Swiss children's author Johanna Spyri (best known for Heidi) died on this day in 1901
	Robert A. Heinlein (Red Planet, Stranger in a Strange Land, Friday) was born on this day in 1907
	Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) died on this day in 1930
	Forensic scientist and crime novelist Kathy Reichs (Déjà Dead and the rest of the Temperance Brennan ("Bones") series) was born on this day in 1948.