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Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the earliest diarist who is well known today; his diaries, preserved in Magdalene College, Cambridge, were first transcribed and published in 1825. Pepys was amongst the first who took the diary beyond mere business transaction notation, into the realm of the personal.
Ethel Bilbrough (1868–1951), English First World War diarist and artist; Maine de Biran (1766–1824), French writer, philosopher and mathematician; Léon Bloy (1846–1917), French novelist, poet and pamphleteer; Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), English squire; Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer
Thomas Cromwell (c. 1540 – c. 1611) [1] was an English Member of Parliament during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.His diaries of proceedings in the House of Commons are an important source for historians of parliamentary history during the period when he was a member, and Sir John Neale draws heavily upon them in his ground-breaking two-volume study of Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments (1953 ...
John Evelyn FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. [1]
Anne Frank -- the legendary diarist who wrote about her experiences hiding from the Nazis during World War II -- was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Samuel Pepys, diarist, naval administrator, and M.P. for Castle Rising and Harwich (1633–1703) +(1655)+ Élisabeth de Saint-Michel, born from an Anglo-French wedding, of Angevin gentry by her father (1640–1669) Thomas Pepys (“Tom”), tailor against his will (1634–1664) Elizabeth Taylor, an illegitimate daughter with his maid Margeret
[2] [3] It has been used for multiple books in a series following the diarist's life over many years, such as the Adrian Mole series, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and the Dork Diaries series, all of which chronicle the lives of characters who start a diary as children or adolescents and continue their diary as they mature over time.