Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/8
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- 65 BC - Horace, Roman poet born
- 1626 - John Davies, English poet died
- 1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet died
- 1830 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer died
- 1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author born
- 1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, American author (Uncle Remus stories) born
- 1859 - Thomas de Quincey, British author died
- 1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright born
- 1894 - James Thurber, American writer born
- 1913 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet born
- 1938 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer died
- 1951 - Bill Bryson, American author born
- 1999 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer died