Saki

Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

18 December 1870

Born on the same birth day (18 December): Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria • Benjamin Watson • Boris Volynov • Celia Johnson • Daniel Cleary • Gerard Gumbau • Harold Land • Mirza Tahir Ahmad • Norman Brown (guitarist) • Sierra Kay • Simonds d'Ewes • Sophie of Mecklenburg (1481–1503) • Trish Stratus

Born in the same month (December 1870): Adolf Loos • Charles Bennett (athlete) • Earl Gregg Swem • Edward LeSaint • Francisco S. Carvajal • Ida S. Scudder • Jadunath Sarkar • John Marin • Karl Renner • Pierre Louÿs • Walter Benona Sharp