1689 in literature
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See also: 1688 in literature, other events of 1689, 1690 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New Books
- Table Talk - John Selden (posthumous)
- The Massacre of Paris (play) - Nathaniel Lee
Births
- January 18 - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist
- May 26 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- July 9 - Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist
- August 19 - Samuel Richardson, English novelist
Deaths
- April 16 - Aphra Behn, the first British woman to support herself by writing