November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain still receives a lot of attention even though over 100 years have passed since his death. Recently one of Twain’s most notable works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, made headlines for the debate over the literary integrity of the work when certain discriminating words were replaced in newer editions.
It is claimed that he was born with Halley’s Comet in the sky and that 75 years later, he died when the Comet visited again.1
1 Tod Benoit, Where Are They Buried? (New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.), 331
