Ariel Dorfman

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, since 1985.

6 May 1942

Born on the same birth day (6 May): Andreas Baader • Anne Parillaud • Aristide Bruant • Bob Seger • Brooke Bennett • Chris Shiflett • Dani Alves • Frans Timmermans • Gabourey Sidibe • George Clooney • Girolamo Seripando • Grove Karl Gilbert • Harry Martinson • Harry Watson (ice hockey, born 1923) • Hendrik van Heuckelum • Henry Edward Armstrong • Hermann Raster • Iván de la Peña • Martha Nussbaum • Naomi Scott • Paul Lauterbur • Roma Downey • Rubin Carter • Tom Brake • Tom Hunter

Born in the same month (May 1942): Jusuf Kalla • K. Raghavendra Rao • K. T. Oslin • Lee Baca • Tammy Wynette • Terry Neill • Tony Pérez