Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/31

• 1599 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer born
• 1620 - John Evelyn, English diarist born
• 1724 - Christopher Anstey, English writer born
• 1795 - John Keats, British poet born
• 1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author died
• 1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• 1920 - Dick Francis, Welsh novelist born
• 1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology died
• 2008 - Studs Terkel, American author died