Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/13
- 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet died
- 1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet born
- 1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet died
- 1602 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
- 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American author born
- 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American writer born
- 1903 - Irena Jurgielewiczowa, Polish writer and teacher born
- 1926 - Michael Bond, British writer born
- 1940 - Edmund White, American author born
- 1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer died
- 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer born
- 1957 - Lorrie Moore, American writer born
- 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet died