Calendar of Literary Facts
August 16...
1637: Ben Jonson dies
1641: Thomas Heywood dies
1902: Wallace Thurman is born
1911: E. F. Schumacher is born
1920: Charles Bukowski is born
1929: Maurice Kenny is born
1932: Christopher Okigbo is born
1936: Grazia Deledda dies
1949: Graham Swift is born