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

St. Thomas Aquinas dies

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E. Pauline Johnson dies

Kobo Abe is born

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Wyndham Lewis dies

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Bret Easton Ellis is born

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Stevie Smith dies

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