January LitBirthdays January is National Hot Tea Month January 1 Happy New Year! Edward Morgan Forster Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi René de Ceccatty January 2 André Aciman Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Isaac Asimov Lynda Barry January 3 Rodrigo de la Cadena John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Marcus Tullius Cicero Savitri Bai Phule January 4 Harlan Coben Gao Xingjian January 5 Hayao Miyazaki 宮崎 駿 Umberto Eco January 6 Carl Sandburg Karin Slaughter Idris Davies C.D. Wright January 7 Nicholson Baker Shobhaa Dé Zora Neale Hurston January 8 Stephen Hawking Terence Dean “Terry” Brooks Gaston Miron Fanny Bullock Workman January 9 Simone de Beauvoir Hayim Nachman Bialik Thorvald Steen January 10 Peter Barnes Fran Walsh January 11 Alan Paton Sulamith Wülfing January 12 Ferenc Molnár Inoue Takehiko Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) January 13 Shahnon Ahmad Flora Nwapa Jay McInerney January 14 LL Cool J Emily Hahn Albert Schweitzer January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Sonya Kovalevsky Giles Milton Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Mikki Doyle (Miriam Leventhal ) January 16 Garth Ennis Robert W. Service Laura Riding January 17 Anne Bronte Benjamin Franklin Brian Thomas Helgeland January 18 A.A. Milne Sally Morgan January 19 Edgar Allan Poe Breda Smolnikar January 20 Ernesto Cardenal Nancy Kress Uni Arge January 21 Judith Merril Richie Havens Eva Ibbotson January 22 Subhash Ram Prajapati Arkady Gaidar Francis Bacon January 23 Elvira Lindo Derek Walcott January 24 Marguerite Durand Edith Wharton Vítězslava Kaprálová January 25 Gloria Naylor Virginia Woolf David Grossman January 26 Shinjo Mayu Jules Feiffer Angela Davis January 27 Eliette Abécassis Mordecai Richler Djavan January 28 Colette José Martí Arnaldur Indriðason Frank Darabont January 29 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Leslie Bricusse Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov Germaine Greer Grazyna Miller Olga Tokarczuk January 30 Lady Anne Clifford Jack Spicer Anton Tammsaare January 31 Daniel Tammet Arnold Geulincx Kenzaburō Ōe