Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/17
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- 1711 - Jupiter Hammon, American writer born
- 1719 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer born
- 1813 - Georg Büchner, German playwright born
- 1898 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer born
- 1903 - Nathanael West, American writer born
- 1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright born
- 1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian novelist born
- 1930 - Jimmy Breslin, American writer born
- 1931 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer born
- 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer died
- 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer died
- 1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author died
- 2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer died
