2013 Event Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book 2012 Event Women-only literary prizes are launched by Canada and Australia; the prize, formerly known as the Orange continues its search for a sponsor 2005 Death Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England 1997 Death Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89 1996 Death Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87 1996 Death Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1996 Death Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65 1995 Death Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95 1995 Death Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86 1995 Death David Richard Holloway, literary Editor, dies at 71 1995 Death Herta Ryder, literary agent, dies at 77 1995 Death Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74 1994 Death Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77 1994 Death William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34 1994 Death Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81 1993 Death Kenneth Burke, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University, dies of heart failure at his home in Andover, New Jersey 1991 Death H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke 1987 Death Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74 1987 Death Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69 1982 Death Maurice Gilliams, Flemish literary (Sources of Insomnia), dies at 82 1982 Death Joris Noe, Flemish literary, dies at 68 1972 Death Gunter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65 1972 Death Mark A Van Doren, U.S. literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78 1972 Death Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53 1971 Death Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88 1971 Death Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary/art historian, dies at 70 1968 Death Anton van Duinkerken, Willem J M A Asselbergs, literary, dies 1965 Death Anthonie Donker, Dutch, literary, dies at 63 1962 Birthday David Foster Wallace, born in New York, author, novelist, short story and literary fiction writer 1960 Birthday William John Readings, literary theorist 1958 Death Alois Blommaert, Flemish literary (De Heikeuters), dies at 45 1956 Death Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69 1956 Death Renee Erdos, Hungarian literary (Leanyalmok [Dream Girl]), dies 1955 Death Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86 1950 Death Carl Clinton Van Doren, U.S. literary (The Nation), dies at 64 1946 Death Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Abelard and Heloise), dies at 67 1944 Death Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79 1944 Birthday Sherley Anne Williams, U.S. literary, Dessa Rose 1944 Death Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75 1943 Birthday Franz Hohler, born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, writer, cabaret performer, winner, Kaseel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, 2002 1941 Death Milhaly Babits, Hungarians literary (Golyakalifa), dies at 57 1936 Birthday Graham Carleton Greene, literary agent 1935 Death Frans, MJ Francois, Erens, literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78 1933 Death John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70 1932 Birthday John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1931 Birthday Richard Rorty, born in New York City, philosopher, focused on philosophy of language, of mind, politics, literary theory 1931 Death Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages 1931 Birthday Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell 1930 Birthday Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1929 Birthday Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary, Leopold the Buch 1929 Birthday Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert 1925 Death Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44 1924 Birthday Jose Donoso, born in Chile, writer, born Jose Donoso Yanez, part of Latin American literary boom, Magical Realism literary movement, wrote Coronacion, El lugar sin limites (The Place Without Limits) 1924 Birthday David Richard Holloway, literary Editor 1923 Birthday Phyllis Jenkins, literary and theatrical agent community activist 1923 Birthday Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch literary 1923 Birthday Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary, River Basin 1922 Birthday Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association 1921 Death Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (A het), dies at 78 1920 Birthday Elaine Greene, literary Agent 1919 Birthday Anne S Wadman, Frisian literary, Fioele and faem, Smearlappen 1919 Birthday Luis H P Daal, Antillean literary 1919 Birthday Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant 1919 Birthday Max Dendermonde, Henk Hazelhoff, Dutch literary 1919 Birthday Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary 1918 Birthday Richard Ellmann, U.S., literary scholar and writer, Oscar Wilde 1917 Birthday Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary 1917 Birthday Herta Ryder, literary agent 1917 Birthday Dolf Verspoor, literary/interpreter, M Nijhoff Prize 1958 1917 Birthday A Marja, ATE Mooy, Dutch literary, Shreds on the River 1916 Birthday Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books 1915 Birthday Roland Barthes, French literary critic, L'Empire des Signer 1914 Birthday Albert Westerlinck, Jose J M Aerts, Flemish literary 1913 Birthday Joris Noe, Flemish literary 1913 Birthday Graham Watson, literary agent 1912 Birthday Alois Blommaert, Flemish literary, Difficult Beginning 1912 Birthday Harry Levin, literary Scholar 1912 Birthday Adriaan Morrien, Dutch literary, An Untidy Man 1912 Birthday Franz Weyergans, Belgian literary, Les Gens Heureux 1912 Birthday Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement 1909 Birthday Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet, Lorca 1909 Birthday Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman 1909 Birthday Miron Grindea, literary editor 1907 Birthday Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary, Poet in Love 1907 Birthday Leon Edel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, wrote on James Joyce, taught literature at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia University 1907 Birthday Gunter Eich, German literary, Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo 1906 Death Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85 1905 Birthday Charles de Trooz, Belgian literary, Le Magister et Ses Maatres 1903 Birthday Anton van Duinkerken, Willem JMA Asselbergs, literary 1902 Birthday Anthonie Donker, Dutch literary 1902 Birthday Max Kommerell, German literary/author, Die Gefangenen 1900 Birthday Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author, Myth Makers 1900 Birthday Henri Bruning, Dutch literary 1899 Birthday Harold Guinzburg, publisher, founder of Literary Guild 1899 Birthday Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary, 1 Man Without Character 1897 Birthday Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University 1897 Birthday Peter Veres, literary/Hungarian minister of defense 1896 Birthday Mario Praz, Italian literary, La carne, la morte, e il diavolo 1896 Birthday Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary and leader, Young Frisian Movement 1895 Birthday Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic, Culture and Environment 1893 Birthday Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic 1893 Birthday Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary, Festival 1887 Birthday Dirk Koster, literary, New Noises 1886 Birthday Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary, Chateaubriand 1886 Birthday Van Wyck Brooks, New Jersey, literary historian and writer, Ordeal of Mark Twain 1885 Birthday Carl Clinton Van Doren, U.S. literary, 9th Wave 1883 Birthday Milhaly Babits, Hungarian literary, Laodameia 1882 Birthday Max Mell, Austria officer/literary, Donauweibchen 1882 Birthday Pierre H Ritter, Jr., Dutch literary/head, Utrecht Newspaper 1879 Birthday Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary, Grimaces 1878 Birthday Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary, Hadewych 1876 Death Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 1873 Birthday Jan Kalf, literary/art historian, Preservation of museums 1873 Death Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, Abraham van Luik, literary, dies 1869 Birthday Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette 1869 Birthday Henry graaf Carton de Wiart, Belgian literary/premier, 1920-21 1867 Birthday Benjamin A. Jesurun, Antillian literary 1865 Birthday Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend' 1862 Birthday John M Acket, Dutch literary, Grammatic Conceptions 1857 Birthday French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary, Pursue Years 1850 Death Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies 1848 Birthday Pieter Louis Tak, literary, The Chronicle 1844 Death Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49 1843 Birthday Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary, Zsido Dalok 1841 Death Sandor Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Boldog Szerelem), dies at 69 1834 Death Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24 1833 Death Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, historian/literary, dies at 58 1831 Death Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 1830 Death Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (Irene, Mohacs), dies at 44 1830 Death Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69 1828 Death Mihaly Fazekar, Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies 1826 Birthday Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary, Country of Rubens 1820 Birthday Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic 1819 Birthday Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliography/literary 1818 Birthday Johannes van Vloten, Dutch literary/theologist 1811 Birthday Vissarion Belinsky, born in Sveaborg, Finland, Russian author, Literary Review 1810 Birthday Aernout Drost, Dutch literary, Hermingard van de Eikenterpen 1807 Death August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 1806 Event 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue 1804 Death Agatha "Aagje" Blanket, literary (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 62 1803 Death Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79 1795 Death Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian literary, dies at 80 1794 Event John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society 1792 Birthday Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane 1788 Birthday Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary, A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon 1766 Event Society of the Dutch Literary forms 1760 Birthday Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary, Om sku skuespillerkunsten 1742 Birthday Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet 1729 Birthday Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore 1728 Death Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64 1723 Birthday Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary 1714 Birthday Rainieri De Calzabigi, Italian's literary, 1st European Lottery 1674 Death Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies 1669 Death Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82 1663 Birthday Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic, Arcadia 1609 Birthday Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish literary, Djihannuma 1608 Birthday Thomas Fuller, England, literary, History of the Holy War 1602 Birthday John Lightfoot, English theologist and literary, Horae Hebraicae
