Brendan Behan
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely acknowledged alcohol dependence, despite attempts to treat it, impacted his creative capacities and contributed to health and social problems which curtailed his artistic output and finally his life. In 2023 reports emerged of his allegedly sexually violent behaviour against a young New York publicist, Letty Cottin Pogrebin in the early 1960s.
9 February 1923
Born on the same birth date (9 February 1923): Tonie Nathan
Born on the same birth day (9 February): Alejandro Ávila • Anthony Hope • Carmen Miranda • Chris Gardner • Darren Ferguson • David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter • José Burgos • Margarita Levieva • Phil Ford (basketball) • Vladimir Guerrero
Born in the same month (February 1923): Allie Sherman • Antony Flew • Bleddyn Williams • Buddy DeFranco • Chuck Yeager • Conrad Bain • Dora Bryan • Gyula Lóránt • James Dickey • Michael A. Bilandic • Rena Vlahopoulou • Samuel Willenberg • Yelena Bonner