Anatole France

Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".

16 April 1844

Born on the same birth day (16 April): Allan Segal • Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì • Gerry Rafferty • Gert Potgieter (athlete) • Henry Mancini • Herbie Mann • Johann Gottlieb Görner • John Millington Synge • Kelli O'Hara • Robert Speck (politician) • Yves-François Blanchet

Born in the same month (April 1844): Lewis Powell (conspirator) • William Lyne