Chronography of Literature
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17 April 2017, Columbian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner,
died aged 87.
27 January 2010, J D
Salinger, reclusive author of �Catcher
in the Rye�, died aged 91.
3 August 2008, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, writer,
died, aged 90.
20 July 2008, Roger
Wolcott Hall, US author, died (born 20 May 1919).
18 March 2008, Sir Arthur C Clarke,
science fiction writer, died aged 90.
10 November 2007, US author Norman Mailer died aged 81.
12 April 2007, Writer Kurt
Vonnegut died aged 84.
7 January 2007, Magnus
Magnusson, author, died (born 12 October 1927).
Harry Potter books and films
7 July 2011, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Part 2, 8th� film adaptation
of the JK Rowling book series, premiered.
19 November 2010, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Part 1, 7th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series,
premiered.
15 July 2009, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince, 6th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered.
11 July 2007, Harry Potter and the order of
the Phoenix, 5th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered.
6 November 2005, Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire, 4th film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered in
London. It became the most successful film of the year, earning almost US$ 900
million.
16 July 2005, The book Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince was released. Nine million copies were sold in the first
24 hours. The first Harry Potter
book was released in 1997.
31 May 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban, 3rd film adaptation of the JK Rowling book series, premiered in UK
cinemas.
14 November 2002, Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets, film version of the JK Rowling book, premiered.
16 November 2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer�s
Stone, US film version of the book, premiered.
4 November 2001, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher�s Stone, the first film adaptation of the book, premiered in
London (see 16 November 2001)
26 June 1997, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher�s Stone was published. It rapidly gained popularity through
word of mouth, and enabled JK Rowling to break publishing records.
10 November 2006, Jack
Williamson, science fiction writer, died (born 29 April 1908)
29 October 2006, Nigel
Kneale, writer, died (born 18 April 1922)
21 October 2006, John
Symonds, novelist, died (born 12 March 1914)
17 October 2006, Ursula
Moray Williams, children�s writer, died (born 19 April 1911)
30 August 2006, Naguib
Mahfouz, novelist, died (died 11 December 1911)
17 July 2006, Frank
Morison Spillane, author, died (born 9 March 1918)
27 March 2006, Stanislaw
Lem, author, died (born 12 September 1921)
13 March 2006, Ivy
Wallace, author, died (born 7 October 1915).
3 March 2006, Ivor
Cutler, poet, died (born 15 January 1923)
17 February 2006, Sybille
Bedford, writer, died (born 16 March 1911).
11 February 2006, Peter
Benchley, author of Jaws,
died (born 8 May 1940)
5 November 2005, John
Fowles, author, died (born 31 March 1926).
2 November 2005, Alfred
Shaughnessy, scriptwriter, died (born 19 May 1916).
1 November 2005, Michael
Thwaites, poet, died (born 30 May 1915)
5 October 2005, Maura
Murphy, author, died (born 6 September 1928)
15 July 2005, Professor
David Daiches, author and literary critic, died (born 2 September 1912)
28 June 2005, Professor
Philip Hobsbaum, poet and writer, died (born 29 June 1932)
10 June 2005, Nick
Darke, playwright, died (born 29 August 1948)
6 April 2005, US
novelist Saul
Bellow died, aged 89.
11 March 2005, Jean
Cherry Drummond, writer, died (born 17 December 1928).
7 March 2005, Willis
Hall, playwright, died (born 6 April 1929).
19 January 2005, K
Sello Duiker, South African novelist, died (born 1974).
15 January 2005, Walter
Ernsting, author, died.
24 November 2004, Arthur
Hailey, writer, died.
26 April 2004, Hubert
Selby Jr., writer, died.
27 March 2003, Paul
Zindel, writer, died.
6 November 2001, Anthony
Shaffer, English dramatist died aged 75.
11 May 2001, Douglas
Adams, author, died.
11 March 2001, Douglas
Adams, British author famous for his book The Hitchhiker�s Guide to
the Galaxy, died of heart disease (born 11 March 1952)
11 January 2001, Writer Lorna
Sage died.
12 December 1999, Joseph
Heller, author, died.
8 February 1999, Iris
Murdoch, author, died.
28 October 1998, Ted
Hughes, Poet Laureate since 1984, died.
12 May 1998, Hermann Lenz,
German writer, died aged 75.
27 April 1998, Carlos
Castaneda, writer, died.
19 April 1998, Octavio
Paz, writer, died.
15 March 1998, Benjamin
Spock, author and paediatrician, died.
2 August 1997, US writer William Burroughs died.
5 April 1997, Allen Ginsberg, poet, died.
28 January 1996, Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet, died.
2 November 1995, Canadian novelist Robertson Davies died.
22 October 1995, Kingsley Amis, British author, died.
23 February 1995, James Herriot, writer, died.
9 January 1995, Peter Cook, writer, was born.
24 December 1994, British playwright John Osborne died.
16 December 1994, Mary Durack, poet, died.
24 September 1994, French novelist Francoise Sagan died.
6 February 1994, Joseph Cotton, author, died.
21 December 1993, Guy des Cars, French novelist died (born 1911)
25 November 1993, English
author and composer Anthony Burgess died, aged 76.
28 August 1993, William
Stafford, writer, died.
12 June 1993, Sarah Peralta,
US author, died.
9 May 1993, Freya Stark,
author, died.
21 January 1993, Abe Kobo,
Japanese
writer, died (born 7 March 1924).
18 January 1993, Eleanor Hibbert,
English writer, died (born 1 September 1906).
13 August 1992, Jan Elburg,
poet, died.
11 April 1992, Eve Merriam,
US poet, died (born 19 July 1916).
6 April 1992, Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer, born 2 January 1920, died.
29 February 1992, Ruth Pitter,
English poet (born 7 November 1897) died.
11 December 1991, Artur Lundkvist,
Swedish
writer (born 3 March 1906) died.
29 October 1991, Donald
Churchill, playwright, died of a heart attack aged 60
7 December 1990, Reinaldo Arenas,
Cuban poet and novelist, died aged 47.
23 November 1990, Roald Dahl,
British writer, died (born 13 September 1916)
30 September 1990,
Australian novelist Patrick White died.
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15 September 1989, US writer Robert Penn
Warren, born 24 April 1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky, died in Stratton,
Vermont.
19 April 1989, Daphne du
Maurier, writer,
died.
16 April 1989, Tawfieq Yusuf
Awwaad, Lebanese writer, died.
8 June 1988, British
writer Russell
Harty died.
8 May 1988, Robert A
Heinlein, writer, died.
3 October 1987, French
playwright Jean
Anouilh died.
23 September 1987, The book, Spycatcher,
memoirs of former British intelligence officer Peter Wright, was to be published in Australia despite opposition by Britain�s
MI5.
20 September 1987, Michael Stewart, US
playwright, died aged 63.
11 April 1987, Primo Levi, Italian Jewish
writer, died aged 67.
2 February 1987, Alistair MacLean, novelist, died.
4 January 1986, Christopher Isherwood, writer, was born.
7 December 1985, Robert Graves, writer and poet, died.
2 December 1985, Philip Larkin, poet, died.
25 August 1985, Rudi Blesh, US author, died in Gilmarton, new Hampshire (born 21 January 1899 in
Guthrie, Oklahoma)
24 July 1985, Alice DG Miller, US screenwriter, died (born 28 June 1894).
16 July 1985, Heinrich Boll, writer, died.
19 December 1984. Ted Hughes
was appointed Poet Laureate in succession
to Sir John Betjeman.
25 August 1984, Truman
Capote, author, died.
14 August 1984, English writer JB Priestley died.
19 May 1984, Sir John
Betjeman, Poet Laureate
since 1972, died aged 78.
15 April 1984, Alexander
Trocchi, Scottish writer, died aged 58.
15 March 1983, Rebecca West,
British author, died aged 90.
24 February 1983, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright (born 26 March 1911) died in New York City.
10 February 1983, Vittorio
Sereni, Italian poet, died aged 69
12 September 1981, Eugenio Montale,
Italian
poet, died aged 84.
7 September 1981, Christy Brown,
Irish author, died.
10 March 1981, Death of Sir Maurice
Oldfield, the British intelligence chief thought to be the model for
�M� in Ian
Fleming�s James Bond novels.
7 June 1980, American
novelist Henry
Miller died.
15 April 1980, Jean Paul
Sartre, French writer and philosopher, died.
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14 May 1979, Jean Rhys,
novelist, died aged 88.
22 October 1978, John Riley,
poet, died.
14 April 1978, F R Leavis,
British literary critic, died aged 82.
11 April 1977, Jacques Prevert,
French
poet, died aged 77.
23 November 1976, Andre Malreux, French novelist. died aged 75.
29 August 1976, Kazi Nazrul
Islam, Bengali poet, died aged 77.
15 July 1976, Paul Gallico,
writer, died.
12 January 1976, Dame Agatha
Christie, English crime story writer
and creator of the Belgian
detective character Hercule Poirot,
died.� She was born in Torquay on 15
September 1890.
21 November 1975, Gunnar
Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer, died aged 86
14 February 1975, PG Wodehouse,
author, died.
29 July 1974, Erich Kastner,
German author, died aged 75.
5 July 1974, British
novelist Georgette
Hayer died.
29 January 1974, HE Bates,
English novelist, died aged 68.
28 December 1973, In Paris,
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn published The
Gulag Archipelago, detailing conditions in the Soviet prison system.
28 September 1973, W H Auden,
English-American
poet, died aged 66.
2 September 1973, J R R Tolkien, author of The
Lord of the Rings, died at Bournemouth.
22 February 1973, Elizabeth Bowen,
Irish novelist, died aged 73.
10 October 1972, Sir John Betjeman,
born 28 August 1906, was appointed Poet Laureate.
30 September 1972, Ari Behn,
author, was born.
6 July 1972, Laurent Gaude,
French writer, was born.
15 February 1972, US writer
Edgar Snow
died.
3 February 1971, Andrew Truxal, US academic writer, died aged
71.
28 September 1970, John Dos Passos,
US writer,
died in Baltimore, Maryland..
25 September 1970, Erich Maria
Remarque, German anti-war novelist, died.
7 July 1970, Sir Allen Lane,
publisher and founder of Penguin
paperback books in 1936, died.
7 June 1970, E M Forster,
novelist, died.
28 February 1970, Lemony Snicket,
writer, was born.
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6 November 1969, Susan Taubes,
Hungarian-born US novelist, died aged 41
4 May 1969, F Osbert S
Sitwell, poet, died.
11 March 1969. The
author John
Wyndham died.
11 January 1969, Richmal
Crompton, British author died (born 1890)
20 December 1968. John Steinbeck,
American author who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, Nobel Prize Winner in 1962, died in New York City.
28 November 1968. Enid Blyton, creator
of Noddy and Big Ears, died. She was born on 11 August 1897 in East Dulwich. In
the mid 1930s she began writing her stories, which featured Noddy, the Famous
Five, and the Secret Seven.
25 November 1968, Upton
Sinclair, writer, died.
10 November 1968, Novelist John Steinbeck died.
1 June 1968, Helen Keller,
US author, died aged 87.
7 October 1967, Norman Angell,
English
author and politician, died aged 92.
31 August 1967, Ilya Ehrenburg,
Soviet
author, died aged 75.
9 August 1967, Joe Orton,
English author and playwright, died aged 34.
3 August 1967, Siegfried
Sassoon, British poet, died.
22 July 1967, US poet Carl Sandburg died in North Carolina.
8 February 1967, Rachel
Cusk, author, was born
23 December 1966, Heimito von
Doderer, Austrian
novelist (born 5 November 1896 in Vienna) died in Vienna.
8 October 1966, Kevin
Fleming O'Brien, US writer, was born.
28 September 1966, Andre
Breton, French poet, died.
24 September 1966, Michael
J Varhola, author, was born.
17 August 1966, William
E Dudley, poet, was born.
9 August 1966, Giorgi
Leonidze, Georgian poet and author, died aged 66.
10 April 1966, British author Evelyn Waugh died.
18 January 1966, Kathleen Norris,
US writer, died (born 1880)
16 December 1965, Somerset
Maugham, author, died this day.
31 July 1965, J K Rowling,
British author of the Harry Potter
series, was born.
4 January 1965. Poet
and playwright T
S Eliot died. He was born on 26 September 1888 in Saint Loius,
Missouri. After studying at Harvard University he went to Paris in 1910 to
teach French
literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne. Later, after the start of World War
One, he went to Merton College, Oxford, to read Greek Philosophy. In 1915 he
married Vivien
Haigh-Wood and in 1919 became a British citizen. His first volume of
poetry, Prufrock and other Observations,
was published in 1917 followed by Poems
in 1919. In 1922 The Waste Land,
regarded as his greatest poem, reflected the discontent that followed the
trauma of the Great War. In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
9 December 1964, English poet Dame Edith Sitwell died, aged 77.
3 December 1964, Ernst Ginsberg,
writer, died
18 September 1964,
Playwright Sean
O�Casey died.
12 August 1964, Ian Fleming,
British author and creator of James
Bond, died aged 56.
3 July 1964, Joanne Harris,
novelist, was born
22 June 1964, Dan Brown,
writer, was born.
26 May 1964, Caitl�n R.
Kiernan, Irish-born US science fiction and fantasy author, was born
in Dublin
26 March 1964, You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming's 12th James Bond novel was released by Jonathan
Cape in the UK.
20 March 1964, Irish
playwright Brendan Behan
died.
10 January 1964, A Marja,
Dutch author, died.
3 September 1963, Poet Louis MacNeice
died.
27 June 1963, Meera Syal,
writer, was born.
24 June 1963, Anatoly
Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer, was born.
11 February 1963, Sylvia Plath,
writer, died.
29 January 1963, US poet Robert Frost
died.
7 September 1962, Isak Dinesen,
Danish writer, died (born 17 April 1885).
6 July 1962, William
Faulkner, US novelist, died.
7 June 1962, William Faulkner,
US writer (born 25 September 1897
in New Albany, Mississippi) died in Oxford, Mississippi.
2 June 1962, Vita
Sackville-West, British novelist,
died.
2 November 1961, James Thurber,
author, died in New York.
27 September 1961, Hilda Doolittle,
US poet (born 10 September 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), died in Zurich,
Switzerland.
2 July 1961, The author Ernest Hemingway, born 21 July 1899 in Oak
Park, Illinois, committed suicide.
25 November 1960, John F Kennedy
Jr., publisher, was born.
16 September 1960, Kurt Busiek,
US comic book writer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
30 May 1960, Boris Pasternak,
Russian author of Dr Zhivago, Nobel Prize winner in 1958 (which he declined),
died near Moscow.
4 May 1960, French
novelist Albert
Camus was killed in a car crash.
29 April 1960, Robert J.
Sawyer, Canadian sci-fi writer, was born in Ottawa, Ontario
28 April 1960, Ian Rankin,
author, was born.
12 January 1960, British
author Nevil
Shute died.
28 February 1959, Maxwell
Anderson, US playwright, died in Stamford, Connecticut (born 15
December 1888 in Atlantic, Pennsylvania)
5 November 1959, Justin Catanoso,
writer, was born.
3 July 1959, Julie Burchill,
writer, was born.
3 May 1959, Ben Elton,
writer, was born.
15 March 1959, Ben Okri,
author, was born
1 November 1958, Charlie Kaufman,
writer, was born.
11 September 1958, Robert W
Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet, died (born 1874).
18 August 1958, Vladimir
Nabokov�s controversial novel Lolita
was published in the USA.
4 August 1958, Ethel Anderson,
Australian poet, died (born 1883)
15 February 1958, Chrystine
Brouillet, Quebec novelist, was born.
17 December 1957, Dorothy L
Sayers, British novelist and playwright, died.
25 October 1957, Lord Edward
Dunsany, writer, died in Dublin, Ireland (born 24 July 1878 in
London, England)
24 July 1957, Sacha Guitry,
French playwright, died aged 72.
28 June 1957, German
author Alfred
Doblin died.
29 May 1957, George Bacovia,
Romanian poet, died aged 75.
10 February 1957, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, author, died.
22 October 1956, Marco Lodoli,
Italian writer, was born in Rome.
24 August 1956, Adam Gopnik,
US writer, was born.
14 August 1956, German
writer Bertolt
Brecht died.
7 August 1856, John Treville
laTouche, US author, died in Calais, Vermont (born 13 November 1917
in Richmond, Virginia)
9 June 1956, Patricia
Cornwell, author, was born.
29 January 1956, H L Mencken,
US writer, died aged 75.
JRR Tolkein
20 October 1955, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
by JRR
Tolkein was published.
29 July 1954, The Fellowship of the Ring, first part
of JRR Tolkein�s
Lord of the Rings, was published in
Britain.
3 January 1892, Author
J.R.R.Tolkein, creator of The
Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit,
was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. He died in
Bournemouth in 1973.
12 August 1955, Thomas Mann,
German novelist, died aged 80.
24 April 1955, Alfred Polgar,
Austrian writer and theatre critic, died aged 79
8 April 1955, Barbara
Kingsolver, writer, was born.
26 May 1954, Alan
Hollingshurst, writer, was born.
16 February 1954, Ian Banks,
author, was born.
30 January 1954, John Murray
Anderson, US author, died in New York (born 20 September 1886 in St
Johns, Newfoundland)
10 December 1953, Churchill received the
Nobel Prize for Literature.
28 November 1953, Eugene O�Neill,
playwright, died.
9 November 1953. Welsh poet Dylan Marlais Thomas, born in Swansea on 27
October 1914, died in New York City aged 39 after falling into an
alcoholic coma. He had drunk 18 stiff whiskies. His major work, Under Milk Wood, was broadcast on radio
in 1954.
26 October 1952, Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate,
was born
26 September 1952, George
Santayana, Spanish writer, died aged 88.
11 March 1952, Douglas
Adams, British writer, was born.
19 February 1952, Amy
Tan, novelist, was born.
8 November 1951, Rupert
Allason, author, was born
2 June 1951, John Erskine,
US author, died� in New York (born in New
York City, 5 October 1879).
19 February 1951, French writer Andre Gide died.
10 January 1951, Sinclair Lewis,
US novelist, died aged 65.
2 November 1950. George Bernard
Shaw, born 26 July 1856 in Dublin, died aged 94, in Ayot St
Lawrence, Hertfordshire, UK.� A failed
novelist, he was 36 when his first play, Widower�s
Houses, was performed.
27 October 1950, AN Wilson,
author, was born
18 October 1950, Wendy
Wasserstein, playwright, was born (died 30 January 2006)
16 October 1950, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis,
was first published.
21 June 1950, Anne Carson,
poet, was born.
21 May 1950, Will Hutton,
writer, was born.
23 March 1950, Joseph Connolly,
author, was born.
19 March 1950, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, author
of the Tarzan books, died aged 75.
24 February 1950, Richard Wayne
Bandler, US author, was born.
13 February 1950, Rafael Sabatini,
Italian novelist, died aged 74.
11 February 1950, Author Kurt Vonnegut was published for the first
time, as his story Report on the
Barnhouse Effect appeared in Collier's magazine.
21 January 1950. George Orwell
died (born 1903). This was the pen
name of British author Eric Arthur Blair. His best known works
include Animal Farm and 1984.
16 August 1949, Margaret
Mitchell, author of Gone With
the Wind, died after being hit by a car.
7 August 1949, Matthew Parris,
author, was born
6 June 1949, George Orwell�s
book Nineteen Eighty Four was
published. Suffering from tuberculosis, Orwell completed the book
between periods of hospitalisation in a remote house in The Hebrides.
5 June 1949, Ken Follett,
Welsh author, was born.
6 May 1949, Maurice
Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright, died aged 86.
12 April 1949, Scott Turow,
writer, was born.
26 March 1949, Patrick Suskind,
writer, was born.
16 September 1948, Julia Donaldson,
English children's writer, was born in London, England.
29 August 1948, Nick Darke,
playwright, was born (died 10 June 2005)
26 February 1948, David Edgar,
playwright, was born.
26 January 1948, John Lomax,
writer on folk music, died (born 23 September 1867).
12 November 1947, Baroness
Emmuska Orczy, writer, died.
22 September 1947, Jo Beverley,
English-born Canadian romance novelist, was born in Blackpool (died 2016)
21 September 1947, Stephen King,
writer, was born.
23 August 1947, Willy Russell,
author and dramatist, was born.
6 August 1947, Alan Sullivan,
Canadian poet and short story author, died aged 78
12 May 1947, Michael
Ignatieff, writer, was born
6 February 1947, Hans Fallada,
German novelist, died in Berlin (born 21 July 1893 in Greifswald, Germany).
18 November 1946, Alan Dean
Foster, writer, was born.
14 November 1946, Mark le Fanu,
General Secretary of the Society of Authors, was born
9 November 1946, Marina Warner,
writer, was born
8 October 1946, Bel Mooney,
writer, was born
31 August 1946, Harley
Granville-Barker, English playwright, died aged 69.
13 August 1946. Author H G Wells;
born on 21 September 1866, died in London, aged 76.
27 July 1946, The US writer Gertrude Stein (born 3 February 1874 in
Allegheny, Pennsylvania), died in Paris, France.
6 June 1946, Gerhart
Hauptmann, German novelist,
died aged 83.
27 February 1946, Thomas Hauser,
author, was born.
28 December 1945, Theodore Dreiser,
US author (born 27 August 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana), died in Hollywood,
California.
26 October 1945, Pat Conroy,
author, was born in Atlanta, Georgia (died 2016)
20 July 1945, Paul Valery,
French poet, died aged 74.
31 July 1944. The pilot
and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of �The Little Prince�, was reported
missing.
9 February 1944, Alice Walker,
African-American author and social activist, was born.
22 December 1943. The
author Beatrix
Potter died aged 77.
14 November 1943, Susan Lydon,
writer, was born (died 15 July 2005)
8 May 1943, Pat Barker,
novelist, was born.
4 October 1941. Anne Rice,
writer, was born.
24 April 1941, Karin Boye,
Swedish poet and novelist, died aged 40.
18 March 1941, Wolfgang Bauer,
writer, was born.
8 March 1941, Sherwood
Anderson, US novelist,
died aged 65.
21 December 1940. F Scott
Fitzgerald, US author,
died.
8 May 1940, Peter
Benchley, author of Jaws,
was born (died 11 February 2006)
29 February 1940, EF. Benson,
English novelist, died aged 72
9 February 1940, JM Coetzee,
writer, was born.
1939, Annual book sales in Britain stood at 26 million, 4x higher
than in 1930, and a further 250 million book borrowings occurred from public
libraries.
18 November 1939, Margaret Atwood,
writer, was born.
27 July 1939, William Longley,
poet, was born in Belfast.
23 July 1939, Nicolas Gage,
writer., was born.
28 June 1939, Harry Leon
Wilson, US� novelist, died
aged 72
25 April 1939, Ted Kooser,
US poet, was born.
14 April 1939, John
Steinbeck�s The Grapes of
Wrath was published.
12 April 1939, Alan Ayckbourn,
English playwright, was born.
28 January 1939, W B (William
Butler) Yeats, Irish poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize winner in
1923, died in the south of France.
25 December 1938, Czech
writer Karel
Kapek died.
9 October 1938, John Sutherland,
English author, was born.
4 October 1938, Cholpon,
Uzbek poet, was killed in the Great Stalinist Purge.
25 August 1938, Frederick
Forsyth, writer, was born.
23 August 1938, Roger Greenaway,
British author, was born in Southmead, Bristol
28 July 1938, Robert Hughes,
writer, was born.
16 June 1938, Joyce Carol
Oates, writer, was born.
1 June 1938, Khawar Rizvi,
poet, was born in the Punjab, British
India.
19 April 1938, Henry Newbolt,
English poet, died aged 75.
4 October 1937, Jackie Collins,
author, was born.
21 September 1937, JRR Tolkien�s
book The Hobbit was published,
Initially just 1,500 copies were printed but the book had, by 2010, sold over
50 million copies in 38 languages.
7 September 1937, Christopher
Booker, author, was born
5 August 1937, Carla Lane,
writer, was born.
18 July 1937, Hunter S
Thompson, writer, was born (died 20 February 2005).
3 July 1937, Tom Stoppard,
Czech-born
British playwright, was born.
24 June 1937, Anita Desai,
novelist, was born
16 June 1937, Erich Segal,
author, was born.
11 June 1937, Mate Zalka,
Hungarian writer, died aged 41.
30 May 1937, Arthur C Jacobs,
Scottish poet, was born in Glasgow (died 1994)
30 April 1937, Tony Harrison,
poet, was born.
23 April 1937, Lady Victoria
Glendinning, author, was born.
9 April 1937, Albert Paine,
75, US author, died.
9 March 1937, George Orwell�s
book, The Road to Wigan Pier, was
published. It was about the effects of the Depression on northern England.
5 February 1937, Lou Andreas
Salome, writer, writer, died.
10 December 1936, Luigi
Pirandello, Italian author, died aged 69.
22 November 1936, John Bird,
writer, was born
15 November 1936, Wolf Biermann,
writer, was born
23 August 1936, Juliette Adam,
French writer (born 4/120/1836) died.
19 August 1936, Frederico
Garcia Lorca, Spanish writer, died.
14 June 1936, G K Chesterton,
British poet and novelist, died.
18 January 1936, Rudyard Kipling, English novelist
who won the Nobel Prize in 1907,
died.
17 September 1935, Ken Kesey,
author, was born.
8 September 1935, Maurice
Cockrill, artist, was born
27 August 1935, Michael Holroyd,
author, was born.
24 August 1935, Paul Barker,
writer, was born.
30 July 1935. Penguin paperbacks went on sale in
Britain. The first such book on sale was a biography of Shelley. They cost 5d each, and had distinctive orange and white covers. Later,
non-fiction Penguins were coloured blue and white, fiction was still orange and
white, and miscellaneous were yellow and white.
17 June 1935, G W Russell,
Irish writer, died aged 68.
23 May 1935, Laase
Stromstedt, Swedish author, was born (died 2009).
17 May 1935, Dennis
Potter, writer, was born.
1 May 1935, Julian
Mitchell, writer, was born
4 April 1935, Trevor
Griffiths, playwright, was born.
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21 November 1934, Beryl
Bainbridge, writer, was born
9 May 1934, Alan Bennett,
British playwright, was born.
28 April 1934, Lois
Duncan, US novelist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died
2016)
27 February 1934, Ralph
Nader, author and consumer activist, was born.
10 February 1934, Fleur
Adcock, poet, was born.
4 December 1933, Stefan George,
German poet, died aged 65.
11 September 1933, Dr
William L Pierce, writer, was born.
13 July 1933, David
Storey, writer, was born
17 March 1933, Penelope
Lively, writer, was born.
21 January 1933, George Augustus
Moore, Irish writer,
died aged 80.
1 January 1933, Joe Orton,
English author, was born (died 1967)
15 December 1932, Edna
O�Brien, writer, was born.
2 October 1932, David St Clair,
US writer, was born.
21 September 1932, Shirley
Conran, writer, was born
27 August 1932, Lady
Antonia Fraser, writer, was born.
6 August 1932, Charles
Wood, writer, was born
3 August 1932, Mario
Montes de Oca, Mexican poet, was born.
6 July 1932, Kenneth Grahame,
author of Wind in the Willows, died (born 8 March 1859).
29 June 1932, Professor
Philip Hobsbaum, poet and writer, was born (died 28 June 2005)
11 June 1932, Athol
Fugard, playwright, was born.
1 June 1932, Philo Bregstein,
Dutch writer, was born.
25 May 1932, John
Gregory Dunne, author and poet, was born.
24 May 1932, Arnold
Wesker, playwright, was born.
18 March 1932, John Updike,
US author, was born (died 2009)
2 March 1932, Takako
Takahashi, Japanese author, was born in Kyoto (died 2013)
10 February 1932, Edgar Wallace,
English writer, died aged 57.
26 January 1932, Ronald
Allison, author, was born.
21 January 1932, Lytton Strachey,
founder member of the Bloomsbury Group,
an influential writers and intellectual
group, died.
29 November 1931, Geoffrey
Moorhouse, writer, was born
28 November 1931, Dervia
Murphy, author, was born
19 October 1931, John
le Carre, novelist, was born.
22 September 1931, Fay
Weldon, writer, was born.
31 August 1931, Hall Caine,
British novelist, died aged 78.
22 August 1931, Joseph
Tabrar, British author, died in London (born 1857 in London)
14 August 1931, Frederick
Raphael, author, was born.
26 June 1931, Colin
Wilson, author, was born.
10 April 1931, Khalil
Gibran, poet, died.
1 April 1931, Rolf
Hochhuth, German playwright, was born.
27 March 1931, Arnold Bennett,
English writer, died aged 64.
15 November 1930, JG
Ballard, writer, was born
23 October 1930, Gianni
Rodari, Italian children's author, was born (died 1980)
10 October 1930, Harold
Pinter, British playwright, was born.
10 September 1930, Harold
Pinter, playwright, was born
19 August 1930, Frank
McCourt, writer, was born.
16 August 1930, Ted Hughes,
English poet, was born (died 1998)
10 August 1930, Barry
Unsworth, author, was born
7 July 1930, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, British author
created the crime detective character Sherlock
Holmes, died, aged 71.
23 June 1930, Anthony Thwaite,
poet, was born
20 April 1930, Easter
Sunday. Sir
Antony Jay, writer, was born.
14 April 1930, Russian
Futurist poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky committ4ed suicide.
13 April 1930, Subbiah Muthiah,
Indian writer, was born (died 20 April 2019).
17 February 1930, Ruth Rendell,
writer, was born.
9 January 1930, Brian Friel,
writer, was born.
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24 December 1929, Philip Sandeman
Ziegler, author, was born
10 December 1929, Harry Crosby,
wealthy American poet and publisher, died aged 31 from a self-inflicted
gunshot.
9 November 1929, Imre
Kertesz, writer, was born.
13 October 1929, Walasse Ting,
Chinese-American poet, was born in Shanghai. He died in 2010.
14 September 1929, Larry Collins,
writer, was born (died 20 June 2005)
27 July 1929, Jack Higgins,
novelist, was born
15 July 1929, Hugo von
Hoffmannsthal, Austrian author,
died aged 55.
23 April 1929, Professor
George Steiner, author, was born.
6 April 1929, Willis Hall,
playwright, was born (died 7 March 2005).
2 April 1929, Catherine
Gaskin, author, was born.
1 April 1929, Milan Kundera,
writer, was born.
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11 December 1928, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, was born.
21 November 1928, Hermann
Sudermann, German author, died.
9 November 1928, Anne Sexton,
poet, was born.
17 December 1928, Jean Cherry
Drummond, writer, was born (died 11 March 2005).
2 November 1928, Paul Johnson,
writer, was born
14 September 1928, Italo Svevo,
writer, died.
6 September 1928, Maura Murphy,
author, was born (died 5 October 2005)
16 July 1928, Robert Sheckley,
science fiction writer, was born (died9 December 2005)
10 June 1928, Maurice Sendak,
writer, was born.
9 June 1928, Bob Bolling,
US� writer, was born in Brockton,
Massachusetts
6 March 1928, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, writer, was born
24 May 1928, William Trevor,
novelist,, was born.
10 April 1928, English writer Stanley John Weyman died, aged 72.
4 April 1928, Maya Angelou,
author, was born.
12 March 1928, US playwright Edward Albee was born (died
2016).
4 March 1928, Allan Sillitoe,
writer, was born.
3 March 1928, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, writer, was born.
11 January 1928. Thomas Hardy,
English poet and novelist, author of
Tess of the D�Ubervilles, died in Dorset aged 87.
20 October 1927, Ronald
Pearsall, writer, was born (died 27 September 2005)
31 July 1927, Peter
Nichols, playwright, was born
28 June 1927, Correlli Barnet,
author, was born
14 June 1927, British author Jerome K Jerome died.
25 May 1927, Robert
Ludlum, spy novelist, was born.
27 April 1927, Coretta
Scott |King, writer, writer, was born.
21 February 1927, Erma Bombeck, writer, was born.
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29 December 1926, Rainer
Maria Rilke, Austrian poet, died.
14 October 1926. In
Britain, A
A. Milne published the first Winnie
the Pooh, a children�s book. It was inspired by his son Christopher Robin�s
love for a bear in London Zoo called Winnipeg.
14 September 1926, Michel Butor,
French novelist, was born.
3 September 1926, Alison Lurie,
US writer, was born.
12 July 1926, Gertrude Bell,
writer, was born.
3 June 1926, Allan Ginsberg, US poet, was born.
15 May 1926, Peter Shaffer,
English playwright, was born (died
1926).
28 April 1926, Harper Lee,
writer, was born.
23 April 1926, JP Donleavy,
author, was born.
31 March 1926, John Fowles,
author, was born (died 5 November 2005).
13 January 1926, Michael Bond,
author, was born
24 November 1925, William F.
Buckley, Jr, author, was born (died 2008)
3 October 1925, Gore Vidal,
US writer, was born (died
2012).
1 October 1925, Christine
Pullein-Thompson, children�s author, was born (died 2 December 2005)
1 August 1925, Pam Gems,
playwright, was born.
11 June 1925, William Styron,
author, was born (died 1 November 2006)
23 May 1925, British publishing magnate Sir Edward Hulton died after
falling off his penny-farthing bicycle.
14 May 1925, Henry Rider
Haggard, English writer,
died aged 69.
19 January 1925, Nina Bawden,
novelist, was born.
14 January 1925, Yukio Mishima,
writer, was born.
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28 November 1924, Dennis Brutus,
activist, educator, journalist and poet, in was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
(died 2009)
12 October 1924, French
writer Anatole
France died.
30 September 1924, Truman Capote,
writer, was born.
12 September 1924, George Target,
novelist, was born (died 14 December 2005).
3 August 1924,
Polish-born UK author Joseph Conrad died.
2 August 1924, James Arthur
Baldwin, US Black writer, was born.
23 July 1924, Gavin Lambert,
writer, was born (died 17 July 2005)
20 June 1924, Audie Murphy,
writer, was born.
3 June 1924, German novelist Franz Kafka died in a sanatorium at Kierling,
near Vienna, after a seven year battle with tuberculosis.
30 January 1924, Lloyd Alexander,
author, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 2007)
15 January 1924, Michael
Davie, author, was born (died 7 December 2005)
20 November 1923, Nadine Gordimer,
writer, was born.
22 September 1923, Dannie Abse,
writer, was born
30 March 1923, Milton Acorn,
poet / writer, born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (died 1986).
9 January 1923. Katherine
Mansfield, New Zealand author,
died aged 34.
3 January 1923, Death of
Czech satirical writer Jaroslav Hasek.
18 November 1922, Marcel Proust,
writer, died.
15 November 1922, Marcel Proust,
French writer, died aged 51.
11 November 1922, Kurt Vonnegut
Jr, science fiction writer, was born.
22 October 1922, Lyman Abbott,
US author, died (born 18
December 1835)
12 July 1922, Michael Ventris,
scholarly writer, was born.
15 June 1922, Alan Hunter,
author, was born (died 26 February 2005).
2 February 1922, First
publication of Ulysses, by James Joyce.
12 September 1921, Stanislaw Lem,
author, was born (died 27 March 2006)
11 August 1921, Alex Hailey, US author of Roots, was born.
14 July 1921, Leon Garfield,
children�s writer, was born.
11 June 1921, Michael Meyer,
English writer, was born.
18 May 1921, Patrick Dennis,
US author, was born in Chicago (died 1976)
31 January 1921, Norman Mailer,
US author, was born.
22 October 1920, Timothy
O�Leary, writer, was born.
15 October 1920, Mario
Puzo, US author, was born in New York City (died 1999)
22 August 1920, Ray
Bradbury, author, was born
3 August 1920, Baroness
RD James of Holland Park, writer, was born
9 May 1920, Richard
Adams, author, was born.
9 March 1920, Haralamb Lecca,
Romanian playwright and poet, died aged 47
24 January 1920, William Percy
French, Irish author, died in Formby, Lancashire (born near
Castlebar, 1 May 1854).
2 January 1920. Isaac Asimov
was born.
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5 September 1919, Robert Kee,
author, was born
19 August 1919, Malcolm Forbes,
publisher, was born.
1 July 1919, Iris Murdoch,
British author, was born.
5 June 1919, Richard Scarry,
children�s� author, was born.
20 May 1919, Roger Wolcott
Hall, US author, was born (died 20 July 2008).
30 April 1919, Oscar Adams,
US author, died (born 1855).
27 January 1919, Endre Ady,
Hungarian
poet (born 21 November 1877) died.
8 January 1919, Peter Altenberg,
writer, died aged 59.
13 December 1918, Monroe H
Rosenfeld, US author, died in new York (born 1862 in Brooklyn, New
York)
11 December 1918, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist,
was born in Rostov.
2 November 1918, Frederick
Leboyer, author, was born.
2 May 1918, Alastair Forbes,
writer, was born.
7 April 1918, Isaac Rosenberg,
English poet, was killed in action in France.
9 March 1918, Frank Morison
Spillane, author, was born (died 17 July 2006)
8 March 1918, Charles Adams, US poet
(born 21 April 1842) died.
16 January 1918, Stirling
Silliphant, writer, was born.
16 December 1917, Arthur C Clarke,
British
science-fiction writer, was born.
28 November 1917, Marni Hodgkin,
US� children's book editor, was born in
New York City (died 2015)
3 November 1917, Dr Conor Cruise
O�Brien, author, was born.
7 August 1917, Basil Hood,
British dramatist, died in London (born 5 April 1864 in Yorkshire)
13 March 1917, Maria Vlamynck,
Flemish author, was born.
1 March 1917, Robert Lowell,
US poet, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
11 February 1917, Sidney Sheldon,
writer, was born.
29 December 1916, James Joyce�s
book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man was published in New York. This semi-autobiographical work became one
of his best known publications, despite being initially rejected for
publication.
14 November 1916, H H Munro
(Saki) died, aged 45.
13 September 1916,� Roald Dahl, author
of children�s books, was born in Llandaff, Glamorganshire.
11 September 1916, Jean Webster,
US writer, died (born 1876)
20 May 1916, Owen Chadwick,
British writer, was born
28 February 1916, Henry James,
US novelist, died.
6 February 1916, South
African poet Ruben
Dario died.
7 October 1915, Ivy Wallace,
author, was born (died 13 March 2006).
7 August 1915, Philip Snow,
author, was born.
10 July 1915, Saul Bellow,
US author, was born in Lachine,
Quebec.
30 May 1915, Michael
Thwaites, poet, was born (died 1 November 2005)
28 May 1915, John B Gruelle
patented the Raggedy Ann doll. It was an early example of merchandise tied in
with literary fiction, here an illustrated children�s book.
19 May 1916, Alfred
Shaughnessy, scriptwriter, was born (died 2 November 2005).
23 April 1915, Rupert Brooke,
British poet, died at Lemnos.
11 November 1914, Howard Fast,
US author, was born in New York City.
27 October 1914, Dylan Marlais
Thomas, Welsh poet,
was born in Swansea, the son of a schoolmaster.
8 October 1914, Adelaide
Crapsey, US poet, died (born 1878)
19 July 1914, Hubert Gregg,
British author, was born in London
5 June 1914, George Painter,
biographer of Marcel
Proust, was born (died 8 December 2005)
26 November 1913, Sybil Marshall,
writer, was born (died 26 August 2005).
7 November 1913. Birth of
the French novelist and playwright Albert Camus.
He was born in Algeria and studied philosophy. He worked as an actor, teacher,
and journalist; and was active in the French Resistance in World War II. But he
found fame as an existentialist writer; for example his nihilist novel The Outsider, 1942, contained the line
�Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday. I don�t know�. He was awarded
the Nobel prize for literature I 1957, and died in 1960.
11 August 1913, Angus Wilson,
English novelist, was born (died 1991).
29 March 1913, R. S. Thomas,
Welsh poet, was born� in Cardiff (died 2000).
2 September 1912, Professor David
Daiches, author and literary critic, was born (died 15 July 2005)
14 May 1912, August Strindberg,
playwright, died in Stockholm, Sweden..
20 April 1912, Bram Stoker,
Dublin-born creator of Dracula in 1897, died aged 65 in London.
26 March 1912, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright, was born (died 1983).
27 February 1912, British
poet and writer Lawrence
Durrell was born.
17 February 1912, Andre Norton,
science fiction writer, was born (died 17 March 2005)
11 December 1911, Naguib Mahfouz,
novelist, was born (died 30 August 2006)
19 September 1911, British
writer William
Golding was born.
2 July 1911, Diego Fabbri,
Italian playwright, was born in Forl�.
10 June 1911, Terence
Rattigan, playwright, was born.
29 May 1911, W S Gilbert,
English poet and dramatist, died aged 75.
19 April 1911, Ursula Moray
Williams, children�s writer, was born (died 17 October 2006)
26 March 1911, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright
(born 26 March 1911) died in New York City.
16 March 1911, Sybille Bedford,
writer, was born (died 17 February 2006).
22 January 1911, Lady Mary
Hayley Bell Mills, writer, was born (died 1 December 2005)
19 December 1910, Jean Genet,
novelist, was born.
7 November 1910, Leo Tolstoy,
author of War and Peace and Anna
Karenina, died.
17 October 1910, Julia Howe,
US author, died (born 27 May 1819).
9 October 1910, John
Peile, English scholarly writer, died in Cambridge (born 24 April
1838 in Whitehaven)
14 September 1910, Lehman
Engel, US author, was born.
13 July 1910, Loren
Pope, US author, was born.
2 July 1910, Frederick
Furnivall, English writer, died (born 4 February 1825),
5 June 1910, Death of
American short-story writer
O. Henry (real name William Sydney Porter).
26 April 1910, Bjornstjerne
Bjornson, Norwegian writer, died (born 8 December 1832).
21 April 1910. Mark
Twain, American author, died in Reading, Connecticut, aged 74.
31 March 1910, Jean
Moreas, French poet, died (born 15 April 1856).
20 January 1910, Joy
Adamson, writer, was born.
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14 December 1909, Frederick
Greenwood, English writer, died (born 4/1830).
12 December 1909, Armand
Boni, Flemish poet and writer, was born in Antwerp, Belgium (died
1991)
18 November 1909, Richard Gilder,
US poet, died (born 8 February 1844).
10 November 1909, Johnny
Marks, US author, was born� in
Mount Vernon, New York (died 3 September 1985 in New York)
18 August 1909, Sir
Theodore Martin, British author, died (born 16 September 1816).
6 August 1909, Adalbert
Merx, German scholarly writer, died (born 2 November 1838).
24 June 1909, Sarah Jewett,
US novelist, died (born 3 September 1849).
23 March 1909, John Davidson,
British writer, died (born 11 April 1857).
27 July 1908, Nancy
Hamilton, US author, was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
3 October 1908, Johnny
Burke, US author, was born in Antioch, California (died 25 February 1964
in Mew York)
19 September 1908, Mika
Waltari, Finnish novelist, was born in Helsinki, Finland (died 1979)
15 September 1908, John Collins,
English literary critic, died (born 26 March 1848).
9 September 1908, Cesare
Pavese, poet and novelist, was born.
10 August 1908, Louise
Moulton, US poet, died.
6 July 1908, Joel
Chandler Harris, US writer, died aged 60.
5 July 1908, Jonas
Lie, Norwegian novelist, died (born 6 November 1833).
1 June 1908, Louis Frechette,
French Canadian poet, died (born 16 November 1839).
28 May 1908, Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was born
in London.
8 May 1908, Ludovic Halevy,
French author, died (born 1 January 1834).
29 April 1908, Jack Williamson,
science fiction writer, was born (died 10 November 2006)
12 March 1908, Edmondo de
Amicis, Italian writer, died in Bordighera (born 21 October 1846 in
Oneglia).
26 February 1908, Johann
Kirchhoff, German scholarly writer, died.
25 January 1908, Louise de la
Ramee, English novelist
(pen name Ramee) died aged 67.
18 January 1908, Edmund Clarence
Stedman, US poet, died in New York (born 8 October 1833 in Hartford,
Connecticut)
14 January 1908, Holger
Drachmann, Danish poet, died (born 9 October 1846).
10 December 1907. Rudyard Kipling
was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature,
the first time it had been awarded to an English writer.
28 November 1907, Alberto Moravia,
Italian novelist, was born (died 1990).
15 November 1907, Moncure Conway,
author, died in Paris (born 17 March 1832
in Virginia, USA).
29 October 1907, Gerald Massey,
English poet, died (born 29 May 1828).
12 September 1907, Louis Macneice,
Irish poet, was born (died 1963).
7 September 1907, Bogdan Hasdeu,
Romanian scholarly writer, died (born 1836).
26 July 1907, US author
Mark Twain
was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Oxford University.
21 July 1907, AD Hope,
poet, was born
20 June 1907. Lillian Hellman,
US author, was born (died 1984).
11 June 1907, Clovis Hugues,
French poet, died (born 3 November 1851).
18 May 1907, John Ingram,
Irish scholarly writer, died (born 7 July 1832).
6 May 1907, John Watson,
writer, died (born 3 November 1850).
23 April 1907, Claude Theuriet,
French poet and novelist, died (born 8 October 1833)
21 February 1907, W H Auden,
English poet, was born.
16 February 1907, Giosue Carducci,
Italian poet (born 27 July 1836) died.
3 February 1907, James A
Michener, novelist, was born.
21 January 1907, Toivo Kauppinen,
Finnish writer, was born.
9 December 1906, Ferdinand
Brunetiere, French writer, died (born 19 July 1849).
13 August 1906, Pearl Craigie,
US novelist, died (born 3 November 1867).
28 August 1906, John Betjeman,
poet, was born (died 1984).
20 June 1906, Catherine
Cookson, British writer,
was born.
23 May 1906, Henrik Ibsen,
Norwegian poet, died (born 20 March 1828).
13 April 1906, Samuel Beckett,
Irish playwright, was born.
23 March 1906, Thomas Harris,
US poet and preacher, died.
1 March 1906, Jose
Maria de Pereda, Spanish novelist, died in Polanco (born 6 February
1833 in Polanco near Santander)
9 February 1906, Paul Laurence
Dunbar, poet and novelist (born 27 June 1872 in Dayton, Ohio) died
of tuberculosis. Son of a former slave, his poetry did much to describe the
everyday lives of Black Americans.
22 January 1906, George Holyoake,
English writer, died (born 13 April 1817).
21 December 1905, Anthony
Powell, English novelist, was born.
20 December 1905, Henry Harland,
US author, died (born 3/1861 in St Petersburg).
18 December 1905, George
Le Brunn, British author, died in London (born 1862)
12 December 1905, Francois
Meurice, French dramatist, died (born 7 February 1818).
9 November 1905, Erika
Mann, German-US author, was born in Munich, Germany (died 1969)
28 October 1905, Michael
Dragomirov, Russian military writer, died (born 8 November 1830).
20 October 1905, Ellery
Queen, writer, was born.
16 October 1905, Ferdinand
Richtofen, German geographical writer, died (born 5 May 1833 near
Karlsruhe, Silesia)
15 October 1905, CP
Snow, English novelist, was born (died 1980)
6 September 1905, Karl Heigel,
German novelist, died (born 25 March 1835).
22 August 1905, David
Monro, English classical writer, died (born 16 November 1836).
7 August 1905, Julius
Stinde, German author, died near Kassel (born 28 August 1841)
21 June 1905, Jean
Paul-Sartre, French dramatist and
novelist, was born in Paris.
20 June 1905, Lillian
Helman, US writer, was born (died 1984)
18 April 1905, Juan
Valera, Spanish novelist, died (born in Cordova 18 October 1824)
24 March 1905, Jules Verne,
French science fiction writer, died
in Amiens aged 77.
2 February 1905, Russian writer Maxim Gorky was released from prison.
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19 November 1904, Hans von Hopfen,
German poet, died (born 3 January 1835).
22 July 1904, Wilson Barrett,
playwright, died (born in Essex 18 February 1846).
2 July 1904, The
Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov,
born 17 January 1860 in Taganrog, died in Germany
whilst being treated for tuberculosis.
30 June 1904, Robert
Borthwick Adam, US book retailer and collector, died (born 1833)
25 June 1904, Wilhelm
Jordan, German poet and novelist, died.
16 April 1904, Samuel
Smiles, Scottish writer, died aged 92.
24 March 1904, Sir Edwin
Arnold, British poet, died (born 10 June 1832).
2 March 1904, Theodor Seuss
Geisel, author
of children�s books, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
28 January 1904, Karl Franzos,
German novelist, died (born 25 October 1848).
1 November 1904, George
Bernard Shaw�s play John
Bull�s Other Island had its premier.
28 December 1903, George Gissing,
English novelist, died (born 22 November 1857)
19 November 1903, Hugh
Scott, English novelist, died.
11 November 1903, Lavilla
Esther Allen, US author, died (born 1834)
1 November 1903, Theodor Mommsen,
writer, died aged 87.
29 October 1903, Mieczysław
Jastrun, Polish poet , was born (died 1983)
28 October 1903, British novelist Evelyn Waugh was born.
16 October 1903, Cecille
de Brunhoff, writer, was born.
15 July 1903, Walter Dumeaux
Edmonds, US novelist, was born in Booneville, New York.
25 June 1903, Birth of
the author George Orwell, in Motihari,
Bengal, India.� He was born as Eric Arthur
Blair.
20 March 1903, Charles Godfrey
Leland, US writer, died aged 78.
13 March 1903, Nikolaas Beets,
Dutch poet, died in Utrecht (born in Haarlem 13 September 1814)
27 February 1903, George Hill,
English writer, died (born 7 June 1835).
9 February 1903, Sir Charles
Duffy, Irish writer, died (born 12 April 1816).
11 January 1903, South
African author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton was born (died 1988)
1902, Beatrix Potter�s first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was published.
25 October 1902, Frank Norris,
US novelist, died.
21 September 1902, Sir Allen Lane,
English publisher who founded Penguin books and brought about the paperback
revolution, was born.
20 September 1902, Stevie Smith,
poet and novelist, was born (died 1971)
2 September 1902, Edward
Egglestone, US author (born 10 December 1837 in Vevay, Indiana) died
in Lake George, New York.
21 July 1902, Joseph
Kesselring, US playwright, was born in New York City (died 1967)
18 June 1902, Samuel Butler,
English writer, died (born 4 December 1835).
16 May 1902, Carles Fages de
Climent, Catalonian writer, poet and journalist, was born in
Figueres (died 1968).
6 April 1902, FL Green,
British novelist, was born in Portsmouth, England (died 1953)
21 February 1902, Emil Holub,
Bohemian writer, died (born 7 October 1847)
10 February 1902, Armand Bernier,
Belgian poet, was born.
16 December 1901, Johann Duntzer,
German writer, died (born 12 July 1813).
11 October 1901, James Greenough,
US classical scholarly writer, died (born 4 May 1833).
2 September 1901, Andreas
Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet, was born (died 1975)
27 August 1901, Rudolf Haym,
German writer, died (born 5 October 1821).
9 July 1901, Barbara Cartland, British writer of romantic novels,
was born.
7 July 1901, Johanna Spyri,
writer, died.
10 June 1901, Robert Buchanan,
British novelist, died (born 18 August 1841).
9 June 1901, Sir Walter
Besant, English author, died in Hampstead, London (born in
Portsmouth 14 August 1836).
22 May 1901, Clarissa Scott
Delany, African-American poet, was born (died 1927)
11 May 1901, Rose Auslander,
German poet, was born (died 1988)
24 March 1901, Charlotte M
Yonge, novelist, died, aged 78.
19 February 1901, Paul Armande
Silvestre, French poet, died in Toulouse (born 18 April 1837 in
Paris)
13 February 1901, Lewis Grassic
Gibbon, Scottish novelist, was born (died 1935)
3 February 1901, Rosamund
Lehmann, novelist, was born (died 1900).
31 January 1901, Three Sisters, a play by Anton Chekhov,
premiered in Moscow.
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30 November 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde (born Dublin
1854) died in poverty in Paris under the pseudonym Sebastian Medmoth. Wilde�s stage and literary career ended in
1895 when the Marquess of Queensbury, angered
by Wilde�s friendship with his son, accused Wilde of sodomy. Wilde sued for libel
but lost the case and was at once prosecuted for homosexuality. He served two
years in gaol 1895-97 before fleeing to France and poverty.
3 October 1900, Thomas Wolfe, US novelist, was born (died 1938).
24 September 1900, Louis Gustave Fortune Ratisbonne, French writer, died in Paris (born 29 July
1827 in Strassburg)
24 July 1900, Zelda Fitzgerald, writer, was born.
29 June 1900, Antoine de
Saint Exupery, author of The
Little Prince, was born.
2 April 1900, Roberto Arlt,
Argentine writer, was born in Buenos Aires (died 1942)
30 March 1900, Archibald
Forbes, British military writer, died (born 17 April 1838).
6 February 1900, Sir William
Hunter, British writer, died (born 15 July 1840).
23 January 1900, Richard Dixon,
English poet, died (born 5 May 1833).
16 November 1899, Julius Busch,
German publicist, died (born 13 February 1821)
13 October 1899, Philip Colomb,
English writer, died (born 29 May 1831).
27 August 1899, Emmanuel Hiel,
Belgian-Dutch writer, died (born 5/1834).
21 July 1899, Robert
Ingersoll, US author, died (born 11 August 1833)
30 June 1899, Emma Dorothy
Eliza Nevitte Southworth, US novelist, died (born in Washington DC
26 December 1819)
7 June 1899, Augustin Daly,
US playwright, died (born 20 July 1838).
1 June 1899, Klaus Groth,
German poet, died (born 24 April 1819).
22 April 1899, Vladimir
Nabakov, writer, was born.
1 March 1899, Andrew Boyd,
Scottish author, died in Bournemouth (born 3 November 1825).
20 February 1899, Ernst Lange,
German novelist, died (born 21 February 1813).
21 January 1899, Rudi Blesh,
US author, was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma (died 25 August 1985 in Gilmarton, New
Hampshire).
17 January 1899, Nevil Shute,
English novelist, was born in
Ealing, London.
29 November 1898, CS Lewis,
writer, was born.
28 November 1898, Konrad Meyer,
Swiss poet, died (born 11 October 1825).
19 October 1898, Harold Frederic,
Anglo-US novelist, died (born 19 August 1856).
20 September 1898, Theodor Fontane,
German novelist, died (30 December 1819).
9 September 1898, Stephane
Mallarme, French poet, died (born 18 March 1842).
14 July 1898, Eliza Linton,
English novelist, died (born 10 August 1822).
22 May 1898, Edward Bellamy,
US writer died in Chicopee Falls (born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts 25
March 1850).
11 February 1898, Ferdinand Fabre,
French novelist, died (born 1830).
10 February 1898, Bertold Brecht,
writer, was born.
18 January 1898, Henry Liddell,
English writer, died (born 6 February 1811).
14 January 1898, Lewis Carroll, author of Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, died in Guildford, Surrey.
2 January 1898, Sir Edward Bond,
English librarian, died (born in Hanwell 31 December 1815).
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17 December 1897, Alphonse Daudet,
French novelist, died (born 13 May 1840).
24 October 1897, Francis
Turner Palgrave, English poet, died in London (born 28 September
1824 in Great Yarmouth)
7 October 1897, Francis
Newman, English scholarly writer, died (born 27 June 1805).
11 August 1897, Enid Blyton,
author of children�s books, was born in
Dulwich.
6 August 1897, Samuel
Laing, British author, died (born 12 October 1810)
5 August 1897, James
Hammond Trumbull, US scholarly writer, died in Connecticut (born 20
December 1821 in Connecticut)
28 July 1897, Etienne
Vacherot, French writer, died (born near Langres 29 July)
25 June 1897, Margaret
Oliphant, British writer, died in Wimbledon (born 1828 in
Midlothian).
26 May 1897, Bram Stoker�s
Dracula was first published.
11 March 1897, Henry Drummond,
Scottish scholarly writer, died (born 17 August 1851).
26 November 1896, Mathilde Blind,
English author, died (born in Mannheim 21 March 1841).
8 October 1896, George du
Maurier, English writer, died (born 1834).
24 September 1896, F Scott Fitzgerald,
US author, was born.
11 September 1896, Francis Child,
scholarly writer, died (born 1 February 1825).
6 September 1896, Sir Joseph
Crowe, art writer, died (born 25 October 1828).
24 August 1896, Phil Baker,
US author, was born in Philadelphia (died 30 November 1963 in Copenhagen)
1 July 1896, Harriet
Elizabeth Stowe, US writer, died (born 14 June 1811 in Connecticut)
11 June 1896, Sir George
Dasent, English writer, died born 22 May 1817).
11 May 1896, Henry Bunner,
US writer, died (born 3 August 1855)
2 May 1896, Julius Sturm,
German poet, died in Leipzig (born 21 July 1816 in Reuss)
29 April 1896, Jean Haureau,
French writer, died (born 1812).
28 March 1896, Elizabeth
Charles, English author, died (born 2 January 1828).
26 February 1896, Arsene Houssaye,
French novelist, died (born 28 March 1815).
18 February 1896, Andre Breton,
writer, was born.
14 January 1896, John Dos Passos,
US writer, was born in Chicago,
Illinois.
11 January 1896, Joao de Deus,
Portuguese poet, died (born 8 March 1830).
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11 December 1895, Jean Montegut,
French writer, died (born 14 June 1825).
8 December 1895, Theodore la
Villemarque, French writer, died (born 6 July 1815).
27 November 1895, Alexandre Dumas
II, novelist, died (born 27 July 1824)
22 November 1895, John de Tabley,
English poet, died (born 26 April 1835).
4 November 1895, Eugene Field,
US poet, died (born 2 September 1850).
22 October 1895, Ruggero Bonghi,
Italian writer, died (born in Naples 20 March 1828).
7 October 1895, William Wetmore
Story, US poet, died (born 12 February 1819)
22 September 1895, Abraham Viktor
Rydberg, Swedish author, died (born in Jonkoping 18 December 1828)
24 July 1895, Robert Graves,
writer, was born.
30 April 1895, Gustav Freytag,
German novelist, died (born 13 July 1816)
16 March 1895, Corney Grain,
British author, died in London (born 1844)
2 March 1895, Stuart Blackie,
Scottish writer, died in Edinburgh (born in Glasgow 28 July 1809).
14 February 1895, Oscar Wilde�s
final play, The Importance of Being
Earnest, opened in London.
11 January 1895, Thomas Hake,
English poet, died (born 10 March 1809).
29 December 1894, Christina
Rossetti, English poet, died (born 5 December 1830).
8 December 1894, James Thurber,
author, was born in Columbus, Ohio.
3 December 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island,
died.
19 October 1894, James Darmesteter, French author, died (born 28 March 1849).
14 October 1894, e e cummings, poet, was born.
11 October 1894, John Nichol, Scottish writer, died (born 8 September 1833)
26 August 1894, Celia Thaxter, US poet, died (born in New Hampshire 29 June 1836)
26 July 1894, Aldous Huxley,
novelist, was born.
18 July 1894, Charles Leconte,
French poet, died (born 22 October 1818).
5 July 1894, Sir Austin
Layard, British author, died.
28 June 1894, Alice DG Miller,
US screenwriter, was born (died 24 July 1985).
5 June 1894, Edward Capern,
English poet, died (born 21 January 1819).
4 June 1894, Wilhelm Freund,
German scholarly writer, died (born 27 January 1806).
26 May 1894, Roden Berkeley
Noel, English poet, died in Mainz (born 27 August 1834)
14 May 1894, Henry Morley,
British writer, died (born 15 September 1822).
29 April 1894, Augusta Drane,
English writer, died (born 29 December 1823)
31 March 1894, William
Robertson Smith, Scottish scholarly writer, died in Cambridge (born
8 November 1846 in Keig, Aberdeenshire)
3 February 1894, George Childs,
US publisher, died (born 12 May 1829).
8 February 1894, Robert
Ballantyne, writer, died in Rome (born in Edinburgh 24 April 1825).
22 December 1893, William Lloyd,
English writer, died (born 11 March 1813).
2 December 1893, William Gaxton,
US actor, was born in San Francisco (died 2 February 1963 in New York)
7 October 1893, Sir William
Smith, English scholarly writer, died (born in Enfield, Middlesex,
1813)
10 July 1893, Henry
Nettleship, English scholarly writer, died.
7 July 1893, Miroslav Krleza,
writer, was born.
6 July 1893, Henri
Maupassant, French novelist, died (born 5 August 1850).
17 June 1893, Thomas Mozley,
English writer, died.
14 June 1893, Jakob
Frohschammer, German scholarly writer, died (born 6 January 1821)
19 April 1893, John Addington
Symmons, English poet, died in Rome (born 5 October 1840 in Bristol)
18 March 1893, Wilfred Owen,
poet, was born.
5 March 1893, Hippolyte
Adolphe Taine, French writer, died in Paris (born 21 April 1828 in
Vouziers)
1 March 1893, William Minto,
Scottish writer, died (born 10 October 1845).
23 January 1893, Phillips Brooks,
US author, died (born 13 December 1835).
15 January 1893, Frances Kemble,
author, died (born 27 November 1809)
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12 December 1892, Sir John Burke,
British genealogical writer, author of Burke�s
Peerage, died (born 5 January 1814).
21 October 1892, Anne
Edgren-Leffler, Swedish author, died (born 1 October 1849).
11 October 1892, Xavier Marmier,
French author, died (born 24 June 1809).
6 October 1892, Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet
laureate from 1850, died at Aldworth, Surrey. He was born on 6
August 1809.
12 September 1892, Alfred A Knopf,
publisher, was born.
31 August 1892, George Curtis,
US writer, died (born 24 February 1824).
3 August 1892, Johann Nauck,
German scholarly writer, died (born 18 September 1822).
30 July 1892, Joseph Hubner,
Austrian writer, died (born 26 November 1811).
20 July 1892, Leon Cladel,
French novelist, died (born 13 March 1835).
19 April 1892, Friedrich
Bodenstedt, German author, died in Wiesbaden (born in Hanover 22
April 1819).
26 March 1892, Walt Whitman,
poet, died
14 March 1892, Noah Porter,
US writer, died in New Haven (born 14 December 1811 in Farmington, Connecticut)
9 March 1892, Vita Sackville
West, writer, was born.
17 February 1892, James Frederick
Hanley, US author, was born in Indiana (died 8 February 1942 in Douglaston,
Long Island.
5 February 1892, Emilie Flygare,
Swedish novelist, died (born 8 August 1807).
2 February 1892, Clarence
Gaskill, US author, was born in Philadelphia (died 29 April 1947 in Fort
Hill, new York)
26 December 1891, Henry Miller,
writer, was born.
19 December 1891, John Morton,
English playwright, died (born 3 January 1811).
24 November 1891, Edward Lytton,
English poet, died (born 8 November 1831).
19 November 1891, Gregor Csiky,
Hungarian dramatist, died (born 8 December 1842).
10 November 1891, Arthur Rimbaud,
poet, died
17 October 1891, James Parton,
US biographer, died in Newburyport, Massachusetts (born in 9 February 1822 in
Canterbury, England)
28 September 1891, Herman Melville,
US author, died.
11 September 1891, Anthero de
Quental, Portuguese poet, died (born in The Azores 18 April 1842)
12 August 1891, James Lowell,
US author, died
29 July 1891, Iswar Chandra
Vidyasagar, Indian writer, died (born 1820)
6 July 1891, Oskar Redwitz,
German poet, died near Bayreuth (born 28 June 1823 near Ansbach)
1 April 1891, Pauline Craven,
French author, died (born 12 April 1808)
28 March 1891, Josephin
Soulary, French poet, died in Lyons (born 23 February 1815)
26 February 1891, Fortune du
Boisgobey, French fiction writer (born in Granville 11 September 1824)
died.
6 November 1890, Bentley
Collingwood Hillier, British author, was born in Scarborough (died
19 December 1968 in London)
13 October 1890, William Belknap,
US politician, died in Washington DC (born in Newburgh, New York, 22 September 1829).
29 September 1890, Jean Karr,
French novelist, died (born 24 November 1808).
18 September 1890, Dion Boucicault,
Irish playwright, died in New York (born in Dublin 26 December 1822).
15 September 1890, Agatha Christie,
crime writer, was born in Torquay,
Devon, as Agatha
Mary Clarissa.� (died 12
January 1976).
5 September 1890, Gustav Putlitz,
German author, died (born near Perleberg 20 March 1821)
2 August 1890, Louise
Ackermann, French
poet (born 30 November 1813) died.
15 July 1890, Gottfried
Keller, German novelist, died (born 19 July 1819).
27 April 1890, William Blades,
English writer, died in Sutton, Surrey (was born in Clapham, London 5 December 1824).
29 March 1890, Armand
Pontmartin, French writer (born 16 July 1811) died.
10 February 1890, Boris
Pasternak, Russian writer, author of Dr Zhivago, was born
in Moscow.
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24 December 1889, Charles MacKay,
Scottish writer, died (born 27 March 1814).
23 December 1889, Constance Naden,
English author, died (born 24 January 1858).
21 December 1889, Eugene
Deslongchamps, writer, died
12 December 1889, Robert Browning,
English poet, died.
10 December 1889, Ludwig
Anzengruber, Austrian dramatist, died in Vienna (born 29 November 1839
in Vienna)
29 November 1889, Martin Farquhar,
English writer, died in Albury, Surrey (born 17 July 1810 in London)
18 November 1889, William
Allingham, Irish poet, died in Hampstead, London (born 19 March 1824
in Ballyshannon, Donegal).
26 October 1889, Carel Cobet,
Dutch scholarly writer, died (born 28 November 1813).
25 October 1889, Guillaume
Augier, French dramatist, died in Croissy (born 17 September 1820 in
Valence, Drome).
22 September 1889, Harold Bulwer
Farnie, British playwright, died in London.
10 September 1889, Amy Levy,
English novelist, died.
2 September 1889, Samuel Austin
Allibone, US author, died in Lucerne, Switzerland (born 17 April 1816
in Philadelphia Pennsylvania).
15 August 1889, James Albery,
English dramatist, died (born 4 May 1838 in London).
5 August 1889, Fanny :Lewald,
German author, died.
25 July 1888, Herman Bonitz,
German scholarly writer, died in Berlin (born in Saxony 29 July 1814).
13 July 1889, Robert
Hamerling, Austrian poet, died (born 24 March 1830).
5 July 1889, Jean Cocteau, poet, was born.
16 May 1889, Henry Chandler,
scholarly writer, died (born 31 January 1828). 16 May 1889).
23 April 1889, Jules Barbey, French writer, died in Paris (born 2 November 1808).
6 April 1889, Benjamin Kennedy, English
scholarly writer, died (born 6 November 1804)
10 March 1889, Antonio de Tueba, Spanish novelist, died in Bilbao (born 24
February 1810 in Montellano)
21 January 1889, Karl Elze, German literary writer, died (born 22 May 1821).
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13 December 1888, George Routledge, book publisher, died in London (born 23
September 1812 in Brampton, Cumberland)
15 December 1888, Maxwell Anderson, US playwright, was born in Atlantic,
Pennsylvania (died 28 February 1959 in Stamford, Connecticut).
10 December 1888, Frederick
Apthorp Paley, English scholarly
writer, died in Boscombe )born in Easingwold, Yorkshire, 14 January 1815)
25 November 1888, Josef Jirecek, Czech scholarly
writer, died (born 9 October 1825)
14 November 1888, Jan van Beers, Belgian poet, died in Antwerp (born 22 February 1821 in Antwerp)
26 September 1888, Poet T S Eliot was born � see 4
January 1965.
19 July 1888, Edward Payson Roe, US
novelist, died (born in New York State 7 March 1838)
4 July 1888, Theodor Woldsen Storm, German writer, died (born 14 September 1817 in Schleswig)
12 June 1888, Carel Vosmaer, Dutch poet,
died in Switzerland (born 20 March 1826 in The Hague)
11 May 1888, Irving Berlin, US
songwriter, was born as Israel Baline in Tyumen, Russia.
26 April 1888, Anita Loos, writer, was
born.
27 March 1888, Jean Marie Nisard, French
author, died in San Remo (born 20 March 1806 in Chatillon sur Seine).
6 March 1888, Louisa Alcott, US author, died (born 29 November 1832)
26 February 1888, James Morison, British author, died (born 20 April 1832)
12 February 1888, John Henry Walsh, English writer on sport, died in Putney,
London (born 21 October 1810 in Hackney, London)
30 January 1888, Edward Lear,
English
author and artist, who wrote the Book
of Nonsense, died in San Remo, Italy.
23 January 1888, Eugene Labiche,
French dramatist, died (born 5 May 1815).
2 November 1887, Alfred Domett,
English poet, died (born 20 May 1811).
12 October 1887, Dinah Craik,
English novelist, died (born 20 April 1826)
14 September 1887, Friedrich
Theodor Vischer, German scholarly writer, died in Gmunden (born 30
June 1807 in Ludwigsburg)
25 July 1887, Henry Mayhew,
English author, died.
15 July 1877, August
Friedrich Pott, German scholarly writer, died in Halle (born 14
November 1802 near Hanover
13 July 1887, Elme Carlo,
French scholarly writer, died (born 4 March 1826).
22 June 1887, Eugenie John,
German novelist, died.
16 June 1887, Roswell
Hitchcock, US writer, died (born 15 August 1817).
31 May 1887, Thomas Baynes,
English writer, died (born in Wellington, Somerset 24 March 1823).
5 May 1887, James Grant,
British novelist, died (born 1 August 1822).
19 March 1887, Joseph
Kraszewski, Polish novelist, died (born 28 July 1812).
3 March 1887, Rupert Brooke,
poet, was born.
27 February 1887, Edward Rowland
Sill, US poet, died in Cleveland, Ohio (born 29 April 1841 in
Connecticut)
19 February 1887, Edward Dekker,
Dutch writer, died (born 2 March 1820).
13 February 1887, Philip Marston,
English poet, died (born 13 August 1850).
11 February 1887, Francois
Laurent, Belgian legal writer, died.
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12 December 1886, Johan Madvig,
Danish scholarly writer, died (born 7 August 1904).
6 November 1886, Gustave Kahn,
US author, was born in Coblenz (died 8 October 1941 in Beverly Hills,
California)
1 October 1886, William
Hepworth Thompson, English scholarly writer, died (born 17 March
1810 in York)
26 September 1886, Clement Ingleby,
English writer on Shakespeare, died (born 29 October 1823)
6 August 1886, Wilhelm Scherer,
German scholarly writer, died in Berlin (born 26 April 1841 in Schonborn)
9 August 1886, Sir Samuel
Ferguson, Irish poet, died (born 10 March 1810).
24 June 1886, Alexander
Nikolaivitch Ostrovsky, Russian author, died (born in Moscow 11
April 1823)
15 May 1886, Emily Dickinson,
US poet, died in Amherst,
Massachusetts.
13 April 1886, Anna
Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist, died in The Hague (born in
Alkmaar 16 September 1812)
9 April 1886, Joseph Vikton
von Scheffel, German novelist, was died in Karlsruhe (born 16
February 1826 in Karlsruhe)
28 March 1886, Richard
Chevenix Trench, poet, died in London (born 9 September 1807 in
Dublin)
10 February 1886, Henry Bradshaw,
scholarly writer, died (born in London 2 February 1831)
9 January 1886, James Ferguson,
Scottish architectural writer, died (born 22 January 1808).
24 December 1885, Louis Gachard,
Belgian writer, died (born 12 March 1800).
30 October 1885, Ezra Pound,
poet, was born.
11 October 1885, Francois Mariac,
French writer, was born.
11 September 1885, DH Lawrence,
author of Lady Chatterley�s Lover, was born.
1 September 1885, Emile Egger,
Frenchy scholarly writer, died (born 18 July 1813).
11 August 1885, Richard Houghton,
English poet, died (born 19 June 1809).
22 May 1885, Victor Hugo,
French
poet and novelist, author of Les
Miserables, died in Paris aged 83.
13 May 1885, Juliana Ewing,
writer of children�s stories, died (born 1841).
30 April 1885, Jens Jacobsen,
Danish writer, died (born 7 April 1847).
17 April 1885, Isak Dinesen,
writer, was born.
10 April 1885, Sigmund Spaeth,
US author, was born in Philadelphia (died 11 November 1965 in New York)
18 February 1885, Mark
Twain�s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
was published.
17 February 1885, John Campbell,
Gaelic scholar died (born 29 December 1822).
14 February 1885, Jules Valles,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Puys, 10 June 1832)
19 January 1885, Lady Georgiana
Fullerton, English novelist, died (born 23 September 1812).
16 January 1885, Edmond About,
French novelist (born 14 February 1828) died.
1 January 1885, Andrew
Findlater, Scottish writer, died (born 1810).
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30 November 1884, Sir Alexander
Grant, British scholarly writer, died (born 13 September 1826).
31 October 1884, Maria
Bashkirtseff, Russian writer, died (born in Gavrontsi 23 November 1860).
19 October 1884, Karl Hillebrand,
German author, died (born 17 September 1829).
16 October 1884, Paul Lacroix,
French author, died (born 27 April 1806).
22 August 1884, Henry Bohn,
British publisher, died in Twickenham (born in London 4 January 1796).
16 August 1884, Gutierrez
Garcia, Spanish dramatist, died (born 5 July 1812).
30 July 1884, Mark Pattison,
English author, died in Harrogate (born 10 October 1813)
16 July 1884, Manuel Mila,
Spanish scholarly writer, died (born 4 May 1818).
6 April 1884, Emanuel Geibel,
German poet, died (born 17 October 1815).
19 March 1884, Elias Lonnrot,
Finnish writer, died (born 9 April 1802).
11 February 1884, Thomas Chenery,
scholarly writer, died (born 1826).
2 February 1884, Abraham Hayward,
English writer, died (born 22 November 1801).
13 December 1883, Pierre Laprade,
French poet, died (born 13 January 1812).
21 September 1883, Conrad Bursian,
German scholarly writer, died (born 14 November 1830).
17 September 1883, John Collier,
English writer, died (born 11 January 1789).
10 September 1883, Hendrik
Conscience, Flemish writer, died (born 3 December 1818).
3 September 1883, Ivan Turgenev,
writer, died
31 August 1883, Levin
Schuckling, German novelist, died in Pyrmont (born 6 September 1814
in Westphalia)
25 July 1883, Frederick
Maning, New Zealand writer, died.
3 July 1883, Franz Kafka,
Czech poet and playwright, was born.
20 June 1883,� Gustave Aimarde, French novelist, died 20 June
1883 in Paris (born 13 September 1818 in Paris).
6 May 1883, Jose Ortega y
Gasset, writer, was born.
24 April 1883, Leonard Sandeau,
French novelist, died (born 19 February 1811 in Aubusson)
10 January 1883, Aleksei Tolstoy,
writer, was born.
6 January 1883, Khalil Gibran,
writer, was born.
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13 November 1882, Johann Kinkel,
German poet, died (born 11 August 1815).
12 October 1882, Arthur Burnell,
scholarly writer on ancient Sanskrit, died (born 1840).
5 October 1882, Carl Halm,
German scholarly writer, died (born 5 April 1809)
11 September 1882, Paul Bekker,
German writer on music, was born in Berlin (died 7 March 1937 in New York)
23 July 1882, George Marsh,
US scholarly writer, died (born 15 March 1801)
3 June 1882, James Thomson,
Scottish poet, died in London (born 23 November 1834 in Port Glasgow)
1 June 1882, John Drinkwater,
poet and dramatist,
was born.
11 May 1882, John Brown,
Scottish author, died (born 22 September 1810).
30 April 1882, Ramon de
Mesonero Romanos, Spanish writer, died.
27 April 1882, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, US poet and essayist, died aged 78 in Concord.
26 April 1882, James Rice,
English novelist, died in Redhill (born 26 September 1843 in Northampton)
7 April 1882, Denis MacCarthy,
Irish poet, died (born 26 May 1817).
8 February 1882, Berthold
Auerbach, German novelist, died in Cannes (born 28 February 1812 in
Nordstetten).
25 January 1882, Virginia Woolf,
writer, was born.
18 January 1882, A A Milne
English writer of children�s books
and creator of Winnie the Pooh, was
born in St John�s Wood, London.
9 January 1882, Richard Dana,
US writer, died (born 1 August 1815).
3 January 1882, William
Ainsworth, English novelist (born 4 February 1805) died.
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24 December 1881, Leonard Bacon,
writer, died 24 December 1881 in New Haven, Connecticut (born 19 February 1802
in Detroit, Michigan)
17 December 1881, Lewis Morgan,
US ethnological writer, died.
15 November 1881, William Greg,
English essayist, died (born 1809),
7 November 1881, John Machale,
Irish writer, died.
12 October 1881, Josiah Holland,
US writer, died (born 24 July 1819).
25 September 1881,
Franz Ahrens,
German scholarly writer (born 6 June 1809) died.
16 September 1881, Clive |Bell, British writer on art, was born
in East Shefford, Berkshire (died17 September 1964 in London)
7 September 1881, Sidney Lanier,
US poet, died (born 3 February 1842)
13 August 1881, John Edward
Trelawny, English writer died near Worthing (born 13 November 1792
in London)
2 August 1881, Marcus Clarke,
US author, died (born 24 April 1846).
20 July 1881, Theodor Bergk,
German scholarly writer, died in Ragatz, Switzerland (born in Leipzig 3 May 1797)
9 July 1881, Paul Bins Saint
Victor, French author, died in Paris (born 11 July 1827 in Paris)
8 July 1881, Henry Coxe,
English scholarly writer died (born 20 September 1811).
1 July 1881, Ventura Ruiz
Aguilera, Spanish poet, died in Madrid.
26 June 1881, Theodor Benfrey,
German writer, died in Gottingen (born neat Gottingen 28 January 1809).
26 May 1881, Jakob Bernays,
German writer, died in Bonn (born in Hamburg 11 September 1824).
15 May 1881, Franz
Dinglestedt, German poet, died (born 30 June 1814).
3 May 1881, George Banks,
British writer, died in London (born in Birmingham 2 March 1821).
26 April 1881, John Gorham
Palfrey, US historical writer, died in Cambridge Massachusetts (born
in Boston Massachusetts 2 May 1796)
24 April 1881, James Fields,
US author, died (born 31 December 1817)
9 March 1881, James Spedding,
English author, died due to a cab accident in London (born 16 June 1808 in
Cumberland)
13 February 1881, Alexis Paulin
Paris, French scholarly writer, died in Paris (born 25 March 1800 in
Marne)
5 February 1881, Thomas Carlyle,
Scottish essayist, died at 5 Cheyne
Row, Chelsea, London.
2 February 1881, Alexey
Peesemsky, Russian novelist, died in Moscow (born 22 March 1820)
28 January 1881, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
died (born in Moscow, 30
October 1821, son of a surgeon) . His funeral cortege on 31 January 1881 was
followed by 30,000 people. He wrote,
amongst others, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.
16 November 1880, Alexander Blok,
poet, was born.
20 October 1880, Lydia Child,
US author, died (born 11 February 1802).
6 October 1880, Benjamin Pierce,
scholarly writer, died� in Cambridge,
Massachusetts (born 4 April 1809� in
Salem, Massachusetts
23 September 1880, Geraldine
Jewsbury, English writer, died (born 1812)
26 August 1880, Guillaume
Apollinaire, French poet, was born in Rome (died 9 November 1918 in
Paris)
5 August 1880, William
Kingston, English novelist, died (born 28 February 2814)
4 July 1880, George Ripley,
US writer, died in New York City (born 3 October 1802 in Massachusetts
27 June 1880, Helen Keller,
author, was born.
30 May 1880, James Robinson
Planche, English dramatist, died in Chelsea (born in London 27
February 1796)
8 May 1880, Gustave
Flaubert, French novelist, died (born 12 December 1821).
16 April 1880, Edward Kenealy,
Irish author died (born 2 July 1819).
22 March 1880, Kenelm Digby,
English writer, died (born 1800).
12 February 1880, Karl Holtei,
German poet, died (born 24 January 1798).
12 January 1880, Ida Hahn-Hahn,
German author, died (born 22 June 1805).
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26 December 1879, William Dixon,
English author, died (born 30 June 1821)
16 November 1879, Franz Anton
Schiefner, Russian scholarly writer, died (born 18 July 1817 in
Reval)
31 October 1879, Jacob Abbott,
US writer of books for children, died in Farmington, Maine.
28 October 1879, Marie Reybaud,
French writer, died in Paris (born 15 August 1799 in Marseilles)
2 October 1879, US poet Wallace Stevens was born in Reading,
Pennsylvania.
21 June 1879, Henry Creamer,
US author, was born.
15 May 1879, Gottfried
Semper, German writer on art, died in Rome (born 29 November 1803 in
Altona)
7 May 1879, Charles de
Coster, Belgian writer, died (20 August 1827).
20 March 1879, Johann Huber,
writer, died (born 18 August 1830)
2 March 1879, Jules Bastide,
French writer, died (born in Paris 2 November 1800).
21 January 1879, George Hillard,
US author, died (born 22 September 1808)
1 January 1879, E M Forster,
English
novelist, was born.
19 December 1878, Bayard Taylor,
US author, died in Berlin (born 11 January 1825 in Pennsylvania)
16 December 1878, Karl Gutzkow,
German novelist, died (born 17 March 1811).
6 November 1878, William Clark,
writer on Shakespeare, died (born 3/1821).
18 October 1878, David Laing,
Scottish writer, died (born 20 April 1793).
13 August 1878, George
Gilfillan, Scottish author, died (born 30 January 1813).
17 July 1878, Aleardo Aleardi,
Italian poet, died.
9 June 1878, Karl Lehrs,
German scholarly writer, died (born 2 June 1802)
8 March 1878, Wilhelm
Siegmund Teuffel, German scholarly writer, died in Tubingen (born 27
September 1820 in Wurttemberg)
6 January 1878, The US poet Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.
21 November 1877, Endre Ady,
Hungarian
poet (died 27 January 1919) was born.
15 November 1877, Pierre Lanfrey,
French writer, died (born 26 October 1838)
9 November 1877, Allama Muhammad
Iqbal, poet, was born.
28 October 1877, Julia Kavanagh,
British novelist, died.
16 October 1877, Theodore
Barriere, playwright, died in Paris (born in Paris 1823)
6 July 1877, Friedrich
Hacklander, German novelist, died (born 1 November 1816).
2 July 1877, Hermann Hesse,
writer, was born.
26 May 1877, Sir James
Kay-Shuttleworth, English educational writer, died (born 20 July 804).
30 April 1877, Alice B Toklas,
writer, was born.
10 April 1877, Andrew Halliday,
British writer, died (born 1830).
7 April 1877, Spanish
novelist Cecilia
Larrea (Fernan Caballero) died (born 24 December 1796).
13 March 1877, Charles Clarke,
British writer, died (born 15 December 1787)
6 March 1877, Joseph Autran,
French poet, died in Marseilles (born 20 June 1813 in Marseilles).
21 February 1877, John Oxenford,
English dramatist, died in Southwark (born 12 August 1812 in Camberwell)
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25 September 1876, Adolf
Glasbrenner, German satirical writer, was born (died 25 September 1876).
28 July 1876, Mortimer
Collins, English writer, died (born 29 June 1827).
18 July 1876, Karl Joseph
Simrock, German author, died in Bonn (born 28 August 1802 in Bonn)
14 July 1876, James Henry,
Irish scholarly writer, died (born 13 December 1798).
8 June 1876, George Sand,
author, died
4 June 1875, Eduard Morike,
German poet, died (born 8 September 1804).
29 May 1876, Friedrich Diaz,
German scholarly writer, died (born 15 March 1794).
24 May 1876, Henry Kingsley,
English novelist, died.
13 May 1876, Philip Meadows
Taylor, novelist, died in Mentone (born 25 September 1808 in
Liverpool)
12 May 1876, Henri Esquiros,
French writer, died (born 23 May 1812).
25 April 1876, Thomas Aird,
Scottish poet, died in Dumfries (born 28 August 1802 in Bowden, Roxburghshire).
17 April 1876, Ian Hay,
British author, was born.
18 March 1876, Ferdinand
Feiligrath, German poet, died (born 17 August 1810).
5 March 1876, Marie Agoult,
French author (born 31 December 1805 in Frankfort on Main) died in Paris.
27 December 1876, Frederik
Paludan Miller, Danish poet, died in Copenhagen (was born in Funen 7
February 1809)
7 January 1876, Juste Daniel
Oliver, Swiss poet, died in Geneva 9born 1807 near Nyon).
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29 November 1875, Thomas Key,
English scholarly writer, died (born 20 March 1799).
10 October 1875, Aleksey
Konstantinovich Tolstoy, novelist and poet, died.
19 September 1875, Thomas Wade,
English poet, died in Jersey (born 1805 in Woodbridge, Suffolk)
1 September 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
creator of Tarzan, was born in Chicago. He
never visited Africa where his stories were set.
19 August 1875, Hermann Ebel, German
scholarly writer, died (born 10 May 1820).
17 August 1875, Wilhelm Beek, German
scholarly writer, died in Cape Town.
15 August 1875, Robert Hawker, English
poet, died (born 3 December 1803).
4 August 1875, Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish
writer famous for his fairy stories,
died aged 70.
6 June 1875, Thomas Mann,
writer, was born.
14 May 1875, Gottfried
Bernhardy, scholarly writer, died (born in Landsberg 20 March 1800).
4 May 1875, Georg Ewald,
German scholarly writer, died (born 16 November 1803).
7 April 1875, Georg Herwegh,
German poet, died (born 31 May 1817)
6 March 1875, John Timbs,
English writer, died in London (born 17 August 1801 in Clerkenwell, London)
23 January 1875, Charles
Kingsley, English novelist, died (born 12 June 1819).
3 December 1874, Arthur Wimperis,
British author, was born in London (died 14 October 1953 in London)
20 November 1874, Tom Hood,
English writer, died (born 19 January 1835)
14 November 1874, William Sewell,
English author, died (born 23 January 1804 in Newport, Isle of Wight)
26 October 1874, Carl Cornelius, German
poet, died (born 24 December 1824).
23 October 1874, Abraham Geiger, German
scholarly writer, died (born 24 May 1810).
5 October 1874, Bryan Waller Proctor, English poet, died (born 21 November 1787 in
Leeds)
3 September 1874, Hans Gabelentz, German
scholarly writer, died (born 13 October 1807).
22 August 1874, Sydney Dobell,
English poet, died (born 5 April 1824).
19 June 1874, Jules Janin,
French writer, died (born 16 February 1804).
29 May 1874, G K Chesterton,
English writer, born.
4 April 1874, Charles Beule,
French writer, died (born in Saumur 29 June 1826),
26 March 1874, Robert Frost,
poet, was born.
8 February 1874, Herman Merivale,
English writer, died.
5 February 1874, Moritz Haupt,
German scholarly writer, died (born 27 February 1808).
25 January 1874, William
Somerset Maugham, writer, was born.
24 January 1874, Adam Black,
Scottish book publisher, died (born in Edinburgh 20 February 1784).
19 January 1874, August Hoffmann,
German writer, died (born 2 April 1798).
16 January 1874, Robert William
Service, Canadian poet, was born.
7 January 1874, Henry Bell,
Scottish writer, died (born in Glasgow 8 November 1803).
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8 November 1873, Manuel Breton
de los Herreros, Spanish dramatist, died (born 19 December 1796).
27 October 1873, Ernest-Aime
Feydeau, French writer, died (born 16 March 1821).
10 October 1873, Hermann Kurz,
German author, died.
4 October 1873, Margaret Gatty,
English writer, died (born 1809),
28 September 1873, Emile Gaboriau,
French novelist, died (born 9 November 1833).
26 September 1873, Julius Benedix,
German dramatist, died in Leipzig (born in Leipzig 21 January 1811).
5 August 1873, Edward Cope,
English scholarly writer, died (born 28 July 1818).
18 July 1873, Victor Chasles,
French writer, died (born 8 November 1798).
13 July 1873, Caroline Clive,
English authoress, died (born 1801).
29 June 1873, Michael Dutt,
Indian poet, died (born 25 January 1824).
27 May 1873, Pierre Lebrun,
French poet, died (born 29 November 1785).
23 April 1873, Wolfgang Menzel,
German poet, died.
16 April 1873, Joseph Glatigny,
French poet, died (born 21 May 1839).
9 March 1873, Charles Knight,
English author, died (born 15 March 1791).
2 February 1873, Gertrudis Gomez,
Spanish novelist, died (born 23 March 1814).
18 January 1873, Edward Lytton,
English novelist, died.
10 January 1873, Francesco
Dall�Ongaro, Italian writer, died (born 1808).
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1872, Through the Looking
Glass was published by Lewis Carroll.
23 December 1872, Theophile
Gautier, French poet, died (born 31 August 1811).
22 December 1872, George Catlin,
US scholarly writer, died (born 1796).
29 November 1872, Johann Baehr, German scholarly writer, died in
Heidelberg, 29 November 1872 (born in Darmstadt 13 June 1798).
14 November 1872, James Hadley,
US scholarly writer, died (born 30 March 1821).
3 November 1872, Vladimir Dahl,
Russian author, died (born 1802).
2 October 1872, Francis Lieber,
US-German writer, died (born 18 March 1800).
8 September 1872, Paolo Guidici,
Italian writer, died in Tonbridge, England (born 1812).
2 September 1872, Nikolai Grundtvig,
Danish writer, died (born 8 September 1783).
15 July 1872, Harry Clifton,
British author, died in Shepherd�s Bush, London
27 June 1872, Paul Dunbar,
US author, was born (died 8 February 1906).
21 June 1872, Robert Eduard
Prutz, German writer, died in Stettin (born 30 May 1816 in Stettin)
23 May 1872, Sir Henry
Bulwer, British author, died (born 13 February 1801).
13 May 1872, Moritz Hartmann,
German poet, died (born 15 October 1821)
28 March 1872, William Henry
Smith, English author, died in Brighton (born 1808 in Hammersmith,
London)
6 February 1872, Auguste Gratry,
French author, died (born 10 March 1805).
31 January 1872, Zane Grey,
American Western writer, was born.
22 January 1872, Luise von
Ploennies, German poet, died in Darmstadt (born in Hanau 7 November
1803)
21 January 1872, Franz
Grillparzer, Austrian poet, was born (died 21 January 1872).
9 January 1872, Henry Halleck,
US writer, died (born 1815).
16 December 1871, Willibald
Alexis, novelist (born 26 September 1798 in Breslau) died in Arnstadt,
Thuringia.
10 September 1871, Richard Bentley,
book publisher, died (born in London 1794).
31 July 1871, Phoebe Cary,
US poet, (born 4 September 1824) died.
10 July 1871, Marcel Proust,
writer, was born.
22 May 1871, Eligius
Munch-Bellinghausen, Austrian poet, died.
27 April 1871, Charles Kock,
French novelist, died (born 21 May 1793).
22 April 1871, Melchior Meyr,
German writer, died (born 28 June 1810).
3 April 1871, Gustave
Flourens, French writer, died (born 4 August 1838).
17 March 1871, Robert Chambers,
Scottish author, died (born 10 July 1802).
12 February 1871, Alice Cary,
US poet, died (born 26 April 1820).
4 February 1871, Hermann
Puckler-Muskau, German author, died in Branitz (born 30 October 1785
in Muskau, Lusatia
2 February 1871, Jozsef Eotvos,
Hungarian writer, died (born 13 September 1813).
20 January 1871, Peirre Ponson
du Terrail, French
romantic writer (born 8 July 1829) died.
12 January 1871, Henry Alford, English scholarly writer (born 7
October 1810 in London) died in Canterbury,
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22 December 1870, Gustavo Becquer,
Spanish writer, died in Madrid (born in Seville 17 February 1836).
18 December 1870, Thomas
Doubleday, English author, died (born 2/1790)
5 December 1870, Alexandre Dumas,
French novelist, died (born 24 July 1802).
12 November 1870, Bogumil Goltz,
German writer, died (born 20 March 1801).
1 November 1870, Stephen Crane,
US writer, was born (died 5 June 1900).
20 July 1870, Lucien Anatole
Prevost-Paradol, French writer, born 8 August 1829, died of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound.
5 July 1870, Gustav Flugel,
German writer on the Orient, died (born 18 February 1802).
24 June 1870, Adam Gordon,
Australian poet, died (born 1833)
11 June 1870, William Gilmore
Simms, US author, died in Charleston (born 17 April 1806 in
Charleston, South Carolina)
Charles Dickens
9 June 1870, Charles Dickens, author,
born 7 February 1812 at Landport, Portsmouth, died at Godshill, near Rochester,
Kent, of a brain haemorrhage the previous evening.
2 December 1867, English author Charles
Dickens drew large crowds in New York to his readings of his novels
there.
9
June 1865,
Charles Dickens was involved in a train crash
at Staplehurst in Kent. He had to return to the wreckage to salvage the
manuscript for a part of the story Our
Mutual Friend.
20 April 1859, Charles
Dickens� novel A Tale of Two
Cities was published.
7 August 1854, Charles
Dickens� 10th book, Hard
Times, was published in entirety.
12 September 1853, Charles
Dickens� 9th book, Bleak
House, was published in entirety.
14 November 1850, Charles
Dickens� 8th book, David
Copperfield, was published in entirety.
12 April 1848, Charles
Dickens� 7th book, Dombey
and Son, was published in entirety.
16 July 1844, Charles Dickens� 6th
book, The Life and Adventures of Martin
Chuzzlewit, was published in entirety.
15 December 1841, Charles
Dickens� 4th and 5th books, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, were published in
entirety.
23 October 1839, Charles
Dickens� 3rd book, The
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, was published in entirety.
9 November 1838, Charles
Dickens� 2nd book, The
Adventures of Oliver Twist, was published in entirety.
17 November 1837, Charles
Dickens� 1st book, The
Pickwick Papers, was published in entirety.
5 February 1824, Charles Dickens,
then aged 12, was sent out to work labelling shoe polish bottles.
7 February 1812, Author Charles Dickens
was born in Old Commercial Road, Landport, Portsmouth, the son of a clerk in
the navy pay office.
24 April 1870, Louisa Costello,
authoress, died (born 1799).
17 April 1870, Easter
Sunday. Ray
Stannard Baker, US author, was born in Lansing, Michigan (died 12
July 1946 in Amherst, Massachusetts.
16 March 1870, Henry Dixon,
English sports writer, died (born 16 May 1822).
5 March 1870, Frank Norris,
US novelist, was born in Chicago (died 25 October� 1902 in San Francisco).
25 February 1870, Henrik Hertz,
Danish poet, died (born 25 August 1798).
21 January 1870, Alexander
Hertzen, Russian author, died (born 1812).
18 January 1870, Samuel Bailey,
British author (born in Sheffield 1791) died.
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29 October 1869, Emile Descdhamps,
French poet, died (born 20 February 1791).
23 October 1869, John Conington,
English classical writer, died (born 10 August 1825)
13 October 1869, Charles Saint
Beuve, French writer, died in Paris (born 23 December 1804in
Boulogne sur Mer)
7 September 1869, Thomas Peronnet
Thompson, English scholarly writer, died in Blackheath, London (born
1783 in Hull)
10 August 1869, Laurence Binyon,
English poet, was born in Lancaster.
18 July 1869, Louis Bouilhet,
French poet, died in Rouen (born in Cany 27 May 1822).
14 July 1869, Lucie
Duff-Gordon, writer, died (born 24 June 1821)
3 June 1869, John Broughton,
English writer, died (born 27 June 1786)
1 April 1869, Edmond Rostand,
French dramatist, was born.
28 February 1869, Alphonse
Lamartine, French poet and writer, died (born 21 October 1790).
30 January 1869, William
Carleton, Irish novelist, died (born 4 March 1794).
20 January 1869, Carl Gottling,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19 January 1793).
15 January 1869, Sir Henry Ellis,
writer, died (born 29 November 1777)
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8 December 1868, Norman Douglas,
British writer (died in Capri, Italy, 9 February 1952) was born in Deeside,
Scotland.
6 December 1868, August
Schliecher, German scholarly writer, died in Jena (born 10 February
1821 in Meiningen)
17 October 1868, Bernhard Beskow,
Swedish dramatist, died (born 10 April 1796).
25 August 1868, Jacob van
Lennep, Dutch poet and novelist, died.
4 August 1868, Jacques Boucher,
French writer, died in Abbeville (born in Rethel 10 September 1788).
6 July 1868, Samuel Lover,
Irish novelist, died (born 24 February 1797).
29 May 1868, Franz Pfeiffer,
German scholarly writer, died 29 May 1868 in Vienna (born 27 February 1815)
25 May 1868, Rene Weil
(Romain Coolus), French dramatist, was born in Rennes.
7 April 1868, Thomas McGee,
Canadian writer, died.
22 February 1868, Ren Shields,
US writer, was born in Chicago (died 25 October 1913 in Massapequa, New York)
23 January 1868, Janos Erdelyi,
Hungarian poet, died (born 1814)
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19 November 1867, Fitz-Greene
Halleck, US poet, died (born 8 July 1790).
14 November 1867, Jacques Brunet,
French writer, died (born 2 November 1780).
23 October 1867, Franz Bopp,
German scholarly writer, died (born in Mainz 14 July 1791).
10 October 1867, Julius Mosen,
German writer, died.
27 September 1867, Louis Desire
Veron, French author, died in Paris (born 5 April 1798 in Paris)
31 August 1867, Charles Baudelaire, French poet, died in Paris
(born in Paris 9 April 1821).
23 August 1867, Auguste
Barthelemy, French poet, died in Marseilles (born 1796).
16 August 1867, Friedrich Haase,
German scholarly writer, died (4 January 1808).
4 August 1867, John Galsworthy,
English novelist, was born.
29 July 1867, Charles Anthon,
US writer, died in New York (born 19 November 1797 in New York City)
7 July 1867, Francois
Ponsard, French playwright, died in Paris (born 1 June 1814 in
Bienne)
27 May 1867, Enoch Arnold
Bennett, British
novelist, was born.
12 April 1867, Robert Bell,
Irish writer, died (born in Cork 16 January 1800)
5 January 1867, Alexander Smith,
Scottish poet, died (born 31 December 1830 in Kilmarnock)
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20 December 1866, Ann Taylor,
children�s writer, died in Nottingham (born 30 January 1782 in London)
13 December 1866, Joseph
Robertson, Scottish writer, died (born in Aberdeen 17 May 1810).
6 November 1866, Ernst Friedrich
Poppo, German scholarly writer, died in Frankfort on Oder (born 13
August 1794 in Brandenburg)
2 October 1866, Carl Buck,
US scholarly writer, was born.
21 September 1866, Author H G Wells was born at Bromley, Kent.�
He was the son of a professional cricketer.
14 September 1866, Leon Gozlan,
French novelist, died (born 1 September 1806).
27 August 1866, Eugene de Bully,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Paris 8 November 1806).
6 August 1866, Christian
Fahlcrantz, Swedish author, died (born 30 August 1790).
28 July 1866, Beatrix Potter,
author and illustrator of children�s books, and creator of Peter Rabbit,
was born in South Kensington, London.
18 May 1866, Francis
Mahony, Irish author, died.
6 May 1866, Henry
Blossom, US author, was born in St Louis, Missouri (died 23 March 1919
in New York).
29 March 1866, John
Keble, English poet, died.
24 March 1866, Roualeyn
Gordon-Cumming, Scottish writer, died (born 15 March 1820).
21 March 1866, Charles Cooper,
English writer, died (born 20 March 1808).
23 February 1866, Laurent
de Jussieu, scholarly writer, died.
9 February 1866, George
Ade, US author, was born (died 16 May 1944)
31 January 1866, Johann
Ruckert, German poet, died near Coburg (born 16 May 1788 in
Schweinfurt)
29 January 1866, Eliphalet
Nott, US religious writer, died�
in New York State (born in Ashford, Connecticut 25 June 1773)
23 January 1866, Thomas
Love Peacock, English novelist, died in Chertsey (born 18 October
1785 in Weymouth)
20 January 1866, Richard
le Gallienne, English poet, was born.
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1865,
Alice in Wonderland was published by Lewis Carroll.
31 December 1865,
Fredrika
Bremer, novelist, died (born 17 August 1801)
30 December 1865, Rudyard Kipling, story and verse writer, was born in Bombay.
3 December 1865, Joseph Marie
Querard, French bibliographer, died in Paris (born 25 December 1797
in Rennes)
1 December 1865, Abraham
Frohlich, Swiss poet, died (born 1 February 1796).
12 November 1865, Elizabeth
Gaskell, English novelist, died (born 29 September 1810).
15 October 1865, Andres Bello,
poet, died in Santiago, Chile (born in Caracas, Venezuela, 29 November 1781)
30 September 1865, Dudley Costello,
English novelist, died (born 1803).
27 August 1865, Thomas
Haliburton, English writer, died (born 1796).
4 August 1865, William Aytoun,
Scottish poet, died in Blackhills near Elgin (born 21 June 1813).
2 August 1865, Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
(Charles
Dodgson) was published.
11 July 1865, Richard
Hildreth, US writer, died (born 28 June 1807)
28 June 1865, Isaac Taylor,
English author, died near Ongar, Essex (born 7 August 1787 in Lavenham,
Suffolk)
13 June 1865, Irish writer William Butler Yeats was born.
29 May 1865, Nicolas Geruzez,
French writer, died (born 6 January 1799)
4 May 1865, Henry Christy,
English scholarly writer, died (born 26 July 1818).
27 March 1865, Petrus
Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholarly writer, died in Hilversum (born in
Groningen 2 February 1786)
25 March 1865, Otto
Ludwig, German novelist, died.
11 March 1865, Sir
Robert Hermann Schomburgk, British travel writer, died in Berlin
(born 5 June 1804 in Saxony)
28 February 1865, Arthur
Symons, English poet, was born in Wales.
27 February 1865, Miklos
Josika, Hungarian novelist, died.
18 January 1865, Charles
Greville, English diarist, died (born 2 April 1794).
15 January 1865, Edward Everett,
US writer, died (born 11 April 1794)
28 December 1864, Henri
Regnier, French poet, was born in Honfleur.
11 December 1864, Maurice
Leblanc, French novelist, was born.
10 December 1864, Henry
Rowe Schoolcraft, US writer, died in Washington (born 28 March 1793)
3 December 1864, Hermann
Heijermans, Dutch writer, was born
17 September 1864, Walter
Landor, English writer, died (born 30 January 1775).
31 July 1864, Louis Hachette,
French publisher, died (born 5 May 1800).
26 July 1864, Andras Fay,
Hungarian poet, died (born 30 May 1786)
1 July 1864, Josiah
Quincy, US author, died (born in Boston, Massachusetts 4 February
1772)
26 May 1864, Karl
Anton Postl, German novelist, died in Switzerland (born 3 March 1793
in Moravia)
20 May 1864, John Clare,
English poet, died (born 13 July 1793).
26 March 1864, Jan Baake,
Dutch writer, died (born 1 September 1787)
16 March 1864, Robert
Smith Surtees, English novelist, died.
17 February 1864, Banjo
Paterson, poet, was born.
6 February 1864, Vuk
Karajich, famous Serbian writer, died (born 6 November 1787).
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24 December 1863, William
Thackeray, poet,
died in London.
13 December 1863, Christian
Hebbel, German poet, died (born 18 March 1813).
21 November 1863, Sir
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, English writer, was born in Cornwall.
9 November 1863, Johann
Doderlein, German scholarly writer, died (born 19 December 11791).
1 November 1863, Arthur
Morrison, English novelist, was born.
17 September 1863, Alfred
de Vigny, French poet, died
14 September 1863, Joseph Gwilt,
British architectural writer, died (born 11 January 1784)
5 September 1863, Giuseppe
la Farina, Italian author, died.
12 March 1863, Gabriele
D�Annunzio, Italian poet, was born.
9 February 1863, Anthony Hope,
British novelist, was born.
6 January 1863, Charles Dance,
English writer, died (born 1794).
24 December 1862, John Leycester
Adolphus, English author, died.
30 November 1862, James
Knowles, Irish dramatist, died (born 12 May 1784).
15 November 1862, Gerhart
Hauptmann, German dramatist, was born.
26 November 1862, Julia
Pardoe, English writer, died (born 1806 in Beverley, Yorkshire)
23 November 1862, Sir
Gilbert Parker, British novelist, was born in Ontario.
13 November 1862, Johann
Ludwig Uhland, German poet, died in Tubingen (born 26 April 1787 in
Tubingen)
11 November 1862, Jacob Geel,
Dutch writer, died (born 12 November 1789).
13 October 1862, Mary
Kingsley, writer, was born (died 3 June 1900).
27 August 1862, Thomas Hogg,
English writer, died (born 24 May 1792).
26 August 1862, Alfred Gudeman,
US scholarly writer, was born.
23 August 1862, Friedrich
Hammer, German poet, died (born 7 June 1810).
17 July 1862, Oscar
Levertin, Swedish writer, was bor.
6 May 1862, Henry Thoreau,
writer, died of tuberculosis.
26 February 1862, Cornelius
Felton, US scholarly writer, died (born 6 November 1807).
24 February 1862, Bernhard
Ingemann, Danish poet, died (born 28 May 1789).
21 February 1862, Justinus
Kerner, German poet, died.
16 February 1862, Leopold
Schefer, German novelist, died (born 30 July 1784)
5 February 1862, Ignaz Castelli,
Austrian dramatist, died (born 6 March 1781).
24 January 1862, Edith
Wharton, writer, was born.
3 December 1861, David Gray,
Scottish poet, died (born 29 January 1838).
30 November 1861, Theodor
Mundt, German author, died (born 19 September 1808).
16 November 1861, Georg Freytag,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19 September 1788).
13 November 1861, Arthur Clough,
English poet, died (born 1 January 1819).
22 July 1861, Gregor
Wilhelm Nitzsch, German scholarly writer, died in Leipzig (born 22
November 1790 in Wittenberg).
29 June 1861, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, poet, died
21 June 1861, Ludwig
Preller, German scholarly writer, died in Weimar (born 15 September
1809 in Hamburg)
10 February 1861, John Donaldson,
English scholarly writer, died (born 7 June 1811).
28 January 1861, Henry
Murger, French writer, was born (died 28 January 1861)
24 January 1861, Johann
Gottfried Stallbaum, German scholarly writer, died (born 25
September 1793 in Saxony)
22 January 1861, Maurice Hewlitt,
English novelist, was born.
12 January 1861, Wenceslaus
Hanka, Bohemiam scholarly writer, died (born 10 June 1791).
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22 December 1860, Marian Evans,
who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, died (born 22 November 1819).
28 November 1860, Christian
Bunsen, German scholarly writer, died (born 25 August 1791).
24 November 1860, George Croly,
British author, died (born 17 August 1780).
23 November 1860, Maria
Bashkirtseff, Russian writer, was born in Gavrontsi (died 31 October
1884).
8 November 1860, Sir Charles
Fellows, writer, died (born 8/1799).
24 September 1860, Samuel Crockett,
Scottish novelist, was born.
4 July 1860, Joseph
Pennell, US author, was born in Philadelphia.
9 June 1860, George James,
English novelist, died (born 9 August 1799)
23 May 1860, Albert
Richard Smith, English author, died in Fulham, London (born 24 May 1816
in Chertsey, Surrey)
9 May 1860, James Barrie,
British novelist, was born in Kirriemuir.
28 April 1860, Isaak da Costa,
Dutch poet, died (born 14 January 1798).
6 April 1860, James
Kirke Paulding, US writer, died (born in New York State 22 August
1778)
1 April 1860, William
Mure, Scottish scholarly writer, died (born 9 July 1799).
17 March 1860, Anna Jameson,
British writer, died (born 17 May 1794).
29 January 1860, Ernst Moritz
Arndt, German poet, died in Bonn (born 26 December 1769 in Schoritz,
Rugen)
28 January 1860, Joseph
Addison Alexander, US scholarly writer (born 24 April 1809 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) died in Princeton.
17 January 1860,� Anton Chekhov, Russian
author, was born at Taganrog, son of a shopkeeper.
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21 December 1859, Gustave Kahn,
French poet, was born.
16 December 1859, Wilhelm Grimm,
co-author with his brother Jacob of fairy tales, died in Berlin.
8 December 1859, Thomas de
Quincy, English author, died (born 15 August 1785).
28 November 1859, Washington
Irvine, US writer, died (born 3 April 1783).
22 November 1859, Cecil James
Sharp, British author, was born in London (died 23 June 1924 in
London)
16 November 1859, William
Spalding, British author, died in St Andrews (born 22 May 1809 in
Aberdeen)
28 September 1859, Karl Ritter,
German geographical writer, died in Berlin (born 7 August 1779 in Quedlinburg)
28 August 1859, James Hunt,
English writer, died (born 19 October 1784).
14 July 1859, Petrus Borel,
French writer, died in Algeria.
2 May 1859, Jerome K Jerome,
author, was born at Walsall.
30 April 1859, Sergei Aksakov,
Russian writer (born 20 September 1791) died.
21 April 1859, Carl Nagelsbach,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28 March 1806).
14 April 1859, Sydney Morgan,
British authoress, died.
27 February 1859, Friedrich Bleek, German scholarly
writer,
died (born in Holstein 4 July 1793).
20 January 1859, Elisabeth Arnim,
German authoress, died in Berlin (born 4 April 1785 in Frankfort am Main).
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25 November 1858, Alfred Capus,
French author, was born.
31 October 1858, Sir William
Reid, Scottish writer, died in London (born 25 April 1791 in
Fifeshire)
10 October 1858, Karl August
Varnhagen von Ense, German writer, died in Berlin (born 21 February
1785 in Dusseldorf)
3 June 1858, Edward Moxon,
British poet, died.
3 May 1858, Julien Brizeux,
poet, died (born 12 September 1803).
6 April 1858, Charles Bennett,
US scholarly writer, was born in Providence, Rhode Island.
26 March 1859, Alfred Edward
Housmam, poet, was born.
10 March 1859, Kenneth Grahame,
children�s writer, was born.
24 January 1858, Constance Naden,
English author, was born (died 23 December 1889).
19 January 1858, Eugene Brieux,
French dramatist, was born.
3 December 1857, Joseph Conrad,
writer, was born.
22 November 1857, George Gissing,
English novelist, was born (died 28 December 1903).
19 November 1857, Albert Harkness,
US scholarly writer, was born.
2 November 1857, Paul Hervieu,
French novelist, was born,
30 September 1857, Hermann
Sudermann, German dramatist, was born in East Prussia.
8 September 1857, Jean Boissonade,
French scholarly writer, died (born in Paris 12 August 1774).
27 August 1857, Rufus Griswold,
US writer, died (born 15 February 1815).
10 August 1857, John Croker,
British author, died (born 20 December 1780)
3 August 1857, Eugene Sue,
French novelist, died in Annecy, Savoy (born 20 January 1804 in Paris)
24 July 1857, Henrik
Pontoppidan, Danish aiuthor, was born in Fredericia.
8 June 1857, Douglas Jerrold,
English writer, died (born 3 January 1803).
11 April 1857, John Davidson,
British writer, was born (died 23 March 1909)
31 March 1857, Edouard Rod,
novelist, was born in Nyon, Switzerland (died Jamuary 1910)
26 March 1857, John Kemble,
English scholarly writer, died.
26 February 1857, Charles Monroe
Sheldon, US writer, was born.
4 November 1856, Ernest Crosby,
US writer, was born (died 1907).
3 November 1856, Marcelino
Menendez y Pelayo, Spanish scholarly writer, was born.
30 September 1856, Joseph Reinach,
French author, was born in Paris.
23 September 1856, William Archer,
English writer, was born in Perth.
20 September 1856, John Brown,
Scottish writer, died (born 23 February 1817)
12 September 1856, William Sharp,
Scottish poet, was born in Paisley (died 12 December 1905)
8 August 1856, Thomas Guthrie,
English novelist, was born.
22 July 1856, Charles St John,
English author, died near Southampton (born 3 December 1809)
2 July 1856, Thomasine
Gyllembourg, Danish writer, died (born 9 November 1773).
22 June 1856, Henry Haggard,
English novelist was born.
11 June 1856, Friedrich Hagen,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19 February 1780).
22 May 1856, James Gates
Percival, US poet, died in Wisconsin (born 15 September 1795 in
Connecticut)
25 April 1856, Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson, or Lewis Carroll, met the young Alice Liddell,
who was the inspiration for his Alice books.
15 April 1856, Jean Moreas,
French poet, was born (died 31 March 1910).
27 February 1856, Agnes Duclaux,
English poet, was born.
11 January 1856, Friedrich
Schneidewin, German scholarly writer, died in Gottingen (born 6 June
1810 in Helmstedt)
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31 December 1855, Karl Hermann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 4 August 1804).
26 December 1855, August Follen,
German poet, died (born 21 January 1794).
15 December 1855, Maurice Bouchor,
French poet, was born in Paris.
16 November 1855, Josef Lauff,
German poet, was born.
9 September 1855, Houston
Chamberlain, writer, was born in Portsmouth (died 9 January 1927 in
Bayreuth).
3 August 1855, Henry Bunner,
US writer, was born (died 11 May 1896).
21 July 1855, Daniel Atterbom,
Swedish poet, died.
18 July 1855, Samuel Rogers,
English poet, died in London (born 30 July 1763 in Newington Green, London
2 June 1855, Thomas Gaisford,
English scholarly writer, died (born 22 December 1779).
24 June 1855, Johann Flugel,
German writer, died (born 22 November 1788)
29 May 1855, Percy Smythe,
writer, died.
24 May 1855, Sir Arthur Wing
Pinero, English dramatist, was born in London
21 May 1855, Emile Verhaeren,
Belgian poet, was born near Antwerp
31 March 1855, Charlotte
Bronte, oldest of the three
literary sisters, died during pregnancy.
18 February 1855, Jean Jusserand,
French author, was born.
25 January 1855, Gerard de
Nerval, French writer, died (born 22 May 1808).
10 January 1855, Mary Mitford,
English novelist, died.
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9 December 1854, Joao Garrett,
Portuguese poet, died (born 1799)
20 October 1854, Jean Arthur
Rimbaud, French poet, was born in Charleville (died 10 November
1891in Marseilles)
2 August 1854, Francis
Crawford, US author, was born (died 9 April 1909)
7 April 1854, Pierre Francois
Tissot, French writer, died in Paris (born 10 March 1768 in
Versailles)
13 March 1854, Sir Thomas Noon
Talfourd, English author, died in Stafford (born 26 May 1795 in
Reading)
31 January 1854, Silvio Pellico,
Italian dramatist, died (born 24 June 1788 in Piedmont)
26 December 1853, Rene Bazin,
French novelist, was born in Angers.
15 December 1853, Georg
Grotefrend, German writer, died (born 9 June 1775).
10 December 1853, Tommaso Grossi,
Lombard poet and novelist, died (born 20 July 1791).
5 November 1853, Janos Garay,
Hungarian poet, died (born 10 October 1812).
8 September 1853, Antoine
Frederic Ozanam, French scholarly writer, died of consumption in
Marseilles (born 23 April 1815 in Milan)
17 July 1853, William Gunion
Rutherford, English scholarly writer, was born in Peeblesshire (died
19 July 1907)
3 June 1853, Cesare Balbo,
Italian writer, died (born 1 November 1789 in Turin)
14 May 1853, Thomas Caine,
British novelist, was born.
7 May 1853, Matthias
Castren, Finnish scholarly writer, died (born 2 December 1813).
6 May 1853, Cortes Donoso,
Spanish author, died (born 6 May 1809)
28 April 1853, Johann Ludwig
Tieck, German writer, died (born in Berlin 31 May 1773)
27 April 1853, Francois
Lemaitre, French dramatist, was born.
6 March 1853, Albert Cook,
US scholarly writer, was born.
3 February 1853, August Kopisch,
German poet, died (born 29 May 1799).
24 October 1852, Henry Clinton,
English scholarly writer, died (born 14 January 1781).
2 September 1852, Paul Bourget,
French novelist, was born in Amiens.
12 June 1852, Xavier de
Maistre, French writer, died.
7 June 1852, Hosea Ballou,
US writer, died in Boston (born in Richmond, New Hampshire, 30 April 1771).
4 June 1852, Lucas Malet,
English novelist, was born.
20 April 1852, Bela Edwards,
US writer, died (born 4 July 1802).
18 March 1852, Ernst Raupach,
German dramatist, died in Berlin (born 21 March 1784 in Silesia)
5 March 1852, Marie Gay,
French author, died (born 1 July 1776).
25 February 1852, Thomas Moore,
Irish poet, died (born 28 May 1779).
21 February 1852, Nikolia Gogol,
Russian
story writer and novelist, died in
Moscow.
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3 November 1851, Clovis Hugues,
French poet, was born (died 11 June 1907).
18 October 1851, Herman
Melville�s work, Moby Dick,
was published in London.
10 October 1851, Melvil Dewey,
US librarian, was born.
28 September 1851, Henry Jones,
English dramatist, was born.
22 September 1851, Martha Mary
Sherwood, English author, died (born in Stanford, Worcestershire 6
May 1775)
16 September 1851, Emilio Pardo Bazan,
Spanish author, was born in Corunna.
14 September 1851, James Cooper,
US novelist, died (born 15 September 1789).
25 August 1851, George Lathrop,
US writer, was born.
17 August 1851, Henry Drummond,
Scottish scholarly writer, was born (died 11 March 1897).
7 August 1851, Johann Gruber,
German writer, died (born 29 November 1774).
6 July 1851, David Moir,
Scottish writer, died (born 5 January 1798).
2 July 1851, Gyorgy Fejer,
Hungarian author, died (born 23 April 1766)
23 May 1851, Richard Lalor
Sheil, Irish writer, died iin Florence, Italy (born 17 August 1791
in Tipperary)
28 March 1851, Gabor Dobrentei,
Hungarian writer, died (born 1786).
27 March 1851, Karl Dindorf,
German scholarly writer, died (2 January 1802).
14 March 1851, Ferdinand Hand,
German scholarly writer, died (born 15 February 1786).
13 March 1851, Karl Lachmann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 4 March 1793).
5 March 1851, Ermete Novelli,
Italian playwright, was born in Lucca.
1 February 1851, Mary Shelley,
author of Frankenstein, died.
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21 December 1850, James Lane
Allen, US novelist, was born near Lexington, Kentucky.
19 November 1850, Alfred Lord
Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate, a post he held until his death
in 1892.
13 November 1850, Writer Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh,
at 8 Howard Place.� His father and
grandfather were lighthouse builders.
3 November 1850, John Watson,
writer, was born (died 6 May 1907).
5 October 1850, William Gibson,
US writer, was born (died 16 July 1896).
5 September 1850, James Ingram,
English writer, died (born 21 December 1774).
27 August 1850, Thomas Kidd,
English scholarly writer, died.
25 August 1850, Edgar Wilson
Nye, US humourist writer, was born in Shirley, Maine (died 22
February 1896 in Arden, North Carolina).
22 August 1850, Nikolaus von
Strehlenau, Austrian poet, died (born 15 August 1802).
18 August 1850, Honore de
Balzac, French
writer, died in Paris.
13 August 1850, Philip Marston,
English poet, was born (died 13 February 1887).
6 August 1850, Henri
Chantavoine, French writer, was born.
5 August 1850, Henri
Maupassant, French novelist, was born (died 6 July 1893)
12 July 1850, Robert Stevenson,
scholarly writer, died in Edi nburgh (born 8 June 1772 in Glasgow)
16 June 1850, Margaret Fuller,
US authoress, died (born 23 May 1810).
24 May 1850, Jane Porter,
English
novelist (born 1776) died.
12 May 1850, Henry Lodge,
US author, was born.
23 April 1850, Sir William
Wordsworth, Poet Laureate from 1843, died of pleurisy at Rydal
Mount, Grasmere, aged 80.
7 April 1850, William Bowles,
English poet, died in Salisbury (born in Northamptonshire 24 September 1762).
25 March 1850, Edward Bellamy,
US writer, was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts (died in Chicopee Falls 22
May 1898).
16 February 1850, Octave Mirabeau,
French dramatist, was born.
26 January 1850, Francis Jeffrey,
Scottish writer, died (born 23 October 1773).
24 January 1850, Charles
Craddock, US author, was born.
20 January 1850, Adam Gottlob
Ohlenschlager, Danish poet, died (born 14 November 1779 in
Vesterbro, Copengahen)
19 January 1850, Augustine
Birrell, author, was born near Liverpool.
14 January 1850, Louis Viaud,
French author, was born.
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26 December 1849, Francis Brown,
USA Semitic scholar and writer, was born.
20 December 1849, Michail
Eminescu, Romanian poet, was born (died 1889).
24 November 1849, Frances Burnett, novelist,
was born.
7 October 1849, Edgar Allen Poe,
US fiction writer, died aged
40, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1 October 1849, Anne
Edgren-Leffler, Swedish author, was born (died 21 October 1892).
21 September 1849, Edmund Gosse,
English poet, was born.
3 September 1849, Ernst
Feuchtersleben, Austrian poet, died (born 29 April 1806).
29 August 1849, Jean Buchon,
French scholarly writer, died (born 21 May 1791).
3 August 1849, William Henley,
British poet, was born (died 11 July 1903).
31 July 1849, Alexander
Petofi, Hungarian poet, died (born 1 January 1823)
29 July 1849, Max Simon
Nordau, German author, was born in Budapest.
25 July 1849, James Kenney,
English dramatist, died.
12 July 1849, Horace Smith,
English writer, died in Tunbridge Wells (born 31 December 1779 in London)
6 July 1849, Goffredo Mameli,
Italian poet, died.
20 June 1849, James Mangan,
Irish poet, died (born 1 May 1803).
4 June 1849, Marguerite
Blessington, Irish novelist, died in Paris (born in County Tipperary
1 September 1789).
28 May 1849, Anne Bronte,
English novelist, died in
Scarborough, Yorkshire, aged 29.
22 May 1849, Maria Edgeworth,
Irish novelist, died (born 1 July 1767).
11 May 1849, Jeanne Recamier,
French literary socialite, died in Paris (born 4 December 1777 in Lyons)
27 April 1849, Severino
Fabriani, Italian writer, died (born 7 January 1792).
28 March 1849, James
Darmesteter, French author, was born (died 19 October 1894).
10 February 1849, Bernard Barton,
English poet, died in Woodbridge (born in Carlisle 31 January 1784)
4 February 1849, Jean Richepin,
French novelist, was born in Medea, Algeria.
26 January 1849, Thomas Beddoes,
English dramatist, died (born in Clifton 20 July 1803).
22 January 1849, August
Strindberg, playwright,
was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
6 January 1849, Hartley
Coleridge, English writer, died (born 19 September 1796).
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31 December 1848, Johann Hermann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28 November 1772).
19 December 1848, Emily Bronte, English novelist who wrote Wuthering Heights, born 30 July 1818, died
from tuberculosis.
16 November 1848, Charles Bemont, scholarly
writer, was born in Paris
25 October 1848, Karl Franzos, German
novelist, was born (died 28 January 1904).
9 August 1848, Frederick Marryat, English novelist, died.
3 August 1848, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, English writer, died near Bolougne, France
(born 10 March 1799 in Dartmouth).
9 July 1848, Jaime Balmes,
Spanish writer, died in Vich (born in Vich, Catalonia, 28 August 1810).
5 July 1848, William Butler,
Irish writer, died.
24 May 1848, Annette Droste-Hulshoff,
German poet, died (born 10 January 1797).
3 April 1848, Georges Ohnet,
French novelist, was born in Paris.
26 March 1848, John Collins,
English literary critic, was born (died 15 September 1908)
14 February 1848, William Tennant,
Scottish author, died (born in Fife 15 May 1784)
5 February 1848, Joris Huysmans,
French novelist, was born (died 13 May 1907).
29 January 1848, Johann Gorres,
German writer, died (born 25 January 1776)
25 January 1848, Louis Vicaire,
French poet, was born in Belfort (died in Paris 23 September 1900)
26 December 1847, Hugh Conway,
novelist, was born (died 15 May 1885).
17 December 1847, Emile Faguet,
French writer, was born.
11 December 1847, Moritz
Strachwitz, German poet, died in Vienna (born 13 March 1822 in
Silesia)
19 November 1847, Mary Foote,
US author, was born.
18 November 1847, William Edward
Norris, English novelist, was born.
8 November 1847, Bram Stoker,
author of Dracula, was born in Dublin.
16 October 1847, Jane Eyre was first published.
2 September 1847, George Robert
Sims, English author, was born.
14 August 1847, Frans Franzen
Swedish poet, died (born 9 February 1772)
29 May 1847, Alexander
Everett, US writer, died (born 19 March 1790)
4 May 1847, Alexendre
Rodolphe Vinet, French scholarly writer, died (born 17 June 1797
near Lausanne)
7 April 1847, Jens Jacobsen,
Danish writer, was born (died 30 April 1885).
30 March 1847, Christian
Jacobs, German scholarly writer, died (born 6 October 1764).
23 November 1846, George Darley,
Irish poet, died (born 1795)
8 November 1846, William
Robertson Smith, Scottish scholarly writer, was born in Keig,
Aberdeenshire (died 31 March 1894 in Cambridge)
2 November 1846, Esaias Tegner,
Swedish writer, (died� in Vexlo (born 13
November 1782 in Kyrkerud, Wermland)
21 October 1846, Edmondo de
Amicis, Italian writer, was born in Oneglia, Liguria (died in
Bordighera, 12 March 1908).
9 October 1846, Holger
Drachmann, Danish poet, was born (died 14 January 1908).
19 September 1846, Henry Francis
Pelham, scholarly writer, was born in Norfolk (died 13 February
1907)
9 September 1846, Henri Marion,
French philosophical writer, was born (died 5 April 1896).
4 September 1846, Victor Jouy,
Frenchy dramatist, died (born 12 September 1764).
31 July 1846, Theodore Fix,
Swiss writer, died (born 1800).
24 April 1846, Marcus Clarke,
US author, was born (died 2 August 1881)
10 April 1846, Etienne Pivert
de Senancour, French author, died in St Cloud (born November 1770 in
Paris)
31 March 1846, Comte de
Lautreamont, writer, was born.
19 February 1846, Charles
Clermont-Ganneau, writer on the Orient, was born.
7 January 1846, John Frere,
English author, died (born 21 May 1769).
6 January 1846, Lewis Goldsmith,
Anglo-French writer, died.
5 January 1846, Rudolf Eucken,
scholarly writer, was born.
25 November 1845, Jose Maria Eca
del Quieroz, Portuguese writer was born (died in Paris, 16 August 1900)
23 October 1845, George
Saintsbury, English writer, was born in Southampton.
10 October 1845, William Minto,
Scottish writer, was born (died 1 March 1893).
15 September 1845, Thomas Davis,
Irish poet, died (born 14 October 1814).
17 June 1845, Richard Barham,
English writer, died (born in Canterbury 6 December 1788).
10 May 1845, Benito Perez
Galdon, Spanish novelist, was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
3 May 1845, Thomas Hood, poet, died.
30 March 1845, Alexandre Soumet, French poet, died (born in Aude 8 February
1788)
15 February 1845, Samuel Blanchard, British author, died (born in Great Yarmouth 15 February 1804)
13 February 1845, Henrik Steffens, German poet, died in Berlin (born 2 May 1773
in Stavanger)
28 January 1845, Christoph Houwald, German author, died (born 28 November 1778)
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23 October 1844, Robert Bridges, poet laureate, was born.
12 October 1844, George Cable, US
author, was born.
24 September 1844, Robert Jamieson, Scottish
writer, died.
18 September 1844, John Sterling, British author, died in Ventnor, Isle of Wight (born 20 July 1806 in
Bute)
28 July 1844, Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, was born.
17 June 1844, Hartwig Derenbourg, writer, was born (died 1908).
16 April 1844, Anatole France, French
novelist, was born.
30 March 1844, Paul Verlaine, French poet, was born (died 8 January 1896)
24 March 1844, Antoine Lemonnier, Belgian poet, was born.
31 March 1844, Andrew Lang, British writer, was born.
24 February 1844, William Clark Russell, British author, was born in New York City.
27 January 1844, Charlies Nodier, French author, died (born 29 April 1780 in
Besancon).
13 December 1843, Some 6,000
copies of Charles Dicken�s �A Christmas Carol�
were sold on the first day of publication.
21 October 1843, William Pinnock,
English writer, died in London (born 3 February 1782 in Alton, Hampshire)
15 October 1843, John Foster,
English writer, died (born 17 September 1770)
26 September 1843, James Rice,
English novelist, was born in Northampton (died 26 April 1882 in Redhill)
2 September 1843, James Tate,
English scholarly writer, died (born 11 June 1771 in Richmond, Yorkshire)
13 July 1843, Jean Lanessan,
French writer, was born.
9 June 1843, Bertha Suttner,
Austrian writer, was born in Prague.
7 June 1843, Johann
Holderlin, German poet, died (born 20 March 1770).
18 May 1843, Friedrich
Christoph Perthes, German book publisher, died in Gotha (born 21
April 1772)
30 April 1843, William Stewart
Rose, English poet, died (born 1775)
15 April 1843, Henry James,
US author, was born.
6 April 1843, William Wordsworth was appointed poet laureate, the day before his 73rd
birthday.
21 March 1843, Robert Southey,
English writer, died (born 12 August 1774 in Bristol)
6 February 1843, Frederic Myers,
English poet, was born (died 17 January 1901)
23 January 1843, Friedrich
Fouque, German writer, died (born 12 February 1777).
22 January 1843, Friedrich Blass,
German scholarly writer, was born in Osnabruck (died in Halle 5 March 1907).
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8 December 1842, Gregor Csiky,
Hungarian dramatist, was born (died 19 November 1891).
7 December 1842, Thomas Hamilton,
Scottish writer, died (born 1789).
26 November 1842, Alexandre
Beljame, French writer, was born in Villiers (died in Domont 19
September 1906).
22 November 1842, Jose Heredia,
French poet, was born (died 3 October 1905).
9 November 1842, Marie Gerando,
French philosophical writer, died (born 29 February 1772).
30 October 1842, Allan
Cunningham, Scottish poet, died (born 7 December 1784).
28 October 1842, Anna Dickinson,
US writer, was born.
1 September 1842, Alexandre Duval,
French dramatist, died (born 6 April 1767).
21 August 1842, William Maginn,
Irish poet, died (born 10 July 1793)
14 August 1842, Henry Duff
Traill, Britiush author, was born in Blackheath, London (died 21
February 1900 in London)
28 July 1842, Klemens
Brentano, German poet and novelist, died (born 8 September 1778).
17 July 1842, William
Courthorpe, English writer, was born.
25 June 1842, Jean Sismondi,
Swiss scholarly writer, died in Geneva (born 9 May 1773 in Geneva)
24 June 1842, Ambrose Bierce,
writer and satirist, was born.
23 May 1842, Jose Espronceda,
Spanish poet, died (born 25 March 1808).
21 April 1842, Charles Adams,
US poet (died 8 March 1918) was born.
18 April 1842, Anthero de
Quental, Portuguese poet, was born in The Azores (died 11 September
1891)
14 April 1842, Jean Bouilly,
French writer, died in Paris (born near Tours 24 January 1763)
18 March 1842, Stephane
Mallarme, French poet, was born (died 9 September 1898).
24 February 1842, Arrigo Boito,
Italian poet, was born in Padua.
23 February 1842, Marie Beyle,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Grenoble 23 January 1783).
12 February 1842, Henri
Leroy-Beaulieu, French writer, was born.
3 February 1842, Sidney Lanier,
US poet, was born (died 7 September 1881).
16 January 1842, Mahadeo Govind
Ranade, Indian author, was born in Niphad (died 16 January 1901)
12 January 1842, Francois Coppee,
French novelist and poet, was born (died 23 May 1908).
10 November 1841, Joaquin Miller,
US poet, was born.
3 November 1841, Isabella Alden,
US author,
was born (died 1930).
16 September 1841, Thomas Dibdin,
English dramatist, died (born 21 March 1771).
24 August 1841, Theofore Hook,
English author, died (born 22 September 1788).
18 August 1841, Robert Buchanan,
British novelist, was born (died 10 June 1901).
27 July 1841, Poet Mikhail
Lermontov was killed, aged 26, in a duel with a fellow-soldier at
Pyatigorsk.
18 July 1841, Louis Petit de
Julleville, French scholarly writer, was born in Paris (died 28
August 1900)
22 May 1841, Catulle Mendes,
French poet, was born (died 9 February 1909)
29 April 1841, Edward Rowland
Sill, US poet, was born in Connecticut (died 27 February 1887 in
Cleveland, Ohio)
26 April 1841, Wilhelm Scherer,
German scholarly writer, was born in Schonborn (died 6 August 1886 in Berlin)
21 April 1841, Julian Ursin
Niemcewicz, Polish poet, died in Paris.
18 April 1841, Henry Kendall,
Australian poet, was born (died 1 August 1882).
21 March 1841, Mathilde Blind,
English author, was born in Mannheim (died 26 November 1896).
20 March 1841, Edgar Allen
Poe published a new literary genre, the detective story. The Murders
in the Rue Morgue challenged readers to deduce who the villain was before
the final page.
14 February 1841, Jean Acard,
French poet, was born in Toulon.
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3 December 1840, Jules Claretie,
French writer, was born.
5 October 1840, John Addington
Symmons, English poet, was born in Bristol (died 19 April 1893 in
Rome)
27 August 1841, Sir Richard
Jebb, English scholarly writer, was born (died 9 December 1905)
15 January 1841, Charles Briggs,
US scholarly writer, was born.
25 August 1840, Karl Immerman,
German dramatist, died (born 24 April 1796).
17 August 1840, Wilfrid Blunt,
English poet, was born in Sussex.
16 August 1840, Timothy Flint,
US writer, died (born 17 July 1780).
1 August 1840, Karl Muller,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28 August 1797).
27 June 1840, Ingram Bywater,
English scholarly writer, was born.
12 June 1840, Gerald Griffin,
Irish novelist, died (born 12 December 1803).
2 June 1840, Thomas Hardy,
novelist, was born in Higher
Bockhampton, Dorset, the son of a stonemason.
13 May 1840, Alphonse Daudet,
French
novelist, born.
11 May 1840, Thomas Cooper,
US writer, died (born 22 October 1759).
22 April 1840, James
Prinsep, Anglo-Indian scholarly writer, died in London (born 20
August 1799)
18 March 1840, William
Monkhouse, English poet, was born (died 20 July 1901).
18 January 1840, Henry Dobson,
English poet, was born.
17 January 1840, Paul
Meyer, French scholarly writer, was born.
14 January 1840, Karl Follen,
German poet, died (born 5 September 1795).
6 January 1840, Frances
D�Arblay, English novelist, died (born 13 June 1752).
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24 December 1839, James
Smith, English writer, died in London (born in London 10 February
1775)
15 December 1839,
Ignaz
Fessler, Hungarian writer, died (born 18 May 1756).
4 December 1839, Samuel Butler,
English scholarly writer, died (born 30 January 1774).
29 November 1839, Ludwig Anzengruber,
Austrian dramatist, was born in Vienna (died in Vienna 10 December 1889).
16 November 1839, Louis Frechette,
French Canadian poet, was born (died 1 June 1908).
27 October 1839, John Long,
US politician, was born.
25 August 1839, Francis Harte,
US author, was born (died 5 May 1902).
9 August 1839, Bruno Paulin
Gaston Paris, French scholarly writer, was born in Marne (died 6
March 1903 in Paris).
4 August 1839, Walter Horatio
Pater, English writer, was born in Shadwell, London (died 30 July
1894)
19 July 1839, Georges Guerin,
French poet, died (born 4 August 1810).
12 June 1839, Wordsworth
received an honorary doctorate from
Oxford University.
3 June 1839, Paul Lindau,
German novelist, was born.
29 May 1839, Mary Molesworth,
Scottish writer, was born.
17 May 1839, Archibald
Alison, Scottish author, died in Colinton (born 13 November 1757 in
Edinburgh).
22 April 1839, Thomas Bayly,
English writer, died (born in Bath 13 October 1797).
11 April 1839, John Galt,
Scottish novelist, died (born 2 May 1779).
2 April 1839, Toussaint
Bernard Emeric David, art writer, died (born 20 August 1755).
31 March 1839, Easter
Sunday. Nikolai
Prjevalsky, Russian travel writer was born (died 1 November 1888)
20 March 1839, James Schouler,
US scholarly writer, was born in Masachusetts.
16 March 1839, Rene
Sully-Prudhomme, French poet, was born in Paris (died 6 September
1907 in Chatenay)
5 February 1839, Emmanuel des
Essarts, French poet, was born.
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22 December 1838, Hugh James Rose,
English writer, died in Florence, Italy (born 9 June 1795 in Little Horsted,
Sussex)
20 December 1838, Hegesippe
Moreau, French poet, died (born 9 April 1810).
7 November 1838, Anne Grant,
Scottish writer, died (born 21 February 1755).
2 November 1838, Adalbert Merx,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 6 August 1909).
26 October 1838, Pierre Lanfrey,
French writer, was born (died 15 November 1877)
23 October 1838, Francis
Hopkinson Smith, US author, was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
15 October 1838, Letitia Landon,
English poet and novelist, died (born 14 August 1802).
24 August 1838, Ferencz Kolcsey,
Hungarian poet, died (born 8 August 1790).
21 August 1838, Adelbert
Chamisso, German poet, died (born 30 January 1781).
4 August 1838, Gustave
Flourens, French writer, was born (died 3 April 1871).
20 July 1838, Augustin Daly,
US playwright, was born (died 7 June 1899).
27 June 1838, Bankim Chatterji,
Indian novelist, was born (died 1894).
4 May 1838, James Albery,
English dramatist, was born in London (died 15 August 1889).
24 April 1838, John Peile,
English scholarly writer, was born in Whitehaven (died 9 October 1910 in
Cambridge)
7 March 1838, Edward Payson
Roe, US novelist, was born in New York State (died 19 July 1888)
6 March 1838, Jean
Charlemagne, French dramatic author, died (born 30 November 1753).
29 January 1838, David Gray,
Scottish poet, was born (died 3 December 1861).
10 December 1837, Edward
Eggleston, US novelist, was born (died 2 September 1902).
7 December 1837, Robert Nicoll,
Scottish poet, died in Edinburgh (born 7 Janiary 1814 in Perthshire)
27 October 1837, William Reid,
US writer, was born near Xenia, Ohio.
8 September 1837, Sir Samuel
Brydges, writer, died (born 30 November 1762).
16 June 1837, Ernst Laas,
German philosophical writer, was born.
15 June 1837, Giacomo
Leopardi, Italian poet, died.
3 June 1837, Franz Bucheler,
German classical scholarly writer, was born (died 1908)
18 April 1837, Paul Armande
Silvestre, French poet, was born in Paris (died 19 February 1901 in
Toulouse)
9 April 1837, Henry Becque,
French dramatist, was born in Paris (died May 1899)
5 April 1837, Algernon
Charles Swinburne, English poet, was born in London (died 10 April
1900 in Putney)
1 March 1837, Georg Ebers,
German writer, was born (died 7 August 1898).
15 February 1837, Wilhelm Jensen,
German author, was born.
13 February 1837, Mariano Larra,
Spanish satirical writer, died.
10 February 1837, Alexander
Pushkin, Russian writer, was killed in a duel.
9 February 1837, Alfred Ainger, English writer (died 8 February
1904) was born.
24 January 1837, Elizabeth
Penrose, pen-name Mrs Markham,
English writer, died.
17 January 1837, Oscar Browning,
English writer, was born.
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29 December 1836, George August
Schweinfurth, German travel writer, was born in Riga.
4 December 1836, Edward Arber,
English writer, was born.
29 November 1836, Sir Francis
Burnand, English humorous writer, was born.
18 November 1836, Sir William
Gilbert, English playwright, was born.
11 November 1836, Thomas Aldrich,
US author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (died 19 March 1907 in
Boston).
27 October 1836, Francois
Raynouard, French dramatist, died in Passy (born 8 September 1761)
17 October 1836, George Colman,
English dramatist, died (born 21 October 1762).
4 October 1836, Juliette Adam,
French writer, was born in Verberie, Oise.
12 September 1836, Christian
Grabbe, German dramatist, died (born 11 December 1801).
5 September 1836, Ferdinand
Raimund, Austrian dramatist, died (born in Vienna 1 June 1790)
14 August 1836, Sir Walter
Besant, English
novelist, was born.
24 July 1836, Jean Carrel,
French publicist, died (born 8 May 1800)
29 June 1836, Celia Thaxter,
US poet, was born in New Hampshire (died 26 August 1894)
8 May 1836, Sophus
Christian Frederick Schandorph, Danish novelist, was born in
Ringsted, Zeeland (died 1 January 1901 in Fredericksburg)
19 April 1836, Adelaide
Filleul Souza-Botelho, French writer, died (born 14 May 1761 in
Paris)
17 March 1836, Lucian Muller,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 24 April 1898)
5 March 1836, William Taylor,
English writer, died in Norwich (born 7 November 1765 in Norwich)
17 February 1836, Gustavo Becquer,
Spanish writer, was born in Seville (died in Madrid 22 December 1870).
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18 December 1835, US author
Lyman Abbott
was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
13 December 1835, Phillips Brooks,
US author, was born (died 23 January 1893).
5 December 1835, August
Platen-Hallermund, German poet, died in Sicily (born 24 October 1796
in Ansbach
4 December 1835, Samuel Butler,
English author, was born (died 18 June 1902).
1 December 1835, Nicolas
Baptiste, French writer, died in Paris (born in Bordeaux 18 June 1761).
30 November 1835, Mark Twain
was born.
21 November 1835, James Hogg,
Scottish poet, died (born 1770)
7 November 1835, Michael Scott,
British author, died in Glasgow (born near Glasgow 30 October 1789)
1 November 1835, Thomas Taylor,
English writer, died in London (born 15 May 1758 in London)
5 August 1835, Thomas McCrie,
Scottish writer, died.
29 July 1835, Michael Thomas
Sadler, English scholarly writer, died born in Snelston, Derbyshire
3 January 1780)
24 July 1835, Charles
Pigault-Lebrun, French novelist, died (born in Paris 8 April 1753)
7 June 1835, George Hill,
English writer, was born (died 27 February 1903).
30 May 1835, Alfred Austin,
English poet-laureate, was born in Headingley, Leeds.
16 May 1835, Felicia Hemans,
English poet, died (born 25 September 1793).
26 April 1835, John de Tabley,
English poet, was born (died 22 November 1895).
17 April 1835, William Ireland,
forger of Shakespearian plays, died (born 1777).
8 April 1835, Karl Humoldt,
German scholarly writer, died (died 22 June 1767)
30 March 1835, Richard Sharp,
English writer, died in Dorchester (born 1759 in Newfoundland)
25 March 1835, Karl Heigel,
German novelist, was born (died 6/9 1905).
13 March 1835, Leon Cladel,
French novelist, was born (died 20 July 1892).
27 February 1835, Richard Garnett,
English author, was born (died 13 April 1906).
19 January 1835, Tom Hood,
English writer, was born (died 20 November 1874).
6 January 1835, August Matthiae,
German scholarly writer, died (born 25 December 1769).
3 January 1835, Hans von Hopfen,
German poet, was born (died 19 November 1904).
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27 December 1834, Charles Lamb,
English essayist, died.
19 December 1834, Alexander
Chalmers, Scottish writer, died (born 20 March 1759)
23 November 1834, James Thomson,
Scottish poet, was born in Port Glasgow (died 3 June 1882 in London)
13 November 1834, Friedrich Ebert,
German writer, died (born 9 July 1791).
8 October 1834, Francois
Boieldieu, French poet, died in Paris (born in Rouen 15 December 1775).
17 September 1834, Edouard Jules
Henri Pailleron, French poet, was born in Paris (died 20 April 1899)
16 September 1834, Antoine Arnault,
play writer, died in Goderville (born in Paris, January 1766).
10 September 1834, Philip Hamerton,
English writer, was born (died 4 November 1894)
9 September 1834, Joseph Henry
Shorthouse, English novelist, was born in Birmingham (died 4 March
1903 in Edgbaston, Birmingham)
30 July 1834, Diego Clemencin,
Spanish scholarly writer, died (born 27
September 1765).
5 September 1834, Robinson Ellis,
English scholarly writer, was born.
27 August 1834, Roden Berkeley
Noel, Engtlish poet, was born (died 26 May 1894 in Mainz)
5 April 1834, Francis Richard
Stockton, US novelist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died
20 April 1902 in Washington DC)
24 March 1834, William Morris,
English poet, was born (died 3 October 1896).
5 March 1834, Leopoldo
Cicognara, Italian writer, died (born 17 November 1767).
23 February 1834, Karl Knebel,
German poet, died (born 30 November 1744).
28 January 1834, Sabine
Baring-Gould, English novelist, was born in Exeter.
30 December 1833, William Sotheby,
English author, died (born 9 November 1757 in London)
2 December 1833, Charles
Chenedolle, French poet, died (born 4 November 1769).
23 November 1833, John Boydell,
publisher, died in Paris (born in Dorrington 1 March 1757).
6 November 1833, Jonas Lie,
Norwegian novelist, was born (died 5 July 1908).
2 November 1833, Horace Furness,
US writer on Shakespeare, was born.
15 October 1833, Victor DuCange,
novelist, died (24 November 1783)
8 October 1833, Edmund Clarence
Stedman, US poet, was born in Hartford, Connecticut (died 18 January
1908 in New York)
4 October 1833, Richard Heber,
book collector, died (born 5 January 1773).
8 September 1833, Richard Morris,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 12 May 1894).
31 August 1833, Gottlieb Jakob
Planck, German religious writer, died (born in Wurttemberg 15
November 1751)
11 August 1833, Robert
Ingersoll, US author, was born (died 21 July 1899)
13 July 1833, Aurelian Scholl,
French author, was born in Bordeaux.
12 July 1833, Jean Baptista
von Schweitzer, German poet, was born in Frankfort on Main.
10 July 1833, George Dover,
English writer, died (born 14 January 1797).
9 May 1833, Francois
Andrieux, French writer, died in Paris (born 6 May 1759 in
Strasbourg).
5 May 1833, Richard Dixon,
English poet, was born (died 23 January 1900).
25 April 1833, Dominique Garat,
French writer, died (born 8 September 1749).
11 March 1833, Franz Passow,
German scholarly writer, died (born 20 September 1786)
10 March 1833, Pedro Alarcon,
Spanish writer, was born in Guadix (died 20 July 1891 in Madrid).
5 January 1833, Sophus Bugge,
Norwegian scholarly writer, was born (died 8 July 1907).
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8 December 1832, Sir George
Birdwood, writer was born.
29 November 1832, Louisa Alcott,
US author (died 6 March 1888) was born.
28 November 1832, Sir Leslie
Stephen, English writer, was born in Kensington, London (died 22
February 1904 in Hyde Park Gate)
10 June 1832, Sir Edwin
Arnold, British poet, was born (died 24 March 1904).
9 June 1832, Antoine Droz,
French writer, was born (died 22 October 1895).
30 May 1832, Sir James
MacKintosh, Scottish writer, died (born 24 October 1765).
17 May 1832, Moncure Daniel
Conway, US author, was born (died 15 November 1907)
21 April 1832, Werner
Munzinger, Swiss scholarly writer, was born.
20 April 1832, James Morison,
British author, was born (died 26 February 1888).
19 April 1832, Jose Echegaray
y Eizaguirre, writer, was born.
26 March 1832, Michel Breal,
scholarly writer, was born in Landau, Bavaria.
22 March 1832, Johann van
Goethe, German
poet and writer, author of Faust,
died aged 82.
17 March 1832, Moncure Conway,
US author, was born (died 15 November 1907).
27 January 1832, Lewis Carroll, English mathematician and
children�s book author, notably Alice in Wonderland
and Through the Looking Glass, was born at the vicarage at Daresbury,
near Warrington. His name was originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, first son of
a family of 12 children.
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22 December 1831, Charles
Calverley, English poet, was born (died 17 February 1884).
20 December 1831, Arthur Ranc,
French writer, was born in Poitiers (died 10 August 1908)
18 December 1831, Willem
Bilderdijk, Dutch poet, died in Haarlem (born in Amsterdam 7
September 1756).
15 December 1831, Hannah Adams,
US writer (born 1755) died.
8 November 1831, Edward Lytton,
English poet, was born (died 24 November 1891).
2 November 1831, Henry Jones,
English author, was born (died 10 February 1899).
23 October 1831, Basil
Gildersleeve, US classical scholarly writer, was born.
2 October 1831, Edwin Godkin,
US writer, was born (died 21 May 1902)
5 September 1831, Victorien
Sardou, French dramatist, was bornin Paris (died 8 November 1908 in
Paris)
22 August 1831, Ferencz
Kazinczy, Hungarian author, died (born 27 October 1759).
29 May 1831, Philip Colomb,
English writer, was born (died 13 October 1899).
9 May 1831, William Goodwin,
US scholarly writer, was born.
26 April 1831, Sir James
Donaldson, Scottish scholarly writer, was born.
10 May 1831, John Trumbull,
US poet, died in Michigan, Detroit (born in Connecticut 24 April 1750)
19 April 1831, Pierre Veron,
French author, was born in Paris (died 2 November 1900 in Paris)
4 April 1831, Isaiah Thomas,
US book publisher, died (born in Boston, Massachusetts 19 January 1749)
12 March 1831, Friedrich von
Matthisson, German poet, died (born 23 January 1761).
21 February 1831, Henri Meilhac,
French dramatist, was born.
21 January 1831, Ludwig Arnim,
German writer, died in Brandenburg (born 26 January 1781 in Berlin).
20 January 1831, John Edward
Routh, English scientific writer,, was born in Quebec (died 7 June
1907 in Cambridge)
14 January 1831, Henry MacKenzie,
Scottish novelist, died.
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10 December 1830, Emily Dickinson,
US poet, was born in Amherst,
Massachusetts.
8 December 1830, Henri Constant,
French writer, died (born 25 October 1767)
5 December 1830, Christina
Georgina Rosetti, English poet, was born in Portland Polace, London
(died 29 December 1894)
22 November 1830, McCarthy,
Irish writer, was born
21 November 1830, Karoly
Kisfaludy, Hungarian author, died.
18 September 1830, William Hazlitt,
English writer, died (born 10 April 1778).
13 September 1830, Marie
Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian novelist, was born.
8 September 1830, Frederic
Mistral, French poet, was born.
5 September 1830, Francis William
Allen, US classical scholar, was born in Northborough, Massachusetts
(died December 1889)
3 September 1830, Lewis Campbell,
British classical scholarly writer, was born (died 25 October 1908)
12 August 1830, Henry John Roby,
scholarly writer, was born in Tamworth.
22 July 1830, Richard
Christie, English scholarly writer, was born (died 9 January 1901).
20 May 1830, Hector Malot,
French novelist, was born.
5 May 1830, Thomas Brown,
British poet, was born (died 29 October 1897).
29 March 1830, James
Rennell, British geographical writer, died (born 3 December 1742 near
Chudleigh, Devon)
24 March 1830, Robert
Hamerling, Austrian poet, was born (died 13 July 1889).
15 March 1830, Paul Heyse,
German writer, was born.
8 March 1830, Joao de Deus,
Portuguese poet, was born (died 11 January 1896).
28 February 1830, James Payn,
English novelist, was born in Cheltenham (died 25 March� 1898)
20 February 1830, Robert Anderson,
Scottish writer, died in Edinburgh (born 7 January 1750 in Carnwath,
Lanarkshire)
15 February 1830, Silas Mitchell,
US author, was born.
19 January 1830, Johann
Schweighauser, German scholarly writer, died (born 25 June 1742 in
Strassburg)
2 January 1830, Henry Kingsley,
English novelist, was born.
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22 September 1829, William Belknap,
US politician, was born in Newburgh, New York (died in Washington DC 13 October
1890).
17 September 1829, Karl Hillebrand,
German author, was born (died 19 October 1884).
8 August 1829, Lucien Anatole
Prevost Paradol, French writer, was born in Paris (died 20 July 1870
in Washington, USA)
19 July 1829, Charles
Cherbuliez, French novelist, was born (died 1 July 1899).
12 May 1829, George Childs,
US publisher, was born (died 3 February 1894)
2 May 1829, Isaac Taylor,
scholarly writer, was born near Ongar, Essex (died October 1901)
11 February 1829, Alexander
Griboyedov, Russian author, died (born 1795).
5 February 1829, Jean Gail,
French writer on Greece, died (born 4 July 1755).
30 January 1829, Edward Cook,
English author, was born (died 11 September 1883)
11 January 1829, Karl Schlegel,
German poet, died in Dresden (born 10 March 1772 in Hanover)
2 January 1829, Melchiorre
Gioja, Italian writer, died (born 20 September 1767)
18 December 1828, Abraham Viktor
Rydberg, Swedish author, was born in Jonkoping (died 22 September
1895)
8 December 1828, Pierre
Levasseur, French scholarly writer, was born.
6 November 1828, Hiram Corson,
US scholarly writer, was born.
29 October 1828, Luke Hansard,
British printer, died (born 5 July 1752).
6 September 1828, David Forbes,
British scientific writer, was born (died 5 December 1876).
28 August 1828, Count Leo
Tolstoy, Russian writer, was born of aristocratic descent in
Tula Province.
22 August 1828, Franz Gall,
medical writer, died (born 9 March 1758)
29 May 1828, Gerald Massey,
English poet, was born (died 29 October 1907).
12 May 1828, Gabriel
Dante Rosetti, poet, was born.
1 May 1828, Adelardo Lopez
de Ayala, Spanish writer, was born in Guadacanal (died 30 January 1879).
25 April 1828, Julius Grosse,
German poet, was born (died 9 May 1902).
20 March 1828, Norwegian
poet Henry
Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway.
20 March 1828, Ruggero Bonghi,
Italian writer, was born in Naples (died 22 October 1895).
14 February 1828, Edmond About,
French writer (died 16 January 1885) was born in Dieuze, Lorraine.
12 February 1828, George Meredith,
British novelist, was born (died 18 May 1909).
8 February 1828, Jules Verne,
French writer and early author of science fiction, was born in Nantes,
Brittany.
31 January 1828, Henry Chandler,
scholarly writer, was born (died 16 May 1889).
16 January 1828, Johann Ersch,
German writer, died (born 23 June 1766).
9 September 1828, Leo Tolstoy,
noveilist, was born.
2 January 1828, Elizabeth
Charles, English author, was born (died 28 March 1896).
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7 December 1827, Marc Monnier,
French writer, was born (died 18 April 1885).
18 November 1827, Wilhelm Hauff,
German poet, died (born 29 November 1802).
18 October 1827, Robert Pollock,
Scottish poet, died (born in Renfrewshire 19 October 1798)
10 October 1827, Ugo Foscolo,
Italian writer, died (born 26 January 1778)
8 October 1827, Francisque
Sarcey, French writer, was born in Seine et Oise (died 19 May 1899
in Paris)
30 September 1827, Wilhelm Muller,
German lyrical poet, died (born 7 October 1794).
20 August 1827, Charles de
Coster, Belgian writer, was born (died 7 May 1879).
18 September 1827, Robert Pollock,
poet, died
29 July 1827, Louis Gustave
Fortune Ratisbonne, French writer, was born in Strassburg (died 24
September 1900 in Paris)
23 July 1827, Johann Ribbeck,
German scholarly writer, was born in Erfurt, Saxony (died 18 July 1898 in
Leipzig)
21 July 1827, Archibald Constable,
Scottish publisher, died (born 24 February 1774)
11 July 1827, Paul Bins Saint
Victor, French author, was born n in Paris (died 9 July 1881 in
Paris)
29 June 1827, Mortimer
Collins, English writer, was born (died 28 July 1876).
18 June 1827, Alexander
Grosart, Scottish writer, was born (died 16 March 1899).
12 June 1827, Johanna Spyri,
author, was born
1 May 1827, John Bascom,
US author, was born in Genoa, New York State.
10 April 1827, Lewis Wallace,
US author, was born in Indiana (died 1905)
25 March 1827, George Lawrence,
English novelist, was born (died 23 September 1876).
13 January 1827, Jean Lanjuinais,
French writer, died (born 12 March 1753)
6 January 1827, Charlotte von
Stein, German writer, died in Weimar (born 25 December 1742 in
Weimar)
2 January 1827, John Good,
English scholarly writer, died (born 25 May 1764).
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31 December 1826, William Gifford,
English writer, died (born 1756).
28 December 1826, Conrad Busken-Huet,
Dutch literary critic, was born (died 1886)
26 November 1826, John Nichols,
English wrirter, died (born 2 February 1745 in Islingtoin, London).
3 October 1826, Jens Baggesen,
Danish poet, died in Hamburg (born 15 February 1764 in Korsor).
29 September 1826, Charles Chesney,
British military writer, was born (died 19 March 1876).
22 September 1826, Johann Hebel,
German poet, died (born 10 May 1760).
2 June 1826, Richard Hutton,
English writer, was born (died 9 September 1897).
20 April 1826, Dinah Craik,
English novelist, was born (died 12 October 1887).
4 March 1826, Elme Carlo,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 13 July 1887).
29 March 1826, Wilhelm
Liebknecht, German socialist writer, was born (died 6 August 1900).
27 February 1826, Howard Crosby,
US writer, was born (died 1890)
16 February 1826, Joseph Vikton
von Scheffel, German novelist, was born in Karlsruhe (died 9 April
1886 in Karlsruhe)
14 February 1826, Johann Falk,
German author, died (born 28 October 1768).
16 January 1826, Lindley Murray,
writer, died (born 22 April 1745)
25 December 1825, Henri Bornier,
French poet, was born in Lunel (died 1/1901).
5 December 1825, Antoine Barbier,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Coulommiers 11 January 1765)
14 November 1825, Johann Paul Richter,
German humourous writer, died in Bayreuth (born 21 March 1763 in Bavaria)
11 October 1825, Konrad Meyer,
Swiss poet, was born (died 28 November 1898).
9 October 1825, Josef Jirecek,
Czeck scholarly writer, was born (died 25 November 1888).
24 September 1825, Peter Dobree,
English scholarly writer, died (born 1782).
18 August 1825, Paul Courier,
French writer, died (born 4 January 1773).
10 August 1825, John Conington,
English classical writer, was born (died 23 October 1869)
13 July 1825, Anton Heinrich
Springer, German writer, was born in Prague (died 31 May 1891)
14 June 1825, Jean Montegut,
French writer, was born (died 11 December 1895).
7 June 1825, Richard
Blackmore, English novelist, was born in Berkshire (died in
Teddington 20 January 1900).
6 May 1825, Lady Anne
Barnard, writer, died in London (born in Fife 12 December 1750).
24 April 1825, Robert
Ballantyne, writer, was born in Edinburgh (died 8 February 1894 in
Rome).
23 April 1825, Friedrich
Muller, German poet, died (born 13 January 1749)
9 March 1825, Anna Barbauld,
English poet, died (born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire 20 June 1743).
8 March 1825, Peter Elmsley,
English scholarly writer, died (born 1773).
6 March 1825, Samuel Parr,
scholarly writer, died (born in Harrow, Middlesex, 26 January 1747)
3 March 1825, Annie Keary,
English novelist, was born (died 3 March 1879)
22 February 1825, William Young
Sellar, Scottish scholarly writer, was born in Morvich (died 12
October 1890)
19 February 1825, Maurus Jokai,
Hungarian novelist, was born (died 5 May 1904).
4 February 1825, Frederick
Furnivall, English writer, was born (died 2 July 1910).
1 February 1825, Francis Child,
scholarly writer, was born (died11 September 1896).
27 January 1825, William Green,
US Hebrew scholarly writer, was born (died 10 February 1900).
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25 December 1824, Rodolphe
Dareste, French writer, was born.
24 December 1824, Carl Cornelius,
German poet, was born (died 26 October 1874).
21 December 1824, James Parkinson,
scientific writer, died in London (born 1824)
5 December 1824, William Blades,
English writer, was born in Clapham, London (died in Sutton, Surrey 27 April 1890).
11 December 1824, Victor Balaguer,
Spanish author, was born in Barcelona (died in Madrid 14 January 1901)
18 October 1824, Juan Valera,
Spanish novelist, was born in Cordova (died 18 April 1905)
30 October 1824, Charles Maturin,
Irish novelist, died.
27 October 1824, Edward Maitland,
English humanitarian writer, was born (died 2 October 1897).
28 September 1824, Francis Turner
Palgrave, English poet, was born in Great Yarmouth (died 24 October
1897 I n London).
11 September 1824, Jakob Bernays,
German writer, was born in Hamburg (died in Bonn 26 May 1881).
29 May 1824, Morley William
Punshon, English religious writer, was born in Doncaster (died 1881)
26 May 1824, Capel Lofft,
English writer, died (born 14 November 1751).
3 May 1824, Joseph Joubert,
French moralistic writer, died (born 6 May 1754).
5 April 1824, Sydney Dobell,
English poet, was born (died 22 August 1874).
19 March 1824, William
Allingham, Irish poet, was born in Ballyshannon, Donegal (died in
Hampstead, London, on 18 November 1889).
13 March 1824, Sophia Lee,
English novelist, died.
8 February 1824, Rhijnvis Feith,
Dutch poet, died (born 7 February 1753).
25 January 1824, Michael Dutt,
Indian poet, was born (died 29 June 1873).
8 January 1824, William Collins,
English novelist, was born (died 23 September 1889).
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29 December 1823, Augusta Drane,
English writer, was born (died 29 April 1894).
22 December 1823, Thomas
Higginson, US writer, was born.
23 July 1823, Coventry
Patmore, English poet, was born in Woodford, Essex (died 26 November
1896 in Lymington)
1 November 1823, Heinrich
Gerstenberg, German poet, died (born 3 January 1737).
29 October 1823, Clement Ingleby,
English writer on Shakespeare, was born (died 26 September 1886).
30 September 1823, Rudolf von
Gottschall, German writer, was born (died 21 March 1909).
19 August 1823, Robert
Bloomfield, English poet, died in Shefford, Bedfordshire (born in
Honington, Suffolk 3 December 1766)
15 August 1823, Marie Boissier,
French scholarly writer, was born in Nimes (died 6/1908).
13 July 1823, Eugene Manuel,
French poet, was born.
7 July 1823, John Ingram,
Irish scholarly writer, was born (died 18 May 1907)
28 June 1823, Oskar Redwitz,
German poet, was born near Ansbach (died 6 July 1891 near Bayreuth)
16 May 1823, Heymann Steinthal,
German scholarly writer, was born in Anhalt (died 1899)
15 May 1823, Thomas Harris,
US poet and preacher, was born
19 May 1823, William Combe,
English writer, died (born 1741).
11 April 1823, Alexander
Nikolaivitch Ostrovsky, Russian author, was born in Moscow (died 24
June 1886)
24 March 1823, Thomas Baynes,
English writer, was born in Wellington, Somerset (died 31 May 1887).
14 March 1823, Theodore
Banville, French poet, was born in Moulins (died in Paris 15
3/1891).
6 March 1823, Gustaf
Ljunggren, Swedish writer, was born.
9 January 1823, William Corey,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 11 June 1892).
1 January 1823, Alexander
Petofi, Hungarian poet, was born (died 31 July 1849)
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26 December 1822, Dion Boucicault,
Irish playwright, was born in Dublin (died in New York 18 September 1890).
24 December 1822, Matthew Arnold,
British poet, was born in Laleham, Staines (died 15 April 1888 in Liverpool).
2 December 1822, David Masson,
Scottish writer, was born (died 6 October 1907).
19 October 1822, Louis Menard,
French writer, was born (died 12 February 1901).
6 October 1822, Albert Harkness,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 27 May 1907).
18 September 1822, Johann Nauck,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 3 August 1892).
15 September 1822, Henry Morley,
British writer, was born (died 14 May 1894).
1 August 1822, James Grant,
British novelist, was born (died 5 May 1887).
24 July 1822, Ernst Hoffmann,
German writer, died (born 24 January 1776)
8 July 1822, Percy Bysshe
Shelley died. He drowned in a storm whilst sailing off the coast of Italy.
27 May 1822, Louis Bouilhet,
French poet, was born in Cany (died in Rouen 18 July 1869).
16 May 1822, Henry Dixon,
English sports writer, was born (died 16 March 1870).
12 April 1822, Donald Mitchell,
US author, was born.
3 April 1822, Henry Field,
US author, was born (died 26 January 1907).
24 March 1822, Henry Murger,
French writer, was born (died 28 January 1861)
13 March 1822, Moritz
Strachwitz, German poet, was born in Silesia (died 11 December 1847
in Vienna)
10 February 1822, Eliza Linton,
English novelist, was born (died 14 July 1898).
9 February 1822, James Parton,
US biographer, was born in Canterbury, England (died 17 October 1891 in
Newburyport, Massachusetts)
8 February 1822, Maxime du Camp,
French writer, was born (died 9 February 1894).
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20 December 1821, James Hammond
Trumbull, US scholarly writer, was born in Connecticut (died 5
August 1897 in Connecticut)
12 December 1821, Gustave
Flaubert, French novelist, was born (died 8 May 1880).
11 December 1821, George Bradley,
English scholarly writer, was born in Brecon (died 13/31903).
11 August 1821, Octave Feuillet,
French novelist, was born (died 29 December 1890).
30 October 1821, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist,
was born.
15 October 1821, Moritz Hartmann,
German poet, was born (died 13 May 1872).
13 October 1821, Henry Coppee,
US author, was born (died 22 March 1895).
5 October 1821, Rudolf Haym,
German writer, was born (died 27 August 1901).
1 August 1821, Elizabeth
Inchbald, English novelist, died (born 15/10.1753).
21 July 1821, Vasile
Alecsandri, Rumanian poet, was born in Bacau, Moldova (died 26
August 1890 in Mircesti).
1 July 1821, Anatole
Barthelemy, French writer, was born in Reims (died 1904).
30 June 1821, William Dixon,
English author, was born (died 26 December 1879).
13 June 1821, Jacques Duc de
Broglie, poet, was born (died 19 January 1901).
29 May 1821, Frederick Locker-Lampson, English
writer, was born (died 30 May 1895).
19 May 1821, Camille Jordan,
French political writer, died.
2 May 1821, Hester Lynch
Piozzo, English writer, died in Clifton, Bristol (born 16 January
1741)
23 April 1821, Pierre Dupont,
French song writer, was born (died 24 July 1870).
9 April 1821, Charles
Baudelaire, French poet, was born in Paris (died in Paris 31 August 1867).
30 March 1821, James Hadley,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 14 November 1872).
20 March 1821, Gustav Putlitz,
German author was born near Perleberg (died 5 September 1890)
17 March 1821, Louis Fontanes,
French poet, died (born 6 March 1757),
16 March 1821, Ernest-Aime
Feydeau, French writer, was born (died 27 October 1873).
2 March 1821, George Banks,
British writer, was born in Birmingham (died in London 3 May 1881).
26 February 1821, Joseph de
Maistre, French polemical writer, died (born 1 April 1754).
23 February 1821, John Keats,
English poet, died of tuberculosis in
Rome, aged only 25.
22 February 1821, Jan van Beers,
Belgian poet, was born in Antwerp (died 14 November 1888 in Antwerp)
21 February 1821, Georg Martens,
German legal writer, died (born 22 February 1756).
13 February 1821, Julius Busch,
German publicist, was born (died 16 November 1899)
10 February 1821, August
Schliecher, German scholarly writer, was born in Meiningen (died 6 Decemeber
1868 in Jena)
6 January 1821, Jakob
Frohschammer, German scholarly writer, was born (died 14 June 1893).
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12 November 1820, William Hayley,
English writer, died (born 9 November 1745)
27 September 1820, Wilhelm
Siegmund Teuffel, German scholarly writer, was born Wurttemberg
(died 8 March 1878 in Tubingen)
23 September 1820, Carl
Fleickeisen, German writer, was born (died 7 August 1899).
17 September 1820, Guillaume
Augier, French dramatist, was born in Valence, Drome (died 25
October 1889 in Croissy).
13 August 1820, Sir George
Grove, English writer on music, was born (died 28 May 1900)
30 July 1820, Henry Vizetelly,
English writer, was born in London (died 1 January 1894)
14 June 1820, John Bartlett,
US writer, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3
December 1905.
10 May 1820, Hermann Ebel,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 19 August 1875).
4 May 1820, English publisher, Joseph Whitaker, was born in
London, the son of a silversmith.
26 April 1820, Alice Cary,
US poet, was born (died 12 February 1871)
25 April 1820, Constantin
Volney, French scholarly writer, died in Paris (born 3 February 1757
in Craon)
16 April 1820, Georg Curtius,
German writer, was born (died 12 August 1885).
2 April 1820, Easter
Sunday. Thomas
Brown, Scottish writer, died (born 1778).
30 March 1820, Anna Sewell,
author of Black Beauty, was born in
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
17 March 1820, Jean Ingelow,
English poet, was born (died 20 July 1897).
2 March 1820, Edward Dekker,
Dutch writer, was born (died 19 February 1887).
1 March 1820, Johann Joachim
Eschenburg, literary critic, died.
17 January 1820, The novelist Anne Bronte (known as Acton Bell)
was born, youngest of three sisters, at Thornton, Yorkshire.
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30 December 1819, Theodor Fontane,
German novelist, was born (died 20 September 1898)
26 December 1819, Emma Dorothy
Eliza Nevitte Southworth, US noverlist, was born in Washington DC
(died 30 June 1899)
5 December 1819, Friedrich
Leopold Stolberg, German poet, died near Osnabruck (born 7 November
1750 in Holstein)
23 November 1819, Quintin
Crauford, British author, died (born 22 September 1743)
22 November 1819, Novelist George Elliot was born as Marian Evans, near Nuneaton.
19 November 1819, Auguste
Vacquerie, French writer, was born in Villequier (died 19 February
1895 in Paris)
19 October 1819, Hugh Munro,
British scholarly writer, was born (died 30 March 1885)
24 August 1819, Henry Stevens,
US writer, was born in Vermont (died 28 February 1886 in Hampstead, London, UK)
30 June 1819, Ernst Gerber,
German musical writer, died (born 29 September 1746).
16 September 1819, Anna
Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist, was born in Alkmaar (died in The
Hague, 13 April 1886).
1 August 1819, Herman Melville,
author of Moby Dick, was born.
30 July 1819, John Campbell
Shairp, Scottish writer, was born in Llinlithgowshire (died 18
September 1885 in Argyllshire)
24 July 1819, Josiah Holland,
US writer, was born (died 12 October 1881).
19 July 1819, Gottfried
Keller, German novelist, was born (died 15 July 1890).
12 June 1819, Charles
Kingsley, English novelist, was born (died 23 January 1875).
31 May 1819, Walt Whitman,
poet, was born.
24 April 1819, Klaus Groth,
German poet, was born (died 1 June 1899).
23 April 1819, Bernard
Quaritch, English bookseller, was born in Worbis, Germany (died 17
December 1899 in Hampstead, London)
22 April 1819, Friedrich
Bodenstedt, German author, was born in Hanover (died in Wiesbaden 19
April 1892)
4 April 1819, Louis Gustave
Vapereau, French writer, was born in Orleans (died 1906)
23 March 1819, August Kotzebue,
German dramatist, died (born 3 May 1761)
12 February 1819, William Wetmore
Story, US poet, was born in Salem, Massachusetts (died 7 October
1895 in Vallombroso, Italy)
8 February 1819, John Ruskin,
English writer and art critic, was
born in Dulwich, London, the son of a wine dealer.
21 January 1819, Edward Capern,
English poet, was born (died 5 June 1894).
17 January 1819, Karl Christian
Planck, German scholarly writer, was born
12 January 1819, Andre Morellet,
French writer, died (born 7 March 1727).
1 January 1819, Arthur Clough,
English poet, was born (died13 November 1861).
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27 December 1818, Henry Drisler,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 30 November 1897).
19 December 1818, Mary Brunton,
Scottish novelist, died (born 1 November 1778).
22 October 1818, Charles Leconte,
French poet, was born (died 18 July 1894).
18 October 1818, Charles Mudie,
Engliah publisher, was born (died 28 October 1890)
4 October 1818, Francis Edward
Smedley, English novelist, was born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire
(died 1864)
16 September 1818, Sir Francis
Haden, English arts writer, was born (died 1 June 1910).
13 September 1818, Gustave Aimarde,
French novelist, was born in Paris (died 20 June 1883 in Paris).
30 July 1818, Novelist Emily Bronte
was born at Thornton, Yorkshire. On of the three famous sisters, she wrote Wuthering
Heights under the name of Ellis Bell in 1846.
28 July 1818, Edward Cope,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 5 August 1873).
18 July 1818, Louis de Geer,
Swedish writer, was born (died 1896).
25 May 1818, Jakob
Burckhardt, Swiss writer on art, was born (died 1897).
14 May 1818, Matthew Lewis,
romance writer, died (born 9 July 1775).
4 May 1818, Manuel Mila,
Spanish scholarly writer, was born (died 16 July 1884)
21 April 1818, Henry Wheeler
Shaw, US humorous writer, was born in Massachusetts (died 14 October
1885 in California)
13 April 1818, Fedor Buslaev,
Russian scholarly writer, was born (died 1898)
4 April 1818, Thomas Mayne
Reid, British novelist, was born in County Down, Ireland (died 22
October 1883 in London)
15 March 1818, Hector MacNeill,
Scottish poet, died.
8 March 1818, Sir William
Stirling-Maxwell, Scottish writer, was born near Glasgow (died 15
January 1878 in Venice)
7 March 1818, Heinrich Julian
Schmidt, German writer, was born in East Prussia (died 27 Marcxh
1886 in Berlin)
7 February 1818, Francois
Meurice, French dramatist, was born (died 12 December 1905)
14 January 1818, Zakris Topelius,
Finnish author, was born in Kuddnas (died 13 March 1898 in Helsingfors)
1 January 1818, Mary Shelley�s
novel Frankenstein was published. It
was subtiiled �The Modern Prometheus�.
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31 December 1817, James Fields,
US author, was born (died 24 April 1881).
27 December 1817, Henry Thoreau,
writer, was born in Concord, Massachusetts.
16 December 1817, Saint Rene
Taillandier, French writer, was born in Paris (died 22 February
1879)
26 October 1817, Moritz August
von Thummel, German humourist writer, died in Coburg (born 27 May
1738 near Leipzig)
25 October 1817, Lothar Bucher,
German writer, was born (died 12 October 1892)
3 October 1817, Johannes Scherr,
German novelist, was born in Wurttemberg (died 21 November 1886 in Zurich)
24 September 1817, Ramon de
Campoamor, Spanish poet, was born (died 12 February 1901).
27 September 1817, Paul Feval,
French novelist, was born (died 8 March 1887).
15 August 1817, Roswell
Hitchcock, US writer, was born (died 16 June 1887).
18 July 1817, Jane Austen, novelist, died, at her house in Winchester.
14 July 1817, Madame de Stael,
French novelist, died (born22 April 1766 in Paris)
12 July 1817, David Henry
Thoreau, writer, was born.
13 June 1817, Richard
Edgeworth, British writer, died (born 31 May 1744).
26 May 1817, Denis MacCarthy,
Irish poet, was born (died 7 April 1882).
22 May 1817, Sir George
Dasent, English writer, was born (died 11 June 1896).
3 May 1817, Horatio Hale,
US ethnological writer, was born (died 28 December 1896).
15 April 1817, Benjamin Jowett,
scholarly writer, was born (died 1 October 1893).
13 April 1817, George Holyoake,
English writer, was born (died 22 January 1906).
2 April 1817, Johann Jung,
German author, died (born 12 September 1740).
23 March 1817, Louis Maury,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 11 February 1892).
25 February 1817, Gottleib
Hufeland, German scholarly writer, died (born 19 October 1760).
23 February 1817, John Brown,
Scottish writer, was born (died 20 September 1856).
23 January 1817, John Cassell,
British publisher, was born (died 2 April 1865).
12 January 1817, Juan Andres,
Spanish writer, died in Rome (born 1740 in Planes, Valencia).
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1 November 1816, Friedrich
Hacklander, German novelist, was born (died 6 July 1877).
9 October 1816, Edward
Blomfield, English scholarly writer, died� in Cambridge (born in Bury St Edmunds 14
February 1788).
16 September 1816, Sir Theodore
Martin, British author, was born (died 18 August 1909)
3 September 1816, Friedrich
Ludwig Schroder, German dramatist, died (born in Schwerin 3 November
1744)
13 July 1816, Gustav Freytag,
German novelist, was born (died 30 April 1895)
2 June 1816, John Godfrey
Saxe, US poet, was born in Vermont (died 31 March 1887 in New York)
30 May 1816, Robert Eduard
Prutz, German writer, was born in Stettin (died 21 June 1872 in
Stettin)
10 May 1816, Friedrich
Gerstacker, German novelist, was born (died 31 May 1872).