Portal:Literature/Adil archive/May/23
- 1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer born
- 1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer born
- 1898 - Scott O'Dell, American author born
- 1906 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer died
- 1910 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author born
- 1921 - James Blish, American author born