Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is an English–American writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, which were a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s.

18 December 1939

Born on the same birth date (18 December 1939): Harold E. Varmus • Pedro Jirón

Born on the same birth day (18 December): Augusta Holmès • Edward MacDowell • Edwin Howard Armstrong • John Hall (New Zealand politician) • Lizzie Deignan • Thomas Lam • William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken • Ōuchi Yoshitaka

Born in the same month (December 1939): Ann Cryer • Bob James (musician) • Cindy Birdsong • Dariush Mehrjui • December 8 • Dick Bavetta • Ernie Davis • Francis Fox • Frank McLintock • Ghulam Ahmad Bilour • Gordon Miller (athlete) • Kim Weston • Phil Spector • Stephen W. Bosworth • Yael Dayan