September 15 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on September 15

Born	Writer	Known as
1977	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Nigerian writer (born 1977)
1977	Sophie Dahl	British author
1950	Rajiv Malhotra	Indian-American author (born 1950)
1947	Diane Levin	American author, educator, and advocate (born 1947)
1945	Ron Shelton	American film director and screenwriter
1936	Sara Henderson	Australian writer and pastoralist (1936–2005)
1922	Mary Soames	English author (1922–2014)
1921	Richard Gordon (English author)	English author (1921–2017)
1919	Heda Margolius Kovály	Czech writer and translator (1919-2010)
1915	Fawn M. Brodie	American historian and biographer (1915–1981)
1914	Adolfo Bioy Casares	Argentine novelist (1914–1999)
1914	Orhan Kemal	Turkish novelist (1914–1970)
1910	Betty Neels	British writer
1907	Gunnar Ekelöf	Swedish poet and writer (1907–1968)
1898	J. Slauerhoff	Dutch poet, writer and doctor (1898–1936)
1890	Agatha Christie	English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
1889	Robert Benchley	American writer and actor (1889–1945)
1889	Claude McKay	Jamaican American writer and poet (1890–1948)
1877	Yente Serdatzky	Russian-born American Yiddish-language writer (1877–1962)
1876	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay	Indian Bengali writer (1876–1938)
1795	James Gates Percival	American poet
1789	James Fenimore Cooper	American writer (1789–1851)
1765	Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage	Portuguese Neoclassic poet (1765–1805)
1613	François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)	17th-century French moralist and author of "Maximes"
1254	Marco Polo	Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer (1254–1324)

Writers who died on September 15

Died	Writer	Known as
2026	Annie Dillard	American author (1945–2026)
2026	Bonnie Greer	American-British playwright, novelist and broadcaster (1948–2026)
2024	Elias Khoury	Lebanese intellectual, playwright and novelist (1948–2024)
2014	Jürg Schubiger	Swiss psychotherapist and writer (1936–2014)
2014	Wayne Tefs	Canadian novelist, writer, editor, critic, and anthologist (1947 – 2014)
2012	Hajra Masroor	Pakistani writer (1930–2012)
2009	Troy Kennedy Martin	British screenwriter
2006	Oriana Fallaci	Italian journalist and author (1929–2006)
1989	Robert Penn Warren	American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905–1989)
1978	Edmund Crispin	British composer and crime novelist (1921–1978)
1972	Baki Süha Ediboğlu	Baki Süha Ediboğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1915)
1952	Hugo Raudsepp	Estonian writer and politician
1938	Thomas Wolfe	American novelist (1900–1938)
1707	George Stepney	English poet and diplomat
1701	Edmé Boursault	French dramatist (1638–1701)
1613	Thomas Overbury	English poet and essayist (1581–1613)

Literary events on September 15

Year	Event
1915	New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
1791	French playwright Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, hoping to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer, whose works include fiction, nonfiction, and lectures. She is widely recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.

Sophie Dahl (1977) — Sophie Dahl is an English writer and former fashion model. Her first book, a novella, The Man With The Dancing Eyes, was published in 2003, followed by a novel, Playing With The Grown-Ups, in 2007.

Rajiv Malhotra (1950) — Rajiv Malhotra is an Indian-American author, public intellectual, and a public proponent of Hindutva. He is the founder of Infinity Foundation, an organisation known to focus on Indic studies, and financially aid Columbia University's project to translate the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur.

September 15 in literary history

Writers born on September 15

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