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

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola dies

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Shelby Foote is born

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is born

Auberon Waugh is born

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Audre Lorde dies

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Charles Gordone dies

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