01/01/year January 1, 1854, Birthday of Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist and writer.
01/02/year January 2, 1920, Birthday of Isaac Asimov, science fiction author.
01/03/year January 3, 1892, Birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy author.
01/04/year January 4, 1965, Death of T. S. Eliot, American poet and Nobel-prize winner.
01/05/year January 5, 1932, Birthday of Umberto Eco, Italian writer.
01/06/year January 6, 1878, Birthday of Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian.
01/07/year January 7, 1891, Birthday of Zora Neale Hurston, African-American author.
01/08/year January 8, 1824, Birthday of Wilkie Collins, British novelist.
01/09/year January 9, 1890, Birthday of Karel Čapek, Czech writer.
01/10/year January 10, 1986, Death of Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
01/11/year January 11, 1843, Death of Francis Scott Key, author of the American national anthem
01/12/year January 12, 1628, Birthday of Charles Perrault, French folklorist.
01/13/year January 13, 1941, Death of James Joyce, Irish writer.
01/14/year January 14, 1886, Birthday of Hugh Lofting, English author.
01/15/year January 15, 1891, Birthday of Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet.
01/16/year January 16, 1874, Birthday of Robert W. Service, Canadian poet.
01/17/year January 17, 1964, Death of T.H. White, English author.
01/18/year January 18, 1882, Birthday of A. A. Milne, English author.
01/19/year January 19, 1809, Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet.
01/20/year January 20, 1568, Death of Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator.
01/21/year January 21, 1950, Death of George Orwell, British writer.
01/22/year January 22, 1788, Birthday of George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet.
01/23/year January 23, 1888, Birthday of Leadbelly, American blues and folk musician.
01/24/year January 24, 1776, Birthday of E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer.
01/25/year January 25, 1759, Birthday of Robert Burns, Scottish poet.
01/26/year January 26, 1918, Birthday of Philip José Farmer, American writer.
01/27/year January 27, 1832, Birthday of Lewis Carroll, English author.
01/28/year January 28, 1939, Death of William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate.
01/29/year January 29, 1737, Birthday of Thomas Paine, American patriot.
01/30/year January 30, 1924, Birthday of Lloyd Alexander, American writer.
01/31/year January 31, 1935, Birthday of Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate.
02/01/year February 1, 1902, Birthday of Langston Hughes, American writer.
02/02/year February 2, 1905, Birthday of Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher.
02/03/year February 3, 1468, Death of Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher.
02/04/year February 4, 1921, Birthday of Betty Friedan, American feminist.
02/05/year February 5, 1941, Death of Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of"Walzing Matilda."
02/06/year February 6, 1945, Birthday Bob Marley, Jamaican musician.
02/07/year February 7, 1867, Birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author.
02/08/year February 8, 1828, Birthday of Jules Verne, French author.
02/09/year February 9, 1906, Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet.
02/10/year February 10, 1898, Birthday of Bertolt Brecht, German author.
02/11/year February 11, 1986, Death of Frank Herbert, American author.
02/12/year February 12, 1809, Birthday of Charles Darwin, English naturalist.
02/13/year February 13, 1769, Birthday of Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist.
02/14/year February 14, 1975, Death of P. G. Wodehouse, English writer.
02/15/year February 15, 1954, Birthday of Matt Groening, American cartoonist.
02/16/year February 16, 1992, Death of Angela Carter, English writer.
02/17/year February 17, 1818, Birthday of Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist.
02/18/year February 18, 1883, Birthday of Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author.
02/19/year February 19, 1952, Birthday of Amy Tan, American novelist.
02/20/year February 20, 1912, Birthday of Pierre Boulle, French author.
02/21/year February 21, 1677, Death of Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher.
02/22/year February 22, 1938, Birthday of Ishmael Reed, American writer.
02/23/year February 23, 1868, Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader.
02/24/year February 24, 1786, Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist.
02/25/year February 25, 1950, Birthday of Neil Jordan, Irish director.
02/26/year February 26, 1564, Birthday of Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist
02/27/year February 27, 1807, Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet.
02/28/year February 28, 1820, Birthday of John Tenniel, English illustrator.
02/29/year February 29, 1908, Birthday of Dee Brown, American writer.
03/01/year March 1, 1914, Birthday of Ralph Ellison, American writer.
03/02/year March 2, 1904, Birthday of Dr. Seuss, American author.
03/03/year March 3, 1983, Death of Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer.
03/04/year March 4, 1878, Birthday of Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher.
03/05/year March 5, 1853, Birthday of Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator.
03/06/year March 6, 1926, Birthday of Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director.
03/07/year March 7, 1975, Death of Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher.
03/08/year March 8, 1859, Birthday of Kenneth Grahame, English author.
03/09/year March 9, 1918, Birthday of Mickey Spillane, American writer.
03/10/year March 10, 1940, Death of Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer.
03/11/year March 11, 1952, Birthday of Douglas Adams, English writer.
03/12/year March 12, 1922, Birthday of Jack Kerouac, American writer.
03/13/year March 13, 1907, Birthday of Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer.
03/14/year March 14, 1883, Death of Karl Marx, German political theorist.
03/15/year March 15, 1852, Birthday of Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish dramatist.
03/16/year March 16, 1839, birth day of René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, first winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
03/17/year March 17, 1846, Birthday of Kate Greenaway, English children's author and illustrator.
03/18/year March 18, 1893, Birthday of Wilfred Owen, British poet.
03/19/year March 19, 1950, Death of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author.
03/20/year March 20, 43 BCE, Birthday of Ovid, Roman poet.
03/21/year March 21, 1763, Birthday of Jean Paul, German writer.
03/22/year March 22, 1941, Birthday of Billy Collins, American poet.
03/23/year March 23, 1910, Birthday of Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director.
03/24/year March 24, 1919, Birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher.
03/25/year March 25, 1925, Birthday of Flannery O'Connor, American author.
03/26/year March 26, 1904, Birthday of Joseph Campbell, American author.
03/27/year March 27, 2006, Death of Stanisław Lem, Polish writer.
03/28/year March 28, 1941, Death of Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer.
03/29/year March 29, 1788, Death of Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist.
03/30/year March 30, 1135, Birthday of Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher.
03/31/year March 31, 1914, Birthday of Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate.
04/01/year April 1, 1929, Birthday of Milan Kundera, Czech-born writer.
04/02/year April 2, 1805, Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer.
04/03/year April 3, 1783, Birthday of Washington Irving, American author.
04/04/year April 4, 1928, Birthday of Maya Angelou, American writer.
04/05/year April 5, 1997, Death of Allen Ginsberg, American poet.
04/06/year April 6, 1826, Birthday of Gustave Moreau, French painter.
04/07/year April 7, 1770, Birthday of William Wordsworth, English poet.
04/08/year April 8, 1937, Birthday of Seymour Hersh, American journalist.
04/09/year April 9, 1928, Birthday of Tom Lehrer, American musician and mathematician.
04/10/year April 10, 1937, Birthday of Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet.
04/11/year April 11, 1722, Birthday of Christopher Smart, English poet.
04/12/year April 12, 1916, Birthday of Beverly Cleary, American writer.
04/13/year April 13, 1939, Birthday of Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate.
04/14/year April 14, 1935, Birthday of Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer.
04/15/year April 15, 1452, Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, writer and scientist.
04/16/year April 16, 1689, Birthday of Aphra Behn, English writer.
04/17/year April 17, 1897, Birthday of Thornton Wilder, American dramatist.
04/18/year April 18, 1945, Death of Ernie Pyle, American journalist.
04/19/year April 19, 1989, Death of Daphne du Maurier, British novelist.
04/20/year April 20, 1912, Death of Bram Stoker, Irish author.
04/21/year April 21, 1816, Birthday of Charlotte Brontë, English author.
04/22/year April 22, 1899, Birthday of Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer.
04/23/year April 23, 1616, Death of William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright.
04/24/year April 24, 1731, Death of Daniel Defoe, English writer.
04/25/year April 25, 1908, Birthday of Edward R. Murrow, American journalist.
04/26/year April 26, 121, Birthday of Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor.
04/27/year April 27, 1759, Birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft, English author.
04/28/year April 28, 1926, Birthday of Harper Lee, American author.
04/29/year April 29, 1863, Birthday of Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet.
04/30/year April 30, 1883, Birthday of Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist.
05/01/year May 1, 1923, Birthday of Joseph Heller, American novelist.
05/02/year May 2, 1860, Birthday of Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and Zionist.
05/03/year May 3, 1919, Birthday of Pete Seeger, American singer.
05/04/year May 4, 1939, Birthday of Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist.
05/05/year May 5, 1865, Birthday of Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer.
05/06/year May 6, 1856, Birthday of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist.
05/07/year May 7, 1861, Birthday of Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer, Nobel laureate.
05/08/year May 8, 1930, Birthday of Gary Snyder, American poet.
05/09/year May 9, 1860, Birthday of J. M. Barrie, Scottish author.
05/10/year May 10, 1999, Death of Shel Silverstein, American poet.
05/11/year May 11, 2001, Death of Douglas Adams, English author.
05/12/year May 12, 1812, Birthday of Edward Lear, English author and poet.
05/13/year May 13, 2001, Death of R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist.
05/14/year May 14, 1265, Birthday of Dante Alighieri, Italian poet.
05/15/year May 15, 1856, Birthday of L. Frank Baum, American author.
05/16/year May 16, 1912, Birthday of Studs Terkel, American writer.
05/17/year May 17, 1961, Birthday of Enya, Irish singer and songwriter.
05/18/year May 18, 1048, Birthday of Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher.
05/19/year May 19, 1925, Birthday of Malcolm X, American civil rights activist.
05/20/year May 20, 1799, Birthday of Honoré de Balzac, French novelist.
05/21/year May 21, 1688, Birthday of Alexander Pope, English poet.
05/22/year May 22, 1859, Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor Sherlock Holmes.
05/23/year May 23, 1891, Birthday of Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate.
05/24/year May 24, 1941, Birthday of Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter.
05/25/year May 25, 1803, Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher.
05/26/year May 26, 1799, Birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author.
05/27/year May 27, 1819, Birthday of Julia Ward Howe, American composer.
05/28/year May 28, 1908, Birthday of Ian Fleming, English author.
05/29/year May 29, 1906, Birthday of T.H. White, British author.
05/30/year May 30, 1903, Birthday of Countee Cullen, American writer.
05/31/year May 31, 1819, Birthday of Walt Whitman, American poet.
08/08/year August 8, 1896 - Birthday of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author.
08/09/year August 9, 1631 - Birthday of John Dryden, English Poet Laureate.
08/10/year August 10, 1912 - Birthday of Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist.
08/11/year August 11, 1921 - Birthday of Alex Haley, American historian and author.
08/12/year August 12, 1866 - Birthday of Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate.
08/13/year August 13, 1946 - Death of H. G. Wells, English writer.
08/14/year August 14, 1926 - Birthday of René Goscinny, French comic-strip author.
08/15/year August 15, 1771 - Birthday of Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet.
08/16/year August 16, 1920 - Birthday of Charles Bukowski, American poet.
08/17/year August 17, 1932 - Birthday of V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate.
08/18/year August 18, 1414 - Birthday of Jami, Persian poet.
08/19/year August 19, 1902 - Birthday of Ogden Nash, American poet.
08/20/year August 20, 1901 - Birthday of Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
08/21/year August 21, 1872 - Birthday of Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator.
08/22/year August 22, 1893 - Birthday of Dorothy Parker, American writer.
08/23/year August 23, 1869 - Birthday of Edgar Lee Masters, American author.
08/24/year August 24, 1899 - Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer.
08/25/year August 25, 1913 - Birthday of Walt Kelly, American cartoonist.
08/26/year August 26, 1914 - Birthday of Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer.
08/27/year August 27, 1969 - Death of Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist.
08/28/year August 28, 1749 - Birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer.
08/29/year August 29, 1976 - Death of Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet and philosopher.
08/30/year August 30, 1797 - Birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer.
08/31/year August 31, 1867 - Death of Charles Baudelaire, French poet.
09/01/year September 1, 1875 - Birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer.
09/02/yearSeptember 2, 1973 - Death of J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer.
09/03/yearSeptember 3, 1883 - Death of Ivan Turgenev, Russian author.
09/04/yearSeptember 4, 1908 - Birthday of Richard Wright, American writer.
09/05/yearSeptember 5, 1905 - Birth of Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer.
09/06/yearSeptember 6, 1928 - Birthday of Robert M. Pirsig, American author.
09/07/yearSeptember 7, 1962 - Death of Isak Dinesen, Danish author.
09/08/yearSeptember 8, 1474 - Birth of Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet.
09/09/yearSeptember 9, 1828 - Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist.
09/10/yearSeptember 10, 1890 - Birthday of Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist.
09/11/yearSeptember 11, 1885 - Birthday of D.H. Lawrence, English novelist.
09/12/yearSeptember 12, 1921 - Birthday of Stanisław Lem, Polish writer.
09/13/yearSeptember 13, 1321 - Death of Dante Alighieri, Italian poet.
09/14/yearSeptember 14, 1982 - Death of John Gardner, American novelist.
09/15/yearSeptember 15, 1254 - Birthday of Marco Polo, Italian explorer and writer.
09/16/yearSeptember 16, 1672 - Death of Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet.
09/17/yearSeptember 17, 1580 - Birthday of Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer.
09/18/yearSeptember 18, 1939 - Death of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter.
09/19/yearSeptember 19, 1985 - Death of Italo Calvino, Italian writer.
09/20/yearSeptember 20, 1971 - Death of Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate.
09/21/yearSeptember 21, 1947 - Birthday of Stephen King, American author.
09/22/yearSeptember 22, 1989 - Death of Irving Berlin, American songwriter.
09/23/yearSeptember 23, 1889 - Death of Wilkie Collins, British author.
09/24/yearSeptember 24, 1991 - Death of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, American children's writer.
09/25/yearSeptember 25, 1881 - Birthday of Lu Xun, Chinese writer.
09/26/yearSeptember 26, 1947 - Death of Hugh Lofting, British writer.
09/27/yearSeptember 27, 1871 - Birthday of Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate.
09/28/yearSeptember 28, 551 BC - Birthday of Confucius, Chinese philosopher.
09/29/yearSeptember 29, 1547 - Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author.
09/30/yearSeptember 30, 1207 - Birthday of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet.
10/01/year October 1, 1985 - Death of E. B. White, American author.
10/02/yearOctober 2, 2005 - Death of August Wilson, American playwright.
10/03/yearOctober 3, 1925 - Birthday of Gore Vidal, American author.
10/04/yearOctober 4, 1582 - Death of Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint and religious writer.
10/05/yearOctober 5, 1713 - Birthday of Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist.
10/06/yearOctober 6, 1536 - Execution of William Tyndale, English Bible translator.
10/07/yearOctober 7, 1849 - Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer.
10/08/yearOctober 8, 1920 - Birthday of Frank Herbert, American writer.
10/09/yearOctober 9, 1906 - Birthday of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician.
10/10/yearOctober 10, 1930 - Death of Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate.
10/11/yearOctober 11, 1926 - Birthday of Thich Nhat Hanh, religious leader and writer.
10/12/yearOctober 12, 1924 - Death of Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate.
10/13/year October 13, 1902 - Birthday of Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer.
10/14/yearOctober 14, 1894 - Birthday of E. E. Cummings, American poet.
10/15/yearOctober 15, 1881 - Birthday of P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist.
10/16/yearOctober 16, 1854 - Birthday of Oscar Wilde, Irish writer.
10/17/yearOctober 17, 2005 - Death of Ba Jin, Chinese writer.
10/18/yearOctober 18, 1948 - Birthday of Ntozake Shange, American author.
10/19/yearOctober 19, 1899 - Birthday of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
10/20/yearOctober 20, 1854 - Birthday of Arthur Rimbaud, French poet.
10/21/yearOctober 21, 1969 - Death of Jack Kerouac, American novelist.
10/22/yearOctober 22, 1919 - Birthday of Doris Lessing, British writer.
10/23/yearOctober 23, 1939 - Death of Zane Grey, American author.
10/24/yearOctober 24, 1915 - Birthday of Bob Kane, American cartoonist.
10/25/yearOctober 25, 1400 - Death of Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet.
10/26/yearOctober 26, 1890 - Death of Carlo Collodi, Italian writer.
10/27/yearOctober 27, 1466 - Birthday of Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian.
10/28/yearOctober 28, 1914 - Birthday of Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nobel laureate.
10/29/yearOctober 29, 1949 - Death of G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic and spiritual writer.
10/30/yearOctober 30, 1821 - Birthday of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer.
10/31/yearOctober 31, 1987 - Death of Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology.
11/01/yearNovember 1, 1972 - Death of Ezra Pound, American poet.
11/02/yearNovember 2, 1950 - Death of George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
11/03/yearNovember 3, 39 - Birthday of Lucan, Roman poet.
11/04/yearNovember 4, 1918 - Death of Wilfred Owen, English poet.
11/05/yearNovember 5, 1979 - Death of Al Capp, American cartoonist.
11/06/yearNovember 6, 1921 - Birthday of James Jones, American writer.
11/07/year November 7, 1913 - Birthday of Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
11/08/yearNovember 8, 1847 - Birthday of Bram Stoker, Irish novelist.
11/09/yearNovember 9, 1911 - Death of Howard Pyle, American author.
11/10/yearNovember 10, 1960 - Birthday of Neil Gaiman, English writer.
11/11/yearNovember 11, 1922 - Birthday of Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist.
11/12/yearNovember 12, 1929 - Birthday of Michael Ende, German writer.
11/13/yearNovember 13, 2005 - Death of Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author and activist.
11/14/yearNovember 14, 1878 - Birthday of Leopold Staff, Polish poet.
11/15/yearNovember 15, 1511 - Birthday of Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet.
11/16/yearNovember 16, 1880 - Birthday of Alexander Blok, Russian poet.
11/17/yearNovember 17, 1968 - Death of Mervyn Peake, British writer.
11/18/year November 18, 1836 - Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, British dramatist.
11/19/yearNovember 19, 1492 - Death of Jami, Persian poet.
11/20/year November 20, 1900 - Birthday of Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy comic strips.
11/21/yearNovember 21, 1694 - Birthday of Voltaire, French philosopher and writer.
11/22/yearNovember 22, 1916 - Death of Jack London, American writer.
11/23/yearNovember 23, 1990 - Death of Roald Dahl, British author.
11/24/yearNovember 24, 1927 - Birthday of Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer.
11/25/year November 25, 1970 - Death of Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer.
11/26/yearNovember 26, 1855 - Death of Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet.
11/27/yearNovember 27, 8 BC - Death of Horace, Roman poet.
11/28/yearNovember 28, 1757 - Birthday of William Blake, British poet.
11/29/yearNovember 29, 1898 - Birthday of C. S. Lewis, Irish writer.
11/30/yearNovember 30, 1667 - Birthday of Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist.
12/01/yearDecember 1, 1987 - Death of James Baldwin, American writer.
12/02/yearDecember 2, 1814 - Death of Marquis de Sade, French writer.
12/03/yearDecember 3, 1894 - Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer.
12/04/yearDecember 4, 1123 - Death of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet and philosopher.
12/05/yearDecember 5, 1870 - Death of Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer.
12/06/year December 6, 1896 - Birthday of Ira Gershwin, American lyricist.
12/07/year December 7, 1985 - Death of Robert Graves, British author.
12/08/yearDecember 8, 1848 - Birthday of Joel Chandler Harris, American author and folklorist.
12/09/yearDecember 9, 1608 - Birthday of John Milton, English poet.
12/10/yearDecember 10, 1830 - Birthday of Emily Dickinson, American poet.
12/11/yearDecember 11, 1911 - Birthday of Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate.
12/12/yearDecember 12, 2002 - Death of Dee Brown, American author.
12/13/yearDecember 13, 1204 - Birthday of Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher.
12/14/yearDecember 14, 1591 - Death of Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet.
12/15/yearDecember 15, 1683 - Death of Izaak Walton, English writer.
12/16/yearDecember 16, 1775 - Birthday of Jane Austen, British writer.
12/17/yearDecember 17, 1807 - Birthday of John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist.
12/18/yearDecember 18, 1707 - Birthday of Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist.
12/19/yearDecember 19, 1848 - Death of Emily Brontë, British author.
12/20/yearDecember 20, 1968 - Death of John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
12/21/yearDecember 21, 1375 - Death of Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer.
12/22/yearDecember 22, 1943 - Death of Beatrix Potter, English writer.
12/23/yearDecember 23, 1926 - Birthday of Robert Bly, American poet.
12/24/year December 24, 1881 - Birthday of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
12/25/year December 25, 1890 - Birthday of Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts.
12/26/yearDecember 26, 1931 - Death of Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification.
12/27/year December 27, 1938 - Birthday of Mirza Ghalib, Urdu poet.
12/28/yearDecember 28, 1922 - Birthday of Stan Lee, American comic book writer.
12/29/yearDecember 29, 1926 - Death of Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer.
12/30/yearDecember 30, 1865 - Birthday of Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
12/31/yearDecember 31, 1384 - Death of John Wycliffe, English theologian and Bible translator.