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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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