Mary Gilmore

Dame Mary Jean Gilmore was an Australian writer and journalist known for her prolific contributions to Australian literature and the broader national discourse. She wrote both prose and poetry.

16 August 1865

Born on the same birth day (16 August): Andrew Rainsford Wetmore • Aparicio Saravia • Bill Spooner • Christian Okoye • Didier Cuche • Ernie Freeman • Evanna Lynch • Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut • Joleon Lescott • Marshall Manesh • Orlando Cole • Reginald VelJohnson • Stan Lazaridis

Born in the same month (August 1865): Alexander Glazunov • Arthur James Arnot • Bernard Tancred • Charles G. Dawes • Ferdinand I of Romania • Guido Castelnuovo • Irving Babbitt • Isobel Lilian Gloag • James Henry Breasted • John Radecki • Julia Marlowe • Mikao Usui