Author Birthdays for October
Tim O'Brien 78
Tuesday, October 1st 1946Vernor Vinge 80
Monday, October 2nd 1944Graham Greene 120
Sunday, October 2nd 1904Wallace Stevens 145
Thursday, October 2nd 1879James Herriot 108
Tuesday, October 3rd 1916Thomas Wolfe 124
Wednesday, October 3rd 1900Anne Rice 83
Saturday, October 4th 1941Mike McGrady 91
Journalist, Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1933Edward Stratemeyer 162
Saturday, October 4th 1862Mary Elizabeth Braddon 187
Novelist
Wednesday, October 4th 1837Clive Barker 72
Sunday, October 5th 1952Peter Ackroyd 75
Wednesday, October 5th 1949Louise Fitzhugh 96
Friday, October 5th 1928Caroline Gordon 129
Sunday, October 6th 1895Sherman Alexie 58
Friday, October 7th 1966Steven Erikson 65
Novelist
Wednesday, October 7th 1959Diane Ackerman 76
Thursday, October 7th 1948Thomas Keneally 89
Monday, October 7th 1935Helen MacInnes 117
Monday, October 7th 1907R. L. Stine 81
Friday, October 8th 1943Yulian Semyonov 93
Thursday, October 8th 1931John Lennon 84
Wednesday, October 9th 1940Tawfiq el-Hakim 126
Sunday, October 9th 1898Harold Pinter 94
Friday, October 10th 1930Claude Simon 111
Friday, October 10th 1913Elmore Leonard 99
Sunday, October 11th 1925James Crumley 85
Thursday, October 12th 1939Babaloo Mandel 75
Screenwriter
Thursday, October 13th 1949E. E. Cummings 130
Sunday, October 14th 1894Agnes Sligh Turnbull 136
Sunday, October 14th 1888Italo Calvino 96
Monday, October 15th 1928Mario Puzo 104
Friday, October 15th 1920Enrique Jardiel Poncela 123
Playwright, Novelist
Tuesday, October 15th 1901P.G. Wodehouse 143
Saturday, October 15th 1881Friedrich Nietzsche 180
Tuesday, October 15th 1844Paul Monette 79
Tuesday, October 16th 1945Gunter Grass 97
Sunday, October 16th 1927Eugene O'Neill 136
Tuesday, October 16th 1888Oscar Wilde 170
Monday, October 16th 1854Arthur Miller 109
Sunday, October 17th 1915Terry McMillan 73
Thursday, October 18th 1951Philip Pullman 78
Saturday, October 19th 1946John LeCarre 93
Monday, October 19th 1931Chauncey Bailey 75
Journalist
Thursday, October 20th 1949Elfriede Jelinek 78
Sunday, October 20th 1946Ursula K. Le Guin 95
Monday, October 21st 1929Samuel Taylor Coleridge 252
Wednesday, October 21st 1772A. L. Kennedy 59
Novelist
Friday, October 22nd 1965Timothy Leary 104
Friday, October 22nd 1920Doris Lessing 105
Wednesday, October 22nd 1919John Reed 137
Saturday, October 22nd 1887Ivan Bunin 154
Saturday, October 22nd 1870E. Phillips Oppenheim 158
Monday, October 22nd 1866Augusten Burroughs 59
Saturday, October 23rd 1965E. J. Knapp 76
Saturday, October 23rd 1948Michael Crichton 82
Friday, October 23rd 1942Denise Levertov 101
Wednesday, October 24th 1923Sarah Josepha Hale 236
Friday, October 24th 1788Zadie Smith 49
Saturday, October 25th 1975Anne Tyler 83
Saturday, October 25th 1941John Berryman 110
Sunday, October 25th 1914Leslie McFarlane 122
Saturday, October 25th 1902Gilbert Patten 158
Thursday, October 25th 1866Pat Conroy 79
Friday, October 26th 1945Beryl Markham 122
Sunday, October 26th 1902Fran Lebowitz 74
Friday, October 27th 1950John Cleese 85
Friday, October 27th 1939Sylvia Plath 92
Thursday, October 27th 1932Dylan Thomas 110
Tuesday, October 27th 1914Frances Crane 134
Monday, October 27th 1890Anne Perry 86
Friday, October 28th 1938Evelyn Waugh 121
Wednesday, October 28th 1903Valerie Worth 91
Sunday, October 29th 1933Dominick Dunne 99
Thursday, October 29th 1925Bernard Gordon 106
Tuesday, October 29th 1918Fredric Brown 118
Monday, October 29th 1906Henry Green 119
Sunday, October 29th 1905Jean Giraudoux 142
Sunday, October 29th 1882James Boswell 284
Saturday, October 29th 1740Rudolfo Anaya 87
Saturday, October 30th 1937Agota Kristof 89
Wednesday, October 30th 1935Kostas Karyotakis 128
Friday, October 30th 1896Sukumar Ray 137
Sunday, October 30th 1887Zoë Akins 138
Saturday, October 30th 1886Ezra Pound 139
Friday, October 30th 1885Elizabeth Madox Roberts 143
Sunday, October 30th 1881Irma Rombauer 147
Tuesday, October 30th 1877Paul Valery 153
Poet
Monday, October 30th 1871Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé 238
Monday, October 30th 1786André Chénier 262
Saturday, October 30th 1762Richard Brinsley Sheridan 273
Saturday, October 30th 1751Irina Denezhkina 43
Saturday, October 31st 1981Neal Stephenson 65
Saturday, October 31st 1959Dick Francis 104
Sunday, October 31st 1920Napoleon Lapathiotis 136
Wednesday, October 31st 1888John Keats 229
Saturday, October 31st 1795Christopher Anstey 300
Tuesday, October 31st 1724