Today in Writer History (Part 5)
Literature Topics: Author - Essayist - Journalist - Jurist - Novelist - Playwright - Poetess - Poetry - Scholar
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Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 2,720
1832-10-16 - Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat
1832-11-09 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1833-02-07 - Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
1833-03-26 - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1833-09-30 - Ferdinand von Saar, writer
1834-02-09 - Felix Dahn, writer
1834-03-06 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1834-09-09 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant)
1834-09-17 - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
1834-10-10 - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit)
1835-02-14 - Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes)
1835-07-27 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1835-10-31 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923)
1836-01-02 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1836-01-27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism)
1836-05-17 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923)
1836-08-14 - Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
1836-12-15 - Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel)
1837-01-05 - A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]
1837-04-03 - John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
1837-05-31 - Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
1837-10-29 - Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals)
1838-02-16 - Henry Adams, Boston Mass, historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
1838-06-04 - Servaas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Lute & Flute)
1838-06-17 - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Kapala-Kundala)
1838-06-17 - Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer (Monastery of Delight)
1838-10-06 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1838-11-07 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1839-03-09 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
1839-05-08 - Francis W Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer
1839-06-21 - Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
1839-06-21 - Machado de Assis, writer
1839-08-04 - Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
1839-09-02 - Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
1839-09-25 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
1840-03-05 - Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
1840-04-19 - Andrea Bezzola, writer
1840-05-13 - Alphonse Daudet, writer
1840-05-13 - L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)
1840-06-03 - Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
1840-08-13 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
1840-08-17 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
1840-09-28 - Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs
1840-10-05 - John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics)
1841-09-13 - Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer
1842-02-25 - Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
1842-04-25 - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
1842-07-24 - Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust)
1843-02-22 - Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1843-12-29 - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916)
1844-03-04 - Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
1844-04-16 - Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921)
1844-10-12 - George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
1845-08-10 - Kunanbajew, writer
1846-03-20 - Auguste Bender, writer
1846-04-04 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
1846-04-30 - Rosalie Amstein, writer
1846-05-25 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
1846-06-04 - Josef Sittard, music writer
1846-07-11 - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1846-08-16 - Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene)
1846-08-22 - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
1846-10-21 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore)
1847-04-07 - J P Jacobsen, writer
1847-06-06 - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
1847-08-20 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1847-12-07 - George Grossmith, British actor and writer (d. 1912)
1847-12-17 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
1848-01-18 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1848-02-05 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
1848-02-17 - Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
1848-02-24 - C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1848-08-12 - Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile)
1848-10-05 - Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1849-02-04 - Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux)
1849-02-18 - Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer/politician (Garman og Worse)
1849-07-19 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1849-12-21 - James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal)
1850-01-14 - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
1850-02-16 - Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
1850-08-03 - Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
1851-01-27 - Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega)
1851-04-24 - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1851-05-01 - Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891)
1851-09-15 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish countess/writer (Sirena Negra)
1852-03-05 - Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1852-03-22 - Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1852-08-22 - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy)
1852-10-31 - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Revolt of Mother)
1853-04-30 - Alfred v Berger, writer
1853-07-27 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1853-11-12 - Oskar Panizza, writer
1853-12-21 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
1854-03-14 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
1854-05-27 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
1854-08-12 - Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer
1854-09-02 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1855-03-24 - Olive Schreiner, S African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
1855-05-15 - Eduard earl of Keyserling, German writer (Dritte Stiege)
1855-05-15 - Graf Keyserling, writer
Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 500 of 2,101
1865-01-16 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1865-02-25 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
1865-06-15 - Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
1865-12-24 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)
1866-01-15 - M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
1866-08-06 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1869-10-13 - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Fren writer (Tableau Historique), dies
1870-01-21 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1870-06-09 - Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58
1870-06-20 - Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
1870-11-24 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
1870-12-05 - A Dumas Da, writer, dies at 68
1871-01-10 - Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41
1871-01-29 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1871-04-21 - Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies
1871-12-16 - Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73
1872-04-20 - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
1872-09-02 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1872-10-23 - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
1872-11-28 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1872-12-31 - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38
1873-02-07 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
1873-04-28 - A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88
1873-05-14 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1873-09-20 - Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies
1873-09-28 - Emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37
1874-01-08 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1874-01-19 - H v Fallersleben, writer, dies at 75
1874-07-12 - Fritz Reuter, writer, dies at 63
1875-01-23 - Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55
1875-02-03 - Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66
1875-04-07 - Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57
1875-08-04 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
1875-10-10 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer, dies at 58
1875-10-24 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1875-12-20 - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
1876-02-24 - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1876-03-05 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
1876-03-18 - F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65
1876-04-03 - Henriette Davidis, writer, dies
1876-05-24 - Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46
1876-06-01 - Christo Botew, writer, dies
1876-06-07 - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
1876-07-15 - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82
1876-09-25 - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
1877-12-12 - Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
1879-02-11 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67
1879-09-28 - Nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered
1879-10-14 - F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58
1879-10-28 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1880-03-25 - Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies
1881-02-02 - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59
1881-05-03 - Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
1881-05-11 - Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59
1881-07-26 - George Borrow, writer, dies
1881-11-07 - John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1881-12-13 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43
1882-01-03 - William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
1882-04-09 - D G Rossetti, writer, dies at 53
1882-12-06 - A Trollope, writer, dies
1883-09-03 - Iwan Turgenjew, writer, dies at 64
1884-04-06 - Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68
1884-06-18 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1884-08-01 - Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
1885-01-06 - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72
1885-02-14 - Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
1885-05-22 - Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83
1885-05-29 - Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63
1885-07-15 - Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
1885-08-31 - Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy-Mamba's daughters), dies
1886-01-18 - Michal Czajchovski, [Sadik Pasja], writer, dies
1886-04-09 - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
1886-05-01 - Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens)
1887-02-19 - Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
1887-02-19 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
1887-09-14 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies
1888-12-02 - Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
1889-04-23 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
1889-08-19 - Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
1889-09-23 - William W Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies
1889-12-10 - Anzengruber, writer, dies
1890-07-15 - Gottfried Keller, writer, dies at 70
1890-09-03 - Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63
1890-10-20 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1890-10-26 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1891-03-15 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1891-09-27 - I Gontscharow, writer, dies
1891-09-28 - Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72
1891-10-15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
1891-12-11 - Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
1892-01-02 - George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
1892-10-06 - Alfred Tennyson, writer, dies at 83
1893-07-07 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1893-12-14 - Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86
1894-01-19 - Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, dies at 58
1894-04-08 - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55
1894-07-05 - Betty Paoli, writer, dies
1894-07-18 - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
1894-10-07 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1894-12-03 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Engl writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 45
