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): Abdi İpekçi • Amedeo Avogadro • Chandler Williams • Daniel Keyes • Jason Heyward • Kevin Mack • Michael Kingma • Michael Lerchl • Mike Lamb

Born in the same month (August 1899): Albert Claude • Alfred Hitchcock • Andrei Platonov • Ben Sealey • C. S. Forester • James Wong Howe • Janet Lewis • Jorge Luis Borges • Louis Chiron • Raymond Mays