Portal:Literature/Adil archive/April/18
- 1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet died
- 1864 - Richard Harding Davis, American author born
- 1874 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author born
- 1875 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer born
- 1915 - Joy Gresham, American writer born
- 1947 - Kathy Acker, American author born
- 1964 - Ben Hecht, American writer died