Walter Savage Landor, poet, b. 1775.

Ann Taylor, author of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, b. 1782.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, b. 1882.

Barbara Tuchman, author of one my favorite works of historical nonfiction, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, b. 1912.

Lloyd Alexander, b. 1924, author of fantasy based on Celtic and other mythologies. Karate Kid is reading Alexander’s The Arkadians, a novel set in a sort of fantastical ancient Greek world.