Wikisource:Scan parties

The purpose of scan parties is to celebrate a famous author's work going into public domain.

Please give here your suggestions of authors to celebrate.

Birthdays and Anniversaries[edit]

2017
6 Jan - 200th birthday of James Joseph McCarthy - Irish architect

19 Feb - 300th birthday of David Garrick - English actor and dramatist

29 May - 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy - US President

30 Jun - 200th birthday of Joseph Dalton Hooker - British botanist and explorer

12 Jul - 200th birthday of Henry David Thoreau - American naturalist and philosopher

5 Sep - 200th birthday of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy - Russian poet, novelist and playwright

10 Oct - 100th anniversary of the book A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

13 Oct - 150th birthday of Guy Newell Boothby - Australian novelist and writer

19 Nov - 100th birthday of Indira Gandhi - Indian prime minister

2018
Feb - 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass

11 Mar - 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

5 May - 200th birthday of Karl Marx

16 July - 200th birthday of French anthropologist Jean-François-Albert du Pouget

30 Jul - 200th birthday of Emily Brontë

30 Sep - 200th birthday of Danish linguist Elise Charlotte Otté

9 Nov - 200th birthday of Russian novelist and playwright Ivan Turgenev

16 Dec - 200th birthday of German botanist Johann Karl August Müller

24 Dec - 200th birthday of English physicist James Prescott Joule

2019
22 Feb - 200th birthday of James Russell Lowell

Apr - 150th anniversary of L'Homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughs) by Victor Hugo

31 May - 200th birthday of Walt Whitman

Jun - 200th anniversary of Washington Irving's Sketchbook (contains "Rip Van Winkle")

20 Jun - 200th anniversary of composer Jacques Offenbach

1 Aug - 200th birthday of Herman Melville

18 Sep - 200th birthday of French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault

22 Nov - 200th birthday of George Eliot

2020
100th anniversary of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, published in the Pictorial Review in 1920 & Pulitzer Prize winner

200th anniversary of Precaution, James Fenimore Cooper's first novel

2023
100th anniversary of New Hampshire by Robert Frost

400th anniversary of First Folio (Shakespeare) published in 1623

January 7 - René Verneau, French anthropologist
January 16 - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer
January 16 - William Henry Pickering, American astronomer
January 20 - Émile Cohl, French caricaturist and animator
January 21 - Georges Méliès, French film director
February 18 - David King Udall, American politician
February 19 - Edmund Landau, German mathematician
March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician
March 2 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist
March 13 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Soviet politician

August 1 - Edmund Charles Tarbell, American artist
August 16 - Robert Johnson, American musician
September 17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet
October 2 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician
October 12 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician
October 24 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and poet
October 27 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic
November 10 - Kemal Atatürk, w:President of Turkey
November 20 - Maud of Wales, queen of w:Haakon VII of Norway
November 30 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian fascist, leader of the Iron Guard
December 11 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
December 25 - Karel Čapek, Czech author

G. K. Chesterton - many works here already, but many more are not
Grazia Deledda (Italian)
Stefan Grabinski
Luigi Pirandello (Italian)
Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book. Note that this book is already available on Project Gutenberg, and that we already have a bunch of his works.
Lu Xun (Chinese)