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• 1799 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer died
• 1872 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author died
• 1889 - Ion Creangă, Romanian writer died
• 1931 - Bob Shaw, Irish writer born
• 1933 - Edward Bunker, American author born
• 1945 - Connie Willis, American writer born
• 1949 - Susan Shwartz, American writer born
• 1980 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer died
• 1995 - The last strip of the popular comic Calvin and Hobbes is published.
• 2008 - Donald E. Westlake, American novelist died