`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

* 1978 – Kendra Todd, American real estate agent and author

* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, director, and author

* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1929 – Ira Levin, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1957 – Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author

* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

* 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American author

* 1947 – Lawrence Wright, American author

* 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio host and author

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

Army of Mississippi in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1950 – David Cassidy, American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist ( The Partridge Family )

* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology

* 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player

* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

* 1971 – David Monahan, American actor

" In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.

* 1960 – David Yow, American singer-songwriter ( Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, and Qui )

* 1890 – David Wilber, American politician ( b. 1820 )

* 1969 – David Wain, American actor

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* 1950 – David Graf, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1951 – Mordechai Ben David, American singer

* 1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

* 1964 – David Kohan, American television producer and writer

* 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.

* 1941 – David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR )

"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

* 1937 – David Behrman, American composer and producer

* 1934 – David Durenberger, American politician

* 1961 – David Morales, American DJ and producer

* 1938 – David Canary, American actor

* 1962 – David Packer, American actor