Bram Stoker, born November 8, 1847 would be celebrating his 165th birthday had he lived on in some form — a possibility the author of Dracula cannot have ruled out entirely. 

Photo: Stoker presented the autographed copy shown above to publisher Frank Munsey in the (unfulfilled) hope that Munsey would serialize Dracula in one of his pulps.

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]