Died #OnThisDay (2000): A.E. van Vogt, Origins of the 21st Century #TDIH @HistoryHop
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Date | Event |
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1036-12-19 |
Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher |
1533-02-28 |
Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher |
1561-01-22 |
Francis Bacon, Strand, London, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum), (d. 1626) |
1672-05-01 |
Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator) |
1689-05-15 |
Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric (baptism 26 May) |
1694-11-21 |
Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d. 1778) |
1737-01-29 |
Thomas Paine, Thetford Great Britain, English/American political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason) |
1775-02-10 |
Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist |
1778-04-10 |
William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic |
1795-12-04 |
Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution) |
1803-05-25 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston Massachusetts, American essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn) |
1849-11-05 |
Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties |
1853-01-28 |
Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician |
1864-12-12 |
Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937) |
1865-10-18 |
Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946) |
1870-10-16 |
Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist |
1871-03-27 |
Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas |
1874-02-01 |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist |
1879-02-09 |
Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist |
1879-04-14 |
James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads) |
1880-09-16 |
Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman) |
1881-11-28 |
Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity) |
1882-02-28 |
Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher |
1882-09-28 |
Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Barcelona Spain, essayist/philosopher |
1883-01-04 |
Max Eastman, American critic/essayist and editor of The Masses (d. 1969) |
1885-08-18 |
Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964) |
1892-05-07 |
Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB) |
1893-01-03 |
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles) |
1900-07-20 |
Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life) |
1902-01-26 |
Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens) |
1908-10-22 |
John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003) |
1913-08-26 |
Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist |
1913-11-25 |
Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993) |
1914-03-25 |
Marthe Robert, essayist/translator |
1915-01-31 |
Thomas Merton, France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt) |
1917-02-25 |
Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange) |
1920-09-01 |
Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller) |
1923-08-30 |
Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969) |
1923-10-24 |
Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin) |
1924-05-15 |
Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist |
1926-01-20 |
Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist |
1928-07-04 |
Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic |
1928-08-26 |
Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist |
1930-07-25 |
Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990) |
1932-12-21 |
Edward Hoagland, American essayist |
1934-01-23 |
Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003) |
1935-08-29 |
Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician |
1944-03-30 |
Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo) |
1945-02-25 |
Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies) |
1948-08-23 |
Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist |
1948-10-07 |
Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist |
1953-09-16 |
Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist |
1956-12-26 |
David Sedaris, American essayist |
1960-03-13 |
Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist |
Date | Event |
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1997-08-28 |
British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West |
Date | Event |
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1101-07-28 |
Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64 |
1824-05-04 |
Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754) |
1830-09-18 |
William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies |
1834-12-27 |
Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775) |
1859-12-28 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies |
1881-02-05 |
Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 |
1887-08-14 |
Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies |
1914-09-05 |
Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873) |
1917-11-03 |
Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846) |
1936-02-09 |
Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57 |
1937-03-09 |
Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864) |
1937-03-23 |
Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66 |
1940-01-01 |
Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865) |
1952-02-09 |
Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies |
1954-09-25 |
Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71 |
1956-01-29 |
H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, US essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75 |
1958-06-28 |
Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77 |
1964-10-19 |
Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (b. 1885) |
1968-06-14 |
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 |
1969-03-25 |
Max Eastman, American critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86 |
1982-04-25 |
Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies |
1989-08-30 |
Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922) |
1992-12-12 |
Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901) |
1995-12-02 |
[William] Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies |
1996-04-12 |
Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82 |
1996-04-29 |
Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71 |
2001-02-01 |
André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929) |
2007-08-28 |
Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935) |
2008-04-20 |
Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923) |
2008-09-12 |
David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962) |
2012-03-27 |
Adrienne Rich, American feminist poet/essayist, dies from complications of rheumatoid arthritis at 82 |