NOW AND THEN 24 JULY
... French novelist and playwright (The Three Musketeers); 1880 Ernst Bloch, American composer, 1867 E F Benson, novelist; 1898 Amelia Earhart, American aviator; 1931 Eric Tabarly, yachtsman. Deaths: 1842 John Sell Cotman, artist; 1862 Martin van Buren, eighth ...