- 1842 - Sidney Lanier, American writer born
- 1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet died
- 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer born
- 1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet born
- 1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer born
- 1899 - Indra Bahadur Rai, Nepali writer born