Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury)

Born: August 22, 1920 Waukegan, Illinois, USA, Died: June 5, 2012 (aged 91) Los Angeles, California, USA

Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.