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): Andriy Hrivko • Art Houtteman • Caroline Aaron • Eric Namesnik • Ian Dench • Marcus Roberts • Mustapha Dumbuya • Thomas Lupo the elder

Born in the same month (August 1942): Caetano Veloso • Chow Kwai Lam • Fred Thompson • Henry G. Sanders • Hissène Habré • Isaac Hayes • Jonathan Aitken • Mike Hugg • Shane Porteous • Willie Dunn