Mary Anne Evans, better known by her male pen name George Eliot (Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda) died on this day in 1880
	Poet and San Francisco Renaissance figure Kenneth Rexroth was born on this day in 1905
	Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust) died on this day in 1940
	Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) died on this day in 1943
	Nobel laureate in literature Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot, Endgame) died on this day in 1989