Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/6
- 1658 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer died
- 1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist died
- 1875 - Evelyn Underhill, British poet born
- 1882 - Anthony Trollope, British author died
- 1886 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet born
- 1890 - Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer born
- 1892 - Sir Osbert Sitwell, British author born
- 1919 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic born
- 1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author died
- 1942 - Peter Handke, Austrian writer born