William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair) was born on this day in 1811
	Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice) died on this day in 1817
	Horatio Alger (Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Bootblacks, The Store Boy; or, The Fortunes of Ben Barclay) died on this day in 1899
	The first volume of Adolf Hitler's manifesto of nazism Mein Kampf was published on this day in 1925
	Margaret Laurence (The Stone Angel) was born on this day in 1926
	Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) was born on this day in 1937
	Carl Van Doren, American biographer (The Secret History of the American Revolution) died on this day in 1950