Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), a nobleman, disguised himself as a peasant and embarked on a pilgrimage to a monastery on this day in 1881. This would not be the only time Tolstoy would attempt to escape fame and fortune to pursue a life of anonymous asceticism.
	Immanuel Velikovsky (Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval) was born on this day in 1895
	Pulitzer and Nobel Literature Prize winner Saul Bellow (Herzog) was born on this day in 1915
	Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) was born on this day in 1928
	Argentina became a signatory to the Berne Convention copyright treaty on this day in 1967
	Louis L'Amour died on this day in 1988