Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/18
- 1569 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet born
- 1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer born
- 1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist born
- 1868 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author born
- 1948 - Ntozake Shange, American author born
- 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright born
- 1951 - Terry McMillan, American author born
- 1952 - Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist born