Famous Cancer Writers
- Bulfinch, Thomas (15 July 1796)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (4 July 1804)
- Thoreau, Henry David (12 July 1817)
- Eddy, Mary Baker (16 July 1821)
- Bierce, Ambrose (24 June 1842)
- Lazarus, Emma (22 July 1849)
- Haggard, H. Rider (22 June 1856)
- Proust, Marcel (10 July 1871)
- Kafka, Franz (3 July 1883)
- Chandler, Raymond (23 July 1888)
- Buck, Pearl S. (26 June 1892)
- Cain, James M. (1 July 1892)
- Remarque, Erich Maria (22 June 1898)
- Benét, Stephen Vincent (22 July 1898)
- Hemingway, Ernest (21 July 1899)
- Crane, Hart (21 July 1899)
- de Saint Exupéry, Antoine (29 June 1900)
- Cartland, Barbara (9 July 1901)
- Orwell, George (25 June 1903)
- Neruda, Pablo (12 July 1904)
- Odets, Clifford (18 July 1906)
- Heinlein, Robert A. (7 July 1907)
- Murdoch, Iris (15 July 1919)
- Carle, Eric (25 June 1929)
- Munro, Alice (10 July 1931)
- Thompson, Hunter S. (18 July 1937)
- Imus, Don (23 July 1940)
- Koontz, Dean (9 July 1945)
- Butler, Octavia (22 June 1947)
- Barry, Dave (3 July 1947)
- Hinton, S.E. (22 July 1948)
- Martel, Yann (25 June 1963)
- Brown, Dan (22 June 1964)