Lord Byron's The Corsair was published on this day in 1814
	Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) died on this day in 1851
	The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published on this day in 1884
	Langston Hughes (The Weary Blues, The Ways of White Folks) was born on this day in 1902
	Dame Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born on this day in 1918
	Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries) was born on this day in 1967