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

Jul 11

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

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1562

Nov 25

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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Feb 26

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

Oct 22

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

Jun 11

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

Nov 07

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

Dec 20

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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Jun 10

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

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1581

Jun 18

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

Jun 11

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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Aug 24

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

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1592

Apr 14

Abraham Elsevier book publisher/publisher, is born.

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May 08

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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May 30

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

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Aug 09

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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Nov 29

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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Jun 24

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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Jun 06

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

Sep 15

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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Oct 31

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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Jul 08

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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Aug 09

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

Feb 23

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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Aug 27

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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Apr 16

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

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1651

Nov 12

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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Sep 07

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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Sep 22

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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Nov 12

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

Jan 24

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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Nov 30

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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May 08

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

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Nov 11

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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Jan 24

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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Sep 16

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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Dec 28

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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Mar 30

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

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Jun 20

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

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Oct 15

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

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Nov 08

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

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1675

Jun 01

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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Sep 25

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

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1681

May 25

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

Ref: 68

1682

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

Ref: 4

1683

Jul 03

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.

Ref: 68

1684

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

Ref: 5

Oct 01

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

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

Ref: 5

1685

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

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Apr 14

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

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Jun 30

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

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Sep 16

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

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1686

Oct 15

Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, is born.

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1687

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

Ref: 5

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

Oct 12

Matsuo Basho greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies.

Ref: 5

1695

Johann C Günther writer, is born.

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Jean de La Fontaine poet, dies.

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Apr 14

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

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

Ref: 5

1696

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

Ref: 70

Jean de La Bruyère French author, dies at 50.

Ref: 5

1697

Richard Savage poet, is born.

Ref: 68

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

Ref: 5

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.

Ref: 5

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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Sep 11

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.

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 70

Charles Perrault, the original Mother Goose, dies.

Ref: 62

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

Ref: 70

Jul 29

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.

Ref: 2

1706

Feb 27

John Evelyn diarist, dies.

Ref: 5

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.

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

George Farquhar, English dramatist, dies.

Ref: 68

Sep 07

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.

Ref: 5

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

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1709

Sep 18

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.

Ref: 5

1710

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

Ref: 5

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.

Ref: 5

1713

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Oct 05

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

Ref: 5

Nov 24

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

Ref: 5

1714

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

Ref: 5

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.

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

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.

Ref: 4

1717

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

Ref: 70

Sep 24

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

Ref: 2

1719

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

Ref: 5

Jun 17

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.

Ref: 2

Dec 25

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

Ref: 5

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.

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

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.

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Eggert Olafsson Icelandic writer, is born.

Ref: 5

1727

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

Ref: 5

1728

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Feb 29

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

Ref: 5

Mar 08

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Francisco Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright, is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 10

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

Nov 26

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

Jan 24

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

Oct 29

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

Aug 01

Richard Savage poet, dies.

Ref: 68

1744

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

Ref: 70

May 30

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

Ref: 5

Richard Edgeworth writer, Bath, is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 26

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

Oct 29

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

Aug 28

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

Jul 28

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

Jan 02

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Jun 13

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

Ref: 5

Nov 20

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

Jul 24

John Dyer, poet, dies.

Ref: 62

Oct 16

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

Nov 10

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

Oct 01

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

May 13

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

Mar 21

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

Jul 09

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

Jul 30

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

Ref: 70

Thomas Gray, English poet, dies.

Ref: 2

Aug 15

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

Oct 21

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

May 07

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

Jul 27

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

Ref: 2

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

Ref: 5

Dec 02

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

Jul 15

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

Ref: 4

Nov 14

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

Aug 17

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

Nov 29

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

Oct 11

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

Sep 26

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

Dec 07

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

Aug 15

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

Dec 28

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

Mar 29

Charles Wesley hymn writer, dies.

Ref: 5

Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch poet, dies 46.

Ref: 5

Friedrich Rückert poet, is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 22

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

Sep 01

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

Ref: 2

Sep 07

James Fenimore Cooper is born in Burlington, NJ.

Ref: 62

Sep 15

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

Oct 21

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

Jun 09

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

Ref: 5

Sep 01

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

Ref: 5

Oct 01

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

Nov 13

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

Jul 13

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

May 19

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

Ref: 4

May 19

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

Ref: 4

Jun 26

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

Ref: 5

Oct 29

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

Ref: 4

Oct 31

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

Jul 21

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

Aug 30

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

Ref: 5

Sep 10

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

Jun 04

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

Ref: 70

Jun 29

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

Ref: 70

Jul 13

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

Jun 06

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

Ref: 68

1800

Apr 16

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

Oct 25

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

Aug 11

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

Feb 26

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

Jun 12

Harriet Martineau, English essayist and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 10

Robert Chambers, Scottish author and publisher, is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 24

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

Aug 14

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

Ref: 5

Nov 09

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

May 25

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

Ref: 5

Sep 28

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

Jul 01

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

Oct 23

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

Ref: 2

Dec 27

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

Feb 27

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

Aug 29

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

Ref: 5

Oct 06

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

May 29

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

Jun 17

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Aug 31

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

May 07

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

Jun 18

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

Sep 13

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

Jun 08

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

Ref: 5

Oct 03

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

Ref: 5

Dec 02

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

Jul 20

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

Ref: 70

Aug 01

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

Ref: 70

Aug 29

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

Ref: 5

Dec 20

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

Ref: 5

1816

Mar 21

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

Jul 07

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

Jul 12

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

Oct 13

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

Oct 23

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

Jul 11

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

Ref: 5

Jul 30

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 2

Oct 28

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

Ref: 5

Nov 09

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

Mar 23

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

Aug 01

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

Ref: 5

Nov 22

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

Dec 30

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

Mar 30

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

May 04

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Jun 04

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

Sep 26

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

Ref: 5

Nov 12

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

Feb 23

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

Mar 23

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

Oct 11

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

Nov 11

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

Mar 13

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

Jul 08

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

Aug 11

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

Ref: 5

Sep 16

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

Ref: 5

Oct 20

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

Jul 27

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

Ref: 4

Sep 04

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

Ref: 5

Sep 28

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

Nov 24

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

May 07

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

Sep 18

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

Aug 28

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

Ref: 2

Sep 09

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

Jun 12

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

Ref: 5

Sep 12

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

Ref: 2

Dec 27

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

Ref: 2

1830

Jan 02

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

May 25

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

Ref: 5

Jun 18

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

Mar 29

Amelia Barr writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Oct 15

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

Sep 21

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

Ref: 70

Nov 29

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

Sep 20

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

Jul 25

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

Ref: 68

Oct 10

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

Dec 27

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

Feb 27

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

May 30

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

Ref: 5

Nov 30

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

Jul 15

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

Ref: 2

Aug 25

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

Ref: 5

Nov 11

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

Nov 07

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

Jul 20

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

Aug 25

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

Sep 10

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

Ref: 4

Nov 06

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

Ref: 5

Nov 16

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

May 13

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

Ref: 5

Jun 02

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

Ref: 5

Aug 17

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

Jun 06

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

Ref: 70

Jun 24

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

Ref: 68

Jul 24

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

Ref: 5

Sep 24

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

Aug 11

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

Ref: 17

Oct 25

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

Mar 30

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Jul 28

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

Ref: 5

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

Ref: 5

Oct 12

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

Ref: 5

Oct 23

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

Jul 11

Leon Bloy, French writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Aug 14

Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.

Ref: 5

Sep 12

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

Ref: 62

Sep 19

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

Sep 06

Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves back into town, to Concord, Massachusetts.

Ref: 2

Oct 21

Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian dramatist, is born.

Ref: 70

Nov 02

George Sorel French Socialist thinker, writer (violent revolutions), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 08

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

Aug 14

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.

Jul 22

Emma Lazarus poet ("The New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty), is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 29

Max Nordau, Hungarian-French physician, writer, and Jewish nationalist, is born.

Ref: 70

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

Ref: 17

Aug 23

William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic and editor, is born.

Ref: 70

Sep 03

Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs), is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 21

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

Nov 24

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

Aug 05

Stockbridge, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne meets Herman Melville at a picnic.

Aug 05

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

Aug 18

Honore de Balzac, French novelist (The Human Comedy, Lost Illusions), dies at age 51.

Ref: 70

Aug 27

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

Sep 09

Harishchandra India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi, is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 13

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

Sep 14

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

Jul 25

David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright, is born.

Ref: 70

Sep 17

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

Aug 09

Henry David Thoreau published "Walden," which described his experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

Ref: 5

Oct 16

Playwrite (Picture of Dorian Gray) Oscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) Wilde is born in Dublin Ireland.

Ref: 70

Oct 20

Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Oct 20

Arthur Rimbaud France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 25

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

Aug 03

Henry Cuyler Bunner, English poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Dec 30

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

Jun 19

Elbert Hubbard US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia), is born.

Ref: 68

Jun 22

H. Rider Haggard, English novelist, author of "King Solomon's Mines", is born.

Ref: 62

Sep 28

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

Mar 21

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

Nov 22

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

May 08

John Meade Falkner novelist (Moonfleet), is born.

Ref: 5

May 11

Carl Hauptmann writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 20

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

Oct 04

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

Mar 08

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

Jun 22

Frank Heino Damrosch author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music), is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 17

Ernest Rhys, English editor, is born.

Ref: 70

Charles Comiskey first basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 28

(James Henry) Leigh Hunt, English essayist, critic, journalist and poet, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Oct 04

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

Jul 03

Charlotte Gilman American writer and women's rights advocate, is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 07

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

Sep 14

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

Jan 02

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

Jun 29

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

Nov 06

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

Sep 11

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) author: short stories: Gift of the Magi; is born.

Ref: 4

Oct 04

Edward Stratemeyer, author, creator of the Hardy Boys, Rover Boys, Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins, is born.

Ref: 2

Nov 04

Eden Phillpotts England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 13

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, English traveler and writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Dec 07

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

Jun 10

Louis Marie Anne Couperus, Dutch novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Jun 13

Samuel Butler publishes first part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ.

Ref: 5

Jul 10

Clement Clarke Moore poet, author: ’Twas the Night before Christmas [A Visit from St. Nicholas]; dies at age 83.

Ref: 4

Sep 17

Alfred V Comte de Vigny French poet/musketeer/writer (Moïse, Chatterton), dies at age 66.

Ref: 4

Sep 20

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

Nov 21

Arthur Quiller-Couch editor (Oxford Book of English Verse), is born.

Ref: 5

Oliver Herford, American humorist and poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Dec 07

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

May 19

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

Aug 03

(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

Jun 10

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

Jul 06

(Helen) Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, born

Ref: 68

Jul 28

Beatrix Potter, children's author (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), is born.

Ref: 2

Sep 21

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

Aug 02

Ernest Dowson, British poet, is born.

Ref: 70

Edith Hamilton US, writer (Mythology), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 31

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet, translator and literary critic, dies at age 46.

Ref: 70

Oct 06

George Horace Lorimer, American editor of the Saturday Evening Post, is born.

Ref: 70

Oct 14

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

Dec 25

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

Jun 21

Jose Graca Aranha, Brazilian novelist and diplomat

Ref: 70

Jul 12

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

Aug 23

Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist, is born.

Ref: 70

Oct 12

Charles Sumner Greene, architect, is born.

Ref: 2

Dec 02

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

Jul 08

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

Jun 09

Charles Dickens novelist: David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist; dies near Rochester, Kent at age 58.

Ref: 68

Jul 27

Hilaire Belloc, French writer (Cautionary Tales), is born.

Ref: 2

Sep 05

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

Nov 18

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

Dec 20

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

Apr 16

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

May 04

Mynona writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Ch Morgenstern writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Franiska zu Reventlow writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 17

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

Jul 03

William Henry Davies, Welsh poet, is born.

Ref: 2

Jul 10

Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), is born.

Ref: 2

Aug 27

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.

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Ion Heliade-Radulescu Romanian politician/author, dies at 70.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Dayton Oh, short story writer (Majors & Minors), is born.

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Aug 24

Sir Max Beerbohm England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review), is born.

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John Cowper Powys British writer (Wood & Stone), is born.

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Oct 27

Emily Post (Price) etiquette authority: author: syndicated newspaper columnist; is born.

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J C Powys writer, is born.

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Albert Payson Terhune, US novelist, is born.

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Albert P Terhune US, novelist (Lad, a Dog), is born.

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Dec 28

Pio Baroja Y Nessa San Sebastian Spain, writer (Camino de Perfeccion), is born.

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Aleksis Kivi [Stenvall] Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38.

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Mariano Azuela Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses), is born.

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Charles Pierre Péguy, Orléans France, Catholic writer (God Speaks), is born.

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Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Rädi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator, is born.

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Joaquín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish dramatist/playwright (Los Galeotes), is born.

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Hans E Blaich writer, is born.

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Johannes Jenson, Danish novelist/essayist, is born.

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Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette), French novelist known for her fictional romances built around an autobiographical character, Claudine, is born.

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Hayyim Nahman Bialik Rädi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator, is born.

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Feodor Chaliapine Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life), is born.

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Jón Trausti [Gudmundur Magnússon], Icelandic writer (Heidarbylid), is born.

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Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies.

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Muhammad Iqbal Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher, is born.

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Jakob Wassermann Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew), is born.

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Howard Garis, American creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories, is born.

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Walther de la Mare, poet and novelist (Memoir of a Midget, Come Hither), is born.

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Otto zur Linde German author (Charon), is born.

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[Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark), is born.

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Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist, is born.

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Henri Barbusse Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu), is born.

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