Colleen McCullough (The Thorn Birds) was born on this day in 1937
	Sax Rohmer (the Fu Manchu stories) died on this day in 1959
	Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land was published on this day in 1961
	Deaf and blind American activist and author Helen Keller died on this day in 1968
	Loompanics published Malaclypse the Younger's Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her, 4th Edition (the first widely published edition of the Discordian "Magnum Opiate") on this day in 1980
	John le Carré's The Russia House was published on this day in 1989
	Cartoonist Hank Ketcham, creator of Dennis the Menace died on this day in 2001
	Renowned Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky died on this day in 2010. He had been called "one of the greatest living poets in any language."
	Eric Van Lustbader continued his revival of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series with the publication in the United States of The Bourne Objective on this day in 2010, the eighth in the series and Lustbader's fifth.