Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/21
- 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer died
- 1859 - Gustave Kahn, French poet born
- 1872 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author born
- 1892 - Rebecca West, American writer born
- 1905 - Anthony Powell, British author born
- 1917 - Heinrich Böll, German writer born
- 1932 - Edward Hoagland, American author born
- 1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer died
- 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer died
- 1964 - Carl van Vechten, American writer and photographer died
- 1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic died