April 3 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on April 3

Born	Writer	Known as
1990	Natasha Negovanlis	Canadian actress and writer
1956	Boris Miljković	Serbian filmmaker and writer
1953	Sandra Boynton	American humorist and children's book author (born 1953)
1948	Arlette Cousture	Canadian writer
1945	Doon Arbus	American writer and journalist (born 1945)
1943	Mario Lavista	Mexican composer, writer, and intellectual (1943–2021)
1943	Jonathan Lynn	British director, writer, and actor (born 1943)
1939	Paul Craig Roberts	American economist and author (born 1939)
1934	Pamela Allen	New Zealand children's writer and illustrator
1931	William Bast	American screenwriter and author (1931–2015)
1923	Daniel Hoffman	American poet and essayist
1912	Dorothy Eden	New Zealand writer (1912–1982)
1898	Henry Luce	American magazine publisher (1898–1967)
1893	Leslie Howard	English actor and writer (1893–1943)
1885	Allan Dwan	American film director & screenwriter (1885–1981)
1885	Bud Fisher	American cartoonist (1885–1954)
1883	Kita Ikki	Japanese political philosopher, writer, and intellectual (1883–1937)
1860	Frederik van Eeden	Dutch writer and psychiatrist (1860–1932)
1852	Talbot Baines Reed	English author (1852–1893)
1837	John Burroughs	American naturalist and essayist (1837–1921)
1783	Washington Irving	American writer, historian and diplomat (1783–1859)
1593	George Herbert	English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593–1633)

Writers who died on April 3

Died	Writer	Known as
2022	June Brown	English actress and author (1927–2022)
2016	Joe Medicine Crow	Native American writer and war chief (1913–2016)
2014	Régine Deforges	French film director and writer
2014	Fred Kida	American cartoonist
2014	Michael Prinz von Preussen	German writer (1940–2014)
2013	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	British-American writer (1927–2013)
2012	Mingote	Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (born 1919)
2000	Terence McKenna	American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and writer (1946–2000)
1999	Lionel Bart	English composer and writer (1930–1999)
1991	Charles Goren	American bridge player and writer
1991	Graham Greene	British writer and playwright (1904–1991)
1988	Milton Caniff	American cartoonist (1907–1988)
1976	Claude-Henri Grignon	French-Canadian novelist, journalist and politician
1970	Avigdor Hameiri	Hungarian-Israeli author (1890–1970)
1958	Jaan Kärner	Estonian poet and writer (1891–1958)
1951	Henrik Visnapuu	Estonian poet and dramatist
1950	Carter G. Woodson	African-American historian, writer, and journalist (1875–1950)
1849	Juliusz Słowacki	Polish Romantic poet (1809–1849)
1545	Antonio de Guevara	16th-century Spanish bishop and author

Literary events on April 3

Year	Event
1955	The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1895	The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.

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Natasha Negovanlis (1990) — Natasha Negovanlis is a Canadian actress, writer, producer, and singer. She achieved international recognition for portraying Carmilla Karnstein in the YouTube web series Carmilla (2014–2016) and in the 2017 feature film based on the series.

Boris Miljković (1956) — Boris Miljković is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, creative director in advertising and writer.

Sandra Boynton (1953) — Sandra Keith Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author, and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated over eighty-five books for children and seven general audience books, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and seven music albums.

April 3 in literary history

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