Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer.

1 February 1941

Born on the same birth day (1 February): Adetokunbo Ademola • Burkhard Ziese • Christiaan Hendrik Persoon • Elkanah Settle • George Beverly Shea • George Pal • Günter Eich • Heather Morris • Hugo von Hofmannsthal • Ignacia del Espíritu Santo • Jacob Roggeveen • James P. Johnson • Jason Isbell • John Ford • Langston Hughes • Leila Denmark • Marie Thérèse de Bourbon • Moises Henriques • Robert Traylor • S. J. Perelman • Sherilyn Fenn • Takashi Murakami • Vladimir Dimitrov • Émile Littré

Born in the same month (February 1941): Irma Thomas • Joanie Sommers • Kermit Gosnell • Russell Cooper • Sheila Kuehl