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): Alice Ghostley • B. A. Santamaria • Catherine Bell (actress) • Fred Roberts • Margaret Lindsay Huggins • Nüzhet Gökdoğan • Richard von Krafft-Ebing • Shea Weber • Willie Dunn

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