Writers in History (Part 3)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 201 - 300 of 2,942

• 1751-01-12 Jacob M R Lenz, writer (Das Leidende Weib)
• 1752-09-18 Johann Anton Sulzer, Swiss writer and composer, born in Rheinfelden, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1828)
• 1753-02-07 Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa)
• 1753-04-01 Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
• 1754-07-11 Thomas Bowdler, British physician and writer (Family Shakespeare), born in Ashley, Somerset, England (d. 1825)
• 1754-11-26 Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, born in Nassenhuben (Mokry Dwór), Royal Prussia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1794)
• 1756-03-03 William Godwin, philosopher/political writer (Caleb Williams)
• 1758-08-09 Bruno Dalberg [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], Dutch writer and lawyer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1818)
• 1758-09-01 Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant

• 1759-05-06 François Andrieux, French playwright, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1833)
• 1760-05-10 Johann Peter Hebel, German writer (Allemannische Gedichte), born in Basel (d. 1826)
• 1760-10-01 William Beckford, British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek), born in Soho Square, London (d. 1844)
• 1761-05-13 Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
• 1761-07-25 Charlotte von Kalb, German writer, born in Saal an der Saale, Electorate of Bavaria (d. 1843)
• 1762-01-23 Christian A Vulpius, German novelist & dramatist (Rinaldo Rinaldini), born in Weimar, Germany (d. 1827)
• 1762-10-30 André Chénier, French poet killed during French Revolution, born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1794)
• 1763-01-29 Johann Gottfried Seume, German writer (Spaziergang nach Syrakus), born in Poserna, Saxony-Anhalt, (d. 1810)
• 1763-03-21 Jean Paul, German romantic writer (Titan), born in Wunsiedel, Franconia (d. 1825)
• 1764-02-15 Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker)
• 1766-01-25 Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern, German statesman & political writer, born in Kleinniedesheim, Germany (d. 1852)
• 1766-12-01 Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
• 1767-08-25 Antoine Louis Léon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer, born in Decize, France (d. 1794)
• 1767-10-23 H Benjamin Constant [de Rebeque], French politician/writer
• 1768-11-30 Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist (creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry), born in Żnin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1838)
• 1769-02-04 Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer
• 1769-08-30 Bonifacio Asioli, Italian composer and music writer, born in Correggio, Italy (d. 1832)
• 1770-03-20 Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
• 1770-03-28 Sophie Mereau, German writer, born in Altenburg, Germany (d. 1806)
• 1771-09-17 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1816)
• 1772-01-04 Paul-Louis Courier, (de Mere), French writer/interpreter
• 1772-03-10 Friedrich von Schlegel, German romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
• 1772-05-02 Novalis [Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg], German romantic writer ('Heinrich von Ofterdingen), born in Oberwiederstedt, Saxony (d. 1801)
• 1773-04-09 Étienne Aignan, French writer, born in Beaugency, France (d. 1824
• 1773-05-31 Ludwig Tieck, German writer, born in Berlin (d. 1853)
• 1773-07-13 Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art), born in Berlin (d. 1798)
• 1774-08-12 Robert Southey, English writer (The Story of the Three Bears), Poet Laureate (1813-43) and biographer (Nelson), born in Bristol, England (d. 1843)
• 1774-10-18 Adolf Muller, German dramatist and critic, born near Weissenfels (d. 1829)
• 1774-11-24 Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
• 1775-01-30 Walter Savage Landor, English poet & writer (Imaginary Conversations), born in Warwick, England (d. 1864)
• 1775-08-26 William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
• 1776-01-24 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine)
• 1776-09-27 Maria Versfelt [Ida Saint-Elme], Dutch writer, stage actress, and mistress (General Moreau & Marshal Ney), born in Lith, Netherlands (d. 1845)
• 1778-11-25 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer, born in Birmingham (d. 1856)
• 1780-04-29 Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), born in Besançon, France (d. 1844)
• 1780-08-19 Pierre-Jean de Béranger, French poet and songwriter, born in Paris (d. 1857)
• 1781-01-30 Adelbert von Chamisso, French writer (Peter Schlemihl), born in Champagne (d. 1838)
• 1781-03-13 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect, city planner and painter (Altes Museum, Neue Wache), born in Neuruppin, Margraviate of Brandenburg (d. 1841)
• 1782-03-04 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson), born in Bern (d. 1830)
• 1782-06-19 Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, French Catholic priest and writer (L'avenir), born in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France (d. 1854)
• 1782-10-11 Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish poet and short-story writer (E Binddstouw), born in Vium, Denmark (d. 1848)
• 1782-11-13 Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer (Frithjof's Saga), born in Kyrkerud, Sweden (d. 1846)
• 1783-01-23 Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle], French writer (Le Rouge et de Noir, a Chartreuse de Parme), born in Grenoble, France (d. 1842)

• 1783-09-08 N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher, born in Udby, Zealand, Denmark (d. 1872)
• 1784-10-19 Leigh Hunt, British writer
• 1785-04-04 Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to the King), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1859)
• 1785-05-18 John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
• 1785-07-14 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
• 1785-08-15 Thomas De Quincey, English writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), born in Manchester (d. 1859)
• 1786-05-06 Ludwig Borne [Loeb Baruch], German-Jewish writer, born in Frankfurt (d. 1837)
• 1786-09-18 Justinus Kerner, German physician and medical writer (first detailed description of botulism), born in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1862)
• 1786-10-30 Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer, born in Quebec City, Quebec (d. 1871)
• 1787-04-26 Ludwig Uhland, German writer, born in Tübingen, Württemberg (d. 1862)
• 1787-12-16 Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
• 1787-12-28 Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao
• 1788-03-01 Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
• 1790-05-12 [Johannes] Carsten Hauch, Danish writer
• 1790-10-21 Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René)
• 1790-10-30 Rinse Posthumus, Frisian writer and poet, born in Ternaard, Friesland (d. 1859)
• 1791-04-24 Nikolaj Bestuzhev, Russian Navy officer, writer and painter (Decembrist revolt), born in Saint Petersburg (d. 1855)
• 1791-09-20 Sergey Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika), born in Ufa, Russian Empire (d. 1859) [NS 10/01]
• 1792-01-01 Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, Norwegian writer and poet (Fjeldeventyret), born in Ringsaker, Norway (d. 1842)
• 1792-06-19 Gustav Schwab, German writer, born in Stuttgart (d. 1850)
• 1793-03-03 Charles Sealsfield [Carl Anton Postl], Austrian-American writer, born in Popice u Znojma, Moravia (d. 1864)
• 1793-03-11 Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
• 1793-07-20 Aleksander Fredro, Polish poet and comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski), born in Surochów, Poland (d. 1876)
• 1794-05-17 Anna Brownell Jameson, Anglo-Irish historian and writer (Loves of the Poets), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1860)
• 1795-02-08 Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Austrian satirical writer and journalist, born in Lovasbereny, near Budapest (d. 1858)
• 1795-09-06 Frances Wright, Scottish writer and lecturer, born in Dundee, Scotland (d. 1852)
• 1796-04-24 Karl Leberecht Immermann, German writer, born in Magdeburg (d. 1840)
• 1796-05-09 August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), born in Benningen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1845)
• 1796-06-22 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [OS]
• 1796-07-03 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]
• 1796-10-04 John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy), born in Queenston, Ontario, Canada (d. 1852)
• 1796-10-24 August von Platen, German poet, born in Ansbach, Germany (d. 1835)
• 1797-01-10 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer & composer, born in Havixbeck, Germany (d. 1848)
• 1797-03-27 Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, French musketeer and writer (Moise, Chatterton), born in Loches, France (d. 1863)
• 1797-10-04 Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), born in Murten, Switzerland (d. 1854)
• 1798-01-06 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, Austrian composer and music writer, born in Vienna; (d. 1851)
• 1798-01-14 Isaac da Costa, Jewish poet, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1860)
• 1798-01-19 Auguste Comte, French philosopher & writer (A General View of Positivism), born in Montpellier, France (d. 1857)
• 1798-04-02 August Heinrich Hoffmann, German writer, born in Fallersleben, Electorate of Brunswick -Lüneburg (d. 1874)
• 1798-06-21 Wolfgang Menzel, German writer, born in Waldenburg, Silesia (d. 1873)
• 1799-06-06 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin), born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1837)
• 1801-04-11 Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer (My Uncle Benjamin), born in Clamecy, Nièvre, France (d. 1844)
• 1801-12-11 Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German dramatist, born in Detmold, Lippe (d. 1836)
• 1802-01-06 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian writer (Gramatica), born in Târgoviște, Romania (d. 1872)
• 1802-09-13 Arnold Ruge, German political philosopher and writer, born in Bergen auf Rügen, Germany (d. 1880)
• 1802-11-29 Wilhelm Hauff, German writer, born in Stuttgart (d. 1827)

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Famous Weddings

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 201 - 300 of 2,621

• 1754-05-14 Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (L’École des Mères), dies at 62
• 1754-12-12 Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (Rulinwaishi), dies at about 53
• 1755-02-10 Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
• 1755-03-02 Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675)
• 1756-02-25 Eliza Haywood, English actress and novelist (Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry), dies at 63
• 1757-03-01 Edward Moore, English writer & dramatist (The Gamester), dies at 44
• 1761-07-04 Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela), dies at 71
• 1762-06-17 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French tragic poet and playwright (Rhadamiste et Zénobie), dies at 88
• 1762-08-21 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
• 1763-02-12 Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
• 1764-05-10 Picander [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
• 1764-09-23 Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
• 1766-12-12 Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
• 1768-03-01 Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher & writer, dies at 74
• 1768-03-18 Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies
• 1768-04-09 Sarah Fielding, English writer (The Adventures of David Simple), dies at 58
• 1768-05-16 Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
• 1769-12-13 Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and novelist (Fables & Tales), dies at 54
• 1772-03-26 Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
• 1773-01-21 Alexis Piron, French dramatist (La Métromanie), dies at 83
• 1773-05-15 Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer, dies at 62
• 1773-08-03 Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
• 1773-08-22 George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
• 1773-11-16 John Hawkesworth, English writer
• 1774-08-11 Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
• 1775-06-23 Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
• 1775-11-21 John Hill, British writer
• 1776-04-29 Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)

• 1778-07-02 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, eminent political theorist, and writer whose influential works inspired French Revolution leaders and Romantic academics (Confession), dies of cerebral bleeding from a stroke at 66
• 1778-08-11 Augustus Montague Toplady, English hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies at 37
• 1778-08-28 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies
• 1779-01-20 David Garrick, English actor, producer and writer (Aboan-Oroonoko), dies at 61
• 1783-09-06 Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (commedia dell'arte), dies at 72

• 1785-04-14 William Whitehead, English writer and poet, British Poet Laureate (1757-85), dies at about 70
• 1785-11-18 Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
• 1787-04-02 Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican Jesuit teacher and writer, dies at 55
• 1787-12-18 Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
• 1788-03-29 Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
• 1788-04-16 George-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon, French naturalist and writer on natural history (Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière), dies at 80
• 1789-01-23 Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)

• 1790-06-29 Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis), dies
• 1790-12-12 Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer, dies at 57
• 1791-04-19 Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies

• 1791-09-17 Tomás de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias), dies at 40
• 1791-10-10 C F D Schubart, writer, dies
• 1791-10-12 A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68
• 1792-05-24 Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies
• 1792-08-25 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
• 1793-05-20 Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer, dies at 73
• 1794-01-08 Justus Möser, German statesman and writer, dies at 73
• 1794-01-10 Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, dies at 39
• 1794-04-13 Nicolas Chamfort, French writer, dies at 53
• 1794-06-08 G A Borger, writer, dies
• 1795-04-30 Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
• 1796-02-17 James Macpherson, Scottish writer and poet, dies at 59
• 1796-03-06 Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, dies at 82
• 1797-03-02 Horace Walpole, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto), dies at 79
• 1797-07-11 Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
• 1798-01-22 Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
• 1798-02-13 Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24
• 1798-02-25 Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)

• 1799-02-24 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and writer (types of Lichtenberg), dies at 56
• 1799-08-15 Giuseppe Parini, Italian prose writer and poet (Il Giorno), dies at 70
• 1799-12-31 Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer, dies at 76
• 1800-03-29 Marc René, Marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer, dies at 85
• 1801-01-02 Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher, founder of physiognomics, dies at 59
• 1801-03-25 Novalis [Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg], German romantic writer ('Heinrich von Ofterdingen), dies at 28
• 1801-09-01 Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies
• 1802-04-18 Erasmus Darwin, English physician writer & botanist (grandfather of Charles Darwin), dies at 70
• 1802-09-24 Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer, commits suicide by drinking poison at 53
• 1803-02-18 J W L Gleim, writer, dies
• 1803-06-22 Wilhelm Heinse, German writer and critic, dies at 57
• 1803-08-28 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer and painter, dies
• 1803-10-08 Vittorio A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54
• 1803-11-05 Ch de Laclos, writer, dies
• 1804-05-24 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73
• 1804-11-23 Richard Graves, English writer, dies at 89
• 1805-08-03 Christopher Anstey, English poet (The New Bath Guide), dies at 80
• 1805-11-06 François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, French sentimental writer (Les Épreuves du sentiment), dies at 87
• 1805-11-08 Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
• 1805-12-27 Belle van Zuylen, Dutch-Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65
• 1806-02-19 Elizabeth Carter, English poet, bluestocking and translator (All the Works of Epictetus Which Are Now Extant), dies at 88
• 1806-10-31 Sophie Mereau, German writer, dies at 36
• 1807-02-18 Sophie von Laroche, German writer (History of Lady Sophia Sternheim), dies at 75
• 1807-12-19 Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
• 1808-05-28 Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
• 1808-09-05 John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
• 1808-09-13 Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer, dies at 90

• 1810-06-13 Johann Gottfried Seume, German writer (Spaziergang nach Syrakus), dies at 47
• 1811-01-08 Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies
• 1812-11-15 Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57
• 1813-01-20 Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer (Oberon), dies at 79
• 1814-01-21 Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)

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