1905 Andy Devine - Actor (The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Flipper, Andy's Gang, Whale of a Tale, Myra Breckinridge, How the West was Won, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Badge of Courage, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves)

He was also in Stagecoach with a very young John Wayne in his first leading role.







1849 Edgar Allan Poe, age 40 – US short story writer and poet

I've read his complete works and we've read several of his stories together.