1908 Ian Fleming - British author and creator of James Bond. Fleming worked in naval intelligence during the Second World War, and was a journalist for Reuters and the London Times, stationed in Moscow for both. All of his books were filmed, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I have read his complete works. The early Bond movies were pretty true to the books. By the time you got into the 1970s they barely resembled the books at all. After that the movies had a life of their own and there was nothing left of the books.







1843 Noah Webster, age 84 – US lexicographer and publisher of Webster's Dictionary


You do realize that if he spelled a word wrong we would never know since we use his dictionary to look up how to spell words.