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

 * 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

January - June

 * 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

 * 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, President of Turkey
 * November 20 - Maud of Wales, queen of 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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)