Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen CBE was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.

7 June 1899

Born on the same birth day (7 June): Bear Grylls • Clarence DeMar • Ester Claesson • Ichijō Kaneyoshi • Imre Nagy • James J. Braddock • John Turner • Karl Lashley • Mike Pence • Philipp Lenard • Tom Jones (singer)

Born in the same month (June 1899): Amédée Gordini • Ernst-Robert Grawitz • Eugène Lapierre • Georg von Békésy • Jean Moulin • Lotte Reiniger • Madge Bellamy • Otis Barton • Pavel Haas • Richard Gurley Drew • Stanisław Czaykowski • Weegee • Yasunari Kawabata