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

Cyril Tourneur dies

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Alphonse de Lamartine dies

Explore: Alphonse de Lamartine, Poetical Meditations

Dee Brown is born

Explore: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

Stephen Spender is born

Explore: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum, Stephen Spender, I think continually of those who were truly great, The Landscape near an Aerodrome, Provide a critical analysis of "The Express" by Stephen Spender.

Ketti Frings is born

Henry James dies

Explore: The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, Daisy Miller, Henry James, Thematic and Structural Purposes of Washington Square by Henry James

Maxwell Anderson dies

Explore: Both Your Houses, Winterset, Anne of the Thousand Days, Maxwell Anderson