Yaşar Kemal
Yaşar Kemal was a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin and human rights activist and one of Turkey's leading authors. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of Memed, My Hawk.
6 October 1923
Born on the same birth date (6 October 1923): Robert Kuok
Born on the same birth day (6 October): Daniel Brière • Johan Herman Wessel • Klaus Dibiasi • Nazem Kadri • Oil Can Boyd • Pizzi (Portuguese footballer)
Born in the same month (October 1923): Albert Guðmundsson (footballer, born 1923) • Barney Kessel • Bert Trautmann • Bill McLaren • Charlton Heston • Denise Levertov • Donald Sinden • Eugene Patterson • Faas Wilkes • Frank Sutton • Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs • Goody Petronelli • Jean Nidetch • John Connell (actor) • Murray Walker • Robert Kuok • Rosemary Anne Sisson • Roy Lichtenstein