2015 Event Harper Lee will release her second novel, 'Go Set a Watchman,' after 55 years; Lee wrote this novel first, presenting Scout as an adult, but editors convinced Lee to write instead about Scout as a child, resulting in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 2013 Event Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book 2003 Death Gregory Peck, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, dies at 87 1961 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1942 Birthday Inez Foxx, Greensboro, North Carolina, rocker, Mockingbird, Hi Diddle Diddle 1939 Birthday Charlie Foxx, U.S. songwriter/soul singer, Mockingbird 1927 Birthday Brock Peters, born in New York City, actor/singer, Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird 1926 Birthday Harper Lee, author, To Kill a Mockingbird 1916 Birthday Gregory Peck, born in La Jolla, California, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur
