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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