William Shakespeare26 April 1564, British
Writer
Emilio Estevez12 May 1962, American
Actor
Rosario Dawson09 May 1979, American
Actress
Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861, Indian
Poet and Author
Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Lisa Brennan-Jobs17 May 1978, American
Daughter of Steve Jobs
Michael Moore23 April 1954, American
Documentary Filmmaker
Dante Alighieri30 April 1265, Italian
Poet
Mick Mars04 May 1951, American
Musician
Adrianne Palicki06 May 1983, American
Actress
Harper Lee28 April 1926, American
Novelist
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
David Icke29 April 1952, British
Writer
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Jill Ireland24 April 1936, British, American
Actress
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934, Indian
Writer
Mary Wollstonecraft27 April 1759, British
Writer
Olivia Olson21 May 1992, American
Actress
Vladimir Nabokov22 April 1899, Swiss, American, Russian
Novelist
Bruce Boxleitner12 May 1950, American
Actor
Breckin Meyer07 May 1974, American
Actor
Karen Kilgariff11 May 1970, American
Actress
Wayne Dyer10 May 1940, American
Self-Help Author and Motivational Speaker
Edd China09 May 1971, British
Television Presenter
Daphne du Maurier13 May 1907, British
Ann B. Davis03 May 1926, American
Actress
Robert Browning07 May 1812, British
Poet & Playwright
Alexander Pope21 May 1688, British
Honoré de Balzac20 May 1799, French
French Novelist and Playwright
Phillis Wheatley08 May 1753, American
Poet
Betty DeGeneres20 May 1930, American
Speech Therapist
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Writer, Actor
Julius Evola19 May 1898, Italian
Philosopher
Omar Khayyam18 May 1048, Iranian
Mathematician
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
Milton William Cooper06 May 1943, American
Author
Naomi Klein08 May 1970, Canadian
Author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti12 May 1828, British
Poet
Hedda Hopper02 May 1885, American
Actress
Nancy Kwan19 May 1939, Hong Konger, American
Actress
Tana French10 May 1973, Italian, American
Writer
August Wilson27 April 1945, American
American playwright
Robert Owen14 May 1771, Welsh
Romain Gary21 May 1914, French
Diplomat
Jane Jacobs04 May 1916, Canadian
Journalist, Author, Activist
Mikhail Bulgakov15 May 1891, Russian
Novelist
Anthony Trollope24 April 1815, British
Novelist
James Dobson21 April 1936, American
Writer
Benjamin Spock02 May 1903, American
Pediatrician and Political Activist
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Henry Fielding22 April 1707, British
Writer
Adrienne Rich16 May 1929, American
American poet
Darcey Bussell27 April 1969, British
Ballerina
Anna Roosevelt Halsted03 May 1906, American
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Li Bai19 May 0701, Chinese
Poet
Olympe de Gouges07 May 1748, French
Playwright
Joseph Addison01 May 1672, British
Essayist & Poet
Angela Carter07 May 1940, British
Jerome K. Jerome02 May 1859, British
Writer
Gary Snyder08 May 1930, American
American man of letters
Novalis02 May 1772, German
Philosopher & Poet
Edward de Bono19 May 1933, Maltese, British
Author, Consultant
Alphonse Daudet13 May 1840, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890, American
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
Bernard Malamud26 April 1914, American
American novelist
W. Clement Stone04 May 1902, American
Businessman & Self Help Book Author
A. E. van Vogt26 April 1912, Canadian
Science Fiction Author
Sigrid Undset20 May 1882, Norwegian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
H. E. Bates16 May 1905, British
Short Story Writer
Camilo José Cela11 May 1916, Spanish
Writer
Christopher Morley05 May 1890, American
Journalist, Novelist
Roque Dalton14 May 1935, Salvadoran
Poet
Karel Appel25 April 1921, Dutch
Painter, Sculptor, Poet
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Composer
Charles Simic09 May 1938, American
Poet
A. C. Benson24 April 1862, British
English essayist
Charlotte Bronte21 April 1816, British
Novelist
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Writer
Abraham Valdelomar27 April 1888, Peruvian
Narrator
Elizabeth Ann Hanks17 May 1982, American
Actress
Monique Truong13 May 1968, American
Writer
Ahmad Javad05 May 1892, Azerbaijani
Poet
Robert Greene14 May 1959, British, American
Writer, Playwright
C. Day Lewis27 April 1904, Irish, British
Poet
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, British, Scottish
Writer
Anna Jameson19 May 1794, British
Writer, Women Rights Activist
Alistair Maclean21 April 1922, Scottish
Novelist
Daniel Weiss23 April 1971, American
Television Producer
Kelly Killoren01 May 1968, American
Author, Socialite, Model
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Actress
Jim Lehrer19 May 1934, American
Journalist
Rob Brydon03 May 1965, British
Actor, Television actor, Film actor, Comedian,
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Actor
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Screenwriter, Film producer