Honoré de Balzac (The Black Sheep), a founder of the Realist movement in European literature, died on this day in 1850
	Brian Aldiss (Hothouse) was born on this day in 1925
	Children's author Paula Danziger (The Cat Ate My Gymsuit) was born on this day in 1944
	Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in New York on this day in 1958
	Political columnist Robert Novak (The Reagan Revolution) died on this day in 2009