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 * 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer died
 * 1859 - Gustave Kahn, French poet born
 * 1872 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author born
 * 1892 - Rebecca West, American writer born
 * 1905 - Anthony Powell, British author born
 * 1917 - Heinrich Böll, German writer born
 * 1932 - Edward Hoagland, American author born
 * 1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer died
 * 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer died
 * 1964 - Carl van Vechten, American writer and photographer died
 * 1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic died