Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/11


 * 1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet died
 * 1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet died
 * 1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer died
 * 1890 - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author born
 * 1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer born
 * 1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer died
 * 1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author born
 * 1970 - Richmal Crompton, British author died
 * 1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet died
 * 1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist died
 * 1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer died