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

Duncan Campbell Scott is born

James Baldwin is born

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Isabel Allende is born

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Wallace Stevens dies

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Oliver La Farge dies

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Raymond Carver dies

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Norman MacLean dies

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William S. Burroughs dies

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