Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English writer, most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities. His reputation was confirmed by The Tinted Venus and many humorous parodies in Punch magazine.

8 August 1856

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore • Darren Manzella • Dennis Tito • Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) • Godfrey Kneller • Harel Skaat • Joe Bethancourt • José Francisco Molina • Kane Williamson • Laura Slade Wiggins • Marcelo Balboa • Martin Brest • Miho Shiraishi • Norbert Michelisz • Pat Noonan • Paul Taylor (cricketer, born 1964) • Princess Beatrice • Roger Penrose • Ross Ohlendorf • Sudhakar Rao • The Edge

Born in the same month (August 1856): Alfred Deakin • Aparicio Saravia • Carl Runge • Clara Schønfeld • Diamond Jim Brady • George Coulthard • Ivan Franko • Jakub Bart-Ćišinski • Keir Hardie • Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès • William Willett