American founding father Thomas Paine (Rights of Man, The Age of Reason) was born on this day in 1737
	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment) died on this day in 1881
	J. M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians), 2003 Nobel laureate in Literature, was born on this day in 1940
	Alice Walker (The Color Purple) was born on this day in 1944
	Comic editor and writer Jo Diffy (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and numerous Marvel Comics issues) was born on this day in 1954