Question: Who was born first Stephen E. Ambrose or Günter Grass?

Context articles: The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Hugh Ambrose
Dog Years (novel)
The Meeting at Telgte
Crabwalk
China Marine (memoir)
Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff
Stephen E. Ambrose
The Box (Grass book)

The Tin Drum (German: "Die Blechtrommel" ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass.
 The novel is the first book of Grass's "Danziger Trilogie " (Danzig Trilogy) and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
 It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the Palme d'Or, in the same year, and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the following year.
Günter Wilhelm Grass (] ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Hugh Alexander Ambrose (August 12, 1966 – May 23, 2015) was an American historian and the author of a best-selling popular history of the Pacific Theater in World War II.
 Ambrose rose to prominence as a researcher for and collaborator with his father, historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
Dog Years (Hundejahre) is a novel by Günter Grass.
 It was first published in Germany in 1963.
 Its English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1965.
 It is the third and last volume of his "Danzig Trilogy", the other two being "The Tin Drum" and "Cat and Mouse".
 The novel consists of three different chronological parts, from the 1920s to the 1950s.
 The main characters are Walter Matern and Eduard Amsel.
The Meeting at Telgte (German: Das Treffen in Telgte ) is a 1979 novel by the West German writer Günter Grass.
 The narrative revolves around a fictional meeting for intellectuals hosted by Simon Dach after the Thirty Years' War.
 The story is an analogy for the post-World War II society in Germany, and of Group 47 in West Germany, of which Grass was a member.
Crabwalk, published in Germany in 2002 as Im Krebsgang, is a novel by Danzig-born German author Günter Grass.
 As in earlier works, Grass concerns himself with the effects of the past on the present; he interweaves various strands and combines fact and fiction.
 While the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff by David Frankfurter and the sinking of the ship the "Wilhelm Gustloff" are real events, the fictional members of the Pokriefke family bring these events into our own time.
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II is the second memoir written by United States Marine Corporal Eugene B. Sledge, published posthumously with foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose, without subtitle, on May 10, 2002 by University of Alabama Press It was republished in paperback with the full title by Oxford University Press in July 2003.
 This book is the sequel to his first, better known, memoir, "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" and Ambrose identifies it as the only account of the Marines stationed in postwar China.
 It has recently achieved wider public recognition as credited source material for the 2010 HBO miniseries "The Pacific".
Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff is the biography of Union Army General-in-Chief Henry Halleck written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published in 1962.
 In this book, Ambrose provides an interpretation contrary to previous assessments of this "controversial figure" from the American Civil War.
Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.
 He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history.
The Box (German: Die Box ) is a 2008 fictionalised autobiography by the German writer Günter Grass.
 It has the subtitle "Tales from the Darkroom" ("Dunkelkammergeschichten").
 In the narrative, the 80-year-old Grass' eight children, at their father's request, record conversations where they say what they think of him.
 "The Box" follows the writer's previous memoir book, "Peeling the Onion" from 2006, which ended in 1959 with the literary success of "The Tin Drum".
 It was followed by "Grimm's Words" in 2010.