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3/8/2008, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writer, died, aged 90.
20/7/2008, Roger
Wolcott Hall, US author, died (born 20/5/1919).
18/3/2008, Sir Arthur C
Clarke, science fiction writer,
died aged 90.
6/4/2005, US novelist Saul Bellow
died, aged 89.
11/3/2005, Jean
Cherry Drummond, writer, died (born 17/12/1928).
7/3/2005, Willis
Hall, playwright, died (born 6/4/1929).
10/2/2005, Arthur
Miller, playwright, died (born 17/10/1915).
25/9/2003, Writer and critic Edward Said died.
28/10/1998, Ted
Hughes, Poet Laureate since 1984, died.
2/8/1997, US writer William Burroughs died.
30/6/1997, The first book in the award-winning Harry Potter series by J K Rowling was
published.
28/1/1996, Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet, died.
2/11/1995, Canadian novelist Robertson Davies died.
22/10/1995, Kingsley Amis, British author, died.
24/12/1994, British playwright John Osborne died.
24/9/1994, French novelist Francoise Sagan died.
25/11/1993, English
author and composer Anthony Burgess died, aged 76.
12/6/1993, Sarah Peralta,
US author, died.
21/1/1993, Abe Kobo,
Japanese
writer, died (born 7/3/1924).
18/1/1993, Eleanor Hibbert,
English writer, died (born 1/9/1906).
13/8/1992, Jan Elburg,
poet, died.
11/4/1992, Eve Merriam,
US poet, died (born 19/7/1916).
6/4/1992, Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer, born 2/1/1920, died.
29/2/1992, Ruth Pitter,
English poet (born 7/11/1897) died.
11/12/1991, Artur Lundkvist,
Swedish
writer (born 3/3/1906) died.
7/12/1990, Reinaldo Arenas,
Cuban poet and novelist, died aged 47.
23/11/1990, Roald Dahl,
British writer, died (born 13/9/1916)
26/9/1990, Alberto Moravia,
Italian fiction writer, died (born 28/11/1907).
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15/9/1989, US writer Robert Penn
Warren, born 24/4/1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky, died in Stratton,
Vermont.
19/4/1989, Daphne du
Maurier, writer,
died.
8/6/1988, British
writer Russell
Harty died.
23/9/1987, The book, Spycatcher,
memoirs of former British intelligence officer Peter Wright, was to be published in Australia despite opposition by Britain�s
MI5.
20/9/1987, Michael Stewart, US
playwright, died aged 63.
11/4/1987, Primo Levi, Italian Jewish
writer, died aged 67.
24/7/1985, Alice DG Miller, US screenwriter, died (born 28/6/1894).
19/12/1984. Ted Hughes
was appointed Poet Laureate in succession
to Sir John Betjeman.
19/5/1984, Sir John
Betjeman, Poet Laureate
since 1972, died aged 78.
15/4/1984, Alexander
Trocchi, Scottish writer, died aged 58.
15/3/1983, Rebecca West,
British author, died aged 90.
24/2/1983, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright (born 26/3/1911) died in New York City.
12/9/1981, Eugenio Montale,
Italian
poet, died aged 84.
7/9/1981, Christy Brown,
Irish author, died.
10/3/1981, Death of Sir Maurice
Oldfield, the British intelligence chief thought to be the model for
�M� in Ian
Fleming�s James Bond novels.
15/4/1980, Jean Paul
Sartre, French writer and philosopher, died.
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14/5/1979, Jean Rhys,
novelist, died aged 88.
14/4/1978, F R Leavis,
British literary critic, died aged 82.
11/4/1977, Jacques Prevert,
French
poet, died aged 77.
23/11/1976, Andre Malreux, French novelist. died aged 75.
29/8/1976, Kazi Nazrul
Islam, Bengali poet, died aged 77.
12/1/1976, Dame Agatha
Christie, English crime story writer
and creator of the Belgian
detective character Hercule Poirot,
died.� She was born in Torquay on
15/9/1890.
21/11/1975, Gunnar
Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer, died aged 86
14/2/1975, PG Wodehouse,
author, died.
29/7/1974, Erich Kastner,
German author, died aged 75.
5/7/1974, British
novelist Georgette
Hayer died.
28/9/1973, W H Auden,
English-American
poet, died aged 66.
2/9/1973, J R R Tolkien, author of The
Lord of the Rings, died at Bournemouth.
22/2/1973, Elizabeth Bowen,
Irish novelist, died aged 73.
6/7/1972, Laurent Gaude,
French writer, was born.
15/2/1972, US writer
Edgar Snow
died.
28/9/1970, John Dos Passos,
US writer,
died in Baltimore, Maryland..
7/7/1970, Sir Allen Lane,
publisher and founder of Penguin
paperback books in 1936, died.
7/6/1970, E M Forster,
novelist, died.
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11/3/1969. The
author John
Wyndham died.
20/12/1968. 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.
28/11/1968. Enid Blyton, creator
of Noddy and Big Ears, died. She was born on 11/8/1897 in East Dulwich. In the
mid 1930s she began writing her stories, which featured Noddy, the Famous Five,
and the Secret Seven.
10/11/1968, Novelist John Steinbeck died.
1/6/1968, Helen Keller, US author, died
aged 87.
7/10/1967, Norman Angell,
English
author and politician, died aged 92.
31/8/1967, Ilya Ehrenburg,
Soviet
author, died aged 75.
9/8/1967, Joe Orton, English author and
playwright, died aged 34.
3/8/1967, Siegfried
Sassoon, British poet, died.
22/7/1967, US poet Carl Sandburg died in North Carolina.
23/12/1966, Heimito von
Doderer, Austrian
novelist (born 5/11/1896 in Vienna) died in Vienna.
8/10/1966, Kevin
Fleming O'Brien, US writer, was born.
28/9/1966, Andre
Breton, French poet, died.
10/4/1966, British author Evelyn Waugh died.
18/1/1966, Kathleen Norris,
US writer, died (born 1880)
16/12/1965, Somerset
Maugham, author, died this day.
31/7/1965, J K Rowling,
British author of the Harry Potter
series, was born.
4/1/1965. Poet
and playwright T
S Eliot died. He was born on 26/9/1888 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.
11/12/1964, Ayelet Waldman,
novelist, was born in Jerusalem
9/12/1964, English poet Dame Edith Sitwell died, aged 77.
12/8/1964, Ian Fleming,
British author and creator of James
Bond, died aged 56.
26/5/1964, Caitl�n R.
Kiernan, Irish-born US science fiction and fantasy author, was born
in Dublin
26/3/1964, You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming's 12th James Bond novel was released by
Jonathan Cape in the UK.
17/9/1963, Rami Saari,
Israeli poet, was born.
29/1/1963, US poet Robert Frost
died.
7/9/1962, Isak Dinesen,
Danish writer, died (born 17/4/1885).
6/7/1962, William
Faulkner, US novelist, died.
7/6/1962, William
Faulkner, US writer
(born 25/9/1897 in New Albany, Mississippi) died in Oxford, Mississippi.
2/6/1962, Vita
Sackville-West, British novelist,
died.
2/11/1961, James Thurber,
author, died in New York.
27/9/1961, Hilda Doolittle,
US poet (born 10/9/1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), died in Zurich,
Switzerland.
2/7/1961, The author Ernest Hemingway, born 21/7/1899 in Oak Park,
Illinois, committed suicide.
16/9/1960, Kurt Busiek,
US comic book writer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
30/5/1960, Boris Pasternak,
Russian author of Dr Zhivago, Nobel Prize winner in 1958 (which he declined),
died near Moscow.
4/5/1960, French
novelist Albert
Camus was killed in a car crash.
12/1/1960, British
author Nevil
Shute died.
5/11/1959, Justin Catanoso,
writer, was born.
8/10/1958, Bret Lott,
US author and academic, was born.
11/9/1958, Robert W
Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet, died (born 1874).
4/8/1958, Ethel Anderson,
Australian poet, died (born 1883)
17/12/1957, Dorothy L
Sayers, British novelist and playwright, died.
25/10/1957, Lord Edward
Dunsany, writer, died in Dublin, Ireland (born 24/7/1878 in London,
England)
24/7/1957, Sacha Guitry,
French playwright, died aged 72.
28/6/1957, German
author Alfred
Doblin died.
29/5/1957, George Bacovia,
Romanian poet, died aged 75.
24/8/1956, Adam Gopnik,
US writer, was born.
14/8/1956, German
writer Bertolt
Brecht died.
29/1/1956, H L Mencken,
US writer, died aged 75.
12/8/1955, Thomas Mann,
German novelist, died aged 80.
2/8/1955, US poet Wallace Stevens died in Hartford, Connecticut.
24/4/1955, Alfred Polgar,
Austrian writer and theatre critic, died aged 79
10/12/1953, Churchill received the
Nobel Prize for Literature.
9/11/1953. The Welsh
poet Dylan Marlais Thomas, born in
Swansea on 27/10/1914, died in New York City aged 39
26/9/1952, George
Santayana, Spanish writer, died aged 88.
11/3/1952, Douglas
Adams, British writer, was born.
2/6/1951, John Erskine, US author,
died� in New York (born in New York City,
5/10/1879).
19/2/1951, French writer Andre Gide died.
10/1/1951, Sinclair Lewis,
US novelist, died aged 65.
2/11/1950. George Bernard
Shaw, born 26/7/1856 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.
16/10/1950, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis,
was first published.
19/3/1950, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, author
of the Tarzan books, died aged 75.
24/2/1950, Richard Wayne
Bandler, US author, was born.
13/2/1950, Rafael Sabatini,
Italian novelist, died aged 74.
11/2/1950, Author Kurt Vonnegut was published for the first
time, as his story Report on the
Barnhouse Effect appeared in Collier's magazine.
21/1/1950. 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.
6/6/1949, 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.
6/5/1949, Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian playwright, died aged 86.
16/9/1948, Julia Donaldson,
English children's writer, was born in London, England.
6/2/1947, Hans Fallada,
German novelist, died in Berlin (born 21/7/1893 in Greifswald, Germany).
31/8/1946, Harley
Granville-Barker, English playwright, died aged 69.
16/8/1949, Margaret
Mitchell, author of Gone With
the Wind, died after being hit by a car.
13/8/1946. Author H G Wells;
born on 21/9/1866, died in London, aged 76.
27/7/1946, The US writer Gertrude Stein (born 3/2/1874 in Allegheny,
Pennsylvania), died in Paris, France.
8/6/1946, Gerhart
Hauptmann, German novelist,
died aged 83.
29/4/1946, Humphrey
Carpenter, biographer, was born (died 4/1/2005)
27/2/1946, Thomas Hauser,
author, was born.
25/2/1946, Franz Kroetz,
German author, was born.
28/12/1945, Theodore
Dreiser, US author (born 27/8/1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana), died in
Hollywood, California.
20/7/1945, Paul Valery,
French poet, died aged 74.
31/7/1944. The pilot
and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of �The Little Prince�, was reported
missing.
16/5/1944, George Ade,
US author (born 9/2/1866) died.
28/3/1944, Stephen Leacock,
Canadian writer, died aged 74.
9/2/1944, Alice Walker,
African-American author and social activist, was born.
22/12/1943. The
author Beatrix
Potter died aged 77.
7/8/1941, Rabindranath
Tagore, Indian
author and intellectual, died aged 80.
24/4/1941, Karin Boye,
Swedish poet and novelist, died aged 40.
18/3/1941, Wolfgang Bauer,
writer, was born.
8/3/1941, Sherwood
Anderson, US novelist,
died aged 65.
21/12/1940. F Scott
Fitzgerald, US author,
died.
29/2/1940, EF. Benson,
English novelist, died aged 72
11/2/1940, Death of John Buchan,
author of The Thirty Nine Steps, also Governor-General of Canada, died and
was cremated in Montreal. His ashes were returned to England
and buried in Elsfield, Oxfordshire.
25/4/1939, Ted Kooser,
US poet, was born.
12/4/1939, Alan Ayckbourn,
English playwright, was born.
28/1/1939, W B (William
Butler) Yeats, Irish poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize winner in
1923, died in the south of France.
25/12/1938, Czech
writer Karel
Kapek died.
9/10/1938, John Sutherland,
English author, was born.
4/10/1938, Cholpon,
Uzbek poet, was killed in the Great Stalinist Purge.
1/6/1938, Khawar Rizvi,
poet, was born in the Punjab, British
India.
19/4/1938, Henry Newbolt,
English poet, died aged 75.
18/7/1937, Hunter S
Thompson, writer, was born (died 20/2/2005).
3/7/1937, Tom Stoppard,
Czech-born
British playwright, was born.
11/6/1937, Mate Zalka,
Hungarian writer, died aged 41.
30/5/1937, Arthur C Jacobs,
Scottish poet, was born in Glasgow (died 1994)
9/4/1937, Albert Paine,
75, US author, died.
10/12/1936, Luigi
Pirandello, Italian author, died aged 69.
23/8/1936, Juliette Adam,
French writer (born 4/120/1836) died.
19/8/1936, Frederico
Garcia Lorca, Spanish writer, died.
14/6/1936, G K Chesterton,
British poet and novelist, died.
18/1/1936, Rudyard Kipling, English novelist
who won the Nobel Prize in 1907,
died.
30/7/1935. Penguin paperbacks went on sale in
Britain. The first such book on sale was a biography of Shelley.
17/6/1935, G W Russell,
Irish writer, died aged 68.
23/5/1935, Laase
Stromstedt, Swedish author, was born (died 2009).
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9/5/1934, Alan Bennett, British playwright, was born.
4/12/1933, Stefan George,
German poet, died aged 65.
21/1/1933, George Augustus
Moore, Irish writer,
died aged 80.
1/1/1933, Joe Orton, English author, was born (died 1967)
2/10/1932, David St Clair,
US writer, was born.
17/8/1932, VS
Naipaul, Indian author, was born.
6/7/1932, Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, died (born 8/3/1859).
1/6/1932, Philo Bregstein, Dutch writer,
was born.
18/3/1932, John Updike,
US author, was born (died 2009)
10/2/1932, Edgar Wallace,
English writer, died aged 57.
21/1/1932, Lytton Strachey,
founder member of the Bloomsbury Group,
an influential writers and intellectual
group, died.
31/8/1931, Hall Caine,
British novelist, died aged 78.
27/3/1931, Arnold Bennett,
English writer, died aged 64.
10/10/1930, Harold
Pinter, British playwright, was born.
16/8/1930, Ted Hughes,
English poet, was born (died 1998)
7/7/1930, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, British author
created the crime detective character Sherlock
Holmes, died, aged 71.
13/4/1930, Subbiah Muthiah,
Indian writer, was born (died 20/4/2019).
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13/10/1929, Walasse Ting,
Chinese-American poet, was born in Shanghai. He died in 2010.
15/7/1929, Hugo von
Hoffmannsthal, Austrian author,
died aged 55.
6/4/1929, Willis Hall,
playwright, was born (died 7/3/2005).
11/12/1928, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, was born.
21/11/1928, Hermann
Sudermann, German author, died.
17/12/1928, Jean Cherry
Drummond, writer, was born (died 11/3/2005).
10/4/1928, English writer Stanley John Weyman died, aged 72.
12/3/1928, US playwright Edward Albee was born (died
2016).
11/1/1928. Thomas Hardy,
English poet and novelist, author of
Tess of the D�Ubervilles, died in Dorset aged 87.
14/6/1927, British author Jerome K Jerome died.
29/12/1926, Rainer
Maria Rilke, Austrian poet, died.
14/10/1926. In
Britain, A
A. Milne published Winnie the
Pooh, a children�s book.
3/9/1926, Alison Lurie,
US writer, was born.
3/10/1925, Gore Vidal,
US writer, was born (died
2012).
23/5/1925, British publishing magnate Sir Edward Hulton died after
falling off his penny-farthing bicycle.
15/5/1926, Peter Shaffer,
English playwright, was born (died
1926).
14/5/1925, Henry Rider
Haggard, English writer,
died aged 69.
12/10/1924, French
writer Anatole
France died.
3/8/1924,
Polish-born UK author Joseph Conrad died.
3/6/1924, German novelist Franz Kafka died in a sanatorium at Kierling,
near Vienna, after a seven year battle with tuberculosis.
30/1/1924, Lloyd Alexander,
author, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 2007)
30/3/1923, Milton Acorn,
poet / writer, born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (died 1986).
9/1/1923. Katherine
Mansfield, New Zealand author,
died aged 34.
15/11/1922, Marcel Proust,
French writer, died aged 51.
22/10/1922, Lyman Abbott,
US author, died (born
18/12/1835)
15/6/1922, Alan Hunter,
author, was born (died 26/2/2005).
11/6/1921, Michael Meyer,
English writer, was born.
31/1/1921, Norman Mailer,
US author, was born.
9/3/1920, Haralamb Lecca,
Romanian playwright and poet, died aged 47
2/1/1920. Isaac Asimov
was born.
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1/7/1919, Iris Murdoch,
British author, was born.
20/5/1919, Roger Wolcott
Hall, US author, was born (died 20/7/2008).
30/4/1919, Oscar Adams,
US author, died (born 1855).
27/1/1919, Endre Ady,
Hungarian
poet (born 21/11/1877) died.
8/1/1919, Peter Altenberg,
writer, died aged 59.
11/12/1918, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist,
was born in Rostov.
2/11/1918, Frederick
Leboyer, author, was born.
8/3/1918, Charles Adams, US poet
(born 21/4/1842) died.
16/12/1917, Arthur C Clarke,
British
science-fiction writer, was born.
13/3/1917, Maria Vlamynck,
Flemish author, was born.
1/3/1917, Robert Lowell,
US poet, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
14/11/1916, H H Munro
(Saki) died, aged 45.
13/9/1916,� Roald Dahl, author
of children�s books, was born in Llandaff, Glamorganshire.
20/5/1916, Owen Chadwick,
British writer, was born
28/2/1916, Henry James,
US novelist, died.
6/2/1916, South
African poet Ruben
Dario died.
10/7/1915, Saul Bellow,
US author, was born in Lachine,
Quebec.
23/4/1915, Rupert Brooke,
British poet, died at Lemnos.
11/11/1914, Howard Fast,
US author, was born in New York City.
27/10/1914, Dylan Marlais
Thomas, Welsh poet,
was born in Swansea, the son of a schoolmaster.
7/11/1913. 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.
11/8/1913, Angus Wilson,
English novelist, was born (died 1991).
29/3/1913, R. S. Thomas,
Welsh poet, was born� in Cardiff (died 2000).
14/5/1912, August
Strindberg, playwright,
died in Stockholm, Sweden..
20/4/1912, Bram Stoker,
Dublin-born creator of Dracula in 1897, died aged 65 in London.
26/3/1912, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright, was born (died 1983).
27/2/1912, British
poet and writer Lawrence
Durrell was born.
19/9/1911, British
writer William
Golding was born.
2/7/1911, Diego Fabbri,
Italian playwright, was born in Forl�.
29/5/1911, W S Gilbert,
English poet and dramatist, died aged 75.
26/3/1911, Tennessee
Williams, US playwright
(born 26/3/1911) died in New York City.
7/11/1910, Leo Tolstoy,
author of War and Peace and Anna
Karenina, died.
17/10/1910, Julia Howe,
US author, died (born 27/5/1819).
2/7/1910, Frederick Furnivall, English
writer, died (born 4/2/1825),
5/6/1910, Death of American
short-story writer O. Henry (real name William Sydney
Porter).
26/4/1910, Bjornstjerne
Bjornson, Norwegian writer, died (born 8/12/1832).
21/4/1910. Mark
Twain, American author, died in Reading, Connecticut, aged 74.
31/3/1910, Jean
Moreas, French poet, died (born 15/4/1856).
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14/12/1909, Frederick
Greenwood, English writer, died (born 4/1830).
12/12/1909, Armand
Boni, Flemish poet and writer, was born in Antwerp, Belgium (died
1991)
18/11/1909, Richard Gilder,
US poet, died (born 8/2/1844).
18/8/1909, Sir
Theodore Martin, British author, died (born 16/9/1816).
6/8/1909, Adalbert
Merx, German scholarly writer, died (born 2/11/1838).
24/6/1909, Sarah Jewett,
US novelist, died (born 3/9/1849).
10/6/1909, Edward Hale,
US author, died (born 3/4/1822).
23/3/1909, John Davidson,
British writer, died (born 11/4/1857).
15/9/1908, John Collins,
English literary critic, died (born 26/3/1848).
10/8/1908, Louise
Moulton, US poet, died.
6/7/1908, Joel
Chandler Harris, US writer, died aged 60.
5/7/1908, Jonas
Lie, Norwegian novelist, died (born 6/11/1833).
1/6/1908, Louis Frechette, French Canadian
poet, died (born 16/11/1839).
28/5/1908, Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was born
in London.
8/5/1908, Ludovic Halevy,
French author, died (born 1/1/1834).
12/3/1908, Edmondo de
Amicis, Italian writer, died in Bordighera (born 21/10/1846 in
Oneglia).
26/2/1908, Johann
Kirchhoff, German scholarly writer, died.
25/1/1908, Louise de la
Ramee, English novelist
(pen name Ramee) died aged 67.
14/1/1908, Holger Drachmann,
Danish poet, died (born 9/10/1846).
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10/12/1907. Rudyard Kipling
was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature,
the first time it had been awarded to an English writer.
28/11/1907, Alberto Moravia,
Italian novelist, was born (died 1990).
15/11/1907, Moncure Conway,
author, died in Paris (born 17/3/1832
in Virginia, USA).
29/10/1907, Gerald Massey,
English poet, died (born 29/5/1828).
12/9/1907, Louis Macneice,
Irish poet, was born (died 1963).
7/9/1907, Bogdan Hasdeu,
Romanian scholarly writer, died (born 1836).
26/7/1907, US author
Mark Twain
was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Oxford University.
8/7/1907, Sophus Bugge,
Norwegian scholarly writer, died (born 5/1/1833)
20/6/1907. Lillian Hellman,
US author, was born (died 1984).
11/6/1907, Clovis Hugues,
French poet, died (born 3/11/1851).
18/5/1907, John Ingram,
Irish scholarly writer, died (born 7/7/1832).
6/5/1907, John Watson,
writer, died (born 3/11/1850).
13/5/1907, Daphne du
Maurier, English novelist, was born in London.
21/2/1907, W H Auden,
English poet, was born.
16/2/1907, Giosue Carducci,
Italian poet (born 27/7/1836) died.
26/1/1907, Henry Field,
US author, died (born 3/4/1822).
21/1/1907, Toivo Kauppinen,
Finnish writer, was born.
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9/12/1906, Ferdinand
Brunetiere, French writer, died (born 19/7/1849).
13/8/1906, Pearl Craigie,
US novelist, died (born 3/11/1867).
28/8/1906, John Betjeman,
poet, was born (died 1984).
20/6/1906, Catherine
Cookson, British writer,
was born.
23/5/1906, Henrik Ibsen,
Norwegian poet, died (born 20/3/1828).
13/4/1906, Samuel Beckett,
Irish playwright, was born.
23/3/1906, Thomas Harris,
US poet and preacher, died.
9/2/1906, Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and
novelist (born 27/6/1872 in Dayton, Ohio) died of tuberculosis. Son of a former
slave, his poetry did much to describe the everyday lives of Black Americans.
22/1/1906, George Holyoake,
English writer, died (born 13/4/1817).
21/12/1905, Anthony
Powell, English novelist, was born.
20/12/1905, Henry Harland,
US author, died (born 3/1861 in St Petersburg).
12/12/1905, Francois
Meurice, French dramatist, died (born 7/2/1818).
28/10/1905, Michael
Dragomirov, Russian military writer, died (born 8/11/1830).
15/10/1905, CP
Snow, English novelist, was born (died 1980)
3/10/1905, Jose Heredia,
French poet, died (born 22/11/1842).
6/9/1905, Karl Heigel, German novelist,
died (born 25/3/1835).
22/8/1905, David
Monro, English classical writer, died (born 16/11/1836).
21/6/1905, Jean
Paul-Sartre, French dramatist and
novelist, was born in Paris.
20/6/1905, Lillian
Helman, US writer, was born (died 1984).
24/3/1905, Jules Verne,
French science fiction writer, died
in Amiens aged 77.
2/2/1905, Russian writer Maxim Gorky was released from prison.
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19/11/1904, Hans von Hopfen,
German poet, died (born 3/1/1835).
22/7/1904, Wilson Barrett,
playwright, died (born in Essex 18/2/1846).
2/7/1904, The Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, born 17/1/1860 in
Taganrog, died in Germany
whilst being treated for tuberculosis.
25/6/1904, Wilhelm
Jordan, German poet and novelist, died.
16/4/1904, Samuel
Smiles, Scottish writer, died aged 92.
24/3/1904, Sir Edwin
Arnold, British poet, died (born 10/6/1832).
2/3/1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel, author of children�s books, was born in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
28/1/1904, Karl Franzos,
German novelist, died (born 25/10/1848).
1/11/1904, George
Bernard Shaw�s play John
Bull�s Other Island had its premier.
28/12/1903, George Gissing,
English novelist, died (born 22/11/1857).
19/11/1903, Hugh
Scott, English novelist, died.
1/11/1903, Theodor Mommsen,
writer, died aged 87.
28/10/1903, British novelist Evelyn Waugh was born.
15/7/1903, Walter Dumeaux
Edmonds, US novelist, was born in Booneville, New York.
25/6/1903, Birth of
the author George Orwell, in Motihari,
Bengal, India.� He was born as Eric Arthur
Blair.
5/3/1903, George
Henderson, British military writer, died (born 1854).
13/3/1903, Nikolaas Beets,
Dutch poet, died in Utrecht (born in Haarlem 13/9/1814).
27/2/1903, George Hill,
English writer, died (born 7/6/1835).
13/2/1903, Georges Simenon,
Belgian crime writer, was born.
9/2/1903, Sir Charles
Duffy, Irish writer, died (born 12/4/1816).
11/1/1903, South
African author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton was born (died 1988)
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1902, Beatrix Potter�s first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was published.
25/10/1902, Frank Norris,
US novelist, died.
21/9/1902, Sir Allen Lane,
English publisher who founded Penguin books and brought about the paperback
revolution, was born.
20/9/1902, Stevie Smith,
poet and novelist, was born (died 1971)
2/9/1902, Edward
Egglestone, US author (born 10/12/1837 in Vevay, Indiana) died in
Lake George, New York.
18/6/1902, Samuel Butler,
English writer, died (born 4/12/1835).
16/5/1902, Carles Fages de
Climent, Catalonian writer, poet and journalist, was born in
Figueres (died 1968).
10/5/1902, George Grant,
scholarly writer, died (born 1835).
21/2/1902, Emil Holub,
Bohemian writer, died (born 7/10/1847)
10/2/1902, Armand Bernier,
Belgian poet, was born.
16/12/1901, Johann Duntzer,
German writer, died (born 12/7/1813).
11/10/1901, James Greenough,
US classical scholarly writer, died (born 4/5/1833).
31/8/1901, Three Sisters, a play by Anton Chekhov,
premiered in Moscow.
27/8/1901, Rudolf Haym,
German writer, died (born 5/10/1821).
9/7/1901, Barbara Cartland, British writer of romantic novels,
was born.
10/6/1901, Robert Buchanan,
British novelist, died (born 18/8/1841).
9/6/1901, Sir Walter
Besant, English author, died in Hampstead, London (born in
Portsmouth 14/8/1836).
24/3/1901, Charlotte M
Yonge, novelist, died, aged 78.
13/2/1901, Lewis Grassic
Gibbon, Scottish novelist, was born (died 1935)
3/2/1901, Rosamund
Lehmann, novelist, was born (died 1900).
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30/11/1900, 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.
3/10/1900, Thomas Wolfe, US novelist, was born (died 1938).
29/6/1900, Antoine de
Saint Exupery, author of The
Little Prince, was born.
28/5/1900, Sir George
Grove, English writer on music, died (born 13/8/1820).
2/4/1900, Roberto Arlt,
Argentine writer, was born in Buenos Aires (died 1942)
30/3/1900, Archibald
Forbes, British military writer, died (born 17/4/1838).
6/2/1900, Sir William
Hunter, British writer, died (born 15/7/1840).
23/1/1900, Richard Dixon,
English poet, died (born 5/5/1833).
16/11/1899, Julius Busch,
German publicist, died (born 13/2/1821)
24/10/1899, Grant Allen,
English author, died in Hindhead (born 24/2/1848 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
13/10/1899, Philip Colomb,
English writer, died (born 29/5/1831).
27/8/1899, Emmanuel Hiel,
Belgian-Dutch writer, died (born 5/1834).
21/7/1899, Robert
Ingersoll, US author, died (born 11/8/1833).
7/6/1899, Augustin Daly,
US playwright, died (born 20/7/1838).
1/6/1899, Klaus Groth,
German poet, died (born 24/4/1819).
1/3/1899, Andrew Boyd,
Scottish author, died in Bournemouth (born 3/11/1825).
20/2/1899, Ernst Lange,
German novelist, died (born 21/2/1813).
17/1/1899, Nevil Shute,
English novelist, was born in
Ealing, London.
28/11/1898, Konrad Meyer,
Swiss poet, died (born 11/10/1825).
19/10/1898, Harold Frederic,
Anglo-US novelist, died (born 19/8/1856).
20/9/1898, Theodor Fontane,
German novelist, died (30/12/1819).
9/9/1898, Stephane
Mallarme, French poet, died (born 18/3/1842).
14/7/1898, Eliza Linton,
English novelist, died (born 10/8/1822).
22/5/1898, Edward Bellamy,
US writer died in Chicopee Falls (born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts
25/3/1850).
11/2/1898, Ferdinand Fabre,
French novelist, died (born 1830).
18/1/1898, Henry Liddell,
English writer, died (born 6/2/1811).
14/1/1898, Lewis Carroll, author of Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, died in Guildford, Surrey.
2/1/1898, Sir Edward Bond, English
librarian, died (born in Hanwell 31/12/1815).
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17/12/1897, Alphonse Daudet,
French novelist, died (born 13/5/1840).
7/10/1897, Francis
Newman, English scholarly writer, died (born 27/6/1805).
11/8/1897, Enid Blyton,
author of children�s books, was born in
Dulwich.
6/8/1897, Samuel
Laing, British author, died (born 12/10/1810).
26/5/1897, Bram Stoker�s
Dracula was first published.
11/3/1897, Henry Drummond,
Scottish scholarly writer, died (born 17/8/1851).
26/11/1896, Mathilde Blind,
English author, died (born in Mannheim 21/3/1841).
8/10/1896, George du
Maurier, English writer, died (born 1834).
24/9/1896, F Scott
Fitzgerald, US author,
was born.
11/9/1896, Francis Child,
scholarly writer, died (born 1/2/1825).
6/9/1896, Sir Joseph
Crowe, art writer, died (born 25/10/1828).
11/6/1896, Sir George
Dasent, English writer, died born 22/5/1817).
11/5/1896, Henry Bunner,
US writer, died (born 3/8/1855).
29/4/1896, Jean Haureau,
French writer, died (born 1812).
28/3/1896, Elizabeth
Charles, English author, died (born 2/1/1828).
26/2/1896, Arsene Houssaye,
French novelist, died (born 28/3/1815).
14/1/1896, John Dos Passos,
US writer, was born in Chicago,
Illinois.
11/1/1896, Joao de Deus,
Portuguese poet, died (born 8/3/1830).
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11/12/1895, Jean Montegut,
French writer, died (born 14/6/1825).
8/12/1895, Theodore la
Villemarque, French writer, died (born 6/7/1815).
27/11/1895, Alexandre Dumas
II, novelist, died (born 27/7/1824)
22/11/1895, John de Tabley,
English poet, died (born 26/4/1835).
4/11/1895, Eugene Field,
US poet, died (born 2/9/1850).
22/10/1895, Ruggero Bonghi,
Italian writer, died (born in Naples 20/3/1828).
7/10/1895, William Wetmore
Story, US poet, died (born 12/2/1819).
30/4/1895, Gustav Freytag,
German novelist, died (born 13/7/1816)
2/3/1895, Stuart Blackie,
Scottish writer, died in Edinburgh (born in Glasgow 28/7/1809).
14/2/1895, Oscar Wilde�s
final play, The Importance of Being
Earnest, opened in London.
11/1/1895, Thomas Hake,
English poet, died (born 10/3/1809).
29/12/1894, Christina
Rossetti, English poet, died (born 5/12/1830).
8/12/1894, James Thurber,
author, was born in Columbus, Ohio.
3/12/1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island,
died.
19/10/1894, James Darmesteter, French author, died (born 28/3/1849).
26/7/1894, Aldous Huxley,
novelist, was born.
18/7/1894, Charles Leconte,
French poet, died (born 22/10/1818).
5/7/1894, Sir Austin
Layard, British author, died.
28/6/1894, Alice DG Miller,
US screenwriter, was born (died 24/7/1985).
5/6/1894, Edward Capern,
English poet, died (born 21/1/1819).
4/6/1894, Wilhelm Freund,
German scholarly writer, died (born 27/1/1806).
14/5/1894, Henry Morley,
British writer, died (born 15/9/1822).
29/4/1894, Augusta Drane,
English writer, died (born 29/12/1823).
3/2/1894, George Childs,
US publisher, died (born 12/5/1829).
8/2/1894, Robert
Ballantyne, writer, died in Rome (born in Edinburgh 24/4/1825).
22/12/1893, William Lloyd,
English writer, died (born 11/3/1813).
10/7/1893, Henry
Nettleship, English scholarly writer, died.
6/7/1893, Henri
Maupassant, French novelist, died (born 5/8/1850).
17/6/1893, Thomas Mozley,
English writer, died.
14/6/1893, Jakob
Frohschammer, German scholarly writer, died (born 6/1/1821).
1/3/1893, William Minto,
Scottish writer, died (born 10/10/1845).
23/1/1893, Phillips Brooks,
US author, died (born 13/12/1835).
15/1/1893, Frances Kemble,
author, died (born 27/11/1809)
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12/12/1892, Sir John Burke,
British genealogical writer, author of Burke�s
Peerage, died (born 5/1/1814).
21/10/1892, Anne
Edgren-Leffler, Swedish author, died (born 1/10/1849).
12/10/1892, Lothar Bucher,
German writer, died (born 25/10/1817)
11/10/1892, Xavier Marmier,
French author, died (born 24/6/1809).
6/10/1892, Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet
laureate from 1850, died at Aldworth, Surrey. He was born on
6/8/1809.
31/8/1892, George Curtis,
US writer, died (born 24/2/1824).
3/8/1892, Johann Nauck,
German scholarly writer, died (born 18/9/1822).
30/7/1892, Joseph Hubner,
Austrian writer, died (born 26/11/1811).
20/7/1892, Leon Cladel,
French novelist, died (born 13/3/1835).
11/6/1892, William Corey,
English scholarly writer, died (born 9/1/1823).
19/4/1892, Friedrich
Bodenstedt, German author, died in Wiesbaden (born in Hanover
22/4/1819).
5/2/1892, Emilie Flygare,
Swedish novelist, died (born 8/8/1807).
3/1/1892, 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.
19/12/1891, John Morton,
English playwright, died (born 3/1/1811).
24/11/1891, Edward Lytton,
English poet, died (born 8/11/1831).
19/11/1891, Gregor Csiky,
Hungarian dramatist, died (born 8/12/1842).
28/9/1891, Herman Melville,
US author, died.
12/8/1891, James Lowell,
US author, died
1/4/1891, Pauline Craven,
French author, died (born 12/4/1808).
26/2/1891, Fortune du
Boisgobey, French fiction writer (born in Granville 11/9/1824) died.
28/10/1890, Alexander Ellis,
writer, died (born 14/6/1814)
13/10/1890, William Belknap,
US politician, died in Washington DC (born in Newburgh, New York, 22/9/1829).
29/9/1890, Jean Karr,
French novelist, died (born 24/11/1808).
18/9/1890, Dion Boucicault,
Irish playwright, died in New York (born in Dublin 26/12/1822).
15/9/1890, Agatha Christie,
crime writer, was born in Torquay,
Devon, as Agatha
Mary Clarissa.� (died
12/1/1976).
2/8/1890, Louise
Ackermann, French
poet (born 30/11/1813) died.
15/7/1890, Gottfried
Keller, German novelist, died (born 19/7/1819).
27/4/1890, William Blades,
English writer, died in Sutton, Surrey (was born in Clapham, London 5/12/1824).
29/3/1890, Armand
Pontmartin, French writer (born 16/7/1811) died.
10/2/1890, Boris
Pasternak, Russian writer, author of Dr Zhivago, was born
in Moscow.
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24/12/1889, Charles MacKay,
Scottish writer, died (born 27/3/1814).
23/12/1889, Constance Naden,
English author, died (born 24/1/1858).
21/12/1889, Eugene
Deslongchamps, writer, died
12/12/1889, Robert Browning,
English poet, died.
10/12/1889, Ludwig
Anzengruber, Austrian dramatist, died in Vienna (born 29/11/1839 in
Vienna)
18/11/1889, William
Allingham, Irish poet, died in Hampstead, London (born 19/3/1824 in
Ballyshannon, Donegal).
26/10/1889, Carel Cobet,
Dutch scholarly writer, died (born 28/11/1813).
25/10/1889, Guillaume
Augier, French dramatist, died in Croissy (born 17/9/1820 in Valence,
Drome).
10/9/1889, Amy Levy,
English novelist, died.
2/9/1889, Samuel Austin
Allibone, US author, died in Lucerne, Switzerland (born 17/4/1816 in
Philadelphia Pennsylvania).
15/8/1889, James Albery,
English dramatist, died (born 4/5/1838 in London).
5/8/1889, Fanny :Lewald,
German author, died.
25/7/1888, Herman Bonitz,
German scholarly writer, died in Berlin (born in Saxony 29/7/1814).
13/7/1889, Robert
Hamerling, Austrian poet, died (born 24/3/1830).
16/5/1889, Henry Chandler,
scholarly writer, died (born 31/1/1828). 16/5/1889).
23/4/1889, Jules Barbey, French writer, died in Paris (born 2/11/1808).
6/4/1889, Benjamin Kennedy, English
scholarly writer, died (born 6/11/1804).
21/1/1889, Karl Elze, German literary writer, died (born 22/5/1821).
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25/11/1888, Josef Jirecek, Czech scholarly writer, died (born 9/10/1825).
26/9/1888, Poet T S Eliot was born � see 4/1/1965.
11/5/1888, Irving Berlin, US
songwriter, was born as Israel Baline in Tyumen, Russia.
15/4/1888, Matthew Arnold, British poet, died in Liverpool (born 24/12/1822 in
Laleham, Staines).
6/3/1888, Louisa Alcott, US author, died (born 29/11/1832)
26/2/1888, James Morison, British
author, died (born 20/4/1832).
30/1/1888, Edward Lear,
English
author and artist, who wrote the Book
of Nonsense, died in San Remo, Italy.
23/1/1888, Eugene Labiche,
French dramatist, died (born 5/5/1815).
2/11/1887, Alfred Domett,
English poet, died (born 20/5/1811).
12/10/1887, Dinah Craik,
English novelist, died (born 20/4/1826).
25/7/1887, Henry Mayhew,
English author, died.
13/7/1887, Elme Carlo,
French scholarly writer, died (born 4/3/1826).
22/6/1887, Eugenie John,
German novelist, died.
16/6/1887, Roswell
Hitchcock, US writer, died (born 15/8/1817).
31/5/1887, Thomas Baynes,
English writer, died (born in Wellington, Somerset 24/3/1823).
5/5/1887, James Grant,
British novelist, died (born 1/8/1822).
19/3/1887, Joseph
Kraszewski, Polish novelist, died (born 28/7/1812).
19/2/1887, Edward Dekker,
Dutch writer, died (born 2/3/1820).
13/2/1887, Philip Marston,
English poet, died (born 13/8/1850).
11/2/1887, Francois
Laurent, Belgian legal writer, died.
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12/12/1886, Johan Madvig,
Danish scholarly writer, died (born 7/8/1904).
26/9/1886, Clement Ingleby,
English writer on Shakespeare, died (born 29/10/1823).
9/8/1886, Sir Samuel
Ferguson, Irish poet, died (born 10/3/1810).
15/5/1886, Emily Dickinson,
US poet, died in Amherst,
Massachusetts.
13/4/1886, Anna
Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist, died in The Hague (born in
Alkmaar 16/9/1812)
10/2/1886, Henry Bradshaw,
scholarly writer, died (born in London 2/2/1831)
9/1/1886, James Ferguson,
Scottish architectural writer, died (born 22/1/1808).
24/12/1885, Louis Gachard,
Belgian writer, died (born 12/3/1800).
11/9/1885, DH Lawrence,
author of Lady Chatterley�s Lover, was born.
1/9/1885, Emile Egger,
Frenchy scholarly writer, died (born 18/7/1813).
12/8/1885, Georg Curtius,
German writer, died (born 16/4/1820).
11/8/1885, Richard
Houghton, English poet, died (born 19/6/1809).
22/5/1885, Victor Hugo,
French
poet and novelist, author of Les
Miserables, died in Paris aged 83.
21/5/1885, Terenzio
Mamiana, Italian writer, died.
13/5/1885, Juliana Ewing,
writer of children�s stories, died (born 1841).
30/4/1885, Jens Jacobsen,
Danish writer, died (born 7/4/1847).
30/3/1885, Hugh Munro,
British scholarly writer, died (born 19/10/1819).
17/2/1885, John Campbell,
Gaelic scholar died (born 29/12/1822)..
19/1/1885, Lady Georgiana
Fullerton, English novelist, died (born 23/9/1812).
16/1/1885, Edmond About,
French novelist (born 14/2/1828) died.
1/1/1885, Andrew
Findlater, Scottish writer, died (born 1810).
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30/11/1884, Sir Alexander
Grant, British scholarly writer, died (born 13/9/1826).
31/10/1884, Maria
Bashkirtseff, Russian writer, died (born in Gavrontsi 23/11/1860).
19/10/1884, Karl Hillebrand,
German author, died (born 17/9/1829).
16/10/1884, Paul Lacroix,
French author, died (born 27/4/1806).
22/8/1884, Henry Bohn,
British publisher, died in Twickenham (born in London 4/1/1796).
16/8/1884, Gutierrez
Garcia, Spanish dramatist, died (born 5/7/1812).
16/7/1884, Manuel Mila,
Spanish scholarly writer, died (born 4/5/1818).
6/4/1884, Emanuel Geibel,
German poet, died (born 17/10/1815).
19/3/1884, Elias Lonnrot,
Finnish writer, died (born 9/4/1802).
26/2/1884, Charles Badham, English scholarly bwriter,
died 26/2/1884 in Sydney, Australia (born 18/7/1813 in Ludlow, Shropshire).
11/2/1884, Thomas Chenery,
scholarly writer, died (born 1826).
2/2/1884, Abraham Hayward,
English writer, died (born 22/11/1801).
13/12/1883, Pierre Laprade,
French poet, died (born 13/1/1812).
21/9/1883, Conrad Bursian,
German scholarly writer, died (born 14/11/1830).
17/9/1883, John Collier,
English writer, died (born 11/1/1789).
10/9/1883, Hendrik
Conscience, Flemish writer, died (born 3/12/1818).
25/7/1883, Frederick
Maning, New Zealand writer, died.
3/7/1883, Franz Kafka,
Czech poet and playwright, was born.
20/6/1883,� Gustave Aimarde, French novelist, died
20/6/1883 in Paris (born 13/9/1818 in Paris).
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13/11/1882, Johann Kinkel,
German poet, died (born 11/8/1815).
12/10/1882, Arthur Burnell,
scholarly writer on ancient Sanskrit, died (born 1840).
5/10/1882, Carl Halm,
German scholarly writer, died (born 5/4/1809).
1/8/1882, Henry Kendall,
Australian poet, died (born 18/4/1841).
23/7/1882, George Marsh,
US scholarly writer, died (born 15/3/1801).
1/6/1882, John Drinkwater,
poet and dramatist,
was born.
11/5/1882, John Brown,
Scottish author, died (born 22/9/1810).
30/4/1882, Ramon de
Mesonero Romanos, Spanish writer, died.
27/4/1882, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, US poet and essayist, died aged 78 in Concord.
7/4/1882, Denis MacCarthy,
Irish poet, died (born 26/5/1817).
24/3/1882, H W Longfellow,
real name Henry
Wadsworth, American poet, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
8/2/1882, Berthold
Auerbach, German novelist, died in Cannes (born 28/2/1812 in
Nordstetten).
18/1/1882, A A Milne
English writer of children�s books
and creator of Winnie the Pooh, was
born in St John�s Wood, London.
9/1/1882, Richard Dana,
US writer, died (born 1/8/1815).
3/1/1882, William
Ainsworth, English novelist (born 4/2/1805) died.
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24/12/1881, Leonard Bacon,
writer, died 24/12/1881 in New Haven, Connecticut (born 19/2/1802 in Detroit,
Michigan)
17/12/1881, Lewis Morgan,
US ethnological writer, died.
15/11/1881, William Greg,
English essayist, died (born 1809),
7/11/1881, John Machale,
Irish writer, died.
12/10/1881, Josiah Holland,
US writer, died (born 24/7/1819).
25/9/1881,
Franz Ahrens,
German scholarly writer (born 6/6/1809) died.
7/9/1881, Sidney Lanier,
US poet, died (born 3/2/1842).
2/8/1881, Marcus Clarke,
US author, died (born 24/4/1846).
20/7/1881, Theodor Bergk,
German scholarly writer, died in Ragatz, Switzerland (born in Leipzig
3/5/1797).
8/7/1881, Henry Coxe,
English scholarly writer died (born 20/9/1811).
1/7/1881, Ventura Ruiz
Aguilera, Spanish poet, died in Madrid.
26/6/1881, Theodor Benfrey,
German writer, died in Gottingen (born neat Gottingen 28/1/1809).
26/5/1881, Jakob Bernays,
German writer, died in Bonn (born in Hamburg 11/9/1824).
15/5/1881, Franz
Dinglestedt, German poet, died (born 30/6/1814).
3/5/1881, George Banks,
British writer, died in London (born in Birmingham 2/3/1821).
24/4/1881, James Fields,
US author, died (born 31/12/1817).
5/2/1881, Thomas Carlyle,
Scottish essayist, died at 5 Cheyne
Row, Chelsea, London.
28/1/1881, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
died (born in Moscow, 30/10/1821,
son of a surgeon) . His funeral cortege on 31/1/1881 was followed by 30,000
people. He wrote, amongst others, The
Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.
20/10/1880, Lydia Child,
US author, died (born 11/2/1802).
23/9/1880, Geraldine
Jewsbury, English writer, died (born 1812).
5/8/1880, William
Kingston, English novelist, died (born 28/2/2814).
8/5/1880, Gustave
Flaubert, French novelist, died (born 12/12/1821).
16/4/1880, Edward Kenealy,
Irish author died (born 2/7/1819).
22/3/1880, Kenelm Digby,
English writer, died (born 1800).
12/2/1880, Karl Holtei,
German poet, died (born 24/1/1798).
12/1/1880, Ida Hahn-Hahn,
German author, died (born 22/6/1805).
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26/12/1879, William Dixon,
English author, died (born 30/6/1821).
31/10/1879, Jacob Abbott,
US writer of books for children, died in Farmington, Maine.
2/10/1879, US poet Wallace Stevens was born in Reading,
Pennsylvania.
7/5/1879, Charles de
Coster, Belgian writer, died (20/8/1827).
20/3/1879, Johann Huber,
writer, died (born 18/8/1830)
2/3/1879, Jules Bastide,
French writer, died (born in Paris 2/11/1800).
30/1/1879, Adelardo Lopez
de Ayala, Spanish writer, died (born in Guadacanal 1/5/1828).
21/1/1879, George Hillard,
US author, died (born 22/9/1808).
1/1/1879, E M Forster,
English
novelist, was born.
16/12/1878, Karl Gutzkow,
German novelist, died (born 17/3/1811).
6/11/1878, William Clark,
writer on Shakespeare, died (born 3/1821).
18/10/1878, David Laing,
Scottish writer, died (born 20/4/1793).
13/8/1878, George
Gilfillan, Scottish author, died (born 30/1/1813).
17/7/1878, Aleardo Aleardi,
Italian poet, died.
9/6/1878, Karl Lehrs,
German scholarly writer, died (born 2/6/1802).
6/1/1878, The US poet Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.
21/11/1877, Endre Ady,
Hungarian
poet (died 27/1/1919) was born.
15/11/1877, Pierre Lanfrey,
French writer, died (born 26/10/1838)
28/10/1877, Julia Kavanagh,
British novelist, died.
16/10/1877, Theodore
Barriere, playwright, died in Paris (born in Paris 1823)
6/7/1877, Friedrich
Hacklander, German novelist, died (born 1/11/1816).
17/6/1877, US writer
John Abbott
died in Fair Haven, Connecticut.
26/5/1877, Sir James
Kay-Shuttleworth, English educational writer, died (born 20/7/804).
10/4/1877, Andrew Halliday,
British writer, died (born 1830).
7/4/1877, Spanish
novelist Cecilia
Larrea (Fernan Caballero) died (born 24/12/1796).
13/3/1877, Charles Clarke,
British writer, died (born 15/12/1787)
6/3/1877, Joseph Autran,
French poet, died in Marseilles (born 20/6/1813 in Marseilles).
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25/9/1876, Adolf
Glasbrenner, German satirical writer, was born (died 25/9/1876).
28/7/1876, Mortimer
Collins, English writer, died (born 29/6/1827).
25/7/1876, Robert Childers,
scholarly writer on the Orient, died (born 1838).
14/7/1876, James Henry,
Irish scholarly writer, died (born 13/12/1798).
4/6/1875, Eduard Morike,
German poet, died (born 8/9/1804).
29/5/1876, Friedrich Diaz,
German scholarly writer, died (born 15/3/1794).
24/5/1876, Henry Kingsley,
English novelist, died.
12/5/1876, Henri Esquiros,
French writer, died (born 23/5/1812).
25/4/1876, Thomas Aird,
Scottish poet, died in Dumfries (born 28/8/1802 in Bowden, Roxburghshire).
17/4/1876, Ian Hay,
British author, was born.
18/3/1876, Ferdinand
Feiligrath, German poet, died (born 17/8/1810).
8/3/1876, Louise Colet,
French poet, died (born 15/9/1810).
5/3/1876, Marie Agoult,
French author (born 31/12/1805 in Frankfort on Main) died in Paris.
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29/11/1875, Thomas Key,
English scholarly writer, died (born 20/3/1799).
1/9/1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, was
born in Chicago. He never visited Africa
where his stories were set.
19/8/1875, Hermann Ebel, German
scholarly writer, died (born 10/5/1820).
17/8/1875, Wilhelm Beek, German
scholarly writer, died in Cape Town.
15/8/1875, Robert Hawker, English
poet, died (born 3/12/1803).
4/8/1875, Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish
writer famous for his fairy stories,
died aged 70.
14/5/1875, Gottfried
Bernhardy, scholarly writer, died (born in Landsberg 20/3/1800).
4/5/1875, Georg Ewald,
German scholarly writer, died (born 16/11/1803).
7/4/1875, Georg Herwegh,
German poet, died (born 31/5/1817).
23/1/1875, Charles
Kingsley, English novelist, died (born 12/6/1819).
20/11/1874, Tom Hood,
English writer, died (born 19/1/1835).
26/10/1874, Carl Cornelius, German
poet, died (born 24/12/1824).
23/10/1874, Abraham Geiger, German
scholarly writer, died (born 24/5/1810).
3/9/1874, Hans Gabelentz, German scholarly
writer, died (born 13/10/1807).
22/8/1874, Sydney Dobell,
English poet, died (born 5/4/1824).
19/6/1874, Jules Janin,
French writer, died (born 16/2/1804).
29/5/1874, G K Chesterton,
English writer, born.
4/4/1874, Charles Beule,
French writer, died (born in Saumur 29/6/1826),
8/2/1874, Herman Merivale,
English writer, died.
5/2/1874, Moritz Haupt,
German scholarly writer, died (born 27/2/1808).
24/1/1874, Adam Black,
Scottish book publisher, died (born in Edinburgh 20/2/1784).
19/1/1874, August Hoffmann,
German writer, died (born 2/4/1798).
16/1/1874, Robert William
Service, Canadian poet, was born.
7/1/1874, Henry Bell,
Scottish writer, died (born in Glasgow 8/11/1803).
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8/11/1873, Manuel Breton
de los Herreros, Spanish dramatist, died (born 19/12/1796).
27/10/1873, Ernest-Aime
Feydeau, French writer, died (born 16/3/1821).
10/10/1873, Hermann Kurz,
German author, died.
4/10/1873, Margaret Gatty,
English writer, died (born 1809),
28/9/1873, Emile Gaboriau,
French novelist, died (born 9/11/1833).
26/9/1873, Julius Benedix,
German dramatist, died in Leipzig (born in Leipzig 21/1/1811).
5/8/1873, Edward Cope,
English scholarly writer, died (born 28/7/1818).
18/7/1873, Victor Chasles,
French writer, died (born 8/11/1798).
13/7/1873, Caroline Clive,
English authoress, died (born 1801).
29/6/1873, Michael Dutt,
Indian poet, died (born 25/1/1824).
27/5/1873, Pierre Lebrun,
French poet, died (born 29/11/1785).
23/4/1873, Wolfgang Menzel,
German poet, died.
16/4/1873, Joseph Glatigny,
French poet, died (born 21/5/1839).
9/3/1873, Charles Knight,
English author, died (born 15/3/1791).
2/2/1873, Gertrudis Gomez,
Spanish novelist, died (born 23/3/1814).
18/1/1873, Edward Lytton,
English novelist, died.
10/1/1873, Francesco
Dall�Ongaro, Italian writer, died (born 1808).
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1872, Through the Looking
Glass was published by Lewis Carroll.
23/12/1872, Theophile
Gautier, French poet, died (born 31/8/1811).
22/12/1872, George Catlin,
US scholarly writer, died (born 1796).
29/11/1872, Johann Baehr, German scholarly writer, died in
Heidelberg, 29/11/1872 (born in Darmstadt 13/6/1798).
14/11/1872, James Hadley,
US scholarly writer, died (born 30/3/1821).
3/11/1872, Vladimir Dahl,
Russian author, died (born 1802).
2/10/1872, Francis Lieber,
US-German writer, died (born 18/3/1800).
8/9/1872, Paolo Guidici,
Italian writer, died in Tonbridge, England (born 1812).
2/9/1872, Nikolai
Grundtvig, Danish writer, died (born 8/9/1783).
27/6/1872, Paul Dunbar,
US author, was born (died 8/2/1906).
23/5/1872, Sir Henry
Bulwer, British author, died (born 13/2/1801).
13/5/1872, Moritz Hartmann,
German poet, died (born 15/10/1821).
6/2/1872, Auguste Gratry,
French author, died (born 10/3/1805).
21/1/1872, Franz
Grillparzer, Austrian poet, was born (died 21/1/1872).
9/1/1872, Henry Halleck,
US writer, died (born 1815).
16/12/1871, Willibald
Alexis, novelist (born 26/9/1798 in Breslau) died in Arnstadt,
Thuringia.
10/9/1871, Richard Bentley,
book publisher, died (born in London 1794).
31/7/1871, Phoebe Cary,
US poet, (born 4/9/1824) died.
22/5/1871, Eligius
Munch-Bellinghausen, Austrian poet, died.
27/4/1871, Charles Kock,
French novelist, died (born 21/5/1793).
22/4/1871, Melchior Meyr,
German writer, died (born 28/6/1810).
3/4/1871, Gustave
Flourens, French writer, died (born 4/8/1838).
17/3/1871, Robert Chambers,
Scottish author, died (born 10/7/1802).
12/2/1871, Alice Cary,
US poet, died (born 26/4/1820).
2/2/1871, Jozsef Eotvos,
Hungarian writer, died (born 13/9/1813).
20/1/1871, Peirre Ponson
du Terrail, French
romantic writer (born 8/7/1829) died.
12/1/1871, Henry Alford, English scholarly writer (born
7/10/1810 in London) died in Canterbury,
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22/12/1870, Gustavo Becquer,
Spanish writer, died in Madrid (born in Seville 17/2/1836).
18/12/1870, Thomas
Doubleday, English author, died (born 2/1790)
5/12/1870, Alexandre Dumas,
French novelist, died (born 24/7/1802).
12/11/1870, Bogumil Goltz,
German writer, died (born 20/3/1801).
1/11/1870, Stephen Crane,
US writer, was born (died 5/6/1900).
10/8/1870, Reinhold Klotz,
German scholarly writer, died (born 13/3/1807).
20/7/1870, Lucien Anatole
Prevost-Paradol, French writer, born 8/8/1829, died of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound.
5/7/1870, Gustav Flugel,
German writer on the Orient, died (born 18/2/1802).
24/6/1870, Adam Gordon,
Australian poet, died (born 1833).
Charles Dickens
9/6/1870, Charles Dickens, author,
born 7/2/1812 at Landport, Portsmouth, died at Godshill, near Rochester, Kent,
of a brain haemorrhage the previous evening.
2/12/1867, English author Charles
Dickens drew large crowds in New York to his readings of his novels
there.
9/6/1864,
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.
20/4/1859, Charles
Dickens� novel A Tale of Two
Cities was published.
7/8/1854, Charles
Dickens� 10th book, Hard
Times, was published in entirety.
12/9/1853, Charles Dickens�
9th book, Bleak House, was
published in entirety.
14/11/1850, Charles
Dickens� 8th book, David
Copperfield, was published in entirety.
12/4/1848, Charles
Dickens� 7th book, Dombey
and Son, was published in entirety.
16/7/1844, Charles Dickens� 6th
book, The Life and Adventures of Martin
Chuzzlewit, was published in entirety.
15/12/1841, Charles
Dickens� 4th and 5th books, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, were published in
entirety.
23/10/1839, Charles
Dickens� 3rd book, The
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, was published in entirety.
9/11/1838, Charles
Dickens� 2nd book, The
Adventures of Oliver Twist, was published in entirety.
17/11/1837, Charles
Dickens� 1st book, The
Pickwick Papers, was published in entirety.
5/2/1824, Charles Dickens,
then aged 12, was sent out to work labelling shoe polish bottles.
7/2/1812, Author Charles Dickens
was born in Old Commercial Road, Landport, Portsmouth, the son of a clerk in
the navy pay office.
24/4/1870, Louisa Costello,
authoress, died (born 1799).
16/3/1870, Henry Dixon,
English sports writer, died (born 16/5/1822).
25/2/1870, Henrik Hertz,
Danish poet, died (born 25/8/1798).
21/1/1870, Alexander
Hertzen, Russian author, died (born 1812).
18/1/1870, Samuel Bailey,
British author (born in Sheffield 1791) died.
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29/10/1869, Emile Descdhamps,
French poet, died (born 20/2/1791).
23/10/1869, John Conington,
English classical writer, died (born 10/8/1825).
10/8/1869, Laurence Binyon,
English poet, was born in Lancaster.
18/7/1869, Louis Bouilhet,
French poet, died in Rouen (born in Cany 27/5/1822).
14/7/1869, Lucie
Duff-Gordon, writer, died (born 24/6/1821)
3/6/1869, John Broughton,
English writer, died (born 27/6/1786).
28/2/1869, Alphonse
Lamartine, French poet and writer, died (born 21/10/1790).
30/1/1869, William
Carleton, Irish novelist, died (born 4/3/1794).
20/1/1869, Carl Gottling,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19/1/1793).
15/1/1869, Sir Henry Ellis,
writer, died (born 29/11/1777)
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8/12/1868, Norman Douglas,
British writer (died in Capri, Italy, 9/2/1952) was born in Deeside, Scotland.
17/10/1868, Bernhard Beskow,
Swedish dramatist, died (born 10/4/1796).
25/8/1868, Jacob van
Lennep, Dutch poet and novelist, died.
4/8/1868, Jacques Boucher,
French writer, died in Abbeville (born in Rethel 10/9/1788).
6/7/1868, Samuel Lover,
Irish novelist, died (born 24/2/1797).
25/5/1868, Rene Weil (Romain
Coolus), French dramatist, was born in Rennes.
7/4/1868, Thomas McGee,
Canadian writer, died.
23/1/1868, Janos Erdelyi,
Hungarian poet, died (born 1814).
19/11/1867, Fitz-Greene
Halleck, US poet, died (born 8/7/1790).
14/11/1867, Jacques Brunet,
French writer, died (born 2/11/1780).
23/10/1867, Franz Bopp,
German scholarly writer, died (born in Mainz 14/7/1791).
10/10/1867, Julius Mosen,
German writer, died.
31/8/1867, Charles Baudelaire, French poet, died in Paris
(born in Paris 9/4/1821).
23/8/1867, Auguste
Barthelemy, French poet, died in Marseilles (born 1796).
16/8/1867, Friedrich Haase,
German scholarly writer, died (4/1/1808).
4/8/1867, John Galsworthy,
English novelist, was born.
27/5/1867, Enoch Arnold
Bennett, British
novelist, was born.
12/4/1867, Robert Bell,
Irish writer, died (born in Cork 16/1/1800).
2/10/1866, Carl Buck,
US scholarly writer, was born.
21/9/1866, Author H G Wells was born at Bromley, Kent.�
He was the son of a professional cricketer.
14/9/1866, Leon Gozlan,
French novelist, died (born 1/9/1806).
10/9/1866, Charles
MacLaren, editor, died (born 7/10/1782).
27/8/1866, Eugene de Bully,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Paris 8/11/1806).
6/8/1866, Christian Fahlcrantz, Swedish
author, died (born 30/8/1790).
28/7/1866, Beatrix Potter,
author and illustrator of children�s books, and creator of Peter Rabbit,
was born in South Kensington, London.
18/5/1866, Francis
Mahony, Irish author, died.
29/3/1866, John
Keble, English poet, died.
24/3/1866, Roualeyn
Gordon-Cumming, Scottish writer, died (born 15/3/1820).
21/3/1866, Charles Cooper,
English writer, died (born 20/3/1808).
23/2/1866, Laurent
de Jussieu, scholarly writer, died.
20/1/1866, Richard
le Gallienne, English poet, was born.
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1865,
Alice in Wonderland was published by Lewis Carroll.
31/12/1865,
Fredrika
Bremer, novelist, died (born 17/8/1801)
30/12/1865, Rudyard Kipling, story and verse writer, was born in Bombay.
1/12/1865, Abraham
Frohlich, Swiss poet, died (born 1/2/1796).
12/11/1865, Elizabeth
Gaskell, English novelist, died (born 29/9/1810).
15/10/1865, Andres Bello,
poet, died in Santiago, Chile (born in Caracas, Venezuela, 29/11/1781)
30/9/1865, Dudley Costello,
English novelist, died (born 1803).
27/8/1865, Thomas
Haliburton, English writer, died (born 1796).
4/8/1865, William Aytoun,
Scottish poet, died in Blackhills near Elgin (born 21/6/1813).
2/8/1865, Alice�s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
(Charles
Dodgson) was published.
11/7/1865, Richard
Hildreth, US writer, died (born 28/6/1807).
13/6/1865, Irish writer William Butler Yeats was born.
29/5/1865, Nicolas Geruzez,
French writer, died (born 6/1/1799)
4/5/1865, Henry Christy, English scholarly
writer, died (born 26/7/1818).
25/3/1865, Otto
Ludwig, German novelist, died.
27/2/1865, Miklos
Josika, Hungarian novelist, died.
18/1/1865, Charles
Greville, English diarist, died (born 2/4/1794).
15/1/1865, Edward Everett,
US writer, died (born 11/4/1794).
11/12/1864, Maurice
Leblanc, French novelist, was born.
3/12/1864, Hermann
Heijermans, Dutch writer, was born
17/9/1864, Walter
Landor, English writer, died (born 30/1/1775).
31/7/1864, Louis Hachette,
French publisher, died (born 5/5/1800).
26/7/1864, Andras Fay,
Hungarian poet, died (born 30/5/1786)
20/5/1864, John Clare,
English poet, died (born 13/7/1793).
26/3/1864, Jan Baake,
Dutch writer, died (born 1/9/1787)
6/2/1864, Vuk
Karajich, famous Serbian writer, died (born 6/11/1787).
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24/12/1863, William
Thackeray, poet,
died in London.
13/12/1863, Christian
Hebbel, German poet, died (born 18/3/1813).
9/11/1863, Johann
Doderlein, German scholarly writer, died (born 19/12/11791).
1/11/1863, Arthur
Morrison, English novelist, was born.
29/10/1823, Clement Ingleby,
English writer on Shakespeare, was born (died 26/9/1886).
14/9/1863, Joseph Gwilt,
British architectural writer, died (born 11/1/1784)
5/9/1863, Giuseppe
la Farina, Italian author, died.
9/2/1863, Anthony Hope, British novelist,
was born.
6/1/1863, Charles Dance, English writer,
died (born 1794).
24/12/1862, John Leycester
Adolphus, English author, died.
30/11/1862, James
Knowles, Irish dramatist, died (born 12/5/1784).
15/11/1862, Gerhart
Hauptmann, German dramatist, was born.
11/11/1862, Jacob Geel,
Dutch writer, died (born 12/11/1789).
13/10/1862, Mary
Kingsley, writer, was born (died 3/6/1900).
27/8/1862, Thomas Hogg,
English writer, died (born 24/5/1792).
26/8/1862, Alfred Gudeman,
US scholarly writer, was born.
23/8/1862, Friedrich
Hammer, German poet, died (born 7/6/1810).
17/7/1862, Oscar
Levertin, Swedish writer, was bor.
6/5/1862, Henry Thoreau, writer, died of
tuberculosis.
26/2/1862, Cornelius
Felton, US scholarly writer, died (born 6/11/1807).
24/2/1862, Bernhard
Ingemann, Danish poet, died (born 28/5/1789).
21/2/1862, Justinus
Kerner, German poet, died.
7/2/1862, Francisco
Martinez, Spanish dramatist, died (born 10/3/1789).
5/2/1862, Ignaz Castelli, Austrian
dramatist, died (born 6/3/1781).
3/12/1861, David Gray,
Scottish poet, died (born 29/1/1838).
30/11/1861, Theodor
Mundt, German author, died (born 19/9/1808).
16/11/1861, Georg Freytag,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19/9/1788).
13/11/1861, Arthur Clough,
English poet, died (born 1/1/1819).
12/9/1861, Wilton
Lockwood, US artist, was born.
10/2/1861, John Donaldson,
English scholarly writer, died (born 7/6/1811).
28/1/1861, Henry
Murger, French writer, was born (died 28/1/1861).
22/1/1861, Maurice Hewlitt,
English novelist, was born.
12/1/1861, Wenceslaus
Hanka, Bohemiam scholarly writer, died (born 10/6/1791).
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22/12/1860, Marian Evans,
who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, died (born 22/11/1819).
28/11/1860, Christian
Bunsen, German scholarly writer, died (born 25/8/1791).
24/11/1860, George Croly,
British author, died (born 17/8/1780).
23/11/1860, Maria
Bashkirtseff, Russian writer, was born in Gavrontsi (died
31/10/1884).
8/11/1860, Sir Charles
Fellows, writer, died (born 8/1799).
24/9/1860, Samuel Crockett,
Scottish novelist, was born.
25/8/1860, Johann Heiberg,
Danish poet, died (born 1791).
9/6/1860, George James, English novelist,
died (born 9/8/1799).
9/5/1860, James Barrie, British novelist,
was born in Kirriemuir.
28/4/1860, Isaak da Costa,
Dutch poet, died (born 14/1/1798).
1/4/1860, William
Mure, Scottish scholarly writer, died (born 9/7/1799).
17/3/1860, Anna Jameson,
British writer, died (born 17/5/1794).
29/1/1860, Ernst Moritz
Arndt, German poet, died in Bonn (born 26/12/1769 in Schoritz,
Rugen).
17/1/1860,� Anton Chekhov, Russian
author, was born at Taganrog, son of a shopkeeper.
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21/12/1859, Gustave Kahn,
French poet, was born.
16/12/1859, Wilhelm Grimm,
co-author with his brother Jacob of fairy tales, died in Berlin.
8/12/1859, Thomas de
Quincy, English author, died (born 15/8/1785).
28/11/1859, Washington
Irvine, US writer, died (born 3/4/1783).
7/11/1859, Auguste Keratry,
French writer, died (born 28/12/1769).
28/8/1859, James Hunt,
English writer, died (born 19/10/1784).
14/7/1859, Petrus Borel,
French writer, was born in Lyons (died in Algeria 14/7/1859).
2/5/1859, Jerome K Jerome,
author, was born at Walsall.
30/4/1859, Sergei Aksakov,
Russian writer (born 20/9/1791) died.
21/4/1859, Carl Nagelsbach,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28/3/1806).
14/4/1859, Sydney Morgan,
British authoress, died.
27/2/1859, Friedrich Bleek, German scholarly
writer,
died (born in Holstein 4/7/1793).
20/1/1859, Elisabeth Arnim,
German authoress, died in Berlin (born 4/4/1785 in Frankfort am Main).
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25/11/1858, Alfred Capus,
French author, was born.
6/11/1658, Pierre du Ryer,
French dramatist, died (born 1606).
3/6/1858, Edward Moxon,
British poet, died.
3/5/1858, Julien Brizeux,
poet, died (born 12/9/1803).
6/4/1858, Charles Bennett,
US scholarly writer, was born in Providence, Rhode Island.
24/1/1858, Constance Naden,
English author, was born (died 23/12/1889).
19/1/1858, Eugene Brieux,
French dramatist, was born.
26/11/1857, Joseph
Eichendorff, German poet, died (born 10/3/1788).
22/11/1857, George Gissing,
English novelist, was born (died 28/12/1903).
19/11/1857, Albert Harkness,
US scholarly writer, was born.
2/11/1857, Paul Hervieu,
French novelist, was born,
8/9/1857, Jean Boissonade,
French scholarly writer, died (born in Paris 12/8/1774).
27/8/1857, Rufus Griswold,
US writer, died (born 15/2/1815).
10/8/1857, John Croker,
British author, died (born 20/12/1780).
8/6/1857, Douglas Jerrold,
English writer, died (born 3/1/1803).
11/4/1857, John Davidson,
British writer, was born (died 23/3/1909).
26/3/1857, John Kemble,
English scholarly writer, died.
4/11/1856, Ernest Crosby,
US writer, was born (died 1907).
3/11/1856, Marcelino
Menendez y Pelayo, Spanish scholarly writer, was born.
23/9/1856, William Archer,
English writer, was born in Perth.
20/9/1856, John Brown,
Scottish writer, died (born 23/2/1817).
8/8/1856, Thomas Guthrie,
English novelist, was born.
2/7/1856, Thomasine
Gyllembourg, Danish writer, died (born 9/11/1773).
22/6/1856, Henry Haggard,
English novelist was born.
11/6/1856, Friedrich Hagen,
German scholarly writer, died (born 19/2/1780).
25/4/1856, Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson, or Lewis Carroll, met the young Alice Liddell,
who was the inspiration for his Alice books.
15/4/1856, Jean Moreas,
French poet, was born (died 31/3/1910).
27/2/1856, Agnes Duclaux,
English poet, was born.
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31/12/1855, Karl Hermann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 4/8/1804).
26/12/1855, August Follen,
German poet, died (born 21/1/1794).
15/12/1855, Maurice Bouchor,
French poet, was born in Paris.
16/11/1855, Josef Lauff,
German poet, was born.
3/8/1855, Henry Bunner,
US writer, was born (died 11/5/1896).
21/7/1855, Daniel Atterbom,
Swedish poet, died.
2/6/1855, Thomas Gaisford,
English scholarly writer, died (born 22/12/1779).
24/6/1855, Johann Flugel,
German writer, died (born 22/11/1788).
31/3/1855, Charlotte
Bronte, oldest of the three literary sisters,
died during pregnancy.
18/2/1855, Jean Jusserand,
French author, was born.
25/1/1855, Gerard de
Nerval, French writer, died (born 22/5/1808).
10/1/1855, Mary Mitford,
English novelist, died.
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9/12/1854, Joao Garrett,
Portuguese poet, died (born 1799).
2/8/1854, Francis
Crawford, US author, was born (died 9/4/1909).
26/12/1853, Rene Bazin,
French novelist, was born in Angers.
15/12/1853, Georg
Grotefrend, German writer, died (born 9/6/1775).
10/12/1853, Tommaso Grossi,
Lombard poet and novelist, died (born 20/7/1791).
5/11/1853, Janos Garay,
Hungarian poet, died (born 10/10/1812).
3/6/1853, Cesare Balbo,
Italian writer, died (born 1/11/1789 in Turin)
14/5/1853, Thomas Caine,
British novelist, was born.
7/5/1853, Matthias
Castren, Finnish scholarly writer, died (born 2/12/1813).
6/5/1853, Cortes Donoso,
Spanish author, died (born 6/5/1809).
27/4/1853, Francois
Lemaitre, French dramatist, was born.
6/3/1853, Albert Cook,
US scholarly writer, was born.
3/2/1853, August Kopisch,
German poet, died (born 29/5/1799).
24/10/1852, Henry Clinton,
English scholarly writer, died (born 14/1/1781).
2/9/1852, Paul Bourget,
French novelist, was born in Amiens.
12/6/1852, Xavier de
Maistre, French writer, died.
7/6/1852, Hosea Ballou,
US writer, died in Boston (born in Richmond, New Hampshire, 30/4/1771).
4/6/1852, Lucas Malet,
English novelist, was born.
20/4/1852, Bela Edwards,
US writer, died (born 4.7.1802).
5/3/1852, Marie Gay,
French author, died (born 1/7/1776).
25/2/1852, Thomas Moore,
Irish poet, died (born 28/5/1779).
21/2/1852, Nikolia Gogol,
Russian
story writer and novelist, died in
Moscow.
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3/11/1851, Clovis Hugues,
French poet, was born (died 11/6/1907).
10/10/1851, Melvil Dewey,
US librarian, was born.
28/9/1851, Henry Jones,
English dramatist, was born.
14/9/1851, James Cooper,
US novelist, died (born 15/9/1789).
25/8/1851, George Lathrop,
US writer, was born.
17/8/1851, Henry Drummond,
Scottish scholarly writer, was born (died 11/3/1897).
7/8/1851, Johann Gruber,
German writer, died (born 29/11/1774).
6/7/1851, David Moir,
Scottish writer, died (born 5/1/1798).
2/7/1851, Gyorgy Fejer,
Hungarian author, died (born 23/4/1766).
28/3/1851, Gabor Dobrentei,
Hungarian writer, died (born 1786).
27/3/1851, Karl Dindorf,
German scholarly writer, died (2/1/1802).
14/3/1851, Ferdinand Hand,
German scholarly writer, died (born 15/2/1786).
13/3/1851, Karl Lachmann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 4/3/1793).
1/2/1851, Mary Shelley,
author of Frankenstein, died.
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21/12/1850, James Lane
Allen, US novelist, was born near Lexington, Kentucky.
19/11/1850, Alfred Lord
Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate, a post he held until his death
in 1892.
13/11/1850, Writer Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh,
at 8 Howard Place.� His father and
grandfather were lighthouse builders.
3/11/1850, John Watson,
writer, was born (died 6/5/1907).
5/10/1850, William Gibson,
US writer, was born (died 16/7/1896).
5/9/1850, James Ingram,
English writer, died (born 21/12/1774).
2/9/1850, Eugene Field,
US poet, was born (died 4/11/1895).
27/8/1850, Thomas Kidd,
English scholarly writer, died.
22/8/1850, Nikolaus von
Strehlenau, Austrian poet, died (born 15/8/1802).
18/8/1850, Honore de
Balzac, French
writer, died in Paris.
13/8/1850, Philip Marston,
English poet, was born (died 13/2/1887).
6/8/1850, Henri
Chantavoine, French writer, was born.
5/8/1850, Henri
Maupassant, French novelist, was born (died 6/7/1893).
16/6/1850, Margaret Fuller,
US authoress, died (born 23/5/1810).
24/5/1850, Jane Porter,
English
novelist (born 1776) died.
12/5/1850, Henry Lodge,
US author, was born.
23/4/1850, Sir William
Wordsworth, Poet Laureate from 1843, died of pleurisy at Rydal
Mount, Grasmere, aged 80.
7/4/1850, William Bowles,
English poet, died in Salisbury (born in Northamptonshire 24/9/1762).
25/3/1850, Edward Bellamy,
US writer, was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts (died in Chicopee Falls
22/5/1898).
16/2/1850, Octave Mirabeau,
French dramatist, was born.
26/1/1850, Francis Jeffrey,
Scottish writer, died (born 23/10/1773).
24/1/1850, Charles
Craddock, US author, was born.
19/1/1850, Augustine
Birrell, author, was born near Liverpool.
14/1/1850, Louis Viaud,
French author, was born.
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26/12/1849, Francis Brown,
USA Semitic scholar and writer, was born.
20/12/1849, Michail
Eminescu, Romanian poet, was born (died 1889).
24/11/1849, Frances Burnett, novelist,
was born.
7/10/1849, Edgar Allen Poe,
US fiction writer, died aged
40, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1/10/1849, Anne
Edgren-Leffler, Swedish author, was born (died 21/10/1892).
21/9/1849, Edmund Gosse,
English poet, was born.
3/9/1849, Ernst
Feuchtersleben, Austrian poet, died (born 29/4/1806).
29/8/1849, Jean Buchon,
French scholarly writer, died (born 21/5/1791).
3/8/1849, William Henley,
British poet, was born (died 11/7/1903).
25/7/1849, James Kenney,
English dramatist, died.
6/7/1849, Goffredo Mameli,
Italian poet, died.
20/6/1849, James Mangan,
Irish poet, died (born 1/5/1803).
4/6/1849, Marguerite
Blessington, Irish novelist, died in Paris (born in County Tipperary
1/9/1789).
28/5/1849, Anne Bronte,
English novelist, died in
Scarborough, Yorkshire, aged 29.
22/5/1849, Maria Edgeworth,
Irish novelist, died (born 1/7/1767).
27/4/1849, Severino
Fabriani, Italian writer, died (born 7/1/1792).
28/3/1849, James
Darmesteter, French author, was born (died 19/10/1894).
10/2/1849, Bernard Barton,
English poet, died in Woodbridge (born in Carlisle 31/1/1784).
26/1/1849, Thomas Beddoes,
English dramatist, died (born in Clifton 20/7/1803).
22/1/1849, August
Strindberg, playwright,
was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
6/1/1849, Hartley
Coleridge, English writer, died (born 19/9/1796).
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31/12/1848, Johann Hermann,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28/11/1772).
19/12/1848, Emily Bronte, English novelist who wrote Wuthering Heights, born 30/7/1818, died
from tuberculosis.
16/11/1848, Charles Bemont, scholarly
writer, was born in Paris
25/10/1848, Karl Franzos, German
novelist, was born (died 28/1/1904).
9/8/1848, Frederick Marryat, English novelist, died.
9/7/1848, Jaime Balmes,
Spanish writer, died in Vich (born in Vich, Catalonia, 28/8/1810).
5/7/1848, William Butler,
Irish writer, died.
24/5/1848, Annette
Droste-Hulshoff, German poet, died (born 10/1/1797).
26/3/1848, John Collins,
English literary critic, was born (died 15/9/1908).
5/2/1848, Joris Huysmans,
French novelist, was born (died 13/5/1907).
29/1/1848, Johann Gorres,
German writer, died (born 25/1/1776).
26/12/1847, Hugh Conway,
novelist, was born (died 15/5/1885).
17/12/1847, Emile Faguet,
French writer, was born.
19/11/1847, Mary Foote,
US author, was born.
8/11/1847, Bram Stoker,
author of Dracula, was born in Dublin.
16/10/1847, Jane Eyre was first published.
14/8/1847, Frans Franzen
Swedish poet, died (born 9/2/1772).
29/5/1847, Alexander
Everett, US writer, died (born 19/3/1790).
7/4/1847, Jens Jacobsen,
Danish writer, was born (died 30/4/1885).
30/3/1847, Christian
Jacobs, German scholarly writer, died (born 6/10/1764).
17/12/1846, Richard
Nettleship, English philosophical writer, was born (died 25/8/1892).
23/11/1846, George Darley,
Irish poet, died (born 1795).
21/10/1846, Edmondo de
Amicis, Italian writer, was born in Oneglia, Liguria (died in
Bordighera, 12/3/1908).
9/10/1846, Holger
Drachmann, Danish poet, was born (died 14/1/1908).
2/10/1846, Samuel Driver,
Hebrew scholarly writer, was born.
9/9/1846, Henri Marion,
French philosophical writer, was born (died 5/4/1896).
4/9/1846, Victor Jouy,
Frenchy dramatist, died (born 12/9/1764).
2/9/1846, Paul Deroulede,
French author, was born.
31/7/1846, Theodore Fix,
Swiss writer, died (born 1800).
24/4/1846, Marcus Clarke,
US author, was born (died 2/8/1881).
19/2/1846, Charles
Clermont-Ganneau, writer on the Orient, was born.
7/1/1846, John Frere,
English author, died (born 21/5/1769).
6/1/1846, Lewis Goldsmith,
Anglo-French writer, died.
5/1/1846, Rudolf Eucken,
scholarly writer, was born.
25/11/1845, Jose Maria Eca
del Quieroz, Portuguese writer was born (died in Paris, 16/8/1900).
10/10/1845, William Minto,
Scottish writer, was born (died 1/3/1893).
15/9/1845, Thomas Davis,
Irish poet, died (born 14/10/1814).
17/6/1845, Richard Barham,
English writer, died (born in Canterbury 6/12/1788).
18/5/1845, William Laidlaw,
writer, died (born 19/11/1780)
12/5/1845, Janos Bacsanyo,
Hungarian poet, died 12/5/1845 in Linz (born in Tapolcza, 11/5/1763).
3/5/1845, Thomas Hood, poet, died.
15/2/1845, Samuel Blanchard, British author, died (born in Great Yarmouth 15/2/1804).
28/1/1845, Christoph Houwald, German author, died (born 28/11/1778)
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23/10/1844, Robert Bridges, poet laureate, was born.
12/10/1844, George Cable, US
author, was born.
24/9/1844, Robert Jamieson, Scottish
writer, died .
17/6/1844, Hartwig Derenbourg, writer, was born (died 1908).
16/4/1844, Anatole France, French
novelist, was born.
24/3/1844, Antoine Lemonnier, Belgian poet, was born.
31/3/1844, Andrew Lang, British writer, was born.
13/12/1843, Some 6,000
copies of Charles Dicken�s �A Christmas Carol�
were sold on the first day of publication.
15/10/1843, John Foster,
English writer, died (born 17/9/1770).
31/7/1843, William Lowndes,
English writer, died.
13/7/1843, Jean Lanessan,
French writer, was born.
7/6/1843, Johann
Holderlin, German poet, died (born 20/3/1770).
15/4/1843, Henry James,
US author, was born.
6/4/1843, William Wordsworth was appointed poet laureate, the day before his 73rd
birthday.
29/3/1843, Paul Ferrier,
French dramatist, was born
6/2/1843, Frederic Myers,
English poet, was born (died 17/1/1901)
23/1/1843, Friedrich
Fouque, German writer, died (born 12/2/1777).
22/1/1843, Friedrich Blass,
German scholarly writer, was born in Osnabruck (died in Halle 5/3/1907).
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8/12/1842, Gregor Csiky,
Hungarian dramatist, was born (died 19/11/1891).
7/12/1842, Thomas Hamilton,
Scottish writer, died (born 1789).
26/11/1842, Alexandre
Beljame, French writer, was born in Villiers (died in Domont
19/9/1906).
22/11/1842, Jose Heredia,
French poet, was born (died 3/10/1905).
9/11/1842, Marie Gerando,
French philosophical writer, died (born 29/2/1772).
30/10/1842, Allan
Cunningham, Scottish poet, died (born 7/12/1784).
28/10/1842, Anna Dickinson,
US writer, was born.
1/9/1842, Alexandre Duval,
French dramatist, died (born 6/4/1767).
21/8/1842, William Maginn,
Irish poet, died (born 10/7/1793).
28/7/1842, Klemens
Brentano, German poet and novelist, died (born 8/9/1778).
17/7/1842, William
Courthorpe, English writer, was born.
23/5/1842, Jose Espronceda,
Spanish poet, died (born 25/3/1808).
21/4/1842, Charles Adams,
US poet (died 8/3/1918) was born.
14/4/1842, Jean Bouilly,
French writer, died in Paris (born near Tours 24/1/1763)
18/3/1842, Stephane
Mallarme, French poet, was born (died 9/9/1898).
24/2/1842, Arrigo Boito,
Italian poet, was born in Padua.
23/2/1842, Marie Beyle,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Grenoble 23/1/1783).
12/2/1842, Henri
Leroy-Beaulieu, French writer, was born.
3/2/1842, Sidney Lanier,
US poet, was born (died 7/9/1881).
12/1/1842, Francois Coppee,
French novelist and poet, was born (died 23/5/1908).
10/11/1841, Joaquin Miller,
US poet, was born.
3/11/1841, Isabella Alden,
US author,
was born (died 1930).
16/9/1841, Thomas Dibdin,
English dramatist, died (born 21/3/1771).
24/8/1841, Theofore Hook,
English author, died (born 22/9/1788).
18/8/1841, Robert Buchanan,
British novelist, was born (died 10/6/1901).
27/7/1841, Poet Mikhail
Lermontov was killed, aged 26, in a duel with a fellow-soldier at
Pyatigorsk.
22/5/1841, Catulle Mendes,
French poet, was born (died 9/2/1909).
18/4/1841, Henry Kendall,
Australian poet, was born (died 1/8/1882).
21/3/1841, Mathilde Blind,
English author, was born in Mannheim (died 26/11/1896).
20/3/1841, 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.
14/2/1841, Jean Acard,
French poet, was born in Toulon.
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3/12/1840, Jules Claretie,
French writer, was born.
27/8/1841, Sir Richard
Jebb, English scholarly writer, was born (died 9/12/1905).
25/8/1840, Karl Immerman,
German dramatist, died (born 24/4/1796).
17/8/1840, Wilfrid Blunt,
English poet, was born in Sussex.
16/8/1840, Timothy Flint,
US writer, died (born 17/7/1780).
1/8/1840, Karl Muller,
German scholarly writer, died (born 28/8/1797).
27/6/1840, Ingram Bywater,
English scholarly writer, was born.
12/6/1840, Gerald Griffin,
Irish novelist, died (born 12/12/1803).
2/6/1840, Thomas Hardy, novelist, was born in Higher Bockhampton,
Dorset, the son of a stonemason.
13/5/1840, Alphonse Daudet,
French
novelist, born.
11/5/1840, Thomas Cooper,
US writer, died (born 22/10/1759).
18/3/1840, William
Monkhouse, English poet, was born (died 20/7/1901).
18/1/1840, Henry Dobson,
English poet, was born.
17/1/1840, Paul
Meyer, French scholarly writer, was born.
14/1/1840, Karl Follen,
German poet, died (born 5/9/1795).
6/1/1840,
Frances
D�Arblay, English novelist, died (born 13/6/1752).
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15/12/1839,
Ignaz
Fessler, Hungarian writer, died (born 18/5/1756).
4/12/1839, Samuel Butler,
English scholarly writer, died (born 30/1/1774).
29/11/1839, Ludwig
Anzengruber, Austrian dramatist, was born in Vienna (died in Vienna
10/12/1889).
16/11/1839, Louis Frechette,
French Canadian poet, was born (died 1/6/1908).
27/10/1839, John Long,
US politician, was born.
10/10/1839, Louis Fontan,
French writer, died (born 4/11/1801).
25/8/1839, Francis Harte,
US author, was born (died 5/5/1902).
19/7/1839, Georges Guerin,
French poet, died (born 4/8/1810).
12/6/1839, Wordsworth
received an honorary doctorate from
Oxford University.
3/6/1839, Paul Lindau,
German novelist, was born.
29/5/1839, Mary Molesworth,
Scottish writer, was born.
21/5/1839, Joseph Glatigny,
French poet, was born (died 16/4/1873).
17/5/1839, Archibald
Alison, Scottish author, died in Colinton (born 13/11/1757 in
Edinburgh).
22/4/1839, Thomas Bayly,
English writer, died (born in Bath 13/10/1797).
11/4/1839, John Galt,
Scottish novelist, died (born 2/5/1779).
2/4/1839, Toussaint
Bernard Emeric David, art writer, died (born 20/8/1755).
5/2/1839, Emmanuel des
Essarts, French poet, was born.
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24/12/1838, John Morley,
English author, was born.
20/12/1838, Hegesippe
Moreau, French poet, died (born 9/4/1810).
7/11/1838, Anne Grant,
Scottish writer, died (born 21/2/1755).
2/11/1838, Adalbert Merx,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 6/8/1909).
26/10/1838, Pierre Lanfrey,
French writer, was born (died 15/11/1877)
15/10/1838, Letitia Landon,
English poet and novelist, died (born 14/8/1802).
24/8/1838, Ferencz Kolcsey,
Hungarian poet, died (born 8/8/1790).
21/8/1838, Adelbert
Chamisso, German poet, died (born 30/1/1781).
4/8/1838, Gustave
Flourens, French writer, was born (died 3/4/1871).
20/7/1838, Augustin Daly,
US playwright, was born (died 7/6/1899).
27/6/1838, Bankim
Chatterji, Indian novelist, was born (died 1894).
4/5/1838, James Albery,
English dramatist, was born in London (died 15/8/1889).
6/3/1838, Jean
Charlemagne, French dramatic author, died (born 30/11/1753).
29/1/1838, David Gray,
Scottish poet, was born (died 3/12/1861).
10/12/1837, Edward
Eggleston, US novelist, was born (died 2/9/1902).
8/9/1837, Sir Samuel
Brydges, writer, died (born 30/11/1762).
16/6/1837, Ernst Laas,
German philosophical writer, was born.
15/6/1837, Giacomo
Leopardi, Italian poet, died.
3/6/1837, Franz Bucheler,
German classical scholarly writer, was born (died 1908).
9/4/1837, Henry Becque,
French dramatist, was born in Paris (died May 1899).
1/3/1837, Georg Ebers,
German writer, was born (died 7/8/1898).
15/2/1837, Wilhelm Jensen,
German author, was born.
13/2/1837, Mariano Larra,
Spanish satirical writer, died.
10/2/1837, Alexander
Pushkin, Russian writer, was killed in a duel.
9/2/1837, Alfred Ainger, English writer (died 8/2/1904)
was born.
24/1/1837, Elizabeth Penrose,
pen-name Mrs Markham, English
writer, died.
17/1/1837, Oscar Browning,
English writer, was born.
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4/12/1836, Edward Arber,
English writer, was born.
29/11/1836, Sir Francis
Burnand, English humorous writer, was born.
18/11/1836, Sir William
Gilbert, English playwright, was born.
16/11/1836, David Monro, English classical writer, was born
(died 22/8/1905).
11/11/1836, Thomas Aldrich,
US author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (died 19/3/1907 in Boston).
17/10/1836, George Colman,
English dramatist, died (born 21/10/1762).
4/10/1836, Juliette Adam,
French writer, was born in Verberie, Oise.
12/9/1836, Christian
Grabbe, German dramatist, died (born 11/12/1801).
14/8/1836, Sir Walter
Besant, English
novelist, was born.
24/7/1836, Jean Carrel,
French publicist, died (born 8/5/1800).
17/3/1836, Lucian Muller,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 24/4/1898).
17/2/1836, Gustavo Becquer,
Spanish writer, was born in Seville (died in Madrid 22/12/1870).
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18/12/1835, US author
Lyman Abbott
was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
13/12/1835, Phillips Brooks,
US author, was born (died 23/1/1893).
4/12/1835, Samuel Butler,
English author, was born (died 18/6/1902).
1/12/1835, Nicolas
Baptiste, French writer, died in Paris (born in Bordeaux 18/6/1761).
30/11/1835, Mark Twain
was born.
21/11/1835, James Hogg,
Scottish poet, died (born 1770).
5/8/1835, Thomas McCrie,
Scottish writer, died.
7/6/1835, George Hill,
English writer, was born (died 27/2/1903).
30/5/1835, Alfred Austin,
English poet-laureate, was born in Headingley, Leeds.
16/5/1835, Felicia Hemans,
English poet, died (born 25/9/1793).
26/4/1835, John de Tabley,
English poet, was born (died 22/11/1895).
17/4/1835, William Ireland,
forger of Shakespearian plays, died (born 1777).
8/4/1835, Karl Humoldt,
German scholarly writer, died (died 22/6/1767).
25/3/1835, Karl Heigel,
German novelist, was born (died 6/9 1905).
13/3/1835, Leon Cladel,
French novelist, was born (died 20/7/1892).
27/2/1835, Richard Garnett,
English author, was born (died 13/4/1906).
20/2/1835, Alessandro
Ancona, Italian writer, was born in Pisa.
19/1/1835, Tom Hood,
English writer, was born (died 20/11/1874).
6/1/1835, August Matthiae,
German scholarly writer, died (born 25/12/1769).
3/1/1835, Hans von Hopfen,
German poet, was born (died 19/11/1904).
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27/12/1834, Charles Lamb,
English essayist, died.
19/12/1834, Alexander
Chalmers, Scottish writer, died (born 20/3/1759)
13/11/1834, Friedrich Ebert,
German writer, died (born 9/7/1791).
8/10/1834, Francois
Boieldieu, French poet, died in Paris (born in Rouen 15/12/1775).
16/9/1834, Antoine Arnault,
play writer, died in Goderville (born in Paris, January 1766).
10/9/1834, Philip Hamerton,
English writer, was born (died 4/11/1894).
30/7/1834, Diego Clemencin,
Spanish scholarly writer, died (born 27/9/1765).
7/7/1834, Emil Hiubner,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 21/2/1901).
5/9/1834, Robinson Ellis,
English scholarly writer, was born.
24/3/1834, William Morris,
English poet, was born (died 3/10/1896).
5/3/1834, Leopoldo
Cicognara, Italian writer, died (born 17/11/1767).
23/2/1834, Karl Knebel,
German poet, died (born 30/11/1744).
28/1/1834, Sabine
Baring-Gould, English novelist, was born in Exeter.
2/12/1833, Charles
Chenedolle, French poet, died (born 4/11/1769).
23/11/1833, John Boydell,
publisher, died in Paris (born in Dorrington 1/3/1757).
6/11/1833, Jonas Lie,
Norwegian novelist, was born (died 5/7/1908).
2/11/1833, Horace Furness,
US writer on Shakespeare, was born.
15/10/1833, Victor DuCange,
novelist, died (24/11/1783)
4/10/1833, Richard Heber,
book collector, died (born 5/1/1773).
8/9/1833, Richard Morris,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 12/5/1894).
11/8/1833, Robert
Ingersoll, US author, was born (died 21/7/1899).
10/7/1833, George Dover,
English writer, died (born 14/1/1797).
9/5/1833, Francois
Andrieux, French writer, died in Paris (born 6/5/1759 in
Strasbourg).
5/5/1833, Richard Dixon,
English poet, was born (died 23/1/1900).
25/4/1833, Dominique Garat,
French writer, died (born 8/9/1749).
10/3/1833, Pedro Alarcon,
Spanish writer, was born in Guadix (died 20/7/1891 in Madrid).
5/1/1833, Sophus Bugge,
Norwegian scholarly writer, was born (died 8/7/1907).
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8/12/1832, Sir George
Birdwood, writer was born.
29/11/1832, Louisa Alcott,
US author (died 6/3/1888) was born.
10/6/1832, Sir Edwin
Arnold, British poet, was born (died 24/3/1904).
9/6/1832, Antoine Droz,
French writer, was born (died 22/10/1895).
30/5/1832, Sir James
MacKintosh, Scottish writer, died (born 24/10/1765).
17/5/1832, Moncure Daniel
Conway, US author, was born (died 15/11/1907)
21/4/1832, Werner
Munzinger, Swiss scholarly writer, was born.
20/4/1832, James Morison,
British author, was born (died 26/2/1888).
26/3/1832, Michel Breal,
scholarly writer, was born in Landau, Bavaria.
22/3/1832, Johann van
Goethe, German
poet and writer, author of Faust,
died aged 82.
17/3/1832, Moncure Conway,
US author, was born (died 15/11/1907).
27/1/1832, 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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22/12/1831, Charles
Calverley, English poet, was born (died 17/2/1884).
18/12/1831, Willem
Bilderdijk, Dutch poet, died in Haarlem (born in Amsterdam
7/9/1756).
15/12/1831, Hannah Adams,
US writer (born 1755) died.
8/11/1831, Edward Lytton,
English poet, was born (died 24/11/1891).
2/11/1831, Henry Jones,
English author, was born (died 10/2/1899).
23/10/1831, Basil
Gildersleeve, US classical scholarly writer, was born.
2/10/1831, Edwin Godkin,
US writer, was born (died 21/5/1902).
22/8/1831, Ferencz
Kazinczy, Hungarian author, died (born 27/10/1759).
29/5/1831, Philip Colomb,
English writer, was born (died 13/10/1899).
9/5/1831, William Goodwin,
US scholarly writer, was born.
26/4/1831, Sir James
Donaldson, Scottish scholarly writer, was born.
12/3/1831, Friedrich von
Matthisson, German poet, died (born 23/1/1761).
21/2/1831, Henri Meilhac,
French dramatist, was born.
3/2/1831, Thomas Hope,
English author, died.
21/1/1831, Ludwig Arnim,
German writer, died in Brandenburg (born 26/1/1781 in Berlin).
14/1/1831, Henry MacKenzie,
Scottish novelist, died.
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10/12/1830, Emily Dickinson,
US poet, was born in Amherst,
Massachusetts.
8/12/1830, Henri Constant,
French writer, died (born 25/10/1767).
22/11/1830, McCarthy,
Irish writer, was born
21/11/1830, Karoly
Kisfaludy, Hungarian author, died.
18/9/1830, William Hazlitt,
English writer, died (born 10/4/1778).
13/9/1830, Marie
Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian novelist, was born.
8/9/1830, Frederic
Mistral, French poet, was born.
3/9/1830, Lewis Campbell,
British classical scholarly writer, was born (died 25/10/1908).
22/7/1830, Richard
Christie, English scholarly writer, was born (died 9/1/1901).
20/5/1830, Hector Malot,
French novelist, was born.
5/5/1830, Thomas Brown,
British poet, was born (died 29/10/1897).
24/3/1830, Robert
Hamerling, Austrian poet, was born (died 13/7/1889).
15/3/1830, Paul Heyse,
German writer, was born.
8/3/1830, Joao de Deus,
Portuguese poet, was born (died 11/1/1896).
20/2/1830, Robert Anderson,
Scottish writer, died in Edinburgh (born 7/1/1750 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire)
15/2/1830, Silas Mitchell,
US author, was born.
2/1/1830, Henry Kingsley,
English novelist, was born.
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22/9/1829, William Belknap,
US politician, was born in Newburgh, New York (died in Washington DC
13/10/1890).
17/9/1829, Karl Hillebrand,
German author, was born (died 19/10/1884).
19/7/1829, Charles
Cherbuliez, French novelist, was born (died 1/7/1899).
12/5/1829, George Childs,
US publisher, was born (died 3/2/1894).
11/2/1829, Alexander
Griboyedov, Russian author, died (born 1795).
5/2/1829, Jean Gail,
French writer on Greece, died (born 4/7/1755).
30/1/1829, Edward Cook,
English author, was born (died 11/9/1883).
2/1/1829, Melchiorre
Gioja, Italian writer, died (born 20/9/1767).
8/12/1828, Pierre
Levasseur, French scholarly writer, was born.
6/11/1828, Hiram Corson,
US scholarly writer, was born.
29/10/1828, Luke Hansard,
British printer, died (born 5/7/1752).
6/9/1828, David Forbes,
British scientific writer, was born (died 5/12/1876).
28/8/1828, Count Leo
Tolstoy, Russian writer, was born of aristocratic descent in
Tula Province.
22/8/1828, Franz Gall,
medical writer, died (born 9/3/1758)
29/5/1828, Gerald Massey,
English poet, was born (died 29/10/1907).
1/5/1828, Adelardo Lopez
de Ayala, Spanish writer, was born in Guadacanal (died 30/1/1879).
25/4/1828, Julius Grosse,
German poet, was born (died 9/5/1902).
20/3/1828, Norwegian
poet Henry
Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway.
20/3/1828, Ruggero Bonghi,
Italian writer, was born in Naples (died 22/10/1895).
14/2/1828, Edmond About,
French writer (died 16/1/1885) was born in Dieuze, Lorraine.
12/2/1828, George Meredith,
British novelist, was born (died 18/5/1909).
8/2/1828, Jules Verne,
French writer and early author of science fiction, was born in Nantes,
Brittany.
31/1/1828, Henry Chandler,
scholarly writer, was born (died 16/5/1889).
16/1/1828, Johann Ersch,
German writer, died (born 23/6/1766).
2/1/1828, Elizabeth
Charles, English author, was born (died 28/3/1896).
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7/12/1827, Marc Monnier,
French writer, was born (died 18/4/1885).
18/11/1827, Wilhelm Hauff,
German poet, died (born 29/11/1802).
10/10/1827, Ugo Foscolo,
Italian writer, died (born 26/1/1778).
30/9/1827, Wilhelm Muller,
German lyrical poet, died (born 7/10/1794).
20/8/1827, Charles de
Coster, Belgian writer, was born (died 7/5/1879).
12/8/1827, William Blake,
British poet, died.
21/7/1827, Archibald
Constable, Scottish publisher, died (born 24/2/1774).
29/6/1827, Mortimer
Collins, English writer, was born (died 28/7/1876).
18/6/1827, Alexander
Grosart, Scottish writer, was born (died 16/3/1899).
1/5/1827, John Bascom,
US author, was born in Genoa, New York State.
25/3/1827, George Lawrence,
English novelist, was born (died 23/9/1876).
13/1/1827, Jean Lanjuinais,
French writer, died (born 12/3/1753).
2/1/1827, John Good,
English scholarly writer, died (born 25/5/1764).
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31/12/1826, William Gifford,
English writer, died (born 1756).
28/12/1826, Conrad
Busken-Huet, Dutch literary critic, was born (died 1886)
3/10/1826, Jens Baggesen,
Danish poet, died in Hamburg (born 15/2/1764 in Korsor).
29/9/1826, Charles Chesney,
British military writer, was born (died 19/3/1876).
22/9/1826, Johann Hebel,
German poet, died (born 10/5/1760).
2/6/1826, Richard Hutton,
English writer, was born (died 9/9/1897).
20/4/1826, Dinah Craik,
English novelist, was born (died 12/10/1887).
4/3/1826, Elme Carlo,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 13/7/1887).
29/3/1826, Wilhelm
Liebknecht, German socialist writer, was born (died 6/8/1900).
27/2/1826, Howard Crosby,
US writer, was born (died 1890).
14/2/1826, Johann Falk,
German author, died (born 28/10/1768).
16/1/1826, Lindley Murray,
writer, died (born 22/4/1745)
25/12/1825, Henri Bornier,
French poet, was born in Lunel (died 1/1901).
5/12/1825, Antoine Barbier,
French writer, died in Paris (born in Coulommiers 11/1/1765)
11/10/1825, Konrad Meyer,
Swiss poet, was born (died 28/11/1898).
9/10/1825, Josef Jirecek,
Czeck scholarly writer, was born (died 25/11/1888).
24/9/1825, Peter Dobree,
English scholarly writer, died (born 1782).
18/8/1825, Paul Courier,
French writer, died (born 4/1/1773).
10/8/1825, John Conington,
English classical writer, was born (died 23/10/1869).
14/6/1825, Jean Montegut,
French writer, was born (died 11/12/1895).
7/6/1825, Richard
Blackmore, English novelist, was born in Berkshire (died in
Teddington 20/1/1900).
6/5/1825, Lady Anne
Barnard, writer, died in London (born in Fife 12/12/1750).
24/4/1825, Robert
Ballantyne, writer, was born in Edinburgh (died 8/2/1894 in Rome).
23/4/1825, Friedrich
Muller, German poet, died (born 13/1/1749).
9/3/1825, Anna Barbauld,
English poet, died (born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire 20/6/1743).
8/3/1825, Peter Elmsley,
English scholarly writer, died (born 1773).
3/3/1825, Annie Keary,
English novelist, was born (died 3/3/1879).
19/2/1825, Maurus Jokai,
Hungarian novelist, was born (died 5/5/1904).
4/2/1825, Frederick
Furnivall, English writer, was born (died 2/7/1910).
1/2/1825, Francis Child,
scholarly writer, was born (died11/9/1896).
27/1/1825, William Green,
US Hebrew scholarly writer, was born (died 10/2/1900).
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25/12/1824, Rodolphe
Dareste, French writer, was born.
24/12/1824, Carl Cornelius,
German poet, was born (died 26/10/1874).
5/12/1824, William Blades,
English writer, was born in Clapham, London (died in Sutton, Surrey 27/4/1890).
11/12/1824, Victor Balaguer,
Spanish author, was born in Barcelona (died in Madrid 14/1/1901).
30/10/1824, Charles Maturin,
Irish novelist, died.
27/10/1824, Edward Maitland,
English humanitarian writer, was born (died 2/10/1897).
11/9/1824, Jakob Bernays,
German writer, was born in Hamburg (died in Bonn 26/5/1881).
26/5/1824, Capel Lofft,
English writer, died (born 14/11/1751).
3/5/1824, Joseph Joubert,
French moralistic writer, died (born 6/5/1754).
5/4/1824, Sydney Dobell,
English poet, was born (died 22/8/1874).
19/3/1824, William
Allingham, Irish poet, was born in Ballyshannon, Donegal (died in
Hampstead, London, on 18/11/1889).
13/3/1824, Sophia Lee,
English novelist, died.
8/2/1824, Rhijnvis Feith,
Dutch poet, died (born 7/2/1753).
25/1/1824, Michael Dutt,
Indian poet, was born (died 29/6/1873).
8/1/1824, William Collins,
English novelist, was born (died 23/9/1889).
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29/12/1823, Augusta Drane,
English writer, was born (died 29/4/1894).
22/12/1823, Thomas
Higginson, US writer, was born.
1/11/1823, Heinrich
Gerstenberg, German poet, died (born 3/1/1737).
30/9/1823, Rudolf von
Gottschall, German writer, was born (died 21/3/1909).
19/8/1823, Robert
Bloomfield, English poet, died in Shefford, Bedfordshire (born in
Honington, Suffolk 3/12/1766)
15/8/1823, Marie Boissier,
French scholarly writer, was born in Nimes (died 6/1908).
13/7/1823, Eugene Manuel,
French poet, was born.
7/7/1823, John Ingram,
Irish scholarly writer, was born (died 18/5/1907).
15/5/1823, Thomas Harris,
US poet and preacher, was born
19/5/1823, William Combe,
English writer, died (born 1741).
24/3/1823, Thomas Baynes,
English writer, was born in Wellington, Somerset (died 31/5/1887).
14/3/1823, Theodore
Banville, French poet, was born in Moulins (died in Paris 15
3/1891).
6/3/1823, Gustaf
Ljunggren, Swedish writer, was born.
9/1/1823, William Corey,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 11/6/1892).
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26/12/1822, Dion Boucicault,
Irish playwright, was born in Dublin (died in New York 18/9/1890).
24/12/1822, Matthew Arnold,
British poet, was born in Laleham, Staines (died 15/4/1888 in Liverpool).
2/12/1822, David Masson,
Scottish writer, was born (died 6/10/1907).
26/11/1822, Octavius Frothingham, US
author, was born (died 27/11/1895).
19/10/1822, Louis Menard,
French writer, was born (died 12/2/1901).
6/10/1822, Albert Harkness,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 27/5/1907).
18/9/1822, Johann Nauck,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 3/8/1892).
15/9/1822, Henry Morley,
British writer, was born (died 14/5/1894).
1/8/1822, James Grant,
British novelist, was born (died 5/5/1887).
24/7/1822, Ernst Hoffmann,
German writer, died (born 24/1/1776)
8/7/1822, Percy Bysshe
Shelley died. He drowned in a storm whilst sailing off the coast of Italy.
27/5/1822, Louis Bouilhet,
French poet, was born in Cany (died in Rouen 18/7/1869).
16/5/1822, Henry Dixon,
English sports writer, was born (died 16/3/1870).
12/4/1822, Donald Mitchell,
US author, was born.
3/4/1822, Henry Field,
US author, was born (died 26/1/1907).
24/3/1822, Henry Murger,
French writer, was born (died 28/1/1861).
10/2/1822, Eliza Linton,
English novelist, was born (died 14/7/1898).
8/2/1822, Maxime du Camp,
French writer, was born (died 9/2/1894).
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12/12/1821, Gustave
Flaubert, French novelist, was born (died 8/5/1880).
11/12/1821, George Bradley,
English scholarly writer, was born in Brecon (died 13/31903).
11/8/1821, Octave Feuillet,
French novelist, was born (died 29/12/1890).
30/10/1821, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist,
was born.
15/10/1821, Moritz Hartmann,
German poet, was born (died 13/5/1872).
13/10/1821, Henry Coppee,
US author, was born (died 22/3/1895).
5/10/1821, Rudolf Haym,
German writer, was born (died 27/8/1901).
1/8/1821, Elizabeth
Inchbald, English novelist, died (born 15/10.1753).
21/7/1821, Vasile
Alecsandri, Rumanian poet, was born in Bacau, Moldova (died
26/8/1890 in Mircesti).
1/7/1821, Anatole
Barthelemy, French writer, was born in Reims (died 1904).
30/6/1821, William Dixon,
English author, was born (died 26/12/1879).
13/6/1821, Jacques Duc de
Broglie, poet, was born (died 19/1/1901).
29/5/1821, Frederick Locker-Lampson, English
writer, was born (died 30/5/1895).
19/5/1821, Camille Jordan,
French political writer, died.
23/4/1821, Pierre Dupont,
French song writer, was born (died 24/7/1870).
9/4/1821, Charles
Baudelaire, French poet, was born in Paris (died in Paris 31/8/1867).
30/3/1821, James Hadley,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 14/11/1872).
17/3/1821, Louis Fontanes,
French poet, died (born 6/3/1757),
16/3/1821, Ernest-Aime
Feydeau, French writer, was born (died 27/10/1873).
2/3/1821, George Banks,
British writer, was born in Birmingham (died in London 3/5/1881).
26/2/1821, Joseph de
Maistre, French polemical writer, died (born 1/4/1754).
23/2/1821, John Keats,
English poet, died of tuberculosis in
Rome, aged only 25.
21/2/1821, Georg Martens,
German legal writer, died (born 22/2/1756).
13/2/1821, Julius Busch,
German publicist, was born (died 16/11/1899).
6/1/1821, Jakob
Frohschammer, German scholarly writer, was born (died 14/6/1893).
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12/11/1820, William Hayley,
English writer, died (born 9/11/1745).
23/9/1820, Carl
Fleickeisen, German writer, was born (died 7/8/1899).
17/9/1820, Guillaume
Augier, French dramatist, was born in Valence, Drome (died
25/10/1889 in Croissy).
13/8/1820, Sir George
Grove, English writer on music, was born (died 28/5/1900).
14/6/1820, John Bartlett,
US writer, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (died in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
3/12/1905.
10/5/1820, Hermann Ebel,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 19/8/1875).
4/5/1820, English publisher, Joseph Whitaker, was born in
London, the son of a silversmith.
26/4/1820, Alice Cary,
US poet, was born (died 12/2/1871).
16/4/1820, Georg Curtius,
German writer, was born (died 12/8/1885).
2/4/1820, Easter
Sunday. Thomas
Brown, Scottish writer, died (born 1778).
30/3/1820, Anna Sewell,
author of Black Beauty, was born in
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
17/3/2020, Jean Ingelow,
English poet, was born (died 20/7/1897).
2/3/1820, Edward Dekker,
Dutch writer, was born (died 19/2/1887).
17/1/1820, The novelist Anne Bronte (known as Acton Bell)
was born, youngest of three sisters, at Thornton, Yorkshire.
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30/12/1819, Theodor Fontane,
German novelist, was born (died 20/9/1898).
23/11/1819, Quintin
Crauford, British author, died (born 22/9/1743).
22/11/1819, Novelist George Elliot was born as Marian Evans, near Nuneaton.
19/10/1819, Hugh Munro,
British scholarly writer, was born (died 30/3/1885).
2/7/1819, Edward Kenealy,
Irish author, was born (died 16/4/1880).
30/6/1819, Ernst Gerber,
German musical writer, died (born 29/9/1746).
16/9/1819, Anna
Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist, was born in Alkmaar (died in The
Hague, 13/4/1886).
1/8/1819, Herman Melville,
author of Moby Dick, was born.
24/7/1819, Josiah Holland,
US writer, was born (died 12/10/1881).
19/7.1819, Gottfried
Keller, German novelist, was born (died 15/7/1890).
12/6/1819, Charles
Kingsley, English novelist, was born (died 23/1/1875).
24/4/1819, Klaus Groth,
German poet, was born (died 1/6/1899).
22/4/1819, Friedrich
Bodenstedt, German author, was born in Hanover (died in Wiesbaden
19/4/1892).
23/3/1819, August Kotzebue,
German dramatist, died (born 3/5/1761).
8/2/1819, John Ruskin,
English writer and art critic, was
born in Dulwich, London, the son of a wine dealer.
21/1/1819, Edward Capern,
English poet, was born (died 5/6/1894).
12/1/1819, Andre Morellet,
French writer, died (born 7/3/1727).
1/1/1819, Arthur Clough,
English poet, was born (died13/11/1861).
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27/12/1818, Henry Drisler,
US scholarly writer, was born (died 30/11/1897).
19/12/1818, Mary Brunton,
Scottish novelist, died (born 1/11/1778).
22/10/1818, Charles Leconte,
French poet, was born (died 18/7/1894).
18/10/1818, Charles Mudie,
Engliah publisher, was born (died 28/10/1890).
16/9/1818, Sir Francis
Haden, English arts writer, was born (died 1/6/1910).
13/9/1818, Gustave Aimarde,
French novelist, was born in Paris (died 20/6/1883 in Paris).
30/7/1818, 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.
28/7/1818, Edward Cope,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 5/8/1873).
18/7/1818, Louis de Geer,
Swedish writer, was born (died 1896).
25/5/1818, Jakob
Burckhardt, Swiss writer on art, was born (died 1897).
14/5/1818, Matthew Lewis,
romance writer, died (born 9/7/1775).
4/5/1818, Manuel Mila,
Spanish scholarly writer, was born (died 16/7/1884).
13/4/1818, Fedor Buslaev,
Russian scholarly writer, was born (died 1898).
15/3/1818, Hector MacNeill,
Scottish poet, died.
7/2/1818, Francois
Meurice, French dramatist, was born (died 12/12/1905).
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31/12/1817, James Fields,
US author, was born (died 24/4/1881).
27/12/1817, Henry Thoreau,
writer, was born in Concord, Massachusetts.
25/10/1817, Lothar Bucher,
German writer, was born (died 12/10/1892).
24/9/1817, Ramon de
Campoamor, Spanish poet, was born (died 12/2/1901).
27/9/1817, Paul Feval,
French novelist, was born (died 8/3/1887).
15/8/1817, Roswell
Hitchcock, US writer, was born (died 16/6/1887).
18/7/1817, Jane Austen, novelist,
died, at her house in Winchester.
13/6/1817, Richard
Edgeworth, British writer, died (born 31/5/1744).
26/5/1817, Denis MacCarthy,
Irish poet, was born (died 7/4/1882).
22/5/1817, Sir George
Dasent, English writer, was born (died 11/6/1896).
3/5/1817, Horatio Hale,
US ethnological writer, was born (died 28/12/1896).
15/4/1817, Benjamin Jowett,
scholarly writer, was born (died 1/10/1893).
13/4/1817, George Holyoake,
English writer, was born (died 22/1/1906).
2/4/1817, Johann Jung,
German author, died (born 12/9/1740).
23/3/1817, Louis Maury,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 11/2/1892).
25/2/1817, Gottleib
Hufeland, German scholarly writer, died (born 19/10/1760).
23/2/1817, John Brown,
Scottish writer, was born (died 20/9/1856).
23/1/1817, John Cassell,
British publisher, was born (died 2/4/1865).
12/1/1817, Juan Andres,
Spanish writer, died in Rome (born 1740 in Planes, Valencia).
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1/11/1816, Friedrich
Hacklander, German novelist, was born (died 6/7/1877).
9/10/1816, Edward
Blomfield, English scholarly writer, died� in Cambridge (born in Bury St Edmunds
14/2/1788).
16/9/1816, Sir Theodore
Martin, British author, was born (died 18/8/1909).
13/7/1816, Gustav Freytag,
German novelist, was born (died 30/4/1895)
10/5/1816, Friedrich
Gerstacker, German novelist, was born (died 31/5/1872).
29/4/1816, Charles Brooks,
English novelist, was born (died 23/2/1874).
26/4/1816, Sir Herbert
Croft, English author, died (born 1/11/1751).
25/4/1816, Byron, poet, sailed
from Dover to self-imposed exile in Italy.
22/4/1816, Philip Bailey,
English poet, was born in Nottingham (died 6/9/1902).
21/4/1816, Charlotte Bronte, eldest of
the three literary sisters, was born
in Thornton, daughter of a Yorkshire clergyman.
17/4/1816, Samuel Austin
Allibone, author, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. (died, Lucerne,
Switzerland,� 2/9/1889.
12/4/1816, Sir Charles
Duffy, Irish writer, was born (died 9/2/1903).
31/12/1815, Sir Edward Bond,
English librarian, was born in Hanwell (died 2/1/1898).
11/11/1815, Pierre Ginguene,
French writer, died (born 27/4/1748).
2/11/1815, Gottleib
Harless, German scholarly writer, died (born 21/6/1738).
17/10/1815, Emanuel Geibel,
German poet, was born (died 6/4/1884).
11/8/1815, Johann Kinkel,
German poet, was born (died 13/11/1882).
6/7/1815, Theodore la
Villemarque, French writer, was born (died 8/12/1895).
5/5/1815, Eugene Labiche,
French dramatist, was born (died 23/1/1888).
24/4/1815, Anthony
Trollope, British
writer, was born.
15/2/1815, Rufus Griswold,
US writer, was born (died 27/8/1857).
24/1/1815, Thomas Gee,
Welsh writer, was born (died 28/9.1898).
21/1/1815, Matthias
Claudius, German poet, died (born 15/8/1740).
14/10/1814, Thomas Davis,
Irish poet, was born (died 15/9/1845).
22/9/1814, August Iffland,
German dramatist, died (born 19/4/1759).
7/9/1814, Pierre Malouet,
French writer, died (born 11/2/1740).
28/8/1814, Joseph Sheridan
le Fanu, Irish author, was born (died 7/2/1873).
29/7/1814, Herman Bonitz,
German scholarly writer, was born in Saxony (died in Berlin 25/7/1888)
30/6/1814, Franz
Dinglestedt, German poet, was born (died 15/5/1881).
14/6/1814, Alexander Ellis,
writer, was born (died 28/10/1890).
1/6/1814, Francois
Ponsard, French dramatist, was born (died 7/7/1867).
25/4/1814, Louis Mercier,
French writer, died (born 6/6/1740).
27/3/1814, Charles MacKay,
Scottish writer, was born (died 24/12/1889).
23/3/1814, Gertrudis Gomez,
Spanish novelist, was born (died 2/2/1873).
28/2/1814, William
Kingston, English novelist, was born (died 5/8/1880).
27/2/1814, Julien Geoffroy,
French writer, died (born 1743).
10/1/1814, Aubrey de Vere,
Irish poet, was born (died 20/1/1902).
5/1/1814, Sir John Burke,
British genealogical writer, author of Burke�s
Peerage, was born (died 12/12/1892).
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21/12/1813, Ernst Lange,
German novelist, was born (died 20/2/1899).
2/12/1813, Matthias
Castren, Finnish scholarly writer, was born (died 7/5/1853).
28/11/1813, Carel Cobet,
Dutch scholarly writer, was born (died 26/10/1889).
30/11/1813, Louise
Ackermann, French poet (died in Nice, 2/8/1890) was born in Paris.
29/11/1813, Franz von
Milklosich, Austrian scholarly writer, was born (died 7/3/1891).
14/11/1813, Antonio de
Capmany y Montpalau, Spanish author (born 24/11/1742) died.
20/10/1813, George Cotton, English educationalist, was
born (died 6/10/1866).
13/9/1813, Jozsef Eotvos,
Hungarian writer, was born (died 2/2/1871).
9/9/1813, Henry Reeve,
English publicist, was born (died 21/10/1895).
26/8/1813, Karl Korner,
German poet, died.
18/7/1813, Charles Badham, English scholarly writer, was
born in Ludlow, Shropshire (died 26/2/1884 in Sydney, Australia).
20/6/1813, Joseph Autran,
French poet, was born in Marseilles (died in Marseilles 6/3/1877).
1/5/1813, Jacques Delille,
French poet, died (born 22/6/1738).
11/4/1813, Eugene Havet,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 21/12/1889).
11/3/1813, William Lloyd,
English writer, was born (died 22/12/1893).
30/1/1813, George
Gilfillan, Scottish author, was born (died 13/8/1878).
26/1/1813, Jan Frederik
Helmers, Dutch poet, died (born 7/3/1767).
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24/12/1812, Joel Barlow,
US poet, died in Poland (born in Redding, Connecticut 24/3/1754)
3/12/1812, Hendrik
Conscience, Flemish writer, was born (died 10/9/1883).
4/11/1812, Aleardo Aleardi,
Italian poet, was born at Verona (died 17/7/1878).
10/10/1812, Janos Garay,
Hungarian poet, was born (died 5/11/1853).
25/9/1812, Friedrich
Biedermann, German writer, was born in Leipzig (died in Leipzig
5/3/1901).
23/9/1812, Lady Georgiana
Fullerton, English novelist, was born (died 19/1/1885).
28/7/1812, Joseph
Kraszewski, Polish novelist, was born (died 19/3/1887).
14/7/1812, Christian
Heyne, German scholarly writer, died (born 25/9/1729).
5/7/1812, Gutierrez
Garcia, Spanish dramatist, was born (died 6/8/1884).
23/5/1812, Louis Dutens,
French writer, died (born 15/1/1730).
22/5/1812, Theodor Bergk,
German scholarly writer, was born in Leipzig (died in Ragatz, Switzerland,
20/7/1881).
12/5/1812, Eccentric poet and artist Edward Lear was born at
Highgate, London.
7/5/1812, Robert Browning,
English poet, was born.
25/4/1812, Edmond Malone,
Irish literary writer, died (born 4/10/1741).
2/4/1812, John Forster,
English writer, was born (died 2/2/1876).
7/3/1812, Guiseppe
Ferrari, Italian scholarly writer, was born (died 1876).
13/1/1812, Pierre Laprade,
French poet, was born (died 13/12/1883).
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17/12/1811, Louis Beffroy,
French dramatist, died in Paris (born in Laon 6/11/1757).
26/11/1811, Joseph Hubner,
Austrian writer, was born (died 30/7/1892).
21/11/1811, Bernd Kleist,
|German poet, died (born 18/10/1777).
20/9/1811, Henry Coxe,
English scholarly writer was born (died 8/7/1881).
14/9/1811, James Grahame,
Scottish poet, died (born 22/4/1765).
26/7/1811, Heinrich Collin,
Austrian dramatist, died (26/12/1771).
18/7/1811, William
Thackeray, poet, was born in Calcutta, India; his father was an
official of the East India Company.
16/7/1811, Armand
Pontmartin, French
writer, was born (died 29/3/1890).
17/6/1811, Adolphe Dennery,
French novelist, was born (died 1899).
14/6/1811, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, author
of Uncle Tom�s Cabin, was born.
7/6/1811, John Donaldson,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 10/2/1861).
20/5/1811, Alfred Domett,
English poet, was born (died 2/11/1887).
7/5/1811, Richard
Cumberland, English dramatist, died (born 19/2/1732).
25/3/1811, Poet Shelley was sent down from Oxford for
publishing The Necessity of Atheism.
17/3/1811, Karl Gutzkow,
German novelist, was born (died 16/12/1878).
6/2/1811, Henry Liddell,
English writer, was born (died 18/1/1898).
21/1/1811, Julius Benedix,
German dramatist, was born in Leipzig (died in Leipzig 26/9/1873).
3/1/1811, John Morton,
English playwright, was born (died 19/12/1891).
11/12/1810, Louis Musset,
French novelist, was born (died 2/5/1857).
4/11/1810, Antonio
Gallenga, Italian author, was born (died 17/12/1895).
12/10/1810, Samuel Laing,
British author, was born (died 6/8/1897).
7/10/1810, Henry Alford, English scholarly writer (died
12/1/1871 in Canterbury) was born in London.
22/9/1810, John Brown,
Scottish author, was born (died 11/5/1882).
15/9/1810, Louise Colet,
French poet, was born (died 8/3/1876).
28/8/1810, Jaime Balmes,
Spanish writer, was born in Vich, Catalonia (died in Vich 9/7/1848).
21/8/1810, Sir Francis
Doyle, English writer, was born (died 8/6/1888).
17/8/1810, Ferdinand
Feiligrath, German poet, was born (died 18/3/1876).
4/8/1810, Georges Guerin,
French poet, was born (died 19/7/1839).
26/7/1810, Henry Christy,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 4/5/1865).
28/6/1810, Melchior Meyr,
German writer, was born (died 22/4/1871).
7/6/1810, Friedrich
Hammer, German poet, was born (died 23/8/1862).
24/5/1810, Abraham Geiger,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 23/10/1874).
23/5/1810, Margaret Fuller,
US authoress, was born (died 16/6/1850).
9/4/1810, Hegesippe
Moreau, French poet, was born (died 20/12/1838).
27/3/1810, Adolf
Glasbrenner, German satirical writer, was born (died 25/9/1876).
10/3/1810, Sir Samuel
Ferguson, Irish poet, was born (died 9/8/1886).
22/2/1810, Charles Brown,
US novelist, died (born 28/2/1761).
4/1/1810, Catherine
Dashkov, Russian writer, died (born 1744).
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18/12/1809,
Alexander Adam, Scottish writer
died (born 24/6/1741, near Forres).
27/11/1809, Frances Kemble, author, was born (died 15/1/1893).
20/11/1809, William Chappell, English writer on music, was born (died 1888).
6/9/1809, Bruno Bauer, German writer,
was in Elsenburg (died in Rixdorf 13/4/1882).
29/8/1809, Oliver Wendell Holmes, US writer, was born (died 7/10.1894).
6/8/1809, Alfred Lord
Tennyson, poet,
was born.
26/6/1809, Petrus Borel,
French writer, was born in Lyons (died in Algeria 14/7/1859).
24/6/1809, Xavier Marmier,
French author, was born (died 11/10/1892).
19/6/1809, Richard
Houghton, English poet, was born (died 11/8/1885).
6/6/1809, Franz Ahrens, German scholarly writer (died
25/9/1881) was born.
12/5/1809, Guiseppe Giusti,
Italian poet, was born (died 31/5/1850).
6/5/1809, Cortes Donoso,
Spanish author, was born (died 3/5/1853).
5/4/1809, Carl Halm,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 5/10/1882).
31/3/1809, Nikolai Gogol, Russian
author, was born in Sorochinsty,
Poltava.
23/3/1809, Thomas Holcroft,
English writer, died (born 10/12/1745).
11/3/1809, Hannah Cowley,
English poet, died (born 1743).
10/3/1809, Thomas Hake,
English poet, was born (died 11/1/1895).
28/1/1809, Theodor Benfrey,
German writer, was born neat Gottingen (died in Gottingen 26/6/1881)
19/1/1809, Edgar Allen Poe,
American writer of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, of
theatrical parents.
6/1/1809, Johann Eberhard,
German scholarly writer, died (born 1739).
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24/11/1808, Jean Karr,
French novelist, was born (died 29/9/1890).
2/11/1808, Jules Barbey,
French writer, was born (died in Paris 23/4/1889).
22/9/1808, George Hillard,
US author, was born (died 21/1/1879).
19/9/1808, Theodor Mundt,
German author, was born (died 30/11/1861).
5/9/1808, John Home,
Scottish poet, died (born 22/9/1722).
27/7/1808, Moritz Haupt,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 5/2/1874).
5/7/1808, Jacques
Demogeot, French writer was born (died 1894).
22/5/1808, Gerard de
Nerval, French writer, was born (died 25/1/1855).
25/3/1808, Jose Espronceda,
Spanish poet, was born (died 23/5/1842).
12/4/1808, Pauline Craven,
French author, was born (died 1/4/1891).
20/3/1808, Charles Cooper,
English writer, was born (died 21/3/1866).
22/1/1808, James Ferguson,
Scottish architectural writer, was born (died 9/1/1886).
4/1/1808, Friedrich Haase,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 16/8/1867).
19/12/1807, Friedrich Grimm,
French author, died (born 26/12/1723).
6/11/1807, Cornelius
Felton, US scholarly writer, was born (died 26/2/1862).
13/10/1807, Hans Gabelentz,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 3/9/1874).
31/8/1807, Ponce Lebrun,
French poet, (died (born 11/8/1729)
8/8/1807, Emilie Flygare,
Swedish novelist, was born (died 5/2/1892).
28/6/1807, Richard
Hildreth, US writer, was born (died 11/7/1865).
25/4/1807, Marie Cottin,
French novelist, died (born 1770).
13/3/1807, Reinhold Klotz,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 10/8/1870).
27/2/1807, Henry
Longfellow, US poet, was born (died 24/3/1882).
5/2/1807, Gabriel Legouve,
French dramatist, was born (died 14/3/1903).
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8/11/1806, Eugene de Bully,
French writer, was born in Paris (died in Paris 27/8/1866).
18/9/1806, Heinrich Laube,
German novelist, was born (died 1/8/1884).
6/9/1806, Juan
Hartzenbusch, Spanish dramatist, was born (died 1880).
1/9/1806, Leon Gozlan,
French novelist, was born (died 14/9/1866).
31/8/1806, Charles Lever,
Irish novelist, was born (died 1/6/1872).
7/5/1806, Pascual Madoz,
Spanish writer, was born.
29/4/1806, Ernst
Feuchtersleben, Austrian poet, was born (died 3/9/1849).
27/4/1806, Paul Lacroix,
French author, was born (died 16/10/1884).
21/4/1806, Sir George
Lewis, English writer, was born.
11/4/1806, Anton Auersperg,
Austrian poet, was born in Laibach (died in Graz 12/9/1876).
4/4/1806, Carlo Gozzi,
Italian dramatist, died (born 3/1722).
28/3/1806, Carl Nagelsbach,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 21/4/1859).
3/3/1806, Heinrich Boie,
German author, died in Meldorf (born in Meldorf 19/7/1744).
24/2/1806, Jean Collin
D�Harleville, French dramatist, died (born 30/5/1755).
19/2/1806, Elizabeth
Carter, English poet, died (born 16/12/1717)
27/1/1806, Wilhelm Freund,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 4/6/1894).
15/1/1806, Andre Hasselt,
Belgian poet, was born (died 1/12/1874).
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21/12/1805, Manuel Bocage,
Portuguese poet, died (born 1765).
12/10/1805, The Theatre Royal, Bath, was founded.
18/9/1805, John Abbott,
US writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine.
3/8/1805, Christopher
Anstey, poet, died (born 31/10/1724 in Brinkley, Cambridgeshire).
27/6/1805, Francis Newman,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 7/10/1897).
22/6/1805, Ida Hahn-Hahn,
German author, was born (died 12/1/1880).
18/6/1805, Arthur Murphy,
Irish dramatist, died (born 27/12/1727).
29/4/1805, Henri Barbier,
French poet, was born in Paris (died in Nice 13/2/1882).
2/4/1805, Hans Christian Anderson, Danish fairy tale writer, was born in Odense, son of
a shoemaker.
10/3/1805, Auguste Gratry,
French author, was born (died 6/2/1872).
4/2/1805, William Ainsworth, English
novelist (died 3/1/1882) was born.
1/1/1805, Jean
Latude, French writer and prisoner in the Bastille, died (born
23/3/1725).
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24/12/1804, Ludwig Huber,
German author, died (born 14/9/1764).
6/11/1804, Benjamin
Kennedy, English scholarly writer, was born (died 6/4/1889).
8/9/1804, Eduard
Morike, German poet, was born (died 4/6/1875).
7/8/1804, Johan
Madvig, Danish scholarly writer, was born (died 12/12/1886).
4/7/1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne, US writer,
was born (died 19/5/1864).
15/5/1804, Samuel
Blanchard, British author, was born in Great Yarmouth (died 15/2/1845).
27/4/1804, Jonathan
Boucher, English scholarly writer, died in Epsom, Surrey (born near
Wigton 12/3/1738).
16/2/1804, Jules Janin,
French writer, was born (died 19/6/1874).
26/1/1804, Delphine de
Girardin, French author, was born (died 29/6/1855)
31/12/1803, Jose Heredia,
Cuban poet, was born (died 21/5/1839).
20/12/1803, Samuel Hopkins,
US writer, died (born 17/9/1721).
18/12/1803, Johann Herder,
German writer, died (born 25/8/1744).
12/12/1803, Gerald Griffin,
Irish novelist, was born (died 12/6/1840).
3/12/1803, Robert Hawker,
English poet, was born (died 15/8/1875).
16/11/1803, Georg Ewald,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 4/5/1875).
14/11/1803, Jacob Abbott,
US writer of books for children, was born in Hallowell, Maine.
8/11/1803, Henry Bell,
Scottish writer, was born in Glasgow (died 7/11/1874).
8/10/1803, Alfieri,
poet, died in Florence.
28/9/1803, Prosper
Merimee, French novelist, was born (died 23/9/1870).
22/9/1803, Angelo Fabbroni,
Italian biographer, died (born 25/9/1732).
16/9/1803, Orestes Bronson,
US writer, was born (died 17/4/1876).
12/9/1803, Julien Brizeux,
poet, was born (died 3/5/1858).
27/8/1803, Edward Beecher,
US writer, was born in East Hampton, Long Island (died in Brooklyn, New York,
28/7/1895).
18/8/1803, James Beattie,
Scottish poet, died (born in Kincardine 25/10/1735).
20/7/1803, Thomas Beddoes,
English dramatist, was born in Clifton (died 26/1/1849).
22/6/1803, Johann Heinse,
German author, died (born 16/2/1749).
12/6/1803, Richard Brunck,
French scholarly writer, died (born 30/12/1729).
31/5/1803, Robert Jephson,
British dramatist, died (born 1736).
25/5/1803, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, US poet and
essayist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1/5/1803, James
Mangan, Irish poet, was born (died 20/6/1849).
28/4/1803, Johann Carpzov,
scholarly writer, died (born 1720).
2/4/1803, John Hoole, English author, died
(born 1727).
14/3/1803, Gottleib
Kloppstock, German poet, died (born 2/7/1724).
18/2/1803, Johann Gleim,
German poet, died (born 2/4/1719).
6/2/1803, Georg Fulleborn, German
scholarly writer, died (born 2/3/1769).
3/1/1803, Douglas Jerrold, English
writer,was born (died 8/6/1857).
1/1/1803, Richard Horne, English poet, was
born (died 13/3/1884).
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23/12/1802, Sara Coleridge,
English author, was born (died 3/5/1852).
20/12/1802, Johann Dubner,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 13/12/1867).
29/11/1802, Wilhelm Hauff,
German poet, was born (died 18/11/1827).
5/10/1892, Ernst Ettmuller,
scholarly writer, was born (died 4/1877).
17/9/1802, Richard
Cambridge, English poet, died (born 14/2/1717).
14/9/1802, John Buckstone,
English dramatic writer, was born (died 31/10/1879).
28/8/1802, Thomas Aird,
Scottish poet, was born in Bowden, Roxburghshire (died 25/4/1867 in Dumfries).
15/8/1802, Nikolaus
von Strehlenau, Austrian poet, was born (died 22/8/1850).
14/8/1802, Letitia
Landon, English poet and novelist, was born (died 15/10/1838).
24/7/1802, Alexandre Dumas,
French novelist, was born (died 5/12/1870).
10/7/1802, Robert Chambers, Scottish bookseller and
publisher, was born in Peebles (died 17/3/1871).
4/7/1802, Bela Edwards, US writer, was
born (died 20/4/1852).
28/6/1802, Johann Engel,
German author, died (born 11/9/1741).
12/6/1802, Harriet
Martineau, English writer, was born (died 27/6/1876).
5/6/1802, Johann Ernesti, German scholarly
writer, died
2/6/1802, Karl
Lehrs, German scholarly writer, was born (died 9/6/1878).
23/5/1802, Francois Feller,
Belgian author, died (born 18/8/1735).
9/4/1802, Elias
Lonnrot, Finnish writer, was born (died 19/3/1884).
26/2/1802, Victor Hugo,
French poet and novelist, was born
in Besancon, the son of a professional soldier.
19/2/1802, Leonard Bacon,
writer, was born in Detroit, Michigan (died 24/12/1881 in New Haven,
Connecticut).
11/2/1802, Lydia Child,
US author, was born (died 20/10/1880).
13/1/1802, Edouard
Bauernfeld, Austrian dramatist, was born in Vienna (died in Vienna
9/8/1890).
2/1/1802, Karl Dindorf, German scholarly
writer, was born (died 1/8/1883).
25/12/1801, Hester Chapone,
English writer, died (born 27/10/1727).
11/12/1801, Christian
Grabbe, German dramatist, was born (died 12/9/1836).
4/12/1801, Karl
Michelet, German philosophical writer, was born (died 16/12/1893).
22/11/1801, Abraham Hayward,
English writer, was born (died 2/2/1884).
4/11/1801, Louis Fontan,
French writer, was born (died�
10/10/1839).
17/8/1801, Fredrika Bremer,
novelist, was born (died 31/12/1865).
31/5/1801, Johann Baiter,
Swiss writer, was born in Zurich (died in Zurich 10/10/1877).
5/4/1801, Easter Sunday: Vincenzo
Gioberti, Italian writer, was born (died 26/10/1852).
20/3/1801, Bogumil Goltz,
German writer, was born (died 12/11/1870).
15/3/1801, George
Marsh, US scholarly writer, was born (died 23/7/1882).
21/2/1801, Heinrich
Fleischer, German writer on The Orient, was born (died 10/2/1888).
13/2/1801, Sir Henry
Bulwer, British author, was born (died 23/5/1872).
2/1/1801, Johann
Lavater, German poet, died (born 15/11/1741).
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22/11/1800, Jules Bastide,
French writer, was born in Paris (died 2/3/1879).
4/11/1800, George
Long, English scholarly writer, was born (died 10/8/1879).
29/9/1800, Johann Denis,
Austrian poet, died (born 27/9/1729).
12/8/1800, Jean Jacques
Ampere, writer, son of the famous scientist, was born in Lyons (died
27/3/1864 in Pau).
23/6/1800, Charlotte
Birch-Pfieffer, German dramatist, was born in Stuttgart (died in 24/8/1868).
8/5/1800, Jean Carrel, French publicist,
was born (died 24/7/1836).
5/5/1800, Louis Hachette, French
publisher, was born (died 31/7/1864).
23/4/1800, William Cowper,
English poet, died (born 26/1/1731).
16/4/1800, William
Chambers, Scottish publisher, was born (died 20/5/1883).
20/3/1800, Gottfried
Bernhardy, scholarly writer, was born in Landsberg (died 14/5/1875).
18/3/1800, Francis
Lieber, US-German writer, was born (died 2/10/1872).
12/3/1800, Louis Gachard,
Belgian writer, was born (died 24/12/1885).
22/2/1800, William Barnes,
poet, was born in Rushay, Dorset (died in Winterbourne 7/10/1886).
16/1/1800, Robert Bell,
Irish writer, was born in Cork (died 12/4/1867).
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30/12/1799, John
Moultrie, English poet, was born (died 26/12/1874).
27/12/1799, Calderon
Estebanez, Spanish author, was born (died 5/2/1867).
29/11/1799, Amos Bronson
Alcott, US writer, was born in Wolcott, Connecticut (died 4/3/1888
in Boston).
9/8/1799, George James, English novelist,
was born (died 9/6/1860).
9/7/1799, William
Mure, Scottish scholarly writer, was born (died 1/4/1860).
6/6/1799, Alexander
Pushkin Russian writer,
was born
29/5/1799, August Kopisch,
German poet, was born (died 3/2/1853).
20/5/1799, Honore de
Balzac born.
18/5/1799, Pierre
Beaumarchais, French dramatist, died in Paris (born in Paris
24/1/1732).
20/3/1799, Thomas Key,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 29/11/1875).
17/3/1799, Juan Forner,
Spanish writer, died (born 23/2/1756).
6/1/1799, Nicolas Geruzez,
French writer, was born (died 29/5/1865)
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30/12/1798, Anne
Montesquiou, French writer, died.
13/12/1798, James
Henry,
Irish scholarly writer, was born (died14/7/1876).
8/11/1798, Victor Chasles,
French writer, was born (died 18/7/1873).
25/8/1798, Henrik Hertz,
Danish poet, was born (died 25/2/1870).
29/6/1798, Willibald
Alexis, novelist (died 16/12/1871 in Arnstadt, Thuringia) was born in
Breslau.
20/6/1798, Jeremy Belknap,
US author, died in Boston (born in Boston 4/6/1744).
16/5/1798, Joesph Eckhel,
Austrian writer, died (born 1737).
3/4/1798, John Banim,
Irish novelist, was born in Kilkenny (died in Booterstown 30/8/1874).
2/4/1798, August Hoffmann,
German writer, was born (died 19/1/1874).
6/3/1798, Jacques Jasmin,
French poet,was born (died 4/10/1864).
17/2/1798, Friedrich
Beneke, German writer, was born in Berlin (died 1854).
24/1/1798, Karl Holtei,
German poet, was born (died 12/2/1880).
15/1/1798, Thomas Croker,
Irish writer, was born (died 8/8/1854).
14/1/1798, Isaak da Costa,
Dutch poet, was born (died 28/4/1860).
5/1/1798, David Moir,
Scottish writer, was born (died 6/7/1851).
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13/10/1797, Thomas Bayly,
English writer, was born in Bath (died 22/4/1839).
4/10/1797, Albrecht
Bitzius, Swiss novelist, was born in Morat (died 22/10/1854).
30/8/1797, Mary Shelley,
English
novelist, best known as the author of Frankenstein,
was born in London.
28/8/1797, Karl Muller,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 1/8/1840).
25/8/1797, Jean Louvet de
Couvrai, French writer, died (born 12/6/1760).
11/8/1797, A secret
Home Office report suspected Coleridge and the Wordsworths of being enemy
agents, because of their wandering around the countryside with campstools and
making detailed sketches of the landscape.
11/7/1797, Charles Macklin,
Irish playwright, died.
7/4/1797, William Mason,
English poet, died (died 12/2/1725).
18/3/1797, Friedrich
Gotter, German poet, died (born 3/9/1746).
24/2/1797, Samuel Lover,
Irish novelist, was born (died 6/7/1868).
7/3/1797, Johann Formey,
Franco-German author, died (born 31/5/1711).
10/1/1797, Annette
Droste-Hulshoff, German poet, was born (died 24/5/1848).
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24/12/1796, Spanish
novelist Cecilia
Larrea (Fernan Caballero) was born (died 7/4/1877).
19/12/1796, Manuel Breton
de los Herreros, Spanish dramatist, was born (died 8/11/1873).
19/9/1796, Hartley
Coleridge, English writer, was born (died 6/1/1849).
21/7/1796, Robert Burns, Scottish poet, died aged 37 in Dumfries, and was
buried there.� He was born on 25/1/1759,
the eldest son of a poor peasant farmer, about 2 miles from Ayr, at Alloway.
6/5/1796, Adolf Knigge,
German author, died.
24/4/1796, Karl Immerman,
German dramatist, was born (died 25/8/1840).
23/4/1796, Theodor Hippel,
German writer, died (born 31/1/1741)
19/4/1796, Bernhard Beskow,
Swedish dramatist, was born (died 17/10/1868).
1/2/1796, Abraham
Frohlich, Swiss poet, was born (died 1/12/1865).
4/1/1796, Henry Bohn,
British publisher, was born in London (died in Twickenham 22/8/1884).
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31/10/1795, John Keats,
English romantic poet, was born in
London, the son of an innkeeper.
5/9/1795, Karl Follen, German poet, was
born (died 14/1/1840).
3/7/1795, Louis Brequigny, scholarly
writer, died (born 22/2/1714).
19/5/1795, James Boswell,
Scottish diarist and biographer
of Dr
Johnson, died in London, aged 54.
30/4/1795, Jean Jacques
Barthelemy, French writer, died (born in Cassis, Provence
20/1/1716).
20/4/1795, Johan
Kellgren, Swedish poet, died (born 1/1/21751).
11/2/1795, Karl Bellman,
Swedish poet, died (born in Stockholm 4/2/1740).
28/11/1794, Cesare
Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian writer, died in Milan (born in Milan
15/3/1735).
22/11/1794, Alicia Cockburn,
Scottish poet, died (born 8/10/1713).
7/10/1794, Wilhelm
Muller, German lyrical poet, was born 0died 30/9/1827).
13/9/1794, Jean Florian,
French poet, died (born 6/3/1755).
25/7/1794, Andre de
Chenier, French poet, was guillotined (born 30/10/1762).
14/7/1794, John
Lockhart, Scottish writer, was born (died 25/11/1854).
8/6/1794, Gottfried Burger, German poet,
died (born 1/1/1748).
17/5/1794, Anna Jameson,
British writer, was born (died 17/3/1860).
11/4/1794, Edward Everett,
US writer, was born (died 15/1/1865).
15/3/1794, Friedrich Diaz,
German scholarly writer, was born (born 29/5/1876).
5/3/1794, Ramon
de la Cruz, Spanish dramatist, died (born 28/3/1731).
4/3/1794, William Carleton, Irish
novelist, was born (died 30/1/1869).
9/2/1794, Jacques
Ancelot, French dramatist, was born in Havre (died 1854).
21/1/1794, August Follen,
German poet, was born (died 26/12/1855).
10/1/1794, Johann Forster,
German writer, died (born 27/11/1754).
8/1/1794, Justus
Moser, German writer, died (born 14/12/1720).
25/9/1793, Felicia Hemans,
English poet, was born (died 16/5/1835).
19/8/1793, Samuel Goodrich,
US author, was born (died 9/5/1860).
10/7/1793, William
Maginn, Irish poet, was born (died 21/8/1842).
4/7/1793, Friedrich Bleek, German scholarly
writer,
was born in Holstein (died 27/2/1859).
26/6/1793, Karl
Moritz, German author, died (born 15/9/1757).
28/5/1793, Anton Busching,
scholarly writer, died (born 27/9/1724).
21/5/1793, Charles
Kock, French novelist, was born (died 27/4/1871).
3/5/1793, Martin Gerbert, German writer,
died (born 1720).
20/4/1793, David
Laing, Scottish writer, was born (died 18/10/1878).
4/4/1793, Jean Delavigne, French poet, was
born (died 11/12/1843).
4/3/1793, Karl
Lachmann, German scholarly writer, was born (died 13/3/1851).
6/2/1793, Carlo Goldoni, Italian
dramatist, died (born 25/2/1707).
1/1/1793, Sir Francis Head, English
writer, was born (died 20/7/1875).
19/1/1793, Carl Gottling,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 20/1/1869).
17/10/1792, Sir John
Bowring, writer, was born in Exeter (died near Exeter 23/11/1872).
29/9/1792, The Theatre Royal, Dumfries, was founded.
25/9/1792, Jacques Cazotte,
French author died (born 17/10/1719).
4/8/1792, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, poet, was born at Warnham.
24/5/1792, Thomas Hogg,
English writer, was born (died 27/8/1862).
12/5/1792, Charles Favart,
French dramatist, died (born 13/11/1710).
5/4/1792, Hew Ainslie,
Scottish poet (died 1878) was born.
17/1/1792, George Horne,
English writer, died (born 1/11/1730).
7/1/1792, Severino
Fabriani, Italian writer, was born (died 27/4/1849).
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19/12/1791, Johann
Doderlein, German scholarly writer, was born (died 9/11/1863).
20/9/1791, Sergei Aksakov,
Russian
writer (died 30.4.1859) was born.
17/9/1791, Tomas de
Iriarte, Spanish poet, died (born 18/9/1750).
14/9/1791, Franz Bopp,
German scholarly writer, was born in Mainz (died 23/10/1867).
25/8/1791, Christian
Bunsen, German scholarly writer, was born (died 28/11/1860).
20/7/1791, Tommaso Grossi,
Lombard poet and novelist, was born (died 10/12/1853).
9/7/1791, Friedrich Ebert,
German writer, was born (died 13/11/1834).
7/7/1791, Thomas
Blacklock, Scottish poet, died (born in Dumfriesshire 1721).
27/6/1791, Johann Merck,
German author, died (born 11/4/1741).
20/6/1791, Karl Dahlgreen,
Swedish poet, was born (died 1/5/1844).
10/6/1791, Wenceslaus
Hanka, Bohemiam scholarly writer, was born (died 12/1/1861).
21/5/1791, Jean Buchon,
French scholarly writer, was born (died 29/8/1849).
15/3/1791, Charles Knight,
English author, was born (died 9/3/1873).
20/2/1791, Emile Deschamps,
French poet, was born (died 29/10/1869).
15/1/1791, Franz
Grillparzer, Austrian poet, was born (died 21/1/1872).
21/10/1790, Alphonse
Lamartine, French poet and writer, was born (died 28/2/1869).
30/8/1790, Christian
Fahlcrantz, Swedish author, was born (died 6/8/1866).
8/8/1790, Ferencz Kolcsey,
Hungarian poet, was born (died 24/8/1838).
11/7/1790, William
Wordsworth and his friend Robert Jones set off on a walking tour of
France and Switzerland.
8/7/1790, Fitz-Greene
Halleck, US poet, was born (died 19/11/1867).
12/5/1790, Johannes Hauch,
Danish poet, was born (died 1872).
2/5/1790, Martin Madan,
English writer, died.
19/3/1790, Alexander
Everett, US writer, was born (died 29/5/1847).
19/1/1790, Daniel Atterbom,
Swedish poet, was born (died 21/7/1855).
12/11/1789, Jacob Geel,
Dutch writer, was born (died 11/11/1862).
28/9/1789, Thomas Day,
British author, died (born 22/6/1748).
15/9/1789, James Cooper,
US novelist, was born (died 14/9/1851).
1/9/1789, Marguerite
Blessington, Irish novelist, was born in County Tipperary (died in
Paris 4/6/1849).
28/5/1789, Bernhard
Ingemann, Danish poet, was born (died 24/2/1862).
21/5/1789, Sir John
Hawkins, English writer on music, died (born 30/3/1719).
10/3/1789, Francisco
Martinez, Spanish dramatist, was born (died 7/2/1862).
21/1/1789, Paul Holbach,
French writer, died (born 1723).
11/1/1789, John Collier,
English writer, was born (died 17/9/1883).
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28/12/1788, John Logan,
Scottish poet, died.
6/12/1788, Richard Barham,
English writer, was born in Canterbury (died 17/6/1845).
25/11/1788, Thomas Amory,
English author, died.
22/11/1788, Johann Flugel,
German writer, was born (died 24/6/1855).
27/10/1788, Sir Henry
Holland, English writer,was born (died 27/10/1873)
1/10/1788, William Brodie
was hanged in Edinburgh. His career inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
22/9/1788, Theofore Hook,
English author, was born (died 24/8/1841).
19/9/1788, Georg Freytag,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 16/11/1861).
10/9/1788, Jacques Boucher,
French writer, was born in Rethel (died in Abbeville 5/8/1868).
21/7/1788, Gaetano
Filangiero, Italian writer, died (born 18/8/1752).
2/3/1788, Solomon Gessner,
Swiss poet, died (born 1/4/1730).
14/2/1788, Edward
Blomfield, English scholarly writer, was born in Bury St Edmunds
(died� in Cambridge 9/10/1816).
22/1/1788, George Gordon,
or Lord
Byron, poet,
was born in London.
15/12/1787, Charles Clarke,
British writer, was born (died 13/3/1877)
15/11/1787, Richard Dana,
US writer, was born (died 1879).
6/11/1787, Vuk Karajich,
famous Serbian writer, was born (died 6/2/1864).
28/10/1787, Johann Musaus,
German writer, died (born 20/3/1735).
1/9/1787, Jan Baake,
Dutch writer, was born in Leiden (died 26/3/1864)
12/3/1787, Vicente Garcia,
Spanish dramatist, died (born 9/3/1734).
29/1/1787, Thomas Paine,
English writer, was born.
26/12/1786, Gaspari Gozzi,
Italian writer, died (born 4/12/1713).
5/9/1786, Jonas Hanway, English writer and
traveller, died (born 1712).
27/6/1786, John Broughton,
English writer, was born (died 3/6/1869).
30/5/1786, Andras Fay,
Hungarian poet, was born (died 26/7/1864)
6/5/1786, Karl Borne, German satirical
writer, was born in Frankfort am Main (died in Paris 12/2/1837).
24/2/1786, Wilhelm Grimm,
German collector of fairy tales
along with his brother Jacob, was born in Hanau.
15/2/1786, Ferdinand Hand,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 14/3/1851_.
30/12/1785, John Dunlop,
Scottish writer, was born (died 1842).
29/11/1785, Pierre
Lebrun, French poet, was born (died 27/5/1873).
25/11/1785, Richard Glover,
English poet, died (born 1712)
24/11/1785, Philipp Bockh,
German scholarly writer, was born in Karlsruhe (died in Berlin 3/8/1867).
15/8/1785, Thomas de
Quincy, English author, was born (died 8/12/1859).
4/4/1785, Elisabeth Arnim, German
authoress, was born in Frankfort am Main (died 20/1/1859 in Berlin).
7/3/1785, Alessandro
Manzoni, Italian poet, was born (died 22/5/1873).
2/2/1785, Hyacinthe
Latouche, French poet and novelist, was born (died 9/3/1851)
4/1/1785, Jacob Grimm,
older of the two German brothers famous for fairy
tales, was born in Hanau.
7/12/1784, Allan
Cunningham, Scottish poet, was born (died 30/10/1842).
19/10/1784, Leigh Hunt,
British poet and essayist, was born.
30/7/1784, Denis Diderot,
French writer, died (born 5/10/1713).
12/5/1784, James Knowles,
Irish dramatist, was born (died30/11/1862).
10/5/1784, Antoine Court
de Gebelin, French scholarly writer, died (born 1728).
20/2/1784, Adam Black,
Scottish book publisher, was born in Edinburgh (died 24/1/1874).
31/1/1784, Bernard Barton,
English poet, was born in Carlisle (died in Woodbridge 19/2/1849).
11/1/1784, Joseph Gwilt,
British architectural writer, was born (died 14/9/1863)
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24/11/1783, Victor DuCange,
novelist, was born (died 15/10/1833).
3/11/1783, Charles Colle,
French dramatist, died (born 1709).
10/10/1783, Henry Brooke,
Irish author, died.
8/9/1783, Nikolai
Grundtvig, Danish writer, was born (died 2/9/1872).
13/8/1783, John Crawfurd,
Scottish writer on the Orient, was born (died 11/5/1868).
17/4/1783, Louise Epinay,
French writer, died (born 11/3/1726).
3/4/1783, Washington
Irving, author of Rip Van
Winkle, was born.
23/1/1783, Marie Beyle,
French writer, was born in Grenoble (died in Paris 23/3/1842).
2/1/1783, Johann Bodmer,
author, died in Zurich (born near Zurich 19/7/1698).
27/12/1782, Henry Kames,
Scottish writer, died.
7/10/1782, Charles
MacLaren, editor, was born (died 10/9/1866).
7/9/1782, Susan Ferrier,
Scottish novelist, was born (died 5/11/1854).
10/6/1782, The Grand Theatre, Lancaster, was
founded.
4/11/1781, Johann Gotz,
German poet, died (born 9.7/1721).
2/11/1781, Jose Isla,
Spanish satirical writer, died (born 24/3/1703).
5/6/1781, Christian
Lobeck, German classical scholarly writer, was born (died
25/8/1860).
8/5/1781, Richard Jago,
English poet,died (born 1715).
4/5/1781, Karl Krause,
German philosophical writer, was born (died 27/9/1832).
17/3/1781, Ebenezer
Elliott, English poet, was born (died 1/12/1849).
6/3/1781, Ignaz Castelli,
Austrian dramatist, was born (died 5/2/1862).
24/2/1781, Edward Capell,
English literary critic, died (born 11/6/1713).
15/2/1781, Gotthold
Lessing, German dramatist, died (born 22/1/1729).
30/1/1781, Adelbert
Chamisso, German poet, was born (died 21/8/1838).
26/1/1781, Ludwig Arnim,
German writer, was born in Berlin (died in Brandenburg 21/1/1831).
14/1/1781, Henry Clinton,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 24/10/1852).
22/12/1780, James Harris,
English scholarly writer, died (born 20/9/1709).
20/12/1780, John Croker,
British author, was born (died 10/8/1857).
19/11/1780, William Laidlaw,
writer, was born (died 18/5/1845).
2/11/1780, Jacques Brunet,
French writer, was born (died 14/11/1867).
19/8/1780, Pierre Beranger,
French songwriter, was born in Paris (died 16/7/1857).
17/8/1780, George Croly,
British author, was born in Dublin.
11/7/1780, Timothy Flint,
US writer, was born (died 16/8/1840).
5/7/1780, Samuel Musgrave,
English scholarly writer, died (born 29/9/1732).
3/6/1780, William Hone,
English writer, was born (died 6/11/1842).
29/4/1780, Claude Dorat,
French writer, died (born 31/12/1734).
19/2/1780, Friedrich Hagen,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 11/6/1856).
14/1/1780, Edward Jesse,
English writer, was born (died 28/3/1868).
22/12/1779, Thomas Gaisford,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 2/6/1855).
28/5/1779, Thomas Moore,
Irish poet, was born (died 25/2/1852).
7/9/1779, John Armstrong,
writer, died.
2/5/1779, John Galt,
Scottish novelist, was born (died 11/4/1839).
28/11/1778, Christoph
Houwald, German author, was born (died 28/1/1845)
8/9/1778, Klemens
Brentano, German poet and novelist, was born (died 28/7/1842).
24/6/1778, Pieter Burmann,
Dutch scholarly writer, died (born 13/10/1714).
10/4/1778, William Hazlitt,
English writer, was born (died 18/9/1830).
26/1/1778, Ugo Foscolo,
Italian writer, was born (died 10/10.1827).
22/1/1778, Lord Byron,
English romantic poet, was born in London.
5/1/1778, Charles Etienne,
French writer, was born (died 13/3/1845).
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29/11/1777, Sir Henry Ellis,
writer, was born (died 15/1/1869).
6/11/1777, Bernard de
Jussieu, writer, died (born 17/8/1699).
26/10/1777, Francis Fawkes,
English poet, died (born 1720).
21/10/1777, Samuel Foote,
English dramatist, died (born 27/1/1720).
18/10/1777, Bernd Kleist,
|German poet, was born (died 21/11/1811).
27/7/1777, Thomas Campbell,
Scottish poet, was born (died 15/6/1844).
16/6/1777, Jean Gresset,
French poet, died (born 29/8/1709).
12/2/1777, Friedrich Fouque, German writer, was born
(died 23/1/1843).
3/2/1777, Hugh Kelly,
Irish dramatist and poet, died.
1/9/1776, Ludwig Holty,
German poet, died (born 21/12/1748).
7/7/1776, Jeremiah
Markland, English scholarly writer, died.
1/7/1776, Marie Gay,
French author, was born (died 5/3/1852).
2/6/1776, Robert Foulis,
printer, died (born 1707).
23/5/1776, Jeanne
Lespinnasse, French author, died (born 9/11/1732).
25/1/1776, Johann Gorres,
German writer, was born (died 29/1/1848).
24/1/1776, Ernst Hoffmann,
German writer, was born (died 24/7/1822)
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28/12/1775, John Campbell,
Scottish author, died (born 8/3/1708).
16/12/1775, Jane Austen,
author, was born at Steventon in Hampshire, the seventh child of eight born to
a rector.
15/12/1775, Francois
Boieldieu, French poet, was born in Rouen (died in Paris 8/10/1834).
21/11/1775, John Hill,
Emglish writer, died.
18/9/1775, Andrew Foulis,
printer, died (born 1712).
26/8/1775, William Behr,
German writer, was born in Salzheim (died in Bamberg 1/8/1851).
9/7/1775, Matthew Lewis,
romance writer, was born (died 14/5/1818).
9/6/1775, Georg
Grotefrend, German writer, was born (died 15/12/1853).
5/3/1775, Pierre Buirette,
French dramatist, died (born in Auvergne 17/11/1727).
10/2/1775, Charles Lamb,
English writer, was born in The
Temple, London, son of a clerk.
30/1/1775, Walter
Landor, English writer, was born (died 17/9/1864).
21/12/1774, James Ingram,
English writer, was born (died 5/9/1850).
29/11/1774, Johann Gruber,
German writer, was born (died 7/8/1851).
18/10/1774, Amandus
Muller, German dramatic poet, was born (died 11/6/1829).
16/10/1774, Robert
Fergusson, Scottish poet, died (born 5/9/1750).
12/8/1774, Jean Boissonade,
French scholarly writer, was born in Paris (died 8/9/1857).
21/4/1774, Jean Biot,
French scientific writer, was born in Paris (died in Paris 3/2/1862).
16/11/1773, John
Hawkesworth, English writer, died.
9/11/1773, Thomasine
Gyllembourg, Danish writer, was born (died 2/7/1856).
31/10/1773, Francois Droz,
French writer, was born (died 1850).
23/10/1773, Francis Jeffrey,
Scottish writer, was born (died 26/1/1850).
14/2/1773, Jules Delessert,
French writer, was born (died 1847).
15/1/1773, Antoine Chezy,
French writer on the Orient, was born (died 1832)
5/1/1773, Richard Heber, book collector,
was born (died 4/10/1833).
4/1/1773, Paul Courier, French writer, was
born (died 18/8/1825).
6/12/1772, Henry Cary,
English author, was born (died 14/8/1844).
28/11/1772, Johann Hermann,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 31/12/1848).
10/11/1772, Pedro Garcao,
Portuguese poet, died (born 1724).
21/10/1772, Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner, was born at Ottery St Mary in Devon.� He was the son of a vicar.
27/9/1772, Sandor
Kisfaludy, Hungarian poet, was born (died 28/10/1844).
4/5/1772, Freidrich
Brockhaus, German publisher, was born (died 20/8/1823).
26/3/1772, Charles Duclos,
French author, died (born 1704).
9/2/1772, Frans Franzen
Swedish poet, was born (died 14/8/1847).
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26/12/1771, Heinrich Collin,
Austrian dramatist, was born (died 28/7/1811).
4/11/1771, James
Montgomery, British poet, was born (died 30/4/1854)
15/8/1771, Novelist Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh.
30/7/1771, Thomas Gray,
English poet, died.
30/4/1771, Hosea Ballou,
US writer, was born in Richmond, New Hampshire (died in Boston 7/6/1852).
21/4/1771, Louis Lemercier,
French poet and dramatist, was born (died 7/6/1840).
21/3/1771, Thomas Dibdin,
English dramatist, was born (died 16/9/1841).
17/1/1771, Charles Brown,
US novelist, was born (died 22/2/1810).
11/1/1771, Jean Argens,
French writer, died near Toulon (born 24/6/1704 in Aix en Provence).
17/9/1770, John Foster,
English writer, was born (died 15/10/1843).
24/8/1770, Thomas
Chatterton, English poet, died (born 20/11/1752).
23/6/1770, Mark Akenside,
English poet, died in London (born 9/11/1721 in Newcastle on Tyne).
22/6/1770, Wilhelm Krug,
German author, was born (died 12/1/1842).
7/4/1770, William
Wordsworth, poet, was born, at Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was the
son of an attorney.
28/12/1769, Auguste Keratry,
French writer, was born (died 7/11/1859).
26/12/1769, Ernst Moritz
Arndt, German poet, was born in Schoritz, Rugen (died 29/1/1860 in
Bonn).
25/12/1769, August Matthiae,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 6/1/1835).
4/11/1769, Charles
Chenedolle, French poet, was born (died 2/12/1833).
29/8/1769, Edmund Hoyle,
author, died (born 1672)
21/5/1769, John Frere,
English author, was born (died 7/1/1846).
14/3/1769, Joszef Karman,
Hungarian aithor, was born.
12/1/1769, Christian
Eberhard, German writer, was born (died 13.5.1845).
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20/12/1768, Carlo Frugoni,
Italian poet, died (born 21/11/1692).
18/11/1768, Jose Marchena,
Spanish writer, was born.
28/10/1768, Johann Falk,
German author, was born (died 14/2/1826).
4/9/1768, Francois
Chateaubriand, French author, was born (died 4/7/1848).
29/8/1768, John Fawcett,
English playwright, was born (died 1837).
8/6/1768, Andrew Millar,
British publisher, died.
14/2/1768, Ivan Kriloff,
Riussian writer, was born (died 21/22/1844).
17/11/1767, Leopoldo
Cicognara, Italian writer, was born (died 5/3/1834).
25/10/1767, Henri Constant,
French writer, was born (died 8/12/1830).
20/9/1767, Melchiorre
Gioja, Italian writer, was born (died 2/1/1829).
5/7/1767, Michael Bruce,
Scottish poet, died (born 27/3/1746).
1/7/1767, Maria Edgeworth,
Irish novelist, was born (died 22/5/1849).
22/6/1767, Karl Humoldt,
German scholarly writer, was born (died 8/4/1835).
7/4/1767, August Carpzov,
scholarly writer, died (born 1679).
6/4/1767, Alexandre Duval,
French dramatist, was born (died 1/9/1842).
7/3/1767, Jan Frederik
Helmers, Dutch poet, was born (died 26/2/1813).
12/12/1766, Johann Gottsched,
German author, died (born 2/2/1700).
3/12/1766, Robert
Bloomfield, English poet, was born in Honington, Suffolk (died in
Shefford, Bedfordshire, 19/8/1823)
29/11/1766, Francois Maine
de Biran, French philosophical writer, was born.
23/9/1766, John Brown,
British author, died (born 5/11/1715).
13/9/1766, Benjamin Heath,
English scholarly writer, died (born 20/4/1704).
16/8/1766, Carolina Nairne,
Scottish songwriter, was born (died 26/10/1845).
23/6/1766, Johann Ersch,
German writer, was born (died 16/1/1828).
5/5/1766, Jean Astruc,
French writer, died in Paris (born 19/3/1684 in Sauve, Languedoc).
23/4/1766, Gyorgy Fejer,
Hungarian author, was born (died 2/7/1851).
7/4/1766, Tiberius
Hemsterhuis, Dutch scholarly writer, died (born 9/1/1685).
9/3/1766, William Cobbett,
English writer, was born (died 16/6/1835).
9/1/1766, Thomas Birch,
writer, was born in Clerkenwell, London (died 9/1/1766).
24/10/1765, Sir James
MacKintosh, Scottish writer, was born (died 30/5/1832).
27/9/1765, Diego Clemencin,
Spanish scholarly writer, was born (died 30/7/1834).
11/5/1765, Janos Bacsanyo,
Hungarian poet, was born in Tapolcza (died 12/5/1845 in Linz).
22/4/1765, James Grahame,
Scottish poet, was born (died 14/9/1811).
21/4/1765, David Mallet,
Scotish poet, died.
11/1/1765, Antoine Barbier,
French writer, was born in Coulommiers (died in Paris 5/12/1825).
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14/12/1764, Nicasio
Cienfuegos, Spanish poet, was born (died 1809).
11/11/1764, Barbara Krudener,
Rusian author, was born (died 25/12/1824).
4/11/1764, Charles
Churchill, English poet, died (born 2/1731).
6/10/1764, Christian
Jacobs, German scholarly writer, was born (died 30/3/1847).
26/9/1764, Benito Feijoo,
Spanish monk and writer, died (born 8/10/1676).
23/9/1764, Robert Dodsley,
English bookseller and writer, died (born 1703).
14/9/1764, Ludwig Huber,
German author, was born (died 24/12/1804).
12/9/1764, Victor Jouy,
Frenchy dramatist, was born (died 4/9/1846).
30/5/1764, The Theatre Royal, Bristol, was founded.
25/5/1764, John Good,
English scholarly writer, was born (died 2/1/1827).
11/2/1764, Marie-Joseph
Chenier, French poet, was born (died 10/1/1811).
19/11/1763, Karl Fernow,
German art writer, was born (died 4/12/1808).
26/9/1763, John Byrom,
English poet, died (born 29/2/1692).
12/8/1763, Olof von Dalin,
Swedish poet, died (born 29/8/1708).
11/7/1763, Peter Forskal,
Swedish writer, died.
12/2/1763, Pierre Marivaux,
French novelist, died (born 4/2/1688).
24/1/1763, Jean Bouilly,
French writer, was born near Tours (died in Paris 14/4/1842).
7/12/1762, Paul Adam,
French novelist, was born in Paris.
30/11/1762, Sir Samuel
Brydges, writer, was born (died 8/9/1837).
30/10/1762, Andre de
Chenier, French poet, was born (guillotined 25/7/1794).
21/10/1762, George Colman,
English dramatist, was born (died 17/10/1836).
24/9/1762, William Bowles,
English poet, was born in Northamptonshire (died in Salisbury 7/4/1850).
21/8/1762, Lady Mary
Montagu, English letter writer, died.
17/3/1762, Francois Martin,
US writer, was born (died 11/12/1846).
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4/12/1761, Jean Laya.,
French dramatist, was born
17/8/1761, William Carey, scholarly
writer on the Orient, was born (died 9/6/1834).
3/8/1761, Johann Gesner,
German scholarly writer, died (born 9/4/1691).
18/6/1761, Nicolas
Baptiste, French writer, was born in Bordeaux (died in Paris
1/12/1835).
3/5/1761, August Kotzebue,
German dramatist, was born (died 23/3/1819).
23/1/1761, Friedrich von
Matthisson, German poet, was born (died 12/1/1831).
4/1/1761, Stephen Hales,
English writer on science and nature, died (born 4/1/1761).
19/10/1760, Gottleib
Hufeland, German scholarly writer, was born (died 25/2/1817).
1/10/1760, William
Beckford, English author, was born (died 1844).
11/7/1760, Francois
Hoffmann, French dramatist, was born (died 25/4/1828).
12/6/1760, Jean Louvet de
Couvrai, French writer, was born (died 25/8/1797).
10/5/1760, Johann Hebel,
German poet, was born (died 22/9/1826).
10/3/1760, Leandro Moratin,
Spanish poet, was born (died 21/6/1828).
14/2/1760, Isaac Browne,
English poet, died (born 21/1/1705).
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10/11/1759, Friedrich
Schiller, German
poet and dramatist, was born.
2/11/1759, Sir Charles
Hanbury, English writer, died (born 1708).
27/10/1759, Ferencz
Kazinczy, Hungarian author, was born (died 22/8/1831).
22/10/1759, Thomas Cooper,
US writer, was born (died 11/5/1840).
13/10/1759, John Henley,
English writer and cleric, died (born 3/8/1692).
7/10/1759, Joseph Ames,
English author, died in Wapping (born 23/1/1689 in Yarmouth).
27/7/1759, Pierre
Maupertuis, French scientific writer, died (born 17/7/1768).
12/6/1759, William Collins,
English poet, died (born 25/12/1721).
6/5/1759, Francois
Andrieux, French writer, was born in Strasbourg (died 9/5/1833 in
Paris).
19/4/1759, August Iffland,
German dramatist, was born (died 22/9/1814).
29/3/1759, Alexander
Chalmers, Scottish writer, was born (died 19/12/1834).
25/1/1759, Robert Burns,
Scottish poet, was born at Alloway,
near Ayr, Ayrshire, son of a poor farmer.
15/12/1758, John Dyer,
British poet, died.
21/7/1758, Elizabeth
Hamilton, British author, was born (died 23/7/1816).
22/4/1758, Antoine de
Jussieu, writer, died.
28/11/1757, Poet, artist, and visionary William Blake
was born in London.
13/11/1757, Archibald
Alison, Scottish author, was born in Edinburgh (died 17/5/1839 in
Colinton).
6/11/1757, Louis Beffroy,
French dramatist, was born in Laon (died in Paris 17/12/1811).
15/9/1757, Karl Moritz,
German author, was born (died 26/6/1793).
28/8/1757, David Hartley,
English philosophical writer, died (born 30/8/1705).
8/3/1757, Thomas Blackwell,
Scottish classical scholarly writer, died (born in Aberdeen 4/4/1701).
6/3/1757, Louis Fontanes,
French poet, was born (died 17/3/1821),
1/3/1757, John Boydell,
publisher, was born in Dorrington (died in Paris 23/11/1833).
9/1/1757, Bernard Fontenelle,
French author, died (born 11/2/1657).
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7/9/1756, Willem
Bilderdijk, Dutch poet, was born in Amsterdam (died in Haarlem
18/12/1831).
11/6/1756, Cesar du
Marsais, French scholarly writer, died (born 17/9/1676)
3/3/1756, William Godwin,
English political writer, wife of the noted feminist campaigner Mary
Wollstonecraft, was born (died 7/4/1836).
23/2/1756, Juan Forner,
Spanish writer, was born (died 17/3/1799).
20/8/1755, Toussaint
Bernard Emeric David, art writer, was born (died 2/4/1839).
30/5/1755, Jean Collin
D�Harleville, French dramatist, was born (died 24/2/1806).
16/4/1755, Francois
Monlosier, French writer, was born (died 9/12/1838).
6/3/1755, Jean Florian,
French poet, was born (died 13/9/1794).
21/2/1755, Anne Grant,
Scottish writer, was born (died 7/11/1838).
11/2/1755, Francesco
Maffei, Italian writer, died (born 1/6/1575).
10/2/1755, Charles
Montesquieu, French writer, died.
28/10/1754, Friedrich von
Hagedorn, German poet, died (born 23/4/1708).
4/7/1754, Philippe
Destouches, French dramatist, died (born 4/1680).
17/6/1754, Prosper
Crebillon, French poet, died (born 13/1/1764).
19/5/1754, Claramunt Lazan,
Spanish poet, died (born 28/3/1702).
6/5/1754, Joseph Joubert,
French moralistic writer, was born (died 3/5/1824).
1/4/1754, Joseph de
Maistre, French polemical writer, was born (died 26/2/1821).
25/3/1754, William
Hamilton, Scottish poet, died (born 1704).
24/3/1754, Joel Barlow,
US poet, was born in Redding, Connecticut (died in Poland 14/12/1812).
11/3/1754, Valdes Melendez,
Spanish poet, was born.
28/1/1754, Ludvig Holberg,
writer, died in Copenhagen (born in Bergen, Norway 3/12/1684).
10/1/1754, Edward Cave,
English printer, died (born 27//2/1691).
30/11/1753, Jean
Charlemagne, French dramatic author, was born (died 6/3/1838).
15/10/1753, Elizabeth
Inchbald, English novelist, was born (died 1/8/1821).
12/3/1753, Jean Lanjuinais,
French writer, was born (died 13/1/1827).
14/1/1753, George Berkeley,
scholarly writer, died (born 12/3/1685).
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20/11/1752, Thomas
Chatterton, English poet, was born (died 24/8/1770).
5/11/1752, Carl Duker, German scholarly
writer, died (born 1670).
18/8/1752, Gaetano
Filangiero, Italian writer, was born (died 21/7/1788).
5/7/1752, Luke Hansard,
British printer, was born (died 29/10/1828).
13/6/1752, Frances
D�Arblay, English novelist, was born (died 6/1/1840).
23/5/1752, William
Bradford, printer, died in New York, USA (born in Leicestershire, UK
20/5/1663).
24/3/1752, Antoine Gorsas,
French writer, was born (guillotined 7/10/1793).
17/2/1752, Friedrich
Klinger, German novelist, was born (died 25/2/1831).
9/2/1752, Frederik
Hasselquist, Swedish writer, died (3/1/1722).
1/12/1751, Johan Kellgren,
Swedish poet, was born (died 20/4/1795).
14/11/1751, Capel Lofft,
English writer, was born (died 26/5/1824).
11/11/1751, Julien
Lamettrie, French scholarly writer, died (born 25/12/1709)
1/11/1751, Sir Herbert
Croft, English author, was born (died 26/4/1816).
9/10/1751, Pierre
Lacretelle, French writer, was born.
2/6/1751, John Bampton, English scholarly writer, died
aged 61.
12/12/1750, Lady Anne
Barnard, writer, was born in Fife (died in London 6/5/1825).
18/9/1750, Tomas de
Iriarte, Spanish poet, was born (died 17/9/1791).
5/9/1750, Robert
Fergusson, Scottish poet, was born (died 16/10/1774).
4/9/1750, Jose de
Canizares, Spanish dramatist, died (born 4.7.1676).
17/4/1750, Nicolas
Francois, French poet, was born (died 10/1/1828).
8/2/1750, Aaron Hill,English
author, died (born 10/2/1685).
23/1/1750, Ludovico
Muratori, Italian scholatrly writer, died (born 21/10/1672).
7/1/1750, Robert Anderson,
Scottish writer, was born in Carnwath, Lanarkshire (died 20/2/1830 in Edinburgh).
8/9/1749, Dominique
Garat, French writer, was born (died 25/4/1833).
28/8/1749, Johann Goethe, German poet and