Larry Joe Baker was born on March 9, 1937, and died on December 23, 2000. He was an American football player who played college football at Bowling Green State University. As an offensive tackle, he played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) for the New York Titans in 1960.
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (November 21, 1932 – July 2, 2010) was an English writer. She is best known for writing psychological fiction, which often includes dark or scary stories about people in the English working class. She won the Whitbread Award for Best Novel in 1977 and 1996.
Bahr joined the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and later worked on the railroads for several years. In the early 1970s, when he was in his late 20s, he began attending the University of Mississippi.
Ingeborg Bachmann (Austrian German: [ˈɪŋəbɔrɡ ˈbaxman]; June 25, 1926 – October 17, 1973) was an Austrian poet and writer. She is considered one of the most important writers in German-language literature during the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by German scholar Harald Patzer.
Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. He has written many books about flying, both fiction and non-fiction. His books include Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977), which were among the most popular books in the 1970s.
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was born on July 13, 1894 [O.S. 30 June 1894] and died on January 27, 1940. He was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator.
Elnora E. Monroe Babcock (born Monroe; January 11, 1852 – December 29, 1934) was an early leader in the American movement to give women the right to vote. She became very involved in this work in 1889 and was in charge of the printing work for the National Woman Suffrage Association for several years.
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, and journalist who lived from April 30, 1883, to January 3, 1923. He was also a free-spirited person, first an anarchist, then a communist, and later a military official in the Red Army. He is most famous for his novel The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, which tells the story of a soldier in World War I.
Karel Čapek ( / ˈ tʃ ɑː p ɛ k / ; Czech: [ ˈkarɛl ˈtʃapɛk ] ; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic, and journalist. He is most famous for his science fiction works, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and his play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word “robot.” He also wrote many works that discussed political issues and the social problems of his time.
Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes was born on October 10, 1955. He is a Cuban novelist and journalist who is most famous for writing the Mario Conde detective novels and the book El hombre que amaba a los perros (2009). In 2012, he received the National Literature Prize, which is Cuba’s top literary award.