Author Birthdays for October
Tim O'Brien 76
Tuesday, October 1st 1946Vernor Vinge 78
Monday, October 2nd 1944Graham Greene 118
Sunday, October 2nd 1904Wallace Stevens 143
Thursday, October 2nd 1879James Herriot 106
Tuesday, October 3rd 1916Thomas Wolfe 122
Wednesday, October 3rd 1900Anne Rice 81
Saturday, October 4th 1941Mike McGrady 89
Journalist, Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1933Edward Stratemeyer 160
Saturday, October 4th 1862Mary Elizabeth Braddon 185
Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1837Clive Barker 70
Sunday, October 5th 1952Peter Ackroyd 73
Wednesday, October 5th 1949Louise Fitzhugh 94
Friday, October 5th 1928Caroline Gordon 127
Sunday, October 6th 1895Sherman Alexie 56
Friday, October 7th 1966Steven Erikson 63
Novelist
Wednesday, October 7th 1959Diane Ackerman 74
Thursday, October 7th 1948Thomas Keneally 87
Monday, October 7th 1935Helen MacInnes 115
Monday, October 7th 1907R. L. Stine 79
Friday, October 8th 1943Yulian Semyonov 91
Thursday, October 8th 1931John Lennon 82
Wednesday, October 9th 1940Tawfiq el-Hakim 124
Sunday, October 9th 1898Harold Pinter 92
Friday, October 10th 1930Claude Simon 109
Friday, October 10th 1913Elmore Leonard 97
Sunday, October 11th 1925James Crumley 83
Thursday, October 12th 1939Babaloo Mandel 73
Screenwriter
Thursday, October 13th 1949E. E. Cummings 128
Sunday, October 14th 1894Agnes Sligh Turnbull 134
Sunday, October 14th 1888Italo Calvino 94
Monday, October 15th 1928Mario Puzo 102
Friday, October 15th 1920Enrique Jardiel Poncela 121
Playwright, Novelist
Tuesday, October 15th 1901P.G. Wodehouse 141
Saturday, October 15th 1881Friedrich Nietzsche 178
Tuesday, October 15th 1844Paul Monette 77
Tuesday, October 16th 1945Gunter Grass 95
Sunday, October 16th 1927Eugene O'Neill 134
Tuesday, October 16th 1888Oscar Wilde 168
Monday, October 16th 1854Arthur Miller 107
Sunday, October 17th 1915Terry McMillan 71
Thursday, October 18th 1951Philip Pullman 76
Saturday, October 19th 1946John LeCarre 91
Monday, October 19th 1931Chauncey Bailey 73
Journalist
Thursday, October 20th 1949Elfriede Jelinek 76
Sunday, October 20th 1946Ursula K. Le Guin 93
Monday, October 21st 1929Samuel Taylor Coleridge 250
Wednesday, October 21st 1772A. L. Kennedy 57
Novelist
Friday, October 22nd 1965Timothy Leary 102
Friday, October 22nd 1920Doris Lessing 103
Wednesday, October 22nd 1919John Reed 135
Saturday, October 22nd 1887Ivan Bunin 152
Saturday, October 22nd 1870E. Phillips Oppenheim 156
Monday, October 22nd 1866Augusten Burroughs 57
Saturday, October 23rd 1965E. J. Knapp 74
Saturday, October 23rd 1948Michael Crichton 80
Friday, October 23rd 1942Denise Levertov 99
Wednesday, October 24th 1923Sarah Josepha Hale 234
Friday, October 24th 1788Zadie Smith 47
Saturday, October 25th 1975Anne Tyler 81
Saturday, October 25th 1941John Berryman 108
Sunday, October 25th 1914Leslie McFarlane 120
Saturday, October 25th 1902Gilbert Patten 156
Thursday, October 25th 1866Pat Conroy 77
Friday, October 26th 1945Beryl Markham 120
Sunday, October 26th 1902Fran Lebowitz 72
Friday, October 27th 1950John Cleese 83
Friday, October 27th 1939Sylvia Plath 90
Thursday, October 27th 1932Dylan Thomas 108
Tuesday, October 27th 1914Frances Crane 132
Monday, October 27th 1890Anne Perry 84
Friday, October 28th 1938Evelyn Waugh 119
Wednesday, October 28th 1903Valerie Worth 89
Sunday, October 29th 1933Dominick Dunne 97
Thursday, October 29th 1925Bernard Gordon 104
Tuesday, October 29th 1918Fredric Brown 116
Monday, October 29th 1906Henry Green 117
Sunday, October 29th 1905Jean Giraudoux 140
Sunday, October 29th 1882James Boswell 282
Saturday, October 29th 1740Rudolfo Anaya 85
Saturday, October 30th 1937Agota Kristof 87
Wednesday, October 30th 1935Kostas Karyotakis 126
Friday, October 30th 1896Sukumar Ray 135
Sunday, October 30th 1887Zoë Akins 136
Saturday, October 30th 1886Ezra Pound 137
Friday, October 30th 1885Elizabeth Madox Roberts 141
Sunday, October 30th 1881Irma Rombauer 145
Tuesday, October 30th 1877Paul Valery 151
Poet
Monday, October 30th 1871Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé 236
Monday, October 30th 1786André Chénier 260
Saturday, October 30th 1762Richard Brinsley Sheridan 271
Saturday, October 30th 1751Irina Denezhkina 41
Saturday, October 31st 1981Neal Stephenson 63
Saturday, October 31st 1959Dick Francis 102
Sunday, October 31st 1920Napoleon Lapathiotis 134
Wednesday, October 31st 1888John Keats 227
Saturday, October 31st 1795Christopher Anstey 298
Tuesday, October 31st 1724