Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/19


 * 1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet born
 * 1631 - John Dryden, English poet born
 * 1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer born
 * 1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet born
 * 1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright, poet, and polemicist born
 * 1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes) born
 * 1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author died
 * 1944 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer born