Calendar of Literary Facts
August 21...
1160: Peter Lombard, author of the Sentences, dies
1245: Schoolman Alexander of Hales dies
1649: Richard Crashaw dies
1831: The Nat Turner Slave Revolt erupts in late August, in Southampton County, Virginia, resulting in the death of 60 whites
1905: Mary Mapes Dodge dies
1932: Melvin Van Peebles is born
1972: A. M. Klein dies
