Hermann Hesse (Steppenwolf) was born on this day in 1877
	Nobel laureate and Pulitzer winner Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea) died on this day in 1961
	Darren O'Shaughnessey, better known as Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak) was born on this day in 1972
	Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) died on this day in 1977
	The Sivas massacre occurred on this day in 1993, in one of the blackest moments in the history of intellectual freedom. 37 poets, musicians, hotel staff and tourists were killed in a fire set to a hotel in Sivas, Turkey by radical islamists attempting to kill Aziz Nesin, a translator of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Nasin survived but was severely beaten by his rescuers when they realized who he was.
	J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was published on this day in 1998
	Mario Puzo (The Godfather) died on this day in 1999
	Two-time Whitbread award winning novelist Beryl Bainbridge (Every Man for Himself, The Bottle Factory Outing) died on this day in 2010
	Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel (Night) died on this day in 2016