Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1728 in literature, other events of 1729, 1730 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths Events New Books A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift Births January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Deaths January 19 - William Congreve This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.