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1996 Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65

1991 Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83

1931 Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages

1930 Gary Snyder, Japhy Ryder, beat poet, Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems

1921 H. C. Artmann, born in Vienna, Australia, born Hans Carl Artmann, also known as Ib Hansen, writer, poet, celebrated for his early Viennese poems

1920 Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983

1916 Unica Zurn, born in Berlin, Germany, author, painter, wrote anagram poems and held automatic drawing exhibitions

1909 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'

1903 Countee Cullen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, poet, Black Christ and Other Poems

1900 Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1899 Allen Tate, U.S., poet, Mr Pope and Other Poems

1899 Conrad Aiken, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Selected Poems

1887 Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems

1887 Robinson Jeffers, U.S., poet/playwright, Tamar and Other Poems, Medea

1885 Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems

1881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems

1876 Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria, poet, Iron Poems

1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, born in England, poet and critic, Ireland and Other Poems

1830 Emily Dickinson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, poet, Collected Poems

1824 Phoebe Cary, born in Cincinnati, American poet, Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary

1814 Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet and writer, Demon and other poems

1774 Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies

1758 Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems

1750 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Scots poems


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