Happy 130th Deathday, Fedor Dostoevsky

Fedor Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment -- and the beloved Russian author not played by Christopher Plummer -- died on this day in 1881. 

Speaking of crime and punishment: Dostoevsky beat Billy the Kid to the grave by just six months. 

On the other hand, Dostoevsky had been sentenced to death years before The Kid was even born. 

See our biography of Fedor Dostoevsky >>