September 13 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on September 13

Born	Writer	Known as
1983	Molly Crabapple	American writer and artist
1964	Tavis Smiley	Talk show host and author (born 1964)
1962	Tõnu Õnnepalu	Estonian writer (born 1962)
1951	Anne Devlin (writer)	British writer
1945	Noël Godin	Belgian actor, critic and writer (1945–2026)
1943	Mildred D. Taylor	American young adult novelist (born 1943)
1933	Eileen Fulton	American actress, singer and author (1933–2025)
1920	Else Holmelund Minarik	American children's writer (1920–2012)
1917	Carol Kendall (writer)	American writer
1916	Roald Dahl	British writer and poet (1916–1990)
1914	Leonard Feather	British musician, producer, and writer (1914–1994)
1894	J. B. Priestley	English writer (1894–1984)
1894	Julian Tuwim	Polish poet (1894–1953)
1876	Sherwood Anderson	American writer (1876–1941)
1830	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	Austrian writer (1830–1916)
1802	Arnold Ruge	German political agitator and writer
1604	Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet	English religious Independent, author, MP and landowner (1604–1661)
1502	John Leland (antiquary)	English Tudor poet and antiquary

Writers who died on September 13

Died	Writer	Known as
2012	Edgar Metcalfe	English born Australian actor, director and writer (1933–2012)
2000	Betty Jeffrey	Australian writer
1982	Reed Crandall	American cartoonist (1917–1982)
1981	William Loeb III	American newspaper publisher
1973	Sajjad Zaheer	Indian Marxist writer (1899–1973)
1944	W. Heath Robinson	British illustrator (1872–1944)
1928	Italo Svevo	Italian and Austro-Hungarian businessman, playwright, and writer (1861–1928)
1912	Joseph Furphy	Australian author and poet (1843–1912)
1910	Rajanikanta Sen	Bengali poet and composer (1865–1910)
1871	İbrahim Şinasi	Turkish journalist, author and poet (1826–1871)
1808	Saverio Bettinelli	Italian Jesuit writer (1718–1808)
1592	Michel de Montaigne	French author and philosopher (1533–1592)

Year	Event
1814	In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.

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In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.

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Molly Crabapple (1983) — Molly Crabapple is an American visual artist and writer.

Tavis Smiley (1964) — Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.

Tõnu Õnnepalu (1962) — Tõnu Õnnepalu, also known by the pen names Emil Tode and Anton Nigov, is an Estonian poet, author and translator.

September 13 in literary history

Writers born on September 13

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