Portal:Literature/Adil archive/January/6
- 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet born
- 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist died
- 1848 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet born
- 1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer born
- 1885 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer died
- 1905 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet born
- 1910 - Morris Wright, American writer born
- 1915 - Alan Watts, English writer born
- 1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer born
- 1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author born
- 1945 - Allen Appel, American novelist born
- 1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer died