Ernest Thayer

Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan."

14 August 1863

Born on the same birth day (14 August): Bob Backlund • Christian Gentner • Connie Smith • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji • Karl Petter Løken • Pope Pius VII • Richard R. Ernst • Sarah Brightman • Slim Dunlap • Sverre Fehn • Tim Tebow • Tom Walkinshaw • Tracy Caldwell Dyson

Born in the same month (August 1863): Aleksey Krylov • Dragutin Lerman • Gene Stratton-Porter • Géza Gárdonyi • Jean Leon Gerome Ferris