On this day in literature
December 31
In literary history
- 1384John Wycliffe died at Lutterworth, three days after a stroke took him at Mass on Holy Innocents' Day. He had put the Bible into English. Forty-four years later, on a papal order, his bones were dug up and burned and the ashes thrown into the River Swift.
Writers born on December 31
- Junot Díaz (1968)