James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.

2 February 1882

Born on the same birth date (2 February 1882): Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

Born on the same birth day (2 February): Artūrs Irbe • Brent Spiner • Christian Dvorak • Fani Chalkia • François de Chevert • George Band • Harrison Smith • John Tonkin • Khalil Ullah Khan • Lance Allred • Lee Ji-ah • Lee Redmond • Roger Williamson • Terry Biddlecombe • Valery Karpin • Willie Kamm

Born in the same month (February 1882): Elie Nadelman • Eric Gill • Husband E. Kimmel • John Barrymore • Louis St. Laurent • Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark • Thomas Selfridge • Vladimir Dimitrov • Walter Nash