, and editor. He is credited with founding a non-profit publishing house named McSweeney's Publishing and a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization called ScholarMatch. Eggers is also credited with co-founding other non-profit organizations like 826 Valencia and Voice of Witness. His novels A Hologram for the King and The Circle have been adapted into movies.

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Lauren Graham
(Actress and Author Best Known for Her Role as ‘Lorelai Gilmore’ in the TV Series ‘Gilmore Girls’)
Lauren Graham
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Birthdate: March 16, 1967
Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Lauren Graham is an American actress popular for playing Lorelai Gilmore in the famous television series, Gilmore Girls. Apart from being an actress, Lauren Graham is also an author and has published a couple of books, including a memoir. Also known for her beauty, Lauren has graced the cover of magazines like Health, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Parade, and Self.

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Lois Lowry
(Writer)
Lois Lowry
4
Birthdate: March 20, 1937
Birthplace: Honolulu Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Edward Albee
(Playwright)
Edward Albee
4
Birthdate: March 12, 1928
Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Died: September 16, 2016
Edna St. Vincent Millay
5
Birthdate: February 22, 1892
Birthplace: Rockland, Maine, United States
Died: October 19, 1950
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Nikos Kazantzakis
(One of the Most Important Figures of Modern Greek Literature, Best Known for His Work 'Zorba the Greek')
Nikos Kazantzakis
3
Birthdate: March 2, 1883
Birthplace: Heraklion, Greece
Died: October 26, 1957

Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer whose works earned him nine nominations for the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature. Regarded as a giant of modern Greek literature, Kazantzakis achieved international fame when his works, such as The Life And Times Of Alexis Zorba and The Last Temptation of Christ, were adapted into feature films. 

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Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist and Novelist Best Known for His Books: ‘Fight Club’, ‘Choke’, ‘Rant’ and ‘Invisible Monsters’)
Chuck Palahniuk
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Birthdate: February 21, 1962
Birthplace: Pasco, Washington, United States

Freelance journalist and author Chuck Palahniuk specializes in what he calls transgressional fiction. His popular novel Fight Club was adapted into a film starring Brad Pitt and also won awards such as the Oregon Book Award for Best Novel. Though critics call his books nihilistic, he himself calls them romantic.

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Carson McCullers
(American novelist)
Carson McCullers
3
Birthdate: February 19, 1917
Birthplace: Columbus, Georgia, USA
Died: September 29, 1967
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Ovid
(Poet)
Ovid
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Birthdate: March 20, 0043
Birthplace: Sulmo, Italy, Roman Republic
Died: 0017 AD

Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid, lived during the rule of Augustus. He is held at par with Latin legends Virgil and Horace. Remembered for his mythological masterpiece the Metamorphoses, a 15-book Latin poem, he spent his final years exiled in a city on the Black Sea.

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Anais Nin
(French-Born American Novelist, Diarist and Short Story Writer)
Anais Nin
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Birthdate: February 21, 1903
Birthplace: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France
Died: January 14, 1977

French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, and novelist Anais Nin wrote several volumes of journals, erotica, novels, critical studies, essays, and short stories. Her journals and diaries are among her most studied works. She had a deep interest in psychoanalysis and studied it extensively with René Allendy and Otto Rank. Critics consider her one of the finest writers of female erotica.

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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
(Ufologist, Writer)
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
4
Birthdate: March 14, 1978
Birthplace: Lucerne, Switzerland

Best known for his History Channel show Ancient Aliens, Swiss ufologist Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a major supporter of the Ancient Astronaut Theory. One of the few people to have conducted alien-related expeditions to remote areas of the Earth, he was, surprisingly, a bodybuilding promoter in his early days.

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Daniel Handler
4
Birthdate: February 28, 1970
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States
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Khaled Hosseini
(Afghan-American Novelist and Former Physician)
Khaled Hosseini
4
Birthdate: March 4, 1965
Birthplace: Kabul, Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist. He is best known for his debut novel The Kite Runner, which achieved commercial and critical success. The novel spent three weeks at number one position on The New York Times Best Seller list. Khaled Hosseini is also a UNHCR goodwill ambassador and is known for his work as an advocate for refugees.
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Bret Easton Ellis
(American Author, Screenwriter and Short-Story Writer)
Bret Easton Ellis
6
Birthdate: March 7, 1964
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis was part of the literary Brat Pack. A skilled satirist, he often repeats the same characters in his novels. Some of his bestselling works include Less Than Zero and American Psycho, and four of his novels have been adapted into movies.

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Cyrano de Bergerac
(Novelist and Playwright Known for His Play ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’)
Cyrano de Bergerac
4
Birthdate: March 6, 1619
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: July 28, 1655
Seventeenth-century author and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac was immortalized by Edmond Rostand’s drama Cyrano de Bergerac, based on Bergerac’s life, with its mix of myth and reality. Even Bergerac's death is shrouded in mystery, with some claiming he died of an injury and others believing he died of a disease.
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Michael J. Knowles
(Political Commentator)
Michael J. Knowles
4
Birthdate: March 18, 1990
Birthplace: Bedford Hills, New York, United States
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Homer Hickam
(Aerospace Engineer)
Homer Hickam
4
Birthdate: February 19, 1943
Birthplace: Coalwood, West Virginia, United States
 35 
John Updike
(Poet, Novelist)
John Updike
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Birthdate: March 18, 1932
Birthplace: Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: January 27, 2009
 36 
Glennon Doyle Melton
(American Author and Public Speaker)
Glennon Doyle Melton
4
Birthdate: March 20, 1976
Birthplace: Burke, Virginia, United States

The author of New York Times bestsellers such as Untamed and Love Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton was once described as the patron saint of female empowerment by People magazine. She is also an avid philanthropist, who heads the all-woman non-profit Together Rising, which caters to women and children.

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Gillian Flynn
(Writer)
Gillian Flynn
4
Birthdate: February 24, 1971
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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John Irving
(Novelist)
John Irving
4
Birthdate: March 2, 1942
Birthplace: Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
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Janet Mock
(Writer & Transgender Activist Know for Her Debut Book, The Memoir Redefining Realness, Became a New York Times Bestseller)
Janet Mock
5
Birthdate: March 10, 1983
Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Lawrence Durrell
4
Birthdate: February 27, 1912
Birthplace: Jalandhar
Died: November 7, 1990
Lawrence Durrell, eldest brother of naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, was a poet and writer whose best-known work is The Alexandria Quartet, the tetralogy of novels, including the famous book Justine. Constance from The Avignon Quintet earned a Booker Prize nomination. He is also known for his extensive travel writing.
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Esther Hicks
(Writer)
Esther Hicks
4
Birthdate: March 5, 1948
Birthplace: Coalville, Utah, U.S.
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John Henry Newman
(Theologian and Philosopher)
John Henry Newman
5
Birthdate: February 21, 1801
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom
Died: August 11, 1890

An important figure in the English religious history, John Henry Newman was a nineteenth century theologian, scholar and poet. Famed for leading the Oxford movement in the Church of England, he later switched to the Roman Catholic Church, eventually becoming the Cardinal Deacon of St. George in Velabro.  Also an influential educator and writer, he was canonized in October 2019.

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Barbara Niven
(Actress)
Barbara Niven
4
Birthdate: February 26, 1953
Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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Theo Walcott
(Association football player, Writer)
Theo Walcott
4
Birthdate: March 16, 1989
Birthplace: Stanmore
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Amy Tan
(American Author Known for Her Novels: ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’)
Amy Tan
4
Birthdate: February 19, 1952
Birthplace: Oakland, California, United States
 46 
Dav Pilkey
(Author and Illustrator of the Children's Book Series 'Captain Underpants' & 'Dog Man')
Dav Pilkey
4
Birthdate: March 4, 1966
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Dav Pilkey is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and author of children's literature. Pilkey is best known for illustrating and authoring a popular children's book series named Captain Underpants which earned him the prestigious Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Award in 2007.

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John Stossel
(Television presenter, Journalist, Writer)
John Stossel
4
Birthdate: March 6, 1947
Birthplace: Chicago Heights
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Matthew Vaughn
(Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer, Writer)
Matthew Vaughn
4
Birthdate: March 7, 1971
Birthplace: London
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
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Mike Leigh
(Film director, Actor, Playwright, Theatre director, Screenwriter, Writer)
Mike Leigh
4
Birthdate: February 20, 1943
Birthplace: Brocket Hall
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Richard Francis Burton
5
Birthdate: March 19, 1821
Birthplace: Torquay
Died: October 20, 1890

Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, soldier, and scholar. He is best remembered for his explorations in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Along with John Hanning Speke, Burton was the first European to witness the Great Lakes of Africa. A prolific writer, Burton wrote several scholarly articles about numerous subjects like sexual practices, falconry, human behavior, travel, and ethnography.