Happy birthday, Sax Rohmer.

Boris Karloff as the
fiendish Dr. Fu Manchu
in The Mask of Fu
Manchu (1932)

British author Sax Rohmer, aka Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, was born on February 15, 1883, in Birmingham. He died in 1959. His nefarious creation, Dr. Fu Manchu, debuted in "The Zayat Kiss" in 1912.