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): Antonio Cesti • Betty Oliphant • Bobby Braddock • Carl Crawford • Erika Slezak • Harold Holt • Ilya Repin • Kathrin Zettel • Robert Taylor (American actor) • Rudolf Schottlaender • Samantha Sang • Shin Takamatsu • Tera de Marez Oyens • Venkatesh Prasad • Xavier Trias
Born in the same month (August 1916): Alfonso A. Ossorio • Danny Litwhiler • Gordon Bashford • Hélène Baillargeon • Jack Vance • Martha Raye • Moses Majekodunmi • Neagu Djuvara • Richard Hofstadter • Tony Harris (sportsman) • Van Johnson