* 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author ( d. 1898 )

* 1927 – Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator

* 1915 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator

* 1923 – Doris Burn, American author and illustrator ( d. 2011 )

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Alexander Bunyip, created by children's author and illustrator Michael Salmon, first appeared in print in The Monster That Ate Canberra in 1972, Alexander Bunyip went on to appear in many other books and a live-action television series, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong.

* Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, American artist, illustrator, author, and adventurer

* 1949 – Jan Brett, American author illustrator

From Children of the Forest ( 1910 ) by Swedish author and illustrator Elsa Beskow.

* 1954 – Uri Shulevitz, American author and illustrator

* 1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author, and poet ( b. 1812 )

* 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator

* 1944 – Patricia Polacco, American author and illustrator

* 1932 – Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator

* 1882 – David Burliuk, Ukrainian author and illustrator ( d. 1967 )

* 1955 – David Kirschner, American illustrator, producer, and author

* 1838 – Walter Goodman, English painter, illustrator, and author ( d. 1912 )

* 1846 – Kate Greenaway, English author and illustrator ( d. 1901 )

* 2006 – Alan Moore ( author ) and David Lloyd ( illustrator ), V for Vendetta graphic novel

* 1962 – Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator

* 1927 – Eric Hill, English author and illustrator

* 1934 – Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator

** Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author ( b. 1838 )

* Marlene Ciklamini ( Born 1940 ), medievalist, professor, author

The author of the second theory of the family origin is the medievalist Władysław Semkowicz.

According to the 2nd-century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus's younger brother Ameinias helped acquit his brother by showing the jury the stump of the hand that he lost at Salamis, where he was voted bravest warrior.

Terence Blacker, a profitable English publisher ( who helped publish Kosiński's books ) and author of children's books and mysteries for adults, wrote in his article published in The Independent in 2002: " The significant point about Jerzy Kosiński was that ... his books ... had a vision and a voice consistent with one another and with the man himself.

Paula Wolfert, prolific American author of 9 cookbooks ( 2 on Moroccan cuisine ), helped enable Moroccan-Americans to enjoy their native cuisine with ease.

The Christian Byzantine author Eutychius claimed that the Jews of Nazareth helped the Persians carry out their slaughter of the Christians.

* January 8 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America ( b. 1858 )

* February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America ( d. 1939 )

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward in 1925, as well as a play which Dorothy Heyward helped him to write which was premiered in 1927.

* Ernest W. Retzlaff, physiologist and author who helped develop craniosacral therapy

But Collier was not the only author to be helped by Richardson, as he printed an edition of Young's Night Thoughts in 1749.

After the war, Japanese author Katsumoto Saotome, a survivor of the 10 March 1945 fire bombing, helped start a library about the raid in Koto Ward called the Center of the Tokyo Raid and War Damages.

Banneker's knowledge of astronomy also helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs.

According to author Michael Klare, application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

In 1852 John James and Gustav Theissen, who helped settle Sisterdale, platted the townsite, renamed it in honor of German author Karl Ludwig Börne, with the Anglicized spelling of Boerne.

And the Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing " a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them " and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.

The author of the original stories was involved in the scripts and helped select the main actors.

That year the paper published – " for the proletariat of the world " – a manifesto, which Siqueiros helped author, on the necessity of a " collective " art, which would serve as " ideological propaganda " to educate the masses and overcome bourgeois, individualist art.

He was the author of Science et philosophie ( 1886 ), which contains a well-known letter to Renan on " La Science idéale et la science positive ," of La Révolution chimique, Lavoisier ( 1890 ), of Science et morale ( 1897 ), and of numerous articles in La Grande Encyclopédie, which he helped to establish.

The famed American humorist and author was an admirer of both women, and although his own personal finances were problematic, he helped arrange the funding of Keller's Radcliffe College education by his friend, financier and industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers.

* Clara Bayliss ( 1871 ), female social activist, author, teacher, headed the Education Committee in the Illinois Congress of Mothers, helped develop the PTA

Veuillot during the 1850s. Louis Veuillot ( October 11, 1813 – March 7, 1883 ) was a French journalist and author who helped to popularize ultramontanism ( a philosophy favoring Papal supremacy ).

His daughter, Millicent Wedmore ( b. 1879 ), herself the author of two volumes of verse, helped him to edit during World War I Poems of the Love and Pride of England.

In 1931 German author Carl Zuckmayer wrote a play about the affair called The Captain of Köpenick, which shifts the focus from the event at Köpenick itself to the prelude, showing how his surroundings and his situation in life had helped Voigt form his plan.

In 2008, he helped author the Farm Bill.

Thomas B. Stoddard, who was executive director from 1986 to 1992, helped to author a bill passed in 1986 by the New York City Council to protect gays against bias in housing, employment, and public accommodations.