Samuel Pickering

Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. Pickering has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.

30 September 1941

Born on the same birth date (30 September 1941): Kamalesh Sharma • Reine Wisell

Born on the same birth day (30 September): Aida Garifullina • Andrea Roth • Dewey Martin (musician) • Frankie Lymon • Johann Sebastiani • John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford • Lamont Johnson • Laure Pequegnot • Lester Maddox • Martina Hingis • Matt Abts • Sevgi Soysal • Ta-Nehisi Coates • Truman Capote • William Wrigley Jr.

Born in the same month (September 1941): Alberto Naranjo • Bruce Hyde (ontologist) • Dale Chihuly • Dennis Ritchie • Flórián Albert • Ian Kennedy (legal scholar) • Jack Brisco • Jeremiah Wright • John Thompson (basketball) • Jyrki Otila • Mariangela Melato • Monica Mason • Norma Winstone • Reine Wisell • Salvatore Accardo • Sergei Dovlatov • Stephen Jay Gould • Sushilkumar Shinde • Umberto Bossi • Viktor Zubkov • Yuri Norstein