Portal:Literature/Adil archive/February/5
- 1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer born
- 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author born
- 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet born
- 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author born
- 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author born
- 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet died
- 1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet died