August 22

In literary history

• 1485Richard III died at Bosworth Field, the last English king to fall in battle and one of the last with a future PR problem this severe: a century later, Shakespeare made him a hunchbacked child-murderer, and the role has been auditioned for ever since.

Writers born on August 22

• Ray Bradbury (1920)

The Daily Canon for August 22

The Enchiridion by Epictetus (135).