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1900 Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain'

1889 DeWitt Wallace, St. Paul, Minnesota, publisher, founded Readers Digest, 1921

1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"

1800 William H McGuffey, educator, McGuffey Readers


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