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 * 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet died
 * 1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet born
 * 1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet died
 * 1602 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
 * 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American author born
 * 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer born
 * 1903 - Irena Jurgielewiczowa, Polish writer and teacher born
 * 1926 - Michael Bond, British writer born
 * 1940 - Edmund White, American author born
 * 1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer died
 * 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer born
 * 1957 - Lorrie Moore, American writer born
 * 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet died