
|  | James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans was first published on this day in 1826 | 
|  | Siobhan Dowd (A Swift Pure Cry) was born on this day in 1960 | 
|  | Ian Fleming's James Bond novel The Living Daylights was published on this day in 1962 | 
|  | Neal Cassady, beatnik writer and inspiration/contemporary of Jack Kerouac, died on this day in 1968 | 
|  | Davis Dresser, better known by his pen name Brett Halliday (Dividend on Death, The Private Practice of Michael Shayne) died on this day in 1977 | 
|  | Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train) died on this day in 1995 | 
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