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- 1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet born
- 1866 - Beatrix Potter, English author, famous for the illustrated storybooks about Peter Rabbit born
- 1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist born
- 1927 - John Ashbery, American poet born
- 1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist, author of Garfield born