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

Miguel de Cervantes is born

Explore: Don Quixote, Don Quixote de la Mancha, Exemplary Novels, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, What is the significance of the closing scene in Don Quixote?

William Beckford is born

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (Gaskell) is born

Explore: North and South, In Our Society at Cranford, is Captain Brown a flat or round character?

Miguel de Unamuno is born

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J. E. Casely-Hayford is born

Emile Zola dies

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Joaquim María Machado de Assis dies

Explore: Dom Casmurro, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Psychiatrist

Colin Dexter is born

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Carson McCullers dies

Explore: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers, What is the theme of "The Sojourner" by Carson McCullers?

W. H. Auden dies

Explore: Musée des Beaux Arts, The Unknown Citizen, W. H. Auden, Theme and Characterization in Auden's "The Unknown Citizen"

Shusaku Endo dies