Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)

Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her best-known work is the novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), an extended prose poem inspired by her romance with the poet George Barker.

27 December 1913

Born on the same birth day (27 December): Brock Purdy • Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach • Daimí Pernía • Ernesto Zedillo • Ghalib • Jan Jesenius • Jean-Christophe Boullion • Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow • Lucas Mangope • Nick Chubb • Onni Palaste • Sollom Emlyn • Zelina Vega

Born in the same month (December 1913): Ad Reinhardt • Archie Moore • Arnold Friberg • Burt Baskin • Candy Candido • Elyne Mitchell • Esther Borja • Frank Swift • George Ignatieff • Giorgio Oberweger • Harry Locke • Jean Marais • Kersti Merilaas • Marc Platt (dancer) • Mark Robson (film director) • Mary Martin • Pannonica de Koenigswarter • Ray Nance • Roger Gaudry • Tony Martin (American singer) • Willy Brandt