Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/18


 * 1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer born
 * 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer born
 * 1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet died
 * 1840 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet born
 * 1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer born
 * 1873 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author died
 * 1882 - A. A. Milne, English author born
 * 1886 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator born
 * 1914 - Arno Schmidt, German author born
 * 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author born
 * 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer died
 * 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer died
 * 1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer died
 * 1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer died
 * 2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet died