Jan 1, 2010

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