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• 1530 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet died
• 1667 - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author born
• 1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer born
• 1906 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist born
• 1920 - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet born
• 1941 - Penelope Delta, Greek author died
• 1995 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer died