October 3 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on October 3

Born	Writer	Known as
1995	Ayo Edebiri	American actress, comedian, and writer (born 1995)
1980	Lindsey Kelk	English writer
1962	Simon Scarrow	British fiction writer
1956	Hart Bochner	Canadian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
1955	Buket Uzuner	Turkish writer
1949	Aleksandr Rogozhkin	Russian film director and writer (1949–2021)
1947	John Perry Barlow	American poet, essayist, and cattle rancher (1947–2018)
1938	Jack Hodgins	Canadian novelist and short story writer
1934	Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas	Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator (died 2015)
1925	Gore Vidal	American writer (1925–2012)
1924	Harvey Kurtzman	American cartoonist (1924–1993)
1908	Johnny Burke (lyricist)	American lyricist (1908–1964)
1906	Natalie Savage Carlson	American writer
1900	Thomas Wolfe	American novelist (1900–1938)
1899	Gertrude Berg	American actress, screenwriter and producer (1899–1966)
1897	Louis Aragon	French poet (1897–1982)
1896	Gerardo Diego	Spanish poet (1896–1987)
1895	Giovanni Comisso	Italian writer
1895	Sergei Yesenin	Russian poet (1895–1925)
1886	Alain-Fournier	French author and soldier (1886–1914)
1885	Sophie Treadwell	American playwright
1862	Alice B. Woodward	English illustrator
1804	Allan Kardec	French educator, translator, and writer (1804–1869)
1720	Johann Uz	German poet (1720–1796)
1554	Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke	English poet, dramatist, and statesman (1554–1628)

Writers who died on October 3

Died	Writer	Known as
2024	Michel Blanc	French actor, writer and director (1952–2024)
2024	Pierre Christin	French comics writer
2015	Muhammad Nawaz Khan (writer)	Pakistani writer
2015	Javid Iqbal (writer)	Pakistani writer and judge (1924–2015)
2014	Benedict Groeschel	American Franciscan friar and author
2014	Ward Ruyslinck	Belgian writer
2009	Vladimir Beekman	Estonian writer, poet and translator (1929–2009)
2007	M. N. Vijayan	Indian orator and writer (1930–2007)
2006	Lucilla Andrews	British writer
2005	Ronnie Barker	English actor, comedian and writer (1929–2005)
2004	Janet Leigh	American actress and author (1927–2004)
2003	William Steig	American illustrator and writer (1907–2003)
1994	John C. Champion	American screenwriter and film producer (1923–1994)
1993	Katerina Gogou	Greek poet, author and actress (1940–1993)
1987	Jean Anouilh	French playwright (1910–1987)
1896	William Morris	English textile artist, author, and socialist (1834–1896)
1690	Robert Barclay	Scottish Quaker and writer (1648-1690)
1596	Florent Chrestien	French writer (1541–1596)

Literary events on October 3

Year	Event
1991	Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1991	Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1957	The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1849	American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.

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Ayo Edebiri (1995) — Funmilayo "Ayo" Edebiri is an American actress, comedian, television writer, and director.

Lindsey Kelk (1980) — Lindsey Kelk is an English author, journalist and former children's book editor. She initially signed a up-to three-book deal with HarperCollins following the submission of a manuscript for her first novel. To date, she has published 22 adult books and is also the author of the children's series Cinders and Sparks.

Simon Scarrow (1962) — Simon Scarrow is a British writer. Scarrow completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue, and then went into teaching as a lecturer, firstly at East Norfolk Sixth Form College, then at City College Norwich.

October 3 in literary history

Writers born on October 3

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