Portal:Literature/Adil archive/May/31
- 1773 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer born
- 1819 - Walt Whitman, American poet born
- 1848 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer die
- 1892 - Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian writer born
- 1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet died
- 1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet died
- 1960 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer died