Author Birthdays for October
Tim O'Brien 75
Tuesday, October 1st 1946Vernor Vinge 77
Monday, October 2nd 1944Graham Greene 117
Sunday, October 2nd 1904Wallace Stevens 142
Thursday, October 2nd 1879James Herriot 105
Tuesday, October 3rd 1916Thomas Wolfe 121
Wednesday, October 3rd 1900Anne Rice 80
Saturday, October 4th 1941Mike McGrady 88
Journalist, Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1933Edward Stratemeyer 159
Saturday, October 4th 1862Mary Elizabeth Braddon 184
Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1837Clive Barker 69
Sunday, October 5th 1952Peter Ackroyd 72
Wednesday, October 5th 1949Louise Fitzhugh 93
Friday, October 5th 1928Caroline Gordon 126
Sunday, October 6th 1895Sherman Alexie 55
Friday, October 7th 1966Steven Erikson 62
Novelist
Wednesday, October 7th 1959Diane Ackerman 73
Thursday, October 7th 1948Thomas Keneally 86
Monday, October 7th 1935Helen MacInnes 114
Monday, October 7th 1907R. L. Stine 78
Friday, October 8th 1943Yulian Semyonov 90
Thursday, October 8th 1931John Lennon 81
Wednesday, October 9th 1940Tawfiq el-Hakim 123
Sunday, October 9th 1898Harold Pinter 91
Friday, October 10th 1930Claude Simon 108
Friday, October 10th 1913Elmore Leonard 96
Sunday, October 11th 1925James Crumley 82
Thursday, October 12th 1939Babaloo Mandel 72
Screenwriter
Thursday, October 13th 1949E. E. Cummings 127
Sunday, October 14th 1894Agnes Sligh Turnbull 133
Sunday, October 14th 1888Italo Calvino 93
Monday, October 15th 1928Mario Puzo 101
Friday, October 15th 1920Enrique Jardiel Poncela 120
Playwright, Novelist
Tuesday, October 15th 1901P.G. Wodehouse 140
Saturday, October 15th 1881Friedrich Nietzsche 177
Tuesday, October 15th 1844Paul Monette 76
Tuesday, October 16th 1945Gunter Grass 94
Sunday, October 16th 1927Eugene O'Neill 133
Tuesday, October 16th 1888Oscar Wilde 167
Monday, October 16th 1854Arthur Miller 106
Sunday, October 17th 1915Terry McMillan 70
Thursday, October 18th 1951Philip Pullman 75
Saturday, October 19th 1946John LeCarre 90
Monday, October 19th 1931Chauncey Bailey 72
Journalist
Thursday, October 20th 1949Elfriede Jelinek 75
Sunday, October 20th 1946Ursula K. Le Guin 92
Monday, October 21st 1929Samuel Taylor Coleridge 249
Wednesday, October 21st 1772A. L. Kennedy 56
Novelist
Friday, October 22nd 1965Timothy Leary 101
Friday, October 22nd 1920Doris Lessing 102
Wednesday, October 22nd 1919John Reed 134
Saturday, October 22nd 1887Ivan Bunin 151
Saturday, October 22nd 1870E. Phillips Oppenheim 155
Monday, October 22nd 1866Augusten Burroughs 56
Saturday, October 23rd 1965E. J. Knapp 73
Saturday, October 23rd 1948Michael Crichton 79
Friday, October 23rd 1942Denise Levertov 98
Wednesday, October 24th 1923Sarah Josepha Hale 233
Friday, October 24th 1788Zadie Smith 46
Saturday, October 25th 1975Anne Tyler 80
Saturday, October 25th 1941John Berryman 107
Sunday, October 25th 1914Leslie McFarlane 119
Saturday, October 25th 1902Gilbert Patten 155
Thursday, October 25th 1866Pat Conroy 76
Friday, October 26th 1945Beryl Markham 119
Sunday, October 26th 1902Fran Lebowitz 71
Friday, October 27th 1950John Cleese 82
Friday, October 27th 1939Sylvia Plath 89
Thursday, October 27th 1932Dylan Thomas 107
Tuesday, October 27th 1914Frances Crane 131
Monday, October 27th 1890Anne Perry 83
Friday, October 28th 1938Evelyn Waugh 118
Wednesday, October 28th 1903Valerie Worth 88
Sunday, October 29th 1933Dominick Dunne 96
Thursday, October 29th 1925Bernard Gordon 103
Tuesday, October 29th 1918Fredric Brown 115
Monday, October 29th 1906Henry Green 116
Sunday, October 29th 1905Jean Giraudoux 139
Sunday, October 29th 1882James Boswell 281
Saturday, October 29th 1740Rudolfo Anaya 84
Saturday, October 30th 1937Agota Kristof 86
Wednesday, October 30th 1935Kostas Karyotakis 125
Friday, October 30th 1896Sukumar Ray 134
Sunday, October 30th 1887Zoë Akins 135
Saturday, October 30th 1886Ezra Pound 136
Friday, October 30th 1885Elizabeth Madox Roberts 140
Sunday, October 30th 1881Irma Rombauer 144
Tuesday, October 30th 1877Paul Valery 150
Poet
Monday, October 30th 1871Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé 235
Monday, October 30th 1786André Chénier 259
Saturday, October 30th 1762Richard Brinsley Sheridan 270
Saturday, October 30th 1751Irina Denezhkina 40
Saturday, October 31st 1981Neal Stephenson 62
Saturday, October 31st 1959Dick Francis 101
Sunday, October 31st 1920Napoleon Lapathiotis 133
Wednesday, October 31st 1888John Keats 226
Saturday, October 31st 1795Christopher Anstey 297
Tuesday, October 31st 1724