Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/11
- 1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet died
- 1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet died
- 1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer died
- 1890 - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author born
- 1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer born
- 1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer died
- 1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author born
- 1970 - Richmal Crompton, British author died
- 1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet died
- 1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist died
- 1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer died