Arthur Hailey
Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE was a Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975), and Overload (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.
5 April 1920
Born on the same birth date (5 April 1920): Alfonso Thiele • Barend Biesheuvel • John Willem Gran
Born on the same birth day (5 April): Anna Caterina Antonacci • Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken • Friedrich Sigmund Merkel • Guy Bertrand (broadcaster) • Hubert Schwab • Janet Rowley • Joseph Lister • Joseph Rheden • Lawrence Dale Bell • Les Binks • Lester James Peries • Sebastian Starke Hedlund • Stanisław Grabski • Stanley Turrentine • Sven Andersson (politician) • Svetlana Paramygina • Vakhtang Iagorashvili • Vítězslav Hálek
Born in the same month (April 1920): Ananda Dassanayake • Captain Tom Moore • Claude Cheysson • Edward Blishen • Gerald Bouey • Jack Webb • Julien Ries • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine • Roberto Calvi • Yoshibayama Junnosuke