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October 29 Literary Facts
James Boswell is born
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Jean Giraudoux is born
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A(lfred) J(ules) Ayer is born
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Zbigniew Herbert is born
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Dominick Dunne is born
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin dies
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Zoë Akins dies