Edward Stratemeyer

Edward L. Stratemeyer was an American publisher, writer of children's fiction, and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. He was one of the most prolific writers in the world, producing in excess of 1,300 books himself, selling in excess of 500 million copies. He also created many well-known fictional book series for juveniles, including The Rover Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series, many of which sold millions of copies and remain in publication. On Stratemeyer's legacy, Fortune wrote: "As oil had its Rockefeller, literature had its Stratemeyer."

4 October 1862

Born on the same birth date (4 October 1862): Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

Born on the same birth day (4 October): Ann Widdecombe • Bernice Johnson Reagon • Buster Keaton • Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı • Clifton Davis • Dan Clarke • Francesco Solimena • Hermann Glauert • Ivan Mauger • Jacqueline Pascal • Juliette Adam • Kenichi Fukui • Kurt Thomas (basketball) • Louis X of France • Richard Reed Parry • Robert Bellarmine • Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria • Sarah Fisher • Shin Kyuk-ho • Tim Wise • Tony La Russa

Born in the same month (October 1862): Albert J. Beveridge • Auguste Lumière • Johanna van Gogh-Bonger • Johnny Briggs (cricketer) • Mary Kingsley • Mehmet Esat Bülkat