Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/9
- 1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet born
- 1728 - Thomas Warton, English poet born
- 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet born
- 1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer born
- 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian poet born
- 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic born
- 1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer born
- 1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer born
- 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author born
- 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer died
- 1928 - Judith Krantz, American author born
- 1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist born
- 1931 - Algis Budrys, American author born
- 1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer born
- 1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet died
- 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer died
- 1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright died