Portal:Literature/Adil archive/November/8
- 1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet born
- 1674 - John Milton, English poet died
- 1710 - Sarah Fielding, English writer born
- 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist born
- 1869 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet born
- 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author born
- 1904 - Cedric Belfrage, English writer born
- 1908 - Martha Gellhorn, American writer and journalist born
- 1919 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author born
- 1953 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer died
- 1953 - John van Melle, South African author died
- 1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author of Japanese origin is born
- 2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist died