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