Samuel Richardson (Clarissa, Pamela) died on this day in 1761. His name was on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a literary blacklist established by the Vatican.
	Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter) was born on this day in 1804
	Francois Chateaubriand (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave) died on this day in 1848
	Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published on this day in 1855
	On this day in 1862, Lewis Carroll, while rowing a boat on the Thames, told Alice Liddell and her sisters a story that would eventually become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
	Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published on this day in 1865
	Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg (Mike and Ike) was born on this day in 1883
	Advice columnist Esther Lederer, better known as Ann Landers, was born on this day in 1918, seventeen minutes before her twin sister, advice columnist Abigail van Buren
	Advice columnist Pauline Phillips, better known as Abigail van Buren ("Dear Abby") was born on this day in 1918, seventeen minutes after her twin sister, advice columnist Ann Landers