"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on October 5

Clive Barker  (1952)
Marie-Claire Blais  (1939) 
Helen Churchill Candee  (1858)
Denis Diderot  (1713) 
Louise Fitzhugh  (1928)
Václav Havel  (1936)
Edward P. Jones  (1951)
Flann O'Brien  (1911) 
Neil deGrasse Tyson  (1958)