William Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published on this day in 1609
	Honoré de Balzac (The Black Sheep), a founder of the Realist movement in European literature, was born on this day in 1799
	John Stuart Mill (On Liberty, A System of Logic) was born on this day in 1806
	The Saturday Evening Post published its first issue with a Norman Rockwell cover on this day in 1916
	William Michaelian (A Listening Thing) was born on this day in 1956
	Science writer and biologist Stephen Jay Gould (Ever Since Darwin, The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox and many others) died on this day in 2002