The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

William Butler Yeats is born

Explore: William Butler Yeats, "A Dialogue of Self and Soul", Discuss how Yeats uses his own elaborate symbolic system in his poetry.

Fernando Pessoa is born

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Dorothy L. Sayers is born

Explore: Busman's Honeymoon, Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Leopoldo (Enrique Garcia) Alas (y Urena) dies

Edmund Wilson dies

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