Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/22


 * 1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet born
 * 1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile died
 * 1818 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet born
 * 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer born
 * 1920 - Timothy Leary, American writer born
 * 1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet died
 * 1959 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer born
 * 1978 - John Riley, English poet murdered
 * 1989 - Ewan MacColl, English author died
 * 1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer died
 * 1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist died