Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia) died on this day in 79 AD
	Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (History of England, The Natural History of Religion) died on this day in 1776
	Friedrich Nietzsche (Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ecce Homo) died on this day in 1900
	Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's) died on this day in 1984
	On this day in 1992, Serbian forces destroyed 1.5 million books and manuscripts at the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, in one of the most extensive examples of ethnically-motivated biblioclasm of the 20th century.