Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan) died on this day in 1834
	Jack London (The Call of the Wild) sailed for the Klondike on this day in 1897, where he would write his successful stories
	J. C. Leyendecker, one of the pre-eminent illustrators of the twentieth century, died on this day in 1951. Leyendecker produced 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post alone.