Literary Facts - January 17
1600: Pedro Calderón de la Barca is born. (Explore: Fortune Mends, It Is Worse than It Was, Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
1673: Molière dies. (Explore: Molière, The School for Husbands, Don Juan)
1706: Benjamin Franklin is born. (Explore: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack)
1860: Anton Chekhov is born. (Explore: The Seagull, Anton Chekhov, Rothschild's Fiddle)
1902: The Times Literary Supplement, a weekly review of literature and scholarship, begins publication in London
1914: William Stafford is born. (Explore: William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True, An Oregon Message)
1925: Robert Cormier is born. (Explore: The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Robert Cormier, Beyond the Chocolate War)
2001: Gregory Corso dies. (Explore: Gregory Corso, Marriage, Bomb)
2002: Camilo José Cela dies. (Explore: The Family of Pascual Duarte, The Hive, Camilo José Cela)