George Steiner
Francis George Steiner, FBA was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
23 April 1929
Born on the same birth day (23 April): Aliagha Shikhlinski • Gezahegne Abera • J. P. Donleavy • Jamie Hayter • Ken McRae • Michael Arroyo • Neville Brody • Patrick Olsen • Rifaat el-Mahgoub • Sandra Dee • Song Kang • Steve Clark
Born in the same month (April 1929): Ed Dorn • Joe Gallo • Joe Meek • Jonathan Haze • Mahmoud Mollaghasemi • Max von Sydow • Milan Kundera • Nigel Hawthorne • Paule Marshall • Peter Sculthorpe • Ralph Slatyer • Robert Wade-Gery • Roy Hamilton • Sharan Rani Backliwal