Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/18
- 1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer born
- 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer born
- 1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet died
- 1840 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet born
- 1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer born
- 1873 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author died
- 1882 - A. A. Milne, English author born
- 1886 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator born
- 1914 - Arno Schmidt, German author born
- 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author born
- 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer died
- 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer died
- 1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer died
- 1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer died
- 2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet died