P. L. Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny.

9 August 1899

Born on the same birth day (9 August): Alexa Bliss • Alice Barlow • Dipa Karmakar • Evelina Haverfield • Farahnaz Forotan • Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein • Kevin Mack • Lisa Nandy • Mareta West • Michael Lerchl • The Mighty Hannibal • Vasilios Koutsianikoulis • Yekaterina Samutsevich

Born in the same month (August 1899): Albert Claude • Alfred Hitchcock • Andrei Platonov • Ben Sealey • Béla Guttmann • C. S. Forester • Charles Boyer • Colleen Moore • Ezra Taft Benson • James Wong Howe • Janet Lewis • Jorge Luis Borges • José Ramón Guizado • Louis Chiron • Paul Herman Buck • Raymond Mays