* Sigurd Hoel, writer

** Sigurd Ibsen, politician and writer, son of Henrik Ibsen

Notable persons involved with Halcyon and the Temple include composer and pianist Henry Cowell ( see also The Tides of Manaunaun ), Irish poet and fiction writer Ella Young, and mystic poet and community leader John Varian ( 1863-1931 ); Varian's sons Russell ( 1898-1959 ) and Sigurd ( 1901-1961 ), who spent part of their childhood in Halcyon, invented the klystron, an important microwave amplifier tube, and founded the Varian electronics empire.

Sigurd Olson, prominent conservationist and north woods writer, traveled and camped by canoe extensively.

Anders Sigurd Lange ( 5 September 1904 – 18 October 1974 ) was a Norwegian political activist, writer and politician.

* 1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer ( d. 1998 )

* 1890 – Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1819 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – E. E. Smith, American writer ( d. 1965 )

* 1890 – Christopher Morley, American writer ( d. 1957 )

* 1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish writer ( d. 1964 )

* 1890 – Sir Richard Francis Burton, British explorer and writer ( b. 1821 )

* 1890 – Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer ( d. 1968 )

* November 24 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer ( d. 1890 )

* August 26 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer ( b. 1890 )

** Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer ( b. 1890 )

* June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1890 )

** Conrad Richter, American writer ( b. 1890 )

* January 12 – Agatha Christie, English writer ( Murder On The Orient Express ) ( b. 1890 )

* May 30 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( declined ) ( b. 1890 )

* March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer ( b. 1890 )

* July 19 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer ( d. 1890 )

" English writer Henry Stephens Salt wrote a biography of Thoreau in 1890, which popularized Thoreau's

Karel Čapek () ( January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938 ) was a Czech writer of the 20th century.

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.

* H. P. Lovecraft ( 1890 – 1937 ), American writer

Baroness Jenny von Gustedt, born as Jeromée Catharina Rabe von Pappenheim ( 1811 – 1890 ), one of Jérôme Bonaparte's illegitimate children, was the grandmother of the German Socialist and Feminist writer Lily Braun.

Collodi, who died in 1890, was respected during his lifetime as a talented writer and social commentator, and his fame continued to grow when Pinocchio was first translated into English by Mary Alice Murray in 1892, whose translation was added to the widely-read Everyman's Library in 1911.

* Claire Goll ( 1890 – 1977 ), writer and journalist, wife of Yvan

* Marjory Stoneman Douglas ( 1890 – 1998 ), American conservationist and writer

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

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

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

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

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster ( d. 1994 )

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1940 – Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat

* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1976 – Hirotada Ototake, Japanese writer

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer

* 1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

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

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer