1959 Death Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 1911 Death Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC 1881 Birthday Edgar Albert Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan, poet/newspaperman 1880 Birthday H. L. Mencken, born in Baltimore, Maryland, newspaperman/critic, Prejudices 1829 Birthday Charles Dudley Warner, Massachusetts, newspaperman/author, Being a Boy
