| 23rd April 1564 | William Shakespeare born
The Arnold Bennett of the 16th Century but with fewer awards.
For more information see :http://www.shakespeare.com/
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| 9th December 1608 | John Milton born
17th century english poet
For more information see :http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/
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| 21st November 1694 | Voltaire born
French 17th century writer and philospher
For more information see :http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/voltaire.htm
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| 16th October 1758 | Noah Webster born
Compiler of what is considered America's first dictionary which is like an English dictionary but with spelling mistakes
For more information see :http://www.lexrex.com/bios/nwebster.htm
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| 25th January 1759 | Robert Burns born
Famous scotish bard who's poetry can drive hardened highlanders misty eyed whilst remaining inpenetrable to the English although he did pen a handy song for New Years that has been exported around the world.
For more information see :http://www.rabbie-burns.com/index.cfm
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| 21st October 1772 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge born
18th century English poet.
For more information see :http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/
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| 16th December 1775 | Jane Austen born
The English author famous for works such as Pride and Prejudice without whom TV Period dramas would be lost.
For more information see :http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html
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| 15th July 1779 | Clement Clarke Moore born
Author of the poem 'A visit from St Nick' - the one that starts T'was the night before Christmas.
For more information see :http://www.nyise.org/moore/
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| 3rd April 1783 | Washington Irving born
American author best known for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"
For more information see :http://www.online-literature.com/irving/
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| 31st October 1795 | John Keats born
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| 30th August 1797 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley born
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| 26th February 1802 | Victor Hugo born
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| 2nd April 1805 | Hans Christian Andersen born
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| 6th March 1806 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning born
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| 27th February 1807 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born
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| 19th January 1809 | Edgar Allan Poe born
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| 12th February 1809 | Charles Darwin born
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| 7th February 1812 | Charles Dickens born
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| 7th May 1812 | Robert Browning born
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| 24th April 1815 | Anthony Trollope born
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| 21st April 1816 | Charlotte Bronte born
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| 30th July 1818 | Emily Bronte born
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| 31st May 1819 | Walt Whitman born
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| 17th January 1820 | Anne Bronte born
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| 23rd February 1821 | Poet John Keats dies
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| 21st April 1828 | The American Dictionary of the English Language
The dictionary still published as Websters today is still full of spelling mistakes (there is a U in colour)!
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| 8th July 1828 | Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns
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| 28th August 1828 | Leo Tolstoy born
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| 27th January 1832 | Lewis Carroll born
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| 21st September 1832 | Writer Sir Walter Scott dies
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| 25th July 1834 | Poet Samual Coleridge dies
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| 30th November 1835 | Mark Twain born
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| 15th April 1843 | Henry James born
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| 7th October 1849 | Author Edgar Allan Poe dies
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| 13th November 1850 | Robert Louis Stevenson born
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| 16th October 1854 | Oscar Wilde born
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| 31st March 1855 | Novelist Charlotte Bronte dies
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| 26th July 1856 | George Bernard Shaw born
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| 3rd December 1857 | Joseph Conrad born
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| 22nd May 1859 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born
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| 13th June 1865 | William Butler Yeats born
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| 30th December 1865 | Rudyard Kipling born
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| 28th July 1866 | Beatrix Potter born
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| 21st September 1866 | H.G. Wells born
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| 16th April 1867 | Wilbur Wright born
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| 9th June 1870 | Charles Dickens dies
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| 23rd December 1873 | Author William Makepeace Thackeray dies
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| 29th May 1874 | G.K. Chesterton born
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| 1st September 1875 | Edgar Rice Burroughs born
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| 6th January 1878 | Carl Sandburg born
U.S. Poet
For more information see :http://carl-sandburg.com/
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| 18th January 1882 | A.A. Milne born
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| 25th January 1882 | Virginia Woolf born
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| 2nd February 1882 | James Joyce born
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| 24th March 1882 | Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies
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| 27th April 1882 | Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson dies
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| 6th January 1883 | Kahlil Gibran born
Lebanese/American author
For more information see :http://leb.net/gibran/
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| 1st June 1885 | Writer Victor Hugo dies
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| 11th September 1885 | D.H. Lawrence born
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| 26th September 1888 | T.S. Eliot born
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| 12th December 1889 | Aurthor Robert Browning dies
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| 20th August 1890 | H.P. Lovecraft born
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| 15th September 1890 | Agatha Christie born
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| 26th December 1891 | Henry Miller born
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| 3rd January 1892 | J.R.R. Tolkien born
Author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, amongst others. He must be spinning in his grave for missing out on the film royalities.
For more information see :http://www.tolkien.co.uk/
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| 26th March 1892 | Writer Walt Whitman dies
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| 6th October 1892 | Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson dies
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| 25th September 1897 | William Faulkner born
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| 29th November 1898 | C.S. Lewis born
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| 21st July 1899 | Ernest Hemingway born
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| 30th November 1900 | Poet and playwrite Oscar Wilde dies
His last words are said to have been 'Either that wallpaper goes or I do'.
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| 27th February 1902 | John Steinbeck born
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| 29th September 1902 | Author Emile Zola dies
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| 25th June 1903 | George Orwell born
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| 15th July 1904 | Playwright Anton Chekhov dies
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| 24th March 1905 | Author Jules Verne dies
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| 21st June 1905 | Jean-Paul Sartre born
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| 28th May 1906 | Playright Henrik Ibsen dies
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| 28th May 1908 | Ian Fleming born
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| 20th November 1908 | Alistair Cooke born
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| 21st April 1910 | Aurthor Mark Twain dies
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| 13th March 1911 | L. Ron Hubbard born
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| 13th March 1913 | William Casey born
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| 5th February 1914 | William Burroughs born
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| 27th October 1914 | Dylan Thomas born
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| 17th October 1915 | Arthur Miller born
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| 28th February 1916 | Author Henry James dies
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| 21st May 1916 | Harold Robbins born
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| 13th September 1916 | Roald Dahl born
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| 3rd October 1916 | James Herriot born
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| 16th December 1917 | Arthur C. Clarke born
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| 29th January 1918 | John Forsythe born
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| 1st January 1919 | J.D. Salinger born
Author of Catcher in the Rye
For more information see :http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger.htm
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| 2nd January 1920 | Isaac Asimov born
For more information see :http://www.asimovonline.com/
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| 22nd August 1920 | Ray Bradbury born
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| 27th September 1920 | William Conrad born
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| 30th December 1920 | Jack Lord born
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| 31st January 1923 | Norman Mailer born
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| 17th April 1923 | Harry Reasoner born
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| 14th October 1926 | Winnie the Pooh is published
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| 14th June 1927 | Author Jerome K Jerome dies
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| 7th January 1928 | William Peter Blatty born
Author of The Exocist
For more information see :http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/William_Peter_Blatty.htm
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| 2nd March 1930 | Author D.H. Lawrence dies
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| 7th July 1930 | Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies
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| 10th October 1930 | Harold Pinter born
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| 19th October 1931 | John Le Carre born
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| 17th February 1934 | Alan Bates born
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| 28th January 1939 | Poet William Yeats dies
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| 11th February 1940 | Author John Buchan dies
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| 13th January 1941 | James Joyce dies
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| 28th March 1941 | Author Virginia Woolf commits suicide
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| 23rd October 1942 | Michael Crichton born
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| 26th March 1943 | Bob Woodward born
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| 22nd December 1943 | Beatrix Potter dies
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| 12th April 1947 | Tom Clancy born
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| 19th June 1947 | Salman Rushdie born
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| 14th August 1947 | Danielle Steel born
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| 21st September 1947 | Stephen King born
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| 5th June 1949 | Ken Follett born
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| 21st January 1950 | Death of George Orwell
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| 11th March 1952 | Douglas Adams born
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| 10th November 1960 | Lady Chatterley's lover goes on sale for the first time since it was banned in 1930
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| 31st July 1965 | J.K. Rowling born
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