Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/28


 * 1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright died
 * 1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer died
 * 1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet died
 * 1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist died
 * 1818 (O.S.) - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer born
 * 1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer died
 * 1885 (O.S.) - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet born
 * 1903 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer born
 * 1907 - John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet born
 * 1929 - John Hollander, American poet and literary critic born
 * 1938 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist born
 * 1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer died
 * 1986 - John Braine, English novelist died
 * 1998 - Ted Hughes, English poet died