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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.
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
- 2022
- 100th anniversary of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
- 2023
- 100th anniversary of New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- 400th anniversary of First Folio (Shakespeare) published in 1623
Died in 1938
[edit]January - June
[edit]- 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
- 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
- June 26 - Edward Verrall Lucas, English journalist, essayist and novelist
July - December
[edit]- July 4 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician
- July 30 - Harold Henry Joachim, English philosopher and translator.
- 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
Died in 1937
[edit]- Bose, Jagadish Chandra (Bengali scientist and writer of science fiction)
- H. P. Lovecraft (American writer of horror short stories and novellas)
- Rutherford, Ernest (New Zealander, father of nuclear physics)
- Tillyard, Robert John (English–Australian entomologist and geologis)
- Edith Wharton (American author)
- Woodhouse, William John (Classics scholar and English author)
Died in 1936
[edit]- 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)
Died in 1935
[edit]- 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
Died in 1934
[edit]- Catherine Pozzi (French)
- Gustave Lanson (French)
- Thorne Smith - see Author talk page re copyrights
- Marie Curie - Nobel Prize-winning scientist
- Carrie Williams Clifford (women’s and civil rights activist)