Poe (Edgar Allan) is born in Boston.

The son of itinerant actors, Edgar Allan Poe is born in a boarding house at today’s 62 Charles Street South (then 62 Carver Street). Orphaned at 2 and raised by a foster family, he briefly attends the University of Virginia and West Point, returns to Boston in 1827, works as a reporter, publishes his first book, and briefly serves in the U.S. Army, where he is stationed on Castle Island. Poe goes on to become one of the most noted writers of his time. But Poe’s failure to gain the approval of the town’s literary elite prompts him to write in 1845, “We like Boston. We were born there – and perhaps it is just as well not to mention that we are heartily ashamed of the fact.” Poe dies in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. A statue is installed near his birthplace in 2014.*