Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/1
- 1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author died
- 1760 - William Thomas Beckford, English writer born
- 1791 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer born
- 1842 - Charles Cros, French poet born
- 1885 - Louis Untermeyer, American author born
- 1899 - Ernest Haycox, American writer born
- 1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and writer born
- 1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author born
- 1953 - John Hegley, British poet born
- 1968 - Jon Guenther, American author born
- 1985 - E. B. White, American author died
- 1988 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer died