Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/6
- 1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer died
- 1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer born
- 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet born
- 1868 - Paul Claudel, French poet born
- 1889 - John Middleton Murry, English poet born
- 1934 - Piers Anthony, English writer born