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): Alistair Brownlee • Barry Hawkins • Bill Hagerty (journalist) • Bobby Rosengarden • Emily Fox (basketball) • Granville Woods • Jan Hooks • John Oliver • Joseph Green (actor) • Martín López-Zubero • Michel Fokine • Rifaat el-Mahgoub • Shaun Spiers • Sheila Scott Macintyre • Stephen A. Douglas • Tony Lupien
Born in the same month (April 1929): André Previn • Ed Townsend • Fazlur Rahman Khan • Gérald Beaudoin • Hugo Claus • Mike Hawthorn • Nigel Hawthorne • Peter Sculthorpe • Poul Schlüter • Ralph Slatyer • Richard Mitchell • Robert Wade-Gery • Roy Hamilton • Willis Hall