There are 2 entries for this date: Eden Phillpotts and Maud Ingersoll.

On this date in 1862, British novelist, poet and dramatist Eden Phillpotts was born in India, where his father was a captain in the military. He attended Mannumead School in Plymouth, and went to London to seek his fame and fortune at age 17. Eden worked at Sun Fire Insurance Company by day for ten years, writing at night. He first caught public attention with Lying Prophets (1896), followed by the successful Children of the Mist (1898). Phillpotts left London because of health problems and settled in Torquay (Devonshire), where he set most of his 18 popular novels and 2 volumes of short stories. His books, while hard to find, still have a following. During his heydey, Phillpotts was compared with Flaubert and other literary stars. He also wrote about gardening, one of his passions. Phillpotts' plays include "Secret Woman" (1912), "The Shadow," "The Angel in the House," "The Farmer's Wife," and "St. George and the Dragons." He contributed poems to the Rationalist Press Association Annual attesting to his rejection of creeds and his agnosticism. D. 1960.

On this date in 1864, Maud Ingersoll was born in Peoria, Illinois, second daughter of "the Great Agnostic," Col. Robert G. Ingersoll and Eva Parker Ingersoll. Maud, like her older sister, Eva, was given the middle name "Robert." With Eva, Maud received instruction at home by her parents, with extra tutoring in German, French, Italian, music and art. Both girls read before the age of six, although not pushed into formal education. As teenagers, they sometimes helped their father research the bible and religious writings for his lectures. "Father had read with us and together we have looked up references, localities and proofs," Eva once wrote, adding that the more they came to be acquainted with Christianity, the less they liked it. Maud became Ingersoll's special attendant, accompanying him on lecture tours. Maud once stayed in the courtroom throughout a protracted, 6-week trial her attorney father was hired to handle, involving a charge of forgery over a will, in Butte, Montana. After Ingersoll's death, Maud continued to refute spurious claims, which she was accused of circulating, that her father had recanted: "At the time of his death--in fact, the very morning of his death--he was working on a new lecture on Jesus Christ to be delivered the next winter and in which he intended saying that Christ was a myth," Maud reported. D. 1936.