Peter Viereck
Peter Robert Edwin Viereck was an American writer, poet and professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum. In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence.
5 August 1916
Born on the same birth day (5 August): Carola of Vasa • Daniëlle van de Donk • Darren Shahlavi • France A. Córdova • Frank Stranahan • Ingmar De Vos • Jack Cogger • John Olerud • Kendo Kashin • Kenneth V. Thimann • L. Tom Perry • Michael Ballhaus • Paul Carige • Richard Ottley • The Dave Clark Five • Tim Wilson (comedian) • Tobias Regner • Vladimir Fedoseyev • Wayne Bridge
Born in the same month (August 1916): Anne Hébert • Bill Lee (singer) • C. Wright Mills • Consuelo Velázquez • Danny Litwhiler • Dennis Poore • Dom Mintoff • Frederick Chapman Robbins • Gordon Bashford • Jack Vance • Kermit Love • Moses Majekodunmi • Moura Lympany • Neagu Djuvara • Shailendra (lyricist) • Tony Harris (sportsman) • Van Johnson • Wellington Mara