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July 5 in literary history
Literary history for July 5: 21 writers born and 7 writers who died from 1745 to 2012. Born on this day: Jenji Kohan, Susannah Doyle, Ronald D. Moore.
Writers born on July 5
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Jenji Kohan | American television writer, producer, and director |
| 1966 | Susannah Doyle | English actress, playwright and film director |
| 1964 | Ronald D. Moore | American screenwriter and television producer (born 1964) |
| 1958 | Bill Watterson | American cartoonist (born 1958) |
| 1949 | Jill Murphy | British author and illustrator (1949–2021) |
| 1945 | Michael Blake (author) | American writer (1945–2015) |
| 1935 | John Schoenherr | American illustrator (1935–2010) |
| 1935 | Amnon Barzel | Israeli art curator, author and journalist (1935–2025) |
| 1929 | Jiří Reynek | Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (died 2014) |
| 1925 | Jean Raspail | French author, traveler and explorer (1925–2020) |
| 1923 | Mitsuye Yamada | Japanese-American poet and activist (born 1923) |
| 1921 | Nanos Valaoritis | Greek writer (1921–2019) |
| 1904 | Harold Acton | British writer (1904–1994) |
| 1899 | Marcel Achard | French writer (1899–1974) |
| 1893 | Anthony Berkeley Cox | English crime writer (1893–1971) |
| 1891 | Tin Ujević | Croatian poet |
| 1889 | Jean Cocteau | French writer and film director (1889–1963) |
| 1882 | Inayat Khan | Indian singer, poet and Sufi guide (1882–1927) |
| 1880 | Constantin Tănase | Romanian actor and writer |
| 1803 | George Borrow | English writer of fiction and travel (1803–1881) |
| 1745 | Carl Arnold Kortum | German physician and writer (1745–1824) |
Writers who died on July 5
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Gerrit Komrij | Dutch writer (1944–2012) |
| 2007 | George Melly | English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer (1926–2007) |
| 2006 | Thirunalloor Karunakaran | Indian writer (1924–2006) |
| 1991 | Howard Nemerov | American poet |
| 1948 | Georges Bernanos | French writer (1888–1948) |
| 1932 | Sasha Chorny | Russian poet and satirist |
| 1908 | Jonas Lie (writer) | Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright (1833–1908) |
Featured
Jenji Kohan (1969) — Jenji Leslie Kohan is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the creator and showrunner of the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds and the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.
Susannah Doyle (1966) — Susannah Doyle is an English actress, notable for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey (1991–1998), and as Avril Burke in Ballykissangel (2001).
Ronald D. Moore (1964) — Ronald Dowl Moore is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on Star Trek, as well as on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he won a Peabody Award, and on Outlander, based on the novels of the same name by Diana Gabaldon.
Sources & data
- Compiled from Wikipedia’s “On this day” selections (CC BY-SA 4.0), filtered for writers and literary events.