Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/24


 * 1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet born
 * 1670 - William Congreve, English playwright born
 * 1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer born
 * 1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright born
 * 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer born
 * 1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer born
 * 1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer born
 * 1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer born
 * 1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet born
 * 1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author died
 * 2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer died