William Shakespeare26 April 1564, British
Writer
Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861, Indian
Poet and Author
Rosario Dawson09 May 1979, American
Actress
Emilio Estevez12 May 1962, American
Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Adrianne Palicki06 May 1983, American
Actress
Mick Mars04 May 1951, American
Musician
Lisa Brennan-Jobs17 May 1978, American
Daughter of Steve Jobs
Ruskin Bond19 May 1934, Indian
Writer
Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Dante Alighieri30 April 1265, Italian
Poet
Jill Ireland24 April 1936, British, American
Actress
Harper Lee28 April 1926, American
Novelist
David Icke29 April 1952, British
Writer
Michael Moore23 April 1954, American
Documentary Filmmaker
Nora Ephron19 May 1941, American
Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Max Weber21 April 1864, German
Sociologist
Ahmet Zappa15 May 1974, American
Writer, Actor
Bruce Boxleitner12 May 1950, American
Actor
Vladimir Nabokov22 April 1899, Swiss, American, Russian
Novelist
Breckin Meyer07 May 1974, American
Actor
Karen Kilgariff11 May 1970, American
Actress
Mary Wollstonecraft27 April 1759, British
Writer
Joseph Heller01 May 1923, American
Novelist
Ann B. Davis03 May 1926, American
Actress
Omar Khayyam18 May 1048, Iranian, Persian
Mathematician
Daphne du Maurier13 May 1907, British
Wayne Dyer10 May 1940, American
Self-Help Author and Motivational Speaker
Honoré de Balzac20 May 1799, French
French Novelist and Playwright
Alexander Pope21 May 1688, British
Robert Browning07 May 1812, British
Poet & Playwright
Hedda Hopper02 May 1885, American
Actress
Naomi Klein08 May 1970, Canadian
Author
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James Dobson21 April 1936, American
Writer
Nancy Kwan19 May 1939, Hong Konger, American
Actress
Robert Owen14 May 1771, Welsh
Olivia Olson21 May 1992, American
Actress
Jane Jacobs04 May 1916, Canadian
Journalist, Author, Activist
Anna Roosevelt Halsted03 May 1906, American
Writer, Editor
Benjamin Spock02 May 1903, American
Pediatrician and Political Activist
August Wilson27 April 1945, American
American playwright
Romain Gary21 May 1914, French
Diplomat
Henry Fielding22 April 1707, British
Writer
Phillis Wheatley08 May 1753, American
Poet
Darcey Bussell27 April 1969, British
Ballerina
Adrienne Rich16 May 1929, American
American poet
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
Edward de Bono19 May 1933, Maltese, British
Author, Consultant
Novalis02 May 1772, German
Philosopher & Poet
A. E. van Vogt26 April 1912, Canadian
Science Fiction Author
Katherine Anne Porter15 May 1890, American
Journalist, Essayist, Writer, Novelist
H. E. Bates16 May 1905, British
Short Story Writer
Alphonse Daudet13 May 1840, French
Novelist, Short story writer, playwright, poet
W. Clement Stone04 May 1902, American
Businessman & Self Help Book Author
Sigrid Undset20 May 1882, Norwegian
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Bernard Malamud26 April 1914, American
American novelist
Camilo José Cela11 May 1916, Spanish
Writer
Roque Dalton14 May 1935, Salvadoran
Poet
Christopher Morley05 May 1890, American
Journalist, Novelist
Karel Appel25 April 1921, Dutch
Painter, Sculptor, Poet
Charles Simic09 May 1938, American
Poet
Assi Rahbani04 May 1923, Lebanese
Composer
A. C. Benson24 April 1862, British
English essayist
Charlotte Bronte21 April 1816, British
Novelist
Ivan Cankar10 May 1876, Slovenian
Writer
Abraham Valdelomar27 April 1888, Peruvian
Narrator
Monique Truong13 May 1968, American
Writer
Elizabeth Ann Hanks17 May 1982, American
Actress
Ahmad Javad05 May 1892, Azerbaijani
Poet
C. Day Lewis27 April 1904, Irish, British
Poet
Anna Jameson19 May 1794, British
Writer, Women Rights Activist
Kelly Killoren01 May 1968, American
Author, Socialite, Model
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Terry Pratchett28 April 1948, British
Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter,
Fish25 April 1958, Scottish
Singer-songwriter, Actor, Singer, Composer, Poet
Nathuram Godse19 May 1910, Indian
Politician, Journalist
Søren Kierkegaard05 May 1813, Danish
Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Writer, Novelist,
Donovan10 May 1946, British
Singer-songwriter, Guitarist, Composer,
Lisa Edelstein21 May 1966, American
Playwright, Television actor, Actor, Film actor,
Amanda Palmer30 April 1976, American
Singer, Street artist, Composer, Pianist,
Wavy Gravy15 May 1936, American
Comedian, Street artist, Circus performer, Writer
Chetan Bhagat22 April 1974, Indian
Writer, Screenwriter
Elaine May21 April 1932, American
Actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor,
Rob Brydon03 May 1965, British
Actor, Television actor, Film actor, Comedian,
Eric Kripke24 April 1974, American
Screenwriter, Television director, Film director
Eddie Bravo15 May 1970, American
Writer
Fredrik Eklund26 April 1977, Swedish
Adult Film Star, Actor, Entrepreneur, Novelist
Leslie Jordan29 April 1955, American
Actor, Playwright, Stage actor, Television actor
Kurt Sutter05 May 1960, American
actor, screenwriter, television director,
Russell T Davies27 April 1963, British
Screenwriter, Television producer, Science fiction
Issei Sagawa26 April 1949, Japanese
actor, writer, novelist, mangaka, translator
Thomas Pynchon08 May 1937, American
Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Science fiction writer
Charles Grodin21 April 1935, American
screenwriter, stage actor, film actor, television
Jon Ronson10 May 1967, British
Journalist, Writer, Screenwriter, Documentary