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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

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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