Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. ^{Dan Simmons, American author}

4 April 1948

Born on the same birth date (4 April 1948): Abdullah Öcalan • Berry Oakley • Derek Thompson (actor) • Pick Withers • Richard Parsons (businessman)

Born on the same birth day (4 April): Antoine Galland • Christine Lahti • David Goodall (botanist) • Doug Lynch (ice hockey) • Eli Soriano • Gil Hodges • Godknows Igali • Heath Ledger • Henry Fotheringham • Jack Del Rio • Johanna Reiss • Josh Todd (musician) • Jules Léger • Loris Capirossi • Monty Norman • Nachman of Breslov • Peter Baltes • Samir Carruthers • Thaddeus Stevens • Thomas Mayne Reid

Born in the same month (April 1948): Anastasios Papaligouras • Berry Berenson • Christopher Brown (museum director) • Dimitris Mitropanos • Eliana Gil • Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck • Jan Hammer • Jim Burns • Peter Law • Reg Alcock • Régis Wargnier • Serge Thériault • Terry Pratchett