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In 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of, “War and Peace and Anna Karenina,” passed away in a railway carriage at Astopovo,

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In 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author of such stirring tales as, “Kidnapped, Treasure Island and The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

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In 1821, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian author of, “Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.”

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In 1953, ignoring the advice rendered to his father, Welsh bard Dylan Thomas passed away at the age of 39 whilst on a lecture tour of America, in the Chelsea Hotel in New York, dying of pneumonia brought on by alcoholism.

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Margaret Mitchell, born 1900, American author of, “Gone with the Wind,” her only book, didn’t she do well.

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Born in 1795, John Keats, Romantic poet, masterful composer of such well known odes as, famously to a Nightingale and also a Grecian Urn.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1751, playwright best remembered for, “The School for Scandal, “ and, “The Critic.”

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In 1903, Evelyn Waugh, satirical novelist, author of, “Brideshead Revisited.”

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Birthdays come thick and fast today.

In 1914, Dylan Thomas, proudly Welsh poet, writer of, “Under Milk Wood,”

In 1932 Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist, formerly the wife of Ted Hughes who committed suicide after their separation.

In 1939, John Cleese, writer and comedian, achieving cult status as a member of the Monty Python team on British television.