Portal:Literature/Adil archive/November/24
- 1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet born
- 1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet born
- 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher born
- 1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist born
- 1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, German poet born
- 1826 - Carlo Collodi, Italian author born
- 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author born
- 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
- 1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer died
- 1888 - Dale Carnegie, American writer born
- 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., American writer born
- 1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer born
- 1973 - John Neihardt, American writer died
- 1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet died
- 2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author died