Writers & Poets Chronology

Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70.

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Luigi Alamanni Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61.

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1558

Robert Greene Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon), is born.

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1562

Lope Felix de Vega, Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), is born.

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1564

Christopher Marlowe English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus), is born.

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Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized.

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Is believed to be the birthdate of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare in Stratford-on-Avon England; he died 52 years later, also on April 23rd.

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William Shakespeare is baptized.

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1565

Jean Grolier de Servi‚res French bibliophile, dies.

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1566

Ludovicus Blosius [Louis de Blois "Dacrianus"], writer, dies.

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Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus), French astrologer/physician/prophet, dies in Solon, France at age 62/

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1567

Marin Drzic Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies.

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1568

Honoré d'Urfé French writer (L'Astrée), is born.

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1569

Juan the Avila Spanish minister/writer.

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1571

Cervantes loses use of left arm at Battle of Lepanto in Venetian-held Cyprus.

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Miguel de Cervantes (author: Don Quixote) is wounded three times (twice in the chest, once in the hand leaving it lame) at the naval battle at Lepanto.

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1572

Ben Jonson England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist), is born.

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Cornelis Musius Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72.

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1573

Solomon Luria (Maharshal) talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies.

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Mathurin R‚gnier French poet (Macette), is born.

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1577

Robert Burton writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy), is born.

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1578

Giovanni B Moroni Italian portrait painter, dies.

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1579

John Fletcher Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized), is born.

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1580

Thomas Middleton English playwright (Game of Chess), is born.

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Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes Portugal's national poet, dies.

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1581

Sir Thomas Overbury, English poet and courtier, is born.

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1582

John Barclay Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis), is born.

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John Barclay Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon, Argenis), is born.

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Phienas Fletcher poet, is born.

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William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.

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Marriage bond entered for William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway.

1583

Anna Roemers Visscher Dutch poetess, is born.

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1584

Pieter Jansz Pourbus Flemish painter, dies.

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1585

Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas French grammarian, is born.

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Gerbrant A Bredero Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe), is born.

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William Drummond, Scottish poet, is born.

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1586

John Ford English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore), is born.

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1587

John Foxe author (Book of Martyrs), dies.

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Nov 17

Joost van den Vondel Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha), is born.

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1588

George Wither, English poet and Puritan pamphleteer, is born.

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1589

Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka), is born.

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Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan French playwright/poet, is born.

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1591

Gerard de Jode Flemish publisher, dies.

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Robert Herrick England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized), is born.

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1592

Abraham Elsevier book publisher/publisher, is born.

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Francis Quarles English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems), is born.

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Michel de Montaigne, French moralist who created the personal essay, dies at age 59.

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1593

Birth of George Herbert, English clergyman and poet. One of his verses endures today as the hymn, "The King of Love My Shepherd Is."

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Christopher Marlowe poet, dramatist: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; is murdered.

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Izaak Walton, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler), is born in Staffordshire, England.

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1594

Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher Dutch writer, is born.

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Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga, Spanish soldier and poet, dies at age 61.

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1595

Robert Southwell English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest.

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Torquato Tasso Italian poet: Jerusalem Delivered [Conquered]; dies at age 51.

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1596

Isaac Elsevier book publisher, is born.

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1597

Martin Opitz Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry", is born.

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1598

Aug 07

Georg Stiernhielm "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules), is born.

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1599

Edmund Spenser poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about age 46.

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1600

Pedro Caldéron de la Barca, Spanish poet/dramatist, is born in Madrid, Spain.

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1602

William Lilly England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler, is born.

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1604

Thomas Churchyard poet/pamphleteer, dies.

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Edward de Vere b. Oxford, English poet and patron of the Oxford's Men acting company, dies at age 54.

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1605

Sir Thomas Browne British writer (Garden of Cyrus), is born.

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1606

Edmund Waller England, poet (Penshust), is born.

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Lorenzo Lippi [Perlone Zipoli] poet/painter, is born.

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Pierre Corneille France, dramatist (Le Cid, Horace), is born.

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1607

Cornelius Kilianus Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78.

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Georg Philipp Harsdorfer Nurenberg Germany, poet (Poetischer Trichter), is born.

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1608

Earl of Dorset poet/statesman, dies.

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John Milton, English poet: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes; civil rights activist; is born in London England.

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1609

Sir John Suckling English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier, is born.

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Hadji Chalfa/Kâtib Tsjelebi Turkish literary (Djihannüma), is born.

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1610

Johann B Schup [Schuppius] German poet/historian, is born.

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1611

James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans), is born.

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Jan H Van Linschoten traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies.

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1612

Henry L Spieghel Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62.

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Thomas Killigrew English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men), is born.

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Samuel Butler England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized), is born.

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Samuel Butler, poet and author, is born in Langar, England.

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(Giovanni) Battista Guarini, Italian poet and dramatist, dies at age 73.

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1613

Francois duc de la Rochefoucald Paris France, writer (Memoires), is born.

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1616

William Shakespeare signs his will giving wife Anne "my second best bed with the furniture."

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William Shakesphere English author, dies, on his 52nd birthday.

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Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist (Don Quixote), dies.

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1617

Louis Elsevier Dutch publisher, dies at about 76.

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1619

Cyrano de Bergerac famous nose, French soldier and dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon), is born.

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1620

Miklós Zrínyi Hungarian poet/writer (The Peril of Sziget), is born.

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Roemer P Visscher poet, buried in Amsterdam.

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Aegidius Albertinus German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59.

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John Evelyn British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin), is born.

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1621

Andrew Marvell, English poet (To His Coy Mistress) and politician, is born.

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Jean de La Fontaine, poet and author (Fables), is born.

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1622

Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French comic dramatist best remembered for his play La Tartuffe, is born.

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Susanna van Baerle Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, is born.

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Henry Vaughan English poet (Silex Scintillans), is born.

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1623

Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, dies at age 67 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

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1626

Madame Marie de Sévigné, Paris, celebrated letter-writer (Portrait in Letters), is born.

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Cyril Tourneur English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51.

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John Aubrey, English antiquary and author known for his biographical sketches of Milton, Raleigh, Hobbs, etc., is born.

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1627

Luis de Góngora y Argote poet/writer, dies.

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Thomas Middleton Elizabethan dramatist, dies (birth date unknown).

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1628

Charles Perrault, French poet, is born.

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Charles Perrault France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose), is born.

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Constantine Huygens Jr Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist, is born.

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John Bunyan author: A Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War; is born.

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1631

John Donne, British poet ("death be not proud"), dies.

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John Dryden, the first official Poet Laureate of Great Britain (1668 to1700), is born.

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John Dryden first poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel), is born.

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1633

Samuel Pepys London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs), is born.

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George Herbert English poet, dies at 39.

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1634

Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette novelist, is born.

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George Chapman English dramatist/interpreter, dies.

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1635

Georg R Weckerlin German poet, dies at 50.

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Alessandro Tassoni Italian political writer (Rape of Bucket), dies at 69.

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Philippe Quinault French playwright (L'amant indiscret), is born.

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Lope Felix de Vega, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72.

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1636

Nicholas Boileaus, French poet and historian, is born.

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Giovanni B Aleotti Italian writer/theater architect, dies at about 90.

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1637

Ben Jonson England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist), dies.

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Ben Johnson actor: The Poetaster, Satiromastix; poet: Song: To Celia; playwright: Every Man in His Humour, Every Man Out of His Humour, Cynthia’s Revels, War of the Theatres, Sejanus, His Fall, The Masque of Owles, The Alchemist, The Devil is an Ass; died Aug 6, 1637

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1638

Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres French poet/playwright, is born.

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Sybilla Schwarz writer, is born.

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Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49.

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1639

Académie Française begins the Dictionary of the French Language.

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Thomas Carew English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies.

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Jean Baptiste Racine dramatist: Alexandre, Andromaque, Les Plaideurs, Britannicus, Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, etc.; is born.

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1640

Robert Burton author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies.

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Philip Massinger dramatist, dies.

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Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45.

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Matthijs Elsevier Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75.

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1642

Christian Weise German writer (Niederländische Bauer), is born.

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1645

Francois de Callieres, French author and diplomat, is born.

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Jean de la Bruyere, French writer and moralist famous for his work Characters of Theophratus, is born.

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1646

Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz Silesian poet, is born.

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1647

John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant), is born.

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Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65.

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1648

Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40.

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Tirso de Molina Spanish author, dies at about 63.

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John Luyken poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre), is born.

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1651

Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primer Sueno), is born.

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Anna Roemers Visscher Dutch poetess, dies at 68.

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1652

Pavao Vitezovic Croatia, writer/historian, is born.

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Thomas Otway England, dramatist/poet (Venice Preserved), is born in Trotten, England.

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1655

Jean-François Regnard French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria), is born.

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Tristan l'Hermite French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown).

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1658

Jan B Wellekens Dutch poet/painter, is born.

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Georg Philipp Harsderfer poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at 50.

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Gracian writer, dies.

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1659

Simon Dach German poet, dies.

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1660

Samuel Pepys starts his diary: "This morning...I rose, put on my suit with great skirts...”

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Arnold Houbraken Dutch schilder/writer, is born.

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Daniel Defoe English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), is born.

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John Bunyan thrown into jail in England; starts writing "Pilgrim's Progress."

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Peter Rabus poet/translator (Liberated Britanje), is born.

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1662

Celia Fiennes, English travel writer, is born.

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1664

Sir John Vanbrugh London, dramatist/architect (baptized), is born.

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1665

Benjamin Neukirch German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), is born.

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1666

François Valentijn Dutch vicar/writer, is born.

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Sarah Kembel Knight, diarist, is born.

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1667

John Arbuthnot Scottish writer (Alexander Pope), is born.

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George Wither, English poet and Puritan pamphleteer, dies at age 78.

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Georges de Scudéry French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at 65.

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Jonathan Swift, English satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels, is born.

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1668

John Dryden (36) becomes first English poet laureate.

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Alain Rene Lesage, French writer (The Adventures of Gil Blas, Turcaret), is born.

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Johann Albert Fabricius, German bibliographer, is born.

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1669

Abandoned child, Huygens friend, poet, Catharina Questiers, buried at 31.

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Reyer Anslo writer/poet, dies at about 42.

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Samuel Pepys ends his diary after 9 1/2 years.

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1670

Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan French playwright, dies at 80.

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William Congreve, British dramatist, is born.

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William Congreve England, restoration writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World), is born.

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1671

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs), is born.

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1672

Georg Stiernhielm Swedish scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73.

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Joseph Addiso, English essayist: periodicals: The Spectator, The Tatler, The Guardian, The Freeholder; author: Cato; is born.

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Anne Bradstreet American poet, dies (birth date unknown).

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1673

Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] French playwright (Learned Lady), dies in Paris at 51.

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Joan Blaeu Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77.

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1674

Jan Zoet actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58.

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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon French poet (Atrée et Thyeste), is born.

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William Byrd, American planter, satirist, and diarist, is born.

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Jethro Tull agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised, is born.

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Nicholas Rowe England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane), is born.

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Robert Herrick Mass, British poet (Together), is born.

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John Milton poet: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes; civil rights activist; dies at age 65.

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1675

Francesco Maffei, Italian dramatist, archaeologist and scholar, is born.

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1678

Anna M van Schurman Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70.

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Andrew Marvell poet: To His Coy Mistress; dies.

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1679

Joost van den Vondel Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91.

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Hofmannswaldau writer, dies.

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1680

François Duc de La Rochefoucauld writer, dies.

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Samuel Butler, poet and author, dies in London, England.

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1681

Pedro Caldéron de la Barca, Spanish poet/dramatist, dies at 81.

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1682

Sir Thomas Browne British writer (Garden of Cyrus), dies at age 77.

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1683

Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic (Night Thoughts), is born.

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Izaak Walton, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler), dies at age 90 in Winchester England.

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1684

Justus van Effen writer/founder (Holland Spectator), is born.

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Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (Le Cid, Horace), dies.

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Ludvig Baron Holberg a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature, is born.

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1685

Aaron Hill English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara), is born.

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Thomas Otway, English dramatist and poet, dies in London, England at age 33.

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John Gay, poet and playwright (The Beggar's Opera), is born.

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John Gay poet (Beggar's Opera), is born.

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1686

Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, is born.

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1687

Constantine Huygens diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90.

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1688

Pierre De Marivaux Paris France, writer (Marianne), is born.

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Alexander Pope poet: the Pastorals, An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, The Dunciad, An Essay on Man, is born.

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1689

Hubert K Poot Dutch poet, is born.

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English essayist, feminist, eccentric, is born.

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Samuel Richardson English novelist (Pamela) (baptized), is born.

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1691

George Etherege English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56.

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Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction à l'amour), is born.

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1693

George Lillo bourgeois English dramatist (The London Merchant), is born.

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Dodoftei Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies.

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1694

Matsuo Basho greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies.

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1695

Johann C Günther writer, is born.

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Jean de La Fontaine poet, dies.

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Jean de la Fontaine French poet (Fables), dies at 73.

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Henry Vaughan poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72.

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1696

Madame Marie de Sévigné, French writer, mostly of letters to her daughter, dies at age 70.

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Jean de La Bruyère French author, dies at 50.

Ref: 5

1697

Richard Savage poet, is born.

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Abbé Prévost French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut), is born.

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1698

Pietro Antonio Domenico Buonaventura Metastasio, Italian poet, dramatist, is born.

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1699

Robert Blair Scottish poet (Grave), is born.

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Jean Baptiste Racine dramatist: Alexandre, Andromaque, Les Plaideurs, Britannicus, Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, etc.; dies at age 59.

Ref: 4

Hans A baron von Abschatz Silesian poet, dies at 53.

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1700

Picander [Christian F Henrici], German writer (Der Säuffer), is born.

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John Dryden English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies at age 68.

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James Thomson, Scottish poet, is born.

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1702

Peter Rabus Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41.

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Jean-Pierre Guignon composer, is born.

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1703

José F de Isla [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer, is born.

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Charles Perrault France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose), dies at 75.

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Charles Perrault, the original Mother Goose, dies.

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Samuel Pepys, English diarist and naval administrator, dies at age 70.

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English novelist Daniel Defoe is made to stand in the pillory as punishment for offending the government and church with his satire The Shortest Way With Dissenters.

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1706

John Evelyn diarist, dies.

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1707

Claude-Prosper J de Crébillon French writer (Le sopha), is born.

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Claude Prosper Paris France, novelist, is born.

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Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of the 3 Oranges), is born.

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Henry Fielding England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones), is born.

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George Farquhar, English dramatist, dies.

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George-Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, writer on natural history, is born.

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1708

Friedrich von Hagedorn German poet (Versuch einiger Poem), is born.

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Simon de Vries book seller/writer (Unequal), dies.

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1709

Samuel Johnson writer: created the first true dictionary of the English language in 1755; poet; essayist; novelist: Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia; is born.

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Thomas Corneille French dramatist, dies at 74.

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1710

Willem van Haren Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life), is born.

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1711

Lukas Fencer Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22.

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Jupiter Hammon first American black to publish poetry (Complete Works), is born.

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1712

John Luyken poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63.

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Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia), is born.

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1713

Anthony Ashley Cooper 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies.

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Onno Zwier van Haren Frisian poet (Fatherland), is born.

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Oct 05

Denis Diderot France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopdique), is born.

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Laurence Sterne Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy), is born.

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1714

Anton Ulrich German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80.

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1715

Ewald Christian von Kleist German lyric poet (Der Frühling), is born.

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Christian Gellert Saxony, poet, novelist (Fables & Tales), is born.

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John Althuysen Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery), is born.

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1716

Thomas Gray poet: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”; also: “...where ignorance is bliss/’Tis folly to be wise.”; is born.

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1717

Francois de Callieres, French author and diplomat, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Horace Walpole, author, creator of the Gothic novel genre, is born.

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1719

Magnus G Lichtwer German writer (Äsopischer Fabeln), is born.

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Joseph Addison essayist: periodicals: The Spectator, The Tatler, The Guardian, The Freeholder; author: Cato; dies at age 47.

Ref: 4

1720

Gilbert White 'father of British naturalists': author: The Natural History of Selborne; is born.

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Carlos Gozzi, Italian poet and dramatist, is born.

Ref: 70

Justus Möser writer, is born.

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J F Beck writer, is born.

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1721

Tobias George Smollett, satirical author and physician (Roderick Random, Humphrey Clinker), is born.

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William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet, is born.

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1722

Christopher Smart English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols), is born.

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A L Karschin writer, is born.

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1723

Johann C Günther writer, dies at 27.

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1725

Chikamatsu Monzaemon Japanese playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71.

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Karl Wilhelm Ramler German poet (Geistliche Kantaten), is born.

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Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt (Casanova), Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain), is born.

Ref: 17

1726

Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay France, writer (Woman, Man & 2 Kingdoms)/salon hostess, is born.

Ref: 5

John Vanbrugh Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62.

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John B Wellekens poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies.

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Moshe Darshan Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies.

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Eggert Olafsson Icelandic writer, is born.

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1727

Paul Aler French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70.

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1728

Domingos dos Reis Quita Portuguese playwright/poet, is born.

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Thomas Warton poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy), is born.

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Antoine Court de Gébelin French vicar/writer, is born.

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Thomas Warton poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy), is born.

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Robert Bage English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner), is born.

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Gian M Crescimbeni Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64.

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Anton Raphael Mengs German writer/neo-classic painter, is born.

Ref: 5

Francisco Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Oliver Goldsmith playwright: She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield; is born.

Ref: 68

Johann G von Zimmermann Swiss author, is born.

Ref: 5

1729

Meir Bacharach Hebrew poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Germany, critic/dramatist, is born.

Ref: 5

Edmund Burke British author (Philosophy & Inquiry), is born.

Ref: 5

1730

Charles Palissot de Montenoy French writer/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles L Fournier Flemish writer/painter, is born.

Ref: 5

1731

Rámon de la Cruz Spanish playwright/interpreter, is born.

Ref: 5

Daniel Defoe English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70.

Ref: 68

Nov 15

William Cowper England, preromantic poet (His Task), is born.

Ref: 68

William Cowper England, preromantic poet (His Task), is born.

Ref: 5

Sophie von La Roche, German writer, is born.

Ref: 70

1732

Matija A Reljkovic Croatia, writer (Satir iliti divji covic), is born.

Ref: 5

Pierre de Beaumarchais France, playwright (Barber of Seville), is born.

Ref: 5

George Colman "the Elder", playwright (baptised), is born.

Ref: 5

John Gay English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47.

Ref: 5

1733

Hubert K Poot Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44.

Ref: 5

1734

Filinto El¡sio [Francisco M do Nascimento] Portuguese poet, is born.

Ref: 5

1735

Erasmus Darwin, British poet, physician, grandfather of Charles, is born.

Ref: 68

Ulrich Broker writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1736

Johann Albert Fabricius, German bibliographer, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

1737

Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg, German theorist of Sturm & Drang literary movement, is born.

Ref: 70

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre French writer (Paul et Virgin), is born.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth Rowe poet, dies.

Ref: 5

1740

Giovanni Meli Siclian poet (Buccolica), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Tickell poet, dies.

Ref: 5

James Boswell Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer, is born.

Ref: 5

1741

Theodor Gotlieb von Hippel East Prussian author/mayor of Köningsberg, is born.

Ref: 5

Jean-Baptiste b. Rousseau, French dramatist and poet, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort French playwright (Maximes), is born.

Ref: 5

José B da Gama Portuguese poet (O Uraguai), is born.

Ref: 5

Celia Fiennes, English travel writer, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, artillery officer and writer of "Les Liaisons dangereuses", is born.

Ref: 62

Agatha "Aagje" Deken Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children), is born.

Ref: 5

1742

Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch literary/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

1743

Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo Peruvian playwright/poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Richard Savage poet, dies.

Ref: 68

1744

Nikolay Novikov, Russian writer, philanthropist and social critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at age 56.

Ref: 5

Richard Edgeworth writer, Bath, is born.

Ref: 5

William Byrd, American planter, satirist, and diarist, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

1745

Jonathan Swift, English satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels, dies at age 77.

Ref: 24

William Hayley, English poet, biographer, patron of the arts, is born.

Ref: 70

1746

Robert Blair Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Johann Heinse German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Jacob Wallenberg Swedish writer/naval chaplain, is born.

Ref: 5

1749

Vittorio Alfieri, Italian tragic poet (Cleopatra, Parigi shastigliata), is born.

Ref: 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright and novelist, best known for Faust, is born in Frankfurt.

Ref: 2

1750

Aaron Hill English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara), dies at age 64.

Ref: 70

Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Philippe Fabre d'Eglantine France, poet/satirist/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

1751

Jakob Michael Lenz, Russian-born German poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Johann Heinrich Voß writer, poet, translator, is born.

Ref: 5

William Hamilton of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Richard Sheridan, playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal), is born.

Ref: 2

1752

Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village), is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich M Klinger German playwright (Wirrwarr), is born.

Ref: 5

Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Chatterton English poet (Christabel), is born.

Ref: 5

1753

Evariste Désiré Desforges chevalier de Parny French poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Rhijnvis Feith Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa), is born.

Ref: 5

George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain's claim to the entire Ohio River valley.

Ref: 2

1754

Vincenzo Monti Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier), is born.

Ref: 5

Juan Meléndez Valdés Spanish lawyer/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Fielding, English novelist (Tom Jones), dies at age 47.

Ref: 70

George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy), is born.

Ref: 5

1755

Francesco Maffei, Italian dramatist, archaeologist and scholar, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

English lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language.

Ref: 2

1757

Bengt Lidner Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen), is born.

Ref: 5

William Blake English poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience), is born.

Ref: 5

1758

Johann F von Cronegk German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26.

Ref: 5

Allan Ramsay Sr Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

John Dyer, poet, dies.

Ref: 62

Noah Webster lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

1759

Robert Burns, Scottish poet ("Auld Lang Syne," "Comin' Thru the Rye.", is born in Alloway Scotland.

Ref: 2

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader), is born.

Ref: 5

François Andrieux French writer/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin writer/mother of Mary Shelley, is born.

Ref: 5

Frederich von Schiller Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy), is born.

Ref: 5

1760

Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise), is born.

Ref: 5

J P Hebel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

William Beckford British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek), is born.

Ref: 5

Kacic Miosic Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies.

Ref: 5

Knud L Rahbek Danish literary (Om sku skuespillerkunsten), is born.

Ref: 5

1761

Friedrich von Matthison German poet (Adelaide), is born.

Ref: 5

Adrian Loosjes Pzn publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager), is born.

Ref: 5

1762

Christian A Vulpius Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernst Chreistian Hesse composer, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

1763

J G Seume writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Paul writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1764

Ann Radcliffe London, Gothic novelist (Mysteries of Udolpho), is born.

Ref: 5

Marie-Joseph de Chénier French poet (Cajus Graechus), is born.

Ref: 5

Jens I Baggesen Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker), is born.

Ref: 5

Marie-Joseph Chenier, French poet, dramatist, politician and revolutionary, is born.

Ref: 70

Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Picander [Christian Henrici] German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies.

Ref: 5

Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Italian), is born.

Ref: 5

1765

Edward Young English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

1766

Antoine-Vincent Arnault French writer (Les Vénitiens), is born.

Ref: 5

Madame Germaine de Stael, Swiss-French belle-lettrist (An Extraordinary Woman), is born.

Ref: 5

1767

John Newberry English publisher, dies.

Ref: 5

1768

Lawrence Sterne writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies at age 54.

Ref: 5

1769

Gerhard Tersteegen German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

C F Gellert writer, dies at 54.

Ref: 5

1770

Johann Friedrich Hölderlin Tübingen Germany, lyric poet (Der Rhein, Andenken), is born.

Ref: 5

Sophie Mereau writer, is born.

Ref: 5

William Wordsworth, English poet laureate from 1843-50 ("The Prelude," "Lyrical Ballards"), is born.

Ref: 2

1771

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Charles Brockden Brown father of American novel (Wieland), is born.

Ref: 5

Heinrich D Zschokke Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf), is born.

Ref: 5

Gottlieb W Rabener German author (Bremer Beiträge), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin German saloon owner/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard), dies at age 54.

Ref: 70

Thomas Gray, English poet, dies.

Ref: 2

Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet, historian and biographer, is born.

Ref: 70

Heinrich J von Collin Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus), is born.

Ref: 5

1772

Paul-Louis Courier (de Méré), French writer/interpreter, is born.

Ref: 5

Frans Mikael Franzén Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo), is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich von Schlegel Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde), is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo), is born.

Ref: 5

Novalis writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Poet, author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", Samuel Coleridge is born.

Ref: 68

1773

Ludwig Tieck writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1774

Oliver Goldsmith playwright: She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield; dies at age 43.

Ref: 68

Robert Southey English poet laureate (1813-1843), biographer of Nelson, is born.

Ref: 5

1775

Walter Savage Landor Warwick England, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaretha J de Neufville author (Small Pligten), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Lamb writer: Oxford in the Vacation, Ibid, Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist, A Chapter on Ears, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; is born in London England.

Ref: 4

Jane Austen, author of "Pride and Prejudice", is born.

Ref: 4

1776

Dániel Berzsenyi [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet, is born.

Ref: 5

1777

Claude-Prosper J de Crébillon French writer (Le sopha), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Thomas Campbell, Scottish writer (The Pleasures of Hope), is born.

Ref: 2

Heinrich von Kleist Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Doeff colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

Juan N Gallego Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo), is born.

Ref: 5

1778

Ugo Foscolo Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis), is born.

Ref: 5

Ugo Foscolo Italy, writer/poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis), is born.

Ref: 5

William Hazlitt Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

1779

John Galt Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Moore poet, lyricist: Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, The Last Rose of Summer, Oft in the Stilly Night; is born.

Ref: 4

Clement Clarke Moore poet, author: ’Twas the Night before Christmas [A Visit from St. Nicholas]; is born.

Ref: 4

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager Denmark, poet (National Poet 1849), is born.

Ref: 5

1780

K v Günderode writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Nodier French writer (La fée aux miettes), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of George Croly, Irish churchman and author. During his life he published writings of biographical, historical and religious importance, but is primarily remembered today as author of the hymn, "Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart".

Ref: 5

Charles-Louis Panckoucke French publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

1781

Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn), is born.

Ref: 5

Adelbert von Chamisso writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies at age 52.

Ref: 5

Andres Bello Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas), is born.

Ref: 5

1782

Johann Wyss Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson), is born.

Ref: 5

Pietro Antonio Domenico Buonaventura Metastasio, Italian poet, dramatist, dies.

Ref: 4

Steen Steensen Blicher Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw), is born.

Ref: 5

1783

Stendahl [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et Le Noir), is born.

Ref: 5

Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), is born.

Ref: 5

Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homer), is born.

Ref: 5

Gabriele Rossetti, Italian poet, revolutionary, and scholar, is born.

Ref: 70

Washington Irving, American writer (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle), is born in New York, NY.

Ref: 2

Jane Taylor, children's writer best known as the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, is born.

Ref: 2

Max von Schenkendorf German poet, is born.

Ref: 5

1784

Phillis Wheatly poetess, dies.

Ref: 5

Antoine Court de Gébelin French vicar/writer, dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Denis Diderot France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopdique)/philosopher, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

Leigh Hunt, English journalist, essayist, poet and political radical, is born.

Ref: 2

Phillis Wheatley first important black poet in America, dies in Boston.

Ref: 5

Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Samuel Johnson writer: created the first true dictionary of the English language in 1755; poet; essayist; novelist: Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia; dies at age 75.

Ref: 4

1785

Jakob Grimm librarian; fairy tale author [with brother, Wilhelm]: Hansel and Grethel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White; is born.

Ref: 4

Alessandro Manzoni Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed), is born.

Ref: 5

Bettina von Arnim German writer (This Book Belongs to the King), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas De Quincey Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Love Peacock English author (Headlong Hall), is born.

Ref: 5

1786

Wilhelm Karl Grimm author w/brother Jakob, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28.

Ref: 5

Ludwig Börne writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1787

Louis Angely Germany, comedy writer (Sieben Mädchen in Uniform), is born.

Ref: 5

Ludwig Uhland writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert L. Stevens, American poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Charles Cowden Clarke English editor/Shakespearean critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Hermanus J Abbring Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao, is born.

Ref: 5

1788

Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron England, romantic poet (Don Juan), is born.

Ref: 5

Karoly Kisfaludy Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon), is born.

Ref: 5

Károly Kisfaludy Hungary, romantic poet (Tartars in Hungary-1819), is born.

Ref: 5

Gheorghe Asachi Romania, writer/humanist/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff German poet (Das Marmorbild), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Wesley hymn writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch poet, dies 46.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Rückert poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Theodore Hook, English novelist best known for Impromptu at Fulham, is born.

Ref: 2

Oct 24

Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb), is born.

Ref: 5

1789

Thomas Pringle, Scottish-South African traveller, poet, funder of parent publication of Blackwood's Magazine, is born.

Ref: 17

John Cleland, British author of "Fanny Hill", dies.

Ref: 68

Birth of Charlotte Elliott, English devotional writer. An illness at age 33 left her an invalid her remaining 50 years, during which she devoted herself to religious writing. Of her 150 hymns, "Just As I Am" remains popular today.

Ref: 5

Bernard S Ingemann Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange), is born.

Ref: 5

Lady Marguerite Blessington, English socialite and author who wrote a biography of Lord Byron, is born.

Ref: 2

James Fenimore Cooper is born in Burlington, NJ.

Ref: 62

James Fenimore Cooper writer: The Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie; is born.

Ref: 4

1790

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens), is born.

Ref: 5

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens), is born.

Ref: 5

[Johannes] Carsten Hauch Danish writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Warton English poet (Oxford sausage), dies.

Ref: 5

Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine Macon France, writer (Ren‚), is born.

Ref: 5

1791

Franz Gillparzer Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Price nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies.

Ref: 5

Count Henryk Rzewuski (J.Bejla), Polish novelist, is born.

Ref: 17

Francis Hopkinson US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

John Howard Payne US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home), is born.

Ref: 5

Lydia Sigourney US, religious author (How to Be Happy), is born.

Ref: 5

Sergey Aksakov Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family), is born.

Ref: 5

A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton), is born.

Ref: 5

1792

Henrik A Bjerregaard Norwegian writer/poet (Sønner af Norge), is born.

Ref: 5

Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma Fries story teller (Rhymes & Tales), is born.

Ref: 5

Jakob Michael Lenz, Russian-born German poet, dies at age 41.

Ref: 70

Jakob Michael Lenz, Russian-born German poet (That Soldier), dies at age 41.

Ref: 70

Aug 04

Percy Bysshe Shelley England, romantic poet (Adonais), is born in Field Place, England.

Ref: 5

Edward John Trelawney England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son), is born.

Ref: 5

Abraham J van de Aa lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

1793

Bengt Lidner Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35.

Ref: 5

Carlo Goldoni Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Charles Sealsfield writer (The Making of America), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan F Willems Flemish writer/philologist, is born.

Ref: 5

Edouard Corbière French captain/writer (Le negrier), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Francois Casimir DeLavigne, French poet/dramatist, is born.

Ref: 17

John Clare Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar), is born.

Ref: 5

1794

Rámon de la Cruz Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles French author/politician, dies.

Ref: 5

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort French playwright, commits suicide at 53.

Ref: 5

Anna Brownell Jameson Dublin, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish critic, novelist and biographer, is born.

Ref: 70

William Cullen Bryant poet: Thanatopsis, To a Waterfowl, A Forest Hymn, The Prairies; editor: NY Evening Post; is born.

Ref: 4

1795

Rainieri de Calzabigi Italian literary, dies at 80.

Ref: 5

James Boswell author: biographer: Life of Samuel Johnson; dies.

Ref: 4

James Boswell author: biographer: Life of Samuel Johnson; dies.

Ref: 4

Gilbert White 'father of British naturalists': author: The Natural History of Selborne; dies.

Ref: 5

James Boswell author: biographer: Life of Samuel Johnson; dies.

Ref: 4

John Keats London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), is born.

Ref: 5

1796

John Gelinde van Blom Frisian notary/author, is born.

Ref: 5

James Macpherson poet, dies.

Ref: 5

K L Immermann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

August Pauly German classicus (Real Encyclopedia), is born.

Ref: 5

Johann P Uz German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Poet Robert Burns dies in Scotland of a lingering illness brought on by excessive drinking at age 37.

Ref: 4

Manuel Breton de los Herreros Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

1797

Horace [Horatio] Walpole British horror writer, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French poet/musketeer/writer (Moïse, Chatterton), is born.

Ref: 5

Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist best known for Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English writer (Vindication of the Rights of Women) and women's rights advocate, dies at age 38.

Ref: 70

Heinrich Heine poet: The Lorelei, Atta Troll, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Germany A Winter’s Tale, Romacero; author: Travel Pictures, The Romantic School, On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany; is born.

Ref: 4

1798

Isaac da Costa Dutch writer/lawyer, is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Crofton Croker Irish story teller (Fairy legends), is born.

Ref: 5

Matija A Reljkovic Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Henry Neele London, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm H Wackenroder German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24.

Ref: 5

Hoffmann von Fallersleben, August, German patriotic poet, philologist and literary historian, is born.

Ref: 70

Dionysios Solomos poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt (Casanova), Italian writer, soldier and adventurer, dies at age 73.

Ref: 70

Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, scholar and philosopher, is born.

Ref: 70

English poet William Wordsworth visits the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

Ref: 2

Charles-Joseph Panckoucke publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Adam B Mickiewicz Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz), is born.

Ref: 5

1799

Galib Dede/Seyh Galib Turkish poet (Hüsn ü Ask), dies at about 40.

Ref: 5

Mohammed Esad Galib Dede Turkish poet (Hüsn-ü asjk, dies at about 41.

Ref: 5

Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret Portuguese playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Frantisek L Celakovsky Czechoslovakian poet (national anthem, folk song), is born.

Ref: 5

Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, French dramatist, dies at age 67.

Ref: 5

Honore de Balzac novelist: The Human Comedy, Droll Stories, The Chouans, is born.

Ref: 4

Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt), is born.

Ref: 5

Alexander S Pushkin Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin), is born (or June 6th on the Gregorian (new) calendar.

Ref: 5

August Kopisch German writer (Die Heinzelmännchen von Köln), is born.

Ref: 5

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades), is born (or May 26th on the Julian (old) calendar).

Ref: 68

1800

William Chambers author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding), is born.

Ref: 5

Death of William Cowper, 69, English poet. A lifelong victim of depression, Cowper nevertheless left a great spiritual literary legacy, including three enduring hymns: "God Moves in a Mysterious Way," "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" and "There is a Fountain."

Ref: 5

Louis Hachette French publisher (Librairie Hachette), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby), is born.

Ref: 5

Mihály Vörösmarty Hungary, poet/dramatist ("To a Day-Dreamer"), is born.

Ref: 5

France Preseren Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici), is born.

Ref: 5

Emil Aarestrup Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), is born.

Ref: 5

Gergely Czuczor Hung/Czechoslovakian poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

1801

Novalis writer, dies at 28.

Ref: 5

Claude Tillier French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), is born.

Ref: 5

Eduard Devrient, German dramatist, is born.

Ref: 70

Karl Baedeker Germany, published travel books, is born.

Ref: 5

Grabbe writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1802

Ion Heliade-Radulescu Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica), is born.

Ref: 5

Eduard von Bauernfeld Vienna, comedic playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Lydia Child, American writer/abolitionist: Hobomok, The Rebels, The Frugal Housewife, The Mother’s Book, [w/husband] An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans; newspaper publisher [w/husband]: The National Antislavery Standard; is born.

Ref: 4

Victor Hugo, French novelist and poet (Les Misérables), is born in Besancon, France.

Ref: 2

Elias Lönrot folklorist, is born.

Ref: 5

Erasmus Darwin, British poet, physician, grandfather of Charles, dies.

Ref: 68

Harriet Martineau, English essayist and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Robert Chambers, Scottish author and publisher, is born.

Ref: 70

Alexandre Dumas, French author (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers), is born.

Ref: 2

Aug 13

Nikolaus Lenau Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser), is born.

Ref: 5

Letitia Elizabeth Landon England, poet/novelist/socialite, is born.

Ref: 5

Elijah Lovejoy newspaper editor/publisher: St. Louis Observer; abolitionist; shot to death Nov 7, 1837 by pro-slavery mob as he sought to protect his newspaper’s newly delivered press.

Ref: 4

1803

Douglas William Jerrold London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Magazine), is born.

Ref: 5

J W L Gleim writer, dies.

Ref: 5

F G Klopstock writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock German poet, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Hieronymus van Alphen Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Flora Tristan writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Smith Surtees novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson US, essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn), is born in Boston.

Ref: 5

Prosper Merimee, French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet, dies at age 54.

Ref: 70

1804

Charlotte Lennox English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies.

Ref: 5

Eugane "Marie Joseph" Sue France, novelist (Wandering Jew), is born.

Ref: 5

József Bajza Hungarian author/poet/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Johan Ludvig Runeberg Finland, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant) author; one of the first liberated women; is born.

Ref: 4

Nathaniel Hawthorne Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter), is born.

Ref: 68

Charles-Augustin de Sainte-Beuve France, critic/writer (deax violes esgales), is born.

Ref: 5

1805

Mihály Csokonai Vitéz Hungarian (stage)poet (Dorottya), dies at 31.

Ref: 5

William H Ainsworth English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Sarah Flower Adams, English religious writer. Her most enduring verses today comprise the lyrics to the hymn, "Nearer, My God, To Thee."

Ref: 5

Denmark’s most famous author, Hans Christian Andersen, is born in Odense, Denmark.

Ref: 4

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet and playwright, dies at age 45.

Ref: 5

John Bartlett, lexicographer best known for Bartlett's Quotations, is born.

Ref: 2

Belle van Zuylen Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult [Daniel Stern] French author (Knife), is born.

Ref: 5

1806

Andre H C van Hasselt Belgian poet (La Belgium), is born.

Ref: 5

Nathaniel Willis writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Magazine), is born.

Ref: 5

Carlos Gozzi, Italian poet and dramatist, dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

1807

Sophie von La Roche, German writer, dies at age 75.

Ref: 70

August G Meissner German estheticus/literary, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, The Wreck of the Hesperus; is born in Portland ME.

Ref: 4

Franz Grave von Pocci German poet/composer (Der Alchemist), is born.

Ref: 5

Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poet/literature critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Aloysius Bertrand ("Gaspard de la Nuit"), French poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Clara Reeve English author (old English baron), dies.

Ref: 5

John Greenleaf Whittier poet: Barbara Frietchie, Maud Miller, Snowbound; Quaker: devoted to the abolitionist cause in U.S.; died Sep 7, 1892

Ref: 2

1808

Gerrit van der Linde Jz "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet, is born.

Ref: 5

José de Espronceda y Delgado Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes), is born.

Ref: 5

Martha Finley children's book author, is born.

Ref: 5

Gérard de Nerval [Labrunie] French poet/writer (Sylvia), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernest Panckoucke French publisher (Horatius), is born.

Ref: 5

Johan M Dautzenberg Flemish author (Future), is born.

Ref: 5

1809

Edgar Allan Poe poet: The Raven; author of suspense tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher; is born in Boston MA.

Ref: 4

Frederik Paludan-Müller Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden), is born.

Ref: 5

Sophia Hawthorne writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés [Placido], Cuban poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolay Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, dramatist and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Nikolai V. Gogol, Russian writer (The Inspector General, Dead Souls), is born.

Ref: 2

Edward FitzGerald England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolai Gogol writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate (1850), wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade, is born.

Ref: 68

Oliver Wendell Holmes Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Tennyson England’s Poet Laureate [1850]: In Memoriam, The Lady of Shalott, The Lotuseaters, The Idylls of the King, Maud, Enoch Arden, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; is born.

Ref: 5

1810

Aernout Drost Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen), is born.

Ref: 5

A Glabbrenner writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Juan B Alberdi [Figarillo] Argentina politician/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred de Musset Paris France, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine), is born.

Ref: 5

1811

Friedrich Nicolai, German writer; a leader of the German Enlightenment, dies at age 77,

Ref: 70

Marie-Joseph de Chénier French poet (Chant du Départ), dramatist, politician and revolutionary, dies at age 46.

Ref: 5

Horace Greely, founder of the New York Tribune and abolitionist, is born.

Ref: 2

Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review), is born.

Ref: 5

Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe is born.

Ref: 68

Jon Sigurdsson Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends, is born.

Ref: 5

William Makepeace Thackeray England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair), is born.

Ref: 5

Theophile Gautier Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus), is born.

Ref: 5

1812

Peter C Asbjørnsen Norwegian fairy tale writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Dickens, English novelist whose stories reflected life in Victorian England, is born.

Ref: 68

Berthold Auerbach German author (Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten), is born.

Ref: 5

Aaron Bernstein writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Browning, London England, poet (The Pied Piper), is born.

Ref: 5

Henri A Esquiros French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles), is born.

Ref: 5

Ivan Goncharov Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Moses Levy, English newspaperman; founded the London newspaper Daily Telegraph, is born.

Ref: 70

Samuel Smiles Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty), is born.

Ref: 5

1813

Louis L Bonaparte English/French linguist/senator, is born.

Ref: 5

C M Wieland writer, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist/feminist, is born.

Ref: 70

Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright/critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Friedrich Hebbel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Jane Borthwick, Scottish writer. Together with her sister Sarah, Jane translated many foreign hymns into English, including "My Jesus, As Thou Wilt" and "Be Still, My Soul."

Ref: 5

Louis-Sébastien Mercier French poet (Le Déserteur), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Daniel Macmillan, Scottish bookseller; co-founded Macmillan Publishing Co., is born.

Ref: 70

1814

Aubrey de Vere Irish writer (Victorian Observer), is born.

Ref: 5

Ellen Wood English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey), is born.

Ref: 5

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and patriot, dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian national poet/painter, is born.

Ref: 5

Taras Shevchenko Ukraine, national poet/painter/professor of Kiev, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Reade England, novelist (The Cloister & the Hearth), is born.

Ref: 5

Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov Russia, romantic poet/novelist (Demon), is born.

Ref: 5

Marquis de Sade (Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade) author: Justine; dies at age 74.

Ref: 4

Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne Belgian fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

1815

M Claudius writer, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugène-Marin Labiche French playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Giuseppe La Farina, Italian writer and leader of the Risorgimento, is born.

Ref: 70

Richard Henry Dana, American lawyer and author, is born.

Ref: 70

Anna Ella Carroll US, civil war writer (Reconstruction), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Meli Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

1816

Charlotte Bronte novelist/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Sheridan playwright: The Critic, School for Scandal, The Rivals; dies.

Ref: 4

Charlotte Brontë, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre), is born.

Ref: 5

Philip James Bailey English poet (Festus), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Sheridan playwright: The Critic, School for Scandal, The Rivals; dies.

Ref: 4

1817

Harmen S Sytstra Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), is born.

Ref: 5

Antony Winkler Prins Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia), is born.

Ref: 5

José Zorrilla y Moral Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco), is born.

Ref: 5

János Arany Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda), is born.

Ref: 5

Juan Meléndez Valdés Spanish lawyer/poet, dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Georg Herwegh writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Naturalist-author Henry David Thoreau is born in Concord, MA.

Ref: 68

Germaine de Stael, French-Swiss literary critic and novelist, dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Jane Austen author: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility; dies at age 41.

Ref: 4

William Kirby, Canadian writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Samuel Ringgold Ward Maryland, minister/abolitionist/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Tom Taylor, British playwright whose play "Our American Cousin" was being performed at Ford's Theater when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, is born.

Ref: 2

Pierre Larousse, French encyclopaedist, is born.

Ref: 70

Max von Schenkendorf German poet, dies at 34.

Ref: 5

1818

Zacharias Topelius Finnish historical novelist (Surgeon's Stories), is born.

Ref: 5

Otto Ludwig German writer (Die Heiterethei), is born.

Ref: 5

Adriaan Loosjes Pzn Dutch publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Josh Billings, American humorist and writer; popular after the Civil War, is born.

Ref: 70

William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist, dies at age 52.

Ref: 70

José Amador de los Ríos Spanish historian/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns Was Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," & "The Gadfly".

Ref: 5

Emily Bronte, author of "Wuthering Heights" is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolay Novikov, Russian writer, philanthropist and social critic, dies at age 74.

Ref: 2

Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons), is born.

Ref: 5

Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons), is born.

Ref: 5

1819

Arthur Hugh Clough poet, friend of Matthew Arnold, is born.

Ref: 5

John Ruskin writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite), is born.

Ref: 5

Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author/novelist/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

James Russell Lowell essayist, poet: A Fable for Critics, The Biglow Papers, The Vision of Sir Launfal, Commemoration Ode, The Cathedral; first editor of Atlantic Monthly, co-editor: North American Review; founded The Pioneer literary magazine, is born.

Ref: 4

Filinto Elísio [do Nascimento], Portuguese poet, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi writer, dies.

Ref: 5

August v Kotzebue writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Louise Otto Germany, author/feminist, is born.

Ref: 5

Walt Whitman, West Hills NY, poet (Leaves of Grass), is born in West Hill, NY.

Ref: 5

Herman Melville US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), is born.

Ref: 5

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) novelist: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Radical, Daniel Deronda, is born in England.

Ref: 4

Jakov P Polonski Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), is born.

Ref: 5

George Eliot England, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), is born.

Ref: 5

Theodor Fontane German writer (Effi Briest), is born.

Ref: 5

1820

Anne Bronte English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall), is born.

Ref: 5

Hermann von Lingg German playwright/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Hans E Schack Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne), is born.

Ref: 5

Bozena Nemcová [Barnora Panklová], Czechoslovakian author (Babicka), is born.

Ref: 5

Multatuli writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Eduard Douwes Dekker [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), is born.

Ref: 5

Anna Sewell, English novelist who's "Black Beauty" has become the classic story about horses, is born.

Ref: 2

Arthur Young author (Annals of Agriculture), dies.

Ref: 5

Alice Cary, Cincinnati OH, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Whitaker England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack, is born.

Ref: 5

Willem Doorenbos [Keerom] literary/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Elvina M. Hall, American Methodist poet who authored the hymn, 'Jesus Paid It All' (a.k.a. 'I Hear the Savior Say').

Ref: 5

John Bartlett US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations), is born.

Ref: 5

Lucretia Hale, American novelist and writer of children's books, is born.

Ref: 70

Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita), is born.

Ref: 5

William Hayley, English poet, biographer, patron of the arts, dies at age 75.

Ref: 70

Fredrich Engels, socialist who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, is born.

Ref: 68

1821

Hermann Allmers writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John Keats, the poet, dies.

Ref: 4

John Keats poet: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, Endymion: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”, On a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, On Melancholy, To Autumn; dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome.

Ref: 4

Ernest Feydeau French author (Georges Feydeau), is born.

Ref: 5

William Allingham Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland), is born.

Ref: 5

Aleksej F Pisemski Russian writer (Clodhopper), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil), is born.

Ref: 5

Pierre Dupont song writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian lyric poet and dramatist, is born.

Ref: 70

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment), is born.

Ref: 5

Alexander Gardner, American photographer who documented the Civil War and the West, is born.

Ref: 2

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski Russian novelist & short-story writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and political revolutionary (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment), is born.

Ref: 68

Nikolai Nekrasov Russia, poet/journalist (Who Can be Happy in Russia?), is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolai A Nekrasov Russian poet (Russkije Zjenjshiny), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustave Flaubert Rouen Normandy France, novelist (Madame Bovary), is born.

Ref: 5

Claire countess the R‚musat/Vergennes/author (Salon), dies at 41.

Ref: 5

1822

Maxime Du Camp France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres), is born.

Ref: 5

Lev A Mej Russian nobleman/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Moritz Grave von Strachwitz German poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Everett Hale US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country), is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Bertuch writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Emile Erckmann [E-Chatrian] French writer (Waterloo), is born.

Ref: 5

E de Goncourt writer, is born.

Ref: 5

29-year old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns while sailing in Italy.

Ref: 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley lyric poet: Prometheus Unbound, Epipsychidion, The Witch of Atlas, Hellas, Adonais, A Defence of Poetry, Ode to the West Wind; dies.

Ref: 4

Matthew Arnold, England, poet/critic (Dover Beach), is born.

Ref: 5

1823

Sándor Petöfi Kikkörös, Hungary, poet, revolutionary (Jáos Vitéz), is born.

Ref: 5

Zacharius Werner German playwright, dies at 36.

Ref: 5

Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Italian), dies.

Ref: 2

Ann Radcliffe (Ward) English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58.

Ref: 5

E.Z.C. Judson, American adventurer and writer of 19th century "dime novels", is born.

Ref: 70

Thos.Spencer Baynes, English editor of 9th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, is born.

Ref: 70

Mary Chestnut author: A Diary from Dixie; died in 1886, is born.

Ref: 4

Aleksandr Ostrovsky Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers), is born.

Ref: 5

Charlotte Mary Yonge England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe), is born.

Ref: 5

Francis Parkman American historian/author (Oregon Trail), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Hughes England, author (Tom Brown's School Days), is born.

Ref: 5

Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg, German theorist of Sturm & Drang literary movement, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

1824

William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (The Woman in White, The Moonstone), is born.

Ref: 5

Rhijnvis Feith Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich German poet, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

George Curtis, American author and editor, is born.

Ref: 70

Branko Radicevic Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), is born.

Ref: 5

Sydney Thompson Dobell poet (The Roman), is born.

Ref: 5

English romantic poet (Don Juan), Lord Byron [George Gorden Noel] dies of malaria at age 36 while aiding Greek independence.

Ref: 2

Alexandre Dumas novelist: La Dame aux Camelias; playwright; is born.

Ref: 4

Phoebe Cary Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary), is born.

Ref: 5

Francis Turner, Palgrave Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

George MacDonald Scotland, sci-fi author (Lilith, Princess & Curdie), is born.

Ref: 5

1825

Birth of Alfred Edersheim, English biblical scholar. Converted to Christianity from Judaism before age 20, Edersheim later published "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah" (1883A90), a Christian classic still in print!.

Ref: 5

Paul-Louis Courier (Méré), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Mason Weems clergyman, author; dies.

Ref: 4

R.D. Blackmore author (Norie), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Henry Stoddard, American poet, critic and editor, is born.

Ref: 70

1826

Herman Grimm Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson), is born.

Ref: 5

Mikhail Saltykov Spas-Ugol Russia, radical novelist/satirist (Family of Noblemen), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph V von Scheffel German writer (Gaudeamus), is born.

Ref: 5

Oskar Peschel German journalist/geography (Völkerkunder), is born.

Ref: 5

Dina M Craik writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Carlo Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio, is born.

Ref: 2

Charles-A Chatrian [Erckmann-C] French writer (L'ami Fritz), is born.

Ref: 5

Martinus Nijhoff founder Nijhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale), is born.

Ref: 5

1827

Lewis Wallace Major General (Union volunteers)/lawyer/diplomat/author (Ben Hur), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles T H Coster Belgian literary (Légendes Flamandes) [or Aug 20], is born.

Ref: 5

William Blake poet: Songs of Innocence; artist: engraved his own poems and drawings on copper plates; dies at age 69.

Ref: 70

John Towsend Trowbridge, poet and author of books for boys, wrote the Jack Hazzard and Toby Trafford series, is born.

Ref: 2

Dov Baer Schneersohn Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies.

Ref: 5

1828

Jules Verne ‘the father of science fiction’: writer: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days; is born in France.

Ref: 4

George Meredith England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat), is born.

Ref: 5

Vittorio Bersezio [Carlo Nugelli] Italian playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Norwegian poet-dramatist Henrik Ibsen was born.

Ref: 70

Henrik Ibsen Norway, dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret Oliphant Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City), is born.

Ref: 5

Adelardo Lopez del Ayala y Herrera, Spanish dramatist, politician, is born.

Ref: 17

Gabriel Dante Rossetti England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite, is born.

Ref: 5

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), is born near Tula.

Ref: 2

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), is born.

Ref: 68

Mathilde Wesendonk German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter), is born.

Ref: 5

1829

Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki] Japanese humorist/gesaku-author, is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas William Robertson England, playwright (Caste), is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Von Schlegel, German romantic poet and critic (Philosophy of History, History of Literature), dies at age 56.

Ref: 70

Louis van Haecke Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas William Robertson England, playwright (Caste), is born.

Ref: 5

Gerard Keller writer (Netherlands Spectator), is born.

Ref: 5

William Booth founder of the Salvation Army; author: In Darkest England, The Way Out; is born.

Ref: 4

Johanna Spyri Switzerland, writer (Heidi), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist who, with Mark Twain, wrote The Guilded Age, is born.

Ref: 2

Hinton Helper, southern abolitionist who wrote The Impending Crisis, is born.

Ref: 2

1830

Henry Kingsley English/Australian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

W Waiblinger writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Eliza Laurillard Dutch vicar/poet/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Alexander Muir Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), is born.

Ref: 5

Martinus W van der Aa author/Dutch head-editor (The Time), is born.

Ref: 5

Hector H Malot French writer (Without Family), is born.

Ref: 5

Jules de Geyter Belgian poet (International), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane, an orphaned Scottish poet who penned two of the most haunting hymns in the English language: 'Beneath the Cross of Jesus' and 'The Ninety and Nine.'

Ref: 5

Christina Rossetti London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away), is born.

Ref: 5

H Benjamin Constant French politician/writer, dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Emily Dickinson, American poet of more than 1,000 poems, seven published in her lifetime, is born in Amherst MA.

Ref: 68

Jules de Goncourt France, novelist (Germinie), is born.

Ref: 5

Justin M'Carthy Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), is born.

Ref: 5

1831

E(dward) P(ayson) Dutton, US publisher, founder of EP Dutton Publishing House, is born.

Ref: 17

Achim vs Arnim writer, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Mary Mapes Dodge New York City NY, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates), is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov, Russian novelist and short-story writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy.

Ref: 5

Friedrich M Klinger German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Amelia Barr writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson author (Ramona), is born.

Ref: 5

Ignatius Donnelly, American social reformer best known for his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, is born.

Ref: 2

Willem Bilderdijk Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Mark Rutherford writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1832

Horatio Alger, Jr., American clergyman, children's author (Ragged Dick, Tattered Tom), is born in Revere MA.

Ref: 68

George Crabbe English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Birth of Hannah Whitall Smith, American Quaker evangelist and devotional author. Her best-known writing was "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life" (1875). It's still in print!

Ref: 5

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poet, Weimar, Germany.

Ref: 5

Theodorus J I Arnold bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian), is born.

Ref: 5

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, novelist, dies at age 82.

Ref: 5

Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet, historian and biographer, dies at age 61.

Ref: 70

Louisa May Alcott, the American author of the classic "Little Women", is born in Germantown PA.

Ref: 70

Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution: The Indian Burying Ground; dies.

Ref: 4

1833

Marie-Antoine Carème author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at 48.

Ref: 5

James Ball Antyne Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60.

Ref: 5

José M de Pereda y Sánchez the Porrúa Spanish writer (Sotileza), is born.

Ref: 5

Ricardo Palma Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas), is born.

Ref: 5

Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin German author, dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Spain, writer (Three-Cornered Hat), is born.

Ref: 5

Betsy Perk [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist, is born.

Ref: 5

François Andrieux French writer/politician, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Lillie Devereux Blake, American novelist and activist for women's suffrage, is born.

Ref: 70

Petroleum V. Nasby (David Ross Locke), humorist whose work was enjoyed by Abraham Lincoln, is born.

Ref: 2

Edmund Steadman, American poet and banker, is born.

Ref: 70

Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet, is born.

Ref: 2

1834

Ludovic Halévy, Paris France, French dramatist, is born.

Ref: 17

Felix Dahn writer, is born.

Ref: 5

William Morris poet, artist, socialist reformer; is born.

Ref: 4

William Morris England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist, is born.

Ref: 5

Samuel Coleridge poet: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan; dies at age 61.

Ref: 68

Aleksis Kivi Finland, playwright (Kullervo, Seitsem„n Veljest„), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 05

Anna Leonowens, English writer and governess to children of king Mongkut of Siam, is born.

Ref: 70

Thomas Pringle, Scottish-South African traveller, poet, funder of parent publication of Blackwood's Magazine, dies.

Ref: 17

Charles Lamb writer: Oxford in the Vacation, Ibid, Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist, A Chapter on Ears, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; dies at age 59.

Ref: 4

1835

Jan van Droogenbroeck Flemish poet, is born.

Ref: 5

François Haverschmidt Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Garnett English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker), is born.

Ref: 5

Friederike Blum writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Felicia Dorothea Hemans poet/hymn writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Alfred Austin Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden), is born.

Ref: 5

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) writer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper; is born in Florida, MO.

Ref: 68

Samuel Butler, English writer and painter (Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh), is born.

Ref: 2

August von Platen writer, dies at 39.

Ref: 5

1836

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (masochism), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Spanish poet and author, is born.

Ref: 70

Dániel Berzsenyi Hungarian poet, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Erminnie Adelle Platt US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

William Winter, drama critic and essayist for The NY Times, is born.

Ref: 2

Bret Harte US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, author: The Story of a Bad Boy, Cruise of the Dolphin, The Sisters' Tragedy, The Wyndham Towers, is born.

Ref: 4

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (masochism), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Frances Ridley Havergal, English devotional writer. In frail health most of her life, Miss Havergal was nevertheless a fruitful writer, and authored such hymns as "Take My Life and Let It Be," "Who is on the Lord's Side?" and "I Gave My Life for Thee".

Ref: 5

Edmond Picard French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel), is born.

Ref: 5

1837

Casimiro de Abreu Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau), is born.

Ref: 5

Poet Alexander Pushkin dies from wounds received in a duel two days earlier, at age 38 (or February 2nd on the Gregorian (new) calendar).

Ref: 4

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary, is born.

Ref: 5

Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades), dies at age 37 (or January 29th on the Julian (old) calendar).

Ref: 68

Ludwig Börne writer, dies at 50.

Ref: 5

Georg Büchner German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23.

Ref: 5

Rosalía de Castro Spanish writer (Canteres Gallegos, Follas Novas), is born.

Ref: 5

Ion Creanga Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie), is born.

Ref: 5

William Dean Howells US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic), is born.

Ref: 5

Jorge Isaacs, Colombian poet and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

John Burroughs writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake), is born.

Ref: 5

Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry M. (Martyn) Robert, U.S. Army General; author: Robert’s Rules of Order, the standard for parliamentary procedure; is born.

Ref: 4

Ernest Daudet French writer (White Terror), is born.

Ref: 5

Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, scholar and philosopher, dies at age 38.

Ref: 70

American Presbyterian abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah P. Lovejoy, 35, is murdered. Forced earlier to move his business from St. Louis to Alton, IL, Lovejoy was shot during the night by an anti_abolitionist mob while defending his presses.

Ref: 5

1838

Aleksandr I Polezjajev Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33.

Ref: 5

Aleksandr I Polezjajev Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33.

Ref: 5

Léon Dierx French poet, is born.

Ref: 5

J Schopenhauer writer, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Bengali novelist (Anandamath), is born.

Ref: 5

Augustin Daly, American playwright and theatrical manager, is born.

Ref: 70

1839

Maria Louise Ramé "Ouida" Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk England, screenwriter (A Dog of Flanders, The Little Dutch Girl), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugenio Maria de Hostos Puerto Rico, patriot/scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

James A Herne [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak), is born.

Ref: 5

John Galt Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds), is born.

Ref: 5

Luigi Capuana Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 04

Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism), is born.

Ref: 5

Bret (Francis) Harte writer: The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar; is born.

Ref: 4

Henry George land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty), is born.

Ref: 5

Isaac Kauffman Funk, publisher: the Funk of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary; is born.

Ref: 4

Rabbi Hayim Rapoport of Ostrowiec author (Maxim Chayyim), dies.

Ref: 5

Louis-Honore Frechette, Canadian poet, is born.

Ref: 2

1840

Austin Dobson England, poet/critic/biographer, is born.

Ref: 5

Constance Fenimore Woolson Claremont NH, writer (Jupiter Lights), is born.

Ref: 5

Emile Zola, French novelist: Therese Raquin, The Rougon-Macquart, The Belly of Paris, The Grog Shop, Nana, Germinal, The Crash, The Three Cities, The Four Gospels, The Experimental Novel, The Naturalistic Novelists, Naturalism in the Theater; an open letter to win a new trial for Alfred Dreyfus: J’accuse; is born.

Ref: 4

Andrea Bezzola writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Frederick William Stowe, son of the Harriet Beecher Stowe, is born.

Ref: 2

Alphonse Daudet French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Hardy England, poet/novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge), is born.

Ref: 5

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt England, writer (Irish Land League), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Verga, Italian novelist, short story writer and playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

Kemal Bey Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872), is born.

Ref: 5

1841

Wilhelmus Kist writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

J H Ferdinand Olivier German painter, dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Kristian Mandrup Elster Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl), is born.

Ref: 5

Olegario Víctor Andrade Argentina, poet (El nido de cóndores), is born.

Ref: 5

A Bertrand writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Joseph Blanco White theological writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Catulle Mendes, French poet, playwright and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Aug 10

Birth of Mary A. Lathbury, American Sunday School leader and poet. Daughter of a Methodist preacher, two of Lathbury's poems later became popular hymns: "Break Thou the Bread of Life" and "Day is Dying in the West".

Ref: 5

1842

François Coppée French poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Karl May German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou), is born.

Ref: 5

Ina Donna Coolbrith US, poet laureate of California, is born.

Ref: 5

Stephane Mallarme French poet (L'Apres-midi d'un faune), is born.

Ref: 5

Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle] French writer (The Love), buried at 59.

Ref: 5

Henrik A Bjerregaard Norwegian writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50.

Ref: 5

Antero Tarquinio de Quental Portugal, poet (Beatrice), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila), is born.

Ref: 5

José de Espronceda y Delgado Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34.

Ref: 5

Steele MacKaye, American playwright, actor and inventor, is born.

Ref: 70

Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust), is born.

Ref: 68

Ambrose Bierce Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust), is born.

Ref: 5

Branwell Bronte, the brother of the Bronte sisters and the model for Hindley Earnshaw in Emily's novel Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis. Emily and Anne die the same year.

Ref: 2

Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet, dies at age 57.

Ref: 70

Jose Maria de Heredia Cuba, French sonnet poet, is born.

Ref: 5

1843

Petronella Moens Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80.

Ref: 5

F. W. H. Myers, English writer/cofounder of the Society for Psychical Research, is born.

Ref: 70

Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay France/Brazil writer (Inocencia), is born.

Ref: 5

[Joaquim] Theófilo F Braga Portuguese poet/author/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

Henry James New York NY, US/British writer/critic (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), is born.

Ref: 5

Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain, novelist (Fountain of Gold, Nazáarin), is born.

Ref: 68

Noah Webster author, lexicographer: Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language; dies at age 84.

Ref: 4

Jean Francois Casimir DeLavigne, French poet/dramatist, dies.

Ref: 17

Gleb Uspensky Russia, author (Power of the Soil), is born.

Ref: 5

1844

Josip Jurcic Slovenian writer (10th Brother), is born.

Ref: 5

Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown Finnish playwright (Kovan onnen lapsia), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul M Verlaine France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur), is born.

Ref: 5

Andrew Lang Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book), is born.

Ref: 5

Gerard Manley Hopkins England, poet (The Windhover), is born.

Ref: 5

Minna Canth Finland, novelist/dramatist (social evils), is born.

Ref: 5

George Washington Cable, American writer (Northampton Years), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Bridges poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty), is born.

Ref: 5

1845

Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding.

Ref: 5

Ernest von Wildenbruch German playwright (Sedan), is born.

Ref: 5

August Pauly German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48.

Ref: 5

Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt), dies at age 45.

Ref: 70

August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77.

Ref: 5

American writer Henry David Thoreau began his two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.

Ref: 70

1846

Etienne P de Senancour French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Nikoli A Poveloi Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Nikoli A Poveloi Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

António C G Crespo Brazilian/Portuguese poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Auguste Bender writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Rosalie Amstein writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Leon Bloy, French writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth Barrett secretly weds Robert Browning at St. Marylebone Parish Church.

Ref: 62

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning run off to Paris together.

Ref: 5

1847

Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld] German author, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Kálmán Mikszáth Hungary, writer (Wonderparaplu), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonio de Castro Alves Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes), is born.

Ref: 5

Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Mary Lamb writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves back into town, to Concord, Massachusetts.

Ref: 2

Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian dramatist, is born.

Ref: 70

Nov 02

George Sorel French Socialist thinker, writer (violent revolutions), is born.

Ref: 5

The author of "Dracula" Bram Stoker is born.

Ref: 3

Julia Moore, poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Moritz Grave von Strachwitz German poet, dies at 25.

Ref: 5

1848

Khristo Botev hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

[François-Victor-]Jean Aicard French playwright/poet (Jeune Croyances), is born.

Ref: 5

Joris-Karl Huysmans France, writer (Against the Grain), is born.

Ref: 5

C Grant B Allen Canadian writer (Woman Who Did), is born.

Ref: 5

Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz, Portuguese short story writer, is born.

Ref: 17

A V Droste-Hülshoff writer, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Death of English devotional writer Sarah Flower Adams, 43. In 1845 she published The Flock at the Fountain, a catechism containing hymns for children. One of those hymns remains popular to this day: "Nearer, My God, To Thee."

Ref: 5

Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories), is born.

Ref: 4

Emily Bronte author: Wuthering Heights; dies at age 30.

Ref: 4

1849

August Strindberg Sweden, dramatist/novelist (Apologia), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Lovell Beddoes English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45.

Ref: 5

Jean Richepin French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux), is born.

Ref: 5

France Preseren Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48.

Ref: 5

Alexander L Kielland Norwegian writer/politician (Garman og Worse), is born.

Ref: 5

Juliusz Slowacki Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39.

Ref: 5

Anne Bronte English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall), dies at age 29.

Ref: 70

Salem, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne fired as Surveyor of Port.

Emma Lazarus poet ("The New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty), is born.

Ref: 5

Max Nordau, Hungarian-French physician, writer, and Jewish nationalist, is born.

Ref: 70

Sándor Petöfi Kikkörös, Hungary, poet, revolutionary (Jáos Vitéz), dies.

Ref: 17

William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic and editor, is born.

Ref: 70

Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Edmund Gosse London, translator/critic (Father & Son), is born.

Ref: 5

James Whitcomb Riley US, poet (The Raggedy Man), is born.

Ref: 68

Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he was found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place.

Ref: 2

Frances Hodgson Burnett. author of children's book (My Secret Garden), is born.

Ref: 5

James Lane Allen US writer (Kentucky Cardinal), is born.

Ref: 5

Dostoyevsky, Russian author, sentenced to die at age 27 but lives until 1881.

Ref: 62

Samuel E "Sam" van Beem actor (Fanfan la Tulipe), is born.

Ref: 5

1850

Mihail Eminesco [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis), is born.

Ref: 5

Francis Jeffrey Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies.

Ref: 5

Octave Mirbeau France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid), is born.

Ref: 5

The novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is published for the first time by Ticknor and Fields in Boston MA.

Ref: 4

Author of "Looking Backward" Edward Bellamy is born.

Ref: 4

William Lisle Bowles English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

William Wordswoth, poet, poet laureate of England (1843-50), dies near Grasmere, Westmorland, in England at age 80.

Ref: 4

Jane Porter novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Ivan Vazov Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke), is born.

Ref: 5

Stockbridge, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne meets Herman Melville at a picnic.

Guy de Maupassant author: The Tellier House, Yvette, Toine, The Horla, The Diamond Necklace, The Umbrella, The Piece of String, A Woman’s Life, Bel-Ami, Peter and John; is born.

Ref: 4

Honore de Balzac, French novelist (The Human Comedy, Lost Illusions), dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Margaret Hungerford ‘The Duchess’: author: Molly Bawn: “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.”; is born.

Ref: 4

Eugene Field author/journalist (Little Boy Blue), is born.

Ref: 5

Harishchandra India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Louis Stevenson, author: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses; is born.

Ref: 4

1851

Arne Garborg Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar), is born.

Ref: 5

Rafael Obligado Argentina, writer (Santos Vega), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Kate (O'Flaherty ) Chopin, novelist, short story writer (The Awakening), is born.

Ref: 2

Eduardo Acevedo Díaz Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria), is born.

Ref: 5

Indrið Einarsson Iceland playwright (Nyjársnóttin), is born.

Ref: 5

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is born.

Ref: 5

Stanko Vraz [Jakob Frass] Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40.

Ref: 5

James Fenimore Cooper writer: The Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie; dies at age 61.

Ref: 4

Rafael Obligado Argentina, writer (Santos Vega), is born.

Ref: 5

1852

Hâmid Abdülhak Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolai Garin [Michailovski] Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov), is born.

Ref: 5

William Scarborough Macon GA, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes), is born.

Ref: 5

Micha Joseph Levenson Hebrew poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Nikolai Garin [Michailovski] Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov), is born.

Ref: 5

[James] Burner Matthews US playwright/critic (New York Times), is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolay Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, dramatist and novelist, dies at age 42.

Ref: 70

Thomas Moore, Irish poet, satirist, composer and musician, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

Lady (Isabella Augusta) Gregory, Irish playwright, helped found the Abbey Theatre, is born.

Ref: 2

Nikolai Gogol playwright, novelist: Dead Souls; dies at age 43.

Ref: 4

Lady Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple), is born.

Ref: 5

Lady Augusta Gregory Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress, is born.

Ref: 5

Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Theodor Althaus writer, dies.

Ref: 5

John Howard Payne actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies.

Ref: 5

Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Edwin Markham US, poet (1st winner of Amer Academy of Poets Award 1937), is born.

Ref: 5

John Richardson Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies.

Ref: 5

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham author/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

1853

Juan N Gallego Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Gustav Falke German author/poet (Der Mann im Nebel), is born.

Ref: 5

José Martí y Perez Cuba, poet/essayist/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

August Kopisch German writer (Mäuseturm), dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Juan N Gallego Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Jaroslav Vrchlicky [Emil Frída], Czechoslovakian poet (1 night on Karlstein), is born.

Ref: 5

Ludwig Tieck writer, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Alfred von Berger writer, is born.

Ref: 5

E. W. Howe, American editor, essayist and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

William Carlos Williams, American physician, poet, novelist and short story writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Salvador Diaz Miron Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas), is born.

Ref: 5

Isolde Kurz German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), is born.

Ref: 5

1854

Willem PC Knuttel Dutch bibliographer/librarian, is born.

Ref: 5

Gabriele Rossetti, Italian poet, revolutionary, and scholar, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Georges Eekhoud Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium), is born.

Ref: 5

Max Kretzer, German Expressionist writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Henry David Thoreau published "Walden," which described his experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

Ref: 5

Playwrite (Picture of Dorian Gray) Oscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) Wilde is born in Dublin Ireland.

Ref: 70

Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Arthur Rimbaud France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations), is born.

Ref: 5

John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish critic, novelist and biographer, dies at age 60.

Ref: 70

1855

Eliëzer Ben-Jehuda [Perelmann], Latvia, writer (1st Hebrew newspaper), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Russell Mitford English playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Wordsworth writer, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Gérard de Nerval [Labrunie], French poet/writer, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Lútzen Wagenaar Frisian writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages), is born.

Ref: 5

Olive Schreiner South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman), is born.

Ref: 5

Charlotte Brontë English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38

Ref: 5

Gyula Reviczky Hungarian author/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Ernst L Wolzogen German writer/founder (Cabaret Überbrettl), is born.

Ref: 5

Eduard earl of Keyserling German writer (Dritte Stiege), is born.

Ref: 5

Emile A G Verhaeren Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Wing Pinero British playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolaj A Bestoezjev Russian writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies.

Ref: 5

Clarence Barron, American financial editor and publisher, is born.

Ref: 70

The first edition of Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, was published in Brooklyn, NY.

Ref: 4

Henry Cuyler Bunner, English poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Heinrich Hart German writer (Song of Humanity), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Pascoli Italian classicist/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

1856

Lizette Woodworth Reese US poet (Branch of May, Tears), is born.

Ref: 5

L'udovít Stúr Slovaaks author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at 40.

Ref: 5

Lizette Woodworth Reese US poet (Branch of May, Tears), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Harris Galway England, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ref: 5

Matilde Serao [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Moréas [Yannis Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert L. Stevens, American poet, dies at age 68.

Ref: 70

Charles Dodgson, later known as Lewis Carrol, meets Alice Liddel, model for Alice in Wonderland.

Ref: 10

Lyman Frank Baum, Chittenango NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz), is born.

Ref: 5

Elbert Hubbard US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia), is born.

Ref: 68

H. Rider Haggard, English novelist, author of "King Solomon's Mines", is born.

Ref: 62

Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin writer: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Timothy’s Quest, The Bird’s Christmas Carol; organized first free kindergarten in San Francisco, established CA Kindergarten Training School; is born.

Ref: 4

1857

Henry B Fuller American writer (Under the Skylights), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry B Fuller American writer (Under the Skylights), is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Abraham J van der Aa lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Arnold Sauwen Flemish poet (Along the Meuse), is born.

Ref: 5

John Davidson, Scottish poet and playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

Hermann Bang writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Edouard Rod France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), is born.

Ref: 5

LC Alfred the Musset French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies at age 46.

Ref: 5

Daniel Macmillan, Scottish bookseller; co-founded Macmillan Publishing Co., dies at age 57.

Ref: 70

Gertrude Atherton, novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

George Gissing English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski), Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), is born.

Ref: 5

George [Robert] Gissing England, novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

1858

Gustaf af Geijerstam Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror), is born.

Ref: 5

English poet Frances Ridley Havergal, 21, while on a visit in Germany, penned the verses which later became her first popular hymn: "I Gave My Life for Thee."

Ref: 5

Tomas Carrasquilla Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugene Brieux French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries), is born.

Ref: 5

Gerrit van der Linde Jz Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

József Bajza Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Rémy de Gourmont French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour), is born.

Ref: 5

John Meade Falkner novelist (Moonfleet), is born.

Ref: 5

Carl Hauptmann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Chesnutt novelist: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, The Colonel’s Dream; is born.

Ref: 4

Edith Nesbit England, children books author (Railway Children), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Dorothy Frances Gurney, English devotional writer. During her lifetime she published two volumes of verse, as well as a small devotional work entitled, 'A Little Book of Quiet.'.

Ref: 5

Gerrit van der Linde Jz Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko playwright (Life in Russian Theater), is born.

Ref: 5

1859

Karl Bleibtreu German author (Revolution of Literature), is born.

Ref: 5

Kostís Palamás Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília), is born.

Ref: 5

B v Arnim writer, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Frank van de Goes Dutch writer/marxist theorist, is born.

Ref: 5

Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof), is born.

Ref: 5

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (The Wind in the Willows), is born in Edinburgh.

Ref: 2

Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg], Austria, author (Lebensabend), is born.

Ref: 5

A[lfred] E[dward] Housman England, poet (Shropshire Lad), is born.

Ref: 5

Joséphin Péladan French writer/founder (French Rosicrucians), is born.

Ref: 5

Sergei T Aksakov Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Andy Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy), is born.

Ref: 5

Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, creator of Sherlock Holmes, is born.

Ref: 68

Alfred Edward Housman Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Heino Damrosch author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernest Rhys, English editor, is born.

Ref: 70

Charles Comiskey first basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox), is born.

Ref: 5

(James Henry) Leigh Hunt, English essayist, critic, journalist and poet, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Karl Baedeker, German publisher, dies at age 57.

Ref: 70

Concord MA: Thoreau speaks in favor of John Brown.

Washington Irving, American author; wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Maurice Donnay French playwright (Lovers), is born.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm Grimm author w/brother Jakob: Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Rumpelstiltskin, Snow-White, The Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb; dies at age 73.

Ref: 4

Willem C Gronings Curarao publisher (People's Friend), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustave Kahn France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre), is born.

Ref: 5

1860

Johan [Eliza J] de Meester Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje), is born.

Ref: 5

Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus), is born.

Ref: 5

Daniel Berkeley Updike printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types), is born.

Ref: 5

Frederik W van Eeden Dutch utopian writer (Walden), is born.

Ref: 5

Isaac da Costa poet/writer (Réveil, Wachter!), dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister), is born.

Ref: 5

Albert Richard Smith author/lecturer, dies.

Ref: 5

Charlotte Gilman American writer and women's rights advocate, is born.

Ref: 70

Abraham Cahan, Russian-born American editor of the Jewish Daily Forward (1903-51), is born.

Ref: 70

Owen Wister, novelist (The Virginian), is born.

Ref: 2

Jules Laforgue Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintes), is born.

Ref: 5

ules Laforgue, French Symbolist poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Hamlin Garland, author who wrote about the Midwest in novels such as A Son of the Middle Border and The Book of the American Indian, is born.

Ref: 2

Harriet Monroe Chicago IL, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I), is born.

Ref: 5

1861

Wilhelm Bölsche writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Václav Hanka Czech author/translator/forger, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm von Polenz German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf), is born.

Ref: 5

Léopold Courouble Belgian writer (Family Kaekebroeck), is born.

Ref: 5

Lou [Andreas-]Salomé Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott), is born.

Ref: 5

Uchimura Kanzo Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian), is born.

Ref: 5

Warden Oncle [Edward Vermeulen] Flemish farmer/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Johan M Skjoldborg Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte), is born.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) poet: Sonnets from the Portuguese “How do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.”; Robert Browning’s wife; dies at age 55.

Ref: 4

Charles Henry Dow, American journalist, is born.

Ref: 70

Italo Svevo Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno), is born.

Ref: 5

1862

Frank Nelson Doubleday, founder of Doubleday publishing house, is born.

Ref: 2

Bozena Nemcová [Barnora Panklová], Czechoslovakian author, dies at 41.

Ref: 5

Franklin Hooper, American editor in chief of Encyclopedia Britiannica, is born.

Ref: 70

Mori Ogai [Mori Rintarô) Japanese author (Maihime/Gan), is born.

Ref: 5

Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen] Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli), is born.

Ref: 5

Bernard S Ingemann Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

John Jay Chapman US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays), is born.

Ref: 5

Harmen S Sytstra Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45.

Ref: 5

Marcel Prévost French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges), is born.

Ref: 5

Max Elskamp Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya), is born.

Ref: 5

Concord MA: (255 Main St.) Henry David Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at age 44; Hawthorne attends funeral May 9.

Ref: 68

Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde), is born.

Ref: 5

August Cuppens Flemish author/pastor, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Dodgson (pen name: Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice's adventures down the rabbit hole during a picnic along the Thames, thus "Alice in Wonderland" is first created for Alice P Liddell.

Ref: 2

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) author: short stories: Gift of the Magi; is born.

Ref: 4

Edward Stratemeyer, author, creator of the Hardy Boys, Rover Boys, Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins, is born.

Ref: 2

Eden Phillpotts England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, English traveler and writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Paul Adam French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde), is born.

Ref: 5

Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's), is born.

Ref: 68

Alexander V Amfiteatrov Russian/French/Italian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John M Acket Dutch literary (Grammatic Conceptions), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugene Demolder Belgian writer (Sous la robe), is born.

Ref: 5

Alexander V Amfiteatrov Russian/French/Italian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1863

Aleko Konstantinov Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Scheerbart [Bruno Küfer], German writer (The Seasnake), is born.

Ref: 5

Rufus Matthew Jones, American Quaker and author, is born.

Ref: 70

Samuel Langhorne Clemens decides to use the pseudonym Mark Twain for the first time.

Ref: 4

"Mark Twain" born when Samuel Clemens signs name to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise article.

Ref: 10

Anthony Hope [Hopkins] London, novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Adolf A Wolfschoon Curaçao, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy, writer/military hero (The Intruder), is born.

Ref: 5

Raul d'Avila Pompeia Brazilian writer (Boarding School), is born.

Ref: 5

Arno Holz writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Marie Anne Couperus, Dutch novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Samuel Butler publishes first part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ.

Ref: 5

Clement Clarke Moore poet, author: ’Twas the Night before Christmas [A Visit from St. Nicholas]; dies at age 83.

Ref: 4

Alfred V Comte de Vigny French poet/musketeer/writer (Moïse, Chatterton), dies at age 66.

Ref: 4

Jakob Grimm librarian; fairy tale author [with brother, Wilhelm]: Hansel and Grethel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White; dies.

Ref: 17

John Huston Finley Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38)), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Quiller-Couch editor (Oxford Book of English Verse), is born.

Ref: 5

Oliver Herford, American humorist and poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Svetolik Rankovic Serbian writer (Forest King), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of G. Campbell Morgan, English congregational clergyman and Bible expositor. Morgan authored more than 60 Bible commentaries and books of sermons many still be in print.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Hebbel writer, dies at 50.

Ref: 5

William Makepeace Thackeray author: Vanity Fair, Pendennis; dies at age 52.

Ref: 4

Alfredo Panzini Italian author (Dizionario Moderno), is born.

Ref: 5

1864

Thomas Dixon US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword), is born.

Ref: 5

John Henry Mackay Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists), is born.

Ref: 5

Israel Zangwill England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto), is born.

Ref: 5

Israel Zangwill writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies.

Ref: 5

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson New South Wales Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda), is born.

Ref: 5

Jules Renard France, writer (Poil de Carotte), is born.

Ref: 5

Karl M Lybeck Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), is born.

Ref: 5

Marie Jungius Dutch fairy tale writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Frans Netscher Dutch writer/journalist (Studies of nude model), is born.

Ref: 5

Plymouth, N.H.: Nathaniel Hawthorne dies in his sleep on a trip with former US President Franklin Pierce, at age 59.

Ref: 68

John Clare English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Ch Sealsfield writer, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

(Mary) Flannery O’Connor writer: A Good Man is Hard to Find; dies.

Ref: 4

Elinor Glyn British novelist (3 Weeks), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonio Gonsalves Dias Brazilian national poet, dies at sea.

Ref: 5

Herman Heijermans Jr Dutch writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Garfield Brisbane, American editor and writer, is born.

Ref: 70

1865

Martinus Ballings Flemish Jesuit/author (Will Power), is born.

Ref: 5

Kazimierz P Tetmajer Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), is born.

Ref: 5

Adrian van Oordt Dutch writer (neo-romantic), is born.

Ref: 5

Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright/critic, dies at age 52.

Ref: 70

Arthur Symons Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy), is born.

Ref: 5

Theophile Ysaye composer, is born.

Ref: 5

Albert Verwey Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), is born.

Ref: 5

William Heinemann England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental), is born.

Ref: 5

Lydia Sigourney author: Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, Letters to Young Ladies, How to Be Happy; dies.

Ref: 4

Lili Braun Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), is born.

Ref: 5

First edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published.

Ref: 5

Laurence Housman England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina), is born.

Ref: 5

Emmuska Orczy, baroness and author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, is born.

Ref: 2

Jose Asuncion Silva Colombia, poet (Nocturno III), is born.

Ref: 5

1866

M T d'Azeglio writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Richard Le Gallienne English writer (Maker of Gainborg), is born.

Ref: 5

Gelett Burgess author (Purple Cow), is born.

Ref: 5

Emil Strauss Germany, writer (Naked Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Raf[ael] Verhulst [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus), is born.

Ref: 5

Count Henryk Rzewuski (J.Bejla), Polish novelist, dies.

Ref: 17

Paul Ernst writer, is born.

Ref: 5

George P Baker US playwright (47 Workshop), is born.

Ref: 5

John Eigenhuis writer (Tough Workers), is born.

Ref: 5

(Helen) Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, born

Ref: 68

Beatrix Potter, children's author (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), is born.

Ref: 2

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England

Ref: 4

1867

Rubén Darío national poet (Nicaragua), is born.

Ref: 5

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), is born.

Ref: 5

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisconsin, children's book author (Little House on Prairie), is born.

Ref: 5

Natsume Sôseki [Natsume Kinnosuke] Japanese author (Kokoro), is born.

Ref: 5

Hedwig Courths-Mahler German author (Warbride), is born.

Ref: 5

Lionel Pigot Johnson England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems), is born.

Ref: 5

Benjamin Hanby composer, dies at 33.

Ref: 5

A.E. (George William Russell), Irish poet and mystic, is born.

Ref: 2

Benjamin A Jesurun Antillian literary, is born.

Ref: 5

Valère-Gille Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre), is born.

Ref: 5

Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernest Dowson, British poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Edith Hamilton US, writer (Mythology), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet, translator and literary critic, dies at age 46.

Ref: 70

George Horace Lorimer, American editor of the Saturday Evening Post, is born.

Ref: 70

Masaoka Shiki Japan, haiku & tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads), is born.

Ref: 5

Frantisek X Salda Czechoslovakian writer/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Tevfik Fikret Turkish poet (Servet-i Fnun, Sis), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Kerr writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1868

Catharina A M de Savornin Lohman Dutch author (Belief), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustav Meyrink writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm Schäfer German writer (Ein Totschläger), is born.

Ref: 5

Adalbert Stifter Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62.

Ref: 5

Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy Irish patriot/playwright/MP, is born.

Ref: 5

Obe Postma Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm), is born.

Ref: 5

Maxim Gorky [Aleksei Peshikov], Russia, writer, playwright (The Lower Depths, Night Asylum), is born.

Ref: 68

Edmond Rostand France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Herrick US writer (Common lot), is born.

Ref: 5

Émile Bernard writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gaston Leroux, French novelist (The Phantom of the Opera), is born.

Ref: 2

Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books, is born.

Ref: 5

Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer] French writer (Fille Perdue), is born.

Ref: 5

Jose Graca Aranha, Brazilian novelist and diplomat

Ref: 70

Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Claudel France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909), is born.

Ref: 5

Bernard Macfadden (Bernard Adolphus McFadden) physical fitness/exercise advocate: founded Coney Island Polar Bears [1903]; publisher: Physical Culture Magazine, True Story Magazine, True Romances, True Detective Mysteries Magazine, Photoplay; author: Macfadden’s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture, Physical Training, Fasting, Hydropathy, and Exercise, Virile Powers of Superb Manhood, How to Raise a Strong Baby, Colds, Coughs, and Catarrh, Talks to a Young Man about Sex, Be Married and like It, [close to 150 books]; hotel magnate; founded Bernarr Macfadden Institute; is born.

Ref: 4

Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Charles Sumner Greene, architect, is born.

Ref: 2

Francis Jammes French poet/writer (Jammisme), is born.

Ref: 5

1869

Willem De Vreese Flemish linguist/biblographer, is born.

Ref: 5

Herbert David Croly US author (Promise of American Life), is born.

Ref: 5

Ozaki Kôyô Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet (The Heart), is born.

Ref: 5

Johan M Dautzenberg Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Jindrich S Baar Czechoslovakia pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura), is born.

Ref: 5

Death of Elizabeth Clephane, 39, an orphaned Scottish poet who left the Church with two hauntingly beautiful hymns: "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and "The Ninety and Nine." (All of Clephane's poetry was published posthumously.).

Ref: 5

Alphonse MLP de Lamartine Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Algernon Blackwood, British mystery writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Émile Fabre France, playwright, administrator of Comédie Française, is born.

Ref: 5

Peter A Egge Norwegian writer (De Droom), is born.

Ref: 5

Karl Wagenfeld Low German writer (Daud un Düwel), is born.

Ref: 5

Johannes M Meulenhoff Dutch publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Wiliam Vaughan Moody, poet and playwright (The Great Divide), is born.

Ref: 2

Owen Wister US, novelist (The Virginian), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 10

Lawrence Binyon Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds), is born.

Ref: 5

Edgar Lee Masters poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan de Liefde II Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk Dutch poet (Women in Forest), is born.

Ref: 5

1870

Henry Handel Richardson Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney), is born.

Ref: 5

Alice H. Rice, American novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Berend Modderman printer (Drukkers yearbook), is born.

Ref: 5

Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira NY.

Ref: 5

Ada Negri Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara), is born.

Ref: 5

Pieter Cornelis Boutens Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen), is born.

Ref: 5

[B] Franc[lin] Norris US, writer (McTeague, Octopus), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Dickens novelist: David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist; dies near Rochester, Kent at age 58.

Ref: 68

Hilaire Belloc, French writer (Cautionary Tales), is born.

Ref: 2

Author Victor Hugo returns to Paris from the Isle of Guernsey where he had lived in exile for almost 20 years.

Ref: 2

Prosper Merimee, French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Dorthea Dix, pseudonym for Elizabeth Gilman, who wrote syndicated advice, is born.

Ref: 2

Alexandre Dumas, French author (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers), dies at 68.

Ref: 4

Pierre Louis France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet), is born.

Ref: 5

Rudolf W Canne Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us), is born.

Ref: 5

Saki (Hector Hugo Munro) Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came), is born.

Ref: 5

Pieter C Boutens Dutch poet (Voices, Carmina), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Spanish poet and author, dies at age 34.

Ref: 70

1871

Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti Austrian author (Jesse & Maria), is born.

Ref: 5

Pierre A du Terrail French writer, dies at 41.

Ref: 5

Jovan Ducic Serbian poet (Blue Legends), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Chambers, Scottish author and publisher, dies at age 68.

Ref: 70

Serafín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo), is born.

Ref: 5

Heinrich Mann Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); brother of Thomas, is born.

Ref: 5

José Juan Tablada Mexican poet (El Florilegio), is born.

Ref: 5

Martinez Gonzalez, Mexican poet, physician and diplomat, is born.

Ref: 70

John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea), is born.

Ref: 5

William Henry Davies Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), is born.

Ref: 5

Elisabeth Grube writer, dies.

Ref: 5

John Gelinde van Blom Fries notary/author, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Mynona writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ch Morgenstern writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Franiska zu Reventlow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

James Weldon Johnson, African-American poet and novelist (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), lawyer, first black admitted to Florida Bar, is born.

Ref: 2

William Henry Davies, Welsh poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), is born.

Ref: 2

Theodore Dreiser US, novelist (Sister Carrie, American Tragedy), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Valery, poet and essayist, is born.

Ref: 2

Stephen Crane, author of "The Red Badge of Courage", is born.

Ref: 2

Willibald Alexis German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

1872

Paul Leautaud [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami), is born.

Ref: 5

Franz Grillparzer Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Zane Grey, dentist, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage, Spirit of the Border), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Fort French poet/founder of Vers et Prose, is born.

Ref: 5

Theodor Lessing writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Karin Michaelis writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Griffith Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Féin, is born.

Ref: 5

Ruth Gaines-Shelton playwright: The Church Fight [1926], is born.

Ref: 4

A Roda Roda writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ljudwit Gaj Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Ion Heliade-Radulescu Romanian politician/author, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Paul Laurence Dunbar Dayton Oh, short story writer (Majors & Minors), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Max Beerbohm England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review), is born.

Ref: 5

John Cowper Powys British writer (Wood & Stone), is born.

Ref: 5

Emily Post (Price) etiquette authority: author: syndicated newspaper columnist; is born.

Ref: 4

J C Powys writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Albert Payson Terhune, US novelist, is born.

Ref: 17

Albert P Terhune US, novelist (Lad, a Dog), is born.

Ref: 5

Pio Baroja Y Nessa San Sebastian Spain, writer (Camino de Perfeccion), is born.

Ref: 5

Aleksis Kivi [Stenvall] Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38.

Ref: 5

1873

Mariano Azuela Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Pierre Péguy, Orléans France, Catholic writer (God Speaks), is born.

Ref: 5

Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Rädi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator, is born.

Ref: 5

Joaquín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish dramatist/playwright (Los Galeotes), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans E Blaich writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Johannes Jenson, Danish novelist/essayist, is born.

Ref: 70

Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette), French novelist known for her fictional romances built around an autobiographical character, Claudine, is born.

Ref: 17

Hayyim Nahman Bialik Rädi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator, is born.

Ref: 5

Feodor Chaliapine Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life), is born.

Ref: 5

Jón Trausti [Gudmundur Magnússon], Icelandic writer (Heidarbylid), is born.

Ref: 5

Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies.

Ref: 5

Muhammad Iqbal Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher, is born.

Ref: 5

Jakob Wassermann Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew), is born.

Ref: 5

Howard Garis, American creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories, is born.

Ref: 70

Walther de la Mare, poet and novelist (Memoir of a Midget, Come Hither), is born.

Ref: 68

Otto zur Linde German author (Charon), is born.

Ref: 5

[Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark), is born.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Henri Barbusse Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu), is born.

Ref: 5

Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist, dies at age 88.

Ref: 70

George Cram Cook, American writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Guillermo Valencia Colombia, poet/translator/statesman, is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel Acuña Mexican poet (Ante un Cadáver), dies at 24.

Ref: 5

Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor (The Inheritors), is born.

Ref: 5

1874

Sven Fleuron writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Thornton W Burgess, US author of children's books, is born.

Ref: 17

Thornton Waldo Burgess author (Peter Rabbit), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Service England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee), is born.

Ref: 5

Hoffmann von Fallersleben, August, German patriotic poet, philologist and literary historian, dies at age 75.

Ref: 5

[William] Somerset Maugham Paris, novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage), is born.

Ref: 5

Hugo von Hofmannsthal Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist, is born.

Ref: 5

Gertrude Stein, poet and novelist (Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas), is born in Pennsylvania.

Ref: 2

Elsa Beskow [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author, is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party), is born.

Ref: 5

Ellen Glasgow novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Condé Nast, US magazine publisher, is born.

Ref: 10

Hermanus J Abbring Dutch author/engineer on Curaçao, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Karl Kraus writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard von Schaukal Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos), is born.

Ref: 5

G K Chesterton writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gilbert Keith Chesterton England, journalist/poet/critic/novelist (Man Who Made Gold), is born.

Ref: 5

Clarence Shepard Day NYC, writer (Life with Father), is born.

Ref: 5

Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, is born.

Ref: 2

Volter A Kilpi Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa), is born.

Ref: 5

1875

Pierre Larousse, French encyclopaedist, dies at age 57.

Ref: 70

Annette Kolb German/French author (Small Fanfare), is born.

Ref: 5

Everhardus J Potgieter writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Luís Varela Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33.

Ref: 5

Enrique Larreta, Argentine novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Isadore Gilbert Mudge US, librarian/author/bibliographer (Thackeray Dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

Edgar Wallace England, novelist/playwright/journalist (The Terror), is born.

Ref: 5

Georg Herwegh writer, dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty), is born.

Ref: 5

André Baillon Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple), is born.

Ref: 5

Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (Scaramouche, Captain Blood), is born.

Ref: 17

Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine), is born.

Ref: 5

Alice Nelson Dunbar, American novelist, poet and essayist, is born.

Ref: 70

Aug 04

Hans Christian Andersen author of fairy tales: The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes; dies.

Ref: 4

Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist who created Tarzan, the Ape Man, is born.

Ref: 2

Gilbert Grosvenor, editor, turned the National Geographic Socirty's irregularly published pamphlet into a periodical with a circulation of nearly two million, is born.

Ref: 2

Eugene Meyer, American publisher of The Washington Post (1933-46), is born.

Ref: 70

Rainer Maria Rilke Germany, poet (Duino Elegies), is born.

Ref: 5

Evelyn Underhill, English mystical poet, is born.

Ref: 70

T F Powys Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green), is born.

Ref: 5

1876

Hans Bethge writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jack London writer/socialist (Call of the Wild), is born.

Ref: 5

Olga Fastrova writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt] German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Bethge writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Agnes M Royden writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult [Daniel Stern], Fren author, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

F Freiligrath writer, dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Henriette Davidis writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Ian Hay Scotland, novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On), is born.

Ref: 5

O E Rölvaag Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth), is born.

Ref: 5

Ivan Cankar Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica), is born.

Ref: 5

Henri A Esquiros French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Saint-Georges de Bouchélier French author (Le Rois Sans Couronne), is born.

Ref: 5

Khristo Botev Bulgarian poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Henry Kingsley English/Australian writer, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

George Sand, French Romantic writer, dies in Nohant, France at age 71.

Ref: 68

Jun 23

Irvin S. (Shrewsbury) Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest), is born.

Ref: 5

Harriet Martineau, English essayist and novelist, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Susan Glaspell, playwright, (Alison's House), is born.

Ref: 2

Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton), is born.

Ref: 5

Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg), is born.

Ref: 5

Dimitur Poljanov [Popov] Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems), is born.

Ref: 5

Ferdinand Hardekopf writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Julio Afrenio Peixoto Brazilian writer (O esfinge), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Van Oudshoorn [Jan K Feylbrief] Dutch writer (Maze of Senses), is born.

Ref: 5

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Italian writer (Futurism e Futurista), is born.

Ref: 5

Frederik Paludan-Moeller Danish poet (Abels d”d), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

1877

Henri Vandeputte Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune), is born.

Ref: 5

Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann [Theodora], Dutch author/actress (Dead Water), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacob D du Toit [Totius] South African poet/theologist, is born.

Ref: 5

Yme C Schuitmaker Dutch potato salesman/dramatist, is born.

Ref: 5

Carel S Adama van Scheltema Dutch poet/writer (socialism), is born.

Ref: 5

Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

David Mendes Chumaceiro Curaçao, poet (Crisálidas), is born.

Ref: 5

Alphonse de Châteaubriant French writer (Instantanés aux Pays-Bas), is born.

Ref: 5

Alice B. Toklas, American author, was born

Ref: 62

71 Edwin Muir 5/15/1887 1/3/1959 Scottish poet, literary critic and translator

Ref: 70

Jean Schlumberger French writer (La Mort de Sparte), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Lloyd C. Douglas, American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist. Douglas published his first best-seller, "Magnificent Obsession," in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).

Ref: 5

James Agate, English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923-47), is born.

Ref: 70

Eduard Devrient,7 German dramatist, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Harley Granville-Barker London, dramatist/producer/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolai A Nekrasov Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

1878

Alfred Edgar Coppard England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories), is born.

Ref: 5

Ferenc Molnár, Budapest Hungary, playwright (The Play's The Thing, A Pal Utrai Fiuk), is born.

Ref: 68

Victor A D Ségalen [Max Anély], French writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Garbe German poet (Görniek), is born.

Ref: 5

Oton Zupancic Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom), is born.

Ref: 5

R A Schröcker writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Karel van de Woestijne Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea), is born.

Ref: 5

Carel T Scharten Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future), is born.

Ref: 5

Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff] Dutch writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Carl Sternheim German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa), is born.

Ref: 5

Erich Mühsam writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Walser writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Anna Sewell, English author ("Black Beauty"), dies at age 58.

Ref: 70

Death of William Whiting, 53, Anglican poet and music instructor. He is known to have written only one hymn during his life, but its popularity has endured: "Eternal Father, Strong to Save."

Ref: 5

John Masefield England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads), is born.

Ref: 5

Eino Leino Finland, poet/playwright/novelist (El m„n Koreus), is born.

Ref: 5

Lord Edward Dunsany Ireland, dramatist/poet (Mirage Water), is born.

Ref: 68

Upton Sinclair, muckraking author who wrote The Jungle, exposing the horrible conditions in the meat packing industry and calling for reforms, is born.

Ref: 70

George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer, dies at age 61.

Ref: 70

Akiko Yosano Japan, poet (Tangled Hair), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Carossa writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Isaiah Bowman US, geography/co-founder (Geographical Review), is born.

Ref: 5

Horacio Quiroga Uruguayan author/poet (El Crimen del Otro), is born.

Ref: 5

1879

E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster author: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howard’s End, A Passage to India, Maurice; is born.

Ref: 4

Johannes L "Jan" Walch Dutch literary (Grimaces), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonio Beltramelli writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Marie Koenen author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal), is born.

Ref: 5

Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans Flemish (stage)author (Tille), is born.

Ref: 5

Willem J van Zeggelen Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Canfield Fisher US, novelist (Book-of-the Month-Club), is born.

Ref: 5

Agnes Arber English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye), is born.

Ref: 5

Herman Teirlinck Belgian writer (Sun), is born.

Ref: 5

Mabel Dodge Luhan, American biographer, is born.

Ref: 2

Bernhard Kellermann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

M Lichnowsky writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Frederick G Melcher US, publisher/editor/founded children book week, is born.

Ref: 5

James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Lynd Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance), is born.

Ref: 5

Franz Arnold writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", dies at age 90.

Ref: 70

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven, Johnny Appleseed), is born in Springfield IL.

Ref: 5

Charles W. Goddard, the author of "The Perils of Pauline", was born

Ref: 62

Adelardo Lopez del Ayala y Herrera, Spanish dramatist, politician, is born.

Ref: 17

1880

Shalom Asch Poland, yiddish writer (Motke Ganev), is born.

Ref: 5

Ida Gräfin von Hahn-Hahn author (Aus der Gesellschaft), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

James Stephens, Irish writer (The Charwoman's Daughter, The Crock of Gold), is born.

Ref: 2

Lytton Strachey biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923), is born.

Ref: 5

Ludmilla Assing writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Sean O’Casey playwright: Harvest Festival, The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars, is born in Ireland.

Ref: 68

Conrad Weiss German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustave Flaubert, French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary", dies.

Ref: 4

Carl Van Vechten, writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Robert Rutherford McCormick, US editor/publisher Chicago Tribune, is born.

Ref: 5

Guillaume Apollinaire France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Noyes England, poet (The Highwayman), is born.

Ref: 5

(Alfred) Damon Runyon journalist; script writer: The Lemon Drop Kid, Little Miss Marker, Sorrowful Jones, Guys and Dolls, Pocketful of Miracles; is born.

Ref: 4

Lydia Child writer: Hobomok, The Rebels, The Frugal Housewife, The Mother’s Book, [w/husband] An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans; newspaper publisher [w/husband]: The National Antislavery Standard; dies.

Ref: 4

Sholem Asch, Polish-born American novelist and playwright (The Nazarene, The Mother), is born.

Ref: 2

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist (Silas Marner, Middlemarch), dies on her 61st birthday.

Ref: 70

1881

Carry van Bridges [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva), is born.

Ref: 5

Lascelles Abercrombie English poet/critic (Revaluations), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Papini Italy, writer (Il Diavolo), is born.

Ref: 5

Gaston Gallimard French publisher (Librairie Gallimard), is born.

Ref: 5

Emil Ludwig German biographer (Diana, Son of Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Aleksej F Pisemski Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Frederick Leonard Lonsdale British playwright (Balkan Princess), is born.

Ref: 5

Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Lascelles Abercrombie English poet/critic (Revaluations), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Papini Italy, writer (Il Diavolo), is born.

Ref: 5

Fyodor Dostoyevsky political revolutionary, author: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot; dies at age 59.

Ref: 4

Eleanor Farjeon English writer (Martin Pippin), is born.

Ref: 5

William John Gruffydd Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud), is born.

Ref: 5

Maurits H E Uyldert Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Zech writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Pedro Muñoz Seca Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo), is born.

Ref: 5

Balthazar H Verhagen Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Kristian Elster Norwegian author (Less bror Harris), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford English author (Young Sisters), is born.

Ref: 5

Kristian Mandrup Elster Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40.

Ref: 5

Josip Jurcic Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies.

Ref: 5

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Rudolf Pannwitz German writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Margery Williams Bianco, author (The Velveteen Rabbit), is born.

Ref: 2

Aug 13

Edward Trelawny, English author, dies at age 88.

Ref: 70

Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman, is born.

Ref: 5

Valery Nicolas Larbaud France, novelist/translator (Enfantines), is born.

Ref: 5

P.G. Wodehouse British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves), is born.

Ref: 5

Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity), is born.

Ref: 68

Padraic Colum Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems), is born.

Ref: 5

August Senoa Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43.

Ref: 5

Jacob Israel de Haan Dutch poet/writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song), is born.

Ref: 5

1882

William H Ainsworth English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Richard Henry Dana, American lawyer and author, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Jakob Jud Swiss linguist/etymologist, is born.

Ref: 5

Hendrik W van Loon Netherlands, commentator/writer (Story of America), is born.

Ref: 5

Author of "Winnie the Pooh" A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne is born.

Ref: 17

Virginia [Adeline] Woolf London, author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse), is born.

Ref: 5

Giuseppe Prezzolini Italy, writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano), is born.

Ref: 5

James Joyce poet, author: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Chamber Music; is born near Dublin Ireland.

Ref: 4

James Stephens Irish poet (Crock of Gold), is born.

Ref: 5

George Jean Nathan, American author, editor, and drama critic, is born.

Ref: 70

George Jean Nathan, American author, editor, and drama critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Ludvig Nordström Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk), is born.

Ref: 5

Bruno Traven German writer (Sierra Madre), is born.

Ref: 5

Ben Hecht, American novelist, playwright, and newspaperman, is born.

Ref: 70

José Vasconcelos, Oaxaca México, politician/essayist/philosopher, is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, The Wreck of the Hesperus, dies in Cambridge MA at age 75.

Ref: 5

Jessie Redmon Fauset author: There is Confusion, Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree, Comedy, American Style; literary editor: Crisis [NAACP publication]; co-publisher & editor: The Brownie Book; died in 1961, is born.

Ref: 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet, dies in Concord, Massachusetts, at age 78.

Ref: 5

Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf author (To the Invisible), is born.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm Lehmann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Willem Elsschot [Alfons J de Ridder] Flemish writer (Mend), is born.

Ref: 5

James Gleason New York NY, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, The Wreck of the Hesperus; dies.

Ref: 4

Susan Glaspell, American dramatist; founder of the Provincetown Players, is born.

Ref: 70

Henry Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43.

Ref: 5

Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Giraudoux, French dramatist, novelist and diplomat, famous for his book Tiger at the Gates, is born.

Ref: 2

Wyndham Lewis English writer/painter (Tarr, Apes of God), is born.

Ref: 5

Giuseppe Prezzolini Italy, writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano), is born.

Ref: 5

Anthony Trollope, English novelist, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Charles Vildrac Paris France, poet/playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

1883

Federigo Tozzi Italian writer/journalist (La Torre, Tre Croci), is born.

Ref: 5

Max F Eastman US, critic/essayist (Masses), is born.

Ref: 5

Khalil Gibran, mystic poet, author of "The Prophet", is born in Lebanon.

Ref: 5

Alex Tolstoy, author of "Peter the Great" is born.

Ref: 68

Max Eastman, American poet/editor, is born.

Ref: 70

English author Compton MacKenzie is born.

Ref: 68

Olav Aukrust Norway, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Clarence Mulford Illinois, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy), is born.

Ref: 5

Shiga Naoya Japan, novelist (Road Through the Dark Night), is born.

Ref: 5

Karl Jaspers Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher, is born.

Ref: 68

Umberto Saba writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Mien Labberton Dutch poetress, is born.

Ref: 5

Demjan Bednyi writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jaroslav Hasek Czechoslovakia, writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30], is born.

Ref: 5

Elsa Maxwell Keokuk IA, writer (Jack Paar Show), is born.

Ref: 5

Hubert Harrison St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter, is born.

Ref: 5

Jaroslav Hasek Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), is born.

Ref: 68

Henk JFM Sneevliet leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies), is born.

Ref: 5

Henricus Keuls Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp), is born.

Ref: 5

William Chambers author/publisher, dies.

Ref: 5

Edward Fitzgerald author: translated Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat; dies at age 74.

Ref: 4

Franz Kafka, Prague-born German novelist (The Metamorphosis, The Trail), is born.

Ref: 68

Theodore Dreiser, American novelist, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

A Wolfenstein writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1884

Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame), is born.

Ref: 5

Johannes Elsensohn Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Ransome English author (Swallows & Amazons), is born.

Ref: 5

A[braham P] Merritt US, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), is born.

Ref: 5

Yevgeny Zamyatin Russia, novelist/playwright (We), is born.

Ref: 5

Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Lemaire Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet), is born.

Ref: 5

Emanuel Stickelberger Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit), is born.

Ref: 5

Oskar Loerke German writer (Longest Day-1926), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Hugh S Walpole New Zealand, novelist/critic/dramatist (Jeremy, Maradick at 40), is born.

Ref: 5

Emanuel Geibel writer, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, British author, is born.

Ref: 2

Frank Swinnerton England, novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary), is born.

Ref: 5

Hugo Gernsback sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo), is born. He was responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form.

Ref: 5

Earl Biggers author ("Charlie Chan" detective series), is born.

Ref: 5

Maxwell Perkins, editor, the first to publish F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is born.

Ref: 2

Eduardo Barrios Chile, novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 05

James Elroy Flecker English poet/dramatist (Hassan), is born.

Ref: 5

Eleanor Medill Patterson, American publisher, is born.

Ref: 70

Regina Ullmann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gerben Colmjon Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56.

Ref: 5

1885

Peter C Asbjørnsen Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72.

Ref: 5

E Ball-Hennings writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Aldo Palazzeschi [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi), is born.

Ref: 5

Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings), is born.

Ref: 5

Ring Lardner sports reporter, humorist, writer: Alibi Ike, You Know Me Al, Elmer the Great, June Moon; is born.

Ref: 4

Isak Dinesen Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales), is born.

Ref: 5

Karen Blixen-Finecke [Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa), is born.

Ref: 5

Egon E Kisch Czechoslovakia, writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter), is born.

Ref: 5

Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish novelist, dies at age 38.

Ref: 70

Thomas Costain, Canadian-born American historical novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Fritz v Unruh writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies.

Ref: 5

Victor Hugo author: Les Miserables; famous quote: “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”; dies at age 83.

Ref: 4

Benito Lynch, Argentine novelist and short story writer

Ref: 70

Frances Parkinson Keyes novelist (Dinner at Antoine), is born.

Ref: 5

Jules Romains, French novelist, dramatist and poet, is born

Ref: 70

Duboise Heyward, novelist, poet and dramatist best know for Porgy which was the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess, is born.

Ref: 2

Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Sons and Lovers), is born.

Ref: 2

Eratstus Flaval Beadle publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Untermeyer NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems), is born.

Ref: 5

Josh Billings, American humorist and writer; popular after the Civil War, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Ezra Pound, American poet who promoted Imagism, a poetic movement stressing free phrase rather than forced metric, is born in Hailey ID. He was imprisoned for his pro-Fascist radio broadcasts.

Ref: 4

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer and lawyer (Zorba the Greek), is born.

Ref: 2

Albrecht Schaeffer German writer (The General), is born.

Ref: 5

F S Flint London England, translator/poet (imagist movement), is born.

Ref: 5

1886

Moyshe Leyb Halpern Galican/US poet (In New-York), is born.

Ref: 5

John G Fletcher US, poet (Epic of Arkansas), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernest Panckoucke French publisher (Horace), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Hugh Lofting English/American writer & illustrator (Dr Dolittle), is born.

Ref: 5

Ronald Firbank London England, novelist (The Flower Beneath the Foot), is born.

Ref: 5

Michal Czajchovski [Sadik Pasja], writer, dies.

Ref: 5

William R Benét writer, is born.

Ref: 5

P J Edvard Backström Swedish writer, dies at 44.

Ref: 5

Ricardo Güiraldes Argentina, novelist/poet (Don Segundo Sombra), is born.

Ref: 5

Sax Rohmer England, author (Dr Fu Manchu), is born.

Ref: 5

Hugo Ball German playwright/co-founder Flametti, is born.

Ref: 5

Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret A Barnes writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph V von Scheffel German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Kurt Pinthus writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Conrad Busken Huet writer (Country of Rubens).

Ref: 5

Gottfried Benn writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Olaf Stapleton British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker), is born.

Ref: 5

Emily Dickinson dies at age 55 in Amherst, MA where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 years.

Ref: 68

Hermann Neiße writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jacques Rivier, French writer, critic and editor, is born.

Ref: 70

E.Z.C. Judson, American adventurer and writer of 19th century "dime novels", dies at age 63.

Ref: 70

Sep 08

Siegfried Sassoon, British author and poet famous for his anti-war writing about World War I, is born.

Ref: 2

Alain Locke, writer and first African-American Rhodes scholar is born.

Ref: 68

Henri Alain-Fournier French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes), is born.

Ref: 5

Hermann Broch Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment), is born.

Ref: 5

Sakutaro Hagiwara, Japanese poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Sir Harold Nicolson, English author and diplomat, is born.

Ref: 70

Margaret Anderson, editor, founder of The Little Review, is born.

Ref: 2

Rex (Todhunter) Stout, American detective story writer, creator of Nero Wolfe, is born in Noblesville, Indiana

Ref: 4

Pierre Kemp Dutch poet (Fugitives & Constants), is born.

Ref: 5

Willem E Crown Antillian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Joyce Kilmer, American (male) poet, best known for "Trees, is born.

Ref: 2

Albert Ehrenstein Austria writer (Message from the Madhouse), is born.

Ref: 5

1887

Robinson Jeffers US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea), is born.

Ref: 5

George Kelly, American playwright/actor, is born.

Ref: 70

Alexander Woollcott New Jersey, short story writer/critic (Man Who Came to Dinner), is born.

Ref: 5

Diego Valeri Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze), is born.

Ref: 5

Georg Trakl Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely), is born.

Ref: 5

Silvio d'Amico Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore), is born.

Ref: 5

A P Gütersloh writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Vital Celen Flemish writer (Puppy Love), is born.

Ref: 5

[Fran J] Vital Celen Flemish literary/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Ellen Wood English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

John van Melle South African writer (Dawid Booysen), is born.

Ref: 5

Nikos Kasandsakis writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Eduard Douwes Dekker Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Hesketh Pearson England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Ellen Chase, New England writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Henri Pourrat French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes), is born.

Ref: 5

Jules Van de Leene Belgian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jacobus C Bloem Dutch poet (Sintels), is born.

Ref: 5

Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, literary critic and translator, is born.

Ref: 70

J van Hoddis writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ernst Wiechert writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Emiel van der Straeten Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends), is born.

Ref: 5

Gunnar Olof Björling Finnish/Swedish language poet (Vilande Dag), is born.

Ref: 5

Thos.Spencer Baynes, English editor of 9th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, dies at age 64.

Ref: 70

George Abbott, American playwright, director and producer (Three Men on a Horse, Damn Yankees), is born in Forestville NY.

Ref: 2

Floyd Dell, American novelist and journalist, is born.

Ref: 70

Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), is born.

Ref: 17

Jules Laforgue, French Symbolist poet, dies at age 27.

Ref: 70

Edith Sitwell, British poet, is born.

Ref: 17

Mart¡n Luis Guzm n Mexico, novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 19

Emma Lazarus US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38.

Ref: 5

1888

Hedwig "Vicki" Baum Austrian/US author (Men Never Know), is born.

Ref: 5

Joris Baers Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids), is born.

Ref: 5

Ljudmil Stojanow Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera), is born.

Ref: 5

G Ungaretti writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ronald Aburthnott Knox English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder), is born.

Ref: 5

Georges Bernanos, French novelist and polemical writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Amos Bronson Alcott US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Schnack German journalist/writer (Rosewood), is born.

Ref: 5

Louisa May Alcott, the American author of the classic "Little Women", dies at age 55 in Roxbury, MA, just hours after the burial of her father.

Ref: 70

S V Vegesack writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Adrianus M de Jong Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak), is born.

Ref: 5

Daniel Andersson Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader), is born.

Ref: 5

John Crowe Ransom, American poet/critic (God Without Thunder), is born.

Ref: 5

Adrian Roland Holst Dutch poet (Raged & Tired), is born.

Ref: 5

Miles Malleson writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock), is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 15

Maria Dermo–t Java, Dutch novelist (The 10,000 Things), is born.

Ref: 5

Raymond Chandler Chic, mystery writer (The Long Goodbye), is born.

Ref: 5

Raymond Chandler, detective writer, creator of Philip Marlow, is born.

Ref: 2

Katherine Mansfield New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party), is born.

Ref: 5

S.S. VanDine, American critic, editor and author of popular detective novels, is born

Ref: 70

Dale Carnegie author (How to Win Friends & Influence People), is born.

Ref: 5

Benjamin Crémieux French author (Le premier the la Classe), is born.

Ref: 5

Mehmed N Kemal Bey Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47.

Ref: 5

Joyce Cary Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children), is born.

Ref: 5

Maxwell Anderson US, dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Greshoff Dutch poet/author/journalist (Bric à Brac), is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Wolf writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi Japanese stagewriter (Tjitj Kaeru), is born.

Ref: 5

1889

Juan Montalvo Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Prosper Arents Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography), is born.

Ref: 5

Siegfried Kracauer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Howard Spring British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom), is born.

Ref: 5

José Eustasio Rivera Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Sarah Gertrude Millina, South African writer (The Dark River, God's Stepchildren), is born.

Ref: 2

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu Turkish writer/diplomat, is born.

Ref: 5

Howard Lindsay, Waterford NY, playwright/actor/director (State of Union), is born.

Ref: 5

Ludwig Renn writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Warrell big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, is born.

Ref: 5

Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Alfonso Reyes Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel), is born.

Ref: 5

G Gunnarson writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Margery Allingham detective story writer, is born.

Ref: 5

C. K. Ogden, English writer and linguist, is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 05

Jean Cocteau, France, writer/artist/film maker (Le Potamak), is born.

Ref: 5

Erle Stanley Gardner author (created Perry Mason), is born.

Ref: 5

Zerna Sharp, creator of the "Dick and Jane" reading books, is born.

Ref: 2

Robert Benchley author (My 10 Years in a Quandary), is born.

Ref: 5

William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (The Woman in White, The Moonstone), dies.

Ref: 17

Fannie Hurst novelist (1019?), is born.

Ref: 5

Enid Bagnold novelist (1956 Award of Merit), is born.

Ref: 5

DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born in St Paul MN.

Ref: 5

George S. (Simon) Kaufman playwright: The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can?t Take It with You, is born in Pittsburgh PA.

Ref: 4

W Hervey Allen US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), is born.

Ref: 5

Ludwig Anzengruber Austrian playwright, dies at 50.

Ref: 5

Paul Kornfeld writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Browning English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Mikha`il Na'imah Lebanon, playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Ion Creanga Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52.

Ref: 5

1890

Karel Capek, Czech writer and playwright, best remembered for his play R.U.R., which contained the first use of the word "robot., is born.

Ref: 2

Kurt Tucholsky German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co), is born.

Ref: 5

Karel Capek Czechoslovakia, writer (R U R ); coined the word "robot", is born.

Ref: 5

John P M L de Vries fairy tale writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Boris L Pasternak Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago), is born.

Ref: 5

Lauri SA Haarla Finnish (stage)writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), is born.

Ref: 5

A Evert Taube Swedish writer/troubadour, is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Thieß writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Julius R. Mantey, co-author (with H. E. Dana) of a popular intermediate biblical language grammar. Originally published in 1927, the "Dana & Mantey" New Testament Greek Grammar is still popular, and still in print!

Ref: 5

Miguel Suriel Netherland Antillian writer (Muhé culpabel), is born.

Ref: 5

Marten Baersma [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen), is born.

Ref: 5

Jozef Arras Flemish writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Marinus Campbell bibliographer, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary), is born.

Ref: 5

B Traven writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Christopher Morley, American novelist (Kitty Foyle), is born.

Ref: 2

Dorothy Heyward NYC, playwright (Porgy), is born.

Ref: 5

H.P. Lovecraft US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness), is born.

Ref: 5

Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian lyric poet and dramatist, dies at age 69.

Ref: 70

Jean Rhys, writer (Wild Sargasso Sea), is born.

Ref: 2

Franz Werfel Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh), is born.

Ref: 5

Claude McKay, poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance, is born.

Ref: 2

Dame Agatha Christie mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Alan Herbert England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen), is born.

Ref: 5

Conrad Richter writer (The Light in the Forest), is born.

Ref: 5

Marc Connelly McKeesport PA, playwright (One Minute Please), is born.

Ref: 5

1891

Alessandro De Stefani Cividale del Friuli Italy, writer (La Signorina, Africa sotto i mari), is born.

Ref: 5

Osip E Mandelstam Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj), is born.

Ref: 5

Storm Jameson English novelist (The Green Man, Cousin Honoré), is born.

Ref: 5

August Gailit Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor), is born.

Ref: 5

Osip E Mandelstam Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time), is born.

Ref: 5

Ilya G Ehrenburg Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw), is born.

Ref: 5

Ilya Ehrenburg Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw), is born.

Ref: 5

Camille Melloy [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis), is born.

Ref: 5

August Gailit Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor), is born.

Ref: 5

Georg Britting, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John P Strijbos Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa), is born.

Ref: 5

John Knittel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Lajos Zilahy Hungarian/US author (Ararát/Süd a nap), is born.

Ref: 5

Karel Cruysberghs Flemish author, is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Suhrkamp German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), is born.

Ref: 5

Ivan Goll writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ion Pillat Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), is born.

Ref: 5

Ricardo Bacchelli Italian writer/poet (La Ronda), is born.

Ref: 5

Watze Cuperus Frisian author (Swart mar leaflik), is born.

Ref: 5

Johan W F Werumeus Buning Dutch poet (Daily Bread), is born.

Ref: 5

David Vogel Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven), is born.

Ref: 5

Mikhail Bulgakov Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow), is born.

Ref: 5

Johannes Becher, German poet, critic, editor and government official, is born.

Ref: 5

Sidney (Coe) Howard playwright: screen play: Gone with the Wind; is born.

Ref: 4

Esther Forbes, author (Johnny Tremain), is born.

Ref: 2

James Russell Lowell, essayist, poet: A Fable for Critics, The Biglow Papers, The Vision of Sir Launfal, Commemoration Ode, The Cathedral; first editor of Atlantic Monthly, co-editor: North American Review; founded The Pioneer literary magazine; dies at age 72.

Ref: 5

Herman Melville author: Moby Dick, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, White-Jacket; dies at age 72.

Ref: 4

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, dies at age 37.

Ref: 70

Ilya Ehrenburg Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw), is born.

Ref: 5

Johan C J van Schagen Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies.

Ref: 5

Henry Miller author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Galtier-BoissiŠre French writer/cartoonist/journalist, is born.

Ref: 5

1892

J.R.R. Tolkien (writer: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Ref: 3

Ludwig Berger writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ugo Betti Italian playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

George Saiko writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Theodor Plievier German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad), is born.

Ref: 5

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa), is born.

Ref: 5

David Garnett England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang), is born.

Ref: 5

Victoria M. Sackville-West Victoria, English novelist and poet, is born.

Ref: 70

César Vallejo Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros), is born.

Ref: 5

Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden NJ at 72

Ref: 2

Thorne Smith author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Corrie ten Boom, Dutch devotional author whose family was arrested by the Gestapo during WWII for hiding Jewish refugees in their home. (Corrie's experience with the Nazis was depicted in the 1971 film, "The Hiding Place.").

Ref: 5

Minus van Looi [Benjamin van der Voort] Flemish writer, is born.

Ref: 5

R Huelsenbeck writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Maud Hart Lovelace, children's author, is born.

Ref: 2

Coenraad B van Haeringen linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

Konstatin G Paustovski Russian author (Povestj Zjizni), is born.

Ref: 5

John Peale Bishop US poet (This Side of Paradise), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfonsina Storni Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal), is born.

Ref: 5

Konstatin G Paustovski Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj), is born.

Ref: 5

James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice), is born.

Ref: 5

Pearl S Buck US, novelist (The Good Earth), is born.

Ref: 5

John Kieran NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC), is born.

Ref: 5

Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland, writer (Scots Unbound), is born.

Ref: 5

George Curtis, American author and editor, dies at age 68.

Ref: 70

John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Alfred A Knopf US, publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Sullivan humorist (New Yorker Magazine), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Lord Tennyson English poet laureate: The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam; dies at age 83.

Ref: 68

Harold Ross, American founder/editor of The New Yorker (1925-51), is born in Aspen CO.

Ref: 68

F Osbert S Sitwell London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame), is born.

Ref: 5

Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Fairfield) author: The Meaning of Treason, A Train of Powder, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Henry James, The Thinking Reed, The Birds Fall Down; is born.

Ref: 4

1893

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle French novelist/essayist (Gilles), is born.

Ref: 5

Clarke Ashton Smith US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci), is born.

Ref: 5

Jorge Guillén Valladolid Spain, poet/critic (Cántico, Final), is born.

Ref: 5

José Zorrilla y Moral Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Freya Stark English explorist/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Johan C P Alberts Dutch literary (Festival), is born.

Ref: 5

Ignacio M Altamirano Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Ivor Armstrong Richards England, literary critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Pietro Pancrazi Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi), is born.

Ref: 5

Ivor A "I A" Richards English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning), is born.

Ref: 5

Wilfred Owen England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth), is born.

Ref: 5

Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Pál Szabó Hungarian farmer/author (Talpalatnyi Föld), is born.

Ref: 5

John Addington Symonds critic/poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Hermann Ungar writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Anita Loos, American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), is born.

Ref: 68

Elisaveta Bagrjana [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

S. N. Behrman, American short-story writer and playwright

Ref: 70

Dorothy L Sayers England, novelist (9 Taylors), is born.

Ref: 5

Guy de Maupassant, French novelist and short-story writer, dies at age 42.

Ref: 70

Vladimir Mayakovsky Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution), is born.

Ref: 5

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Dorothy Parker (Rothschild) author: News Item: Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses; is born in West Bend, N.J.

Ref: 4

Freda Kirchwey, American editor and publisher of "The Nation", is born.

Ref: 70

Faith Baldwin New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love), is born.

Ref: 5

John Phillips Marquand, American novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Joseph Krutch, American naturalist and author, is born.

Ref: 70

I.J. Singer, Polish-born American author, is born.

Ref: 70

Ernst Toller writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Karolina Pawlowa writer, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Harry Blomberg Swedish author (Mäster Jacob), is born.

Ref: 5

Max Lamberty Flemish sociologist/author (Flemish Resurrection), is born.

Ref: 5

1894

Robert Nathan New York City NY, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie), is born.

Ref: 5

Uri Zvi Greenberg, Hebrew and Yiddish poet, is born.

Ref: 70

François Haverschmidt Dutch writer, dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Charles Morgan England, writer (Fountain), is born.

Ref: 5

Steele MacKaye, American playwright, actor and inventor, dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Death of English philanthropist William D. Longstaff, 72. A friend of Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey, Longstaff left several writings, but is best remembered today for authoring the hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy."

Ref: 5

Gerald Brenan English writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Bankim C Chattopadhyaya writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Martinus Nijhoff poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling), is born.

Ref: 5

Mari Sandoz, writer and biographer (Crazy Horse), is born.

Ref: 2

Walter Yust, American editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1938-1960), is born.

Ref: 70

Dirk Vansina Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence), is born.

Ref: 5

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis-Ferdinand Céline France, novelist (Journey to End of Night), is born.

Ref: 5

Mark van Doren Ill, author (The Happy Critic), is born.

Ref: 5

Isaak Babel Russian short-story writer/dramatist (Red Calvary)

Ref: 5

Oskar Maria Graf, German novelist and poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Aldous Huxley England, author (Brave New World), is born.

Ref: 5

Walter Pater, British critic, essayist and humanist, dies at age 55.

Ref: 70

Jean Rhys West Indies, writer (Voyage in the Dark), is born.

Ref: 5

J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestly author (Good Companions)/wed Jessica Hawkes, is born.

Ref: 5

Rachel Field, novelist and playwright who wrote All This and Heaven Too and And Now Tomorrow, is born.

Ref: 2

Oliver Wendell Holmes Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides), dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

e. e. cummings, poet (Tulips & Chimneys), is born in Cambridge Mass.

Ref: 5

Brooks Atkinson drama critic (Broadway theater namesake), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Louis Stevenson English writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 45.

Ref: 5

James (Grover) Thurber Columbus OH, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs), is born.

Ref: 5

Gertrud Kolmar writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Henny Jahnn writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Chris Rossetti writer, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

1895

Anton Betzner writer, is born.

Ref: 5

George Richard Samways children's writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Albin Zollinger Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugen Roth writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Freida Geiken autobiographer (National Historic Taping), is born.

Ref: 5

Marcel Paul Pagnol, French writer and film producer/director, is born.

Ref: 70

Marcel Pagnol French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire), is born.

Ref: 5

Fritz Usinger German writer (Eternal Struggle), is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov, Russian novelist and short-story writer, dies at age 64.

Ref: 70

Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist/feminist, dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Jean Giono French writer (World Chant), is born.

Ref: 5

Vardis A Fisher US author (Darkness & Deep), is born.

Ref: 5

Olof R Jändel Swedish poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Corrado Alvaro Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte), is born.

Ref: 5

Jorge Isaacs, Colombian poet and novelist, dies at age 58.

Ref: 70

George Scharf critic, dies.

Ref: 5

Gustav Freytag writer, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Alfred Kurella writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Peggy Bacon Ridgefield CT, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), is born.

Ref: 5

Gabriel Chevallier French author (Le petit général), is born.

Ref: 5

Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Parandowski writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Whitaker British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

José J Marti y Perez Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies.

Ref: 5

Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge (homosexuality) in London; he was sentenced to two years in prison. (Arrested 6 April)

Ref: 70

Immanuel Velikovsky, US writer (Worlds in Collision), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Graves, poet and novelist (Goodbye to All That), is born.

Ref: 2

Robert Graves, poet and novelist of "I, Claudius", is born.

Ref: 68

Friedrich Engels Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator, dies.

Ref: 68

Babette Deutsch, American poet, critic, translator and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries), is born.

Ref: 5

Lin Yo-t'ang China, writer (My Country & My People), is born.

Ref: 5

Birth of Avis B. Christiansen, devotional author. One of the most prolific hymnwriters of the 20th century, two of her most enduring hymns today are "Up Calvary's Mountain" and "Precious Hiding Place."

Ref: 5

Lewis Mumford, American writer, urban planner and social critic (The City in History), is born.

Ref: 17

Michael Arlen Armenia, English writer (An American Verdict), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 17

Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Mexican novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Alexandre Dumas fils France, playwright/novelist (Camille), dies.

Ref: 5

Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag), is born.

Ref: 5

Ingeborg Refling-Hagen Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre), is born.

Ref: 5

Maurice Roelants Belgian author (Jazz Player), is born.

Ref: 5

Raul d'Avila Pompeia Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32.

Ref: 5

LP Hartley British writer, dies.

Ref: 5

1896

Teinosuke KinugasaMie Ken Japan, writer/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon), is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel Rojas Sepulveda Chile, writer (Men of the South), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul M Verlaine French poet (Elégies, Bonne Chanson), dies at 51.

Ref: 5

John dos Passos novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans H Holm Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt)

Ref: 5

Jane Wilde writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Johannes Urzidil writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Glauser writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jacob Paludan Danish pharmacist/writer (Jørgen Stein), is born.

Ref: 5

Else Lasker-Schüler writer, is born.

Ref: 5

E J Nicholson writer, dies.

Ref: 5

London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective.

Ref: 5

André Breton France, surrealist poet/writer (founder of surréalism), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Van Ostaijen Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Hughes politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton.

Ref: 5

Nancy Cunard writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Aldis writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Giulia D De Albertis, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gianna Manzini writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Nanny v Hof writer, dies.

Ref: 5

E Rundle Charles writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Tristan Tzara [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight), is born.

Ref: 70

Henry M de Montherlant French stage author (La Reine Morte), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret Kennedy novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Walter Mehring writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Mari Sandoz Nebraska, author (Cheyenne Autumn), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Cuyler Bunner, English poet, dies at age 40.

Ref: 70

Nora Perry writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Hannah Tillich writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey's End), is born.

Ref: 5

Philip Barry US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story), is born.

Ref: 5

Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe dies.

Ref: 68

A.J. Cronin England, author (Citadel, Shining Victory), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 08

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, is born in Washington DC.

Ref: 2

Aug 21

Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun), is born.

Ref: 5

Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist and short-story writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Francis Scott Key (F. Scott) Fitzgerald, novelist best known for The Great Gatsby, is born in St. Paul, MN.

Ref: 2

William Morris poet, artist, socialist reformer; dies at age 62.

Ref: 4

H.L. Davis, novelist and poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Edmund Blunden English poet/critic (Undertones of War), is born.

Ref: 5

John Urzidil Austria/US writer (Die erbeuteten Frauen), is born.

Ref: 5

Nikolai S Tichonov Russian writer (against Pasternak), is born.

Ref: 5

[Lady Huxley] Juliette Baillot author, is born.

Ref: 5

Eslanda Goode US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson

Ref: 5

Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov St Petersburg Russia, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Sicilian writer (Der Leopard), is born.

Ref: 5

Carl Zuckmayer German/Swiss/US playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Bromfield, American novelist and essayist, is born.

Ref: 70

1897

Al Martin screenwriter (Blondie Knows Best), is born.

Ref: 5

Catherine Bowen, American writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Margaret Hungerford ‘The Duchess’: author: Molly Bawn: “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.”; dies.

Ref: 10

Valentin Katayev Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled), is born.

Ref: 5

Denise Robins London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss), is born.

Ref: 5

Ebenezer C Brewer British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable), dies.

Ref: 5

Lili Körber writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Marcel Thiry Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue), is born.

Ref: 5

L O'Flaherty writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John B Glubb British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonius F "Anton" Coolen Dutch author (Village by the River), is born.

Ref: 5

Bernard Verhoeven poet/literature (About the Laugh), is born.

Ref: 5

Cass Canfield, American publisher and editor, is born.

Ref: 70

Paul Alverdes German writer (Pfeiferstube), is born.

Ref: 5

Izak W van der Merwe [Boerneef], South African writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek), is born.

Ref: 5

Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown Finnish playwright, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Robert Neumann Austrian/British author (Waters of Babylon), is born.

Ref: 5

Aleko Konstantinov Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34.

Ref: 5

Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."

Ref: 70

Erich Maria Remarque, German-born American novelist, is born

Ref: 62

Louise Bogan, American poet and literary critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Herman Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, is born.

Ref: 70

Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 15

Sacheverell Sitwell English poet/writer (People's Palace), is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel A Neat Curaçao author (Nobleza di Coerazon), is born.

Ref: 5

Rewi Alley New Zealand, writer (Americans in China), is born.

Ref: 5

Kate O'Brien Irish writer (Without My Cloak), is born.

Ref: 5

O W Cisek writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Josephine Bell, English physician and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Karl H Waggerl Austria writer (Power of Love), is born.

Ref: 5

Lillian Smith, Southern writer and civil rights activist, is born.

Ref: 2

Paul Neuhuys Belgian playwright (Le Canari et le Cerise), is born.

Ref: 5

Alphonse Daudet French writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Willie Corsari [Wilhelmina A Schmidt] Dutch writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1898

Jan Filip Boon Flemish author/editor (De Standaard 1929-39), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Rudolf Krik Danish writer/critic (Fiskerne, Slaven), is born.

Ref: 5

Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as Lewis Carroll - died in Guildford, England, at age 65.

Ref: 70

Ben van Eysselsteijn Dutch writer (Arid Earth), is born.

Ref: 5

Melvin Tolson, African-American poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Bertolt Brecht Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer, is born.

Ref: 5

Neville Pearson English publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Ibuse Masuji Japanese writer (Yôhai Taichô, Kuroi Ame), is born.

Ref: 5

Julien de Valckenaere Flemish writer

Ref: 5

Allison Danzig sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History), is born.

Ref: 5

Joao da Cruz Brazilian poet, dies at 26.

Ref: 5

Luis Palés Matos Puerto Rican poet (Tuntún the paso y grifería), dies.

Ref: 5

Heinz Risse writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Noyes Westcott US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies.

Ref: 5

Pola Gojawiczynska Polish writer (Stolica), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Ehrke German writer/poet (Narrenspiegel, Füer)

Ref: 5

Edwin E Dwinger German writer (General Vlassov), is born.

Ref: 5

William Soutar, Scottish poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Cornelius Vanderbilt, reporter, columnist, author, lecturer; great, great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad tycoon is born.

Ref: 4

Jef [Josephus C F] Last Dutch poet/politician (The Spark)

Ref: 5

Vera Chapman writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization), is born.

Ref: 5

Juan J Domenchina Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada)

Ref: 5

Author of "Looking Backward" Edward Bellamy dies at age 48.

Ref: 4

Kathleen Hale British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando), is born.

Ref: 5

Bennett Cerf, publisher, founder of Random House, panelist on "What's My Line", is born.

Ref: 68

Gustav Regler writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Bellamy US author (Looking Backward), dies.

Ref: 5

Harry Crosby, American poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding), is born.

Ref: 68

Erich Maria Remarque novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front), is born.

Ref: 5

Alec Waugh, London, novelist (Island in the Sun); brother of Evelyn, is born.

Ref: 5

Berenice Abbott photographer: 1930s B/W photos of NYC: Changing NY; is born.

Ref: 4

Stephen Vincent Benet, poet and short-story writer (John Brown's Body), is born.

Ref: 2

Alfred Eisenstaedt, the German-born photographer whose pioneering images for Life magazine helped define American photojournalism, is born.

Ref: 68

Malcolm Cowley, poet, translator, literary critic and social historian, is born.

Ref: 2

Damaso Alonso Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira), is born.

Ref: 5

Science fiction author C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis is born.

Ref: 3

Yuri N Libedinski Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero)

Ref: 5

Nils J E Ferlin Swedendish poet (Barfotabarn), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugène Dabit French writer/painter (Hôtel du Nord), is born.

Ref: 5

1899

Gerard Keller Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Goodman Ace radio/TV actor/writer/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman), is born.

Ref: 5

Nevil Shute (Norway) London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice), is born.

Ref: 5

Roel [Martinus F] Houwink Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)

Ref: 5

Martti Haavio [P Mastapää], Finnish linguist/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Alfredo d'Escragnolle French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies.

Ref: 5

E Langgässer, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Erich Kästner, Dresden Germany, author (Emil & the Detective), is born.

Ref: 5

Juri Olescha, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Leo Simon, publisher, partner of Max Schuster, is born.

Ref: 2

Eric Linklater Scotland, novelist/poet/historical writer (Blue Swallows)

Ref: 5

Emile Erckmann French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Svetolik Rankovic Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35.

Ref: 5

Bella Spewack Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacques Audiberti French poet (Race of Men), is born.

Ref: 5

Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg, novelist (Lolita, Ada), is born.

Ref: 68

Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh Christchurch New Zealand, Kiwi mystery writer (Black Beech & Honeydew), is born.

Ref: 5

Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal author (regional novels), is born.

Ref: 5

Francisque Sarcey French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov novelist/playwright

Ref: 5

Ilse Lagner writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Leonid Leonow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (The Death of the Heart), is born.

Ref: 5

Augustin Daly, American playwright and theatrical manager, dies at age 60.

Ref: 70

Nelson Doubleday US, publisher (Doubleday)

Ref: 5

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White author: Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, Is Sex Necessary?, The Elements of Style; is born.

Ref: 4

Horatio Alger Jr. Unitarian minister, author of rags to riches tales: Ragged Dick, Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, etc.; dies.

Ref: 68

Poet Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio.

Ref: 68

Conrad Aiken US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems), is born.

Ref: 5

P.L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books, is born.

Ref: 2

Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentine writer (Ficciones), is born.

Ref: 2

C.S. Forester, English novelist and author of the Horatio Hornblower series, is born.

Ref: 2

Lynn Riggs, writer, her book Green Grow the Lilacs was adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein to become Oklahoma, is born.

Ref: 2

Leo Strauss, German-born American political philosopher, is born.

Ref: 70

Nov 19

Allen Tate, Southern novelist, poet and critic, is born.

Ref: 2

Douwe Hermans Kiestra [Harm Harmstra] Frisian farmer/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Leonie Fuller Adams US poetess (Those not elected)

Ref: 5

Jean de Brunhoff France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant), is born.

Ref: 5

Harold Guinzburg publisher (founder of Literary Guild), is born.

Ref: 5

1900

Erwin S. Gelsey New York NY, screenwriter (Cover Girl, Touchdown Army), is born.

Ref: 5

Paula Ludwig writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Halliburton, American travel writer, is born.

Ref: 70

William Heinesen Färoës Island, writer (Noatun), is born.

Ref: 5

John Ruskin English writer/critic (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of influenza at 81.

Ref: 5

Richard D Blackmore English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Theodosius Dobzhansky Ukraine, geneticist/writer (Mankind Evolving), is born.

Ref: 5

Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke] publisher (History of Ecuador), is born.

Ref: 5

Hermann Kesten German writer (Allert de Lange), is born.

Ref: 5

Vittorio Bersezio [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Stephen Potter humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacques Prevert, French poet, screenwriter (The Visitors of the Evening, The Children of Paradise), is born.

Ref: 2

Rudolf Värnlund Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen), is born.

Ref: 5

Ferenc Körmendy Hungarian/US author (Budapest Kaland), is born.

Ref: 5

Albert Maurice Hackett playwright/screenwriter, is born.

Ref: 5

Giorgos Seferis writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Sean O'Faolain [John Whelan], Ireland, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernest Dowson, British poet, dies at age 32.

Ref: 70

Laura Z Hobson writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Yórgos Seféris [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi), is born.

Ref: 5

Gilberto Freye Brazilian sociologist/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Antonio Nobre Portuguese poet (S? [Lonely]), dies at 32.

Ref: 5

Lörinc Szabó Hungary, poet (Huszonhatodik év), is born.

Ref: 5

Leo Robin US writer (Thanks For the Memory), is born.

Ref: 5

Polly Adler Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth), is born.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth Goudge, English author, is born.

Ref: 2

Bruno Apitz writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ignazio Silone Italy, novelist/politician (Bread and Wine), is born.

Ref: 5

Bauke Tuinstra Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur), is born.

Ref: 5

Jos Panhuysen author (Pornographer), is born.

Ref: 5

Helma Wolf-Catz Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, English traveler and writer, dies at age 37.

Ref: 70

Stephen Crane, the American writer best known for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage," dies.

Ref: 70

Lucretia Hale, American novelist and writer of children's books, dies at age 79.

Ref: 2

Laura Z(ametkin) Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret), is born.

Ref: 5

John Mason Brown Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway), is born.

Ref: 5

Zelda (Sayre) Fitzgerald, writer (Save me the Waltz) and first wife of F Scott, is born.

Ref: 68

Owen Lattimore, American writer, lecturer, sinologist; and victim of McCarthyism, is born.

Ref: 70

"Janet" Taylor Caldwell England, novelist (Melissa), is born.

Ref: 5

James Hilton, British novelist who authored Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips and created the imaginary world of "Shangri-La", is born.

Ref: 2

Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), dies in a Paris hotel room at age 46, after saying of the room's wallpaper: "One of us had to go".

Ref: 4

Victor S Pritchett literary critic/author (Myth Makers), is born.

Ref: 5

Oda Schaefer German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only), is born.

Ref: 5

Wischnewski writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1901

Tómas Gudmundsson Iceland, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Edmond Vandercammen French/Belgian writer (L'amour responsable), is born.

Ref: 5

F. W. H. Myers, English writer/cofounder of the Society for Psychical Research, dies at age 57.

Ref: 5

H E Nossak writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Marie Luise Kaschnitz writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Bob den Doolaard [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers), is born.

Ref: 5

Ramón de Campoamor bon Campoosorio Spanish poet (Colón), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Stefan Lorant writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel author (Mieke-serial), is born.

Ref: 5

Rudolf W Nilsen Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo Madagaskisch poet (Enfants d'Orphée), is born.

Ref: 5

Julian Przybos Polish poet (Sruby), is born.

Ref: 5

Walter E Schäfer German playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Frans U Kailas Finnish poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Chester Bowles Mass, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal), is born.

Ref: 5

Glenway Wescott American writer (Apartment in Athens), is born.

Ref: 5

Martin Kessel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Lev N Lunts Russia, writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth), is born.

Ref: 5

Willi Bredel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Suzanne Lilar [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador), is born.

Ref: 5

Cornelia Otis Skinner Chicago IL, actress and writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay), is born.

Ref: 5

John W Van Duren playwright (I Remember Mama), is born.

Ref: 5

Irna Phillips Chicago, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light), is born.

Ref: 5

Dame Barbara Cartland, romance novelist featuring virginal heroines: Jigsaw, Etiquette Handbook, The Herb for Happiness, Lights, Laughter and a Lady, The Passionate Pilgrim, Search for a Wife, Woman The Enigma; authored 723 books, sold over 1 billion copies worldwide [in 36 languages]; advocate of feminine virtues and commanding men; died May 21, 2000

Ref: 4

John Gunther writer: Inside series: Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America, U.S.A., Africa, Russia Today, Europe Today; Behind the Curtain; foreign correspondent: Chicago Daily News; is born.

Ref: 4

John Gunther Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Osborn playwright (Mornings at 7), is born.

Ref: 5

Granville Hicks, American critic, novelist and teacher, is born.

Ref: 70

Oct 02

Roy Campbell, poet (The Flaming Terrapin), is born.

Ref: 2

Andre Malraux, France, novelist/art historian (L'Espoir), is born.

Ref: 5

Odön [Edmund] von Horvath Hungarian/Austrian playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Vitorino Nemésio Portuguese author (Presença), is born.

Ref: 5

Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo Spanish writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1902

Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons English author (Cold Comfort Farm), is born.

Ref: 5

Stella Gibbons, English novelist and poet, is born.

Ref: 70

F C Terborgh [Reijnier Flaes], Dutch writer (De Turkenoorlog), is born.

Ref: 5

Heinrich Schmist-Barrien German author (Moorkeerl), is born.

Ref: 5

Menno ter Braak Dutch writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens), is born.

Ref: 5

Langston Hughes poet/translator (The Weary Blues), is born.

Ref: 5

Ramón [J] Sender [Garcés], Spanish writer (El Lugar del Hombre), is born.

Ref: 5

Armand Bernier Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste), is born.

Ref: 5

Kay Boyle, short story writer ("The White Horses of Vienna"), is born.

Ref: 2

Max Kommerell German literary/author (Die Gefangenen), is born.

Ref: 5

Vercors (Jean Bruller; Jean-Marcel de Brullers) author: Silence of the Sea: first clandestine novel published under Nazi occupation of France [1941]; is born.

Ref: 4

Josef Martin Bauer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Kathryn Forbes short story writer (Mama's Bank Account), is born.

Ref: 5

Ellin Berlin [MacKay] Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain), is born.

Ref: 5

Marcel Aymé French writer (Jument Verte), is born.

Ref: 5

Louise L de Vilmorin French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage), is born.

Ref: 5

Bernard J H "Ben" Stroman recensent/writer (Jomtof & Blue Beard), is born.

Ref: 5

Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist, dramatist, essayist and short-story writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Seton I Miller Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul), is born.

Ref: 5

Cola [Nicolas] Debrot Bonaire Governor (Netherlands Antilles)/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Bret Harte writer, dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Harry Golden Jewish humorist/writer (2¢ Plain, Only in America), is born.

Ref: 5

Bret (Francis) Harte writer: The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar; dies.

Ref: 4

Joachim Prinz author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), is born.

Ref: 5

Kaarlo Sarkia Finnish poet (Unen Kaivo), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Sahl writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jan van Droogenbroeck Flemish poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Samuel Butler author: Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh; dies.

Ref: 4

Christina Stead Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children), is born.

Ref: 5

Jessamyn West, American author (The Friendly Persuasion), is born.

Ref: 2

Sir Allen Lane, English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing.

Ref: 70

Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman, philosopher and writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Kenneth Fearing, poet and novelist (The Big Clock), is born.

Ref: 2

Georgette Heyer England, novelist (Friday's Child), is born.

Ref: 5

Wallace Henry Thurman, African-American editor, critic, novelist and playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

Ogden Nash Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself), is born.

Ref: 68

Stevie Smith, English poet, novelist and short story writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Allen Lake, founded Penguin Books in 1935, is born.

Ref: 2

Sep 29

(Dreyfus) Emile Zola novelist: Therese Raquin, The Rougon-Macquart, The Belly of Paris, The Grog Shop, Nana, Germinal, The Crash, The Three Cities, The Four Gospels, The Experimental Novel, The Naturalistic Novelists, Naturalism in the Theater; an open letter to win a new trial for Alfred Dreyfus: J’accuse; dies.

Ref: 4

Arna Bontemps Louisiana, black author (100 years of negro freedom), is born.

Ref: 5

Beryl Markham, American writer, aviator, horse trainer and breeder, is born.

Ref: 2

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, journalist and short story writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Nordahl Brun Greig, Norwegian writer and wartime hero during WWII, is born.

Ref: 2

Charles Henry Dow, American journalist, dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Howard Koch screenwriter, is born.

Ref: 5

Simon Drach writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Mortimer J Adler New York NY, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica), is born.

Ref: 5

Shen Congwen writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1903

Anton van Duinkerken [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary, is born.

Ref: 5

Albrecht Haushofer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jens A Schade Danish writer (Schadebogen, Losses Højsang), is born.

Ref: 5

Alan Patton, South African novelist who wrote "Cry, the Beloved Country", is born.

Ref: 2

Gardner Cowles Iowa, publisher/founder (Look Magazine), is born.

Ref: 5

Georg Rendl Austria miner/bee-keeper/writer (The Bees Novel), is born.

Ref: 5

Edwin Denby Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N), is born.

Ref: 5

Pieter G Buckinx Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty), is born.

Ref: 5

Kay Boyle St Paul MN, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales), is born.

Ref: 5

Anaïs Nin Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense), is born.

Ref: 5

Raymond Queneau [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit), is born.

Ref: 5

Morley Callaghan Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy), is born.

Ref: 5

Frederick William Farrar writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies.

Ref: 5

Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada Albanian poet, dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Rabbe A Enckell Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph H Shorthouse English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Claire Booth Luce playwright: The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin of Error; editor: Vogue, Vanity Fair; politician: U.S. Congresswoman [1943-47]; U.S. Ambassador to Italy [1953-56]; died Aug 31, 1989

Ref: 4

Dorothy Schiff publisher (New York Post), is born.

Ref: 5

Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand] Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Jochen Klepper writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Malcolm Muggeridge English writer (Observer of Life), is born.

Ref: 5

John M. Synge, Irish poetic dramatist, dies at age 38.

Ref: 70

Countee Cullen US poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Huchel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Erich Arendt German writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Dagmar Edqvist Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade), is born.

Ref: 5

Niven Busch US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Belknap Long American writer (Rim of the Unknown), is born.

Ref: 5

Walter Dehmel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Henry Stoddard, American poet, critic and editor, dies at age 77.

Ref: 70

Manly Wade Wellman Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet), is born.

Ref: 5

Walter Reisch US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic), is born.

Ref: 5

Gaston Duribreux Flemish writer (Golden Sail), is born.

Ref: 5

Countee Cullen Baltimore MD, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems), is born.

Ref: 5

Marguerite Yourcenard author (Memoirs of Hadrien), is born.

Ref: 5

Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born American novelist and essayist, is born.

Ref: 70

Author Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) is born in Motihari India.

Ref: 24

William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic and editor, dies at age 53.

Ref: 70

Irving Stone US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugenio De Hostos Puerto Rican patriot; scholar, author of more than fifty books; dies.

Ref: 4

Eduardo Mallea, Argentine novelist, essayist and short-story writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Ren‚ Wellek Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism), is born.

Ref: 5

Stevie Smith, English poet, novelist and short story writer

Ref: 68

Nathaneal West, novelist and screenwriter (Miss Lonely Hearts, The Day of the Locust), is born.

Ref: 2

Evelyn Waugh London, author (Brideshead Revisited), is born.

Ref: 5

Cornell Woolrich US, writer (El Angel Negro), is born.

Ref: 5

Kathleen (Kitty) Rosalind Muggeridge author, is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Norton, English children's author (Bedknobs and Broomsticks), is born.

Ref: 2

William Plomer Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa), is born.

Ref: 5

Jewgeni Petrow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John Piper British writer (US Churches in WWI)/official war painter, is born.

Ref: 5

Rafael Alberti Spanish poet (El hombre deshabitado), is born.

Ref: 5

Erskine P Caldwell author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), is born.

Ref: 5

Theo Harych writer, is born.

Ref: 5

George [Robert] Gissing English novelist, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

1904

Richard P Blackmur Massachusetts, critic/poet (Anni Mirabiles, Good European), is born.

Ref: 5

Buzurg Alavi Persian author (Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha), is born.

Ref: 5

Milton Krims writer (Speed), is born.

Ref: 5

Albert Kuyle [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], Dutch writer (Jesus' Robe), is born.

Ref: 5

Havank [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache), is born.

Ref: 5

Adelle Davis author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer), is born.

Ref: 68

James Thomas Farrell US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy), is born.

Ref: 5

Ding Ling, Chinese writer and women's rights activist, is born.

Ref: 2

Maurits Wertheim Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Campbell, American editor and author of many works on mythology, is born.

Ref: 70

Juan Gil-Albert poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Samuel Smiles writer: Thrift: “A place for everything and everything in its place.”; dies.

Ref: 4

Edward Chodorov playwright/director (Story of Louis Pasteur), is born.

Ref: 5

Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet, poet laureate/detective (Nicholas Blake), father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, is born.

Ref: 2

Ragnar Skrede Norwegian poet (Lauvfall), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Hille writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Alfred Earle Birney poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Clifton Fadiman, Brooklyn NY, American editor, anthologist, writer, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids), is born.

Ref: 5

Anne de Vries writer (Bartje), is born.

Ref: 5

Alvah Bessie, screenwriter and novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and political activist (Residence on Earth), is born.

Ref: 2

Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright/short story writer: The Party, The Darling; playwright: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, dies at age 44.

Ref: 4

Lafcadio Hearn multinational author, dies.

Ref: 5

Oct 02

(Henry) Graham Greene author: The Third Man, The Power and the Glory; is born.

Ref: 4

A.J. Libeling, journalist and author, is born.

Ref: 2

Oct 24

Moss Hart Bronx NY, playwright (You can't Take it With You, Act 1), is born.

Ref: 5

Marya Mannes writer (The Reporter), is born.

Ref: 5

Nancy Mitford, the British satiric novelist and essayist, is born.

Ref: 70

Norbert E Fonteyne Flemish writer (Guest house VivŠs), is born.

Ref: 5

Alentejo Carpentier Cubans/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo), is born.

Ref: 5

1905

Eric Frank Russell UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides), is born.

Ref: 5

Manfred Bonnington Lee detective writer (½ of Ellery Queen), is born.

Ref: 5

Oveta Culp Hobby government official/newspaper publisher/CEO (Houston Post), is born.

Ref: 5

John O'Hara, American writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Konstanty I Galczynski Polish poet (Zielona Ges), is born.

Ref: 5

John Henry O'Hara Pottsville PA, novelist (Butterfield 8, Pal Joey, Appointment at Samarra), is born.

Ref: 5

Anna Blaman [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles de Trooz Belgian literary (Le Magister et Ses Maîtres), is born.

Ref: 5

Ayn Rand (Alissa Rosenbaum), writer (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), is born.

Ref: 5

Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk Netherlands/Indonesian writer (Camp diary), is born.

Ref: 5

Marcel Schwob French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies.

Ref: 5

Jules de Geyter Belgian poet (International), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Jascha Golowanjuk Swedish writer (Acrobat), is born.

Ref: 5

Glyn Jones writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Pol le Roy Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom), is born.

Ref: 5

Geoffrey Grigson, English poet, editor, and literary critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Vera Fjodorova Panova Russian author (Sputniki), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter C Quennell English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy), is born.

Ref: 5

Rex Warner English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase), is born.

Ref: 5

B Amalie Skram-Alver Norwegian author (Paa St Jørgen), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Phyllis McGinley, American poet, writer and author of juvenile books, is born.

Ref: 70

Phyllis McGinley poet, is born.

Ref: 5

André Christiaens Flemish writer (Unfindable Country), is born.

Ref: 5

Jules Verne, French novelist, one of the first writers of science fiction (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), dies at age 77.

Ref: 2

Hans Scherfig Danish marxist/writer (Idealister, Frydenholm), is born.

Ref: 5

Helen B M Fennell Joseph anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side), is born.

Ref: 5

Attila Jozsef, Hungarian poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Inger J Hagerup-Halsír Norwegian poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Juan Valera bon Alcalá Galiano Sp author (Pepita Jiménez), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Tom Hopkinson, British writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Julian Stryjkowski writer, is born.

Ref: 5

H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates novelist (Feast for July, Love for Lydia), is born.

Ref: 5

John Patrick screenwriter, is born.

Ref: 5

Gerrit Achterberg Dutch poet (Sailing), is born.

Ref: 5

Lillian Hellman, playwright (The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic), is born.

Ref: 17

Ashley Montague author, anthropologist: “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”; is born.

Ref: 4

Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination), is born.

Ref: 5

Edgar Snow, journalist, is born.

Ref: 2

Stanley Kunitz, poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Mary Renault (Mary Challans), author who wrote about her wartime experiences in The Last of the Wine and The King Must Die, is born.

Ref: 2

Arthur Koestler Hungary, writer (Darkness at Noon), is born.

Ref: 5

George Macdonald, Scottish novelist, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Eugene Fodor, Hungarian-born travel writer, is born.

Ref: 2

C P Snow England, novelist/scientist (Death Under Sail), is born.

Ref: 5

Mystery Author Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) is born.

Ref: 4

Henry Green, novelist (Living, Party Going), is born.

Ref: 2

Charles Finney US, author (Circus of Dr Lao), is born.

Ref: 5

John Bartlett, American editor of "Familiar Quotations", dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

Dalton Trumbo US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun), is born.

Ref: 5

Piet Hein poet/inventor, is born.

Ref: 5

Anthony Powell England, novelist (Infants of the Spring), is born.

Ref: 5

Kenneth Rexroth US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush), is born.

Ref: 5

Tadeusz Breza writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1906

Roman Brandstaetter writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Benedict Vilakazi South Africa, Zulu poet/novelist/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert E[rvin] Howard US, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Roth Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton OH.

Ref: 5

Willem Doorenbos literary/critic, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Alexis Curvers Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond), is born.

Ref: 5

José M de Pereda y Sánchez the Porrúa Spanish writer, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Artur Lundkvist Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir), is born.

Ref: 5

Francisco Ayala writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Dwight Macdonald, US writer for New Yorker and Esquire, is born.

Ref: 17

Betsy Perk [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

John Betjeman English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion), is born.

Ref: 5

Alexander L Kielland Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Charles J B Jonckheere Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea), is born.

Ref: 5

-"Brenda Starr" creator Dale Messick is born.

Ref: 6

M Rooi editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), is born.

Ref: 5

Clara Eggink [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem), is born.

Ref: 5

Tom Burns editor, is born.

Ref: 5

Maria Arnoldo [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Sally Salminen writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Pierre [Louis] Boileau Paris France, novelist (Vertigo), is born.

Ref: 5

Eleanor Estes author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), is born.

Ref: 5

Arturo Uslar Pietri Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas), is born.

Ref: 5

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright: Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, The Pillars of Society, An Enemy of the People; dies at age 78.

Ref: 68

Terence Hanbury White Bombay India, novelist (England Have My Bones), is born.

Ref: 5

Alexander Muir poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Francis Steegmuller US, biographer (Cocteau), is born.

Ref: 5

Jorge Icaza, Ecuadorian novelist and playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

Clifford Odets US, dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), is born.

Ref: 5

Marston Bates, American zoologist, author (The Nature of Natural History), is born.

Ref: 2

Sir John Betjeman poet laureate of England (Mt Zion), is born.

Ref: 5

Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian dramatist, dies at age 58.

Ref: 4

Addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in NY, Mark Twain said there were "only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here."

Ref: 2

Fredric Brown American writer (US Army in Transition), is born.

Ref: 5

Bob Considine sports columnist (Bob Feller Story), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Llewellyn Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley), is born.

Ref: 5

Birago Diop Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs), is born.

Ref: 5

Betty Smith novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), is born.

Ref: 5

H Allen Smith Illinois, humorist/author (Armchair Detective, Low Man on the Totem Pole, Rhubarb), is born.

Ref: 5

1907

Anton Ingolic Slavic author (After Splavih, After Prelomu), is born.

Ref: 5

Günter Eich German literary (Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo), is born.

Ref: 5

Bernardas Brazdzionis Lithuania, poet/editor/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

James A Michener New York NY, writer (Tales of the South Pacific, Centennial, Chesapeake, Hawaii, Space), is born.

Ref: 5

E W Swanton author & sports commentator, is born.

Ref: 5

Anghélos Terzakis Greece, writer (Without God), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles B Timmer Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White), is born.

Ref: 5

Aar van de Werfhorst [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Rolf Jacobsen, Norwegian poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Charles Boost movie critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Björn-Erik Höijer Swedish writer (Nu dansar Sara), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, author: The Story of a Bad Boy, Cruise of the Dolphin, The Sisters' Tragedy, The Wyndham Towers, dies at age 70.

Ref: 4

Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gerald Abrahams Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess), is born.

Ref: 5

Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing), is born.

Ref: 5

Theun de Vries writer (February; PC Hooft prize 1981), is born.

Ref: 5

Rose Ausländer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Leslie Charteris English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint), is born.

Ref: 5

J K Huysmans writer, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Daphne du Maurier English writer (Rebecca, Parasites), is born.

Ref: 5

Desmond Shawe-Taylor critic, is born.

Ref: 5

John Lehmann, English poet, editor and publisher, is born.

Ref: 70

Robert A Heinlein sci-fi author (Stranger in a Strange Land), is born.

Ref: 5

Helen MacInnes, writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (Pippi Longstocking), is born.

Ref: 2

Jim Bishop newspaper columnist, author: The Day Christ Died, The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Day Kennedy Was Shot; is born.

Ref: 4

Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (The Conformist, Conjugal Love), is born.

Ref: 2

Jacques Barzun France, author (The House of Interlect), is born.

Ref: 5

Jo Boer, Dutch author (Catharina & the Magnolias), is born.

Ref: 5

Rumer Godden England, author (Thursday's Children), is born.

Ref: 5

Christopher Fry (Harris), Bristol England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon), is born.

Ref: 5

Garmt Stuiveling Dutch literary (Poet in Love), is born.

Ref: 5

1908

Antony Winkler Prins writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex), is born.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm Busch writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Holger Drachmann writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Edmund Steadman, American poet and banker, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Hubert Nicholson poet/novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Pak Saleman Siswowitono Javan/Surinamese writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Lord Iliffe English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar), is born.

Ref: 5

Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex), is born.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm Busch writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Sutan Takdir Alishahbana Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Ypk fan der Fear Frisian writer (Reade Runen), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank G Slaughter author (Sangaree), is born.

Ref: 5

Edmondo de Amicis Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Walter Annenberg Milwaukee WI, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis D L'Amour Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett), is born.

Ref: 68

Albrecht Goes writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Betty MacDonald [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacques [Izaäk] den Haan Dutch writer (Dangerous Book), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey author (Cheaper by the Dozen), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Hemingway writer (Ernest Hemmingway Biography), is born.

Ref: 5

Leo Rosten, Polish-born American author and social scientist, is born.

Ref: 70

Jack [Stewart] Williamson US, sci-fi author (Firechild, Golden Blood, Cometeers), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Guareschi Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone), is born.

Ref: 5

Ludovic Halévy, Paris France, French dramatist, dies.

Ref: 17

Hilary Preston editor, is born.

Ref: 5

François Coppée French poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Theodore Roethke US, poet (Words for the Wind), is born.

Ref: 5

Ian Fleming, novelist (creator of James Bond), is born in London, England.

Ref: 68

Harriette Arnow Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (The Dollmaker), is born.

Ref: 5

Amy Vanderbilt authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette), is born.

Ref: 5

Elio Vittorini, Italian novelist, translator and literary critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Joseph Mitchell, writer for The New Yorker, is born.

Ref: 2

Arthur Adamov Kislovodsk Russia, dramatist (Paolo Paoli), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Wright US, author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children), is born.

Ref: 5

Mika Waltari novelist (Egyptian), is born.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth G. Speare, writer of historical novels for children, is born.

Ref: 2

Birth of C.F.D. Moule, Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar. He authored numerous autographs on Biblical studies, including "The Phenomenology of the New Testament" (1967).

Ref: 5

Nigel M Balchin [Mark Spade] English author (Business for Pleasure), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacques Gans Dutch author/journalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Hanns Maassen writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Louis de Bourbon Dutch writer/poet (Black Banners), is born.

Ref: 5

1909

Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith bibliophile, is born.

Ref: 5

Keith Davis voice tutor/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Ernest von Wildenbruch German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Saul David Alinsky Chicago IL, radical writer (John L Lewis), is born.

Ref: 5

Miron Grindea literary editor, is born.

Ref: 5

M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans] poet (Phoenix), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Roth writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Catulle Mendes, French poet, playwright and novelist, dies at age 67.

Ref: 4

A Moses Klein Montréal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...), is born.

Ref: 5

August William Derleth, Sauk City WI, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries), is born.

Ref: 5

Edgar Pangborn US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), is born.

Ref: 5

John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Fabricius Dutch playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Kenton Kilmer poet/translator, is born.

Ref: 5

Greta Schoon writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Leo Malet writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Kathryn McLean (Forbes), author (Mama's Bank Account), is born.

Ref: 2

André Pieyre de Mandiargues French writer (Margin), is born.

Ref: 5

Gabrielle Roy French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute), is born.

Ref: 5

Jack Popplewell composer/playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

John Davidson, Scottish poet and playwright, dies at age 52.

Ref: 70

John Millington Synge Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at age 37.

Ref: 5

Nelson Algren, American novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side), is born.

Ref: 2

Yvonne Waegemans Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke), is born.

Ref: 5

Algernon Chas. B. Swinburne, English poet and critic, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter), is born.

Ref: 2

Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter), is born.

Ref: 2

Muriel C Bradbrook English writer (That Infidel Place), is born.

Ref: 5

Yannis Ritsos Greek poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten] Flemish playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Miklós Radnóti writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Carlos Baker, biographer, is born.

Ref: 2

George Meredith English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Guillermo Diaz-Plaja Spanish literary/poet (Lorca), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Fürnberg writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Maibaum New York NY, screenwriter (Goldfinger), is born.

Ref: 5

Neil R[onald] Jones US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds), is born.

Ref: 5

Osamu Dazai Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human), is born.

Ref: 5

Sarah Orne Jewett, author (Tales of New England, The Country of the Pointed Firs), dies.

Ref: 70

Eric Ambler suspense author (Epitaph for a Spy), is born.

Ref: 5

Malcolm Lowry novelist (Under the Volcano), is born.

Ref: 5

Chester Himes, author (Cotton Comes to Harlem, If He Hollers, Let Him Go), is born.

Ref: 2

Walter van Tillburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), is born.

Ref: 17

John Baur museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century), is born.

Ref: 5

David Reisman, sociologist, author of The Lonely Crowd, is born.

Ref: 2

John V. Dodge, American publishing executive of the Encyclopedia Britannica, is born.

Ref: 70

Ciro Alegria Peru, novelist (Golden Serpent), is born.

Ref: 5

Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born dramatist (The Bald Soprano, Rhinoceros), is born.

Ref: 2

Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born French dramatist, is born.

Ref: 68

Jan Koplowitz writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Armand H F Boni the Good One, Flemish poet/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Innokenti F Annenski Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Seich“ Matsumoto Dutch Japanese detective/playwright (10 to Sen), is born.

Ref: 5

Nikola J Vaptsarov Bulgaria poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija), is born.

Ref: 5

1910

Ulrich Becher writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Wright Morris US writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Joy Adamson naturalist/author (Born Free), is born.

Ref: 5

Henri Queffélec French writer (Au bout du monde), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Hodder-Williams publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Edouard Rod French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52.

Ref: 5

Otto Julius Bierbaum German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44.

Ref: 5

Uys Krige South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert), is born.

Ref: 5

Irmgard Keun West German writer (Das kunstseidene Mädchen), is born.

Ref: 5

Ai Qing, poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Nicholas Monsarrat Liverpool England, novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Peter De Vries Chicago IL, author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of Noon), is born.

Ref: 5

Ed[uard] Hoornik Dutch writer/poet (Survivor), is born.

Ref: 5

Ann Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau children book writer (Skating Race), is born.

Ref: 5

Felix Tournachon [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89.

Ref: 5

Nicholas Monsarret England, writer (Cruel Sea), is born.

Ref: 5

Kálmán Mikszáth Hungarian author (Szent Péter Esernyöje), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Helen Wells, author of the Cherry Ames series, is born.

Ref: 2

Jean Moréas [Y Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Joeri German Russian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre are married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.

Ref: 2

Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, dies in Redding CT at age 75.

Ref: 68

Norman Lewis Corwin radio writer/director/producer: We Hold These Truths, On a Note of Triumph, Columbia Workshop, Twenty-Six by Corwin, An American in England, Columbia Presents Corwin; NPR series: More By Corwin; professor: Univ. of Southern California, is born.

Ref: 4

Jules Renard French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Margaret Wise Brown, American writer of children's books, is born.

Ref: 70

O. Henry, (William Sydney Porter), short story writer who wrote "The Gift of the Magi," and "The Last Leaf., dies at age 47.

Ref: 70

John Campbell, American science-fiction writer, is born.

Ref: 70

John Campbell, American science-fiction writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

Jun 23

Jean (-Marie-Lucien-Pierre) Anouilh, French playwright/dramatist (Thieves' Carnival), is born.

Ref: 5

Lou Zara NYC, writer (Stump the Authors), is born.

Ref: 5

Ray Geiger editor: The Farmer’s Almanac [1934-1993]; the longest-held position of any almanac editor in America; is born.

Ref: 4

Ernest Kellogg Gann, pilot and adventure novelist (Island in the Sky, The High and Mighty), is born.

Ref: 2

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), dies at age 82.

Ref: 68

Abraham L Polonsky US writer/director (Tell them Willie Boy is Here), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Genet Paris France, novelist/dramatist (The Blacks), is born.

Ref: 5

Jose Lezama Lima Havana Cuba, poet/novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr US, sci-fi author (Bazaar of the Bizarre), is born.

Ref: 5

1911

C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore US, sci-fi author (Judgment Night), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustaf Fröding Swedish poet (Grabstänk), dies at 50.

Ref: 5

Frank Hercules writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Hal Porter Australia, writer (Tilted Cross, Paper Chase), is born.

Ref: 5

Walter Ernest Allen writer/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Amir Hamzah Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

John Paxton screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely), is born.

Ref: 5

Émile Michel Cioran Romania, writer (The Trouble With Being Born, Anathemas and Admirations), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean-Pierre Herve Bazin writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Georges Dargaud French publisher (Asterix, Tintin), is born.

Ref: 5

Luise Rinser writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Max (Rudolf) Frisch author: Homo Faber, I’m Not Stiller, Juerg Reinhardt; playwright: The Firebugs, Andorra, is born.

Ref: 4

Olaff J de Landell [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Annie M G Schmidt writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke), is born.

Ref: 5

Gardner F[rancis] Fox US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), is born.

Ref: 5

William Schwenck Gilbert England, writer (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Ralph Kirkpatrick Leominster Mass, harpsichordist, is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Terence Rattigan playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version), is born.

Ref: 5

Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav political writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Mervyn Peake, English novelist, poet, playwright and illustrator, is born.

Ref: 70

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (The Medium is the Message), communications theorist and educator, is born.

Ref: 2

Aug 07

Nicholas Ray, American film writer and director, is born.

Ref: 70

Roald Dahl, writer, best known for his children's books such as James and the Giant Peach, is born.

Ref: 2

Wilfred Burchett Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom), is born.

Ref: 5

Oct 05

Flann O'Brien, Irish novelist and playwright (The Hard Life, The Third Policeman), is born.

Ref: 2

Howard Pyle, American illustrator, painter, and author, dies at age 58.

Ref: 70

Vincent Henry Kemp poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Kenneth Patchen US, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest), is born.

Ref: 5

Hortense Calisher (novelist: In the Slammer with Carol Smith, The Hollow Boy), is born in New York NY.

Ref: 4

Malcolm MacEwen writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Sam Levenson New York NY, humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party), is born.

Ref: 5

1912

Felix Dahn writer, dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Jacques Cesar Ellul writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Rudolf Hagelstange German author/poet (Spielball der Götter), is born.

Ref: 5

Franz Tumler Austria, author/novelist (Cloak, Aufruf), is born.

Ref: 5

Georg Heym writer, dies at 24.

Ref: 5

William Sansom English writer (The Loving Eye), is born.

Ref: 5

Lawrence Durrell Indian/British writer (Private Country), is born.

Ref: 5

Hermann Bang writer, dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Roy Fuller England, poet/novelist (Lost Season), is born.

Ref: 5

George Mikes Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien), is born.

Ref: 5

Bob Tadema Sporry Dutch (female) author, is born.

Ref: 5

Andre [Alice Mary] Norton Cleveland OH, science fiction writer (Beast Master, Stand & Deliver), is born.

Ref: 5

Adolf Rudnicki Polish writer (Niekochana), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Francis de Sautoy publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Lawrence Durrell Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet), is born.

Ref: 5

Kylie Tennant novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Paul Boon Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan), is born.

Ref: 5

A[rthur] Bertram Chandler UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space), is born.

Ref: 5

Karl May German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Bert Bakker Dutch publisher (Free Netherlands), is born.

Ref: 5

Isaac Kauffman Funk US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls), dies.

Ref: 5

Valère Depauw Flemish writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Soewarsil Djojopoespito Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line), is born.

Ref: 5

Bram (Abraham) Stoker, Irish author; wrote "Dracula", dies at age 64.

Ref: 70

Justin M'Carthy politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

A[lfred] E[lton] Van Vogt Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, science fiction writer (Cosmic Encounter), is born.

Ref: 5

Franz Weyergans Belgian literary (Les Gens Heureux), is born.

Ref: 5

Terence de Vere White novelist/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

May Sarton, poet and writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Barend Roest Crollius painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth), is born.

Ref: 5

George Woodcock author, is born.

Ref: 5

Gertrud Fussenegger [Dorn] Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende), is born.

Ref: 5

August Strindberg, Swedish playwright/novelist, dies at age 63.

Ref: 70

Studs Terkel New York NY, author/host (Stud's Place, Working), is born.

Ref: 5

John Cheever, American short-story writer and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

John Hanlo Dutch poet (Go to the Mosque), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Stein playwright: Fiddler on the Roof, Enter Laughing, Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys; producer: Enter Laughing, is born.

Ref: 4

Julian Gustave Symons writer, is born.

Ref: 5

William Douglas-Home, English playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

Samuel A. (Albert) Taylor playwright: Sabrina [1954], Vertigo, Three on a Couch, Topaz, Sabrina [1995]; is born.

Ref: 4

Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Memories of Catholic Girlhood, The Group), is born.

Ref: 2

Elizabeth Taylor, novelist and short story writer, is born.

Ref: 2

William Booth founder of the Salvation Army; author: In Darkest England, The Way Out; dies at age 83.

Ref: 5

Garson Kanin writer: A Gift of Time, Tracy & Hepburn; director: Adam's Rib, Pat & Mike, Tom, Dick & Harry; is born.

Ref: 4

Eugene Ionesco, France, dramatist (Rhinoceros), is born.

Ref: 5

Lawrence Durrell Indian/British writer (Private Country), is born.

Ref: 5

John W Pritchard [Ian Wallace] US, sci-fi author (Megalomania), is born.

Ref: 5

Maisie Fitter editor/conservationist, is born.

Ref: 5

Kate Simon, American travel writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Jura Soyfer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1913

Eliot Janeway, financial writer (Economics of Chaos), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas P Krag Norwegian author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44.

Ref: 5

Tillie Olsen American writer (Tell Me a Riddle), is born.

Ref: 5

Phyllis Flowerdew school Reading text author, is born.

Ref: 5

Ferdinand van der Haeghen Flemish librarian/bibliographer, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Ab [Albert] Visser Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Durack poet, is born.

Ref: 5

George G Barker English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini), is born.

Ref: 5

Hermann Lenz writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Irwin Shaw US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans Dutch humorist/writer (Pieter Bas), is born.

Ref: 5

Roger Caillois French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes), is born.

Ref: 5

L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), is born.

Ref: 68

William Hutchinson Murray mountaineer/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Jerome Weidman US writer (Tenderloin), is born.

Ref: 5

Stefan Heym German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda), is born.

Ref: 5

Earl Blackwell Atlanta GA, author (Celebrity Register), is born.

Ref: 5

Barbara Pym (Mary Crampton), English novelist (Less Than Angels, Quartet in Autumn), is born.

Ref: 2

(S.F.) Sylvia (Feldman) Porter financial columnist: New York Post, New York Daily News; author: Sylvia Porter’s A Home of Your Own, Money Book; is born.

Ref: 4

Richard Bissell, novelist and playwright, is born.

Ref: 2

Hammond Innes, English novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Sir Angus Wilson England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955), is born.

Ref: 5

82 Robertson Davies 8/28/1913 12/2/1995 Canadian novelist and playwright

Ref: 70

Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's 7-part novel Remembrance of Things Past, is published.

Ref: 2

Maurice Zolotow author: Billy Wilder in Hollywood, is born.

Ref: 4

Delmore Schwartz US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah), is born.

Ref: 5

Muriel Rukeyser US, poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Bester US, science fiction author (Deceivers, Starlight), is born.

Ref: 5

Lillie Devereux Blake, American novelist and activist for women's suffrage, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

1914

Redjâizade M Ekrem Turkish poet/writer, dies at about 66.

Ref: 5

Claude Gallimard France, publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Arno Schmidt writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Anna Leonowens, English writer and governess to children of king Mongkut of Siam, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Kaye Webb English writer/publisher (Puffin Club), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Andersch German writer (Red Head), is born.

Ref: 5

William S. (Seward) Burroughs, Beat Generation writer: Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded, Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, The Adding Machine, The Western Lands; is born in St Louis MO.

Ref: 68

David Ignatow US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead), is born.

Ref: 5

Ralph Whitlock writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Albert Westerlinck [José J M Aerts], Flemish literary, is born.

Ref: 5

Per-Jakez Helias writer/teacher, is born.

Ref: 5

Ralph Waldo Ellison US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast), is born.

Ref: 5

Ralph Ellison writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act), is born.

Ref: 5

Marthe Robert essayist/translator, is born.

Ref: 5

Budd Schulberg, journalist, novelist and screenwriter (What Makes Sammy Run), is born in New York City.

Ref: 2

Bohumil Hrabal writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ch Morgenstern writer, dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Marguerite Duras France, novelist/playwright (The Sea Wall), is born.

Ref: 5

Jakub Arbes Czechoslovakia, author (Andél Miru), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Charles Hubert Sisson author/poet (Christopher Homm), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Baumann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jan de Hartog Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory), is born.

Ref: 5

Claude Mauriac, French novelist, journalist and critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist (Raintree Country), is born.

Ref: 2

Horace Leonard Gold Sci-Fi writer/editor, is born.

Ref: 5

Romain Gary, French novelist, war hero and diplomat, is born.

Ref: 70

Bertus Aafjes Dutch poet/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Vance Packard Granville Summit PA, author (Hidden Persuaders), is born.

Ref: 5

Barbara Ward economist/writer (Only One Earth), is born.

Ref: 5

George Tabori writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John (Richard) Hersey author: A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima; is born.

Ref: 4

Laurie Lee, British writer (Cider with Rosie), is born.

Ref: 2

Joseph Shuster, co-creator of Superman, was born

Ref: 62

Ronald Duncan, English playwright, poet and writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Julio Cortezar Argentina, writer (We Love Glenda So Much), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Pierre Péguy, Orléans France, Catholic writer (God Speaks), is killed at the Battle of the Marne (World War I)

Ref: 17

John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates), is born.

Ref: 5

Author-poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales.

Ref: 68

Howard Fast screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus), is born.

Ref: 5

Adolph Green Tony Award-winning playwright: Applause, Hallelujah, On the Twentieth Century, Bells are Ringing, Auntie Mame, On the Town, The Barkleys of Broadway; lyricist: collaborated with Betty Comden: Singin’ in the Rain, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; is born.

Ref: 4

Edmond Rostand, dramatist, and author of "Cyrano de Bergerac", died in Paris

Ref: 62

Giuseppe Berto Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red), is born.

Ref: 5

1915

François Bondy writer, is born.

Ref: 5

James E Flecker British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30.

Ref: 5

Alan Watts, Kent England, writer (Book on the Taboo), is born.

Ref: 5

C W Ceram [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Merton, American Catholic monk/poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Frederic Ramsey Jr folklorist/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Halfdan Rasmussen Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter (Skoven), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Merton France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt), is born.

Ref: 5

Jann Willem Holsbergen author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold), is born.

Ref: 5

Patrick Leigh Fermor author, is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Ferris British author, is born.

Ref: 5

Heinrich Schirmbeck German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth), is born.

Ref: 5

Elisabeth Eybers South African/Dutch poetess (That Woman & Other Verses), is born.

Ref: 5

Karl Krolow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Thomas Condon author, is born.

Ref: 5

Francis Berry poet/Shakespearean scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Drda Czechoslovakia, writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani), is born.

Ref: 5

Lars G Ahlin Swedish writer (Death of Me), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Kuttner US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were, Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner), is born.

Ref: 5

Leo Vroman Dutch/US poet/biologist, is born.

Ref: 5

Emil [Theodore] Petaja US, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane), is born.

Ref: 5

Bert [Albert L F] Peleman [Dirk Dyckmans], Flemish writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Stephan Hermlin writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27 of blood poisoning.

Ref: 5

William Goyen writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Monica Dickens author/founder (US Samaritians), is born.

Ref: 5

Herman Wouk New York NY, novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Kazin, critic and editor (A Walker in the City), is born.

Ref: 2

Norman Cousins, journalist: Anatomy of an Illness; is born.

Ref: 17

Charlotte Zolotow author: Peter and the Pigeons, The Moon was the Best, is born.

Ref: 4

Jean Stafford, American writer (The Mountain Lion), is born.

Ref: 2

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary, dies at age 78.

Ref: 70

Ring Lardner Jr. (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.) Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Woman of the Year [1942], MASH [1970]; A Star Is Born [1937], Brotherhood of Man, The Cincinnati Kid, Semi-Tough; is born.

Ref: 4

Alice H.B. Sheldon, science fiction writer and artist, CIA photo-intelligence operative, lecturer at American University and major in the U.S. Army Air Force, is born.

Ref: 2

Roland Barthes French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer), is born.

Ref: 5

Nathaniel Benchley, American author, is born in Newton MA.

Ref: 68

Brackett Hamilton Leigh [Douglass] US, sci-fi author (Ginger Star), is born.

Ref: 5

Herbert Huncke writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ross MacDonald detective novelist (Goodbye Look), is born.

Ref: 5

Aziz Nesin writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Hans [Henri A] Gomperts Dutch literature (Duck on Attic), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Ruark US writer (Something of Value), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles L[eonard] Harness US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead), is born.

Ref: 5

1916

John Oliver Killens novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Barbara Skelton writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Colin Morris playwright/documentary filmmaker, is born.

Ref: 5

Gavin Buchanan Ewart English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh), is born.

Ref: 5

Petko J Todorov Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at 36.

Ref: 5

Ian Ballantine publisher (Ballantine Books), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry James US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72.

Ref: 5

Giorgio Bassani Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure), is born.

Ref: 5

R W Schnell writer, is born.

Ref: 5

James Herriot Scotland, writer (All Creatures Great & Small), is born.

Ref: 5

M v Ebner-Eschenbach writer, dies at 39.

Ref: 5

Geert Lubberhuizen publisher (Busy Bee), is born.

Ref: 5

Irving Wallace novelist and biographer: The Fan Club, The Word, The Man; co-author with David Wallechinsky: The People?s Almanac; is born.

Ref: 68

Harold Robbins US, novelist (The Carpetbaggers) [or 0521], is born.

Ref: 5

Brian Connell writer/broadcaster, is born.

Ref: 5

Stanley Kauffmann New York NY, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Morris L West, Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman), is born.

Ref: 5

Pierre Emmanuel French poet (Sodome), is born.

Ref: 5

William du Bois, American author and illustrator of children's books, is born.

Ref: 70

Camilo José Cela Spain, author (La Colmena-1951), is born.

Ref: 5

Sholom Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz) author, humorist: The Old Country, Tevye’s Daughters, Inside Kasrilevke, The Great Fair : Scenes from My Childhood; dies.

Ref: 4

Robin Maugham, English novelist, playwright and travel writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Harold Robbins (Francis Kane) writer: The Carpetbaggers, The Piranhas, Stiletto, The Dream Merchants, The Betsy; is born in New York City.

Ref: 4

Margaret Hayden Rector playwright (living legacy award 1995), is born.

Ref: 5

Walker Percy Birmingham AL, writer (Adventures of a Bad Catholic), is born.

Ref: 5

John Ciardi poet/critic (translated Dante), is born.

Ref: 5

Natalia Ginzberg, Italian novelist (The Dry Heat, Family Sayings), is born.

Ref: 2

James Witcomb Riley, American poet, dies at age 66.

Ref: 68

John D MacDonald novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye), is born.

Ref: 5

Elsa Morante Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo), is born.

Ref: 5

C Wright Mills sociologist, writer (The Power Elite), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Yerby, writer, is born in Augusta GA. (TWA, 1986)

Ref: 95

Roald Dahl writer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; screen play: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; is born.

Ref: 4

Eric Bentley England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater), is born.

Ref: 5

Sid Chaplin, English novelist and short story writer, is born.

Ref: 70

James Herriot (James Alfred Wight) veterinarian, author: All Creatures Great and Small; is born.

Ref: 4

Peter Ulrich Weiss, German novelist and dramatist (Marat/Sade, The Investigation), is born.

Ref: 2

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) author: The Rise of the Russian Empire, Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts & Super-beasts, The Square Egg; is killed in WWI in France.

Ref: 4

Thomas McGrath, poet and novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Jack London (John Chaney) author: The Sea Wolf, The Call of the Wild, White Fang; commits suicide.

Ref: 4

Vyes Theriault, French-Canadian author, is born.

Ref: 2

Wolfgang Hildesheimer German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog), is born.

Ref: 5

Shirley Jackson, novelist and short story writer (Life Among Savages, The Lottery), is born.

Ref: 2

Adriaan van der Veen Dutch writer (Sister at Sea), is born.

Ref: 5

1917

Guillermo Rosario Dutch Antilles, writer (E rais ku no ke muri), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Taylor US writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish poet/playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Sidney Sheldon novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline), is born.

Ref: 5

Carson McCullers (Smith) author: The Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye; is born.

Ref: 4

Jane Bowles writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Anthony Burgess essayist/novelist (A Clockwork Orange), is born.

Ref: 5

Bert van Aerschot Flemish writer (Elevator, Women), is born.

Ref: 5

A Marja [ATE Mooy], Dutch literary (Shreds on the River), is born.

Ref: 5

Maria Vlamynck Flemish author, is born.

Ref: 5

Macha Louis Rosenthal critic/poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Dolf Verspoor literary/interpreter (M Nijhoff Prize 1958), is born.

Ref: 5

Kalervo H Hortamo Finnish poet (Syd?nmaa), is born.

Ref: 5

C S Pick publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert [Albert] Bloch US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), is born.

Ref: 5

Johannes Bobrowski writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Thomas poet, killed in WW I.

Ref: 5

Oskar Blumenthal writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Robert Anderson New York NY, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father), is born.

Ref: 5

Joop Waasdorp Dutch writer (Naked Life), is born.

Ref: 5

José E Rodo Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies.

Ref: 5

Daniel Gillès Belgian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Herta Ryder literary agent, is born.

Ref: 5

Jean-Louis Curtis French writer (Just Causes), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean-Louis Laffitte Curtis novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Anderson author (Tea & Sympathy), is born.

Ref: 5

Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide), is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 27

(Long Island) Louis Auchincloss, novelist (Portait in Brownstone, The Embezzler), is born in Lawrence NY.

Ref: 2

Sep 27

Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist painter and sculptor, dies.

Ref: 70

Originator of Superman, Jerry Siegel is born.

Ref: 24

Nov 02

Leon Bloy, French writer, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Heinrich B”ll Germany, writer (Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72), is born.

Ref: 5

Science Fiction writer ("2001: A Space Odyssey") Arthur C. Clarke, is born.

Ref: 4

Ossie Davis Cogdell GA, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam), is born.

Ref: 5

Louise J Gautier French poetess/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

1918

Ted Willis prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young), is born.

Ref: 5

Stirling Silliphant screenwriter, is born.

Ref: 5

John H Johnson US, publisher (Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet), is born.

Ref: 68

John McCrae Canadian poet/physician, dies.

Ref: 5

Jarl André Bjerke [Bernhard Borge], Norwegian poet/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Muriel Spark Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), is born.

Ref: 17

Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse Dutch author (Cider for Poor People), is born.

Ref: 5

Emiel van der Straeten [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30.

Ref: 5

Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon US, sci-fi author (Starshine, A Way Home, Hugo, Caviar), is born.

Ref: 5

Mickey [Frank Morrison] Spillane Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury), is born.

Ref: 5

[Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind German writer/press secretary, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Audrey Barker writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Maurice Druon [Kessel] French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt), is born.

Ref: 5

Juan Rulfo Mexican writer (Pedro Páramo), is born.

Ref: 5

Arrigo Boito, Italian poet, composer, and librettist, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Ernest Hemingway is wounded in Italy while working as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.

Ref: 2

Arthur Laurents NYC, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy), is born.

Ref: 5

Edwin Greene O'Connor, author (The Last Hurrah), is born.

Ref: 2

Mary Lee Settle, novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Joyce Kilmer, American (male) poet, best known for "Trees, is killed in action in WWI at age 31.

Ref: 4

James MacGregor Burns political writer (The Lion & the Fox), is born.

Ref: 5

Elsa Morante, Italian writer (History: A Novel), is born.

Ref: 2

Jacqueline Susann author: The Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine; is born.

Ref: 4

Madeleine L’Engle author: A Wrinkle in Time, Summer of the Great-Grandmother, is born.

Ref: 2

Margit Kaffka writer, dies at 38.

Ref: 5

Edmond Rostand, French dramatist; wrote "Cyrano de Bergerac", dies at age 50.

Ref: 70

Ivan Cankar Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Nilda Pinto [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P] Cura‡ao writer (Nanzi), is born.

Ref: 5

Albijn van de Abeele Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

1919

Author of "Catcher in the Rye" J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger is born in New York City.

Ref: 4

William W Campbell Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Richard Engländer [Peter Altenberg], Austrian author, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Endre Ady Hungarian poet (Margita élni akar), dies at 41.

Ref: 5

Norman F Simpson British playwright (One Way Pendulum), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Lindau German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Lawrence Ferlinghetti US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind), is born.

Ref: 5

Mochtar Lubis Indonesian writer (Twilight in Djakarta), is born.

Ref: 5

Pamela Mason (Ostrer) writer; actress: Charade, Navy vs. the Night Monsters; is born.

Ref: 4

Max Shulman novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), is born.

Ref: 5

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author: Coney Island of the Mind, is born.

Ref: 4

Lawrence Ferlinghetti author (Coney Island of the Mind), is born.

Ref: 5

Maurice Girodias French publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Meriol Trevor novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners), is born.

Ref: 5

Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove Flemish writer/producer, is born.

Ref: 5

Lyman Frank Baum (aka Frank L. Baum), author of "The Wizard of Oz", of heart disease at 62. He had been buying Los Angeles real estate for an Oz-themed amusement park. It likely would have been the first theme park.

Ref: 68

Heloise (Reese), columnist (Heloise & her helpful hints), is born in Fort Worth TX.

Ref: 5

Richard Mason author, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Antonissen South African literary, is born.

Ref: 5

Amado Nervo [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo] Mexican poet, dies at 48.

Ref: 5

May Swenson, poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Richard Scarry, Children's author and illustrator, is born.

Ref: 2

Dame Iris Murdoch, British novelist (A Severed Head, The Black Prince), is born.

Ref: 2

Primo Levi, Turin, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz), is born.

Ref: 68

Rene Marques, Puerto Rican playwright and short story writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Kathleen Winsor, writer Forever Amber, is born.

Ref: 2

Doris Lessing, novelist (Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook), is born.

Ref: 2

Endre Ady Hungarian poet (Margita élni akar), dies at 41.

Ref: 5

Shirley Jackson US, writer (Road Through the Wall), is born.

Ref: 5

1920

Roger Peacock writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Adam French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Isaac Asimov, American writer of over 300 books including Foundation and I, Robot.

Ref: 2

Benito Pérez Galdós Spanish writer (Gloria), dies at 76.

Ref: 68

John Junor British editor in chief (Sunday Express), is born.

Ref: 5

Piet Van Lishout Flemish writer (Eva & I), is born.

Ref: 5

Erbet Pawel biographer (Kafka), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Dehmel writer, dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Alexander Comfort English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living), is born.

Ref: 5

Daniel F[rancis] Galouye US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap), is born.

Ref: 5

Piet van Aken Flemish writer (Devil Sails to US, Niggers), is born.

Ref: 5

Hubert van Herreweghen Flemish writer/journalist, is born.

Ref: 5

David Wright poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Ludwig Rubiner writer, dies at 38.

Ref: 5

Howard Nemerov US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist/critic (Blue Swallows), is born.

Ref: 5

Rafael Obligado Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

D J Enright England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers), is born.

Ref: 5

Federigo Tozzi Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37.

Ref: 5

Johan G Danser Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26.

Ref: 5

Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco Dutch writer (Bitter Herb), is born.

Ref: 5

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre are married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.

Ref: 2

Arthur Hailey Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport), is born.

Ref: 5

Tryggve Andersen Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Marlen Haushofer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Bengt N Anderberg Swedish poet/writer (Kain), is born.

Ref: 5

Jos de Haes Flemish philological/poet (Misery of the Word), is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Blishen writer teacher/broadcaster, is born.

Ref: 5

Sloan Wilson, Norwalk CT, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannel Suit), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Adams author (Day Gone By), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Adams, English novelist (Watership Down), is born.

Ref: 2

William Dean Howells, US author: Life of Lincoln, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham; U.S. consul to Italy; editor: Atlantic Monthly; columnist: Harper’s Monthly; dies at age 83.

Ref: 4

Irving Howe,American literary and social critic, is born.

Ref: 70

John Howard Griffin US, photographer/author (Black Like Me), is born.

Ref: 5

I.A.L. Diamond screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-The Apartment), is born.

Ref: 5

P(hyllis) D(orothy) James, British myster writer, is born.

Ref: 17

Charles Bukowski, poet and novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Norman Lockyer editor of NATURE, discoverer of helium in Sun, dies.

Ref: 5

Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer whose works include Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, is born.

Ref: 2

Frank Herbert sci-fi writer (Dune), is born.

Ref: 5

Mario Puzo, novelist and screenwriter best known for The Godfather, is born.

Ref: 68

Dick Francis Wales, jockey/novelist (Whip Hand, High Stakes), is born.

Ref: 5

Oodgeroo Noonuccal [Kath Walker], Australian Aboriginal poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Paul Celan Romanian poet (Collected Prose), is born.

Ref: 5

Olive Schreiner South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Väinö Linna writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1921

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist (Visit), is born.

Ref: 5

Patricia Highsmith [Plangman], US/Swiss writer (Strangers on a Train, L'amateur d'escargot), is born.

Ref: 5

Bernt Engelmann Germany, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Russell Reading Braddon Australian author, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Montgomery Monteith publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Willem P C Knuttel Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Ludvig Aschkenazy writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Allen Ginsberg beat generation poet (1969 Arts & Letters Award), is born.

Ref: 5

F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel), is born.

Ref: 5

Max de Metz Dutch publisher/translator, is born.

Ref: 5

Wolfgang Altendorfer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Wilson Harris Guayanese author, is born.

Ref: 5

John Burroughs author: “Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.”; dies.

Ref: 4

Maxwell Henley Harris Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Mogin Belgian poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Erich Freid writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Mona van Duyn, American poet laureate, is born.

Ref: 2

Farley Mowat, Canadian nature writer (Never Cry Wolf), is born.

Ref: 2

Emilia Pardo Bazan Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies.

Ref: 5

Patrick Dennis, author, is born.

Ref: 68

W Borchert writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Marie E Wilton writer, dies.

Ref: 5

James [Benjamin] Blish US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Arthur Ley UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), is born.

Ref: 5

Georges Feydeau, dramatist, dies.

Ref: 68

James Houston Toronto, author/filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Scribner, Jr., American book publisher, is born.

Ref: 70

Hayden Carruth Waterbury Ct, novelist (Crow & Heart), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls), is born.

Ref: 68

Brian Moore, Irish novelist (The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne), is born.

Ref: 2

Former "Washington Post" Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee is born. (TWA, 1988)

Ref: 95

Stanislaw Lem Poland, science-fiction writer (Solaris), is born.

Ref: 5

James (Ramon) Jones novelist: From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, The Thin Red Line; is born in Robinson IL.

Ref: 4

Korolenko writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Dobrica Cosic writer, is born.

Ref: 5

József Kiss Hungarian literary (A hét), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

1922

Morten Nielsen Denmark, poet/resistance fighter, is born.

Ref: 5

Franz Fühmann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Howard Moss poet/editor (New Yorker), is born.

Ref: 5

Jules P de Palm Antilles writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Michael Bentine England, author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Verga, Italian novelist, short story writer and playwright, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Herman Kahn New Jersey, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Hamilton painter, is born.

Ref: 5

Mervyn Jones author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers), is born.

Ref: 5

William M Gaines publisher (MAD Magazine), is born.

Ref: 5

H Kipphardt writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jack Kerouac author: On the Road, The Town and the City, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Lonesome Traveler, Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody; is born.

Ref: 4

Colin Fletcher author (Walking Through Time), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Boon writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Geoffrey Freeman Allen railway writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Harding Lemay North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World), is born.

Ref: 5

Stewart Stern screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause), is born.

Ref: 5

Carl Amery writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Antoine Blondin writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John Braine English novelist (Life at the Top), is born.

Ref: 5

John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top), is born.

Ref: 2

Kingsley Amis London England, novelist (Lucky Jim, The James Bond Dossier), is born.

Ref: 5

Christopher Samuel Youd UK, sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy), is born.

Ref: 5

Alistair MacLean, Scottish author, is born.

Ref: 68

David M Chumaceiro Curaçaos poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Alan Ross editor (London Magazine), is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Döppe writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Dennis Compton author/crickleter, is born.

Ref: 5

Sidney Keyes English poet (Iron Laurel), is born.

Ref: 5

Harry Clement Stubbs US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld), is born.

Ref: 5

David Mendes Chumaceiro Curaçaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45.

Ref: 5

George Axelrod playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany), is born.

Ref: 5

Blake Edwards writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's), is born.

Ref: 5

Donald Davie, English poet and literary critic, is born.

Ref: 2

Norman Lear TV writer/producer (All in The Family), is born in Baltimore MD.

Ref: 5

Philip Larkin Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill), is born.

Ref: 5

Alain Robbe-Grillet France, novelist (Voyeur), is born.

Ref: 5

Georges Sorel, French social theorist and socialist revolutionary, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Kurt Vonnegut Jr author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan), is born.

Ref: 5

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., writer: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, is born in Indianapolis IN.

Ref: 4

Charlotte MacLeod, mystery writer (Rest You Merry, Maid of Honor), is born.

Ref: 2

Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Giovanni Verga Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Grace Paley, short story writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Pierre Chany writer/cycling journalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda [Perelmann] Latvia/Palestinian writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Walter Höllerer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Calder Willingham novelist/scriptwriter, is born.

Ref: 5

William Gaddis novelist: The Recognitions, JR, Carpenter's Gothic, A Frolic of His Own; died Dec 18, 1998

Ref: 4

1923

Jaroslav Hasek Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39.

Ref: 68

Robert L Bernstein New York City NY, publisher (Random House), is born.

Ref: 5

Iva Michiels [Rik Ceuppens], Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa), is born.

Ref: 5

Katherine Mansfield New Zealand/British writer (Dove's Nest), dies at 34.

Ref: 5

Ingeborg Drewitz writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Judith Merril [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars), is born.

Ref: 5

Max Nordau, Hungarian-French physician, writer, and Jewish nationalist, dies at age 73.

Ref: 70

Eva Zeller writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Paddy Chayefsky, US playwright (Altered States, Network, Marty), is born.

Ref: 17

James (Lafayette) Dickey, Atlanta GA, author/poet/actor (Deliverance), is born.

Ref: 5

Brendan Behan Irish dramatist: The Quare Fellow [prison drama: 1956], The Hostage [1958], Borstal Boy [autobiography: Borstal Boy: 1958], Brendan Behan’s Island [1962], Hold Your Hour and Have Another [1964], The Scarperer [1964]; jailed for Irish Republican Army activities; is born.

Ref: 4

Katherine Mansfield New Zealand/British writer (Dove's Nest), dies at 34.

Ref: 5

Gery Florizoone Flemish poet, is born.

Ref: 5

John McPhee, writer (Oranges, A Sense of Where You Are).

Ref: 2

Sembene Ousmane Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir), is born.

Ref: 5

A X Gwerder writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ad[rianus C] de Besten Dutch literary (River Basin), is born.

Ref: 5

Marc Saporta French writer/essayist (Le Grand D?fi), is born.

Ref: 5

Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat and poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Elizabeth Jane Howard British novelist (After Julius), is born.

Ref: 5

Shusaku Endo writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Herbert Asmodi writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Lloyd Biggle Jr US, sci-fi author (Silence is Deadly), is born.

Ref: 5

Leif Panduro Danish writer ('k Have varnish on traditions), is born.

Ref: 5

John Mortimor, British barrister and playwright (Rumpole of the Bailey), is born.

Ref: 2

Paula Fox US children's books author (Poor George), is born.

Ref: 5

Avram Davidson American sci-fi writer (Joyleg, Phoenix & the Mirror, Peregrine Primus, Rork!), is born.

Ref: 5

James Kirkup travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland), is born.

Ref: 5

George Byatt playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Heller Brooklyn NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award), is born.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Testori Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli), is born.

Ref: 5

Samuel Selvon author, is born.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Gilman author: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Incident at Madamya, is born.

Ref: 4

Earl Hamner Jr. writer: Palm Springs Weekend, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story; creator: Falcon Crest; executive producer, narrator: The Waltons, is born.

Ref: 4

Frances Lear Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Marie Anne Couperus, Dutch novelist, dies at age 60.

Ref: 70

James Purdy, writer (Cabot Wright Begins), is born.

Ref: 2

Ref: 4

E(dward) P(ayson) Dutton, US publisher, founder of EP Dutton Publishing House, dies.

Ref: 17

Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Oct 24

Denise Levertov American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin), is born.

Ref: 5

James Schuyler, poet, novelist and playwright, is born.

Ref: 2

Tendrjakow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Martyn, Irish dramatist, dies at age 64.

Ref: 70

Jorge Semprun French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z), is born.

Ref: 5

Raymond Radiguet French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20.

Ref: 5

Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve Dutch writer (Evenings, Dear Guys), is born.

Ref: 5

Tip [Silvio A] Marugg Antillian writer (Weekend pilgrimage), is born.

Ref: 5

Nadine Gordimer Springs South Africa, novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Sara A Lidman Swedish author (Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi), is born.

Ref: 5

1924

George Cram Cook, American writer, dies at age 50.

Ref: 70

Arne Garborg Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Maurice du Plessys French poet (Le Feu Sacré), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Thephilo Braga Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Simon Abramsz Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Margaret Beda Nicholson author (No Medals for the Major), is born.

Ref: 5

Paolo Volponi Italian communist/author (Road to Rome), is born.

Ref: 5

Nils Kj'r Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Hans Berghuis Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam), is born.

Ref: 5

Edmond Picard French/Belgian writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Rénos Apostolidis Greek author/poet (Katigoró), is born.

Ref: 5

Kobo Abe Tokyo Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes), is born.

Ref: 5

Juij Bondarew writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gerhart Fritsch writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Roy Gallant author: Mirages & Sundogs, Earth’s Vanishing Forests

Ref: 4

Raf de Linde [Raphaël van Hecke] author (Vaarwel on Gertrude), is born.

Ref: 5

Terry Southern, novelist and screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider), is born.

Ref: 2

August Cuppens Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Carel S Adama van Scheltema poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47.

Ref: 5

Lev N Lunts Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23.

Ref: 5

Bulat S Okudzjava Russian author (Student!), is born.

Ref: 5

Adolfo Albertazzi Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Jaime Garcia Terre poet/essayist, is born.

Ref: 5

Franz Kafka, Prague-born German novelist (The Metamorphosis, The Trail), dies.

Ref: 68

Thomas Berger US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man), is born.

Ref: 5

William H. Gass, Fargo, ND, novelist, philosopher (Omensetter's Luck), is born.

Ref: 5

James Baldwin, the American essayist, novelist and playwright whose work explored racial issues, is born.

Ref: 70

Leon Uris, author of "Exodus", "Battle Cry", "Mila 18", "The Angry Hills" and "Armageddon", is born.

Ref: 24

Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) author: Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness; dies at age 66.

Ref: 4

Robert Bolt, English screenwriter and playwright best known for A Man for all Seasons, is born.

Ref: 2

Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president, is born.

Ref: 5

Janet Frame NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry), is born.

Ref: 5

Truman (Streckfus) Capote (Persons) writer: In Cold Blood, is born.

Ref: 4

Harvey Kurtzman, cartoonist; founder of Mad magazine; is born.

Ref: 4

James Clavell, novelist (Shogun, Noble House), is born.

Ref: 2

F Mayröcker writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Rod (Edwin Rodman) Serling, scriptwriter: The Twilight Zone, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes, Seven Days in May; is born.

Ref: 68

Mihály Váci Hungarian poet/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

William Archer Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

1925

Abdelhamid Benhadugah novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Yukio Mishima Japan, novelist (Temple of Golden Pavilion), is born.

Ref: 5

Nina [Mary] Bawden English author (Afternoon of a Good Woman), is born.

Ref: 5

E Cardenal writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Eugen Gomringer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock railway writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Russell Hoban, artist and writer (Bedtime for Frances, The Mouse and His Child), is born.

Ref: 2

H Eisenreich writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Abdelhamid Benhadugah novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Arends Dutch poet/author, is born.

Ref: 5

Jacques Rivier, French writer, critic and editor, dies at age 38.

Ref: 70

James Lane Allen US writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Alex La Guma Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night), is born.

Ref: 5

Pramudya Ananta Tur Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa), is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Gorey Chicago IL, author/artist (The Curious Sofa), is born.

Ref: 5

Nina David [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies.

Ref: 5

Harry [Maxwell] Harrison UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy), is born.

Ref: 5

John Barrington Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down), is born.

Ref: 5

Wolfgang Bächler writer, is born.

Ref: 5

(Mary) Flannery O'Connor Georgia, novelist (A Good Man Is Hard to Find), is born.

Ref: 5

George MacDonald Fraser poet/author (Flashman at the Charge), is born.

Ref: 5

Flannery O'Connor short story writer (or 03/25), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Blum German/South African/English poet (Capricorn), is born.

Ref: 5

John Simon theater critic (New York Times), is born.

Ref: 5

Boris V Savinkov Russian writer/terrorist, dies.

Ref: 5

Henry Rider Haggard English writer (Dawn, She), dies.

Ref: 5

Tony Hillerman, mystery novelist (The Blessing Way, Sacred Clowns).

Ref: 2

Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children's author, is born.

Ref: 2

William Styron, VA, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), is born.

Ref: 5

Laszlo Nagy, Hungarian poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Norris McWhirter author (Guinness Book of World Records), is born.

Ref: 5

Ross McWhirter author (Guinness Book of World Records), is born.

Ref: 5

Gore Vidal writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), is born.

Ref: 68

Elmore Leonard, US author known for his crime fiction, is born.

Ref: 17

Frank D. Gilroy playwright: The Gig, Jinxed, From Noon till Three, Desperate Characters, Fastest Gun Alive, is born.

Ref: 4

William F. Buckley Jr. writer, commentator, editor: National Review; author: God and Man at Yale; host: Firing Line, is born.

Ref: 4

Tankred Torst writer, is born.

Ref: 5

A S C Wallis [AdŠle von Antal-Opzoomer] writer (Vorstengunst), dies.

Ref: 5

Sergei Jessenin writer, dies at 30.

Ref: 5

1926

Joan Walsh Anglund, author: Bedtime Book, Crocus in the Snow; illustrator of children’s books, is born.

Ref: 4

Carolyn Heilbrun [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Michael Hills comedy script writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Libera Carlier Flemish author (Action Station Go!), is born.

Ref: 5

Tom Blackburn writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Nydia M E Ecury Arubian poet/actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera), is born.

Ref: 5

John Edward Caulwell Hearne writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger New York NY, publisher (New York Times), is born.

Ref: 5

Neal Cassaday, writer, counterculture proponent, is born.

Ref: 2

Hans Andreus [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language), is born.

Ref: 5

Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Adrienne Keith Cohen travel editor, is born.

Ref: 5

John C[lellon] Holmes US writer (Horn), is born.

Ref: 5

Siegfried Lenz German writer (Ein Kriegsende), is born.

Ref: 5

John Fowles, English novelist (The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman), is born.

Ref: 2

Anne [Inez] McCaffrey US, sci-fi author (Crystal Singer, Dragonflight, Dragondrums), is born.

Ref: 5

Hugh [Marston] Hefner Chicago IL, magazine publisher (Playboy), is born.

Ref: 68

James P Donleavy, Brooklyn NY, novelist (The Ginger Man, Onion Eaters), is born.

Ref: 5

Ellen K S Key Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Anton PO Ekström Swedish writer (Summer Dances), is born.

Ref: 5

Edmund Cooper UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day), is born.

Ref: 5

G Reinshagen writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Mallaby Dent publisher, dies.

Ref: 5

Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (Sleuth), twin brother of Peter Shaffer, is born.

Ref: 2

Peter Shaffer, English playwright (Equus, Amadeus), twin brother of Anthony Shaffer, is born.

Ref: 2

John Lucarotti scriptwriter, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Creeley Massachusetts, poet/novelist (The Island), is born.

Ref: 5

Ronald Arthur A Firbank British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40.

Ref: 5

M von der Grün writer, is born.

Ref: 5

(Irwin) Allen Ginsberg Beat Generation poet: Howl, and Other Poems, Kaddish and Other Poems, Reality Sandwiches, The Fall of America: Poems of These States; is born.

Ref: 68

David Wagoner, poet and novelist (The Escape Artist), is born.

Ref: 2

Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Frank O'Hara, American poet and art critic, is born.

Ref: 70

Aug 07

Stan Freberg comedian: Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, The Old Payola Roll Blues, St. George and the Dragonet, John and Marcia; commercial producer, is born in Los Angeles CA.

Ref: 4

Alfred Slote author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station), is born.

Ref: 5

John Knowles, writer (A Separate Peace), is born.

Ref: 2

Evan Hunter [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle), is born.

Ref: 5

Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams), poet, playwright and novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Murray Schisgal playwright (Luv), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Richepin French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Jeremy Brooks writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Bly US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds), is born.

Ref: 5

Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet/songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at age 51.

Ref: 5

1927

David Herbert publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Leopold Ahsen writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Abbey US author (Desert Solitaire), is born.

Ref: 5

Galway Kinnell Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares), is born.

Ref: 5

Jakov Lind German/British author (Counting My Footsteps), is born.

Ref: 5

Erma Bombeck (Fiste), American syndicated columnist whose column "At Wit's End" humorously dealt with life as a wife and mother, is born in Dayton OH.

Ref: 2

David Mourao-Ferreira poet/politician, is born.

Ref: 5

Nicolas Freeling, crime writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Charles Sickman Corsen Dutch Antillean poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Joop F Wolff Dutch editor (Truth)/Dutch politician (CPN), is born.

Ref: 5

Nancy Sheehan writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Martin Walser writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Cecil Bödker writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Francesco Gaeta Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47.

Ref: 5

Patrick Bowles writer/translator, is born.

Ref: 5

Roland Verhavert Flemish screen writer (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor), is born.

Ref: 5

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, British author, is born.

Ref: 17

Zilpha Keatly Snyder US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid), is born.

Ref: 5

Clive Barnes New York Times drama critic (New York Times, New York Post), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Mathiessen, writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Robert Ludlum New York NY, spy novelist (Bourne Identity), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Blokker Dutch writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper), is born.

Ref: 5

François Nourissier French writer (Un petit bourgeois), is born.

Ref: 5

Georges Eekhoud Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies.

Ref: 5

Evelyn Wesler Zemel US, author (American Glass Animals), is born.

Ref: 5

Henry Slesar Brooklyn NY, headwriter (Edge of Night), is born.

Ref: 5

Midge Decter, writer and editor, is born.

Ref: 2

Katherine Fanning Chicago, editor (Christian Science Monitor-1983), is born.

Ref: 5

G Randall P D Garrett US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson Zambia, sci-fi author (Heartsease), is born.

Ref: 5

Sterling Lanier US, writer (Hiero's Journey), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Higgins Clark Bronx NY, author (A Cry in the Night, Stillwatch), is born.

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Simon Raven English playwright/critic (Alms for Oblivion), is born.

Ref: 5

Dieter Noll writer, is born.

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1928

Ernest R Tidyman Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection), is born.

Ref: 5

Gerhard Amanshauser writer, is born.

Ref: 5

William Peter Blatty screenwriter: The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration, Darling Lili, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Promise Her Anything, A Shot in the Dark, is born in New York City.

Ref: 4

Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist (Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of D'Ubervilles), dies at his home near Dorchester at age 87.

Ref: 70

William Kennedy US writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Philip José Farmer Indiana, science fiction novelist (Riverworld), is born.

Ref: 5

Andrew Greeley author: Happy are the Merciful, An Occasion of Sin, is born.

Ref: 4

Judith Krantz New York New York, author (Scruples, I'll Take Manhattan, Princess Daisy, Dazzle), is born.

Ref: 5

Juan García Hortelano Spanish author (Tormenta de verano), is born.

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Michael Harrington St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century), is born.

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Larry Gelbart writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, MASH), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Stern US writer, is born.

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Philip K Dick writer, is born.

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G Pausewang writer, is born.

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Alan Sillitoe Nottingham Nottinghamshire England, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul van Ostaijen Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32.

Ref: 5

Peter Hacks German playwright (Tie Windloch), is born.

Ref: 5

Dimitri Frenkel Frank Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa), is born.

Ref: 5

James White UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer), is born.

Ref: 5

Cynthia Ozick US, author (Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories), is born.

Ref: 5

Hertha Kräftner writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Henrich Federer Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Barry E Odell Pain English writer (Punch), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Theodore C. (Ted) Sorensen Special Counsel to U.S. President John F. Kennedy; author: Kennedy; Leaders of Our Time, The Kennedy Legacy, Why I Am a Democrat, Watchmen in the night : Presidential accountability after Watergate, is born.

Ref: 4

Edmund William Grosse poet/author, dies.

Ref: 5

William Trevor British writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune), is born.

Ref: 5

Maurice Sendak NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), is born.

Ref: 5

Pavel Kohout Czech, author (Poor Murderer), is born.

Ref: 5

Anita Brookner, writer (Hotel du Lac), is born.

Ref: 2

Bernice Rubens, Welsh novelist and filmmaker, is born.

Ref: 2

"Time" magazine contributing editor Hugh Sidey is born.

Ref: 68

Robert Pirzig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, is born.

Ref: 2

William X. Kienzle author: The Rosary Murders, Body Count; is born.

Ref: 4

Donald A. Hall author: The Ox Cart Man, Lucy's Christmas, is born.

Ref: 4

Oct 02

Clarence Barron, American financial editor and publisher, dies at age 73.

Ref: 70

Alvin Toffler author: Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave, is born.

Ref: 4

Andrew Sarris movie critic (Village Voice), is born.

Ref: 5

Anne Sexton Newton MA, poet (Live or Die), is born.

Ref: 5

Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, is born.

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Aitmatow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

W Gordon Smith playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Philip K[indred] Dick US, sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Blade Runner), is born.

Ref: 5

Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist, dies at age 43.

Ref: 70

Piero Angelo Italian writer (Control), is born.

Ref: 5

Veijo Meri writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1929

Henry Arthur Jones English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Brian Friel, American dramatist, is born.

Ref: 68

Colin Berry Haycraft publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

M R Turner publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Keith Waterhouse English writer (Billy Liar, Say Who Are You?), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Porter Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel), is born.

Ref: 5

Chaim Potok New York NY, novelist (The Promise), is born.

Ref: 5

Leonard Cyril Deighton English author (Ipcress File, Fighter), is born.

Ref: 5

Günter Kunert German poet/writer (Kaiser von Hondu), is born.

Ref: 5

Marie Cardinal writer, is born.

Ref: 5

J D Slater writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Christa Wolf German novelist (Divided Heaven), is born.

Ref: 5

Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan's Notes), is born.

Ref: 2

Sheila Kitzinger author, anthropologist & child birth educator, is born.

Ref: 5

Milan Kundera, Czech writer (The Farewell Party, The Unbearable Lightness of Being), is born.

Ref: 2

Catherine Gaskin romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife), is born.

Ref: 5

Hugo Claus Flemish writer/director (Cool Lover, Sugar), is born.

Ref: 5

Willis Hall British writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Rudolf W Nilsen Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28.

Ref: 5

José Angel Valente Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza), is born.

Ref: 5

Walter Kempowski German writer (Tadellöser & Wolff), is born.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Lienhard German publisher (Türmer), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Jaharna Imam Bangladeshi writer/political activist, is born.

Ref: 5

Adrienne Cecile Rich Baltimore MD, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters), is born.

Ref: 5

André Carolus Cirino Suriname/Indian poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Hugo Raes Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean Shepherd humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969), is born.

Ref: 5

Michael Stewart (Rubin) playwright: Midnight Edition, Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!; is born.

Ref: 4

Ira Levin writer: Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil, A Kiss Before Dying, is born.

Ref: 68

Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound), is born.

Ref: 5

Ursula LeGuin author: The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, A Wizard of Earthsea, Left Hand of Darkness, is born.

Ref: 4

Marilyn French, noveist and critic (The Women's Room), is born.

Ref: 2

Goffredo Parise writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Harry Crosby, American poet, dies at age 31.

Ref: 70

John (James) Osborne Academy Award-winning playwright: Tom Jones [1963] is born.

Ref: 4

Sidney Greenbaum grammarian, is born.

Ref: 5

1930

Edward W Buck Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Jennifer P Johnston Irish author (Fool's Sanctuary), is born.

Ref: 5

Norman Podhoretz Brooklyn NY, author/editor (New York Post), is born.

Ref: 5

Eva Strittmatter writer, dies at 17.

Ref: 5

Edward W Buck Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Gerhard Rühm writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Gerry Davis writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jef Geeraerts Flemish writer (Black Venus), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacobus van Looy Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Erica Pedretti writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Aloïs Walgrave Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Novelist D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (Lady Chatterly’s Lover) dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at the age of 45.

Ref: 2

Mary E W Freeman US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Antonio Beltramelli writer, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Gregory Corso, beat poet, discovered literature in prison, (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Amelia Rosselli poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Anton Bettelheim writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Vladimir Majakovski Russian poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Julien Van Remoortere [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist), is born.

Ref: 5

Clive Exton scriptwriter & playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Bryan Magee writer, is born.

Ref: 5

W Majakowski writer, dies at 36.

Ref: 5

Robert S Bridges poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Paul Mazursky Brooklyn NY, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson), is born.

Ref: 5

Horst Bienek German poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Gary Snyder [Japhy Ryder] beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems), is born.

Ref: 5

June Knox-Mawer British radio host/novelist (World of Islands), is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Stratemeyer, author, creator of the Hardy Boys, Rover Boys, Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins, is born.

Ref: 2

Stanley L Elkin Brooklyn NY, writer/professor (The Living End), is born.

Ref: 5

Herbert David Croly US author (Promise of American Life), dies at age 61.

Ref: 70

Barbara Goldsmith New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last), is born.

Ref: 5

Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords), is born.

Ref: 5

Lorraine Hansberry playwright (Raisin in the Sun), is born.

Ref: 5

John Barth novelist (The Sot-Weed Factor), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (physician; writer: Sherlock Holmes: 56 short stories, 3 novels: The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear) dies.

Ref: 68

Harold Bloom literary critic; author: The Western Canon, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, & Resurrection, is born.

Ref: 4

David Hughes, English novelist (The Horsehair Sofa, The Man Who Invented Tomorrow), is born.

Ref: 2

James Komack NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father), is born.

Ref: 5

Ted Hughes England, poet laureate (1984- ), is born.

Ref: 5

Warren Buffett author (The Midas Touch), is born.

Ref: 5

Allan Bloom author: The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship; is born.

Ref: 4

Harold Pinter England, playwright (Homecoming, Servant), is born.

Ref: 5

Dan Pagis, Romanian-born Israeli poet, is born.

Ref: 2

A.R. Gurney, American playwright (Love Letters, The Dining Room).

Ref: 2

Chinua Achebe Nigerian writer (Christmas in Biafra), is born.

Ref: 5

John Morressy US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert [C J Edward] Guccione magazine publisher (Penthouse, Omni), is born.

Ref: 5

Wilfrid Sheed England, writer (Boys of Winter, The Hack), is born.

Ref: 5

1931

E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow New York City NY, novelist (World's Fair), is born.

Ref: 5

E.L. Doctorow author: Welcome to Hard Times, Ragtime

Ref: 4

Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth), is born.

Ref: 5

Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer] French writer (La fille perdue), dies.

Ref: 5

Vladimir Skutina writer playwright/journalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Sawako Ariyoshi Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife), is born.

Ref: 5

Paavo J Haavikko Finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio, is born.

Ref: 5

Jose Graca Aranha, Brazilian novelist and diplomat, dies at age 62.

Ref: 70

John Hopkins writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Mordecai Richler Montréal, author (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), is born.

Ref: 5

Shirley Hazzard Australian author (Transit of Venus), is born.

Ref: 5

Göran J S Palm Swedish poet/writer (Hudens Besök), is born.

Ref: 5

Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth), is born.

Ref: 5

Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer] French writer (La fille perdue), dies.

Ref: 5

Thomas Bernhard writer, is born.

Ref: 5

A Kolleritsch writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jack Thieuloy writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ernesto Rosenstand Arubian playwright (Kiko Ta Di Nos?), is born.

Ref: 5

David Haddon Whitaker British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack), is born.

Ref: 5

Donald Barthelme US, writer (Snow White), is born.

Ref: 5

John McPhee author (The Control of Nature), is born.

Ref: 5

Rupert Murdoch Australia, publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network, is born.

Ref: 5

Don Richard Carpenter novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Igor Hajek translator/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Leslie Thomas author, is born.

Ref: 5

Arnold Bennett novelist: The Old Wives’ Tale, How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day; dies.

Ref: 4

Rolf Hochhuth German playwright (Deputy), is born.

Ref: 5

Daniel Ellsberg author: known for releasing Pentagon Papers to the NY Times, is born.

Ref: 4

Donald Barthelme Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness), is born.

Ref: 5

Eric Axel Karlfeldt poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Bill Gilbert Washington DC, sports author (They Also Served, The Big E), is born.

Ref: 5

Marcel van Maele Belgian poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-born American novelist and poet, dies at age 48.

Ref: 70

Beverley Cross playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Gene [Rodman] Wolfe US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Levi poet/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Eric Davidson comedy scriptwriter, is born.

Ref: 5

Stephen Birmingham Hartford, author (Real Lace America's Irish Rich), is born.

Ref: 5

Colin Henry Wilson, British author (The Outsider).

Ref: 2

Novelist James Joyce and Nora Barnacle are married in London after being together for 26 years.

Ref: 2

Alice Munro, Canadian writer (Open Secrets, Friend of my Youth), is born.

Ref: 2

Clive Cussler author: Raise the Titanic, Deep Six, Sahara, Cyclops, NUMA and the Dirk Pitt series, is born.

Ref: 4

Kristin Hunter, author (God Bless the Child, The Survivors), is born.

Ref: 2

John Le Carré, British novelist who wrote "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", is born.

Ref: 2

Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian playwright and novelist, dies at age 69.

Ref: 70

John Hopkins writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Mordecai Richler Montréal, author (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), is born.

Ref: 5

Vachel Lindsay, American poet (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread), dies at age 52.

Ref: 2

Max Elskamp Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Yvonne Keuls [Bamberg] Dutch writer (Jan Rap & Co), is born.

Ref: 5

Carlos Castaneda US, writer/mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Christ writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Bob Shaw UK, sci-fi author (Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo), is born.

Ref: 5

1932

Umberto Eco, Italian novelist (The Name of the Rose), is born.

Ref: 2

Robert Anton Wilson US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat), is born.

Ref: 5

[Giles] Lytton Strachey British biographer/critic, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Ronald Allison British author/broadcaster, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Coover, novelist & short story writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Gay Talese writer: The Kingdom and the Power, Unto the Sons, is born.

Ref: 4

R H Edgar Wallace British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Alexander Kluge writer, is born.

Ref: 5

A Appelfeld writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Dino Campana Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46.

Ref: 5

John Updike Shillington PA, poet/novelist (A Month of Sundays, Brazil, The Centaur, Rabbit Run), is born.

Ref: 5

Sven Oskar Lindqvist Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu), is born.

Ref: 5

John Jakes Chicago IL, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters), is born.

Ref: 5

André Baillon Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Jack Gelber US, playwright (Connection, Apple), is born.

Ref: 5

Eva Figes, British novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Harold "Heart" Crane, US poet (Bridge), commits suicide by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York at 32.

Ref: 68

Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Jenny Joseph, English poet and novelist (The Thinking Heart, The Inland Sea), is born.

Ref: 2

Gavin Lyall author (Conduct of Major Maxim), is born.

Ref: 5

William Pember Reeves politician/poet, dies.

Ref: 5

G Wohmann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish writer and playwright, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Arnold Wesker British playwright (Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen), is born.

Ref: 68

John Grogery Dunne US writer (Up Close & Personal, True Confessions), is born.

Ref: 5

Stephen Birmingham, novelist and biographer, is born.

Ref: 2

Christopher Lasch, American social critic and writer.

Ref: 2

Christy Brown Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days), is born.

Ref: 5

Athol Fugard South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot), is born.

Ref: 5

Rona Jaffe author: The Last Chance, Class Reunion; films: The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters, is born.

Ref: 4

Mongo Beti, novelist and political writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Megan Terry, playwright (Calm Down Mother, Goona Goona), is born.

Ref: 2

V.S. Naipaul Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonia Fraser biographer (Mary Queen of Scots), is born.

Ref: 5

Melvin Van Peebles US, playwright/director (Watermelon Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Michael McClure, beat poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Sylvia Plath, the American poet known for an intense, confessional quality of writing, is born.

Ref: 70

Marian Christy Ridgefield CT, author (Invasions of Privacy), is born.

Ref: 5

Gustav Meyrink writer, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Egon Richter writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Edna O'Brien Ireland, writer (Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace), is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel Puig Argentina, writer (La Traicion de Rita Hayworth, Blood of Requited Love), is born.

Ref: 5

Clem Schouwenaars Flemish poet/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1933

Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart US, sci-fi author (Deadwalk, Plunder, Cheap Thrills), is born.

Ref: 5

Susan Sonntag writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Susan Sontag New York City NY, essayist/novelist/film director (The Benefactor, 1966 Pol Award), is born.

Ref: 5

Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus] German classicist/writer, dies at 80.

Ref: 5

A C Alston bibliographer, is born.

Ref: 5

Reynolds Price US writer (Strengthened by a Pale Green Light), is born.

Ref: 5

Juanita [Ruth] Coulson sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap), is born.

Ref: 5

Donna J Stone poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Lucie-Smith poetry critic, is born.

Ref: 5

William Davis author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run), is born.

Ref: 5

Renee Taylor Emmy Award-winning writer: Acts of Love and Other Comedies [1973]; entertainer: The Jack Paar Show; actress: The Nanny, Daddy Dearest, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Producers, A New Leaf, is born.

Ref: 4

Vine Deloria, Jr., writer, activist, is born.

Ref: 2

Death of Henry Van Dyke, 81, an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. He is still remembered for two writings: a book, "The Story of the Other Wise Man" (1896), and a hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" (1908).

Ref: 5

Boris Strugatski USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika), is born.

Ref: 5

Penelope Lively writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Etheridge Knight, poet.

Ref: 2

Uwe Greßmann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Alistair Service writer/publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Barbara Taylor Bradford author, is born.

Ref: 5

Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky, Russian poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Paul Ernst writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Richard P. Brickner, novelist (The Broken Year), is born.

Ref: 2

John Henry Mackay Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There), is born.

Ref: 2

Oliver Sachs, neurologist and author (Awakenings), is born.

Ref: 2

David Storey, English novelist (The Sporting Life), is born.

Ref: 2

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Russia, poet (Bratsk Station), is born.

Ref: 5

John Gardner scholar/writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues), is born.

Ref: 5

Cormac McCarthy, novelist (All the Pretty Horses), is born.

Ref: 2

Sep 08

Michael Frayn, playwright (A Very Private Life, Noises Off), is born.

Ref: 2

Fay Weldon, author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil), is born.

Ref: 2

Ring Lardner, sports reporter, humorist, writer: Alibi Ike, You Know Me Al, Elmer the Great, June Moon; dies.

Ref: 4

Oct 09

Martin Gottfried drama critic; author: All His Jazz The Life and Death of Bob Fosse, Balancing Act - The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury, is born.

Ref: 4

John Jay Chapman, American poet, dramatist, and critic, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Dr. David Ruben author: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, is born.

Ref: 4

Stefan George German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Earnest P van Altena author/interpreter (Chansons van Earnest), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Snoek [Edm Schietekat] Belgian poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Lunatscharski writer, dies.

Ref: 5

1934

Jakob Wassermann writer, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Hermann Bahr Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Frank Nelson Doubleday, founder of Doubleday publishing house, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

Eduard Bagritsky [Dzjubin], Russian poet/journalist, dies at 38.

Ref: 5

Audre Lord, poet, is born.

Ref: 2

TV newsman Sam Donaldson is born.

Ref: 4

Grete Gulbransson writer, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Mark Strand American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic), is born.

Ref: 5

Geoffrey Owen British editor (Financial Times), is born.

Ref: 5

Alette Beaujon Curaçaos poet (Gedichten on the Bay & Elsewhere), is born.

Ref: 5

Alan Bennett, British playwright and screenwriter (The Madness of King George III), is born.

Ref: 2

Adolf Muschg writer, is born.

Ref: 5

David J Burke Liverpool England, writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Harlan [Jay] Ellison US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5), is born.

Ref: 5

Bill Moyers Emmy Award-winning journalist: CBS News, PBS: Bill Moyers Journal; author: Healing and the Mind, is born in Hugo OK.

Ref: 68

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, American critic, is born.

Ref: 68

(James) Thorne Smith Jr. author: Topper, Rain in the Doorway, The Stray Lamb; dies.

Ref: 4

Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Jonathan Miller, English author, is born in London, England.

Ref: 68

Sonia Sanchez, poet.

Ref: 2

Roger Fry, English artist and art critic, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Kate Millett, writer: The Basement, Flying, Sexual Politics; sculptor, is born in St Paul MN.

Ref: 4

John Brunner Britain, sci-fi author (Sheep Look Up), is born.

Ref: 5

Leroi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), playwright, is born.

Ref: 2

Joan Didion, essayist and novelist (Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play it as it Lays), is born.

Ref: 2

Wallace Henry Thurman, African-American editor, critic, novelist and playwright, dies at age 32.

Ref: 70

Joseph Bologna Emmy Award-winning writer: Acts of Love -- And Other Comedies [ABC, 1972-73]; Lovers and Other Strangers; actor: Danger of Love, Revenge of the Nerds 4: Nerds in Love, Citizen Cohn, Blame It on Rio, My Favorite Year, Torn Between Two Lovers, The Big Bus, Honor Thy Father, Cops and Robbers, Top of the Heap, Rags to Riches, is born.

Ref: 4

1935

George P Baker US playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Robert Silverberg US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul O[sborne] Williams US, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle), is born.

Ref: 5

Raymond Briggs English author (Fungus the Bogeyman), is born.

Ref: 5

David John Lodge English writer (Soul & Bodies), is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel dos Santos Lima Angolian revolutionary/poet (Pele do Diabo), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Brautigan Tacoma WA, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing...), is born.

Ref: 5

Oe Kenzaburo Japanese novelist (The Catch, A Personal Matter), is born.

Ref: 5

Violet Paget British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Susan Brownmiller Brooklyn NY, feminist author (Against Our Wills), is born.

Ref: 5

Judith Rossner author (Looking for Mr Goodbar), is born.

Ref: 5

John Gross author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century), is born.

Ref: 5

H Wollschläger writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Hubert Fichte writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Bichsel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Judith Rossner US, writer (August), is born.

Ref: 5

Trevor Griffiths playwright (Absolute Beginners), is born.

Ref: 5

John Pepper Clark Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat), is born.

Ref: 5

Erich von Daniken author (Chariots of the Gods), is born.

Ref: 5

Douglas Marland West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (General Hospital), is born.

Ref: 5

Dennis Christopher George Potter playwright (Karaoke, Midnight Movie), is born.

Ref: 5

F R Fries writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ivans [Jacob van Schevichaven] lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

André P Brink South African writer (Dry White Season), is born.

Ref: 5

Françoise Sagan (Quoirez), France, author: Aimez-Vous Brahms, Bonjour Tristesse, Evasion, A Certain Smile, is born.

Ref: 4

Charlotte Gilman, American writer and women's rights advocate, dies at age 75.

Ref: 70

E. Annie Proulx, writer (Postcards, The Shipping News).

Ref: 2

Ken Kesey author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), is born.

Ref: 5

Alice Nelson Dunbar, American novelist, poet and essayist, dies at age 60.

Ref: 70

Thomas Keneally, novelist, author of Schindler's Ark, the basis for the film Schindler's List, is born.

Ref: 2

Calvin Trillin author: American Stories, Remembering Denny, Uncivil Liberties, If You Can’t Say Something Nice; writer: New Yorker magazine, is born.

Ref: 4

Frans [MJ François] Erens literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Thomas Wakefield writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Stanley G Weinbaum US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies.

Ref: 5

Kurt Tucholsky German journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45.

Ref: 5

Clarence Day, American writer (Life with Father), dies at age 61.

Ref: 70

Rolf Haufs writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1936

Ramón M del Valle-Inclán playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Hunter Davies, Scottish author, wrote the authorized biography for The Beatles, is born.

Ref: 17

Jerry Kramer Green Bay Packer, author (Instant Replay), is born.

Ref: 5

Ismail Kadare Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh), is born.

Ref: 5

Marin Sorescu poet/dramatist, is born.

Ref: 5

Johan M Skjoldborg Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Camille E Baly St Maartens poet (Sonny), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean-Edern Hallier writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Georges Perec French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Peter Bleuel writer (Sex and Society in Nazi Germany), is born.

Ref: 5

Alan Bleasdale author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight), is born.

Ref: 5

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes).

Ref: 2

Judith Guest, novelist (Ordinary People), is born.

Ref: 2

Marge Piercy author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers), is born.

Ref: 5

Kenneth White, poet and essayist, is born.

Ref: 2

A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman British poet: A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, More Poems, Collected Poems, Manuscript Poems; dies at age 77.

Ref: 4

Ulrich Berkes writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Donald [Anthony] Moffitt US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Zindel playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds), is born.

Ref: 5

Lars Gustafsson writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Fred Chappell, poet and novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Larry McMurtry, novelist (The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment).

Ref: 2

Maxim Gorky [Aleksei Peshikov], Russia, writer, playwright (The Lower Depths, Night Asylum), dies.

Ref: 68

Gilbert Keith Chesterton author: created Father Brown crime-fiction series; The Man Who was Thursday, English Men of Letters; dies at age 62.

Ref: 4

June Jordan, poet and author, is born.

Ref: 2

Tom Robbins, novelist (Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues), is born.

Ref: 2

Spanish poet Fredico Garcia Lorca is shot by Franco's troops after being forced to dig his own grave.

Ref: 68

Aug 21

Mart Crowley playwright (Boys in the Band), is born.

Ref: 5

Harriet Monroe poet: founder of magazine: Poetry; dies.

Ref: 4

Future U.S. Senate Chaplain Rev. Peter Marshall, 34, married Catherine Wood, 22. Following Peter's premature death at age 46, Catherine immortalized his name through her 1951 best selling biography, "A Man Called Peter."

Ref: 5

Don DeLillo, author (White Noise, Libra), is born.

Ref: 2

Ismail Kadare Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh), is born.

Ref: 5

Frank Martinus Arion [F Efraim M] Antilles, writer (Double Play), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Garfield Brisbane, American editor and writer, dies at age 72.

Ref: 5

1937

K Schlesinger writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Wambaugh East Pittsburgh PA, police writer (Onion Fields), is born.

Ref: 5

Kathleen Tynan Halton writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Marguerite Audoux writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Lou [Andreas-]Salomé Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

K Schlesinger writer, is born.

Ref: 5

C A Bernoulli writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Paul Bailey novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Joanna Russ US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx), is born.

Ref: 5

Albert Verwey Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft author: horror stories, science fiction: The Color Out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, The Thing on the Doorstep, Call of Cthulhu ; dies.

Ref: 4

Horacio Quiroga Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth Gille writer translator/editor, is born.

Ref: 5

Helge Rode Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Léopold Courouble, Belgian writer (Pauline Flatbread), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

John Drinkwater English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Ian St James novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones), is born.

Ref: 5

Frantisek X Salda Czechoslovakia, writer/critic, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Barrington J[ohn] Bayley UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course), is born.

Ref: 5

Lanford Wilson US playwright (Hot L Baltimore), is born.

Ref: 5

Victoria Glendinning author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Faber publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Gisela Elsner writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Lorenzo Music Brooklyn NY, writer/actor/voice (Carlton the doorman-Rhoda, Garfield), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert O "Rob" van Gennep Dutch publisher (Guevara, Gorz, Mandèl), is born.

Ref: 5

Daniël Robberechts Belgian writer (Labia Majora), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Pynchon novelist (V), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Kopit US, playwright (Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis), is born.

Ref: 5

Roger [Joseph] Zelazny sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur C Jacobs poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Fulghum author: It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, is born.

Ref: 4

Author of "Love Story" Erich Segal is born.

Ref: 4

Gail Godwin, writer (The Perfectionists, The Southern Family), is born.

Ref: 2

Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan, The Little Minister), dies at age 77.

Ref: 4

Tom Stoppard playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony), is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 05

Brooke Hayward LA Calif, author (Haywire), is born.

Ref: 5

E. W. Howe, American editor, essayist and novelist, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" is published.

Ref: 5

George Horace Lorimer, American editor of the Saturday Evening Post, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

Gail Henion Sheehy, author, journalist: Passages, The Silent Passage: Menopause, Pathfinders, is born.

Ref: 5

Brian Lumley England, author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech, Beneath the Moors), is born.

Ref: 5

Attila Jozsef, Hungarian poet, dies at age 32.

Ref: 70

Jim Harrison, novelist and poet (Legends of the Fall), is born.

Ref: 2

John [Thomas] Sladek US, sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs), is born.

Ref: 5

Nicolas Born writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1938

John Bellairs US, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom), is born.

Ref: 5

Ajip Rosidi Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta), is born.

Ref: 5

Armando Palacio Valdés Spanish writer (El Cuarto Poder), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

John Guare US writer (6º of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off), is born.

Ref: 5

Judy Blume Elizabeth NJ, author (Wifey, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Blubber, Forever), is born.

Ref: 5

Jack Tinker drama critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Otto zur Linde German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Elke Erb writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Louis de la Vallée-Poussin (The Way to Nirvana), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Ishmael Reed US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red), is born.

Ref: 5

Michael J[oseph] Kurland US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device), is born.

Ref: 5

Gabrielle d'Annunzio Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at age 74.

Ref: 5

Arthur Koestler writer, dies at 32.

Ref: 5

Egon Friedell writer, dies.

Ref: 5

John Jakes Chicago IL, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters), is born.

Ref: 5

Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Alice Berend writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Serafín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish playwright (Piropos), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

César Vallejo Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Henry John Newbolt poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Larry [Van Cott] Niven US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star, Flash Crowd), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfonsina Storni Argentine poet (El dulce daño/suicide), dies at 45.

Ref: 5

Arnold Sauwen Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Andrei Amalrik Russian writer/dissident, is born.

Ref: 5

Trinus Riemersma Dutch-Frisian writer (Conquest of Leeuwarden), is born.

Ref: 5

Urs Widmer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Preston editor (Guardian), is born.

Ref: 5

Raymond Carver poet/short story writer (Furious Season), is born.

Ref: 5

Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Joyce Carol Oates US, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights) (1946), is born.

Ref: 5

James Weldon Johnson, African-American poet and novelist (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), lawyer, first black admitted to Florida Bar, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Robert Hughes [Studley Forrest], Australia, writer/critic, is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Jennings Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Bartel writer, director, actor: Eating Raoul; writer, director: Not for Publication, Cannonball; director, actor: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills; director: The Longshot, Lust in the Dust, The Secret Cinema, Death Race 2000, Private Parts; actor: The Usual Suspects, The Jerky Boys, Number One Fan, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Rock ’n’ Roll High School, Hollywood Boulevard; is born.

Ref: 4

Mason Williams Abilene TX, writer (Smother Brothers Hour), is born.

Ref: 5

Frederick Forsyth, author of thrillers (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), is born.

Ref: 2

Judith Martin (Judith Sylvia Perlman) columnist: Miss Manners, is born.

Ref: 4

Thomas Clayton Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) not to be confused with American novelist Tom Wolfe (The Right Stuff), dies at age 37.

Ref: 70

Leo (Leonardo Lazaro Alfonso) ‘Chico’ Cardenas baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961/all-star: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968], Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1971], CA Angels, Cleveland Indians, TX Rangers, is born.

Ref: 4

Robert Herrick US writer (Chimes), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Karel Capek Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (B¡l Nemoc), dies at 48.

Ref: 5

O Mandelstam writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Janet Hough Bryant author/performing artist/educator, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Sudhalter British(?) writer/jazz musician, is born.

Ref: 5

1939

Helmut Eisendle writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jacobus M "Jacques" Hamelink Dutch writer/poet (Cold Unrest), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Ellen McAnally Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes), is born.

Ref: 5

Germaine Greer, Australian author, educator, is born in Melbourne Australia.

Ref: 17

Rachel English London, author (My first 500), is born.

Ref: 5

Jane [Hyatt] Yolen US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood), is born.

Ref: 5

Jo Clayton US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters), is born.

Ref: 5

Jura Soyfer writer, dies at 26.

Ref: 5

Edmund Boyd Fisher publisher, is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Pieter Verhagen poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole), is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Fuller US writer (Zooman, Soldier Story), is born.

Ref: 5

Bertrand Blier Paris France, novelist/director (Going Places), is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Nye writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Halliburton, American travel writer, dies at age 39.

Ref: 70

Constance Lindsay Skinner author (Rivers of America), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Indrið Einarsson Iceland playwright (Skipið Sekkur), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Alfredo Panzini Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

S.S. VanDine, American critic, editor and author of popular detective novels, dies at age 50.

Ref: 70

Alan Ayckbourn London, playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

William Hagerty editor (People), is born.

Ref: 5

Amos Oz, Israeli novelist (The Black Box, TheThird State), is born.

Ref: 2

Amos Oz, Jerusalem Israel, author (My Michael), is born.

Ref: 5

Volker Braun writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ernst Toller writer, dies at 45.

Ref: 5

Willem de Mérode poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Nanette Newman writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage), is born.

Ref: 5

Ken Follett, spy author (Eye of the the Needle), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret Drabble, author (The Needle's Eye), is born.

Ref: 5

Ford Madox Ford, English novelist and editor, dies at age 65.

Ref: 70

Havelock Ellis, English essayist/physician, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Hunter S Thompson writer (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas), is born.

Ref: 5

Nicholas Gage, journalist and author (Eleni), is born.

Ref: 2

Michael Longley, Irish poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Robert James Waller author: The Bridges of Madison County, Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend; professor of economics, business management, is born.

Ref: 4

Sidney (Coe) Howard playwright: screen play: Gone with the Wind; dies.

Ref: 4

Zane Grey, dentist, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage, Spirit of the Border), dies at age 67.

Ref: 68

John Arden England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty), is born.

Ref: 5

Terrence McNally St Petersburg FL, playwright (Bad Habits), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer (The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale), is born.

Ref: 2

Shelagh Delaney, playwright (A Taste of Honey), is born.

Ref: 2

Horst Bastian writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Tom McGuane, novelist and screenwriter (The Sporting Club, Bushwacked Piano).

Ref: 2

Michael J Moorcock England, sci-fi author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear), is born.

Ref: 5

Joyce Cary, English novelist, dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Karl Wagenfeld Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

1940

Conrad Weiss German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali South African poet (Fireflames), is born.

Ref: 5

Kazimierz P Tetmajer Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

René "Sascha" Schickele German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Thomas M[ichael] Disch US, sci-fi author (The Man Who Had No Idea, Genocides, 102 H-Bombs), is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Frederic Benson novelist, dies.

Ref: 5

Harald Gerlach writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Edwin Markham, American poet and lecturer, dies at age 88.

Ref: 70

David Rabe Dubuque IA, playwright (Streamers), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Haining writer/editor (Anatomy of Witchcraft), is born.

Ref: 5

Homero Aridjis Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor), is born.

Ref: 5

Jeffrey Archer, England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan Cremer Dutch writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Monaco US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest), is born.

Ref: 5

Bobbie Ann Mason author: In Country, Spence and Lila, is born.

Ref: 4

Henry Habibe Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Benchley New York NY, novelist (Jaws, The Deep), is born.

Ref: 5

James L. Brooks Emmy Award-winning writer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1971, 1977]; Emmy Award-winning producer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1975, 1976, 1977], Taxi [1979, 1980, 1981], The Tracy Ullman Show [1989], The Simpsons [1990, 1991]; Academy Award-winning director: Terms of Endearment [1984], I’ll Do Anything, Broadcast News, Thursday’s Game; screenwriter: I’ll Do Anything, Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment, Starting Over, Thursday’s Game, Room 222, is born.

Ref: 4

Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Bruce Chatwin England, writer (On the Black Hill), is born.

Ref: 5

Eddy [Charles E] du Platform writer/poet, dies.

Ref: 5

Menno ter Braak Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38.

Ref: 5

Paul Nizan French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35.

Ref: 5

Maeve Binchy, Irish writer (Circle of Friends, The Copper Beach).

Ref: 2

Duboise Heyward, novelist, poet and dramatist best know for Porgy which was the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess, dies at age 54.

Ref: 5

Samuel H Chang American newspaper magnate murdered in Shanghai.

Ref: 5

John Nichols, novelist and essayist (The Milagro Beanfield War), is born.

Ref: 2

Bharati Mukherjee, Indian novelist (The Middleman and Other Stories).

Ref: 2

Franklin Hooper, American editor in chief of Encyclopedia Britiannica, dies at age 78.

Ref: 70

Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate.

Ref: 2

Maxine Hong Kingston, writer (The Woman Warrior, China Men), is born.

Ref: 2

Kumar Shahani writer/director (Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan), is born.

Ref: 5

F[rancis] Scott [Key] Fitzgerald author (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies of a heart attack in Hollywood at 44.

Ref: 5

Nathanael West [Weinstein] US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37.

Ref: 5

Brigitte Kronauer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1941

Franz Hessel writer, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

James Joyce poet, author: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Chamber Music, dies in Zürich Switzerland, at 58.

Ref: 4

Johannes Schlaf writer, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Andrew B. Paterson, Australian poet, journalist and songwriter, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Stephen Dobyns US author/poet (Cold Dog Soup), is born.

Ref: 5

William Hjörtsberg NY NY, writer (Gray Matters, Fallen Angel), is born.

Ref: 5

Alice May Brock author, is born.

Ref: 5

Piers Paul Read, British author, is born.

Ref: 17

Sherwood Anderson US writer/publisher (Winesburg OH), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Wolfgang Bauer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

English novelist Virginia Woolf, 59, throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body is never found.

Ref: 2

Max Frisch writer, dies at 29.

Ref: 5

Eugene-Marcel Provost, novelist, dies.

Ref: 5

Paul Theroux American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast), is born.

Ref: 5

Joni Evans New York NY, publisher (Simon & Schuster, Random House), is born.

Ref: 5

Nora Ephron New York NY, novelist/screenwriter/director (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Michael, Heartburn), is born.

Ref: 5

Guntram Vesper writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn.

Ref: 5

Jun 15

Evelyn Underhill, English mystical poet, dies at age 65.

Ref: 70

Joe Flaherty Emmy Award-winning writer: SCTV Network 90 [1983]; actor: Second City TV, Maniac Mansion. Happy Gilmore, A Pig’s Tale, Who’s Harry Crumb, Back to the Future, Part 2, Speed Zone, Stripes, Used Cars, Tunnelvision, is born.

Ref: 4

Max Kretzer, German Expressionist writer, dies at age 87.

Ref: 70

Dag Solstad, Norwegian novelist and playwright, is born.

Ref: 2

Jackie Collins London, author (Bitch, Stud), is born.

Ref: 5

Anne Rice (Howard O’Brien Rice) author: Interview with a Vampire, is born.

Ref: 4

Anne Tyler American writer (Accidental Tourist), is born.

Ref: 5

1942

Susan Hill English playwright (Magic Apple Tree), is born.

Ref: 5

Alice H. Rice, American novelist, dies at age 72,

Ref: 70

Albert Payson Terhune, US novelist, dies.

Ref: 17

Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity), dies in Petropolis, Brazil.

Ref: 68

Stefan Zweig Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

David K Williamson Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists), is born.

Ref: 5

Adriaan van Dis author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa), is born.

Ref: 5

John Irving Exeter NH, writer (World According to Garp), is born.

Ref: 5

Michael D[iamond] Resnick sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Preuss US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire), is born.

Ref: 5

Jacqueline Lichtenberg US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy), is born.

Ref: 5

Erica Jong (Mann), poet, novelist (Fear of Flying, How to Save Your Own Life), is born in New York NY.

Ref: 2

Miguel Hernadez Gilabert Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31.

Ref: 5

Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Dhalgren, Neveryona), is born.

Ref: 5

Kitty Kelley author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra), is born.

Ref: 5

Eduard Visser Dutch writer (Fyffes are now called Chiquita), is born.

Ref: 5

Alfred Mombert writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Robert Musil Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Mario Brenta writer/director (Maicol, Barnabo of the Mountains), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Kornfeld writer, dies at 52.

Ref: 5

J van Hoddis writer, dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Ariel Dorfman, Chilean writer (Death and the Maiden).

Ref: 2

Rachel Billington British writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Sakutaro Hagiwara, Japanese poet, dies at age 55.

Ref: 70

Barry B[rookes] Longyear US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo), is born.

Ref: 5

Timothy Hugh Brown theatre critic, is born.

Ref: 5

[Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Jun 15

Xaveria Hollander [DeVries], Surabaya Indonesia, author (Happy Hooker), is born.

Ref: 5

Rod Padgett, poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits, is born.

Ref: 2

Condé Nast, US magazine publisher, dies.

Ref: 17

Michael Crichton US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker), is born.

Ref: 5

Michael (John) Crichton writer: Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man, Disclosure, The Great Impostor, The Secret of Canta Victoria, Congo; director: Runaway, Coma, Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, is born.

Ref: 4

Larry Flynt magazine publisher (Hustler), is born.

Ref: 5

Martin Cruz Smith, novelist (Gorky Park), is born.

Ref: 2

Nov 19

Sharon Olds, poet (The Dead and The Living, The Gold Cell), is born.

Ref: 2

John Crowley US, sci-fi author (Deep, Beasts, Novelty), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Handke, playwright and poet.

Ref: 2

Joe McGinniss Rye NY, author (Selling of the President 1968), is born.

Ref: 5

Jean-Patric Manchette thriller writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Konstantin Dmitrieyevich Balmont Russian poet, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

1943

Osvaldo Soriano writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jim Hightower radio host, author: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times, Eat Your Heart Out

Ref: 4

Jan R T Campert Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40.

Ref: 5

Alexander Woollcott, American author/critic, dies at age 56 from a fatal heart attack during a live broadcast of "The People's Platform" on CBS-Radio.

Ref: 70

F C Delius writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Leo Frankowski US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord), is born.

Ref: 5

Kostís Palamis Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Franz Hohler writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Roger Swaybill actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), is born.

Ref: 5

Pieter C Boutens Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

André Lichtenberger French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Jovan Ducic Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Charles Ludlam New York NY, playwright/actor (Big Easy), is born.

Ref: 5

Ewald Vanvugt author (Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love), is born.

Ref: 5

Ian Watson UK, sci-fi author (Book of Being, Whores of Babylon), is born.

Ref: 5

Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright (Life in Russian Theater), dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Sidney A K Keyes English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20.

Ref: 5

Beatrice Potter Webb British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Etty Hillesum Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz.

Ref: 5

Peter Carey, Australian writer (Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda).

Ref: 2

Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko Russian playwright, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.) poet: The Women and the Men, My House, is born.

Ref: 4

Tess Gallagher, American writer, is born.

Ref: 2

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian novelist and poet (The English Patient) is born.

Ref: 2

Nordahl Grieg writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Steven Bochco, Emmy Award-winning executive producer: Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, is born.

Ref: 4

Beatrix Potter, writer of children's stories including "Peter Rabbit", dies at age 77.

Ref: 68

1944

Robert Lacey, British author ("Ford", "The Men and the Machine"), is born.

Ref: 17

Kaj Munk [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies.

Ref: 5

Henry Kravis author (The Money Machine), is born.

Ref: 5

Terry Brooks US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara), is born.

Ref: 5

Mohammed Emin Yurdakul Turkish poet, dies at about 74.

Ref: 5

Eddie Shah English publisher (Today, Post), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Plomp Dutch writer/poet (Venus in Holland), is born.

Ref: 5

Anton Korteweg Dutch poet (For the Good Order), is born.

Ref: 5

Frances Moore Lappé author: Diet for a Small Planet, Rediscovering America’s Values, is born.

Ref: 4

I.J. Singer, Polish-born American author, dies at age 50.

Ref: 70

Herman de Coninck Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work), is born.

Ref: 5

Max Jacob French writer, dies in Nazi concentration camp at 67.

Ref: 5

Jürgen Theobaldy writer, is born.

Ref: 5

David Vogel Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52.

Ref: 5

Hendrik W van Loon Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Peter Paul Zahl writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Benjamin Crémieux French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking

Ref: 5

Gerrit Komrij Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo), is born.

Ref: 5

John Peale Bishop US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx), is born.

Ref: 5

Isolde Kurz German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Christoph Hein Heinzendorf Silesia (now in Poland), writer, is born.

Ref: 5

John Milius writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday), is born.

Ref: 5

John Bryant editor (Europeans), is born.

Ref: 5

F Innerhofer writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jim Abrahams writer, director: Hot Shots! Series, Big Business, Top Secret!, Police Squad, Help Wanted, Airplane!; writer: The Naked Gun; director: Ruthless People, Big Business, is born.

Ref: 4

Eva Demski writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q] British author/critic, dies at 80.

Ref: 5

George Ade US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Max Brand [Frederick Schiller Faust] western author, dies.

Ref: 5

Janet Dailey novelist: The Glory Game, Silver Wings, Santiago Blue, The Pride of Hanna Wade, Calder Saga, Notorious, The Rogue, Rivals, Tangled Vines, The Keeper, is born.

Ref: 4

Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent poet/critic (On the Droge), is born.

Ref: 5

Katri Vala Finnish poet, dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Lisa Alther, novelist (Kinflicks), is born.

Ref: 2

Pat Conroy, novelist (The Prince of Tides), is born.

Ref: 2

Rita Mae Brown, novelist.

Ref: 2

Botho Strauss writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian-born French novelist, poet, and dramatist; founded Futurist artistic movement, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Delfien Vanhaute Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Jack L[aurence] Chalker US, sci-fi author (Charon: A Dragon at the Gate, Saga of Well World), is born.

Ref: 5

G Wolfgruber writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Tentije [Johann Kr„mer] Dutch poet (Nachtwit), is born.

Ref: 5

1945

Dezsö Szabó Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Barry Holstein Lopez US author (Of Wolves & Men), is born.

Ref: 5

Rudolf Borchardt writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Ada Negri Italian poet/author (Fatalità), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

[Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter] UK, sci-fi author (High Kings), is born.

Ref: 5

A Wolfenstein writer, dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Else Lasker-Schüler writer, dies at 48.

Ref: 5

Michael Dorris writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Douglas R Hofstadter New York NY, author (Gödel, Escher, Bach), is born.

Ref: 5

Rudolf Värnlund Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45.

Ref: 5

Thomas Brasch writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Alex Tolstoy, author of "Peter the Great" dies.

Ref: 68

Aleksei Tolstoi Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies), is born.

Ref: 5

Mário R de Morais Andrade Brazilian poet/folklorist, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Mark J Green Brooklyn NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System), is born.

Ref: 5

Börries von Münchhausen writer, dies, is born.

Ref: 5

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52.

Ref: 5

Jørgen Nielsen Danish writer (romance), dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43.

Ref: 5

Ion Pillat Romaniams poet/Senator (Umbra timpului), dies.

Ref: 5

Albrecht Haushofer writer, dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Hans Bloesch writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Annie Dillard American writer (An American Childhood), is born.

Ref: 5

Claude van de Berge [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory), is born.

Ref: 5

Monika van Paemel Belgian writer (Accursed Fathers), is born.

Ref: 5

Guðmundur Jónsson Kamban Icelandic writer (Vi mordere), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Tobias Wolff, American writer (This Boy's Life: A Memoir, The Night in Question), is born.

Ref: 2

Author Dean Koontz is born.

Ref: 68

Franz Werfel, German Expressionist poet, playwright and novelist, dies at age 54. (also TWA, 1946)

Ref: 70

Pat Conroy American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides), is born.

Ref: 5

Tracy Kidder, writer (Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends), is born.

Ref: 2

Karl Edward Wagner US, sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds), is born.

Ref: 5

Mogens Klitgaard Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39.

Ref: 5

Theodore Dreiser novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

1946

Countee Cullen US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies in New York City NY at 42.

Ref: 5

Julian Barnes England, writer (Before She Met Me), is born.

Ref: 5

Vincent Placoly Martinique, writer (L'eau-de-mort guildive), is born.

Ref: 5

Silvio Blatter writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Christopher Hampton Azores, playwright (Oviri, Hotel du Lac), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Betghe writer, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Margarete Boie writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Countee Cullen US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies in New York City NY at 42.

Ref: 5

F Xaver Kroetz writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Phyllis Eisenstein US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile), is born.

Ref: 5

Brigitte Fossey Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice), is born.

Ref: 5

Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist (A Romantic Education, Virgin Time).

Ref: 2

Amir Hamzah Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35.

Ref: 5

Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker US, sci-fi author (Wetware), is born.

Ref: 5

Gabriela Preissová writer, dies.

Ref: 5

F Guicciardi writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Tom Monteleone American writer (Dark Star & Illumination), is born.

Ref: 5

Clare Francis yachtswoman/novelist (Come Hell or High Water), is born.

Ref: 5

Janet E[llen] Morris US, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernest Rhys, English editor, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Paul Schrader, screenwriter and film director (Taxi Driver).

Ref: 2

Gertrude Stein Pennsylvania, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas), dies.

Ref: 5

Marilyn Vos Savant St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (Guinness), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 13

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells writer: War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Outline of History; dies at age 79.

Ref: 4

Arthur Schendel, Dutch novelist and short-story writer, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

Tim O'Brien, novelist (The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods), is born.

Ref: 2

(Alfred) Damon Runyon journalist; script writer: The Lemon Drop Kid, Little Miss Marker, Sorrowful Jones, Guys and Dolls, Pocketful of Miracles; dies.

Ref: 4

Johannes L "Jan" Walch Dutch literary (Abelard & Helo‹se), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Anthonius A M "Ton" Kors Dutch writer (Hannie Schaft), is born.

Ref: 5

Adriaan van Dis Dutch TV host/writer (Promised Country), is born.

Ref: 5

1947

Forrest Reid Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

George Alec Effinger US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time), is born.

Ref: 5

Felix Timmermans writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Paul Auster US author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke), is born.

Ref: 5

Hans Fallada writer, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist (The Bone People).

Ref: 2

Laurie Langenbach Dutch author, is born.

Ref: 5

Pat[rick] Proft Minneapolis MN, comedy writer (Naked Gun, Airplane), is born.

Ref: 5

Christian F L Leipoldt South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies.

Ref: 5

Stephen R Donaldson US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane), is born.

Ref: 5

Karin Struck writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jane Kenyon, poet (Let Evening Come, Otherwise).

Ref: 2

C F Ramuz writer, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Piers Gray critic/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

David Hare, British playwright and director (A Map of the World, Slag), is born.

Ref: 2

James Agate, English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923-47), dies at age 69.

Ref: 70

Sara Paretsky writer: Burn Marks, Killing Orders, is born.

Ref: 4

Salman Rushdie novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses), is born.

Ref: 5

Mark Helprin, novelist (Winter's Tale), is born.

Ref: 2

Patrick Kincaid who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card, is born.

Ref: 5

Writer Dave Barry is born in Armonk, NY. (TWA, 1997)

Ref: 95

Danielle Steel (Schuelein-Steel) (author: Vanished, Wanderlust, Daddy, The Ring, Secrets, Going Home), is born.

Ref: 4

Willa Cather, the American novelist famous for her descriptions of life on the American frontier, dies.

Ref: 70

Sep 08

Ann Beattie Wash DC, short story writer (New Yorker Magazine), is born.

Ref: 5

Stephen King author: Pet Sematary, Christine, The Duel, Misery, The Stand, Carrie, The Shining, is born.

Ref: 4

Marsha Norman, playwright (Getting Out, 'Night Mother).

Ref: 2

Hugh Lofting, English/American author, dies at age 61.

Ref: 70

Emmuska Orczy, Hungarian-born English novelist; wrote "The Scarlet Pimpernel", dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Ursula Krechel writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Julio A Peixoto Brazilian writer (Fruta do Mato), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

St-Georges de Bouchélier French author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Brian C Daley US, sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron), is born.

Ref: 5

1948

Raoul Auernheimer writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Kurt Schwitters writer, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Robert Coover novelist (Pricksongs & Descants), is born.

Ref: 5

Karl Valentin German comic/writer, dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Patricia [Anne] McKillip US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run), is born.

Ref: 5

Antonin Artaud writer, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Antonin Artaud French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Leslie Marmon Silko, writer (Ceremony).

Ref: 2

Zelda (Sayre) Fitzgerald, writer (Save me the Waltz) and first wife of F Scott, dies in a fire at Highland Hospital.

Ref: 68

Margaret [Edith] Weis US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning), is born.

Ref: 5

William [Ford] Gibson Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero), is born.

Ref: 5

Pamela Sargent US, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives), is born.

Ref: 5

Egon E Kisch Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune), is born.

Ref: 5

Josef B Kjellgren Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40.

Ref: 5

Amy Robinson Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets), is born.

Ref: 5

Claude McKaye Jamaican/US poet/author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies in Chicago at 57.

Ref: 5

Albert Innaurato Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho), is born.

Ref: 5

Rufus Matthew Jones, American Quaker and author, dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

Jul 05

Georges Bernanos, French novelist and polemical writer, dies at age 60.

Ref: 70

Eleanor Medill Patterson, American publisher, dies at age 63.

Ref: 70

Susan Glaspell, American dramatist; founder of the Provincetown Players, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams) poet, playwright: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, is born.

Ref: 4

Roark Bradford, American novelist and short-story writer, dies at age 52.

Ref: 70

T. Corgaghessan Boyle, novelist and short story writer (Water Music).

Ref: 2

Boudewijn Buch Dutch writer/TV host, is born.

Ref: 5

1949

Peter Dormer arts writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Janet Issaca Ashford writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Dorus Vrede Surinam poet (Otobanda; the Other Bank), is born.

Ref: 5

Gill Scott-Heron US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon), is born.

Ref: 5

Scott Turow author: Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, is born.

Ref: 4

Graham Swift, British novelist (The Sweet Shop Owner, Out of this World).

Ref: 2

Graham Swift, British novelist (The Sweet Shop Owner, Out of this World), is born.

Ref: 2

Stuart Gannes Detroit MI, writer (Fortune), is born.

Ref: 5

Klaus Mann German writer, dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Klaus H T Mann German/US writer (Turning Point), dies.

Ref: 5

Jamaica Kincaid, author (Annie John, Lucy).

Ref: 2

Ken Follett, novelist (Eye of the Needle, On The Wings of Eagles).

Ref: 2

Chris Van Allsburg, children's author and illustrator (Jumanji, The Polar Express).

Ref: 2

James Fallows, writer and editor of U.S. News and World Report, is born.

Ref: 2

Martin Amis, English novelist (Money, Time's Arow).

Ref: 2

Jane Smiley, novelist (A Thousand Acres, Moo), is born.

Ref: 2

Elin Pelin writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Philip Barry, American dramatist, dies at age 53.

Ref: 70

Mary Gordon US, author, is born.

Ref: 5

R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy US, sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael), is born.

Ref: 5

W Hervey Allen US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

1950

Michael O'Donoghue writer/performer, is born.

Ref: 5

Isaiah Bowman geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Karin Michaelis writer, dies at 77.

Ref: 5

George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies from tuberculosis in London at age 46.

Ref: 5

Gloria Naylor US author (Women of Brewster Place), is born.

Ref: 5

Harry Blomberg Swedish author (Jacobs Dröm), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (Scaramouche, Captain Blood), dies.

Ref: 17

Voranc Prezikov [Lovro Kuhar], Slavic author (Jamaica), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Neil Jordan Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past), is born.

Ref: 5

Ivan Goll writer, dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Walter Yust, American editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1938-1960), dies at age 65.

Ref: 70

M Joseph V d'Arbaud French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Edgar Lee Masters poet: Spoon River Anthology; dies at age 81.

Ref: 4

L Heinrich Mann German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Edgar Rice Burroughs, author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Albert Ehrenstein Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Agnes Smedley writer, dies.

Ref: 5

John G Fletcher US poet (Burning Mountain), dies.

Ref: 5

Rex Ingram (Hitchcock) writer, director: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; dies.

Ref: 4

Peggy Noonan writer: US President’s speeches: “A kinder, gentler nation”, is born.

Ref: 4

Henry Louis Gates Jr., critic and scholar.

Ref: 2

Victoria Tennant London England (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War), is born.

Ref: 5

Wendy Wasserstein, playwright (The Heidi Chronicles), is born.

Ref: 2

Fran Leibowitz, writer (Metropolitan Life, Social Studies), is born.

Ref: 2

Albrecht Schaeffer German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Leonard Maltin New York NY, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight), is born.

Ref: 68

Xavier Villaurrutia Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47.

Ref: 5

James Stephens Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

1951

Frans Kellendonk author (Ruin, The Good for Nothing), is born.

Ref: 5

Andrei P Platonov Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Wilhelm Schäfer German writer (Mein Leben), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

James Bridie [Osborne Henry Mavor], dramatist, dies.

Ref: 5

Roxanne Pulitzer Glendale CA, author (The Prize Pulitzer), is born.

Ref: 5

Death of Lloyd C. Douglas, 74, American Congregational clergyman and novelist. He published his first religious novel "Magnificent Obsession" in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).

Ref: 5

Ivor Novello British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

H Zur Mühlen writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Sadiq Hidajat Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies.

Ref: 5

Heloise (Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans) newspaper columnist, writer: Hints from Heloise is born in Waco TX. She took over the Heloise empire after her mother, the original Heloise who died in 1977. (also 95: TWA, 1988)

Ref: 4

Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Norma Jean Almodovar Binghampton, auto-biographer (Cop to Call Girl), is born.

Ref: 5

Hermann Broch writer, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Oscar Hijeulos, novelist (The Mambo Kings play Songs of Love.

Ref: 2

Abraham Cahan, Russian-born American editor of the Jewish Daily Forward (1903-51), dies at age 91.

Ref: 70

Terry McMillan, novelist (Waiting to Exhale), is born.

Ref: 2

Harold Ross, American founder/editor of The New Yorker (1925-51), dies at age 59 in Boston MA.

Ref: 68

Algernon Blackwood, British mystery writer, dies at age 82.

Ref: 5

Charles de Lint Netherlands, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow), is born.

Ref: 5

Benito Lynch Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

1952

Sydney Biddle Barrow madam/author (Mayflower Madam), is born.

Ref: 5

Roger Vitrac French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52.

Ref: 5

Louis van Deyssel Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Norman Douglas essayist/novelist, dies.

Ref: 5

Amy Tan, novelist (The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife).

Ref: 2

Knut Hamsun writer, dies at 92.

Ref: 5

Martinez Gonzalez, Mexican poet, physician and diplomat, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Tim[othy] Powers US, sci-fi author (Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves), is born.

Ref: 5

Douglas Adams Cambridge England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy), is born.

Ref: 5

Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian playwright (The Play's The Thing, A Pal Utrai Fiuk), dies in New York City at age 76.

Ref: 68

Henri Vandeputte Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Toine van Benthem dentist/playwright/cabaret performer (Purper), is born.

Ref: 5

Minus van Looi [Benjamin van der Neart] Flemish writer, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Diane E[lizabeth] Duane US, sci-fi author (Door into Fire), is born.

Ref: 5

Dámaso Alonso Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Louise Cooper UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne), is born.

Ref: 5

Oct 05

Clive Barker author: The Inhuman Condition, is born.

Ref: 4

Margaret Wise Brown, American writer of children's books, dies at age 42.

Ref: 70

Mel Smith author (Morons From Outer Space), is born.

Ref: 5

Somtow Sucharitkul [SP Somtow] Thailand, sf author (Utopia Hunters), is born.

Ref: 5

Ivan Olbracht writer, dies.

Ref: 5

1953

Hans Aanrud Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89.

Ref: 5

Martinus Nijhoff Dutch poet/translator (spelling), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Martinus Nijhoff Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Hans Aanrud Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89.

Ref: 5

John Shirley US, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona), is born.

Ref: 5

Martinus Nijhoff Dutch poet/linguist (spelling), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Herman Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, dies at age 55.

Ref: 70

Graciliano Ramos Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery] French author, dies at 93.

Ref: 5

Emmanuel K de Bom Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Erich Weinert writer, dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N] Dutch writer, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Edward B B Shanks British poet/critic, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Yoko Shimada Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun), is born.

Ref: 5

Alice McDermott, writer (That Night, At Weddings and Wakes).

Ref: 2

Anna Quindlen, novelist, is born.

Ref: 2

Hilaire Belloc, French-born English historian, biographer, poet and novelist, dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Dylan Thomas, Welsh playwright: The Three Weird Sisters, Under Milkwood; poet: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade; dies in New York at age 39.

Ref: 68

Tina Brown journalist publisher (Tatler), is born.

Ref: 5

Martinus Nijhoff Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Konstanty I Galczynski Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48.

Ref: 5

Joe Toplyn Boston MA, comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman), is born.

Ref: 5

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, dies.

Ref: 70

Rudolf Leonhard writer, dies.

Ref: 5

1954

Michail M Prishvin Russian writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Martin Dunn British editor (Today), is born.

Ref: 5

Iain [Menzies] Banks UK, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory), is born.

Ref: 5

Irina Ratushinskaya USSR, poet (Grey is the color of hope), is born.

Ref: 5

Keven Wade Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls), is born.

Ref: 5

Irina Ratushinskaya Odessa Ukraine, dissident poet (Beyond the Limit), is born.

Ref: 5

Gertrud Bäumer writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Francis B Young British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Bruce Sterling US, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix), is born.

Ref: 5

Joseph Hergesheimer novelist (Java Head), dies.

Ref: 5

Martyn Wiley writer/broadcaster, is born.

Ref: 5

Franz Pfemfert writer, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Herzmanovsky-Orlando writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Louise Erdrich, American author, is born.

Ref: 2

Grantland Rice, American columnist, dies at age 73.

Ref: 70

Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette), French novelist known for her fictional romances built around an autobiographical character, Claudine, dies at 81.

Ref: 17

James Hilton, British novelist who authored Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips and created the imaginary world of "Shangri-La., dies at age 54.

Ref: 70

1955

Jay McInerney author (Bright Lights, Big City), is born.

Ref: 5

Ernst Penzoldt writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Judith Tarr US, sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica), is born.

Ref: 5

John Grisham, author: A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Rainmaker; attorney; legislator, is born in Jonesboro AR. (also TWA, 1998)

Ref: 4

Clive Aslet British editor (Country Life), is born.

Ref: 5

Guy Gallo New Orleans LA, writer (Under the Volcano), is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Claudel French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Theodor Plievier writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Patrick McCabe novelist, is born.

Ref: 5

Silvio d'Amico Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Barbara Kingsolver, novelist (The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams).

Ref: 2

Alfred Polgar Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Lode Cantens Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43.

Ref: 5

Emile Fabre, French playwright and administrator of the Comedie-Francaise, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Ref: 4

Dale Carnegie, the author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People", dies.

Ref: 70

Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight), dies at age 59.

Ref: 70

Ernst Penzoldt writer, dies.

Ref: 5

1956

A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne author: Winnie the Pooh, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, The House at Pooh Corner; died Jan 31, 1956

Ref: 4

Jay McInerney writer (Bright Lights, Big City), is born.

Ref: 5

Alan Alexander Milne English author (Winnie-the-Pooh), dies at age 74.

Ref: 17

Paul Léautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge.

Ref: 5

Mark Handley writer (Nell), is born.

Ref: 5

Louis Bromfield, American novelist and essayist, dies at age 59.

Ref: 70

Jeremy John Beadle writer/broadcaster, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles R Gallas lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Aleksandr A Fadejev Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54.

Ref: 5

Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May), is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Max Beerbohm, English caricaturist and writer, dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Walter de la Mare English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43.

Ref: 68

Giovanni Papini Italy, writer (Il Diavolo), dies at age 75.

Ref: 70

Bertolt Brecht, German poet/playwright, dies at age 58.

Ref: 70

Robert Walser writer, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

1957

Valéry Larbaud French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Johannes Anker Larsen Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

John Middleton Murry, writier, dies at age 67 in London, England. (TWA, 1958)

Ref: 95

C. K. Ogden, English writer and linguist, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Christopher Morley, American novelist and columnist for the Saturday Review (1924-41), dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Joyce A L Cary English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Ignatius Roy D Campbell British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Toivo R Pekkanen Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies.

Ref: 5

Mrs Elizabeth S Kingsley double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Miller Richardson, English novelist, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Malcolm Lowry, English novelist, short story writer and poet, dies at age 47.

Ref: 70

Sholem Asch, Polish-born American novelist and playwright, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Lord Edward Dunsany Ireland, dramatist/poet (Mirage Water), dies.

Ref: 68

Dorothy Leigh Sayers [Atherton Fleming] author (Whose body), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

John W Van Druten US stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

1958

Paul Fechter German writer/historian (God's Magician), dies.

Ref: 5

Charles de Trooz Belgian writer, dies at 52.

Ref: 5

Henry Kuttner sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Werner Schwab writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Paul Fechter German writer/historian (God's Magician), dies.

Ref: 5

Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne] French poet, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Albert Kuyle [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Cyril M Kornbluth US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34.

Ref: 5

Theodor Kramer writer, dies.

Ref: 5

George Jean Nathan, American author, editor, and drama critic, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

James Branch Cabell, American novelist; wrote "Jurgen", dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten] Flemish playwright, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Magdalene Székely-Lulofs author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Straight 4 year old author (How the World Begun), is born.

Ref: 5

Francis Carco(pino) French author/critic (L'homme traqué), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Robert Service, Canadian verse writer (Cremation of Sam McGee), dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Mary Roberts Rinehart, American novelist and playwright, dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Johannes Becher, German poet, critic, editor and government official, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Ferdinand Bruckner writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Fjodor W Gladkow Russian author (Cement), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Steffen Mensching writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1959

Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, literary critic and translator, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Maxwell Anderson US dramatist (Key Largo, Bad Seed), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Raymond T Chandler US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Eugene Meyer, American publisher of The Washington Post (1933-46), dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Kurt Kisber writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Alfonso Reyes Mexican poet/historian/diplomat, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

1960

Chris van Abkoude author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79.

Ref: 5

Nevil Shute [Norway] English/Australian author (Town like Alice), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Sibilla Aleramo [Rina Faccio], Italian poet (Una Donna), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

William John Readings literary theorist, is born.

Ref: 5

Sven R Lidman Swedish writer (Tvedräktens Barn), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

F S Flint British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Juri Olescha writer, dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Willem Elsschot [Alfons de Ridder] Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

John Phillips Marquand, American novelist, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Emily Post (Price) etiquette authority: author: syndicated newspaper columnist; dies at age 86.

Ref: 68

Richard Wright author: Black Boy, The Outsider, Black Power, The Color Curtain, Pagan Spain; dies at age 52 in Paris.

Ref: 4

Eden Phillpotts author: Black, White and Brindled, A Deal With the Devil, The Red Redmaynes, Saurus; dies.

Ref: 4

1961

Dashiell Hammett author (Maltese Falcon, Thin Man), dies from throat cancer at 66.

Ref: 5

Blaise Cendrars Swiss/French poet (J'ai tué), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Blaise Cendrars [Frédéric Sauser-Hall], Switzerland, poet, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Kjeld Abell Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Seerp Anema Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Hans F Blunck writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Enrique Larreta, Argentine novelist, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Nov 02

James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), writer: New Yorker magazine; author: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, My World and Welcome to It, The Last Flower, Is Sex Necessary?; dies at age 66.

Ref: 4

Thomas Strittmatter writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1962

Ulrike Lang writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Emanuel Stickelberger Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Gerrit Achterberg Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Robinson Jeffers poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Werner Bock writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at age 30.

Ref: 2

Will Vesper German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Dick Calkins co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Victoria M. Sackville-West Victoria, English novelist and poet, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

e.e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings), American poet, dies at age 67.

Ref: 2

Isak Dinesen (Karen Dinesen), Danish writer (Out of Africa), dies at age 77.

Ref: 70

Howard Garis, American creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories, dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

George Saiko writer, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

1963

Stark Young US writer (So Red the Rose), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Franz Jung writer, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Sylvia Plath poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30.

Ref: 5

William Carlos Williams, American physician, poet, novelist and short story writer, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Karl Otten writer, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Quentin Tarantino director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction), is born.

Ref: 5

Pola Gojawiczynska Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Clifford Odets playwright: Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing, The Golden Boy, The Big Knife, The Country Girl, The Flowering Peach; dies.

Ref: 4

Clifford Odets, American stage and motion-picture writer and director, dies at age 57.

Ref: 70

Clifford Odets US, dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), dies.

Ref: 4

Aldous (Leonard) Huxley philosopher, satirist, author: Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Point Counter Point; dies at age 69.

Ref: 4

C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis science fiction author: Out of the Silent Planet; dies.

Ref: 4

Tristan Tzara writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

1964

Edgar Maass German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

A Marja Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Steven Soderbergh writer (Mimi, Schizoplis), is born.

Ref: 5

Terence Hanbury White novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Ref: 4

Rachel Carson author: Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us; dies.

Ref: 4

Ben Hecht, American novelist, playwright, and newspaperman, dies at age 70.

Ref: 68

Edwin John Pratt Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Georg Britting writer, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Mustapha Zerqti Moroccan/Netherlands writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd), is born.

Ref: 5

Ian Fleming, novelist (creator of James Bond), dies at age 56.

Ref: 4

Sean O’Casey playwright: Harvest Festival, The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars; dies.

Ref: 68

Ernst Ginsberg writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Dame Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77.

Ref: 17

Bernard von Brentano German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

1965

Poet T.S. Eliot died in London at age 76.

Ref: 70

Lorraine Hansberry US playwright ("Raisin in the Sun"), dies in New York City NY at age 34.

Ref: 5

Kazys Boruta writer, dies.

Ref: 5

George Calinescu Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Ferdinand Bordewijk Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Howard Spring British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans Flemish playwright, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Roger Vailland French author, dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Roger Vailland French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Maria Dabrowska Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies.

Ref: 5

Thornton W Burgess, US author of children's books, dies.

Ref: 17

Marika Stiernstedt Swedish author (Ulla Bella), is born.

Ref: 5

Christopher Nolan Ireland, handicapped writer (Under Eye of Clock), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Costain, Canadian-born American historical novelist, dies at age 80.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Kilgallen columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52.

Ref: 5

Alexander King writer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

William Somerset Maugham English author (Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage), dies at 91.

Ref: 5

1966

Hermann Kasack writer, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Margarete Susman writer, dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Kathleen Norris US author, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Jo van Ammers-Küller Dutch playwright (Opstandigen), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Josef Winckler German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American geographer; president of National Geographic Society (1920-54), dies at age 90.

Ref: 70

Elio Vittorini, Italian novelist, translator and literary critic, dies at age 57.

Ref: 70

Anna Achmatova Ukrainian poet, dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Mari Sandoz US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Mien Labberton Dutch poet, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

C.S. (Cecil Scott) Forester, English novelist and author of the Horatio Hornblower series, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Russel Crouse US stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Sven Fleuron writer, dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Evelyn Waugh British writer (Black Mischief), dies at age 62.

Ref: 5

Maurice Roelants Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies.

Ref: 5

Georgia Camp Johnson US poet/playwright, dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic, dies at age 40.

Ref: 70

Melvin Tolson, African-American poet, dies at age 68.

Ref: 70

Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Mexican novelist, dis at age 71.

Ref: 70

Ehm Welk writer, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Heimito von Doderer writer, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88.

Ref: 5

1967

Dirk Vansina Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Herman Teirlinck Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years.

Ref: 5

French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia.

Ref: 5

John Masefield England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads), dies at age 88.

Ref: 70

[James Mercer] Langston Hughes US author (Tambourines to Glory), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Dorothy Parker (Rothschild) author: News Item: Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses; dies in New York at age 73.

Ref: 4

Oskar Maria Graf, German novelist and poet, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

Jason R Rich Irvington NY, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk), is born.

Ref: 5

Claude A Barnett founded Associated Negro Press, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Sep 29

Carson McCullers (Smith) author: The Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye; dies.

Ref: 4

Annette Kolb writer, dies at 92.

Ref: 5

Manuel A Fraai Curaçao author (Silly Agüero), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

1968

C(ecil) Day Lewis is named Poet Laureate of Great Britain, succeeding John Masefield.

Ref: 17

Sanoesi Pane Indonesian writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Gerard den Brabander [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Howard Lindsay US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Edna Ferber US author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Fannie Hurst US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Johannes Tralow writer, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Fannie Hurst US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf Swedish poet (Nun Serviam), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Edwin O'Connor US writer, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Sir Harold Nicolson, English author and diplomat, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Upton Sinclair, author of "The Jungle" and passionate crusader for social reform, dies.

Ref: 70

Nov 17

Mervyn Peake, English novelist, poet, playwright and illustrator, dies at age 57.

Ref: 70

Upton Sinclair, author of "The Jungle" and passionate crusader for social reform, dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

Mark Harding Bath England, keeper of Internet biographies, is born.

Ref: 5

Max Brod writer, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

1969

Franz T Csokor Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

John Wyndham [Parkes Lucas B Harris] author (Day of the Triffids, Chrysalids), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Gerhart Fritsch writer, dies at 44.

Ref: 5

Rudolf Pannwitz German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Max F Eastman US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies at 86.

Ref: 5

B[runo] Traven writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Günther Weisenborn German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier French author (La Peur), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

F Osbert S Sitwell English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Floyd Dell,American novelist and journalist, dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Jack Kerouac author: On the Road, The Town and the City, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Lonesome Traveler, Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody; dies.

Ref: 4

Louise L de Vilmorin French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

1970

Armijn Pane Indonesian writer (Djinak-djinak merpati), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Albert Mähll German writer, dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Louise Bogan, American poet and literary critic, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

Shmuel Y. Agnon, Israeli novelist and short-story writer (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966), dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Robert Bruce Lockhart diplomat/writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Ed[uard] Hoornik Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Erle Stanley Gardner (A.A. Fair) author (created Perry Mason), dies at age 80.

Ref: 4

Josef Martin Bauer writer, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Tarjei Vesaas Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Arthur Adamov Russian/French playwright, dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Fernand Crommelynck Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Marlen Haushofer writer, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Péter Veres Hungarian minister of defense/writer, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

John Knittel writer, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Paul Celan writer, dies at 49 [or May 5].

Ref: 5

Nigel Martin Balchin English author (My Executioner), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Joseph Krutch, American naturalist and author, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Michael B Enyaer writer (Pilot One), is born.

Ref: 5

Emmy van Lokhorst author, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

John Gunther author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster author: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howard’s End, A Passage to India, Maurice; dies.

Ref: 17

Sir Allen Lane, English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing, dies at age 67.

Ref: 5

Erich Maria Remarque, the German-born author of "All Quiet on the Western Front", is born.

Ref: 70

John Dos Passos, American writer/journalist, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

1971

Raymond Herreman Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Stevie Smith, English poet, novelist and short story writer, dies at age 68.

Ref: 68

Ernst Bachmeister writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Jan Greshoff Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Mary Dorna Dutch author, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Martin Bodmer writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Simon Vestdijk Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Lennart van Reen son of author Ton v R/publisher Corrie Zelen, is born.

Ref: 5

Manfred Bonnington Lee [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Mihály Váci Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Ogden Nash poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

John Campbell, American science-fiction writer, dies at age 61.

Ref: 70

Sir A. P. Herbert, English novelist, playwright, poet and politician, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

1972

Kenneth Patchen US poet/writer (Cloth of Tempest), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

John Berryman US poet (Imaginary Jew), commits suicide.

Ref: 5

Kenneth Patchen US writer (See You in the Morning), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Padraic Colum Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Edgar P Snow US author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Jef [Josephus CF] Last Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Fredric [William] Brown sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

C W Ceram [Kurt Marek] German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Hugo Hartung writer, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Saul David Alinsky radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Edmund Wilson, American essayist and literary critic, dies at age 77.

Ref: 70

Jules Romains, French novelist, dramatist and poet, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Akim Tamiroff actor: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anastasia, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Hotel Paradiso, Lord Jim, The Story of Louis Pasteur; dies.

Ref: 4

Ezra Pound poet: Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, The Pisan Cantos; dies at age 87

Ref: 4

English author Compton MacKenzie dies.

Ref: 68

Adrian J Zoetmulder author (God's Hour), dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Mark A Van Doren US literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Semjon I Kirsanov Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Günter Eich German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Ernst Kreuder writer, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

1973

Brigitte Reimann writer, dies at 39.

Ref: 5

Elizabeth Bowen Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in London at 72.

Ref: 5

Vera Fjodorova Panova Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Manuel Rojas Sepulveda Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

M Revis [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Sir Noel (Peirce) Coward actor: The Italian Job, Paris When It Sizzles, Hearts of the World; actor, director, composer, playwright: In Which We Serve; playwright: Brief Encounter, Bitter Sweet, Private Lives; dies at age 73.

Ref: 2

Alexandre A M Stols publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Jane Bowles writer, dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Frances Marion screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

A P Gütersloh writer, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Arna Bontemps writer/educator, dies at 72 in Nashville, Tenn.

Ref: 5

Nancy Mitford, the British satiric novelist and essayist, dies.

Ref: 70

Mary Ellen Chase, American scholar and writer, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien writer: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit; dies at 81.

Ref: 5

S. N. Behrman, American short-story writer and playwright, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Leo Strauss, German-born American political philosopher, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Catherine Bowen, American writer, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Alan Watts, Kent England, writer (Book on the Taboo), dies.

Ref: 17

1974

Edmund Blunden British poet/critic, dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Jan Arends Dutch poet/author, dies at 48.

Ref: 5

S v Vegesack writer, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Paula Ludwig writer, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Dino Buzzati writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates novelist (Feast for July, Love for Lydia), dies at age 68.

Ref: 5

Marieluise Fleißer writer, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Jos de Haes Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Christian van Geel Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Seton I Miller writer, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Marcel Paul Pagnol, French writer and film producer/director, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Kathleen Cannell writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Adelle Davis US author, nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

George Kelly, American playwright/actor, dies at age 87.

Ref: 70

John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies at 53 of cancer.

Ref: 5

William Sloane publisher/writer ("The Edge of Running Water"), dies.

Ref: 5

Paula Ludwig writer, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Lajos Zilahy Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Kostas Varnalis writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Amy Vanderbilt US author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

1975

Robert Neumann Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Carlo Levi Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Louis J H C A de Bourbon Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Sir Pelham G. Wodehous, English comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright, dies at age 93.

Ref: 70

Pelham G Wodehouse writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Ruth Schaumann German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Peter Bamm writer, dies.

Ref: 5

R D Brinkmann writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Rod (Edwin Rodman) Serling scriptwriter: The Twilight Zone, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes, Seven Days in May; dies at age 60.

Ref: 68

Rex (Todhunter) Stout mystery writer: Nero Wolfe series; dies at age 88.

Ref: 4

Nov 05

Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination), dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

Robert C. Sherriff, English playwright and screenwriter, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Ross McWhirter Guinness Book of Records keeper, is murdered.

Ref: 5

Nikola Wapzarow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

William A. (Augustus) Wellman Academy Award-winning screenwriter: A Star is Born [1937]; director: The High and the Mighty, Battleground, A Star is Born [1937], Westward the Women; dies at age 79.

Ref: 4

1976

Freda Kirchwey, American editor and publisher of "The Nation", dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Agatha (Marie Clarissa) Christie (Miller) writer: Murder on the Orient Express, 65 other mysteries; playwright: The Mousetrap [world’s longest running play]; dies in Wallingford, England, at age 85.

Ref: 4

Edgar Pangborn sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Anton Betzner writer, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Martha Saalfeldt writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Ruth P Thomson writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Eugen Roth writer, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Thomas Burnett Swann sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47.

Ref: 5

Karel Cruysberghs Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Dalton Trumbo US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

Patrick Dennis, author, is born.

Ref: 68

Andre Malraux, France, novelist/art historian/puplic office. ("The Voices of Silence"), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Eduard Claudius writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Walter Bauer writer, dies at 72.

Ref: 5

1977

Anaïs Nin Cuban/American writer (Delta of Venus), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Carl Zuckmayer German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Edmond [Moore] Hamilton US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Denys Amiel French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92.

Ref: 5

Jacques Prévert French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Riekus Waskowsky Dutch poet, dies at 44.

Ref: 5

Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia.

Ref: 5

James (Ramon) Jones novelist: From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, The Thin Red Line; dies at age 56.

Ref: 4

Claire Goll writer, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist (Lolita), dies at age 78.

Ref: 68

HA Rey author of popular constellation book, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

James M Cain, American novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

Sir Terence Rattigan, English playwright: The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy, The Day Will Dawn; dies at age 66.

Ref: 4

Clarice Lispector writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Louis Untermeyer poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92.

Ref: 5

1978

Vitorino Nemésio Portuguese author (Presença), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Eric Frank Russell sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Faith Baldwin US author (They Who Love), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Brackett Hamilton Leigh [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62.

Ref: 5

John Clinge Doorenbos Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93.

Ref: 5

Jorge Icaza, Ecuadorian novelist and playwright, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

1979

Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov Russian poet, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Allen Tate, American poet and literary critic, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Yvonne Mitchell writer, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Jean Stafford US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Bruno Apitz writer, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Louis Paul Boon Flemish writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Nicholas Ray, American film writer and director, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

James Thomas Farrell US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy), dies.

Ref: 4

Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist, dramatist, essayist and short-story writer, dies at age 77.

Ref: 70

S.J. (Sidney Joseph) Perelman humorist, writer, Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Around the World in 80 Days [1956]; Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, One Touch of Venus, Strictly from Hunger, Westward Ha!, Around the World in 80 Clichés; , dies at age 75.

Ref: 5

Nov 15

Immanuel Velikovsky, US writer (Worlds in Collision), dies.

Ref: 17

Nicolas Born writer, dies at 41.

Ref: 5

1980

Conservationist Joy Adamson, 69, author of "Born Free," was killed in Kenya by a servant.

Ref: 70

Barbara Pym (Mary Crampton), English novelist, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Anna van Wageningen-Salomons Dutch author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94.

Ref: 5

Alfred Andersch German writer (Red Head), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Roland Barthes, French essayist, dies at age 64.

Ref: 70

Erskine Caldwell novelist: Tobacco Road, God’s Little Acre; dies.

Ref: 2

Jean Paul Sartre writer, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Alentejo Carpentier Cuban/Fren writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Edmond Vandercammen Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Henry Miller author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus), dies at age 88.

Ref: 70

John (Howard) Griffin author: Black like Me [his journal posing as African American], Nuni, The Devil Rides Outside, The John Howard Griffin Reader; dies.

Ref: 4

Sep 27

Sam Levinson humorist: dies.

Ref: 4

Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Romain Gary, French novelist, war hero and diplomat, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Marc Connelly playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90.

Ref: 5

(Herbert) Marshall McLuhan professor, writer: Understanding Media, The Medium is the Massage; “The medium is the message.”; dies at age 69.

Ref: 4

1981

A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, Scottish novelist(Citadel)/physician, dies at 84.

Ref: 17

Emiel van Hemeldonck Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

FC Terborgh [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Robin Maugham, English novelist, playwright and travel writer, dies at age 64.

Ref: 70

Dewitt Wallace US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91.

Ref: 5

D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Peter Huchel writer, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Uri Zvi Greenberg, Hebrew and Yiddish poet, dies at age 87.

Ref: 70

Daniel Gillès Belgian writer, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Nelson Algren US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Hoyt J Fuller editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

William Saroyan, American novelist and playwright, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

Paddy (Sidney) Chayefsky Academy Award-winning playwright: Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network; dies.

Ref: 17

Anita Loos, American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at age 88.

Ref: 68

Alec Waugh, English novelist and travel writer, dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

William Loeb publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Ariel Durant, Russian-born American writer; co-wrote "The Story of Civilization", dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Nathaniel Benchley, American author, dies in Boston, MA.

Ref: 68

1982

Ramón (J) Sender (Garcés) Spanish writer, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Cornelis Rijnsdorp Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Edith Ngaio Marsh New Zealand detective writer/producer, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Philip K[indred] Dick author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Georges Perec French writer, dies at 45.

Ref: 5

Ayn Rand, Russian-born author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77.

Ref: 5

Edmund Cooper British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Elisabeth Zernike Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Mario Praz Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Goodman Ace, American writer/producer, dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Agathe "Henriëtte" de Beaufort writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Joris Noë Flemish literary, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Paul de Vree Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies.

Ref: 5

William R Burnett US, writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Ab [Albert] Visser poet/writer (Kaïn sloeg Abel), dies.

Ref: 5

Peter Weiss German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Humphrey Searle writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Irmgard Keun West German writer (Blühende Neurosen), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Ronald Duncan, English playwright, poet and writer, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

John Cheever, American short-story writer and novelist, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

Granville Hicks, American critic, novelist and teacher, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) author: mystery series [w/Manfred B. Lee]; dies.

Ref: 4

Eduardo Mallea, Argentine novelist, essayist and short-story writer, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Babette Deutsch, American poet, critic, translator and novelist, dies at age 87.

Ref: 70

Fritz Usinger German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Louis Aragon French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

1983

D Mack Reynolds US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies.

Ref: 5

[Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Streetcar Named Desire), chokes to death on a bottle cap at age 71.

Ref: 68

John Cowles Sr US publisher, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Arthur Koestler Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Fairfield) author: The Meaning of Treason, A Train of Powder, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Henry James, The Thinking Reed, The Birds Fall Down; dies at age 90.

Ref: 4

Gyula Illyes Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Jerzy Andrzejewski writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Jerzy Andrezjewski writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Peter Edel writer, dies.

Ref: 5

John P Strijbos writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92.

Ref: 5

Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson author (Anything Box), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman, philosopher and writer, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Mary Renault [Challans] English-born South African novelist (Funeral games), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

1984

Frances Goodrich (Diary of Anne Frank), dies from lung cancer at 93.

Ref: 5

Julio Cortázar Argentine writer (Final del Juego), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Uwe Johnson writer, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Nakagawa Soen Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76.

Ref: 5

Arnold Riley playwright/actor, dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Samuel G Engel screenwriter/poet, dies of heart failure at 79.

Ref: 5

Basil Henry Blackwell British publisher, dies.

Ref: 5

John Lee Mahin screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81.

Ref: 5

Silvia A Warner writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Piet van Aken Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Irwin Shaw (Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff) novelist: Rich Man Poor Man, The Young Lions; dies at age 71.

Ref: 4

Lillian Hellman, the American playwright and screenwriter, dies at age 79.

Ref: 17

Alfred Knopf, American publisher; founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., dies at age 91.

Ref: 70

Author Truman (Streckfus) Capote (Persons) was found dead in a Los Angeles mansion at age 59.

Ref: 70

Vicente Aleixandre Spanish poet (Historia del corazón), dies at 86.

Ref: 5

1985

Elizabeth Julesberg author (Dick & Jane), dies.

Ref: 5

Anton Constandse Dutch anarchist/writer, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Ilona Bodden writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Garmt Stuiveling literatrary (Ego & Echo), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Jackie Curtis playwright/actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38.

Ref: 5

Robert Nathan US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Taylor Caldwell, American novelist (Dear & Glorius Physician), dies at age 84 in Greenwich CT. (TWA, 1986)

Ref: 95

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White author: Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, Is Sex Necessary?, The Elements of Style; dies.

Ref: 4

Geoffrey Grigson, English poet, editor, and literary critic, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Philip Larkin [hermit of Hull] English poet, dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Robert Graves, England, poet/historical novelist (I, Claudius), dies at age 90.

Ref: 68

Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum US, sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Otto Gotsche writer, dies.

Ref: 5

1986

Christopher Isherwood British writer (Lions & Shadows), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Juan Rulfo writer, dies.

Ref: 5

M Rooi editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Author James Clavell signed a deal with Morrow/Avon Publishing for $5 million as an advance for the book Whirlwind. The book is a 2,000 page novel. Now, for the bean-counters who might not figure this out, that comes to... $2,500 a page!

Ref: 4

Sid Chaplin, English novelist and short story writer, dies at age 69.

Ref: 70

Marcel Arland French author (L'ordre, Lumière du Soir), dies at 86.

Ref: 5

L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard author/founder of Scientology (Dianetics,Death Quest), dies at 74.

Ref: 68

Ernst Schnabel writer, dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Frank [Patrick] Herbert sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Laura Z(ametkin) Hobson, American novelist and short story writer, dies at age 85.

Ref: 17

Henri Knap Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Hubert Fichte writer, dies at 50.

Ref: 5

Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88.

Ref: 5

John Ciardi US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Manly Wade Wellman sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Jean Mogin Belgian poet, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer, dies at age 78.

Ref: 70

Jean Genêt French, playwright (Lesson Nègres), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Jean Genet French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Bessie Head writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Mircea Eliade writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Gaston Duribreux Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Jorge Luis Borges Argentine author, dies in Geneva at 86.

Ref: 5

Rex Warner, English novelist, poet and critic, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Beryl Markham, American writer, aviator, horse trainer and breeder, dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Gardner F[rancis] Fox author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75.

Ref: 5

John D. MacDonald, American mystery and science fiction writer, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

1987

Margaret Laurence Canadian author, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Gerrit Borgers Dutch literary, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Ilse Langen writer, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Gerald Brenan English writer, dies at 92.

Ref: 5

Pieter G Buckinx Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Alistair MacLean, Scottish author, dies.

Ref: 68

Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha] writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Glenway Wescott US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member.

Ref: 5

Arch Oboler radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore author (Judgment Night), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

John Lehmann, English poet, editor and publisher, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Erskine Caldwell novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Josephine Bell, English physician and novelist, dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

Alice B[radley] Sheldon sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Jim Bishop newspaper columnist, author: The Day Christ Died, The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Day Kennedy Was Shot; dies.

Ref: 4

Howard Moss, American poet/editor of The New Yorker, dies at age 65.

Ref: 70

Michael Stewart (Rubin) playwright: Midnight Edition, Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!; dies.

Ref: 4

Jean (-Marie-Lucien-Pierre) Anouilh, French playwright: Becket, Antigone; dies at age 77.

Ref: 4

Oct 09

Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright and politician, dies.

Ref: 70

Theodore Brameld author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83

Ref: 5

John Gerard Braine, English novelist; one of the "Angry Young Men", dies at age 65.

Ref: 70

Joseph Campbell, American editor and author of many works on mythology, dies at age 83.

Ref: 2

James Arthur Baldwin writer (Another Country), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born American novelist and essayist, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Rewi Alley New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing.

Ref: 5

[Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60.

Ref: 5

1988

Rose Ausländer writer, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Marghanita Laski English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies.

Ref: 5

Lin[wood V] Carter US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Neil R[onald] Jones science fiction writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Mikha`il Na'imah Lebanese playwright, dies at 99.

Ref: 5

Jan van den Weghe Flemish writer, dies at about 67.

Ref: 5

Alan Patton, South African novelist (Cry, the Beloved Country), dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

I.A.L. Diamond screen writer: Some Like It Hot, Irma La Douce, The Apartment; dies at age 67.

Ref: 4

Clifford D[onald] Simak sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Robert A Heinlein sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80.

Ref: 2

James "Hamish" Hamilton British publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Louis L'Amour, American novelist, dies at age 79 of cancer.

Ref: 68

Eleanor Estes author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Raymond Carver poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50.

Ref: 5

Max Shulman author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Max Shulman novelist, playwright: Strictly for Laughs, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, I Was A Teenage Dwarf, The Tender Trap, Rally Round The Flag Boys; dies.

Ref: 4

Joachim Prinz author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86

Ref: 5

Generoso Pope Jr National Enquirer owner, dies at 61.

Ref: 5

1989

Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague.

Ref: 5

Pierre Boileau screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Sterling A Brown US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Bruce Chatwin British writer, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Maurits Kok Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Thomas Bernhard Dutch/Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Hermann Burger writer, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Edward Abbey (environmental author) dies after surgery at 62.

Ref: 5

Malcolm Cowley, American literary editor of The New Republic (1929-44), author (Flowering of New England), dies at age 90.

Ref: 70

Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad Lebanese writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Dame Daphne Du Maurier English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

James Kirkwood actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude] Dutch writer, dies at 77.

Ref: 5

E Galgóczi writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants] Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Owen Lattimore, American writer, lecturer, sinologist; and victim of McCarthyism, dies at age 88.

Ref: 70

I.F. Stone author, dies at 81 of heart failure

Ref: 5

Hubert Beuve-Méry, French publisher and editor of "Le Monde", dies at age 87.

Ref: 70

Irving Stone (Tennenbaum) novelist: Lust for Life, Love is Eternal, The Agony and the Ecstasy; dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Claire Booth Luce playwright: The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin of Error; editor: Vogue, Vanity Fair; politician: U.S. Congresswoman [1943-47]; U.S. Ambassador to Italy [1953-56]; dies.

Ref: 4

Georges Simenon, Belgian-French novelist, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Mary McCarthy author (The Group), dies, at 77.

Ref: 5

Playwright Samuel Beckett died in Paris at age 83.

Ref: 70

Samuel Beckett Irish playright dies in Paris.

Ref: 5

1990

Charles Boost Dutch film critic, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Robert F Adams US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Lawrence Durrell, English novelist (The Alexandria Quartet), dies at age 78.

Ref: 70

Juliet Berto screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Laurence J Peter, author of "The Peter Principle", dies from a stroke at 70.

Ref: 5

Eugene Fodor writer: travel books; dies.

Ref: 4

Kate Simon, American travel writer, dies at age 77.

Ref: 5

Frans Kellendonk Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at 39.

Ref: 5

Claude Spaak Belgian dramatist, dies.

Ref: 5

Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal Dutch writer, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Martin Kessel writer, dies on 89th birthday.

Ref: 5

Walker Percy physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73.

Ref: 5

Venedikt Jerofejev Russian writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Giorgio Manganelli writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims

Ref: 5

Irving Wallace novelist and biographer: The Fan Club, The Word, The Man; co-author with David Wallechinsky: The People’s Almanac; dies at age 74.

Ref: 68

57 Manuel Puig 12/28/1932 7/22/1990 Argentine novelist and screenwriter

Ref: 70

Alberto Moravia Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82

Ref: 5

Lawrence Durrell, British writer, dies at age 78. (TWA, 1992)

Ref: 95

Roald Dahl writer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; screen play: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; dies at age 74.

Ref: 4

Salman Rushdie, author (ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy), appears in public for first time in 2 years.

Ref: 5

Horst Bienek writer, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

1991

Charles B Timmer Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Yvonne Waegemans Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Edmond Jabés writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Vasko Popa Serbian WWII-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Vasco Pratolini Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Johnny van Doorn Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Eugene Fodor writer: travel books; dies.

Ref: 4

Eugene Fodor, writer of travel guides, dies at age 85. (TWA, 1992)

Ref: 95

Freek Zoetmulder publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-Nazi, dies.

Ref: 5

Clara Eggink [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Jan Willem Hofstra Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies.

Ref: 5

(Henry) Graham Greene author: The Third Man, The Power and the Glory; dies at 86.

Ref: 4

Graham Green english novelist, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Max (Rudolf) Frisch author: Homo Faber, I’m Not Stiller, Juerg Reinhardt; playwright: The Firebugs, Andorra; dies at age 79.

Ref: 4

Jack Yellen US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97.

Ref: 5

Sean O'Faolain, Irish short-story writer and teacher, dies at age 91.

Ref: 70

John V. Dodge, American publishing executive of the Encyclopedia Britannica, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Marcus Heeresma writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies.

Ref: 5

Claude Gallimard French publisher, dies.

Ref: 5

Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (Painted Bird, Being There), commits suicide at age 57.

Ref: 5

Anthony van Kampen writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies.

Ref: 5

Armand Boni [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Tom Eyen playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50.

Ref: 5

Brigitte B Fischer writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Angus Wilson [Johnstone-W] British writer (Wrong Set), dies.

Ref: 5

(S.F.) Sylvia (Feldman) Porter financial columnist: New York Post, New York Daily News; author: Sylvia Porter’s A Home of Your Own, Money Book; dies at age 77.

Ref: 4

Vercors (Jean Bruller; Jean-Marcel de Brullers) author: Silence of the Sea: first clandestine novel published under Nazi occupation of France [1941]; dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer

Ref: 5

Leonard C Odell wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83

Ref: 5

Frank Yerby, novelist, dies at age 76 in Madrid Spain. (TWA, 1993)

Ref: 95

Artur Lundkvist Swedish writer/professor (Swedish Academy), dies.

Ref: 5

André Pieyre de Mandiargues French writer (La marge), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Ernest K Gann US adventure novelist, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Stephen Birnbaum US tourism writer, dies at 54.

Ref: 5

New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns.

Ref: 5

1992

Vincent Placoly Martinique writer (Une journée torride), dies at 45.

Ref: 5

William JF "Bill" Naughton Irish/British playwright (Alfie), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Walt Morey US children's book writer (Gentle Ben), dies at 84.

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Maurice J Hill writer (Track of Thunder), dies of pneumonia at 89.

Ref: 5

Donald Zimmerman editor, dies.

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William JF "Bill" Naughton Irish/British playwright (Alfie), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Meade Roberts screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61.

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Thomas Graftdijk Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies.

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Angela Carter British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51.

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C Meijer Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies.

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Philippe Soupault writer, dies.

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Helen Deutsch screenwriter, dies of natural causes.

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Cornelis B Vaandrager [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Wendell Mayes writer, dies of cancer at 72.

Ref: 5

Karl Tunberg US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies.

Ref: 5

Isaac Asimov, American writer of over 300 books including Foundation and I, Robot, dies from kidney failure at age 72.

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Eve Merriam poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75.

Ref: 5

Philip Dunne screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84.

Ref: 5

Stefano d'Arrigo Siciilian writer, dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Brian Moore writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59.

Ref: 5

Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink author (Fear on Java), dies.

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Gisela Elsner writer, dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Johan B W Polak publisher/publicist (Bloom of Décadence), dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Daniël Robberechts Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55.

Ref: 5

William Gaines publisher: Mad magazine; dies.

Ref: 4

William Gaines, American publisher of Mad magazine, dies at age 70 in New York City. (TWA, 1993)

Ref: 95

(Arnold) Eric Sevareid Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: LBJ-The Man and the President, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [1972-73], The Agnew Resignation, CBS News with Walter Cronkite [10/10/73]; commentator: CBS; dies in Washington at age 79.

Ref: 4

Mary Norton author: children’s books: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Borrowers; dies at age 88.

Ref: 4

William Douglas-Home, English playwright, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Allan Bloom author: The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship; dies at age 62.

Ref: 4

Maurice Coutinho writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Anton [Tom] Koolhaas Dutch writer (Snow White), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74.

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1993

Juan Benet Goitia Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Lacey Fosburgh author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50.

Ref: 5

Kobo Abe Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Maria Vlamynck Flemish author, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Robert Jacobsen Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Aben Kandel screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96.

Ref: 5

William du Bois, American author and illustrator of children's books, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Casper van den Berg Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies.

Ref: 5

Agatha Hagtingius-Seger Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Fletcher Knebel author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81.

Ref: 5

Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins.

Ref: 5

Floortje Peneder Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15.

Ref: 5

Paul D Zimmerman US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54.

Ref: 5

Richard Sale writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Douglas Marland soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Wells Root US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92.

Ref: 5

C Northcote Parkinson, author of "Parkinson's Law", dies in Canterbury, England at age 83. (XDG, p 4A, 3/10/2003)

Ref: 83

Manuel da Fonseca Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Michael Kanin screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Anthony Bowles music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Giovanni Testori Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Hans Werner Richter German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

John (Richard) Hersey author: A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima; dies at age 78.

Ref: 4

Eduardo Cabellero Calderon Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Leslie Charteris British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Bertus Aafjes poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Hans Sahl German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Irving Howe US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at age 72.

Ref: 5

Freya Stark English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Penelope Gilliatt [Conner] British author, dies.

Ref: 5

Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist, dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Anthony Burgess, English novelist and critic, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

(John) Anthony Burgess author: A Clockwork Orange, Any Old Iron; dies in London at age 76.

Ref: 4

Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Margaret Landon US author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Maroun Bagdadi director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42.

Ref: 5

Charles Jonckheere Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Richard Auwerda Dutch journalist/writer (Volkskrant), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Anthonius "Ton" Kors writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47.

Ref: 5

Youssef Sebti Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50.

Ref: 5

1994

Werner Schwab Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at 35.

Ref: 5

William Raynor writer, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Pierre Boulle French writer (Executioner), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Christopher Lasch author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Eliseo Diego Cuban poet, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Joop C Swart publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Charles Bukowski author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73.

Ref: 5

Charles Bukowski German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Robert Shea author, dies of cancer.

Ref: 5

Sandra Paretti German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Sandra Paretti romantic novelist, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Arthur C Jacobs poet, dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Walter Janka German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Jose Coronel Urtecho poet, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Michel R Vassallucci French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32.

Ref: 5

Albert Goldman US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Albert Goldman rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Ray Geiger editor: The Farmer’s Almanac [1934-1993]; the longest-held position of any almanac editor in America; dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Marlon Riggs US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37.

Ref: 5

Evert Hartman Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Robert O van Gennep Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandèl), dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Ralph Waldo Ellison author: Invisible Man; essayist: Shadow and Act, Going to the Territory; dies at age 80.

Ref: 4

Samuel Selvon author, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Cassidy Clinton Cremer author (John Cremer), murdered at 30.

Ref: 5

John Preston US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48.

Ref: 5

Richard Scarry author & illustrator: children’s books: Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever, Richard Scarry’s Please & Thank You; dies.

Ref: 4

Louis Calaferte writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Richard Scarry author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Lucebert [J Swaanswijk] poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Phyllis Flowerdew school Reading text author, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Jacques Cesar Ellul writer, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Jean-Pierre E Plooij Dutch writer (Bird House), dies at 48.

Ref: 5

John Barrington Wain author, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Juan Carlos Onetti Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Sidney Gilliat British screenwriter/director, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

James Clavell, novelist (Shogun), dies at age 69 in Vevey, Switzerland. (TWA, 1995)

Ref: 95

James Clavell author: Shogun, Noble House, Tai-pan, Gai-Jin; dies.

Ref: 4

Dolf Verspoor literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Said Mekbel Algerian editor in chief (Le Matin), murdered at 57.

Ref: 5

Julio Ramon Ribeyro Peruvian playwright, dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Richard Brian Waring Barton-Chapple writer, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Ronald Ridout school textbook author, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Donna J. Stone poet, dies of heart failure at 61.

Ref: 5

John Edward Caulwell Hearne writer, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Mary Durack poet, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Peter Hebblethwaite English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

John (James) Osborne Academy Award-winning playwright: Tom Jones [1963]; The Entertainer, Look Back in Anger; Tony Award-winner: Luther [1964], dies of cardiac arrest at 65.

Ref: 4

Johannes J "Joop" Klant Netherlands/South African economist/author, dies.

Ref: 5

Hans Berghuis author/poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Sadi de Gorter Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Harri Webb poet, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

1995

Karl Guttmann Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Elaine Greene literary Agent, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Halton Kathleen Tynan writer, dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Maxwell Henley Harris Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke playwright, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Victor Reinganum artist, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Jean Tardieu author, dies at 91.

Ref: 5

George Woodcock author, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Walter Ernest Allen writer/critic, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

George Abbott, American playwright, director and producer (Three Men on a Horse, Damn Yankees), dies at 105.

Ref: 4

James Ingram Merrill US poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Kenton Kilmer poet/translator, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Paul Monette writer, dies at 49.

Ref: 5

L Jansma Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies.

Ref: 5

Rachid Mimouni Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49.

Ref: 5

Patricia Highsmith writer, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Timothy Hugh Brown theatre critic, dies at 52.

Ref: 5

Calder Willingham US scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Calder Willingham novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Robert Bolt playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago), dies.

Ref: 70

Robert Bolt British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

James Herriot (James Alfred Wight) veterinarian, author: All Creatures Great and Small; dies at 78.

Ref: 4

Norman Hunter writer, dies at 95.

Ref: 5

Edmund Boyd Fisher publisher, dies at 56.

Ref: 5

Pierre Tisseyre publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Helene Weijel author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44.

Ref: 5

Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan novelist, dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Ian Ballantine publisher, dies of heart attack at 79.

Ref: 5

Richard Baerlein racing writer, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Albert Maurice Hackett playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95.

Ref: 5

Frederic Ramsey Jr folklorist/author, dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Irving Shulman author/screenwriter, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Russell Reading Braddon author, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Albert Drach writer, dies.

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Cheryl Waltz author/film producer, dies at 50.

Ref: 5

David Alexander Reginald Herbert writer, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Glyn Jones writer, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott script writer, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Brian Coffey poet, dies at 89.

Ref: 5

Igor Hajek translator/writer, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav political writer (1945-54), dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Donald Edwin White ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Nicholas Palmer TV writer/producer, dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Charles Montgomery Monteith publisher, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

David Avidan poet/writer, dies at 62.

Ref: 5

Patrick Bowles writer/translator, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Stanley Elkin author: Boswell, A Bad Man, The Dick Gibson Show, The Franchiser, The Living End, George Mills, Alex & the Gypsy; died in 1995; dies.

Ref: 4

May Sarton, American poet, novelist and essayist, dies at age 83.

Ref: 5

Sir Stephen Harold Spender, English poet (Vienna, Edge of Darkness) and critic, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Sir Kingsley Amis, writer (The Crime of the Century, Lucky Jim), dies in London, England, at age 73. (also TWA, 1997)

Ref: 70

Terry Southern, American novelist and screenwriter, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Defying international appeals for clemency, Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa along with 8 other anti-government activists. (XDG, p 4A, 11/10/2000)

Ref: 83

Charles Scribner, Jr., American book publisher, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Jean Tardieu author, dies at 91.

Ref: 5

[William] Robertson Davies novelist essayist/dramatist, dies at age 82.

Ref: 5

Robertson Davies (author) dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Mary Madge Lascelles literary critic/poet, dies at 95.

Ref: 5

Lila Clark Knapp publisher, dies at 63.

Ref: 5

Ross Thomas author, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Jeremy John Beadle writer/broadcaster, dies at 39.

Ref: 5

1996

Roy McKelvie soldier/sports writer, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Harold Walter Bailey philologist, dies at 96.

Ref: 5

Hubert Nicholson poet/novelist, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Kaye Webb publisher, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Charles Henry Madge poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Giles William Playfair writer, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Peter Stadlen pianist/critic, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Efua Theodore Sutherland writer, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Norman MacCaig poet, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Harold Brodkey writer, dies of AIDS at age 65.

Ref: 5

Barbara Skelton writer, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Joseph Brodsky poet, dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Rosemary Tsay drama critic/SOE operator, dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya writer, dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Amelia Rosselli poet, dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Bob Shaw science fiction writer, dies of cancer at 64.

Ref: 5

Caroline Blackwood writer, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Michael Raptis writer/revolutionary, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Brian Daley writer, dies at 48.

Ref: 5

Jack Thieuloy writer, dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Horace Leonard Gold science fiction writer/editor, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Leo Malet writer, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Marguerite Duras, French novelist, screenwriter, playwright and director, dies at age 81.

Ref: 5

Barbara Lewis British obituarist, dies at 55.

Ref: 5

Peter Mansfield writer, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

John Anthony Bowden Cuddon writer/teacher, dies at 67

Ref: 5

Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis poet, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

William Hutchinson Murray mountaineer/author, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

Claude Mauriac, French novelist, journalist and critic, dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Thomas Wakefield writer, dies at 60

Ref: 5

Dario Bellezza poet, dies at 51.

Ref: 5

Author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Prizzi's Honor" Richard Condon dies at age 81. (TWA, 1997)

Ref: 95

Marthe Robert essayist/translator, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Nancy Sheehan writer, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

George Mackey Brown poet, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Madeleine Bourdouxhe writer, dies at 89.

Ref: 5

Eva Jones poet/novelist, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Christopher Robin Milne bookseller/son of writer A A Milne (Winnie the Pooh), dies at 75 in London England. (TWA, 1997)

Ref: 95

Homemaker humorist Erma Bombeck (Fiste) dies in San Francisco at age 69. (TWA, 1997)

Ref: 95

Pamela Lyndon Travers writer (Mary Poppins), dies at 96

Ref: 5

Stirling Silliphant screenwriter, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Jaime Garcia Terre poet/essayist, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Emile Habibi writer, dies at 73.

Ref: 5

Ai Qing poet, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Frank Hercules writer, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Malcolm MacEwen writer, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Qazaleh Alizadeh writer, dies at 48.

Ref: 5

Vera Chapman writer, dies at 98.

Ref: 5

Eric Davidson comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Rex Collings writer/publisher, dies at 70

Ref: 5

Joseph Mitchell writer, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Sidney Greenbaum grammarian, dies at 66.

Ref: 5

Colin Morris playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Pamela Mason (Ostrer) writer; actress: Charade, Navy vs. the Night Monsters; dies.

Ref: 5

John (William) Chancellor radio/TV newscaster, dies at age 68.

Ref: 4

Frances Lear magazine publisher: Lear’s; dies.

Ref: 4

Barbara Skelton writer, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

Eugene Izzi mystery writer, hangs himself at 43.

Ref: 5

Jose Donoso writer, dies at 72

Ref: 5

Marin Sorescu poet/dramatist, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

Vance Oakley Packard writer (Hidden Perseuders), dies at 82

Ref: 5

Cao Yu dramatist, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Quentin Bell artist author/teacher, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Roger Peacock writer, dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Margaret E Rey author of children's books, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Peter Dormer arts writer, dies at 47.

Ref: 5

Derek Prouse writer actor/director (Le Scandale), dies at 74.

Ref: 5

William Thomas Pennar Davies poet author/theologian, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

1997

Desmond Flower publisher, dies at 89.

Ref: 5

Phyllis Hartnoll writer/editor, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Elspeth Josceline Huxley writer, dies at 96.

Ref: 5

Helen Foster Snow writer, dies at 89.

Ref: 5

Jean Writer-Edern Hallier dies at 60.

Ref: 5

James (Lafayette) Dickey poet: The Firebombing; novelist: Deliverance, dies at age 73.

Ref: 4

Mollie Panter-Downes writer, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Jeremy Stephen Maas writer/art dealer, dies at 68.

Ref: 5

Cecil Lewis airman/writer, dies at 98.

Ref: 5

Louis Pauwels writer/editor, dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Osvaldo Soriano writer, dies at 54

Ref: 5

Mitchell Goodman writer, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Anthony Cuthbert Baines writer/curator, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Bohumil Hrabal writer, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Emily Hahn writer, dies at 91.

Ref: 5

Leo Rosten writer/humorist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88.

Ref: 5

Leo Rosten, writer, dies in New York City at age 88. (TWA, 1998)

Ref: 95

Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky writer/critic, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Terry Nation writer (Dr Who, Blake 7) at 66

Ref: 5

V.S. Pritchett author: novels, short stories, biographies, essays, criticism, dies at age 96.

Ref: 4

(Irwin) Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture guru who'd shattered conventions as poet laureate of the Beat Generation, died in New York City at age 70.

Ref: 70

Helene Hanff author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80.

Ref: 5

Michael Dorris writer, commits suicide at 52

Ref: 5

Ann Craft researcher/writer, dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Laurie Lee writer, dies at 42.

Ref: 5

John Sengstacke publisher (Defender), dies at 84

Ref: 5

"Naked Lunch" author William S. Burroughs, the godfather of the Beat generation, dies in Kansas City MO, at age 83.

Ref: 68

Writer Harold Robbins (Francis Kane) dies in Palm Springs, CA., at age 81.

Ref: 24

James A. Michener novelist: Tales of the South Pacific, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Journey, Hawaii, Iberia, Centennial, Mexico; dies in Austin, TX, at age 90.

Ref: 4

Cecil Lewis airman/writer, dies at 98.

Ref: 5

Daphne Fielding socialite/writer, dies at 93

Ref: 5

Martin Carter poet/critic, dies at 70.

Ref: 5

Denise Levertov poet: The Double Image, Relearning the Alphabet, Candles in Babylon, Breathing the Water, Light Up the Cave; dies at age 74.

Ref: 4

1998

Walter Edmonds writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93

Ref: 5

Jo Clayton author, (Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos), dies at 58

Ref: 5

Ernst Juenger German writer, dies at 102

Ref: 5

Mya Than Tint Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69.

Ref: 5

Carlos Castaneda, writer, mystic, recluse, dies in Los Angeles CA at age 72. (TWA, 1999)

Ref: 95

Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat and poet, dies at age 75.

Ref: 70

Eric Ambler, British mystery writer (The Dark Frontier, Uncommon Danger), dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

1999

Dame Iris Murdoch, British novelist (A Severed Head, The Black Prince), dies.

Ref: 70

Garson Kanin writer: A Gift of Time, Tracy & Hepburn; director: Adam's Rib, Pat & Mike, Tom, Dick & Harry; dies.

Ref: 4

Eugene Ionesco France, dramatist (Rhinoceros), dies.

Ref: 68

Horror king/author Stephen King was was run down from behind by a van while walking on the shoulder of a road near his house in Maine. Motorist Brian Smith apparently lost control of his Dodge Caravan (he said his dog distracted him). King suffered a collapsed lung, 2 fractures of his right leg below the knee, a broken right hip, a fractured pelvis, 2 broken ribs and a scalp laceration. Now, that’s a horror story!

Ref: 4

Clifton Fadiman, Brooklyn NY, American editor, anthologist, writer, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids), dies at age 95.

Ref: 70

Mario Puzo novelist: The Godfather, Fourth K.; screen playwright: The Godfather series, Earthquake, Superman: The Movie, Superman 2, The Cotton Club, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery; dies.

Ref: 4

Oct 09

Morris L West, Australian novelist, dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Joseph Heller writer: God Knows, Sex and the Single Girl, Dirty Dingus Magee, Catch-22; dies.

Ref: 4

Author of "Catch-22" Joseph Heller dies in his home in East Hampton NY at age 76.

Ref: 70

2000

"Joy of Sex" author Alex Comfort died in Oxfordshire, England, at age 80. (TWA, 2001)

Ref: 95

Ref: 4

Dame Barbara Cartland, romantic fiction author, dies. (TWA, 2001)

Ref: 95

Samuel A. (Albert) Taylor playwright: Sabrina [1954], Vertigo, Three on a Couch, Topaz, Sabrina [1995]; dies.

Ref: 4

Jeff MacNelly cartoonist: Shoe; dies of lymphoma.

Ref: 4

Oscar-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. died at age 85.

Ref: 70

2001

Spy adventure novelist Robert Ludlum died in Naples, Fla., at age 73.

Ref: 70

Douglas Adams author: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; dies.

Ref: 4

Billy Collins was named the 11th U.S. poet laureate.

Ref: 70

Mordecai Richler, satirical Canadian-Jewish writer, dies at age 70. (TWA, 2002)

Ref: 95

Katharine Graham, chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post Co, dies three days after suffering a head injury in Sun Valley, ID. She was 84.

Ref: 4

Movie critic Pauline Kael died at age 82.

Ref: 70

Author Ken Kesey ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") died in Eugene, Ore., at age 66.

Ref: 70

Author/actor Gardner McKay dies in Honolulu at age 69. (XDG, p 4A, 11/21/2002)

Ref: 83

"A Separate Peace" author, John Knowles, dies in Florida at age 75. (XDG, p 4A, 11/29/2002)

Ref: 83

William X. Kienzle author: The Rosary Murders, Body Count; dies.

Ref: 4

2002

"Pippi Longstocking" creator Astrid Lindren dies in Stockholm, Sweden at age 84. (XDG, p 4A, 1/28/2003)

Ref: 83

Walter Lord, author of "A Night To Remember", a minute-by-minute retelling of the "Titanic" tragedy, dies in New York at age 84. (XDG, p 4A, 5/19/2003)

Ref: 83

Paleontologist and author Stephen Jay Gould died in New York at age 60.

Ref: 70

William Pierce, a white supremacist whose book, The Turner Diaries, is believed to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, dies at age 68. (XDG, p 8A, 1/01/2003)

Ref: 83

Chaim Potok, rabbi turned author, dies in Merion PA at age 73. (TWA, 2003)

Ref: 95

Adolph Green, Tony Award-winning playwright: Applause, Hallelujah, On the Twentieth Century, Bells are Ringing, Auntie Mame, On the Town, The Barkleys of Broadway; lyricist: collaborated with Betty Comden: Singin’ in the Rain, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; dies.

Ref: 4

Edward L "Ned" Beach, the US Navy captain who wrote "Run Silent, Run Deep", dies in Washington DC at age 84. (XDG, p 4A, 12/01/2003)

Ref: 83

2003

Jean Kerr (Collins) author: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Finishing Touches; dies in White Plains NY at age 80.(also TWA, 2004)

Ref: 5

Paul Zindel writer: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; dies.

Ref: 4

George Axelrod playwright: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, The Manchurian Candidate; dies.

Ref: 4

Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus, dies at age 78.

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Children's book author and New Yorker illustrator, William Steig, dies in Boston at age 95. (WSJ, p A1, 10/06/2003)

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2004