Born on this day – Robert Louis Stevenson:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer

November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894

Credits:

50 Classic Novellas (2011); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Child's Garden of Verses (1921); A Footnote to History (1892); A Horn for Louis: Louis Armstrong - as a kid! (2009); A Lowden Sabbath Morn (1898); A Picture for Marc (2009); A Spotlight for Harry (2010); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); A Time to Be Brave (2014); Across the Plains (1892); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); Alice in Wonderland (2009); Aliens for Breakfast (1988); Aliens For Dinner (1994); Aliens for Lunch (1991); Anna Maria's Gift (2010); Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie (2011); Ballads (1890); Barry: The Bravest Saint Bernard (1973); Blue Ribbon Blues (1998); Catriona (1893); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1984); Escape South (2004); Fossil Fever (1999); Frankenstein (1982); Ghost Horse (2009); Goldie Blox and the Best Friend Fail! (2018); Goldie Blox and the Best! Pet! Ever! (2017); Goldie Blox and the Haunted Hacks! (2018); GoldieBlox Chapter Book #1 (2017); Graphic Classics, Vol. 6 (2014); Graphic Classics, Volume 9: 2nd Edition Robert Louis Stevenson (2004); Graphic Classics, Volume 9: Robert Louis Stevenson (2004); Gulliver's Travels (1726); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); Hannah (1991); Honey Cake (2009); Honey Cake (2009); In the South Seas (1900); Invasion of the Junkyard Hog (2014); Island Nights' Entertainments (1893); Kidnapped (1886); Knights of the Round Table (1985); Markheim (1886); Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them (2000); Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1887); Memories and Portraits (1887); Mermaids (2008); Miami Jackson Gets It Straight (1999); Miami Jackson Sees It Through (2002); Monsters (2009); Moral Emblems (1921); New Arabian Nights (1882); New Poems and Variant Readings (1918); Next Spring an Oriole (1987); Night of the Full Moon (1993); Olalla (1885); Paint Brush Kid (1998); Pioneer Cat (1988); Robert Louis Stevenson: An Anthology (2017); Robin Hood: Bullseye Step into Classics (2011); Scottish Stories (2023); Scottish Tales of Terror (1972); Shadow of the Wolf (1997); Silver (1988); Smasher (1996); Snake Camp (2000); Songs of Travel (1896); Spinjitzu Brothers #4: The Chroma's Clutches (2022); St. Ives (1897); Stampede of the Supermarket Slugs (2012); Swiss Family Robinson (2006); Tales and Fantasies (1905); Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction (2008); Tales from the Merged Realms (2024); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1995); The Amateur Emigrant (1895); The Beach of Falesa (1963); The Black Arrow (1926); The Blue Ghost (2005); The Body Snatcher (1895); The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits (1989); The Case of the Elevator Duck (1973); The Chalk Box Kid (1987); The Children's Hour: Leaders and Heroes (1954); The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson (2012); The Ebb-Tide (1894); The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime (2023); The Golden Ghost (2011); The Greatest Books of All Time #4 (2017); The Green Ghost (2008); The Jungle Book (2008); The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays (1888); The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume 1 (2021); The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume 2 (2021); The Little Big Book of California (2005); The Man in the Iron Mask (2005); The Master of Ballantrae (1889); The Meaning of Friendship (1909); The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887); The Minstrel in the Tower (1988); The Old & New Pacific Capitals (1880); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Prince and the Pauper (1999); The Sea Fogs (1907); The Secret Garden (1993); The Secret of the Painted House (2007); The Silverado Squatters (1884); The Story of a Lie, and Other Tales (1904); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Selected Short Fiction (2005); The Suicide Club (1895); The Three Musketeers (1994); The Ultimate Horror Collection, Volume 3 (2009); The Very Little Princess (2010); The Very Little Princess: Rose's Story (2011); The Wakey Wakey Machine (1997); The War of the Worlds (1991); The Wrecker (1892); The Wrong Box (1889); Thrawn Janet (1881); Tooter Pepperday (2013); Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879); Treasure Island (1882); Treasure Island (1990); Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1983); Underwoods (1887); Vailima Letters (1895); Virginibus Puerique and Other Papers (1901); Weir of Hermiston (1896); Weir of Hermiston and Other Stories (1979); Wild Horses (2001); Will O' the Mill (1915).

Born on this day – Joseph J. Dowling:

Joseph J. Dowling

Actor

September 4, 1850 – July 8, 1928

Credits:

A Certain Rich Man (1921); A Confidence Game (1915); A Law Unto Herself (1918); A Little Sister of Everybody (1918); A Man in the Open (1919); A Man's Country (1919); A Man's Man (1917); A Piece of Amber (1915); A Romance of Old Holland (1914); A Splendid Hazard (1920); A Trick of Fate (1919); A White Man's Chance (1919); Adele (1919); Alimony (1917); All of a Sudden Norma (1919); An Alien Enemy (1918); And a Still Small Voice (1918); Bawbs O' Blue Ridge (1916); Beckoning Roads (1919); Big Happiness (1920); Blindfolded (1918); Bullets and Brown Eyes (1916); Carmen of the Klondike (1918); College Days (1915); Confessions of a Queen (1925); Dollar Devils (1923); Enemies of Children (1923); Eric the Red's Wooing (1914); Everybody's Sweetheart (1920); Fightin' Mad (1921); Flower of Night (1925); Free and Equal (1918); Ghost of the Rancho (1918); Her Night of Romance (1924); Her Purchase Price (1919); His Brother's Keeper (1915); His Nibs (1921); His Robe of Honor (1918); Home (1916); Honor's Cross (1918); Humdrum Brown (1918); If You Believe It, It's So (1922); Josselyn's Wife (1919); Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Live Sparks (1920); Lord Jim (1925); Lorraine of the Lions (1925); Madam Who? (1918); Maid o' the Storm (1918); Master of His Home (1917); More Trouble (1918); New Lives for Old (1925); One Clear Call (1922); One Dollar Bid (1918); One Night in Rome (1924); Paddy O'Hara (1917); Patriotism (1918); Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922); Riders of the Dawn (1920); Sink or Swim (1920); Sleuthing (1913); Social Ambition (1918); Somewhere in France (1916); Sudden Jim (1917); Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924); The Apostle of Vengeance (1916); The Bargain (1914); The Beautiful Liar (1921); The Beckoning Flame (1915); The Bells (1918); The Breaking Point (1921); The Brink (1915); The Christian (1923); The Courtship of Myles Standish (1923); The Criminal (1916); The Danger Point (1922); The Deserter (1916); The Devil to Pay (1920); The Dream Cheater (1920); The False Code (1919); The Gaiety Girl (1924); The Girl Who Came Back (1923); The Girl Who Ran Wild (1922); The Goddess of Lost Lake (1918); The Golden Princess (1925); The Grim Comedian (1921); The Gun Fighter (1917); The Half Breed (1922); The Hammer (1915); The House of Whispers (1920); The Iced Bullet (1917); The Iron Strain (1915); The Joyous Liar (1919); The Kentucky Colonel (1920); The Kite (1915); The Law Forbids (1924); The Lighthouse Keeper's Son (1915); The Little Irish Girl (1926); The Long Lane's Turning (1919); The Lord Loves the Irish (1919); The Lure of Egypt (1921); The Man from Oregon (1915); The Master Man (1919); The Midnight Stage (1919); The Miracle Man (1919); The Other Woman (1921); The Pinch Hitter (1917); The Pride of Palomar (1922); The Rainmaker (1926); The Reward (1915); The Scourge of the Desert (1915); The Scrub (1915); The Sea Ghost (1915); The Shoal Light (1915); The Silver Bell (1914); The Sin of Martha Queed (1921); The Smart Aleck (1920); The Spenders (1921); The Spider and the Rose (1923); The Square Deal Man (1917); The Stepping Stone (1916); The Thoroughbred (1916); $30,000 (1920); The U.P. Trail (1920); The Yankee Way (1917); Those Who Dare (1924); Tiger Rose (1923); Todd of the Times (1919); Trail of the Axe (1922); Unseen Hands (1924); Untamed Youth (1924); Wedlock (1918); What Love Will Do (1923); Why Girls Go Back Home (1926); With Hoops of Steel (1918); Women Who Give (1924); Wooden Shoes (1917).

The Bookworm, by Carl Spitzweg (1850):