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• 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet born
• 1686 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet born
• 1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
• 1814 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author born
• 1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet died
• 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher born
• 1881 - P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist born
• 1891 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer died
• 1905 - C. P. Snow, British writer born
• 1920 - Mario Puzo, American novelist (The Godfather) born
• 1923 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer born
• 1926 - Evan Hunter, American author born
• 1930 - FM-2030, philosopher born
• 1954 - Peter Bakowski, Australian poet born