Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China.

24 August 1884

Born on the same birth day (24 August): Derek Morris (ice hockey) • Howard Zinn • Jemerson • John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony • Lady Amelia Windsor • Manu Maʻu • Robert Herrick (poet) • Roger McCluskey • Ronee Blakley • Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet • Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk • Thomas Rotherham

Born in the same month (August 1884): Billie Burke • Béla Balázs • Denis G. Lillie • Harry Dean (cricketer) • Henri Cornet • Hugo Gernsback • Panait Istrati • Peter Fraser • Rudolf Bultmann • Rómulo Gallegos • Sara Teasdale • Theodor Svedberg