The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
October 21 Literary Facts
Edmund Waller dies
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born
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Alphonse de Lamartine is born
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The British fleet under Horatio Nelson defeats French naval forces at the Battle of Trafalgar
Thomas Edison invents the electric light bulb
Ursula K. Le Guin is born
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Carrie Fisher is born
Jack Kerouac dies
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Donald Goines dies