José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

José Joaquín Eugenio Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez, Mexican writer and political journalist, best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (1816), translated as The Mangy Parrot in English, reputed to be the first novel written in Latin America.

15 November 1776

Born on the same birth day (15 November): Cynthia Breazeal • Fausto Brizzi • Harold Marcuse • Judy Gold • Leonard Lord • Martin Pieckenhagen • Ol' Dirty Bastard • Patrick M'Boma • Pope Nicholas V • Rick Atkinson • Sam Waterston • Sophia Di Martino • V. R. Krishna Iyer • Vasilis Diamantopoulos • Văn Cao

Born in the same month (November 1776): Henri Dutrochet • Ignaz Schuppanzigh