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March 15 in literary history
Literary history for March 15: 19 writers born and 13 writers who died from 1673 to 2025. Born on this day: Sunetra Gupta, Fabio Lanzoni, Ben Okri.
Writers born on March 15
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Sunetra Gupta | British novelist and epidemiologist |
| 1959 | Fabio Lanzoni | Italian model, actor, and author (born 1959) |
| 1959 | Ben Okri | Nigerian writer (born 1959) |
| 1948 | Kate Bornstein | American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist |
| 1943 | Lynda La Plante | English writer and actress (born 1943) |
| 1941 | Mike Love | American singer and lyricist (born 1941) |
| 1939 | Robert Nye | English poet and author |
| 1937 | Valentin Rasputin | Russian writer |
| 1936 | Howard Greenfield | American lyricist and songwriter (1936–1986) |
| 1921 | Madelyn Pugh | American screenwriter (1921–2011) |
| 1918 | Richard Ellmann | American writer and literary critic (1918–1987) |
| 1912 | Louis Paul Boon | Belgian writer (1912–1979) |
| 1900 | Gilberto Freyre | Brazilian scholar, writer, and politician (1900–1987) |
| 1897 | Jackson Scholz | American sprinter, Olympic medalist; sports fiction author (1897-1986) |
| 1852 | Lady Gregory | Irish playwright, poet and folklorist (1852–1932) |
| 1845 | Hallie Quinn Brown | American writer and activist |
| 1830 | Paul Heyse | German writer and translator (1830–1914) |
| 1830 | Élisée Reclus | French geographer, writer and anarchist (1830–1905) |
| 1791 | Charles Knight (publisher) | English publisher, editor, and author (1791–1873) |
Writers who died on March 15
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rajnikumar Pandya | Indian Gujarati-language writer |
| 2019 | Larry DiTillio | American writer and game designer |
| 2015 | Curtis Gans | American activist and writer (1937-2015) |
| 2010 | Kazim al-Samawi | Iraqi poet and journalist (1925–2010) |
| 1998 | Benjamin Spock | American pediatrician, political activist, and writer (1903–1998) |
| 1983 | Rebecca West | British author and journalist (1892–1983) |
| 1981 | René Clair | French filmmaker and writer (1898–1981) |
| 1977 | Hubert Aquin | Quebec novelist and intellectual (1929–1977) |
| 1970 | Tarjei Vesaas | Norwegian writer (1897–1970) |
| 1942 | Rachel Field | American novelist and poet (1894–1942) |
| 1937 | H. P. Lovecraft | American writer (1890–1937) |
| 1848 | Johan Jakob Nervander | Finnish poet, physicist and meteorologist (1805–1848) |
| 1673 | Salvator Rosa | Italian painter, poet and printmaker (1615–1673) |
Featured
Sunetra Gupta (1965) — Sunetra Gupta is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
Fabio Lanzoni (1959) — Fabio Lanzoni, known mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian-American actor, fashion model, and spokesman.
Ben Okri (1959) — Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize.
Sources & data
- Compiled from Wikipedia’s “On this day” selections (CC BY-SA 4.0), filtered for writers and literary events.