Children's Authors

What lands on a date

• 01-04 Jacob Grimm · Born in Hanau, Hesse, the elder of the storytelling brothers. source
• 01-14 Lewis Carroll · Died in Guildford, Surrey, from pneumonia after bronchitis. source
• 01-18 A. A. Milne · Born in Kilburn, London, to a schoolmaster. source
• 01-27 Lewis Carroll · Born Charles Dodgson in Daresbury, Cheshire, England. source
• 01-28 Astrid Lindgren · Died in Stockholm, creator of Pippi Longstocking. source
• 01-31 A. A. Milne · Died at Hartfield, Sussex, after a stroke. source
• 02-07 Laura Ingalls Wilder · Born near Pepin, Wisconsin, to a pioneer family. source
• 02-10 Laura Ingalls Wilder · Died at Mansfield, Missouri, three days after her birthday. source
• 02-24 Wilhelm Grimm · Born in Hanau, Hesse, a year after his brother Jacob. source
• 03-02 Dr. Seuss · Theodor Geisel born in Springfield, Massachusetts. source
• 03-08 Kenneth Grahame · Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised in the Cotswolds. source
• 03-25 Beverly Cleary · Died in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, aged one hundred four. source
• 04-02 Hans Christian Andersen · Born in Odense, Denmark, to a poor shoemaker's family. source
• 04-12 Beverly Cleary · Born in McMinnville, Oregon, and raised in Portland. source
• 04-24 L. M. Montgomery · Died in Toronto, author of Anne of Green Gables. source
• 05-08 Maurice Sendak · Died in Danbury, Connecticut, after a stroke. source
• 05-09 J. M. Barrie · Born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, to a weaver. source
• 05-23 Eric Carle · Died in Northampton, Massachusetts, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. source
• 06-10 Maurice Sendak · Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrants. source
• 06-19 J. M. Barrie · Died in London, having given Peter Pan to the world. source
• 06-25 Eric Carle · Born in Syracuse, New York, to German immigrant parents. source
• 06-27 Tove Jansson · Died in Helsinki, creator of the Moomin stories. source
• 06-29 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · Born in Lyon, France, to an aristocratic family. source
• 07-06 Kenneth Grahame · Died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, author of The Wind in the Willows. source
• 07-28 Beatrix Potter · Born in Kensington, London, to a wealthy family. source
• 07-31 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · Disappeared on a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean. source
• 07-31 J. K. Rowling · Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. source
• 08-04 Hans Christian Andersen · Died in Copenhagen after a long illness, famous across Europe. source
• 08-09 Tove Jansson · Born in Helsinki, Finland, to a sculptor and an illustrator. source
• 09-06 Madeleine L'Engle · Died in Litchfield, Connecticut, author of A Wrinkle in Time. source
• 09-13 Roald Dahl · Born in Llandaff, Cardiff, to Norwegian parents. source
• 09-20 Jacob Grimm · Died in Berlin while working on the German dictionary. source
• 09-24 Dr. Seuss · Died in La Jolla, California, after decades of rhyming books. source
• 10-19 Philip Pullman · Born in Norwich, England, and raised in various countries. source
• 10-26 Carlo Collodi · Died in Florence, author of The Adventures of Pinocchio. source
• 10-29 Frances Hodgson Burnett · Died in Plandome, New York, after a long writing career. source
• 11-14 Astrid Lindgren · Born on a farm near Vimmerby, Sweden. source
• 11-23 Roald Dahl · Died in Oxford after a long illness, aged seventy-four. source
• 11-24 Frances Hodgson Burnett · Born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. source
• 11-24 Carlo Collodi · Born Carlo Lorenzini in Florence, Italy. source

+ 4 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1900
• The Hobbit 1937
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 1997