Author Birthdays for October

  • Tim O'Brien  77

    Tuesday, October 1st 1946
  • Vernor Vinge  79

    Monday, October 2nd 1944
  • Graham Greene  119

    Sunday, October 2nd 1904
  • Wallace Stevens  144

    Thursday, October 2nd 1879
  • James Herriot  107

    Tuesday, October 3rd 1916
  • Thomas Wolfe  123

    Wednesday, October 3rd 1900
  • Anne Rice  82

    Saturday, October 4th 1941
  • Mike McGrady  90
    Journalist, Novelist
    Wednesday, October 4th 1933
  • Edward Stratemeyer  161

    Saturday, October 4th 1862
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon  186
    Novelist
    Wednesday, October 4th 1837
  • Clive Barker  71

    Sunday, October 5th 1952
  • Peter Ackroyd  74

    Wednesday, October 5th 1949
  • Louise Fitzhugh  95

    Friday, October 5th 1928
  • Caroline Gordon  128

    Sunday, October 6th 1895
  • Sherman Alexie  57

    Friday, October 7th 1966
  • Steven Erikson  64
    Novelist
    Wednesday, October 7th 1959
  • Diane Ackerman  75

    Thursday, October 7th 1948
  • Thomas Keneally  88

    Monday, October 7th 1935
  • Helen MacInnes  116

    Monday, October 7th 1907
  • R. L. Stine  80

    Friday, October 8th 1943
  • Yulian Semyonov  92

    Thursday, October 8th 1931
  • John Lennon  83

    Wednesday, October 9th 1940
  • Tawfiq el-Hakim  125

    Sunday, October 9th 1898
  • Harold Pinter  93

    Friday, October 10th 1930
  • Claude Simon  110

    Friday, October 10th 1913
  • Elmore Leonard  98

    Sunday, October 11th 1925
  • James Crumley  84

    Thursday, October 12th 1939
  • Babaloo Mandel  74
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, October 13th 1949
  • E. E. Cummings  129

    Sunday, October 14th 1894
  • Agnes Sligh Turnbull  135

    Sunday, October 14th 1888
  • Italo Calvino  95

    Monday, October 15th 1928
  • Mario Puzo  103

    Friday, October 15th 1920
  • Enrique Jardiel Poncela  122
    Playwright, Novelist
    Tuesday, October 15th 1901
  • P.G. Wodehouse  142

    Saturday, October 15th 1881
  • Friedrich Nietzsche  179

    Tuesday, October 15th 1844
  • Paul Monette  78

    Tuesday, October 16th 1945
  • Gunter Grass  96

    Sunday, October 16th 1927
  • Eugene O'Neill  135

    Tuesday, October 16th 1888
  • Oscar Wilde  169

    Monday, October 16th 1854
  • Arthur Miller  108

    Sunday, October 17th 1915
  • Terry McMillan  72

    Thursday, October 18th 1951
  • Philip Pullman  77

    Saturday, October 19th 1946
  • John LeCarre  92

    Monday, October 19th 1931
  • Chauncey Bailey   74
    Journalist
    Thursday, October 20th 1949
  • Elfriede Jelinek  77

    Sunday, October 20th 1946
  • Ursula K. Le Guin  94

    Monday, October 21st 1929
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge  251

    Wednesday, October 21st 1772
  • A. L. Kennedy  58
    Novelist
    Friday, October 22nd 1965
  • Timothy Leary  103

    Friday, October 22nd 1920
  • Doris Lessing  104

    Wednesday, October 22nd 1919
  • John Reed  136

    Saturday, October 22nd 1887
  • Ivan Bunin  153

    Saturday, October 22nd 1870
  • E. Phillips Oppenheim  157

    Monday, October 22nd 1866
  • Augusten Burroughs  58

    Saturday, October 23rd 1965
  • E. J. Knapp  75

    Saturday, October 23rd 1948
  • Michael Crichton  81

    Friday, October 23rd 1942
  • Denise Levertov  100

    Wednesday, October 24th 1923
  • Sarah Josepha Hale  235

    Friday, October 24th 1788
  • Zadie Smith  48

    Saturday, October 25th 1975
  • Anne Tyler  82

    Saturday, October 25th 1941
  • John Berryman  109

    Sunday, October 25th 1914
  • Leslie McFarlane  121

    Saturday, October 25th 1902
  • Gilbert Patten  157

    Thursday, October 25th 1866
  • Pat Conroy  78

    Friday, October 26th 1945
  • Beryl Markham  121

    Sunday, October 26th 1902
  • Fran Lebowitz  73

    Friday, October 27th 1950
  • John Cleese  84

    Friday, October 27th 1939
  • Sylvia Plath  91

    Thursday, October 27th 1932
  • Dylan Thomas  109

    Tuesday, October 27th 1914
  • Frances Crane  133

    Monday, October 27th 1890
  • Anne Perry  85

    Friday, October 28th 1938
  • Evelyn Waugh  120

    Wednesday, October 28th 1903
  • Valerie Worth  90

    Sunday, October 29th 1933
  • Dominick Dunne  98

    Thursday, October 29th 1925
  • Bernard Gordon  105

    Tuesday, October 29th 1918
  • Fredric Brown  117

    Monday, October 29th 1906
  • Henry Green  118

    Sunday, October 29th 1905
  • Jean Giraudoux  141

    Sunday, October 29th 1882
  • James Boswell  283

    Saturday, October 29th 1740
  • Rudolfo Anaya  86

    Saturday, October 30th 1937
  • Agota Kristof  88

    Wednesday, October 30th 1935
  • Kostas Karyotakis  127

    Friday, October 30th 1896
  • Sukumar Ray  136

    Sunday, October 30th 1887
  • Zoë Akins  137

    Saturday, October 30th 1886
  • Ezra Pound  138

    Friday, October 30th 1885
  • Elizabeth Madox Roberts  142

    Sunday, October 30th 1881
  • Irma Rombauer  146

    Tuesday, October 30th 1877
  • Paul Valery  152
    Poet
    Monday, October 30th 1871
  • Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé  237

    Monday, October 30th 1786
  • André Chénier  261

    Saturday, October 30th 1762
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan  272

    Saturday, October 30th 1751
  • Irina Denezhkina  42

    Saturday, October 31st 1981
  • Neal Stephenson  64

    Saturday, October 31st 1959
  • Dick Francis  103

    Sunday, October 31st 1920
  • Napoleon Lapathiotis  135

    Wednesday, October 31st 1888
  • John Keats  228

    Saturday, October 31st 1795
  • Christopher Anstey  299

    Tuesday, October 31st 1724
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