Charles Wright, Frederick Forsyt, Martin Amis, Aleksandr Kuprin, and Eyvind Johnson are the acclaimed authors who were born or died on a day like this.

Charles Wright
Charles Wright, born on a day like this in 1935, is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for "Country Music: Selected Early Poems" and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for "Black Zodiac". Beside the award-winning books "Country Music" (1982) and "Black Zodiac" (1997), Wright has published "Chickamauga", "Buffalo Yoga", "Negative Blue", "Appalachia", "The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990", "Zone Journals" and "Hard Freight". His work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. Wright has published two works of criticism, "Halflife" and "Quarter Notes". His translation of Eugenio Montale's The Storm and Other Poems won him the PEN Translation Prize in 1979. In 1993, he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement. He is now a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth is an English author and occasional political commentator. He was born on a day like this in 1938 in Ashford, Kent. Forsyth decided to write a novel using similar research techniques to those used in journalism. His first full length novel, "The Day of the Jackal", was published in 1971 and became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this book, the Organisation Armée Secrète (a real-life terrorist group) hires an assassin to kill then-French President Charles de Gaulle. It was made into a film of the same name. In Forsyth's second full-length novel, "The Odessa File" (1972), a reporter attempts to track down a certain ex-Nazi SS officer in modern Germany. This book was later made into a movie with the same name, starring Jon Voight, but there were substantial alterations. "The Dogs of War", "The Fist of God", and "The Cobra" are some of Forsyth's other works. On 16 February 2012 the Crime Writers Association announced that Forsyth had won its Cartier Diamond Dagger award.

Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis, born on a day like this in 1949, is a British novelist. Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition and the excesses of late-capitalist Western society with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus been portrayed as the undisputed master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness". Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father, Kingsley Amis, he has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive style, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. His best-known novels are "Money" (1984) and "London Fields" (1989). He was the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Aleksandr Kuprin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer. Kuprin ended military service during 1894, after which he tried many types of job, including provincial journalism, dental care, land surveying, acting, circus performer, church singer, doctor, hunter, fisher, etc. His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections. Although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists. Although not a conservative, he did not agree with Bolshevism. While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company, he criticized the Soviet regime. During spring 1919, from Gatchina near Petrograd, Kuprin left the country for France. He lived in Paris for most of the next 17 years, succumbing to alcoholism. He wrote about this in much of his work. He eventually returned to Moscow on May 31, 1937, just a year before his death, at the height of the Great Purge. His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union. Kuprin is best known for his short story "The Duel" (1905). Other well-known works include "Moloch" (1896), "Olesya" (1898), "Junior Captain Rybnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and "The Garnet Bracelet" (1911). Kuprin passed away on a day like this in 1938, aged 68.

Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson, born in 1900, was a Swedish writer and author. His most noted works include Här har du ditt liv! ("Here's Your Life",1935), Strändernas svall ("Return to Ithaca",1946) and Hans Nådes Tid ("The Days of his Grace",1960). He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom. The choice for Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel themselves and Graham Greene, Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov were the favoured candidates that year. He passed away on a day like this in 1976.

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