French short-story writer Guy de Maupassant was born on this day in 1850
	Noted skeptic James "The Amazing" Randi (An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural) was born on this day in 1928
	Prolific sci-fi author and BYTE magazine contributor Jerry Pournelle (Escape from the Planet of the Apes novelization, The Mote in God's Eye with Larry Niven), recognized as the first author to write a published work on a personal computer word processor (in 1977), was born on this day in 1933.
	On this day in 1934, The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that James Joyce's Ulysses is not obscene
	Bengali polymath and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore died on this day in 1941. His contributions to literature include Shesher Kobita, The Home and the World, and Jogajog.
	The Washington Star ceased operations on this day in 1981 after 128 years