1888 Birthday Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol 1852 Death Nikolai Gogol, writer, dies at 43 1852 Death Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies 1836 Event Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor," premieres in St. Petersburg 1809 Birthday Nikolai Gogol, writer 1809 Birthday Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism, Dead Souls
