Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb.

5 December 1869

Born on the same birth day (5 December): Abraham Polonsky • Adam Thorpe • Andrew Yeom Soo-jung • Arnold Sommerfeld • Bruce Golding • Bryan Murray (ice hockey) • C. R. Swart • Calvin Trillin • Francesco Geminiani • Gennadiy Agapov • Ibrahim Maalouf • Jianwen Emperor • Jurrell Casey • LeGarrette Blount • Margaret Cho • President of Nicaragua • Serge Chapleau • Wayne Smith (musician)

Born in the same month (December 1869): Bertha Lamme Feicht • Charles Finger • Charley Grapewin • Dmitri Egorov • Frank Laver • Henri Matisse • Henriette Roland Holst • Hristo Tatarchev • Leon Marchlewski • Mathieu Cordang • Stephen Leacock