Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.

24 August 1899

Born on the same birth date (24 August 1899): Albert Claude

Born on the same birth day (24 August): A. S. Byatt • Alyn Ainsworth • Arthur Jensen • Brad Hunt (ice hockey) • Carlo Gambino • Chad Michael Murray • David Gregory (journalist) • Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin • Earl Derr Biggers • Fernand Braudel • Fred Rose (songwriter) • Jemerson • John Green • Jürgen Macho • Kim Sung-il (general) • Molly Duncan • Orlando Engelaar • Steve Guttenberg • Vladimir Masorin

Born in the same month (August 1899): Albert Claude • Alfred Hitchcock • Andrei Platonov • Ben Sealey • Béla Guttmann • C. S. Forester • Charles Boyer • Colleen Moore • Ezra Taft Benson • James Wong Howe • Janet Lewis • José Ramón Guizado • Louis Chiron • P. L. Travers • Paul Herman Buck • Raymond Mays