"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on January 8

Francisco Gonzalez Bocanegra  (1824) 

Terry Brooks  (1944) 

Wilkie Collins  (1824)
Ashapoorna Devi  (1909)
David Gates  (1947)
Stephen Hawking (1942) 

Storm Jameson  (1891)
Gaston Miron  (1928)
 John Neihardt  (1881)
Alexandra Ripley  (1934)
Peter Taylor  (1917)
Charles Tomlinson  (1927)
Dennis Wheatley  (1897)