1878 - John Masefield
English poet and writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 to 1967.
1889 - James Daugherty
American artist whose children's book Daniel Boone won the 1940 Newbery Medal.
1908 - Julie Campbell Tatham
American author of books for children and adults, possibly best known as the creator of the Trixie Belden series.
1937 - Colleen McCullough
Australian author whose most well known work is the bestselling novel The Thorn Birds.
1943 - Kuki Gallmann
Italian-born Kenyan conservationist and author of the memoir I Dreamed of Africa, which was made into a motion picture.
Died:
1941 - Hugh Walpole
1959 - Sax Rohmer
1968 - Helen Keller
1968 - Charles Howard McIlwain
2001 - Hank Ketcham
2004 - William Manchester
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