Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/29
- 1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet died
- 1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet died
- 1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet died
- 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer died
- 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer died
- 1937 - Don Marquis, American author died
- 1957 - Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright born
- 1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer died
- 1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer died