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Author Birthdays for October

  • Tim O'Brien  80

    Tuesday, October 1st 1946
  • Vernor Vinge  82

    Monday, October 2nd 1944
  • Graham Greene  122

    Sunday, October 2nd 1904
  • Wallace Stevens  147

    Thursday, October 2nd 1879
  • James Herriot  110

    Tuesday, October 3rd 1916
  • Thomas Wolfe  126

    Wednesday, October 3rd 1900
  • Anne Rice  85

    Saturday, October 4th 1941
  • Mike McGrady  93
    Journalist, Novelist
    Wednesday, October 4th 1933
  • Edward Stratemeyer  164

    Saturday, October 4th 1862
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon  189
    Novelist
    Wednesday, October 4th 1837
  • Clive Barker  74

    Sunday, October 5th 1952
  • Peter Ackroyd  77

    Wednesday, October 5th 1949
  • Louise Fitzhugh  98

    Friday, October 5th 1928
  • Caroline Gordon  131

    Sunday, October 6th 1895
  • Sherman Alexie  60

    Friday, October 7th 1966
  • Steven Erikson  67
    Novelist
    Wednesday, October 7th 1959
  • Diane Ackerman  78

    Thursday, October 7th 1948
  • Thomas Keneally  91

    Monday, October 7th 1935
  • Helen MacInnes  119

    Monday, October 7th 1907
  • R. L. Stine  83

    Friday, October 8th 1943
  • Yulian Semyonov  95

    Thursday, October 8th 1931
  • John Lennon  86

    Wednesday, October 9th 1940
  • Tawfiq el-Hakim  128

    Sunday, October 9th 1898
  • Harold Pinter  96

    Friday, October 10th 1930
  • Claude Simon  113

    Friday, October 10th 1913
  • Elmore Leonard  101

    Sunday, October 11th 1925
  • James Crumley  87

    Thursday, October 12th 1939
  • Babaloo Mandel  77
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, October 13th 1949
  • E. E. Cummings  132

    Sunday, October 14th 1894
  • Agnes Sligh Turnbull  138

    Sunday, October 14th 1888
  • Italo Calvino  98

    Monday, October 15th 1928
  • Mario Puzo  106

    Friday, October 15th 1920
  • Enrique Jardiel Poncela  125
    Playwright, Novelist
    Tuesday, October 15th 1901
  • P.G. Wodehouse  145

    Saturday, October 15th 1881
  • Friedrich Nietzsche  182

    Tuesday, October 15th 1844
  • Paul Monette  81

    Tuesday, October 16th 1945
  • Gunter Grass  99

    Sunday, October 16th 1927
  • Eugene O'Neill  138

    Tuesday, October 16th 1888
  • Oscar Wilde  172

    Monday, October 16th 1854
  • Arthur Miller  111

    Sunday, October 17th 1915
  • Terry McMillan  75

    Thursday, October 18th 1951
  • Philip Pullman  80

    Saturday, October 19th 1946
  • John LeCarre  95

    Monday, October 19th 1931
  • Chauncey Bailey   77
    Journalist
    Thursday, October 20th 1949
  • Elfriede Jelinek  80

    Sunday, October 20th 1946
  • Ursula K. Le Guin  97

    Monday, October 21st 1929
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge  254

    Wednesday, October 21st 1772
  • A. L. Kennedy  61
    Novelist
    Friday, October 22nd 1965
  • Timothy Leary  106

    Friday, October 22nd 1920
  • Doris Lessing  107

    Wednesday, October 22nd 1919
  • John Reed  139

    Saturday, October 22nd 1887
  • Ivan Bunin  156

    Saturday, October 22nd 1870
  • E. Phillips Oppenheim  160

    Monday, October 22nd 1866
  • Augusten Burroughs  61

    Saturday, October 23rd 1965
  • E. J. Knapp  78

    Saturday, October 23rd 1948
  • Michael Crichton  84

    Friday, October 23rd 1942
  • Denise Levertov  103

    Wednesday, October 24th 1923
  • Sarah Josepha Hale  238

    Friday, October 24th 1788
  • Zadie Smith  51

    Saturday, October 25th 1975
  • Anne Tyler  85

    Saturday, October 25th 1941
  • John Berryman  112

    Sunday, October 25th 1914
  • Leslie McFarlane  124

    Saturday, October 25th 1902
  • Gilbert Patten  160

    Thursday, October 25th 1866
  • Pat Conroy  81

    Friday, October 26th 1945
  • Beryl Markham  124

    Sunday, October 26th 1902
  • Fran Lebowitz  76

    Friday, October 27th 1950
  • John Cleese  87

    Friday, October 27th 1939
  • Sylvia Plath  94

    Thursday, October 27th 1932
  • Dylan Thomas  112

    Tuesday, October 27th 1914
  • Frances Crane  136

    Monday, October 27th 1890
  • Anne Perry  88

    Friday, October 28th 1938
  • Evelyn Waugh  123

    Wednesday, October 28th 1903
  • Valerie Worth  93

    Sunday, October 29th 1933
  • Dominick Dunne  101

    Thursday, October 29th 1925
  • Bernard Gordon  108

    Tuesday, October 29th 1918
  • Fredric Brown  120

    Monday, October 29th 1906
  • Henry Green  121

    Sunday, October 29th 1905
  • Jean Giraudoux  144

    Sunday, October 29th 1882
  • James Boswell  286

    Saturday, October 29th 1740
  • Rudolfo Anaya  89

    Saturday, October 30th 1937
  • Agota Kristof  91

    Wednesday, October 30th 1935
  • Kostas Karyotakis  130

    Friday, October 30th 1896
  • Sukumar Ray  139

    Sunday, October 30th 1887
  • Zoë Akins  140

    Saturday, October 30th 1886
  • Ezra Pound  141

    Friday, October 30th 1885
  • Elizabeth Madox Roberts  145

    Sunday, October 30th 1881
  • Irma Rombauer  149

    Tuesday, October 30th 1877
  • Paul Valery  155
    Poet
    Monday, October 30th 1871
  • Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé  240

    Monday, October 30th 1786
  • André Chénier  264

    Saturday, October 30th 1762
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan  275

    Saturday, October 30th 1751
  • Irina Denezhkina  45

    Saturday, October 31st 1981
  • Neal Stephenson  67

    Saturday, October 31st 1959
  • Dick Francis  106

    Sunday, October 31st 1920
  • Napoleon Lapathiotis  138

    Wednesday, October 31st 1888
  • John Keats  231

    Saturday, October 31st 1795
  • Christopher Anstey  302

    Tuesday, October 31st 1724

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