Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/17

• 1686 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian born
• 1820 - Anne Brontë, British author born
• 1871 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer born
• 1899 - Nevil Shute, English author born
• 1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker born
• 1914 - William Stafford, American poet and essayist born
• 1925 - Robert Cormier, American author born
• 1945 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet born
• 1964 - T. H. White, English author died
• 1967 - Paul Summers, English poet born
• 1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer born
• 2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet died
• 2002 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer died