January 18 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on January 18

Born	Writer	Known as
1980	Jason Segel	American actor, writer (born 1980)
1971	Binyavanga Wainaina	Kenyan writer and editor (1971–2019)
1962	Alison Arngrim	American actress and author (born 1962)
1960	Mark Rylance	English actor, playwright and theatre director (born 1960)
1941	Denise Bombardier	Canadian essayist, novelist and media personality (1941–2023)
1935	Eddie Jones (artist)	Eddie Jones, British illustrator (died 1999)
1935	Jon Stallworthy	British literary critic, professor and poet
1934	Raymond Briggs	English illustrator (1934–2022)
1933	David Bellamy	English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner
1932	Robert Anton Wilson	American writer and futurist (1932–2007)
1925	Sol Yurick	American writer (1925–2013)
1914	Arno Schmidt	German writer and translator (1914–1979)
1914	Vitomil Zupan	Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor
1911	José María Arguedas	Peruvian writer (1911–1969)
1898	Albert Kivikas	Estonian writer and journalist
1896	C. M. Eddy Jr.	American writer (1896–1967)
1893	Jorge Guillén	Spanish poet
1886	Clara Nordström	German writer and translator
1882	A. A. Milne	English writer (1882–1956)
1881	Gaston Gallimard	French publisher (1881–1975)
1867	Rubén Darío	Nicaraguan poet, journalist and writer (1867–1916)
1848	Ioan Slavici	Romanian writer and journalist (1848 - 1925)
1840	Henry Austin Dobson	19th/20th-century English poet and essayist
1672	Antoine Houdar de la Motte	French author (1672–1731)

Writers who died on January 18

Died	Writer	Known as
2017	Peter Abrahams	South African novelist, journalist and political commentator (1919–2017)
2016	Michel Tournier	French writer (1924–2016)
2014	Eugenio Cruz Vargas	Chilean poet and painter (1923–2014)
2012	Yuri Rasovsky	American dramatist
2010	Robert B. Parker	American crime writer (1932–2010)
2009	Grigore Vieru	Moldovan poet (1935–2009)
2006	Jan Twardowski	Polish poet and Catholic priest
2003	Harivansh Rai Bachchan	Hindi poet and writer (1907–2003)
1989	Bruce Chatwin	English writer, novelist and journalist (1940–1989)
1978	Hasan Askari (writer)	Pakistani scholar and writer
1973	Irina Levchenko	Soviet writer and military officer
1971	Virgil Finlay	American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator
1966	Kathleen Norris	American writer (1880–1966)
1956	Makbule Atadan	Turkish politician and writer, sister of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
1955	Saadat Hasan Manto	Pakistani writer (1912–1955)
1940	Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer	Polish writer (1865–1940)
1936	Rudyard Kipling	English writer and poet (1865–1936)
1873	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	British statesman and writer (1803–1873)
1803	Ippolit Bogdanovich	Russian poet (1743–1803)
1783	Jeanne Quinault	French actress, playwright and salon hostess (1699–1783)
1547	Pietro Bembo	Italian scholar, poet, and cardinal (1470–1547)

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Jason Segel (1980) — Jason Jordan Segel is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014.

Binyavanga Wainaina (1971) — Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he became the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazine, launched in Kenya, East Africa.

Alison Arngrim (1962) — Alison Margaret Arngrim is an American-Canadian actress and author.

January 18 in literary history

Writers born on January 18

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