Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/28

• 1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer died
• 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer born
• 1814 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer born
• 1828 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (War and Peace and Anna Karenina) born
• 1906 - John Betjeman, English poet born
• 1913 - Robertson Davies, Canadian writer born
• 1916 - Jack Vance, American author born
• 1924 - Janet Frame, New Zealand author born
• 1993 - William Stafford, American writer died