S. S. Van Dine

S. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pseudonym he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in films and on the radio.

15 October 1888

Born on the same birth day (15 October): Alan Elsdon • Arron Afflalo • August Nilsson • Bailee Madison • David Trimble • Dominic West • Friedrich Nietzsche • Haim Saban • Hiram Fong • Jan Miner • Jaroslav Erno Šedivý • Jessie Ware • Johan Voskamp • Matt Keeslar • Mickey Baker • Patricio Urrutia • Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark • Takeshi Morishima • Tanya Roberts • Tom Boonen

Born in the same month (October 1888): Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard • Ernst Kretschmer • Eugene O'Neill • Katherine Mansfield • Konstantinos Tsiklitiras • Louis Menges • Mary Fuller • Oscar Mathisen • Paul Popenoe • Paul Vermoyal • Roland Garros (aviator) • Wade Boteler • Yukio Sakurauchi