Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/31
- 1688 - John Bunyan, English writer died
- 1811 - Theophile Gautier, French poet and novelist born
- 1867 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet died
- 1885 - DuBose Heyward, American playwright born
- 1896 - Félix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian priest and novelist born
- 1908 - William Saroyan, American author born
- 1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet hanged herself
- 1953 - György Károly, Hungarian author born
- 1967 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer died