Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author.
 He founded the Gesundheit!
 Institute in 1971.
 Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people.
Harry James Dent (born 1953) is an American author and sportswriter.
 He wrote "The Junction Boys", a New York Times best-selling book about Bear Bryant's Junction Boys, "Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football", and "The Kids Got It Right: How the Texas All-Stars Kicked Down Racial Walls."
 "The Junction Boys" was adopted as an ESPN movie with the same name in 2002.
 He covered the NFL's Dallas Cowboys as a sportswriter for 11 years.
 In 2003, Dent was sentenced to eight years in prison under a plea agreement with Brazos County prosecutors for violating his drunk driving probation.
 In 2015, Dent was sentenced to ten years in prison after jumping bail following his tenth conviction for drunk driving.
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer.
 He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five.
 Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.
When We Were Orphans is the fifth novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2000.
 It is loosely categorised as a detective novel.
 "When We Were Orphans" was shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize, though it is considered one of Ishiguro's weakest works, with Ishiguro himself saying "It's not my best book".
Alice Geer Kelsey was a 20th-century author of numerous children's books, many of which were based on folk tales she collected during her long public service career in Europe and the Near East.
 Mrs. Kelsey was born "Alice Geer" in Danvers, Massachusetts and grew up in Lewiston, Maine and West Hartford, Connecticut.
 She received her B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College in 1918.
 In 1919 she married Lincoln David Kelsey and immediately thereafter left on the second boat taking relief workers to the Near East after World War I.
 She worked with war orphans at Merzifoun, Turkey, and collected the stories retold in "Once the Hodja".

Question: When was the author of When We Were Orphans born?
Answer: 8 November 1954