Hortense Calisher

Hortense Calisher was an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

20 December 1911

Born on the same birth day (20 December): Anita Ward • Anthony da Silva • Arthur Lee (diplomat) • Aziz Nesin • Chay Genoway • Erik Almlöf • Ferdinand Buisson • James Thomson (cell biologist) • Jan Čaloun • Jaroslav Heyrovský • Jenny Agutter • Joe Cornish • Kan'ichi Asakawa • Kasper Klausen • Ksenia Makarova • Martín Demichelis • Michel Chartrand • Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz • Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet • Suzuka Nakamoto

Born in the same month (December 1911): Dal Stivens • Jeanette Nolan • Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz • Josh Gibson • Klaus Fuchs • Louise Bourgeois • Niels Kaj Jerne • Qian Xuesen • Ryūzō Sejima • Spike Jones • Trygve Haavelmo