Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/17
- 1686 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian born
- 1820 - Anne Brontë, British author born
- 1871 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer born
- 1899 - Nevil Shute, English author born
- 1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker born
- 1914 - William Stafford, American poet and essayist born
- 1925 - Robert Cormier, American author born
- 1945 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet born
- 1964 - T. H. White, English author died
- 1967 - Paul Summers, English poet born
- 1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer born
- 2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet died
- 2002 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer died