George Woodcock

George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing. He is most commonly known outside Canada for his book Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962).

8 May 1912

Born on the same birth day (8 May): Angelo Italia • Carl Stamitz • Charles Wriothesley • Cláudio Taffarel • David Hurst • Doug Atkins • Evgeny Lebedev • Fulton J. Sheen • Irwin Cotler • James H. Kindelberger • Lovie Smith • Mark Noble • Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco • Nicolaes Witsen • Peter McNab • Robert Johnson • Toni Tennille

Born in the same month (May 1912): Archibald Cox • Herbert C. Brown • Herman Johannes • Jean Françaix • John Cheever • John Curtis Gowan • John Payne (actor) • Julius Axelrod • Mary Kenner • May Sarton • Monty Stratton • Otto Kretschmer • Perry Como • Ruby Payne-Scott