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): Abbé Prévost • Abner Biberman • Alexander Stubb • Antonis Fotsis • Charles de Saint-Évremond • Christian Vietoris • Daniel Murphy (baseball) • Gianluca Musacci • Gábor Király • Harry Carney • Jonathan Haze • Loris Kessel • Maria Polydouri • Phil Niekro • Simon Bolivar Buckner • Toshiro Mifune • Vitor Belfort • Yuka Kaneko

Born in the same month (April 1926): Alex Grammas • Basil A. Paterson • Charlotte Rae • David Manker Abshire • Elizabeth II • Gerry Fitt • Gerry McNeil • Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner • Harper Lee • Henry N. Cobb • Hugh Hefner • Ian Paisley • Jacques Castérède • James Stirling (architect) • Jane Withers • Karl Rebane • Marilyn Erskine • Rawya Ateya • Rudra Rajasingham • Sergio Franchi • Tim LaHaye • Victor Bouchard