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Thursday, August 28, 2025

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 28



John Betjeman  (1906)
Bruce Catton  (1899)
Robertson Davies  (1913)
Rita Dove  (1952)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  (1749)
Janet Frame  (1924)
Sheridan Le Fanu  (1814)
Tasha Tudor  (1915)
Jack Vance  (1916)

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