Cyrano de Bergerac, the French dramatist and duellist whose life story and fictionalized personality eventually became more famous than his own work, was born on this day in 1619
	The Toronto Public Library opened on this day in 1884
	Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) died on this day in 1888
	Novels by French author Emile Zola were seized and destroyed by customs officers in Toronto on this day in 1889, having been deemed obscene
	Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) was born on this day in 1927
	Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth) died on this day in 1973
	Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged) died on this day in 1982