Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/4

• 1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet died
• 1555 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet born
• 1595 - Jean Chapelain, French writer born
• 1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet died
• 1612 - Samuel Butler, English poet born
• 1649 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet died
• 1679 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher died
• 1732 - John Gay, British playwright died
• 1777 - Madame de Récamier, French writer born
• 1795 - Thomas Carlyle, British writer and historian born
• 1835 - Samuel Butler, British writer born
• 1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet born
• 1903 - Cornell Woolrich, American writer born
• 1916 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer born
• 1933 - Stefan George, German poet died