William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair) died on this day in 1863
	Spanish poet and 1956 Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez (Sonetos espirituales) was born on this day in 1881
	James Hadley Chase, thriller writer, was born on this day in 1906
	Mary Higgins Clark (Daddy's Little Girl) was born on this day in 1927
	Stephenie Meyer (Twilight) was born on this day in 1973
	Harold Pinter, the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation, 2005 Nobel laureate in literature, died on this day in 2008
	Richard Adams (Watership Down) died on this day in 2016