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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.
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[edit] Birthday celebrations
- 2007
- 200'th birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) - poet
- 300'th birthday of Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) - novelist / dramatist
- 300'th birthday of Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778) - naturalist
- 300'th birthday of Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 - 29 March 1788) - hymnwriter
- 2009
- January 1, 2008: Edward German finally in PD!
[edit] Died in 1938
- 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
- April 8 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician
- April 21 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet
- April 25 - Aleksander Świętochowski - Polish writer
- April 26 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher
- May 4 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- May 13 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel prize
- June 15 - Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German artist and art writer
[edit] July - December
- July 4 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic 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
[edit] Died in 1937
- H. P. Lovecraft (American writer of horror short stories and novellas)
- Ernest Rutherford (New Zealander, father of nuclear physics)
- Edith Wharton (American author)
- William John Woodhouse (Classics scholar and English author)
- Robert John Tillyard (English–Australian entomologist and geologis)
[edit] Died in 1936
- 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)
[edit] Died in 1935
- Andy Adams
- Jane Addams
- Paul Bourget
- Henri Barbusse (French)
- Clarence Day
- Alfred Dreyfus (French)
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Anna Katharine Green
- Winifred Holtby
- Panait Istrati
- Thomas Lawrence
- Vernon Lee
- Fernando Pessoa (Portugese writer)
- Stanisława Przybyszewska (Polish dramatist)
- Edwin Arlington Robinson (American poet, won three Pulitzer Prizes)
- Steele Rudd (Australian author)
- George William Russell (Irish poet)
- Filip Shiroka (Albanian writer)
- Tsubouchi Shoyo (Japanese writer)
- Kurt Tucholsky (German writer and journalist)
- William Watson
- Stanley G. Weinbaum
[edit] Died in 1934
- Catherine Pozzi (French)
- Gustave Lanson (French)
- Thorne Smith - see Author talk page re copyrights
- Marie Curie - Nobel Prize-winning scientist
- Author:Carrie Williams Clifford (women’s and civil rights activist)
