David Sedaris

David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. His next book, Naked (1997), became his first of a series of New York Times Bestsellers, and his 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

26 December 1956

Born on the same birth day (26 December): Arsenio Lacson • Catherine Coulter • Elisha Cook Jr. • Evan Bayh • Gianluca Faliva • Johann Georg Pisendel • René Bazin • Robert Hamerton-Kelly • Simon Goodwin • Tiit Rosenberg

Born in the same month (December 1956): Andrius Kubilius • Dave Laut • Dave Murray (musician) • Hanni Wenzel • Jane Lighting • Junji Hirata • Larry Bird • Nigel Kennedy • Phil Harris (fisherman) • Phil Hubbard • Ron White • Sheryl Lee Ralph • Slick (wrestling) • Steven Bauer • Sylvia (singer)