Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/8

• 1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer born
• 1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet born
• 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist born
• 1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer born
• 1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian died
• 1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet died
• 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet died
• 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author born
• 1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer died
• 1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer born
• 1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer born
• 1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet died
• 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist died
• 1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author died