Calendar of Literary Facts
July 18...
1811: William Makepeace Thackeray is born
1817: Jane Austen dies
1899: Horatio Alger, Jr. dies
1906: Clifford Odets is born
1911: Jose Maria Arguedas is born
1918: Nelson Mandela is born
1933: Yevgeny Yevtushenko is born
1934: Edward Bond is born
1937: Hunter S. Thompson is born
