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• 1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author died
• 1760 - William Thomas Beckford, English writer born
• 1791 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer born
• 1842 - Charles Cros, French poet born
• 1885 - Louis Untermeyer, American author born
• 1899 - Ernest Haycox, American writer born
• 1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and writer born
• 1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author born
• 1953 - John Hegley, British poet born
• 1968 - Jon Guenther, American author born
• 1985 - E. B. White, American author died
• 1988 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer died