Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
17 April 1897
Born on the same birth date (17 April 1897): Edouard Wyss-Dunant • Nisargadatta Maharaj
Born on the same birth day (17 April): Buster Williams • Emil Fuchs (baseball) • Herms Niel • Katrin Koov • Lindsay Hartley • Margot Honecker • Marta Eggerth • Mike Stroud (physician) • Nisargadatta Maharaj • Wheein
Born in the same month (April 1897): Douglas Sirk • Edouard Wyss-Dunant • Erich Loewenhardt • Folke Jansson • Hans Schuberth • Humberto Mauro • Jiroemon Kimura • Joe Kirkwood Sr. • Nisargadatta Maharaj • Odd Lindbäck-Larsen • Pierre Fresnay • Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos • Walter Winchell • Werner Voss • Ye Jianying