Portal:Literature/Adil archive/June/5
- 1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer born
- 1919 - Richard Scarry, American children's author born
- 1920 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author born
- 1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer born
- 1932 - Christy Brown, Irish author born
- 1941 - Spalding Gray, American writer born
- 1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author born