Julio Cortázar

Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.

26 August 1914

Born on the same birth date (26 August 1914): Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca

Born on the same birth day (26 August): Bill White (ice hockey) • Gerd Bonk • Hans Kammler • Marcus du Sautoy • Therese Alshammar

Born in the same month (August 1914): Carlos Menditeguy • Connie B. Gay • Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca • Fumio Hayasaka • Félix Leclerc • Gerd Buchdahl • J. Lee Thompson • Jack Delano • Lucy Ozarin • Paul Rand • Tove Jansson