Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati appears to be the first Romanian author explicitly depicting a homosexual character in his work.
10 August 1884
Born on the same birth day (10 August): Charles Darrow • Cruze Ah-Nau • Daniel Hugh Kelly • Gilles de Roberval • Hiro Takahashi • Hugh Stowell Brown • Jack Haley • John Kirk Townsend • Jorge Amado • Jüri Vips • Keith Duckworth • Mike E. Smith • Paul Newlove • Philippe Albert • Rémy Martin (rugby union)
Born in the same month (August 1884): Billie Burke • Denis G. Lillie • Earl Derr Biggers • George Sarton • Henri Cornet • Hermann Wlach • Nikolai Triik • Ogden L. Mills • Rómulo Gallegos • Will Cuppy