American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on this day in 1807
	Poet Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords on this day in 1812
	John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men) was born on this day in 1902
	Peter de Vries (The Tunnel of Love, The Blood of the Lamb) was born on this day in 1910
	Irwin Shaw (Rich Man, Poor Man) was born on this day in 1913
	The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle's final Sherlock Holmes novel, was published on this day in 1915