Peter Roget, British lexicographer (Roget's Thesaurus) died on this day in 1869
	Journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken (The American Language) was born on this day in 1880
	Publisher Alfred A. Knopf was born on this day in 1892. Hardly anyone doesn't have at least one book published by his company.
	Canadian poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) was born on this day in 1943
	Poet Robert Lowell (Pulitzer-winner Lord Weary's Castle) died on this day in 1977
	Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven was published on this day in 1982
	Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned was published on this day in 1988
	Anne Rice's Lasher was published on this day in 1993
	Stephen King's Bag of Bones was published on this day in 1998
	David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) died on this day in 2008