Novelist and academic Steve Yarbrough (The End of California) was born on this day in 1956
	Poet Robert Frost embarked on a goodwill tour of the USSR on this day in 1962
	Michael Ende, ironically-named author of The Neverending Story, equally ironically came to an end and died on this day in 1995
	Actor Gene Wilder, who late in life and in retirement from show business became a novelist (My French Whore, The Woman Who Wouldn't), died on this day in 2016