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): Agostino Vallini • Avi Kaplan • Gilles Lamontagne • Martin Clemens • Peter Morris (surgeon) • Sirimavo Bandaranaike • Tsutomu Wakamatsu • Victor Lownes • Étienne Bobillier
Born in the same month (April 1897): Ardito Desio • Douglas Sirk • Eddie Eagan • Edouard Wyss-Dunant • Folke Jansson • Humberto Mauro • Jiroemon Kimura • John B. Gambling • Manuel Ávila Camacho • Nisargadatta Maharaj • Odd Lindbäck-Larsen • Pierre Fresnay • Prafulla Chandra Sen • Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos • Walter Winchell • Werner Voss