And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

* Phil Austin ( born 1941 ), American comedian and writer

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1968 – McG, American director, writer, and producer

* 1981 – C. C. Swiney, American actor, writer, and director

* 1983 – Elisha Yaffe, American actor, writer, and producer

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

* 1904 – Clifford D. Simak, American writer ( d. 1988 )

* 1964 – Flannery O ' Connor, American writer ( b. 1925 )

* 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer ( b. 1933 )

* 1942 – Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host

* 1964 – Anastasia M. Ashman, American writer

* 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( d. 1999 )

* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer ( d. 1992 )

* Sylvia E. Bowman, Edward Bellamy Abroad: An American Propher's Influence.

* 1861-Charles Francis Hall, an American, camps at the Sylvia Grinnell River and explores the waters of Koojesse Inlet, which he names after his Inuit guide

* 1913 – Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist ( d. 1991 )

In the 1980s, American and European dancers from California, New York, London and Sweden ( such as Sylvia Sykes, Erin Stevens, Steven Mitchell, Terry Monaghan and Warren Heyes who formed London's Jiving Lindy Hoppers performance troupe, and Stockholm's Rhythm Hot Shots / Harlem Hot Shots ) went about ' reviving ' Lindy Hop using archival films such as Hellzapoppin ' and A Day at the Races and by contacting dancers such as Frankie Manning, Al Minns, Norma Miller, Jewel McGowan and Dean Collins.

* 1936 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer, musician and record producer ( Mickey & Sylvia ) ( d. 2011 )

* 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet ( d. 1963 )

* 1925 – Mickey Baker, American guitarist ( Mickey & Sylvia )

* 1972 – Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player

Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30.

At the party he met the American poet Sylvia Plath, who was studying at Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship.

** Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( b. 1910 )

* January 3 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim ( d. 1965 )

** Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist ( d. 1991 )

* July 31 – Sylvia Field, American actress ( Mrs. Wilson ; Dennis the Menace )

* February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist, suicide ( b. 1932 )

** Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player

** Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist ( b. 1913 )

* October 28 – Sylvia Fine, American lyricist ( b. 1913 )

* November 5 – Otto Plath, father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist ( b. 1885 )

** Otto Plath, father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist ( d. 1940 )

** Sylvia Ashton, American actress ( d. 1940 )