Alexandre Dumas is born

Alexandre Dumas is born as Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie in Villiers-Cotterets, France to a Haitian mulatto, Thomas Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Labouret Dumas, a French woman.

His books The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world.