Todays celebrated famous birthday of the day is
Mika Waltari

Waltari was a prolific Finnish author, best known for the 1945 historical novel
The Egyptian, which chronicles the rise and fall of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and was hailed by Egyptologists for its historical accuracy. Its theme of corruption of humanist values in a materialist world was curiously topical in the aftermath of World War II, and the book became an international bestseller, serving as the basis for the 1954 Hollywood movie of the same name. How many novels did Waltari write?