Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.

1 April 1926

Born on the same birth day (1 April): Alexander Stubb • Anamaria Marinca • Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith • Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans • Chris Grayling • Daniel Paillé • Don Hasselbeck • Humayun Akhtar Khan • Jeff Porcaro • Nikitas Kaklamanis • Paul Manafort • Rachel Maddow • Sydney Newman • Toshiro Mifune • William Bergsma

Born in the same month (April 1926): Bill Blackbeard • Ellie Lambeti • Gerry Fitt • Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner • J. P. Donleavy • Johnny Craig • Junior Samples • Jürgen Moltmann • Rifaat el-Mahgoub • Roger Corman • Ronnie Masterson • Shecky Greene • Shrinivas Khale