July 7

In literary history

• 1930Arthur Conan Doyle died clutching a snowdrop from his garden. Six days later, thousands filled the Albert Hall for a seance; the medium announced she had reached him, but only his widow, seated in the front row, claimed to hear anything.

Writers born on July 7

• Robert A. Heinlein (1907)

The Daily Canon for July 7

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (1002).