Birth Date Cake O'Clock Birth Date Clock

Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson, Finnish author and illustrator (d. 2001)

Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.

9 August 1914

Random

Born on the same birth date (9 August 1914): Ferenc Fricsay • Joe Mercer

Born on the same birth day (9 August): Adewale Ogunleye • Billy Henderson (American singer) • Bob Cousy • Brito (footballer, born 1939) • Denis Atkinson • Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton • James Naughtie • Johann Michael Bach • John "Hot Rod" Williams • Leonid Kuchma • Mahesh Babu • Marek Niit • Ralph Houk • Reynaldo Hahn • Rhona Mitra

Born in the same month (August 1914): Beatrice Straight • Big Walter Price • Ferenc Fricsay • Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. • Félix Leclerc • Gordon Freeth • Grace Bates • J. Lee Thompson • Joe Mercer • Julio Cortázar • Lajos Baróti • Paul Rand • Richard Basehart • Ruth Lowe