Born on this day – Marfa d'Hervilly:

Marfa d'Hervilly

Actress

November 9, 1876 – November 18, 1963

Born on this day – Richard Stanton:

Richard Stanton

Actor

Director

October 8, 1876 – May 22, 1956

Born on this day – Mary Roberts Rinehart:

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Writer

August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958

Credits:

Books:

A Poor Wise Man (1920); Affinities (1920); Alibi for Isabel (1944); American Christmas Stories (2021); Black Cat Weekly #64 (2022); Dangerous Days (1919); Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950); Golden Age Detective Stories (2021); Haunted Lady (1942); K (1915); Kill or Cure / Suspense Stories About the World of Medicine (1989); Love Stories (1919); Married People (1937); Mary Roberts Rinehart's Crime Book (1933); Mind Over Motor (1912); Miss Pinkerton / aka The Double Alibi (1932); More Tish (1921); My Story (1931); Nomad's Land (1926); Salvage (1919); Sight Unseen (1946); Sight Unseen / The Confession (1921); Temperamental People (1924); The After House (1914); The Album (1933); The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911); The Amazing Interlude (1918); The Bat (1920); The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013); The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018); The Book of Tish (1926); The Breaking Point (1922); The Broken Quarantine (1906); The Case of Jennie Brice (1913); The Cave on Thundercloud (1912); The Circular Staircase (1908); The Collected Mysteries of Mary Roberts Rinehart (2010); The Confession (1946); The Confession / Sight Unseen (1959); The Doctor (1936); The Door (1930); The Frightened Wife (1953); The Great Mistake (1940); The Man in Lower Ten (1906); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Red Lamp / aka The Mystery Lamp (1925); The Romantics (1929); The State Vs Elinor Norton (1933); The Street of Seven Stars (1966); The Swimming Pool (1952); The Truce of God (1920); The Wall (1938); The Wandering Knife (1952); The Web She Weaves (1983); The Window at the White Cat (1910); The Yellow Room (1945); This Strange Adventure (1929); Three of Diamonds / Big Water / Frightened Wife (1953); Tish (1916); Tish Marches On (1937); Tish Plays the Game (1926); Toward the Golden Age / The Stories That Turned Crime to Gold (2016); Two Flights Up (1928); When a Man Marries (1910); Where There's a Will (1912).

Movies and television:

23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919 / 1937); Acquitted (1916); Affinities (1915 / 1922); Aflame in the Sky (1927); At the Foot of the Hill (1914); Bab's Burglar (1917); Bab's Diary (1917); Bab's Matinee Idol (1917); Broadway Television Theatre (1953); City of Shadows (1927); Climax! (1954–1956); Dangerous Days (1920); Der Spinnenmörder (1978); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Elinor Norton (1934); Finders Keepers (1928); Her Country First (1918); Her Love Story (1924); I Take This Woman (1931); It's a Great Life (1920); Jane (1914); K: The Unknown (1924); Long Live the King (1923); Mind Over Motor (1915 / 1923); Miss Pinkerton (1932); Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Person to Person (1956); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Se ki, se be (1919); Seven Days (1925); Star Stage (1956); The Bat (1926 / 1959); The Bat Whispers (1930); The Breaking Point (1924); The Cave on Thunder Cloud (1915); The Circular Staircase (1915); The Doctor and the Woman (1918); The Dog in the Orchard (1941); The Ford Television Theatre (1954–1956); The Glorious Fool (1922); The Nurse's Secret (1941); The Papered Door (1915); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Street of Seven Stars (1918); The Unknown (1927); Tish (1942); Tish's Spy (1915); What Happened to Father (1915 / 1927); Your Favorite Story (1953).

Born on this day – Ethel Lina White:

Ethel Lina White

Writer

April 2, 1876 – August 13, 1944

Credits:

Books:

The Wish-Bone (1927); Twill Soon Be Dark (1929); The Eternal Journey (1930); Put Out the Light (aka Sinister Light) (1931); Fear Stalks the Village (1932); The Spiral Staircase (aka Some Must Watch) (1933); The First Time He Died (1935); Wax (1935); The Wheel Spins (aka The Lady Vanishes) (1936); The Third Eye (1937); The Elephant Never Forgets (1938); Step in the Dark (1939); While She Sleeps! (1940); She Faded into Air (1941); Midnight House (aka The Unseen / Her Heart in Her Throat (1942); The Man Who Loved Lions (aka The Man Who Was Not There (1943); They See in Darkness (1944); Lethal Ladies (2004); The Lady Vanishes / The Spiral Staircase (2015).

Movies and television:

The Lady Vanishes (2013); The Spiral Staircase (2000); Alfred Hitchcock Presents / An Unlocked Window (1985); The Lady Vanishes (1979); The Spiral Staircase (1975); Detective (1969); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Spiral Staircase (1961); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Unseen (1945); The Lady Vanishes (1938).

Born on this day – Jack London:

Jack London

Writer

January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916

Credits:

Jerry of the Islands (1917); Michael Brother of Jerry (1917); A Daughter of the Snows (1902); Burning Daylight (1902); The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903); The Sea-Wolf (1904); The Game (1905); White Fang (1906); Before Adam (1906); Martin Eden (1909); Theft (1910); The Abysmal Brute (1911); Adventure (1911); Hearts of Three (1911); Smoke Bellew (1912); The Valley of the Moon (1913); The Star Rover (1914); The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914); Daughters of the Rich (1915); The Little Lady of the Big House (1916); The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (1963); The Lodger (2015); The Wisdom Of The Trail (1899); The Man with the Gash (1900); The God of His Fathers (1901); The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902); The Death of Ligoun (1902); To Build a Fire (1903); The Shadow and the Flash (1903); The Marriage of Lit-Lit (1903); Demetrios Contos (1903); The Call of the Wild and Typhoon (1903); What Life Means to Me (1905); Love of Life (1905); The Enemy of All the World (1907); Flush of Gold (1907); The Heathen (1908); The Iron Heel (1908); The Taste of the Meat (1910); The Eternity of Forms (1910); A Daughter of the Aurora / A Piece of Steak (1911); The Scarlet Plague (1912); The Jacket (1914); At the Rainbow's End (1914); When Alice Told Her Soul (1916); Curious Fragments (1986); The League of the Old Men (2004); The Story of Keesh (2008); The Chinago (2008); To the Man on the Trail (2008); A Thousand Deaths (2010); Bulls (2013); Confession (2013); The Red One (2014); The Men of the Forty Mile (2014); Hoboes That Pass in the Night (2014); The Fuzziness of Hoockla-Heen (2014); The First Poet (2014); The Hanging of Cultus George (2014); A Flutter in Eggs (2014); The King of Mazy May (2014); Jack London - The Son of the Wolf (2017); The Faith of Men (2017); The Night Born (2019); The Call of the Wild (2019); The Son of the Wolf (1900); Dutch Courage and Other Stories (1900); The Faith of Men and Other Stories (1902); Children of the Frost (1902); A Daughter of the Aurora (1902); Amateur Night (1903); The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (1905); Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905); Brown Wolf and Other Stories (1906); A Day's Lodging (1906); The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (1906); Brown Wolf (1906); Moon-Face and Other Stories (1906); The Passing of Marcus O'Brien (1907); Aloha OE (1908); To Build a Fire and Other Stories (1908); The Strength of the Strong (1909); The Madness of John Harned (1909); The Benefit of the Doubt (1910); South Sea Tales (1911); A Son of the Sun (1912); The Yukon writings of Jack London (1912); The House of Pride (1912); The Night-Born and Other Stories (1913); In Hawaii with Jack London (1916); The Turtles of Tasman (1916); The Human Drift (1917); On the Makaloa Mat (1919); The Bones of Kahekili (1919); The Sun-Dog Trail And Other Stories (1951); Jack London's California: The Golden Poppy and Other Writings (1955); White Fang, and Other Stories (1963); The Sea-Wolf and Other Stories (1964); Stories of Hawaii (1965); The Call of the Wild and Other Stories (1965); The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London (1975); The Unabridged Jack London (1981); Klondike Tales (1982); The Dream of Debs / Account of the San Francisco Cooks & Waiters Strike (1985); Tales of Hawaii (1989); Tales of the Pacific (1989); The Collected Jack London (1991); Five Great Short Stories (1992); Northland Stories (1997); Fantastic Tales (1998); The Plays of Jack London (2000); Jack London in Aloha-Land (2000); Lost Face And Other Stories (2005); Stories of Ships and the Sea (2006); Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters (2006); The Asian Writings of Jack London (2009); San Francisco Stories (2010); Sailing Ships and Other Adventures (2011); Island Tales... (2012); The Science Fiction of Jack London (2012); Uncollected Stories (2013); When God Laughs and Other Stories (2013); 'The Turtles of Tasman' and Other Stories (2013); 'The Red One' and Other Stories (2013); 'The Strength of the Strong' and Other Stories (2013); The Curious Fragment (2013); The Classic Works of Jack London (2014); The Leopard Man's Story (2014); The Complete Poetry of Jack London (2014); Negore the Coward (2014); Small-Boat Sailing (2014); The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 1 (2015); The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 2 (2015); The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, Volume 3 (2015); The Poetical Works of Jack London (2015); Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories (2016); Tales of the Klondyke (2016); Jack London - Moon-Face & Other Stories (2016); Jack London - The Science Fiction Stories - Volume 2 (2017); Lost Face (2018); Love Of Life And Other Stories (2019); Love of Life & Other Stories Illustrated (2019); Jack London Dog Stories (2019); Jack London's Stories for Boys (2020); The People of the Abyss (1903); The War of the Classes (1906); The Cruise of the Snark (1907); The Road (1907); Revolution and Other Essays (1909); John Barleycorn (1913); Essays of Revolt (1926); No Mentor But Myself (1978); Sporting Blood: Selections from Jack London's Greatest Sports Writing (1981); Our Hawaii (2015); The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories (1921); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959 (1959); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); A St. Nicholas Anthology (1969); 21 Great Stories (1969); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark (2000); The Little Big Book of California (2005); The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007); San Francisco Noir 2 (2009); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure (2011); Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction (2014); Beach Books Anthology (2023).

Lake Scene, by Arthur Parton (1876):