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Moscow Art Theatre production of Uncle Vanya
January 21 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt , having taken over management of the Paris theatre she renames the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt , opens it in the title rôle of Victorien Sardou 's La Tosca . On May 20 she premières an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet , with herself in the title rôle.
March 20 – W. H. Davies , "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump on a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario.[1]
April – Karl Kraus establishes the radical periodical Die Fackel (The Torch) in Vienna.
April–June – Rainer Maria Rilke , still an art student at the time, travels to Moscow to meet Leo Tolstoy .
May–December – The only work of fiction by the British politician Winston Churchill , Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania , is serialised in Macmillan's Magazine .[2]
May – Jack London 's first published work, the short story "A Thousand Deaths ", appears in The Black Cat ; its acceptance convinces London that he can make a living from literature.[3] [4]
May 8 – The Irish Literary Theatre , founded by W. B. Yeats , Augusta, Lady Gregory , George Moore and Edward Martyn , puts on its first production in Dublin, a version of Yeats' verse drama The Countess Cathleen .
June 20 – The English writer Edward Thomas , an Oxford undergraduate at this time, marries Helen Noble at Fulham register office .
July 31 – Arthur Machen 's wife Amy dies after a long illness, an event that has a devastating effect on him.[5]
September 1 – The National Theatre in Norway opens with pieces by Holberg and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 's 1862 trilogy Sigurd Slembe .
September – The British Mutoscope and Biograph Company's King John (a very short silent film starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree ) becomes the first known film based on a Shakespeare play.
November – The oldest surviving Japanese film, Momijigari , is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo. It records the kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari .
Broadway production of Ben-Hur
November 6 – William Gillette 's play Sherlock Holmes , based (with authorisation) on the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle , opens in New York City with himself in the title rôle.
November 7 (October 26 Old Style ) – Anton Chekhov 's Uncle Vanya , a reworking of his The Wood Demon (1889), receives its Russian metropolitan première at the Moscow Art Theatre , with Konstantin Stanislavski directing and playing the rôle of Astrov, and Olga Knipper as Yeléna.
November 18 – Leo Tolstoy completes his last novel, Resurrection («Воскресение», Voskreseniye ), published serially in Niva .[6]
December 12 – Herbert Putnam is appointed Librarian of Congress in the United States, where he will introduce in practice the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) scheme.
December – The imprisoned William Sydney Porter's pseudonym O. Henry first appears over the short story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in this month's McClure's Magazine .
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Children and young people
January 17 – Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway), English novelist (died 1960 )
February 3 – Lao She , Chinese author (died 1966 )
February 23 – Erich Kästner , German children's author (died 1974 )
March 8 – Eric Linklater , Welsh-born Scottish novelist and travel writer (died 1974 )
March 19 – Aksel Sandemose , Danish novelist (died 1965 )
March 25 – Jacques Audiberti , French playwright (died 1965 )
April 22 – Vladimir Nabokov , Russian-born novelist (died 1977 )
May 8 – Friedrich Hayek , Austrian-born social scientist (died 1992 )
May 18 – D. Gwenallt Jones , Welsh poet (died 1968 )
May 24
June 7 – Elizabeth Bowen , Irish-born English novelist and short-story writer (died 1973 )
June 11 – Yasunari Kawabata , Japanese novelist, short-story writer and Nobel laureate in Literature (died 1972 )
June 18 – Eugène Vinaver , Russian-born English literary scholar (died 1979 )
July 1 – James Lennox Kerr (Peter Dawlish, Gavin Douglas), Scottish novelist and children's writer (died 1963 )
July 8 – G. B. Edwards , Guernsey -born writer (died 1976)
July 11 – E. B. White , American children's writer and writer on style (died 1985 )
July 21
August 9
August 24
August 27 – C. S. Forester , Egyptian-born English adventure novelist (died 1966 )
September 30 – Hendrik Marsman , Dutch poet (died 1940 )
October 19 - Miguel Ángel Asturias , (died 1974)
November 10 – Kate Seredy , Hungarian-born American children's writer and illustrator (died 1975 )
November 17 – Roger Vitrac , French surrealist playwright and poet (died 1952 )
December 9 – Jean de Brunhoff , French children's author and illustrator (died 1937 )
December 16
December 18 – Peter Wessel Zapffe , Norwegian philosopher (died 1990 )
February 10 – Archibald Lampman , Canadian poet (born 1861 )
March 16 – Alexander Balloch Grosart , Scottish literary editor (born 1827 )
May 1 – Ludwig Büchner , German philosopher (born 1824 )
May 16 – Francisque Sarcey , French journalist and theater critic (born 1827 )
June 7 – Augustin Daly , American dramatist and theater manager (born 1838 )
June 30 – E. D. E. N. Southworth , American novelist (born 1819 )
July 18 – Horatio Alger, Jr. , American novelist and children's author (born 1832 )
August 27 – Vendela Hebbe , Swedish journalist and novelist (born 1808 )
August 29 – Catharine Parr Traill , English-born Canadian author (born 1802 )
October 22 – Ella H. Brockway Avann , American educator and writer (born 1853 )
October 25 – Grant Allen , Canadian science writer and novelist (born 1848 )
October 27 – Florence Marryat , English novelist and entertainer (born 1833 )
November 2 – Anna Swanwick , English feminist writer (born 1813 )
November 13 – Arthur Giry , French historian (born 1848 )
December 17 – Bernard Quaritch , German-born English bibliographer and bookseller (born 1819 )
December 18 – Bonifaciu Florescu , Romanian polygraph (ventricular hypertrophy, born 1848 )
December 22 – Dwight L. Moody , American preacher and publisher (born 1837 )
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London, Jack (1911). "Introduction ". In Umbstaetter, H. D. (ed.). The Red-Hot Dollar and Other Stories from The Black Cat . Boston: L. C. Page & Co. pp. v–ix. Retrieved 2022-11-21.Price, Glanville (2000). Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe . Wiley-Blackwell. p. 45.
Chase's calendar of events 2021 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months . Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2020. p. 424. ISBN 9781641434249 .