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Events

Prose

• Hermann Hesse's first novel, Peter Camenzind appear in Berlin.

• The partly autobiographical adventure novel The Sea - Wolf ( Sea Wolf ), published in New York, is Jack London's greatest success.

Drama

• January 30: The first performance of the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov takes place at the 44th birthday of the author at the Moscow Art Theatre. It is his last piece, half a year later, on July 15, the playwright dies.
• February 1: The premiere of Pandora's Box place before an invited audience in the intimate theater in Nuremberg. The play is by earth spirit, the second part of the tragedy of Frank Wedekind Lulu. The premiere, which has Wedekind agreed only after much hesitation and revision of the piece, is a complete scandal. An intervention of the police prevented a planned second performance for the following day. On March 29, a unique, complete performance in Munich Schauspielhaus takes place, which is a predominantly negative press coverage. On July 23, the Munich prosecutor brings charges against Wedekind and his publisher Bruno Cassirer for distributing indecent publications.
• February 13: The play The Lonely Way by Arthur Schnitzler will be premiered in Berlin.
• December 27: The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would not Grow Up by Scottish playwright JM Barrie has successfully received its premiere in London.

Non-fiction

• November: The first part of the essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber appears in the Archives of Social Science and Social Policy.

Prices

• The Frenchman Frédéric Mistral and the Spaniard José Echegaray won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Others

• The June 16, 1904 is the Bloomsday, the day on which the action takes place from James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

Born

• January 4: Erhard Quack, German hymn writer and composer († 1983)
• JANUARY 15: Ludwig friend, Czech politician and publicist († 1952)
• JANUARY 22: Arkady Petrovich Gaidar, Russian youth writer († 1941)

• March 2: Theodor Seuss Geisel, American children's book author and cartoonist († 1991)
• March 3: El Duque del Morteruelo, Spanish poet († 2004)
• MARCH 12: Bodo Uhse, German writer († 1963)
• MARCH 13: Erhart Kästner, German writer and librarian († 1974)
• MARCH 13: Paul Mattick, German communist and political writer († 1981)
• MARCH 17: Patrick Hamilton, English writer († 1962)
• March 26: Joseph Campbell, American professor and author († 1987)

• April 6: Willy Harzheim, German writer and Communist workers († 1937)
• April 9: Ludwig Hohl, Swiss author († 1980)
• April 13: Martha Weber, German regional poet († 1998)
• APRIL 27: Cecil Day-Lewis, writer and poet († 1972)

• May 6: Harry Martinson, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize for Literature († 1978)
• May 10: Kuwabara Takeo, Japanese literary scholar and translator († 1988)
• May 20: Margery Allingham, English crime novelist († 1966)
• May 20: Nagai Tatsuo, Japanese writer († 1990)
• MAY 24: Sefton Delmer, a British journalist († 1979)

• July 3: Otto Gotsche, German politician and writer († 1985)
• July 12: Joe Lederer, Austrian journalist and writer († 1987)
• JULY 12: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat († 1973)
• July 14: Hans von Herwarth, German diplomat and author († 1999)
• JULY 22: Karl Veken, German writer († 1971)
• JULY 22: Otto Rombach, German journalist and writer († 1984)
• JULY 22: Walther G. Oschilewski, German publicist, poet and cultural historian († 1987)
• JULY 24: Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and director († 1977)

• August 3: Clifford D. Simak, American SF writer († 1988)
• August 4: Witold Gombrowicz, Polish writer († 1969)
• August 10: Albert Skira, Swiss publisher († 1973)
• AUGUST 26: Christopher Isherwood, English -American author († 1986)

• October 2: Graham Greene, British writer († 1991)
• OCTOBER 5: Harald Lechenperg, German -Austrian photographer, journalist and documentary filmmaker († 1994)
• October 6: Horst Lange, German writer († 1971)
• October 7: Günther Schwab, Austrian writer († 2006)
• October 12: Ding Ling, Chinese writer († 1986)
• OCTOBER 13: Jutta Hecker, German writer († 2002)
• OCTOBER 15: Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer and author of radio plays († 1980)
• OCTOBER 20: Mario von Galli, Jesuit theological editor and publicist ( † 1987)
• October 24: Madeleine Delbrel, French writer († 1964)
• October 24: Theodor Eschenburg, political scientist, journalist and constitutional law († 1999)
• October 24: Moss Hart, American writer († 1961)

• December 6: Alexander Ivanovich Vvedenski, Russian poet († 1941)
• December 6: Eve Curie, writer and advisor to the Secretary General of NATO ( † 2007)
• December 25: Funabashi Seiichi, Japanese novelist († 1976)
• 26th December: Alejo Carpentier, the French- Cuban author († 1980)
• December 28: Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer († 1953)

Died

• February 7: Emil Rosenow, German politician and writer (* 1871)
• FEBRUARY 23: Friederike Kempner, German -language poet (* 1836)
• FEBRUARY 28: Karl Emil Frenchman, an Austrian novelist, journalist, novelist and editor (* 1848)

• May 7: Peter Hille, German writer (* 1854)
• May 10: Henry Morton Stanley, Scottish journalist and African explorer (* 1841)

• June 5: Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (* 1850)
• June 7: Otto von Heinemann, German historian and librarian (* 1824)
• JUNE 10: Carl Weitbrecht, German poet and literary historian (* 1847)
• JUNE 25: William Jordan, German writer (* 1819)

• July 3: Theodor Herzl, Austrian writer and politician ( * 1860)
• July 6th: Abai Qunanbajuly, Kazakh poet, writer and thinker (* 1845)
• July 15: Anton Chekhov, Russian writer and playwright (* 1860)
• July 17: Wilhelm Marr, German political journalist (* 1819)
• JULY 25: Marie of Najmájer, Austrian writer (* 1844)

• August 22: Kate Chopin, American writer (* 1851)

• 4 October: Adela Florence Nicolson, English poet (* 1865)
• 4 October: Karl Tanera, German officer and writer (* 1849)
• October 7: Isabella Bishop, British travel writer (* 1832)
• OCTOBER 21: Isabelle Eberhardt, Russian -Swiss explorer and travel writer (* 1877)