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Sunday, August 23, 2026

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 23



Will Cuppy  (1884)
William Ernest Henley  (1849) 
Robert Irwin  (1946)
Nelson DeMille  (1943)
Edgar Lee Masters  (1868)
Curtis Sittenfeld  (1975)
Melanie Rae Thon  (1957)
 
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