Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/26
- 1716 - Thomas Gray, English writer born
- 1716 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet born
- 1723 - Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German writer born
- 1731 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer died
- 1819 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist born
- 1891 - Henry Miller, American writer born
- 1904 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer born