Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/12
- 1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer born
- 1774 - Robert Southey, English poet and biographer born
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and painter died
- 1831 - Helena Blavatsky, Ukrainian-born author born
- 1866 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer born
- 1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author born
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author born
- 1926 - Wallace Markfield, American novelist born
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer died
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist died