Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French writer, philosopher and journalist who grew up in a poor district of Algiers. His novels The Stranger and The Plague and the essay The Myth of Sisyphus became key texts about a human being facing the absurd. During the war he edited the underground newspaper Combat. In 1957 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature; three years later he died in a car accident.
Born in Mondovi (now Dréan), Algeria, on 7 November 1913 at 14:00. Time zone: Greenwich — French Algeria had kept the same time as mainland France since 1911. The hour is given in reference works citing the birth record; we have not seen the document itself.