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

Petrarch dies

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Margaret Fuller dies

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Vladimir Mayakovsky is born

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Ernest Buckler is born

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Stephen Coonts is born

Okot p’Bitek dies

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