Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/9
- 1892 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer born
- 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet born
- 1893 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer born
- 1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author born
- 1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic died
- 1967 - André Maurois, French author died
- 1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author died