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| <h1>SE Literary Calendar</h1> | |
| <p>This list shows author’s | |
| <span class="b">birthdays</span>, | |
| <span class="d">deaths</span>, and | |
| <span class="l">important literary dates</span>; | |
| a useful literary calendar.</p> | |
| <h2>January</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>03 January 1892</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">J. R. R. Tolkien’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>04 January 1965</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">T. S. Eliot’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>08 January 1824</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Wilkie Collins’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>12 January 1976</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Agatha Christie’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>14 January 1898</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Lewis Carroll’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>18 January 1936</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Rudyard Kipling’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>19 January 1809</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>21 January 1950</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">George Orwell’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>27 January 1832</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Lewis Carroll’s (un-un) birthday</dd> | |
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| <h2>February</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>02 February 1882</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">James Joyce’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>07 February 1812</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Charles Dickens’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>08 February 1828</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Jules Verne’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>09 February 1881</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Fyodor Dostoyevsky death</dd> | |
| <dt>14 February 1975</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">P. G. Wodehouse died</dd> | |
| <dt>26 February 1802</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Victor Hugo’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>28 February 1916</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Henry James’s death</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>March</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>19 March 1950</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Edgar Rice Burroughs’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>21 March 0000</dt> | |
| <dd class="l">annual <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/world-poetry-day">World Poetry Day</a></dd> | |
| <dt>24 March 1905</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Jules Verne’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>31 March 1855</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Charlotte Brontë’s death</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>April</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>15 April 1843</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Henry James’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>21 April 1816</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Charlotte Brontë’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>23 April</dt> | |
| <dd class="b"><b>1564</b> · William Shakespeare’s birthday (assumed)</dd> | |
| <dd class="d"><b>1616</b> · William Shakespeare’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>23 April 1815</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Anthony Trollope’s birthday</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>May</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>15 May 1886</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Emily Dickinson’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>22 May 1859</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>29 May 1874</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">G. K. Chesterton’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>31 May 1819</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Walt Whitman’s birthday</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>June</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>09 June 1870</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Charles Dickens’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>13 June 1893</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Dorothy L. Sayers’s birth</dd> | |
| <dt>14 June 1936</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">G. K. Chesterton’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>16 June 1904</dt> | |
| <dd class="l">annual Bloomsday = James Joyce’s Ulysses celebrated</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>July</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>02 July 1961</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Ernest Hemingway’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>06 July 1962</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">William Faulkner’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>07 July 1930</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Arthur Conan Doyle’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>18 July 1817</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Jane Austen’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>21 July 1899</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Ernest Hemingway’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>28 July 1866</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Beatrix Potter’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>30 July 1818</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Emily Brontë’s birthday</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>August</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>01 August 1819</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Herman Melville’s birth</dd> | |
| <dt>03 August 1924</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Joseph Conrad’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>09 August 0000</dt> | |
| <dd class="l">annual <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/fun/book-lovers-day">Book Lover’s Day</a></dd> | |
| <dt>13 August 1946</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">H. G. Wells’s death</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>September</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>01 September 1875</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Edgar Rice Burroughs’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>02 September 1973</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">J. R. R. Tolkien died</dd> | |
| <dt>09 September 1828</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Leo Tolstoy’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>14 September 1851</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">James Fenimore Cooper died</dd> | |
| <dt>15 September</dt> | |
| <dd class="b"><b>1789</b> · James Fenimore Cooper’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dd class="b"><b>1890</b> · Agatha Christie’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>18 September 1905</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">George MacDonald died</dd> | |
| <dt>21 September 1866</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">H. G. Wells’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>23 September 1889</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Wilkie Collin’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>24 September 1896</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>25 September 1897</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">William Faulkner’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>26 September 1888</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">T. S. Eliot’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>28 September 1891</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Herman Melville’s death</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>October</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>07 October 1849</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Edgar Allan Poe’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>15 October 1881</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">P. G. Wodehouse born</dd> | |
| <dt>16 October 1854</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Oscar Wilde’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>27 October 1914</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Dylan Thomas’s birthday</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>November</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>08 November 1847</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Bram Stoker’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>09 November 1953</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Dylan Thomas’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>11 November 1821</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>13 November 1850</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>20 November 1910</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Leo Tolstoy’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>22 November 1819</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">George Eliot’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>22 November 1963</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">C. S. Lewis’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>29 November 1898</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">C. S. Lewis’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>30 November 1835</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Mark Twain’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>30 November 1900</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Oscar Wilde’s death</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
| <h2>December</h2> | |
| <dl> | |
| <dt>03 December</dt> | |
| <dd class="b"><b>1857</b> · Joseph Conrad’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dd class="d"><b>1894</b> · Robert Louis Stevenson’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>06 December 1882</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Anthony Trollope’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>10 December 1824</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">George MacDonalds’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>16 December 1775</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Jane Austen’s birthday</dd> | |
| <dt>17 December 1957</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Dorothy L. Sayers’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>19 December 1848</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">Emily Brontë’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>21 December 1940</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>22 December 1880</dt> | |
| <dd class="d">George Eliot’s death</dd> | |
| <dt>30 December 1865</dt> | |
| <dd class="b">Rudyard Kipling’s birthday</dd> | |
| </dl> | |
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| <p class="info"> | |
| HT: <a href="https://booklovergifts.com/blogs/front-page/45900996-literary-calendar-list-of-author-birthdays-deaths-important-literary-dates">Book Lover Gifts</a><br/> | |
| <i>Last updated</i>: 5 September 2024 | <a href="https://gist.github.com/dajare/0ddc5277955ed28479a98dcfc14bc5ed">Original Gist</a> | |
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Great job, thanks! Besides dates of birth and death, a possible addition could be Nobel Prize-related dates (announcement or ceremony), such as the 1905 one which Henryk Sienkiewicz received for Quo Vadis.
Historical dates are another possibility, e.g., the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition left Plymouth on 8 August 1914. This expedition is described in South! by Ernest Shackleton.
@SzymonSzott - thanks for those excellent suggestions. I'll add the ones you mention, and do little more digging, especially on the Nobel Prize side. If you think of other "historical dates", do leave another comment here!
Some possible historical dates:
- Terra Nova Expedition - start: 15 June 1910, South Pole: 17 January 1912; described in The Worst Journey in the World
- Many possible dates related to Theodore Roosevelt, e.g., US president since September 14, 1901.
- Fall of the Roman Empire on September 4, 476 (emperor Romulus Augustulus abdicates).
- Any date related to the US Civil War (e.g., April 12, 1861) is related to the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce.
- Dates related to Charles Darwin, e.g., the Beagle set sail on 27 December 1831.
There are also publication dates, e.g., Moby Dick was published on October 18, 1851 (United Kingdom) and on November 14, 1851 (U.S.)
With all of our (Alexandre) Dumas père, surely he should be on here. :) Born 24 July 1802, died 5 December 1870.
Other authors we have a number of books from:
Baroness Orzcy (Scarlet Pimpernel), 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947
Honoré de Balzac (The Human Comedy), 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850
Maurice Leblanc (Lupin), 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941
Theodore Dreiser, August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945
Thomas Hardy, 2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928
Virginia Woolf, 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941
George Bernard Shaw, 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950
Edith Wharton, January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937
Henry David Thoreau, July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Ann of Green Gables), November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942
These are significant because we have their entire short story collections and they're pretty well-known:
Anton Checkhov, 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904
O. Henry, September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910
Guy de Maupassant, 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893
@vr8hub Thanks for these, Vince - I'll get around to adding them to the calendar ... "soon"!
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