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): Adolf Brudes • Al Killian • Anthony Joshua • Bianca Rinaldi • Brandon Jay McLaren • Christian Allen • Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark • Didier Deschamps • Emeril Lagasse • George Turner (writer) • Haim Saban • Honoré Mercier • Jakob Pöltl • Keyshia Cole • Mira Nair • Nolito • Sali Berisha • Stephy Tang • Tony Hart • Wolfgang Lüth • Álvaro de Campos

Born in the same month (October 1888): Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard • Edna Meade Colson • Henry A. Wallace • Irving Cummings • Katherine Mansfield • Lucy Tayiah Eads • Léon Tom • Mary Fuller • Nikolai Bukharin • Nils Dardel • Paul Popenoe • Richard E. Byrd • Runar Schildt • Yukio Sakurauchi