Today in history

• 1512

  Martin Luther – On the 21st of October 1512 Luther is received into the senate of the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg [Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]

• 1772

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devonshire. His father was a respected vicar and headmaster at the grammar school in Ottery. [Ottery St Mary, Devon, United Kingdom]

• 1866

  Gerard Manley Hopkins – Hopkins decided to become a Catholic and traveled to Birmingham to meet with John Henry Newman who received him into the church. [Birmingham, United Kingdom]

• 1904

  Patrick Kavanagh – Irish Poet and novelist Patrick Kavanagh was born in 1904 in Inniskeen, County Monaghan. His father was a shoemaker and a farmer. [Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland]

• 1915

  Wilfred Owen – In 1915, Owen enlisted with the 3/28th London Regiment which then became the Artists Rifles Officer Training Corps. [London, United Kingdom]

• 1969

  Jack Kerouac – Kerouac was admitted to hospital with internal bleeding and died, at the age of 47. The cause was thought to be due to cirrhosis of the liver. [New York, United States]

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