Salman Rushdie

Alive

Born: 6/19/1947 in Bombay, India (British Empire)
Age: 77

Full name: Ahmad Salman Rushdie
Noted For: writer; wrote The Satanic Verses (1988). Went into hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran passed a death sentence on him (1989) because of his book's critical treatment of Islam.
Quotation: "I wish I had written a more critical book."