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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> | |
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<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> | |
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<h2>April</h2> | |
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<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> | |
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<h2>June</h2> | |
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<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> | |
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<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> | |
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<h2>August</h2> | |
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<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> | |
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<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> | |
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<h2>October</h2> | |
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<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> | |
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<h2>November</h2> | |
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<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> | |
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<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> | |
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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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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"!
With all of our (Alexandre) Dumas père, surely he should be on here. :) Born 24 July 1802, died 5 December 1870.