1703 - Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) was placed in a pillory for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet politically satirising the High Church Tories.
	Davis Dresser, better known by his pen name Brett Halliday (Dividend on Death, The Private Practice of Michael Shayne) was born on this day in 1904
	French aviator, aristocrat, and poet Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Aviator, The Little Prince, National Book Award winner Wind, Sand, and Stars) took off from Corsica in an reconnaissance-fitted P-38 Lightning aircraft on this day in 1944, and was never heard from again. The wreckage of his plane would not be discovered until 2000.
	Faye Kellerman (Sacred and Profane) was born on this day in 1952. Kellerman and her husband, fellow novelist Jonathan Kellerman, are the only husband and wife ever to appear simultaneously on the New York Times bestseller list, for different books.
	J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter) was born on this day in 1965
	In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, the title character was born on this day in 1980
	Prolific science fiction author Poul Anderson (Tau Zero) died on this day in 2001
	Gore Vidal (The American Presidency, The Smithsonian Institution) died on this day in 2012