A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

Notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1643, published 1764 ) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666 ).

Other stamps in the set depicted Paul Bunyan, John Henry, and Pecos Bill.

Lewis, Madeleine L ' Engle, J. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard.

Many who have no love for Puritan doctrine, nor sympathy with Puritan experience, have appreciated the pathos and beauty of his writings, and his Looking to Jesus long held its own in popular appreciation with the writings of John Bunyan.

* 1628 – John Bunyan, English cleric and author ( d. 1688 )

Notable local Dissenters included John Bunyan, of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn writer, Philip Doddridge ( 1702 – 51 ), of Northampton.

* The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 ) by John Bunyan

Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll as well as the American science-fiction author whom Lewis mentions in his preface whose name he had forgotten.

* August 31 – John Bunyan, English writer ( b. 1628 )

* November 28 – John Bunyan, English writer ( d. 1688 )

* John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2.

* February 18 – John Bunyan publishes his novel, The Pilgrim's Progress.

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* 1785 – John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register ( later renamed The Times ).

* 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

John Stuart Mill publishes On Liberty, a defense of the famous harm principle.

** John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of the magazine Ebony.

* John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes statistical information about births and deaths in London.

* John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg Shorthand.

* John Ormsby publishes his new English translation of Don Quixote, acclaimed as the most scholarly made up to that time.

* John Wisden publishes the first edition of Wisden Cricketer's Almanack.

* 1820: John Clare 13 July 1793-20 May 1864 publishes Poems Descriptive of Rural life 1820

* John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.

* Captain John Smith ( 1580 – 1631 ) publishes his book A description of New England in London.

* Moralist writer John Deacon publishes a quarto entitled Tobacco Tortured in the Filthy Fumes of Tobacco Refined.

* John Speed publishes his Atlas of England.

* September 14 – Carrington Bowles publishes A Journey Through Europe, a board game designed by John Jefferys, the earliest board game whose designer's name is known.

* Carrington Bowles publishes A Journey Through Europe, a board game designed by John Jeffreys, the earliest board game whose designer's name is known.

* John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.

* 1882 – 1884 – John Payne publishes an English version translated entirely from Calcutta II, adding some tales from Calcutta I and Breslau.

* 1776 – John Smeaton publishes a paper on experiments related to power, work, momentum, and kinetic energy, supporting the conservation of energy

* 1864 — John Herschel publishes the General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters

* 1890 — John Dreyer publishes the New General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters

* 1951 — The research group of Robert Robinson with John Cornforth ( Oxford University ) publishes their synthesis of cholesterol, while Robert Woodward ( Harvard University ) publishes his synthesis of cortisone.

* John Dickson Carr writing as " Carter Dickson " publishes his final Sir Henry Merrivale mystery novel.