October 25

In literary history

• 1400Geoffrey Chaucer died in London with The Canterbury Tales unfinished, a pilgrimage whose storytellers had not yet reached Canterbury. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and the poets who followed laid their own tombs around his, which is how Poets' Corner began.

Writers born on October 25

• Zadie Smith (1975)

The Daily Canon for October 25

Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (1914).