Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/1


 * 1560 - Joachim Du Bellay, French poet died
 * 1648 - Elkanah Settle, English writer born
 * 1704 - Soame Jenyns, English writer born
 * 1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet born
 * 1767 - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist born
 * 1818 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published.
 * 1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist born
 * 1879 - E. M. Forster, English novelist born
 * 1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist born
 * 1928 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer born
 * 1933 - Joe Orton, English writer born
 * 1937 - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author born
 * 1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet born