Portal:Literature/Adil archive/July/20
- 1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet born
- 1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet died
- 1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer born
- 1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer born
- 2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer died