Portal:Literature/Adil archive/April/22
- 1616 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, playwright and poet died
- 1672 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet died
- 1707 - Henry Fielding, English author born
- 1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher born
- 1766 - Madame de Staël, French author born
- 1873 - Ellen Glasgow, American author born
- 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer born
- 1914 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer born
- 1986 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer died