William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables on this day in 1484
	The Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York on this day in 1830
	Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer winning poet, was born on this day in 1874
	Poet Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass) died on this day in 1892. In its time, Whitman's work was very controversial.
	Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) was born on this day in 1911
	Beat-Generation poet Gregory Corso (The Vestal Lady and Other Poems, Minutes to Go, The American Express) was born on this day in 1930
	Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth) was born on this day in 1941. It is ironic that today's most vocal opponent of creationism and religious dogma was a professorial fellow at Oxford, the very same university which had expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley for his pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism" two centuries before.
	Erica Jong (Fear of Flying) was born on this day in 1942
	Bob Woodward, journalist (Wired, All the President's Men) was born on this day in 1943
	Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep) died on this day in 1959
	Alex Comfort (The Joy of Sex) died on this day in 2000
	I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter's follow-up to his 1979 best-seller Gödel, Escher, Bach, was published on this day in 2007