Jan Pieńkowski

Jan Michał Pieńkowski was a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books. He is best known for illustrating the Meg and Mog picture book series. He also designed for the theatre. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. ^{Jan Pieńkowski, Polish-English author and illustrator (d. 2022)}

8 August 1936

Born on the same birth date (8 August 1936): Frank Howard (baseball)

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Aleksandra Szwed • Craig Breslow • Emilie Flygare-Carlén • Emperor Horikawa • Herbert Prohaska • Jack Baldwin (chemist) • Jack Ryder (cricketer) • James Morgan (actor) • Jimmy Steele (Irish republican) • Karim Walid • Ron Karkovice • Terry Nation

Born in the same month (August 1936): Andre Dubus • Benedict Anderson • Chuck Brown • Don Denkinger • Frank Howard (baseball) • Giridharilal Kedia • Henry Lee Lucas • Hideki Shirakawa • John Callaway • Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) • Peter North (legal scholar) • Richard McBrien • Rita Shane • Seamus Mallon