Also on this day...
Feast of St. Adelaide - Patroness of Brides, Empresses, Princesses, Abuse Victims, and Second Marriages
National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day
National Wreaths Across America Day - the coordinated laying of Remembrance Wreaths on the graves of veterans
Jane Austen was born in 1775, and Noel Coward was born in 1899. Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917, and Benny Andersson - ABBA - was born in 1946.