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July 29 Literary Facts
Booth Tarkington is born
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Eyvind Johnson is born
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Stanley Kunitz is born
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Chester Himes is born
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Edwin O’Connor is born
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S. E. K. Mqhayi dies
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Luis Buñuel dies
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