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• 1513 - Jacques Amyot, French writer born
• 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet died
• 1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer born
• 1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright born
• 1762 - André Chénier, French writer born
• 1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer born
• 1821 (O.S.) - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer born
• 1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author died
• 1871 - Paul Valéry, French poet born
• 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet born
• 1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright born
• 1935 - Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer born
• 1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer born
• 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author died
• 1968 - Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer died