Eleanor Alice Burford

Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.

1 September 1906

Born on the same birth date (1 September 1906): Arthur Rowe • Franz Biebl • Joaquín Balaguer

Born on the same birth day (1 September): Brian Bellows • David Fairleigh • Edgar Rice Burroughs • Ferenc Gyulay • Gervase Helwys • Gustav Nyquist • Hwang Jung-min • Jeremy Farrar • José María Castro Madriz • Józef Życiński • Karl Mecklenburg • Michael Massee • Rocky Marciano • T. Thirunavukarasu • Tony Cascarino • Yoshitaka Hirota

Born in the same month (September 1906): Ali Hadi Bara • Arthur Rowe • Dmitri Shostakovich • Franz Biebl • Ilse Koch • Jean Dréville • Jim Thompson (writer) • Józef Nawrot • Kaka Hathrasi • Maurice Maillot • Max Delbrück • Ralston Crawford • Sergei Varshavsky • Sunnyland Slim • Walter E. "Jack" Rollins