Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/23


 * 1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
 * 1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright died
 * 1597 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet born
 * 1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet died
 * 1646 - François Maynard, French poet died
 * 1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet born
 * 1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic born
 * 1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet born
 * 1823 - The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel.
 * 1902 - Norman Maclean, American author born
 * 1926 - Robert Bly, American poet born
 * 1963 - Donna Tartt, American author born