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

May 20 Literary Facts

Honoré de Balzac is born

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John Clare dies

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Sigrid Undset is born

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Margery Allingham is born

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Charles Alan Reich is born

Verner von Heidenstam dies

John Gould Fletcher dies

Max Beerbohm dies

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