Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/18
- 1133 - Hildebert, French writer died
- 1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer died
- 1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer died
- 1835 - Lyman Abbott, American author born
- 1870 - Saki, British writer born
- 1913 - Alfred Bester, American author born
- 1939 - Michael Moorcock, British author born
- 1985 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet died