René Descartes (Meditations on First Philosophy, Principia philosophiae) died on this day in 1650
	Sidney Sheldon (The Other Side of Midnight) was born on this day in 1917
	Sir John Buchan, fifteenth Governor-General of Canada and author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, died on this day in 1940
	Frank Herbert (Dune) died on this day in 1986
	Peter Benchley (Jaws) died on this day in 2006