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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

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