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

January 16 Literary Facts

Edmund Spenser dies

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Robert W. Service is born

Anthony Hecht is born

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William Kennedy is born

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Estela Portillo Trambley is born

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Robert Lipsyte is born

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Auberon Waugh dies

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