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1996 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71

1996 Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82

1995 [William] Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies

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

1945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist, Fireflies

1944 Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist, Happy Schizo

1937 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66

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

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 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist

1871 Paul Valery, France, poet/essayist/critic, La Jeune

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

1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies

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

1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason

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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