July 20 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on July 20

Born	Writer	Known as
1973	Roberto Orci	American screenwriter and producer (1973–2025)
1965	Jess Walter	American novelist (born 1965)
1962	Julie Bindel	English radical feminist writer (born 1962)
1960	Prvoslav Vujcic	Serbian-Canadian author
1955	René-Daniel Dubois	Canadian playwright and actor
1953	Thomas L. Friedman	American journalist and author (born 1953)
1945	Charles Bowden	American writer (1945–2014)
1943	Adrian Păunescu	Romanian poet and politician (1943–2010)
1941	Periklis Korovesis	Greek politician and writer (1941–2020)
1936	Alistair MacLeod	Canadian writer and academic (1936–2014)
1933	Cormac McCarthy	American writer (1933–2023)
1931	Shakuntala Karandikar	Indian biographer and philanthropist (1931–2018)
1924	Thomas Berger	American writer (1924–2014)
1912	George Johnston (novelist)	Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist
1911	José Zabala-Santos	Filipino cartoonist (1911–1985)
1901	Ida Mett	Belarusian anarchist and writer (1901–1973)
1864	Erik Axel Karlfeldt	Swedish poet
1838	Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet	British statesman and author (1838–1928)
1620	Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder	17th century Dutch scholar and poet (1620–1681)
1304	Petrarch	Italian scholar and poet (1304–1374)

Writers who died on July 20

Died	Writer	Known as
2024	Jill Schary Robinson	American novelist (1936–2024)
2006	Gérard Oury	French film director, actor and writer (1919–2006)
2003	Nicolas Freeling	British novelist (1927–2003)
1999	Sandra Gould	American actress and writer (1916-1999)
1953	Jan Struther	English writer, known for character Mrs. Miniver (1901–1953)
1945	Paul Valéry	French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)
1932	René Bazin	French novelist
1928	Kostas Karyotakis	Greek poet (1896–1928)
1908	Demetrios Vikelas	Greek businessman and writer (1835–1908)
1901	William Cosmo Monkhouse	British poet and critic (1840–1901)
1897	Jean Ingelow	English poet and novelist (1820–1897)
1816	Gavrila Derzhavin	Russian poet (1743–1816)

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Roberto Orci (1973) — Roberto Gaston Orcí was a Mexican-American film and television screenwriter and producer.

Jess Walter (1965) — Jess Walter is an American author of fiction and non-fiction. He has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2006.

Julie Bindel (1962) — Julie Bindel is an English radical feminist writer. She co-founded Justice for Women, which helps women who have been prosecuted for assaulting or killing violent male partners.

July 20 in literary history

Writers born on July 20

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