Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/9
- 1292 - Sheikh Saadi, Persian Sufi poet died
- 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet died
- 1608 - John Milton, English poet born
- 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer died
- 1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer died
- 1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet born
- 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author born
- 1901 - Ödön von Horváthh, Hungarian-born writer born
- 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer born
- 1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr, American author born
- 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer born
- 1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher died
- 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic died
- 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author died
- 2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author died