Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has published 13 novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. He is a columnist for the Financial Times, as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, DIS Magazine, and Vice. His art exhibits include Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, as well as the Villa Stuck.

30 December 1961

Born on the same birth date (30 December 1961): Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter) • Bill English • Charlie Nicholas • Sean Hannity

Born on the same birth day (30 December): Ali Al-Habsi • Antonio Pappano • C. S. Lee • Caity Lotz • Camila Giorgi • Cédric Carrasso • Dawan Landry • Elyne Mitchell • Emmanuel Clérico • Glenda Adams • Jeff Lynne • Jerry Coyne • Jim Flaherty • Jim Marshall (defensive end) • Kazuyuki Toda • Martti Vainio • Maureen Flannigan • Michael Rodríguez (footballer) • Pierre Carl Ouellet • Russ Tamblyn • Steven Wiig • Toomas Savi • Zbigniew Robert Promiński

Born in the same month (December 1961): Angie Stone • Carol Smillie • David Anthony Higgins • David Lovering • Gary Zimmerman • Ilham Aliyev • Lalchand Rajput • Leila Steinberg • Macky Sall • Matthew Waterhouse • Mikey Robins • Ralf Dujmovits • Raymond E. Goldstein • Rick Aguilera • Ryuji Sasai • Scott Cohen (actor) • Sean Hannity • Shane Black