writers

First Lady of California from 2003 to 2011

born 1955

American billionaire and co-founder of Nike

born 1938

American actor

1943 – 2025

American professional wrestler and author

born 1987

American children's writer

born 1938

American actress and comedian

born 1995

American model and actress

born 1955

American lawyer and polio survivor

1946 – 2024

Swiss sociologist, politician and professor

1934 – 2026

American writer

1932 – 2025

American writer, poet, novelist, critic

1949 – 2024

British film director

born 1965

Indian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator

born 1950

Taiwanese actress, singer and television presenter

1976 – 2025

South African playwright

1932 – 2025

American lawyer

1927 – 1986

American writer

born 1980

American actress

born 1967

British actor

born 1941

British poet

1958 – 2023

Italian singer-songwriter

1940 – 2026

Dutch politician

1933 – 2025

American socialite

1933 – 2019

American film director and screenwriter

born 1986

American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author

born 1967

American writer, activist, and poet from Kentucky

1934 – 2026

American politician and epidemiologist

born 1984

American author and public speaker

born 1950

Second Maratha king of the Maratha Empire, also a writer, philosopher and successor of Shivaji

1657 – 1689

American writer, journalist, and educator

born 1975

American author

1958 – 2025

American feminist and author

1935 – 2025

American feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst

1944 – 2025

American political advisor and Trump administration official

born 1985

U.S. Representative from California

born 1976

American actor, writer, and producer

born 1963

American law professor and writer

born 1962

Danish lama

1941 – 2026

Swiss writer and journalist

1935 – 2025

Welsh association football player

1955 – 2025

British writer

1946 – 2025

Irish writer

1940 – 2024

matriarch of the Jackson musical family

born 1930

American actor, comedian, and writer

1959 – 2017

American comedian and actor

born 1982

Japanese singer

born 1990

Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist

1925 – 2016

American poet, writer and activist

1943 – 2024

American philosopher of feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and epistemology

1935 – 2025

American science fiction author

1947 – 2025

Kiowa author and academic

1934 – 2024

Holocaust survivor and Israeli historian

1926 – 2024

American actor

1942 – 2024

Chinese politician

1915 – 2005

American writer, actor and director

born 1970

New Zealand politician

born 2002

American television writer, director and producer

born 1971

British stage and film actress

1944 – 2026

Australian writer

1934 – 2026

Japanese writer

1957 – 2026

American professor of Middle Eastern studies

1940 – 2026

French film director

1937 – 2025

Portuguese writer, journalist and poet

1937 – 2025

American psychiatrist and author

1926 – 2025

British actress

born 1984

Austrian‑British Holocaust survivor and memoirist

1929 – 2026

French writer and presenter

1935 – 2024

American actor and novelist

1938 – 2024

author, editor, narrator of audiobook

1939 – 2026

Japanese mystery writer

1958 – 2026

Norwegian author

1954 – 2025

Dutch children's writer and illustrator

1930 – 2024

Czech writer

1946 – 2024

Contemporary Lebanese novelist, critic publisher

1948 – 2024

Ugandan academic

born 1946

English reality television personality

1981 – 2009

Argentine film director, film producer, and screenwriter

1946 – 2026

Italian journalist

1941 – 2026

Iranian novelist

1946 – 2026

Austrian writer

1941 – 2025

American writer

1942 – 2025

Greek royal and novelist

1939 – 2024

Swedish film director

1944 – 2024

American woman exonerated of a murder conviction in Italy

born 1987

American writer

born 1989

American politician, investment banker, author and television producer

born 1978

14th Chief Minister of Odisha

born 1946

poet, scholar, and writer

1951 – 2018

American actor, model and author

born 1992

Bangladeshi politician and activist

1993 – 2025

Finnish author and poet

1928 – 2026

American cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright

1929 – 2025

American writer

1937 – 2025

Egyptian novelist

1937 – 2025

German poet and translator

1938 – 2024

American politician and writer

1933 – 2024

Russian writer and philologist

1947 – 2024

American science fiction and fantasy author

1942 – 2024

Israeli politician

1939 – 2024

Russian explorer and politician

1939 – 2024