On this day in 1546, having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais published his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel: the Tiers Livre
	Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by nom de plume Stendhal (The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma) was born on this day in 1783
	John Cleland (Fanny Hill) died on this day in 1789
	Satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock (Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle) died on this day in 1866
	Charles Kingsley (Westward Ho!) died on this day in 1875
	Derek Walcott (Omeros) was born on this day in 1930