Portal:Literature/Adil archive/March/19
- 1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist born
- 1916 - Irving Wallace, American novelist born
- 1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author born
- 1933 - Philip Roth, American author born
- 1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet died
- 2008 - Arthur C. Clarke, British writer died