Famous Charts
Famous Birth & Death Charts
Birth and death are both fixed moments, so these charts never change. Every figure has a documented birth date and place, and those who have died have a documented death beside it, which is the chart nobody else draws. The rest are alive and have the one. Nothing here is estimated.
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121 figures in Writing, starting with J.
J121 figures
- Jacinto BenaventePlaywright
- Jackie KayPoet
- Jack KerouacNovelist
- Jack LondonNovelist
- Jacob RiisPhotographer & journalist
- Jacqueline WilsonNovelist
- Jamal KhashoggiJournalist
- James AgeeWriter & critic
- James A. MichenerAuthor
- James BaldwinNovelist and essayist
- James BlishWriter
- James BoswellBiographer
- James CameronJournalist
- James Fenimore CooperNovelist
- James HerriotVeterinary surgeon & writer
- James JoyceNovelist
- James KelmanNovelist
- James MerrillPoet
- James PattersonAuthor
- James ThurberHumorist & cartoonist
- James Weldon JohnsonWriter & activist
- Jane AustenNovelist
- Jane JacobsWriter & activist
- Jane SmileyNovelist
- Janet AsimovAuthor
- Janet MalcolmJournalist
- Jared DiamondGeographer & writer
- Jaroslav SeifertPoet
- Jason ParginNovelist
- Javier CercasNovelist
- Javier MaríasNovelist
- J. D. SalingerNovelist
- Jean de La FontainePoet
- Jeanette WintersonNovelist
- Jean GenetWriter
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioNovelist
- Jean-Paul DuboisNovelist
- Jean-Paul MaratRevolutionary & journalist
- Jean-Paul SartrePhilosopher & novelist
- Jean RacinePlaywright
- Jean RhysNovelist
- Jennifer EganNovelist
- Jenny ErpenbeckNovelist
- Jeremy BowenJournalist
- Jeremy PaxmanBroadcaster & journalist
- Jerome K. JeromeAuthor
- Jesmyn WardNovelist
- Jesse ArmstrongWriter
- Jez ButterworthPlaywright
- Jhumpa LahiriNovelist
- Jim HarrisonNovelist
- Jin YongWriter
- J. K. RowlingNovelist
- J. M. BarrieNovelist & playwright
- J. M. CoetzeeNovelist
- Joan AikenWriter
- Joan BakewellBroadcaster & journalist
- Joan DidionWriter
- Johannes V. JensenNovelist
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWriter & scientist
- John AshberyPoet
- John BanvilleNovelist
- John BarthNovelist
- John BergerWriter & critic
- John BerrymanPoet
- John BetjemanPoet & campaigner
- John BurnsidePoet
- John CheeverWriter
- John Crowe RansomPoet
- John Dickson CarrNovelist
- John DonnePoet & cleric
- John Dos PassosNovelist
- John GalsworthyNovelist & playwright
- John GardnerNovelist
- John Gould FletcherWriter
- John GreenNovelist
- John IrvingNovelist
- John KeatsPoet
- John le CarréNovelist
- John LoganWriter
- John McGahernNovelist
- John MiltonPoet
- John MorleyStatesman & writer
- John OsbornePlaywright
- John Patrick ShanleyWriter
- John RuskinCritic & reformer
- John ScalziWriter
- John SeigenthalerJournalist
- John SteinbeckNovelist
- John UpdikeNovelist
- Jonathan FranzenNovelist & essayist
- Jonathan SwiftSatirist
- Jo NesbøNovelist
- Jon FossePlaywright & novelist
- Jon RonsonWriter
- Jon SnowBroadcaster & journalist
- Jorge AmadoNovelist
- Jorge Luis BorgesWriter
- Jorge MautnerWriter
- José EchegarayPlaywright & engineer
- José MartíWriter & revolutionary
- Joseph BrodskyPoet
- Joseph ConradNovelist
- Joseph HellerNovelist
- José SaramagoNovelist
- Joyce Carol OatesNovelist
- Joyce KilmerPoet
- J. R. R. TolkienAuthor and philologist
- Juan Ramón JiménezPoet
- Juan RulfoNovelist & photographer
- Judith KerrAuthor & illustrator
- Jules VerneNovelist
- Julia DonaldsonWriter
- Julian BarnesNovelist
- Julian SymonsWriter
- Julia Ward HoweWriter & activist
- Julien GreenNovelist
- Julio CortázarNovelist
- Junot DíazNovelist
- Jūrō KaraPlaywright
- Jussi Adler-OlsenNovelist
