Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/23

• 1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
• 1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright died
• 1597 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet born
• 1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet died
• 1646 - François Maynard, French poet died
• 1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet born
• 1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic born
• 1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet born
• 1823 - The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel.
• 1902 - Norman Maclean, American author born
• 1926 - Robert Bly, American poet born
• 1963 - Donna Tartt, American author born