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Author Birthdays for October

  • Tim O'Brien  79

    Tuesday, October 1st 1946
  • Vernor Vinge  81

    Monday, October 2nd 1944
  • Graham Greene  121

    Sunday, October 2nd 1904
  • Wallace Stevens  146

    Thursday, October 2nd 1879
  • James Herriot  109

    Tuesday, October 3rd 1916
  • Thomas Wolfe  125

    Wednesday, October 3rd 1900
  • Anne Rice  84

    Saturday, October 4th 1941
  • Mike McGrady  92
    Journalist, Novelist
    Wednesday, October 4th 1933
  • Edward Stratemeyer  163

    Saturday, October 4th 1862
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon  188
    Novelist
    Wednesday, October 4th 1837
  • Clive Barker  73

    Sunday, October 5th 1952
  • Peter Ackroyd  76

    Wednesday, October 5th 1949
  • Louise Fitzhugh  97

    Friday, October 5th 1928
  • Caroline Gordon  130

    Sunday, October 6th 1895
  • Sherman Alexie  59

    Friday, October 7th 1966
  • Steven Erikson  66
    Novelist
    Wednesday, October 7th 1959
  • Diane Ackerman  77

    Thursday, October 7th 1948
  • Thomas Keneally  90

    Monday, October 7th 1935
  • Helen MacInnes  118

    Monday, October 7th 1907
  • R. L. Stine  82

    Friday, October 8th 1943
  • Yulian Semyonov  94

    Thursday, October 8th 1931
  • John Lennon  85

    Wednesday, October 9th 1940
  • Tawfiq el-Hakim  127

    Sunday, October 9th 1898
  • Harold Pinter  95

    Friday, October 10th 1930
  • Claude Simon  112

    Friday, October 10th 1913
  • Elmore Leonard  100

    Sunday, October 11th 1925
  • James Crumley  86

    Thursday, October 12th 1939
  • Babaloo Mandel  76
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, October 13th 1949
  • E. E. Cummings  131

    Sunday, October 14th 1894
  • Agnes Sligh Turnbull  137

    Sunday, October 14th 1888
  • Italo Calvino  97

    Monday, October 15th 1928
  • Mario Puzo  105

    Friday, October 15th 1920
  • Enrique Jardiel Poncela  124
    Playwright, Novelist
    Tuesday, October 15th 1901
  • P.G. Wodehouse  144

    Saturday, October 15th 1881
  • Friedrich Nietzsche  181

    Tuesday, October 15th 1844
  • Paul Monette  80

    Tuesday, October 16th 1945
  • Gunter Grass  98

    Sunday, October 16th 1927
  • Eugene O'Neill  137

    Tuesday, October 16th 1888
  • Oscar Wilde  171

    Monday, October 16th 1854
  • Arthur Miller  110

    Sunday, October 17th 1915
  • Terry McMillan  74

    Thursday, October 18th 1951
  • Philip Pullman  79

    Saturday, October 19th 1946
  • John LeCarre  94

    Monday, October 19th 1931
  • Chauncey Bailey   76
    Journalist
    Thursday, October 20th 1949
  • Elfriede Jelinek  79

    Sunday, October 20th 1946
  • Ursula K. Le Guin  96

    Monday, October 21st 1929
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge  253

    Wednesday, October 21st 1772
  • A. L. Kennedy  60
    Novelist
    Friday, October 22nd 1965
  • Timothy Leary  105

    Friday, October 22nd 1920
  • Doris Lessing  106

    Wednesday, October 22nd 1919
  • John Reed  138

    Saturday, October 22nd 1887
  • Ivan Bunin  155

    Saturday, October 22nd 1870
  • E. Phillips Oppenheim  159

    Monday, October 22nd 1866
  • Augusten Burroughs  60

    Saturday, October 23rd 1965
  • E. J. Knapp  77

    Saturday, October 23rd 1948
  • Michael Crichton  83

    Friday, October 23rd 1942
  • Denise Levertov  102

    Wednesday, October 24th 1923
  • Sarah Josepha Hale  237

    Friday, October 24th 1788
  • Zadie Smith  50

    Saturday, October 25th 1975
  • Anne Tyler  84

    Saturday, October 25th 1941
  • John Berryman  111

    Sunday, October 25th 1914
  • Leslie McFarlane  123

    Saturday, October 25th 1902
  • Gilbert Patten  159

    Thursday, October 25th 1866
  • Pat Conroy  80

    Friday, October 26th 1945
  • Beryl Markham  123

    Sunday, October 26th 1902
  • Fran Lebowitz  75

    Friday, October 27th 1950
  • John Cleese  86

    Friday, October 27th 1939
  • Sylvia Plath  93

    Thursday, October 27th 1932
  • Dylan Thomas  111

    Tuesday, October 27th 1914
  • Frances Crane  135

    Monday, October 27th 1890
  • Anne Perry  87

    Friday, October 28th 1938
  • Evelyn Waugh  122

    Wednesday, October 28th 1903
  • Valerie Worth  92

    Sunday, October 29th 1933
  • Dominick Dunne  100

    Thursday, October 29th 1925
  • Bernard Gordon  107

    Tuesday, October 29th 1918
  • Fredric Brown  119

    Monday, October 29th 1906
  • Henry Green  120

    Sunday, October 29th 1905
  • Jean Giraudoux  143

    Sunday, October 29th 1882
  • James Boswell  285

    Saturday, October 29th 1740
  • Rudolfo Anaya  88

    Saturday, October 30th 1937
  • Agota Kristof  90

    Wednesday, October 30th 1935
  • Kostas Karyotakis  129

    Friday, October 30th 1896
  • Sukumar Ray  138

    Sunday, October 30th 1887
  • Zoë Akins  139

    Saturday, October 30th 1886
  • Ezra Pound  140

    Friday, October 30th 1885
  • Elizabeth Madox Roberts  144

    Sunday, October 30th 1881
  • Irma Rombauer  148

    Tuesday, October 30th 1877
  • Paul Valery  154
    Poet
    Monday, October 30th 1871
  • Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé  239

    Monday, October 30th 1786
  • André Chénier  263

    Saturday, October 30th 1762
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan  274

    Saturday, October 30th 1751
  • Irina Denezhkina  44

    Saturday, October 31st 1981
  • Neal Stephenson  66

    Saturday, October 31st 1959
  • Dick Francis  105

    Sunday, October 31st 1920
  • Napoleon Lapathiotis  137

    Wednesday, October 31st 1888
  • John Keats  230

    Saturday, October 31st 1795
  • Christopher Anstey  301

    Tuesday, October 31st 1724

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