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1811

Harriet Beecher (Stowe) is born

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1901

Salvatore Quasimodo is born

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1907

René Char is born

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1928

Ernesto (Che) Guevara is born

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1933

Jerzy Kosinski is born

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1936

G. K. Chesterton dies

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1941

John Edgar Wideman is born

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1948

Gertrude Atherton dies

1968

Salvatore Quasimodo dies

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