Literary Facts - April 2
742: Charlemagne is born. (Explore: Charlemagne)
1550: Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, is born
1805: Hans Christian Andersen is born. (Explore: Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid)
1840: Emile Zola is born. (Explore: Émile Zola, Earth, Germinal)
1914: Paul Heyse dies. (Explore: Paul Heyse)
1963: Richard M. Weaver dies
