William Shakespeare26 April 1564, British
Writer
Emilio Estevez12 May 1962, American
Actor
Rosario Dawson09 May 1979, American
Actress
Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861, Indian
Poet
Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Adrianne Palicki06 May 1983, American
Actress
Dante Alighieri30 April 1265, Italian
Poet
Lisa Brennan-Jobs17 May 1978, American
Daughter of Steve Jobs
David Icke29 April 1952, British
Writer
Mick Mars04 May 1951, American
Musician
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934, Indian
Writer
Harper Lee28 April 1926, American
Novelist
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
Jill Ireland24 April 1936, British, American
Actress
August Wilson27 April 1945, American
American playwright
Charlotte Bronte21 April 1816, British
Novelist
Vladimir Nabokov22 April 1899, Swiss, American, Russian
Novelist
Ludwig Wittgenstein26 April 1889, Austrian, British
Philosopher
Michael Moore23 April 1954, American
Documentary Filmmaker
Mary Wollstonecraft27 April 1759, British
Writer
Breckin Meyer07 May 1974, American
Actor
Bruce Boxleitner12 May 1950, American
Actor
Darcey Bussell27 April 1969, British
Ballerina
Jeffrey Toobin21 May 1960, American
Lawyer
Daphne du Maurier13 May 1907, British
Honoré de Balzac20 May 1799, French
French Novelist and Playwright
Sir James Matthew Barrie09 May 1860, British, Scottish
Writer
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974, Indian
Author
Edd China09 May 1971, British
Television Presenter
Phillis Wheatley08 May 1753, American
Poet
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Julius Evola19 May 1898, Italian
Philosopher
Robert Greene14 May 1959, British, American
Writer, Playwright
Robert Browning07 May 1812, British
Poet & Playwright
Alexander Pope21 May 1688, British
Ahmet Zappa15 May 1974, American
Writer, Actor
Milton William Cooper06 May 1943, American
Author
Omar Khayyam18 May 1048, Iranian
Mathematician
Hedda Hopper02 May 1885, American
Actress
Naomi Klein08 May 1970, Canadian
Author
Ann B. Davis03 May 1926, American
Actress
Damon Lindelof24 April 1973, American
Screenwriter
Wayne Dyer10 May 1940, American
Self-Help Author and Motivational Speaker
Dante Gabriel Rossetti12 May 1828, British
Poet
Ted Allen20 May 1965, American
TV Personality
Olivia Olson21 May 1992, American
Actress
Daniel Weiss23 April 1971, American
Television Producer
Nancy Kwan19 May 1939, Hong Konger, American
Actress
Anna Roosevelt Halsted03 May 1906, American
Writer, Editor
Mikhail Bulgakov15 May 1891, Russian
Novelist
Saadat Hasan Manto11 May 1912, Pakistani
Writer
C. Day Lewis27 April 1904, Irish, British
Poet
Robert Owen14 May 1771, Welsh
Tana French10 May 1973, Italian, American
Writer
Gary Rhodes22 April 1960, British
Restaurateur
Kelly Killoren01 May 1968, American
Author, Socialite, Model
Anthony Trollope24 April 1815, British
Novelist
Karen Kilgariff11 May 1970, American
Actress
Adrienne Rich16 May 1929, American
American poet
Romain Gary21 May 1914, French
Diplomat
Henry Fielding22 April 1707, British
Writer
Li Bai19 May 0701, Chinese
Poet
James Dobson21 April 1936, American
Writer
Olympe de Gouges07 May 1748, French
Playwright
Alistair Maclean21 April 1922, Scottish
Novelist
Jane Jacobs04 May 1916, Canadian
Journalist, Author, Activist
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Ramachandra Guha29 April 1958, Indian
Writer
Angela Carter07 May 1940, British
Benjamin Spock02 May 1903, American
Pediatrician and Political Activist
Alphonse Daudet13 May 1840, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
Betty DeGeneres20 May 1930, American
Speech Therapist
Gary Snyder08 May 1930, American
American man of letters
Joseph Addison01 May 1672, British
Essayist & Poet
Jerome K. Jerome02 May 1859, British
Writer
Novalis02 May 1772, German
Philosopher & Poet
Edward de Bono19 May 1933, Maltese, British
Author, Consultant
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
Sigrid Undset20 May 1882, Norwegian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
A. E. van Vogt26 April 1912, Canadian
Science Fiction Author
H. E. Bates16 May 1905, British
Short Story Writer
Camilo José Cela11 May 1916, Spanish
Writer
Assi Rahbani04 May 1923, Lebanese
Composer
Christopher Morley05 May 1890, American
Journalist, Novelist
Karel Appel25 April 1921, Dutch
Painter, Sculptor, Poet
Charles Simic09 May 1938, American
Poet
Roque Dalton14 May 1935, Salvadoran
Poet
Ivan Cankar10 May 1876, Slovenian
Writer
A. C. Benson24 April 1862, British
English essayist
Abraham Valdelomar27 April 1888, Peruvian
Narrator
Anna Jameson19 May 1794, British
Writer, Women Rights Activist
Monique Truong13 May 1968, American
Writer