Sci-fi pulp hack and cult founder L. Ron Hubbard (Battlefield Earth, Dianetics) was born on this day in 1911
	W. O. Mitchell (Who Has Seen The Wind) was born on this day in 1914
	Canadian writer and convicted criminal Stephen Reid (Jack Rabbit Parole) was born on this day in 1950. While serving his first sentence, he submitted his first manuscript to Waterloo University writer-in-residence Susan Musgrave, with whom he established an ongoing correspondence and eventually married while still in prison. Paroled in 1987, he taught creative writing at Camosun College, but substance abuse issues evolved and he committed another bank robbery in 1999, for which he received an 18 year sentence. He would go on to win the 2013 Victoria Book Award for his second work, A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden: Writing from Prison.
	1961 Nobel laureate in Literature Ivo Andric (The Bridge on the Drina) died on this day in 1975
	The Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that the 2010 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia would be the last one printed, on this day in 2012.