As a writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB / CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX / MMIX instruction set architectures.

According to the 4th century Latin writer Servius, a fourth set of Etruscan books existed, dealing with animal gods, but it is unlikely that any scholar living in the 4th century could have read Etruscan.

* 1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( d. 1691 )

* 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and linguist

* 1950 – J. R. Morgan, English writer and scholar

In his twenties Alberti wrote On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Letters, which he dedicated to his brother Carlo, also a scholar and writer.

* 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey ( d. 2006 )

* 1967 – Omer Tarin, Pakistani poet, writer and scholar

The remaining sister, Minerva, became a writer and Latin scholar.

* Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar, writer and politician

** George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer

** Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian Historian, writer, and scholar ( b. 1893 )

* March 10-Omer Tarin, Pakistani / South Asian poet, writer and scholar

* July 30 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( b. 1639 )

* March 9 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish scholar and writer ( d. 1772 )

* October 17 – John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer ( b. 1560 )

* Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar, writer and pan-Slavic saint

* February 6 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( d. 1691 )

* December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar ( b. 1695 )

Through the gamut of changes Willow endures in the series, Buffy studies scholar Ian Shuttleworth states that Alyson Hannigan's performances are the reason for Willow's popularity: " Hannigan can play on audience heartstrings like a concert harpist ... As an actress she is a perfect interpreter in particular of the bare emotional directness which is the specialty of writer Marti Noxon on form.

John Enoch Powell, MBE ( 16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998 ) was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, linguist and soldier.

* January 12 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer and scholar ( d. 1660 )

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

* Yan Zhitui, Chinese scholar, official, calligrapher, painter, musician, writer, antiquarian, and Buddhist ( born 531 )

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

* 1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian writer

* July 6 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer ( b. 1850 )

* August 5 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer ( d. 1893 )

According to fashion writer Guy Trebay of The New York Times, in 2007, the " android " look is popular, a vacant stare and thin body serving, according to some fashion industry conventions, to set off the couture.

The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine which wrote the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for " Saturday-night carousers " in the writer Guy Beringer's article " Brunch: A Plea " in Hunter's Weekly

Her letters, consisting of her correspondence with the writer Guy de Maupassant, were published in 1891.

* Chris Sheridan, writer and television producer ( Family Guy )

** Angus Scrimm ( as Rory Guy ) ( notes writer ) for Korngold: The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold conducted by Ulf Hoelscher / Willy Mattes

* Guy Debord, French Situationist writer on the subject of potlatch and commodity reification.

* In 2001, writer Jeff Foley published War on the Floor: An Average Guy Plays in the Arena Football League and Lives To Write About It.

Guy Waldo Dunnington ( January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974, Natchitoches, Louisiana ) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Treatment writer Cook used Guy to make the film " a parable quietly defiant of the Cold War hysteria sweeping America.

* Mike Henry American writer, comedian and producer, notably of the animated comedy Family Guy

The hoax involved Cole and five friends — writer Virginia Stephen ( later Virginia Woolf ), her brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant — who disguised themselves with skin darkeners and turbans.

* Bob Young ( TV producer ), American television writer and producer, including Dinosaurs and Smart Guy

The noted sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison once referred to him as " Glen Larceny " for the notorious similarities between Larson's shows and cinema blockbusters, for example, Alias Smith and Jones was taken from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ; McCloud from Coogan's Bluff ; Battlestar Galactica from Star Wars ; BJ & The Bear from Every Which Way But Loose ; Automan from Tron ; The Fall Guy from Hooper ; and Buck Rogers was simply a remake of the original comic book and film serial character.

Chopin's admiration for the French short story writer Guy de Maupassant is evident in The Awakening, yet another example of the enormous influence Maupassant exercised on nineteenth century literary realism.

Speaking in March 2010 to noted UK R & B writer Pete Lewis-Deputy Editor of the award-winning Blues & Soul-Riley confirmed he is no longer involved with Guy.

* Dom Nguyen ( aka Shirt Guy Dom ), an entertainment writer who has inspired a fictional character of the same name in the webcomic MegaTokyo

A critique by Guy Stair Sainty, a well-known writer on royal genealogy and heraldry.

Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM ( born April 5, 1951 ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his two Western novels, The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing, set in the 19th century American and Canadian West.

Guy Reginald Bolton ( 23 November 1884 – 4 September 1979 ) was a British-American playwright and writer of musical comedies.

* Rosa Guy ( born 1925 ), American writer