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

Thomas Otway dies

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James Branch Cabell is born

Vladimir Mayakovsky dies

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Mark Strand is born

Explore: Eating Poetry, The Continuous Life, Mark Strand, Dark Harbor, Analysis of the Style and Diction in Mark Strand's "Eating Poetry"

Rachel Carson dies

Explore: Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Analysis of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring": Purpose, Impact, and Scientific Framework

F. R. Leavis dies

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Simone de Beauvoir dies

Explore: Belles Images, Les, A Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, What does Simone de Beauvoir claim about the proletarian class and women in The Second Sex?