Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 in Torun, Poland
Sven Hedin
1865 in Stockholm, Sweden
José Eustasio Rivera
1889 in Neiva, Colombia
Giorgos Seferis
1900 Smyrna, Anatolia, Ottoman Empire (now Izmir, Turkey)
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963
Kay Boyle
1902 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Carson McCullers
1917 in Columbus, Georgia, USA
Jaan Kross
1920 in Tallinn, Estonia
Marin Sorescu
1036 in Bulzesti, Romania
Homer Hickman
1943 in Coalwood, West Virginia, USA
Homer Hickman Official Website
Amy Tan
1952 in Oakland, California, USA
Jonathan Lethem
1964 in Brooklyn, New York, USA