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2012 Event - German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.'

2010 Event - At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro

1963 Event - Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

1959 Event - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," San Francisco

1950 Death - Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1909 Birthday - Lynette Roberts, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, Faber and Faber published works, 'Poems', 'Gods with stainless ears; a heroic poem'

1891 Birthday - Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe'

1864 Birthday - Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet, May, Tiny Hero's Poem

1854 Event - Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published

1835 Event - Dr. Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"

1818 Event - Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"

1815 Death - Matthias Claudius, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert, dies at 74

1814 Event - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem

1763 Birthday - Samuel Rogers, English poet, Italy, a poem

1740 Birthday - Matthias Claudius, born in Reinfeld, Germany, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert

1720 Birthday - Johann P Uz, German poet, Lyrische Poem

1708 Birthday - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet, Versuch einiger Poem









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