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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>
</dl>
<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>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>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>
<hr/>
<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>: 27 June 2024
</p>
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