Arnold Bennett (The Old Wives' Tale) was born on this day in 1867
	Dalshiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) was born on this day in 1894
	Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night) was born on this day in 1894
	Herman Wouk (The Caine Mutiny) was born on this day in 1915
	Tony Hillerman (Sacred Clowns, Anthony Award winner The Mysterious West) was born on this day in 1925
	Prolific science fiction novelist Harlan Ellison (A Boy and his Dog, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) was born on this day in 1934
	Detective Comics #27 introduced Batman on this day in 1939
	Robert Ripley, creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not, died on this day in 1949
	Eric Van Lustbader continued his revival of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series with the publication in the United Kingdom of The Bourne Objective on this day in 2010, the eighth in the series and Lustbader's fifth.
	Gardner Dozois (Strangers and many short stories) died on this day in 2018