| 1345 | born | Geoffrey Chaucer (1345?-1400) |
| 1400 | died | Geoffrey Chaucer (1345?-1400) |
| 1554 | born | Fulke Greville (1554-1628)Oct. 3, 1554 |
| 1561 | born | Francis Bacon (1561-1626)22 January 1561 |
| 1564 | born | Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) Baptised 26 February 1564 |
| 1593 | died | Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) ??? |
| 1608 | born | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| 1626 | died | Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 9 April 1626 |
| 1628 | died | Fulke Greville (1554-1628)30 September 1628 |
| 1633 | born | Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) |
| 1674 | died | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| 1703 | died | Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) |
| 1709 | born | Samuel Johnson (1709-84) 7 September 1709 |
| 1740 | born | James Woodforde (1740-1802) |
| 1752 | born | Fanny Burney - Madame D'Arblay (1752-1840) born June 13 1752
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| 1753 | born | Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) 10 or 12 August 1753 |
| 1757 | born | William Blake (1757-1827) b Nov. 28 |
| 1763 | born |
William Cobbett (1763-1835)9 March 1763 |
| 1766 | born | Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
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| 1770 | born | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 7 April 1770 |
| 1772 | born | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)21 October 1772 |
| 1775 | born | Jane Austen (1775-1817)16 December 1775 |
| 1775 | born | Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) 10 February 1775 |
| 1775 | born | Landor (1775-1864) 30 January 1775 |
| 1784 | died | Samuel Johnson (1709-84) 13 December |
| 1792 | born | Shelley (1792-1822) 4 August 1792 |
| 1793 | born | John Clare (1793-1864)13 July 1793
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| 1795 | born | Keats (1795-1821) 29 October (family) or 31st(baptismal entry) |
| 1802 | born | Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) 12 June 1802 |
| 1802 | died | James Woodforde (1740-1802) |
| 1803 | born | Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)30 June 1803 |
| 1803 | born | George Borrow born (1803-81) 5th July |
| 1809 | born | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-02) 6th August 1809 |
| 1810 | born | Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)29th September |
| 1812 | born | Robert Browning (1812-89)7 May 1812 |
| 1812 | born | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 7 February 1812 |
| 1815 | born | Trollope (1815-1882) 24 April 1815 |
| 1816 | born | Charlotte Bronte (1816-55)21 April 1816 |
| 1817 | died | Jane Austen (1775-1817)7 July |
| 1818 | born | Emily Bronte (1818-48) 30 July 1818 |
| 1819 | born | George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880) 22 November 1819 |
| 1819 | born | John Ruskin 1819-1900 8 February 1819 |
| 1820 | born | Anne Bronte (1820-49)17 January 1820 |
| 1821 | died | Keats (1795-1821) 23 February 1821 |
| 1822 | died | Shelley (1792-1822) 8 July |
| 1823 | died | Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) 19 August 1823
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| 1823 | born | Charlotte M Yonge (1823-1901) 11 August 1823 |
| 1824 | born | Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) 8 January 1824 |
| 1824 | born | George Macdonald (1824-1905) b December 10, 1824 |
| 1827 | died | William Blake (1757--1827) d Aug. 12th |
| 1828 | died | Thomas Bewick (1753-1828)8 November 1828 |
| 1831 | born | Mark Rutherford (William Hale White) (1831-1913) 22 December 1831 |
| 1832 | born | Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-98) 27 January 1832 |
| 1832 | born | Henty George Alfred (1832-1902) 8 December 1832 |
| 1834 | died | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 24 July |
| 1834 | died | Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) 27 December 1834 |
| 1835 | died | William Cobbett (1763-1835)18 June 1835 |
| 1840 | born | Robert Francis Kilvert (1840-79) b December 3rd, 1840 |
| 1840 | died | Fanny Burney - Madame D'Arblay (1752-1840) January 6, 1840
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| 1840 | born | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 2 June 1840 |
| 1844 | born | Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) 28 July 1844 |
| 1846 | born | Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)22 March 1846 |
| 1847 | born | Bram Stoker (1847-1912) |
| 1848 | died | Emily Bronte (1818-48)19 December 1848 |
| 1848 | born | Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) 6 November 1848 |
| 1849 | died | Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)26 January 1849 |
| 1849 | died | Anne Bronte (1820-49)28 May |
| 1850 | born | R L Stevenson formerly Lewis Balfour (1850-94) 13 November 1850 |
| 1850 | died | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 23 April 1850 |
| 1854 | born | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)16th October |
| 1855 | died | Charlotte Bronte (1816-55)31 March 1855 |
| 1856 | born | Rider Haggard (1856-1925) 22 June 1856 |
| 1856 | born | Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| 1858 | born | John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) 8 May 1858 |
| 1858 | born | Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) 15 August 1858 |
| 1859 | born | Housman (1859-1936) 26th March 1859 |
| 1859 | born | Jerome K Jerome (1859-1927) 2 May 1859 |
| 1863 | born | Neil Munro (1863-1930)(Hugh Foulis) Born: 3 June 1863 |
| 1864 | died | John Clare (1793-1864)20 May 1864 |
| 1864 | died | Landor (1775-1864)17 September 1864 |
| 1865 | died | Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) 12 November 1865 |
| 1866 | died | H.G. Wells (1866-1946) 21 September 1866 |
| 1868 | born | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)27 May 1867 |
| 1868 | born | E.F.Benson (1867-1940)24 July 1867 |
| 1870 | died | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 9 June 1870 |
| 1870 | born | Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)27 July 1870 |
| 1872 | born | John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) 8 October 1872 |
| 1873 | born | Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) 25 April 1873 |
| 1873 | born | Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) 17 December 1873 |
| 1874 | born | G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)29 May 1874 |
| 1874 | born | Robert Frost (1874-1963)26 March |
| 1875 | born | John Buchan (1875-1940)26 August 1875 |
| 1876 | born | Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) (1876-1961) |
| 1876 | died | Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) 12 June 1802 |
| 1877 | born | Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) 28 May 1877 |
| 1878 | born | Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962)help needed with date |
| 1878 | born | John Masefield (1878-1967) 1 June 1878 |
| 1878 | born | Edward Thomas (1878-1917) 3 March 1878 |
| 1879 | died | Robert Francis Kilvert (1840-79) 23 September 1879 |
| 1880 | died | George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880) 22 December |
| 1880 | born | E.J. Oxenham (1880-1960) November 1880 |
| 1881 | born | Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)b. 9 January 1881 |
| 1881 | died | George Borrow (1803-81)26 July 1881 |
| 1881 | died | Mary Webb (1881-1927) 25 March 1881 |
| 1881 | born | P G Wodehouse (1881-1975) 15 October 1881 |
| 1882 | born | John Drinkwater (1882-1937)1 June 1882 |
| 1882 | born | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 25 January 1882 |
| 1882 | died | Trollope (1815-1882) 6 December 1882 |
| 1884 | born | Athur Ransome (1884-1967) 18 January 1884 |
| 1884 | born | Romany (Rev. George Bramwell Evens) (1884-1943) 15 February 1884 |
| 1884 | born | Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) 29 June 1884 |
| 1885 | born | D H Lawrence (1885-1930) 11 September 1885 |
| 1886 | died | Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)12 February 1886 |
| 1886 | born | Charles Williams (1886-1945) 20 September 1886 |
| 1886 | born | Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)September 8, 1886 |
| 1887 | born | Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)3 August 1887 |
| 1887 | born | Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956) 4 February 1887 |
| 1887 | died | Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) 14 August 1887 |
| 1888 | born | T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935)16 August |
| 1889 | died | Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) 8 June 1889 |
| 1889 | died | Robert Browning (1812-89)12 December 1889 |
| 1889 | died | Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) 23 September 1889 |
| 1890 | born | Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) |
| 1890 | born | Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) 30 January 1890 |
| 1892 | born | J.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) 3 January 1892 |
| 1892 | born | Leo Walmsley (1892-1966) |
| 1893 | born | Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) 18th March, 1893 |
| 1893 | born | Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) 6th December, 1893
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| 1894 | born | J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) 13 September 1894 |
| 1894 | died | R L Stevenson formerly Lewis Balfour (1850-94) 3 December 1894 |
| 1895 | born | Robert Graves (1895-1985) 24 July 1895 |
| 1895 | born | David Jones (1895-1974) 1 November 1895 |
| 1895 | born | Henry Williamson (1895-1977)1 December 1895 |
| 1898 | died | Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-98) 14 January 1898 |
| 1898 | born | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) 24 August 1899 |
| 1899 | born | C.S. Forester (Cecil Scott Forester) (1899-1966) 27 August 1899 |
| 1900 | born | James Hilton (1900-1954) 9 September 1900 |
| 1900 | died | John Ruskin (1819-1900) 20 January |
| 1900 | died | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 30 November 1900 |
| 1901 | born | Adrian Bell (1901-1980)4 October 1901 |
| 1901 | died | Charlotte M Yonge (1823-1901) 24 March 1901 |
| 1902 | died | Henty George Alfred (1832-1902) 16 November 1902 |
| 1902 | died | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-02) 6th October 1902 |
| 1904 | born | Margery Allingham (1904-1966)20 May 1904 |
| 1904 | born | Graham Greene (1904-1991) 2 October 1904 |
| 1905 | born | BB' (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) 25 July 1905 |
| 1905 | born | Anthony Powell (1905-2000) 21.12.05 |
| 1905 | died | George Macdonald (1824-1905) d September 18 1905 |
| 1906 | born | John Betjeman born (1906-1984)28 August 1906 |
| 1910 | born | Winston Graham (1910-2003) 30 June 1910 |
| 1911 | born | Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) 9 July |
| 1912 | died | Bram Stoker (1847-1912) |
| 1913 | born | Barbara Pym (1913-1980) 2 June 1913 |
| 1913 | died | Mark Rutherford (William Hale White) (1831-1913) 14 March 1913 |
| 1914 | born | Dylan Thomas (1914-53) 27 October 1914 |
| 1915 | died | Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)23 April |
| 1917 | died | Edward Thomas (1878-1917) 9 April 1917 |
| 1918 | died | Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) killed November 4, 1918 |
| 1918 | born | Muriel Spark (nee Camberg) (1918-2006) 1 February |
| 1924 | died | Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) 4 May 1924 |
| 1922 | born | Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985) 9 August 1922 |
| 1923 | born | Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001) August 25, 1923 |
| 1925 | died | Rider Haggard (1856-1925) 14 May 1925 |
| 1927 | died | Jerome K Jerome (1859-1927) 14 June 1927 |
| 1927 | died | Mary Webb (1881-1927) 8 October 1927 |
| 1928 | died | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 11 January 1928 |
| 1930 | died | D H Lawrence (1885-1930) 2 March |
| 1930 | died | Neil Munro (1863-1930) 22 December 1930 |
| 1931 | died | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)26 March 1931 |
| 1932 | died | John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) 22 July 1932 |
| 1935 | died | T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935)19th May |
| 1936 | died | G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)14 June 1936 |
| 1936 | died | Housman (1859-1936) 30 April 1936 |
| 1937 | died | John Drinkwater (1882-1937)March 25, 1937 |
| 1937 | died | Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) |
| 1938 | died | Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)27 October 1938 |
| 1939 | died | Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) 26 June 1939 |
| 1940 | died | E.F.Benson (1867-1940) 29 February 1940 |
| 1940 | died | John Buchan (1875-1940)11 February |
| 1941 | died | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 28 March 1941 |
| 1943 | died | Romany (Rev. George Bramwell Evens) (1884-1943) 20 November 1943 |
| 1945 | died | Charles Williams (1886-1945) 15 May 1945 |
| 1946 | died | H.G. Wells (1866-1946)13 August 1946 |
| 1950 | died | Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| 1950 | died | Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) 20 April 1950 |
| 1953 | died | Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)16 July 1953 |
| 1953 | died | Dylan Thomas (1914-53) 9 November |
| 1954 | died | James Hilton (1900-1954) 20 December 1954 |
| 1954 | died | Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) 28 March 1954 |
| 1956 | died | Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) 22 June 1956 |
| 1956 | died | Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956) 14 January 1956 |
| 1960 | died | E.J. Oxenham (1880-1960) January 1960 |
| 1961 | died | Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) (1876-1961) |
| 1961 | died | Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) 29 January 1961 |
| 1962 | died | Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962) |
| 1963 | died | Robert Frost (1874-1963)January 29 |
| 1963 | died | John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) 17 June 1963 |
| 1966 | died | Margery Allingham (1904-1966)30 June 1966 |
| 1966 | died | C.S. Forester (Cecil Scott Forester) (1899-1966) 2 April 1966 |
| 1966 | died | Leo Walmsley (1892-1966)8 June |
| 1967 | died | John Masefield (1878-1967) 12 May 1967 |
| 1967 | died | Athur Ransome (1884-1967)3 June 1967 |
| 1967 | died | Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)1 September |
| 1968 | died | Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)November 17 |
| 1973 | died | J.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) 2 September 1973 |
| 1974 | died | David Jones (1895-1974) 28 October 1974 |
| 1975 | died | P G Wodehouse (1881-1975) 14 February 1975 |
| 1977 | died | Henry Williamson (1895-1977)August 13, 1977 |
| 1978 | died | Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) 1st May, 1978 |
| 1980 | died | Adrian Bell (1901-1980)5 September 1980 |
| 1980 | died | Barbara Pym (1913-1980) 11 January 1980 |
| 1984 | died | John Betjeman died (1906-1984)19 May 1984 |
| 1984 | died | J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) 13 August 1984 |
| 1985 | died | Robert Graves (1895-1985) 7 December 1985 |
| 1985 | died | Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985) 2 December 1985 |
| 1986 | died | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) 14 June, 1986 |
| 1990 | died | BB' (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) |
| 1991 | died | Graham Greene (1904-1991) 3 April 1991 |
| 2000 | died | Anthony Powell (1905-2000) 21st December |
| 2001 | died | Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001) 9th Nov 2001 |
| 2003 | died | Winston Graham (1910 - 2003) 10 July 2003 |
| 2006 | born | Muriel Spark (nee Camberg) (1918-2006) 13th April 2006 |
