Calendar of Literary Facts
January 24...
1664:
John Vanbrugh is born
1670:
William Congreve is born
1732:
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais is born
1862:
Edith Newbold Jones (Wharton) is born
1931:
Floyd Salas is born
1965:
Sir Winston Churchill dies
1986:
L. Ron Hubbard dies