Jacob Grimm, editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales and one of the Brothers Grimm, was born on this day in 1785 | |
Louis Braille, inventor of the Braille system that allows the visually impaired to read and write, was born on this day in 1809 | |
Nobel laureate in literature Albert Camus (The Stranger, The Plague) died on this day in 1960 | |
Harlan Coben (Play Dead, Deal Breaker) was born on this day in 1962. Coben is notable for being the first author to have won all three of the Edgar Award, Shamus Award, and Anthony Award | |
T. S. Eliot, one of the 20th century's most influential poets, died on this day in 1965 | |
John le Carré's The Constant Gardener was published on this day in 2001 | |
Historian John Toland (Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, The Rising Sun) died on this day in 2004 |
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