Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/1
- 1560 - Joachim Du Bellay, French poet died
- 1648 - Elkanah Settle, English writer born
- 1704 - Soame Jenyns, English writer born
- 1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet born
- 1767 - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist born
- 1818 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published.
- 1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist born
- 1879 - E. M. Forster, English novelist born
- 1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist born
- 1928 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer born
- 1933 - Joe Orton, English writer born
- 1937 - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author born
- 1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet born