Calendar of Literary Facts
July 31...
1689: Samuel Richardson is born
1941: German Luftwaffe Commander in Chief Hermann Goering directs Reinhard Heydrich, head of Reich Security, to enact the “Final Solution:” the extermination of all European Jews by the Nazis
1944: Antoine de Saint-Exupery dies
1986: Stanley Ellin dies
2001: Poul (William) Anderson dies
