2012 Death Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies 1996 Death Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71 1996 Death Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82 1995 Death Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies 1989 Death Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland 1982 Death Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies 1969 Death Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86 1968 Death Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 1958 Death Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77 1956 Death H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75 1954 Death Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71 1952 Death Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies 1950 Death Agnes Repplier, American essayist and writer, 'Books and Men' and 'In Pursuit of Laughter', dies 1948 Death Alfred Kerr, nickname, Culture Pope, writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe', dies at 80 1945 Birthday Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist, Fireflies 1944 Birthday Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist, Happy Schizo 1942 Birthday Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide 1937 Death Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66 1936 Death Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62 1936 Death Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57 1935 Birthday Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician 1928 Birthday Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic 1924 Birthday Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist 1923 Birthday Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist, Joy Beneath the Skin 1923 Birthday Marc Saporta, French writer/essayist, Le Grand Defi 1922 Birthday Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records 1922 Birthday Kurt Vonnegut, born in Indiana, novelist, essayist, satirist, wrote 'Slaughterhouse Five' 1920 Birthday Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist, Coming of Joachim Stiller 1917 Birthday Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist, Clockwork Orange 1915 Birthday Thomas Merton, born in France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist, 7 Storey Mt 1914 Birthday Marthe Robert, essayist/translator 1913 Birthday Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist 1902 Birthday Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist, Carnaval of the Citizens 1900 Birthday Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist, Maria's Life 1893 Birthday Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, Gilles 1892 Birthday Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe, Illinois, polit essayist/poet/dramatist, JB 1887 Death Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies 1883 Birthday Max F Eastman, U.S., critic/essayist, Masses 1882 Birthday Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Barcelona Spain, essayist/philosopher 1882 Birthday Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher 1881 Birthday Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity 1881 Death Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 1880 Birthday Henry Louis Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic, American Mercury 1880 Birthday Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist, Loom of Years, Highwayman 1879 Birthday James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist, Restless Heads 1879 Birthday Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist 1874 Birthday Karl Kraus, born in Austria, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture 1874 Birthday Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist 1871 Birthday Heinrich Mann, born in Germany, novelist/essayist, Blue Angel, ; bros of Thomas 1870 Birthday Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist 1869 Birthday Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet, The Heart 1867 Birthday Alfred Kerr, born in Breslau, Silesia, nickname, Culture Pope, writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe' 1859 Death Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies 1855 Birthday Agnes Repplier, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American essayist and writer, 'Books and Men' and 'In Pursuit of Laughter' 1853 Birthday Jose Marti y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician 1849 Birthday Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties 1830 Death William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies 1803 Birthday Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S., essayist/philosopher, Concord Hymn 1795 Birthday Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian, French Revolution 1778 Birthday William Hazlitt, essayist and critic 1775 Birthday Charles Lamb, born in London, England, critic/poet/essayist 1747 Death Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives, dies in Paris 1737 Birthday Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason 1715 Birthday Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives 1689 Birthday Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric 1672 Birthday Joseph Addison, England, essayist, Spectator 1561 Birthday Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist, Novum Organum 1533 Birthday Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher 1101 Death Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64 1036 Birthday Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher
