Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/17


 * 1711 - Jupiter Hammon, American writer born
 * 1719 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer born
 * 1813 - Georg Büchner, German playwright born
 * 1898 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer born
 * 1903 - Nathanael West, American writer born
 * 1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright born
 * 1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian novelist born
 * 1930 - Jimmy Breslin, American writer born
 * 1931 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer born
 * 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer died
 * 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer died
 * 1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author died
 * 2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer died