Today in Author History

Historical Events

Events 1 - 38 of 38

1605-01-13 - The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1774-02-22 - English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1798-11-27 - Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Peterburg jail
1849-10-03 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1865-03-13 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1867-12-02 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1893-09-04 - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1897-05-18 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
1908-06-14 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
1913-02-25 - 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1914-02-13 - American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
Children's Author Beatrix Potter 1914-10-15 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
1922-01-18 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1928-11-01 - 1st celebration of Author's Day
1938-06-14 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1944-02-10 - Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1945-10-07 - Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
1957-10-17 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1959-09-11 - Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
1962-10-25 - American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1964-10-22 - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1966-02-20 - Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1967-04-19 - Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years
1967-04-20 - French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia
1967-11-17 - French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
1968-06-03 - Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
Writer Jean-Paul Sartre 1969-11-12 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1970-10-08 - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1970-11-25 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1970-12-23 - French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
1975-12-09 - Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
1977-04-18 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize
1985-10-17 - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
1989-02-22 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1989-07-20 - Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1990-12-05 - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
1998-02-05 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
2012-09-24 - Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 1,589

0994-11-07 - Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain
1391-10-30 - Eduard, [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/author
1441-02-09 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub)
1466-10-28 - Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, humanist and theologian (The Praise of Folly), (d. 1536)
1478-02-07 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
1478-12-06 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1492-01-12 - Andreas Alicatus, Italian author
1500-11-01 - Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1514-02-22 - Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1547-09-29 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote), (d. 1616)
1561-11-21 - Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-09-29) 1592-04-20 - John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author
1602-04-30 - William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler
1611-01-07 - James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)
1626-02-05 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696)
1627-01-25 - Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
1628-01-12 - Charles Perrault, Paris France, author (Mother Goose)
1628-11-28 - John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress)
1633-11-11 - George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author (Character of a Trimmer)
1643-09-17 - Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author
1668-05-08 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
1686-08-01 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)
1692-11-07 - Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)
1696-12-22 - James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)
1697-03-09 - Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1697-04-01 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763)
Fairytale writer Charles Perrault (1628-01-12) 1714-09-17 - Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire)
1728-12-08 - Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author
1729-01-01 - Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [NS=Jan 12]
1729-01-12 - Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [OS=Jan 1]
1735-05-23 - Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author
1738-07-24 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
1740-09-12 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
1740-11-04 - Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
1741-09-11 - Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark)
1741-10-18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
1743-09-22 - Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
1744-07-19 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1752-06-13 - Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina)
1753-11-03 - August G Meissner, German author
1758-07-21 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration)
1758-09-10 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1758-11-16 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1760-05-10 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)
1762-11-16 - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
1763-02-03 - Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
1763-03-09 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
1763-09-02 - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author
1765-03-04 - Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1766-04-22 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1770-06-20 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
1770-11-05 - Etienne P de Senancour, French author (Obermann)
1771-03-22 - Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1771-05-26 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author
1771-06-03 - Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author
1772-04-11 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1773-03-26 - Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
1775-02-05 - Margaretha J de Neufville, author (Small Pligten)
1779-07-15 - Clement Clarke Moore, US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
1779-08-22 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1779-11-05 - Washington Allston, US painter/author
1780-06-03 - William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book)
1785-02-21 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
1785-10-18 - Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
1788-09-22 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
1788-10-24 - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1789-05-28 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange)
1791-06-09 - John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
1791-09-01 - Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
1792-11-13 - Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son)
1795-09-20 - Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author
1795-10-16 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
1796-01-21 - John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author
1796-05-04 - Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
1796-07-26 - George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley (1797-08-30) 1797-08-30 - Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein), (d. 1851)
1797-11-04 - Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author
1800-04-16 - William Chambers, author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding)
1800-11-23 - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti)
1801-02-21 - John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
1802-01-06 - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)
1802-02-11 - Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany)
1802-02-26 - Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)
1802-07-24 - Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo), (d. 1870)
1803-01-03 - Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag)
1803-09-28 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
1804-01-31 - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic
1804-07-04 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter)
1805-04-02 - Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
1805-10-23 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
Author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-04-02) 1805-12-31 - Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)
1808-02-04 - Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)
1808-04-26 - Martha Finley, children's book author
1808-06-17 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
1808-12-06 - Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)
1809-01-19 - Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum)
1809-08-29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
1810-05-24 - Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
1811-03-03 - Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review)
1811-06-14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 46 of 46

1656-11-12 - English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock
1662-02-24 - English Poet and author of "Paradise Lost" John Milton marries 3rd wife Elizabeth Mynshull, 31 years his junior.
1735-07-09 - Author,poet, critic and lexicographer and writer of the first English dictionary Dr. Samuel Johnson (25) marries the widow Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 21 years his senior.
1822-10-12 - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher
1838-11-11 - Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin's marriage proposal (English Naturalist later author of Origin of the Species)
1839-01-29 - English Naturalist and author of Origin of the Species Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1847-08-04 - Author of Moby Dick, American novelist Herman Melville (28) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1854-06-29 - English Novelist and author of "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte marries curate Arthur Bell Nicholls
1884-05-01 - "Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1885-08-25 - "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28)
1885-08-29 - Pulitzer Prize-winning American author ('Age of Innocence') Edith Jones (23), marries Edward "Teddy" Wharton (36)
Moby Dick Author Herman Melville (1847-08-04) 1901-05-25 - Russian physician, dramatist and author Anton Chekhov marries actress Olga Knipper
1911-07-05 - "Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince Edward Island, Canada
1912-08-10 - British literary figure (author of "To the Lighthouse") Virginia Woolf (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31)
1912-12-19 - Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel
1914-01-14 - Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke
1914-12-24 - Agatha Miller (later best selling detective author) marries aviator Archibald Christie
1921-09-03 - American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29)
1922-09-02 - "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw
1923-10-14 - "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona
1927-04-23 - Mary Barbara Hamilton (25,)best-selling British romantic author, marries 1st husband Alexander McQorquodale
1932-07-19 - "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35)
1932-10-04 - Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
1936-12-28 - British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale
1940-11-05 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn
1941-06-03 - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
Author Margaret Mitchell (1922-09-02) 1942-07-26 - Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (22) weds Gertrude Blugerman in Brooklyn, New York
1946-03-14 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh
1946-08-10 - Pulp fiction author and Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (35) weds Sara Northrup Hollister
1948-10-21 - Science fiction pioneering author "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert A. Heinlein marries 3rd wife Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfeld
1952-03-24 - Author of 'James Bond' novels, journalist and secret intelligence agent Ian Fleming marries Anne Geraldine Charteris
1961-10-14 - Howard Allen Frances (Anne) O'Brien (20) best-selling author (The Vampire Chronicles) marries poet and painter Stan Rice (21)
1964-09-19 - Author Peter Benchley (24) weds Winifred B. Wesson
1968-08-06 - Children's author Dr. Seuss (64) weds Audrey Geisel
1971-01-07 - American horror, sci-fi and fantasy author Stephen King marries Tabitha Spruce, author and activist
1973-11-30 - Science fiction author Issac Asimov marries 2nd wife psychoanalyst and science fiction author Janet Jeppson
1977-09-30 - "Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom" author John Updike (45) weds Martha Bernhard
1981-05-08 - Author John Grisham (26) weds Renee Jones
1985-07-31 - Bee Gees member Robin Gibb (35) weds author and artist Dwina Murphy
1992-07-04 - US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
1992-10-16 - Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes
Writer John Grisham (1981-05-08) 1997-10-04 - MTV news anchor Tabitha Soren (30) weds "Liars Poker" author Michael Lewis (37) in Garrison, New York
2001-12-26 - "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling (36) weds anesthesiologist Neil Murray (30) in Aberfeldy, Scotland
2002-05-24 - Princess Martha Louise of Norway (30) weds author Ari Behn (29) in Trondheim
2006-02-03 - "The Science Guy" Bill Nye (50) weds author/oboist Blair Tindall at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles
2011-01-02 - Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer (34) weds author Neil Gaiman (50) in Berkley, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 3 of 3

1927-03-10 - American author and journalist "The Old man and the Sea" Enerest Hemingway divorces 1st wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
1940-11-04 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer
1945-12-21 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn divorce after 5 years of marriage.

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 880

0833-07-20 - Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63
0967-11-20 - Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of Liederen), dies
1171-11-02 - Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies
1272-11-19 - David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies
1321-09-13 - Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies
1400-10-25 - Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London
1471-03-24 - Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55
1501-01-03 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59
1527-06-21 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57
1542-10-27 - Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies
1547-01-11 - Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
Humanist philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1527-06-21) 1553-04-09 - Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49
1563-02-02 - Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54
1573-11-07 - Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1587-04-18 - John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies
1594-07-16 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1596-12-08 - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
1625-03-05 - James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58
1632-11-27 - John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40
1640-01-25 - Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
1645-09-08 - Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64
1648-03-12 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63
1649-06-20 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
1654-08-19 - Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies
1666-08-24 - Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57
1667-02-20 - David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies
1667-08-13 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
1672-04-22 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73
1673-02-17 - Molière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French playwright (The Misanthrope), dies. (b. 1622)
1684-09-05 - John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48
1688-08-31 - John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies
1701-04-04 - Joseph Haines, entertainer and author
Fairytale writer Charles Perrault (1703-05-16) 1703-05-16 - Charles Perrault, French author/fairy tale writer, dies at 75
1726-05-14 - Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
1731-04-26 - Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70
1747-11-17 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79
1754-07-04 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1754-10-08 - Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
1771-01-11 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66
1777-12-12 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1781-11-02 - Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78
1789-09-28 - Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire
1793-02-06 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85
1793-12-23 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
1797-07-09 - Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
1797-09-10 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1802-06-28 - Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60
1807-12-03 - Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies
1809-09-07 - Caroline Schelling, [Michaelis], German author and academic dies at 46
1811-12-08 - Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe(b. 1787)
1814-12-13 - Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgium fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79
1816-07-23 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
1817-04-02 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
1817-07-14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1818-10-22 - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
1820-04-20 - Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies
1821-08-01 - Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68
1823-02-07 - Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58
1827-11-28 - Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies
1831-03-09 - Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
1833-03-07 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61
1835-06-18 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
1836-06-26 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies
1839-05-17 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1839-11-06 - Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1841-04-30 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
1841-08-24 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
1842-03-23 - Stendhal, [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Lamiel), dies at 59
1842-10-30 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
1843-01-04 - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80
1843-07-09 - Washington Allston, US painter/author, dies at 63
1845-07-12 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
1847-01-11 - Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83
1848-08-09 - Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies
1851-09-14 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
1855-03-31 - Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
1856-01-12 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
1856-07-15 - Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81
1857-03-11 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1858-03-03 - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
1858-10-10 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73
1859-11-28 - Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies
1859-12-08 - Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
1860-05-23 - Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies
1862-02-24 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1864-09-17 - Walter Savage Landor, author, dies
1866-09-26 - Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72
1868-01-28 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62
1868-08-25 - Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
1869-02-04 - Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60
1869-11-12 - Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
1869-12-06 - Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54
1870-09-12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
1870-09-23 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
1871-04-29 - John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75
1872-04-27 - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70
1873-01-18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1873-04-25 - Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43
1873-10-29 - Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
1874-04-14 - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curacao, dies at 86