On this day in literature
April 21
In literary history
- 1910Mark Twain died of heart failure, having predicted it precisely a year earlier: he had come into the world with Halley's Comet in 1835 and expected to go out with it. The comet reached perihelion the day before.
Writers born on April 21
- Charlotte Brontë (1816),
- Lawrence Gowing (1918)