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

March 16 Literary Facts

1839

René François Armand Prudhomme (Sully Prudhomme) is born

1892

César Vallejo is born

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1906

Francisco (de Paula y Garcia Duarte) Ayala is born

1940

Selma Lagerlöf dies

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1952

Alice Hoffman is born

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1995

Albert Hackett dies