Author Birthdays for October
Tim O'Brien 77
Tuesday, October 1st 1946Vernor Vinge 79
Monday, October 2nd 1944Graham Greene 119
Sunday, October 2nd 1904Wallace Stevens 144
Thursday, October 2nd 1879James Herriot 107
Tuesday, October 3rd 1916Thomas Wolfe 123
Wednesday, October 3rd 1900Anne Rice 82
Saturday, October 4th 1941Mike McGrady 90
Journalist, Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1933Edward Stratemeyer 161
Saturday, October 4th 1862Mary Elizabeth Braddon 186
Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1837Clive Barker 71
Sunday, October 5th 1952Peter Ackroyd 74
Wednesday, October 5th 1949Louise Fitzhugh 95
Friday, October 5th 1928Caroline Gordon 128
Sunday, October 6th 1895Sherman Alexie 57
Friday, October 7th 1966Steven Erikson 64
Novelist
Wednesday, October 7th 1959Diane Ackerman 75
Thursday, October 7th 1948Thomas Keneally 88
Monday, October 7th 1935Helen MacInnes 116
Monday, October 7th 1907R. L. Stine 80
Friday, October 8th 1943Yulian Semyonov 92
Thursday, October 8th 1931John Lennon 83
Wednesday, October 9th 1940Tawfiq el-Hakim 125
Sunday, October 9th 1898Harold Pinter 93
Friday, October 10th 1930Claude Simon 110
Friday, October 10th 1913Elmore Leonard 98
Sunday, October 11th 1925James Crumley 84
Thursday, October 12th 1939Babaloo Mandel 74
Screenwriter
Thursday, October 13th 1949E. E. Cummings 129
Sunday, October 14th 1894Agnes Sligh Turnbull 135
Sunday, October 14th 1888Italo Calvino 95
Monday, October 15th 1928Mario Puzo 103
Friday, October 15th 1920Enrique Jardiel Poncela 122
Playwright, Novelist
Tuesday, October 15th 1901P.G. Wodehouse 142
Saturday, October 15th 1881Friedrich Nietzsche 179
Tuesday, October 15th 1844Paul Monette 78
Tuesday, October 16th 1945Gunter Grass 96
Sunday, October 16th 1927Eugene O'Neill 135
Tuesday, October 16th 1888Oscar Wilde 169
Monday, October 16th 1854Arthur Miller 108
Sunday, October 17th 1915Terry McMillan 72
Thursday, October 18th 1951Philip Pullman 77
Saturday, October 19th 1946John LeCarre 92
Monday, October 19th 1931Chauncey Bailey 74
Journalist
Thursday, October 20th 1949Elfriede Jelinek 77
Sunday, October 20th 1946Ursula K. Le Guin 94
Monday, October 21st 1929Samuel Taylor Coleridge 251
Wednesday, October 21st 1772A. L. Kennedy 58
Novelist
Friday, October 22nd 1965Timothy Leary 103
Friday, October 22nd 1920Doris Lessing 104
Wednesday, October 22nd 1919John Reed 136
Saturday, October 22nd 1887Ivan Bunin 153
Saturday, October 22nd 1870E. Phillips Oppenheim 157
Monday, October 22nd 1866Augusten Burroughs 58
Saturday, October 23rd 1965E. J. Knapp 75
Saturday, October 23rd 1948Michael Crichton 81
Friday, October 23rd 1942Denise Levertov 100
Wednesday, October 24th 1923Sarah Josepha Hale 235
Friday, October 24th 1788Zadie Smith 48
Saturday, October 25th 1975Anne Tyler 82
Saturday, October 25th 1941John Berryman 109
Sunday, October 25th 1914Leslie McFarlane 121
Saturday, October 25th 1902Gilbert Patten 157
Thursday, October 25th 1866Pat Conroy 78
Friday, October 26th 1945Beryl Markham 121
Sunday, October 26th 1902Fran Lebowitz 73
Friday, October 27th 1950John Cleese 84
Friday, October 27th 1939Sylvia Plath 91
Thursday, October 27th 1932Dylan Thomas 109
Tuesday, October 27th 1914Frances Crane 133
Monday, October 27th 1890Anne Perry 85
Friday, October 28th 1938Evelyn Waugh 120
Wednesday, October 28th 1903Valerie Worth 90
Sunday, October 29th 1933Dominick Dunne 98
Thursday, October 29th 1925Bernard Gordon 105
Tuesday, October 29th 1918Fredric Brown 117
Monday, October 29th 1906Henry Green 118
Sunday, October 29th 1905Jean Giraudoux 141
Sunday, October 29th 1882James Boswell 283
Saturday, October 29th 1740Rudolfo Anaya 86
Saturday, October 30th 1937Agota Kristof 88
Wednesday, October 30th 1935Kostas Karyotakis 127
Friday, October 30th 1896Sukumar Ray 136
Sunday, October 30th 1887Zoë Akins 137
Saturday, October 30th 1886Ezra Pound 138
Friday, October 30th 1885Elizabeth Madox Roberts 142
Sunday, October 30th 1881Irma Rombauer 146
Tuesday, October 30th 1877Paul Valery 152
Poet
Monday, October 30th 1871Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé 237
Monday, October 30th 1786André Chénier 261
Saturday, October 30th 1762Richard Brinsley Sheridan 272
Saturday, October 30th 1751Irina Denezhkina 42
Saturday, October 31st 1981Neal Stephenson 64
Saturday, October 31st 1959Dick Francis 103
Sunday, October 31st 1920Napoleon Lapathiotis 135
Wednesday, October 31st 1888John Keats 228
Saturday, October 31st 1795Christopher Anstey 299
Tuesday, October 31st 1724