American author

Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller lists. Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Born

1943

April 22

Died

Living

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1940s

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1943 Born

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960 Basil II is crowned co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1073 Election of Pope Gregory VII following the death of Pope Alexander II.
1500 Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).
1519 Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.

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The world in 1943

When Janet arrived

april 13 World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
april 13 The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
april 16 Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
april 18 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

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Immanuel Kant 1724–1804 German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804) Alan Bond 1938–2015 English-Australian businessman (died 2015) Antoine of Navarre (died 1562) 1518– Baldev Raj Chopra 1914– Indian director and producer (died 2008) Charles Mingus 1922–1979 American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979) Dan Cloutier 1976– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Donald Tusk 1957– Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland Germaine de Staël 1766–1817 French author and political philosopher (died 1817) Giorgio Agamben 1942– Italian philosopher and academic

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Albano Carrisi 1943– Italian singer, actor, and winemaker Blythe Danner 1943– American actress Burt Rutan 1943– American engineer and pilot Davey Johnson 1943– American baseball player and manager (died 2025) Eddie Low 1943–2024 New Zealand country singer and musician (died 2024) Emerson Boozer 1943– American football player and sportscaster Florence Ballard 1943–1976 American singer (born 1943) Gamini Lokuge 1943– Sri Lankan politician (died 2025) Gary Wright 1943– American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023)

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