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February

1

• 1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer died
• 1851 - Mary Shelley, English author died
• 1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer born
• 1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer born
• 1902 - Langston Hughes, American writer born
• 1918 - Muriel Spark, Scottish author born
• 1941 - Jerry Spinelli, American children's author born

2

• 1882 - James Joyce, Irish author born
• 1905 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American writer born
• 1918 - Hella S. Haasse, Dutch writer born
• 1923 - James Dickey, American poet and author born
• 2002 - Claude Brown, American writer died

3

• 1842 - Sidney Lanier, American writer born
• 1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet died
• 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer born
• 1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet born
• 1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer born
• 1899 - Indra Bahadur Rai, Nepali writer born

4

• 1799 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer born
• 1848 - Jean Aicard, French poet born
• 1882 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born
• 1908 - Julian Bell, British poet born

5

• 1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer born
• 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author born
• 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet born
• 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author born
• 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author born
• 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet died
• 1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet died

6

• 1608 - António Vieira, Portuguese writer born
• 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright died
• 1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author born
• 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian died
• 1995 - James Merrill, American poet died

7

• 1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer died
• 1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist born
• 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist died
• 1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet died
• 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author born
• 1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer died
• 1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer born
• 1905 - Paul Nizan, French author born
• 1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author died
• 2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author died
• 2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author died

8

• 1552 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet born
• 1577 – Robert Burton, English cleric and writer born
• 1612 or 1613 – Samuel Butler, English poet born
• 1819 – John Ruskin, English author born
• 1828 – Jules Verne, French author born
• 1955 – John Grisham, American writer born
• 1998 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author died

9

• 1783 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet born
• 1834 - Felix Dahn, German author born
• 1874 - Amy Lowell, American poet born
• 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet died
• 1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author born
• 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist born
• 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, South African author born
• 1944 - Alice Walker, American author and activist born

10

• 1609 – John Suckling, English poet born
• 1755 – Montesquieu, French writer died
• 1837 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist died
• 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German author born
• 1930 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author born
• 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist died
• 1934 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet born
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author died
• 1992 – Alex Haley, American author died
• 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright died

11

• 1568 – Honoré d'Urfé, French writer born
• 1763 – William Shenstone, English poet died
• 1764 – Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet born
• 1860 – Rachilde, French author born
• 1869 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer born
• 1874 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author born
• 1887 – John van Melle, South African writer born
• 1917 – Sidney Sheldon, American author born
• 1939 – Jane Yolen, American author born
• 1978 – Harry Martinson, Swedish writer died
• 1986 – Frank Herbert, American author died
• 1996 – Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet died

12

• 1567 - Thomas Campion, English composer and poet born
• 1704 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer born
• 1724 - Elkanah Settle, English writer died
• 1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet born
• 1828 - George Meredith, English writer born
• 1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author born
• 1865 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer born
• 1912 - R. F. Delderfield, English author born
• 1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author born
• 1932 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author born
• 1989 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist died
• 1995 - Robert Bolt, English writer died
• 1996 - Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction writer died

13

• 1881 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author born
• 1887 – Géza Csáth, Hungarian writer born
• 1903 – Georges Simenon, Belgian writer born
• 1934 – József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary died
• 1937 – Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer born
• 1950 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian author died
• 2003 – Axel Jensen, Norwegian author died
• 2007 – Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer died

14

• 1692 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer born
• 1828 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer born
• 1856 - Frank Harris, Irish author born
• 1885 - Jules Vallès, French writer died
• 1961 - Phillip Hamilton, American author born
• 1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer died

15

• 1835 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author born
• 1869 – Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet died
• 1883 – Sax Rohmer, English author born
• 1909 – Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank born
• 1937 – Gregory Mcdonald, American author born
• 1958 – Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist born

16

• 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet born
• 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer born
• 1838 – Henry Adams, American historian and novelist born
• 1866 – Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet born
• 1876 – George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian born
• 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic born
• 1898 – Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet died
• 1907 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer died
• 1917 – Octave Mirbeau, French writer died
• 1944 – Richard Ford, American novelist born
• 1954 – Iain Banks, Scottish author born
• 1968 – Warren Ellis, British comic book writer born
• 1977 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet died
• 1992 – Angela Carter, English writer died

17

• 1752 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer born
• 1836 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet born
• 1856 – Heinrich Heine, German writer died
• 1862 – Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet born
• 1863 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian novelist and poet born
• 1864 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet born
• 1903 – Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer born
• 1912 – Andre Norton, American author born
• 1924 – Margaret Truman, American novelist born
• 1930 – Ruth Rendell, English writer born
• 1955 – Mo Yan, Chinese novelist born
• 1970 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer died
• 1996 – Hervé Bazin, French writer died
• 2007 – Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer died

18

• 1583 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer died
• 1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian born
• 1654 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer died
• 1658 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer born
• 1780 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet died
• 1803 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet died
• 1846 - Wilson Barrett, English playwright born
• 1849 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author born
• 1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer born
• 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
• 1896 - Andre Breton, French writer born
• 1898 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet born
• 1909 - Wallace Stegner, American writer born
• 1929 - Len Deighton, British author born
• 1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer born
• 1936 - Jean Auel, American writer born
• 1942 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author died
• 1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer born
• 1955 - Miles Tredinnick, English playwright born
• 1982 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author died
• 1997 - Emily Hahn, American writer died

19

• 1620 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer died
• 1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer born
• 1887 – Multatuli, Dutch writer died
• 1888 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer born
• 1896 – André Breton, French poet born
• 1899 – Yury Olesha, Russian novelist born
• 1902 – Kay Boyle, American writer born
• 1904 – Havank, Dutch writer born
• 1917 – Carson McCullers, American author born
• 1920 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer born
• 1936 – Marin Sorescu, Romanian writer and novelist born
• 1958 – Helen Fielding, English writer born
• 1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer born

20

• 1745 – Henry James Pye, English poet born
• 1751 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet born
• 1794 – William Carleton, Irish novelist born
• 1888 – Georges Bernanos, French writer born
• 1893 – Russel Crouse, American playwright born
• 1895 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer died
• 1912 – Pierre Boulle, French author born
• 1926 – Richard Matheson, American author born
• 1932 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer born
• 1962 – Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author born
• 2003 – Maurice Blanchot, French author died

21

• 1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher died
• 1821 – Charles Scribner, American publisher born
• 1880 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer born
• 1888 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright born
• 1903 – Anaïs Nin, French writer born
• 1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist born
• 1907 – W. H. Auden, English poet born
• 1962 – David Foster Wallace, American writer born
• 2005 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist died

22

• 1674 – Jean Chapelain, French writer died
• 1864 – Jules Renard, French author born
• 1881 – Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian author born
• 1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet born
• 1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer born
• 1900 – Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author born
• 1903 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer born
• 1917 – Jane Bowles, American playwright born
• 1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet died
• 1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer died
• 1945 – Osip Brik, Russian writer died
• 1985 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet died

23

• 1800 – Joseph Warton, English literary critic died
• 1859 – Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet died
• 1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer born
• 1944 – John Sandford, American novelist born
• 1955 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright died
• 1995 – James Herriot, English writer died

24

• 1595 – Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish author born
• 1597 – Vincent Voiture, French poet born
• 1779 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist died
• 1781 – Edward Capell, English critic died
• 1852 – George Moore, Irish writer born
• 1885 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer born
• 1909 – August Derleth, American writer born
• 2006 – Octavia Butler, American author died

25

• 1591 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer born
• 1692 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer born
• 1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer born
• 1842 - Karl May, German writer born
• 1908 - Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist born
• 1917 - Anthony Burgess, English author born
• 1920 - Gérard Bessette, Canadian author born
• 1948 - Aldo Busi, Italian writer born
• 1983 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright died

26

• 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist born
• 1714 - James Hervey, English writer born
• 1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer born
• 1887 - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer born
• 1908 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer born
• 1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer born
• 1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist born

27

• 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet born
• 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer born
• 1910 - Peter De Vries, American writer born
• 1912 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer born
• 1912 - Kusumagraj, Indian writer born
• 1913 - Irwin Shaw, American writer born
• 1930 - Peter Stone, American writer born
• 1934 - N. Scott Momaday, American writer born

28

• 1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer born
• 1812 - Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author born
• 1882 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer born
• 1882 - Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish writer born
• 1895 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist born
• 1971 - Tristan Louis, American writer born

29

• 1908 - Dee Brown, American writer born
• 1920 - Howard Nemerov, American poet born
• 1948 - Jirō Akagawa, Japanese novelist born
• 1952 - Tim Powers, American writer born
• 2008 - Janet Kagan, American author died