Garrison Keillor

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history.

7 August 1942

Born on the same birth date (7 August 1942): B. J. Thomas • Caetano Veloso • Carlos Monzón • Richard Sykes (microbiologist)

Born on the same birth day (7 August): Adam Yates • Albert Kotin • Betsy Byars • Billie Burke • Caetano Veloso • Carlos Monzón • Carlos Vives • Eamonn Darcy • Francesca Eastwood • Freddie Slack • Gerard Denton • Jack Good (producer) • Juan de la Rosa • Karel Husa • Marcus Roberts • Mark Pettini • Mitchell te Vrede • Peter Niven • Raul Malo • Ray Hill (American football) • Tooba Siddiqui • Tácio • Valter Birsa • Walter Swinburn • Wout Weghorst

Born in the same month (August 1942): B. J. Thomas • Dennis Turner • Gottfried John • Isaac Hayes • John Kani • Max Cleland