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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