Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/15
- 1622 - Molière, French playwright born
- 1674 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer born
- 1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer born
- 1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer born
- 1850 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet born
- 1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer born
- 1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author born
- 1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer born
- 1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet born
- 1923 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet born
- 1933 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author born
- 1955 - Nigel Benson, British author born
- 2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author died
- 2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author died