"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on January 1

Arthur Hugh Clough  (1819)
Lindsey Davis  (1949)
Kristijonas Donelaitis  (1714)
Maria Edgeworth  (1768)
E.M. Forster  (1879)
Lodovic Halévy  (1834)
Dennis O'Driscoll  (1954)

Marie Louise Ramé  (1839)

J.D. Salinger  (1919)
Ousmane Sembène  (1923)
Ernest Tidyman  (1928)