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): Akira Iida • Benjamin O. Davis Jr. • Bobby Keyes (rugby league) • Christina, Queen of Sweden • Crispian Steele-Perkins • Edwin Bramall • Johann Salomo Semler • Leila Steinberg • Malcolm Kirk • Naoko Yamano • Peter Wessel Zapffe • Raymond Herrera • Richard Maury • Robert Leckie (author)

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 • Vítězslav Novák • Walter Benona Sharp