Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/24
- 1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet born
- 1670 - William Congreve, English playwright born
- 1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer born
- 1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright born
- 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer born
- 1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer born
- 1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer born
- 1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer born
- 1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet born
- 1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author died
- 2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer died