Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
30 April 1938
Born on the same birth date (30 April 1938): Gary Collins (actor) • Juraj Jakubisko
Born on the same birth day (30 April): Bill Plympton • Dianna Agron • Don Schollander • Eugène Simon • François Louis, Prince of Conti • Gaston III, Count of Foix • Georgina Amorós • Joachim von Ribbentrop • Kaarel Kiidron • Karl Meiler • Max Nettlau • Nicole Kaczmarski • Orso Mario Corbino • Risto Mätas • Robert Shaw (conductor) • Sheldon Harnick
Born in the same month (April 1938): Alain Caron (ice hockey) • Betty Cuthbert • Claudia Cardinale • Doug Lewis (politician) • Gary Collins (actor) • Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician) • Jeff Barry • John Larsson • Juraj Jakubisko • Mal Colston • Manfred Kinder • Mary W. Gray • Paul Daniels • Rich Rollins • Roy Thinnes • Stanley Fish