June 13 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on June 13

Born	Writer	Known as
1975	Jeff Davis (television producer)	American writer and television producer
1975	Jaan Pehk	Estonian musician and author
1969	Virginie Despentes	French author and filmmaker
1969	Laura Kightlinger	American actress and writer (born 1968/1969)
1968	Marcel Theroux	English-American novelist and broadcaster
1966	Henry Bond	English writer and photographer
1963	Audrey Niffenegger	American writer, artist and academic (born 1963)
1959	Maurice G. Dantec	French-Canadian science fiction writer
1949	Ann Druyan	American author and producer
1945	Whitley Strieber	American writer (born 1945)
1929	Ralph McQuarrie	American concept artist and illustrator (1929–2012)
1922	Etienne Leroux	South African writer
1917	Augusto Roa Bastos	Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)
1912	Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau	French Canadian poet, writer, letter writer and essayist (1912–1943)
1910	Gonzalo Torrente Ballester	Spanish Galician writer
1905	James T. Rutnam	James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (died 1988)
1893	Dorothy L. Sayers	English novelist, translator and Christian writer (1893–1957)
1888	Fernando Pessoa	Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)
1887	Bruno Frank	German writer (1887–1945)
1885	Henry George Lamond	Australian writer (1885–1969)
1865	W. B. Yeats	Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
1809	Heinrich Hoffmann (author)	German psychiatrist and children's writer
1752	Frances Burney	English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752–1840)

Writers who died on June 13

Died	Writer	Known as
2023	Cormac McCarthy	American writer (1933–2023)
2015	Sergio Renán	Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter
2014	Robert Peters (writer)	American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor and actor
2012	Jože Humer	Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (born 1934)
2002	Maia Wojciechowska	Polish-American children's writer
1998	Reg Smythe	British cartoonist, creator of Andy Capp
1979	Demetrio Stratos	Greek musician and lyricist (1945–1979)
1969	Pralhad Keshav Atre	Indian writer and politician
1958	Edwin Keppel Bennett	British writer (1887–1958)
1948	Osamu Dazai	Japanese writer (1909–1948)
1943	Kočo Racin	Macedonian writer and communist
1846	Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès	French geographer, author and translator (1767–1846)
1645	Miyamoto Musashi	Japanese swordsman, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (c. 1584–1645)
1550	Veronica Gambara	Italian poet and politician (1485–1550)
1348	Juan Manuel	Duke of Peñafiel & Spanish writer (1282-1348)

Literary events on June 13

Year	Event
1971	Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1971	The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
313	The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.

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Jeff Davis (television producer) (1975) — Jeff Davis is an American writer and television producer best known for creating Criminal Minds and the Teen Wolf 2010s TV series and 2023 movie reboot.

Jaan Pehk (1975) — Jaan Pehk is an Estonian writer, singer and guitarist.

Virginie Despentes (1969) — Virginie Despentes is a French author, screenwriter, director, and actor. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, poverty, and marginalization.

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