Randall Garrett
Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.
16 December 1927
Born on the same birth date (16 December 1927): Peter Dickinson
Born on the same birth day (16 December): A. N. R. Robinson • Alexander I of Yugoslavia • Arthur C. Clarke • Aykut Barka • François-Adrien Boieldieu • Gareth Williams (footballer, born 1981) • George Ignatieff • Hans Bol • Jack Hobbs • Jeff Ruland • Jeffrey Stone • John Gunn (Australian politician) • John Ordronaux (privateer) • Jon Tenney • Mame Biram Diouf • Nigel Hayes-Davis • Rebecca Marino • Sam Most • Stephan James (actor) • Theo James • Vincent Matthews (athlete) • Walther Meissner • William Perry (American football) • Zoltán Kovács (footballer, born 1986)
Born in the same month (December 1927): Antony Gardner • Audrey Wagner • Bhumibol Adulyadej • Danny Matt • Denis Gifford • Jack S. Blanton • James Wright (poet) • Jim Fuchs • John Buscema • Koos Rietkerk • Mary Higgins Clark • Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark • Micheline Bernardini • Nellie Fox • Peter Dickinson • Pierre Henry • Ralph Beard • Ram Narayan • Ramsey Clark • Richard Long (actor) • Robert Noyce • Roméo LeBlanc • Stu Miller • Vladimir Shatalov • W. D. Amaradeva