Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/8


 * 1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer born
 * 1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet born
 * 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist born
 * 1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer born
 * 1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian died
 * 1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet died
 * 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet died
 * 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author born
 * 1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer died
 * 1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer born
 * 1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer born
 * 1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet died
 * 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist died
 * 1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author died