Portal:Literature/Adil archive/September/16
- 1672 - Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet died
- 1883 - T. E. Hulme, English writer born
- 1888 - F. E. Sillanpää, Finnish writer born
- 1905 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet born
- 1919 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born writer born
- 1943 - James Alan McPherson, American writer born
- 1960 - Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer born
- 2007 - Robert Jordan, American writer died