September 22 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on September 22

Born	Writer	Known as
1981	Subaru Shibutani	Japanese singer, actor, and lyricist (born 1981)
1971	Elizabeth Bear	American author (born 1971)
1969	Sue Perkins	British actress, singer, writer and comedian (born 1969)
1967	Brian Keene	American author and podcaster (born 1967)
1967	Ian Mortimer (historian)	British historian and writer
1966	Ruth Jones	Welsh actress, producer, and writer (born 1966)
1965	Dan Bucatinsky	American actor, writer and producer
1961	Bonnie Hunt	American actress, comedian, writer and director (born 1961)
1956	Debby Boone	American singer, author, and actress (born 1956)
1947	Jo Beverley	British-Canadian writer
1947	Robert Morace	American writer (born 1947)
1942	Candida Lycett Green	British author (1942–2014)
1933	Jesco von Puttkamer	German-American aerospace engineer and writer
1931	Fay Weldon	British writer (1931–2023)
1925	Leila Hadley	American travel writer and socialite
1924	Charles Keeping	English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (1924– 1988)
1924	Rosamunde Pilcher	British novelist (1924–2019)
1924	Charles Waterhouse (artist)	American painter, illustrator and sculptor (1924–2013)
1923	Dannie Abse	Welsh poet and physician (1923–2014)
1921	Will Elder	American illustrator (1921–2008)
1913	Lillian Chestney	American illustrator and painter
1910	György Faludy	Hungarian poet (1910–2006)
1908	Esphyr Slobodkina	American artist, author, and illustrator (1908–2002)
1907	Maurice Blanchot	French writer (1907–2003)
1896	Uri Zvi Greenberg	Israeli poet and politician (1896–1981)
1883	Ferenc Oslay	Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and propagandist
1875	Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis	Lithuanian painter, composer and writer (1875–1911)
1841	Andrejs Pumpurs	Latvian poet
1788	Theodore Hook	English writer
1743	Quintin Craufurd	British author
1694	Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	British politician, diplomat and writer (1694–1773)
1680	Barthold Heinrich Brockes	German poet (1680–1747)
1593	Matthäus Merian the Elder	Swiss-born engraver and publisher (1593–1650)
1547	Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin	German philologist, writer, mathematician and astronomer
1480	Tenali Rama	Telugu poet and scholar (1480–1528)

Writers who died on September 22

Died	Writer	Known as
2022	Hilary Mantel	British writer (1952–2022)
2014	Hans E. Wallman	Swedish entrepreneur, composer, director, author, producer and executive
2013	Gary Brandner	American writer
2013	Álvaro Mutis	Colombian poet, novelist and essayist
2013	Luciano Vincenzoni	Italian screenwriter (1926–2013)
2002	Jan de Hartog	Dutch playwright and novelist (1914–2002)
1994	Leonard Feather	British musician, producer, and writer (1914–1994)
1988	Rais Amrohvi	Pakistani poet (1914–1988)
1981	Harry Warren	American composer and lyricist (1893–1981)
1933	Sime Silverman	American journalist and newspaper publisher (1873–1933)
1919	Alajos Gáspár	Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (born 1848)
1914	Alain-Fournier	French author and soldier (1886–1914)
1072	Ouyang Xiu	Chinese poet, historian and statesman (1007–1072)

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Subaru Shibutani (1981) — Subaru Shibutani is a Japanese singer, actor, and lyricist. He began his career as a member of Kansai Johnny's Jr. and later served as the main vocalist of the Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight, which originally debuted as an enka group. He left the group in 2018.

Elizabeth Bear (1971) — Elizabeth Bear is an American author who works primarily in the speculative and science fiction genres. She is one of a small number of writers who have gone on, after winning Astounding Science Fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, to win multiple Hugo Awards for their fiction writing.

Sue Perkins (1969) — Susan Elizabeth Perkins is an English broadcaster, comedian, actress, singer and writer.

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