The Marquis de Sade (The 120 Days of Sodom) was born on this day in 1740
	Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd) was born on this day in 1840
	Harlem Renaissance novelist Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy) was born on this day in 1907
	Leonard Knapp, better known as Lester del Rey (Attack from Atlantis) was born on this day in 1915
	W. Watts Biggers (The Man Inside) was born on this day in 1927. Biggers also created the Underdog TV series.
	Carol Shields (Pulitzer-winner The Stone Diaries) was born on this day in 1935.
	Howard Frank Mosher (Where the Rivers Flow North) was born on this day in 1942.
	British children's novelist Leon Garfield (Smith, Whitbread-winner John Diamond) died on this day in 1996