Niccolo Machiavelli, Feodor Gladkov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Mary McCarthy, Françoise Sagan, John W. Dower, and Ian McEwan are the acclaimed authors who were born or died on a day like this.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. A founder of modern political science, he was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is renowned in the Italian language. He was Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. He wrote his masterpiece, The Prince after the Medici had recovered power and he no longer held a position of responsibility in Florence. His two best-known books are "The Prince" and "The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy". He passed away on a day like this in 1527, aged 58.

Feodor Gladkov
Feodor Vasilyevich Gladkov was a Soviet Socialist realist writer born on a day like this in 1883 in Chernavka. Among other positions, he served as the editor of the newspaper Krasnoye Chernomorye, secretary of the journal Novy Mir, special correspondent for Izvestiya, and director of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow from 1945 to 1948. He received the Stalin Prize (in 1949) for his literary accomplishments, and is considered a classic writer of Soviet Socialist Realist literature. He died on December 20, 1958 in Moscow.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, born on a day like this in 1905, was a French existentialist, philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism, and one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. His work, in addition to being influential to existentialism and Marxism, has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that, "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution". "Nausea", and "Dirty Hands" are among some of his works. He died in April 15, 1980, aged 74.

Aleksandr Tvardovsky
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was born on a day like this in 1910. He was a Soviet poet and writer, chief of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. From an early age Aleksandr became familiar with the works of Alexander Pushkin, Nikilai Gogol and others. He began composing poetry at age 13. His first published poem was "A New Hut". His poem "The Land of Muravia" was written in 1934-36 and was favorably received by the critics, winning him the Stalin Prize. He also received the USSR State Prize and the Lenin Prize for the poem "Distance after Distance". He passed away in 1971 at the age of 61.
 
Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy, born on a day like this in 1912, was an American author, critic and political activist. She was orphaned at the age of six. Her debut novel, "The Company She Keeps", received critical acclaim. After building a reputation as a satirist and critic, McCarthy enjoyed popular success when her 1963 novel "The Group" remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for almost two years. Her work is noted for its precise prose and its complex mixture of autobiography and fiction. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. She died on October 25, 1989, aged 77.

Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan was born on a day like this in 1935. She was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. She was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her first novel, "Bonjour Tristesse", was also her best-known, published in 1954, when she was 19 years old. Sagan's characters became something of an icon for disillusioned teenagers, in some ways similar to those of J.D. Salinger. During a literary career lasting until 1998, she produced dozens of works, many of which have been filmed. She passed away on September 24, 2004, at the age of 69.

John W. Dower
John W. Dower was born on a day like this in 1938. He is an American author and historian. His best-known work is "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II". It won the U. S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association. Dower was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima.

Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan was born on a day like this in 1948 in Hampshire. He is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) were his first two novels, and earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1997, he published Enduring Love, which was made into a film. He won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). In 2001, he published Atonement, which was made into an Oscar-winning film. This was followed by Saturday (2005), On Chesil Beach (2007) and Solar (2010).

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