Portal:Literature/Adil archive/February/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