LONG ANSWER
Samuel Clemens, better known by his penname Mark Twain, was born in 1835 just after the passing of Halley’s Comet. The event clearly held significance for the American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, for in 1909 he made a bold prediction: “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.