November 30, 1667

Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 to October 19, 1745) was the greatest satirist in the English language. His good friends were fellow members of the Scriblerus Club, Alexander Pope, and John Gay. Though a Whig at heart, he was made Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin for his pamphleteering on behalf of the Tories, prior to 1713. In addition to classics like Gulliver's Travels, (1726) he wrote a lesser known work, Directions to Servants (1745, after his death.) This work is glossed by Dan Herzog (Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England, 2013) as also satire. Which makes Swift's directive for servants, say at an inn, to check Swift's bed “lest a Cat or something else may be under it," I guess, satirical. 

After his death in 1745, he was buried in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. On his memorial tablet is an epitaph of his own composition, which says that he lies “where savage indignation can no longer tear his heart.”