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1621
French author Jean de la Fontaine (Selected Fables) born in Château-Thierry, Champagne, France.
1822 
Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns off the western coast of Italy near Livorno, Italy.
1838
Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, who invented the rigid dirigibles that carry his name, born in Konstanz, Germany.
1906
Architect Philip Johnsonborn in Cleveland, Ohio.
