Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.

5 November 1850

Born on the same birth day (5 November): Alejandro Sabella • Gram Parsons • Herb Edelman • J. B. S. Haldane • Juan Morillo (baseball) • Margaret Atwood Judson • Nayim • Peter Hammill • Rudolf Augstein • Sergei Berezin

Born in the same month (November 1850): Charlotte Garrigue • Joseph Samuel Bloch • Louis Lewin • Mikhail Chigorin • Robert Louis Stevenson