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2006 Stanley Kunitz, American Poet

2004 Anthony Hecht, American Poet

2004 Donald Justice, American Poet

2004 Carl Rakosi, German Poet

2004 Mattie Stepanek, poet, Heartsongs, dies at 13

2001 Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet

2001 Gregory Corso, American Poet

2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83

2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet

2000 Karl Shapiro, American Poet

2000 Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet

2000 Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

2000 Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80

2000 Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies

1998 Margaret Walker, American Poet

1997 Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74

1997 Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70

1997 William Matthews, poet, dies at 55

1997 James Laughlin, American Poet

1997 Allen Ginsberg, beat poet

1996 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85

1996 Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60

1996 Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet, dies at 85

1996 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103

1996 Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69

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

1996 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79

1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76

1996 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69

1996 Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70

1996 Ai Qing, modern Chinese poet, dies at 86

1996 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71

1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80

1996 Eva Jones, poet and novelist, dies at 82

1996 George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74

1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51

1996 Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84

1996 Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65

1996 Joseph Brodsky, poet, dies at 55

1996 Norman MacCaig, poet, dies at 85

1996 Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83

1996 Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87

1995 Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95

1995 Lynette Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, dies at 86

1995 Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73

1995 Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91

1995 Tom Scott, poet/editor, dies at 77

1995 Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52

1995 Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87

1995 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69

1995 Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72

1995 David Avidan, poet and writer, dies at 62

1995 Brian Coffey, poet, publisher, dies at 89

1995 Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85

1995 James Ingram Merrill, U.S. poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68

1995 James Merrill, American Poet

1995 Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73

1994 Harri Webb, journalist, nationalist, poet, dies at 74

1994 Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70

1994 Mary Durack, poet, author, historian, dies at 81

1994 Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77

1994 Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64

1994 Amy Clampitt, British poet, 'Silence Opens', dies at 74

1994 Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82

1994 David Wright, poet, dies at 74

1994 Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64

1994 Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69

1994 Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59

1994 John Wain, English Poet

1994 Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69

1994 Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87

1994 Charles Bukowski, author and poet, dies of leukemia at 73

1994 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74

1993 Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50

1993 Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87

1993 Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81

1993 Bertus Aafjes, poet and writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78

1993 Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15

1993 Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies

1992 Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74

1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott

1992 Jan Elburg, Joannes G, poet (Geen letterheren), dies

1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate

1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies

1992 Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75

1992 Cornelis B Vaandrager, C Vaan, poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56

1992 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies

1992 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63

1991 Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)

1991 Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba

1991 Jacques Benoit, JJM Bayer, poet, dies

1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi

1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80

1991 Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies

1991 Howard Nemerow, U.S. poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies

1991 Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66

1991 Armand HF Boni, Armand the Good, Flemish poet and writer, dies

1991 Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies

1991 Jack Yellen, U.S. poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97

1991 James Schuyler, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies

1991 Clara Eggink, Ebbele, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84

1991 Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46

1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68

1990 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81

1990 Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59

1989 Henry de Vries, painter and poet (Toovertuin), dies

1989 Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72

1989 Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland

1989 Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81

1989 Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87

1988 Francis Ponge, French Poet

1988 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50

1988 Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet (High Falcon), dies at 88

1988 Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81

1987 Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30

1987 Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84

1987 New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate

1986 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63

1986 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64

1986 John Ciardi, U.S. poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69

1986 Yaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84

1985 Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)

1985 Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90

1985 Philip Larkin, hermit of Hull, English poet, dies at 63

1985 Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67

1985 Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30

1985 Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94

1985 Robert Nathan, U.S. writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91

1984 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del corazon), dies at 86

1984 George Oppen, American Poet

1984 Sylvia Ashton-Warner, educator, poet, and writer, dies

1984 Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79

1984 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76

1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate

1983 Alden Nowlan, Canadian Poet

1983 Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80

1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85

1982 Babette Deutsch, U.S. poet (Honey out of the Rock), dies at 87

1982 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet and writer (Kain sloeg Abel), dies

1982 Archibald McLeish, American Poet

1981 Paul Snoek, Edm Schietekat, Belgian poet, dies at 48

1980 Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79

1979 Elizabeth Bishop, poet (North and South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68

1979 Agostinho Neto, poet/1st President of Angola, dies at 56

1979 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82

1978 John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93

1978 Phyllis McGinley, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72

1977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92

1977 Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)

1977 Johanna Andersen-Nexo, wife of Danish poet Martin A-N, dies at 74

1977 Hans Andreus, Johan W van de Zant, Dutch poet, dies at 51

1977 Claire Goll, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie', dies at 86 in Paris, France

1977 Jacques Prevert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77

1976 East Germany deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship

1976 Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65

1976 Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88

1976 Paul T B Rodenko, Dutch poet and writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55

1976 Eugen Roth, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952, dies at 81 in Munich, Germany

1976 Willy Alfredo, Willem Jue, Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77

1976 Charles Reznikoff, American Poet

1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53

1975 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78

1975 Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66

1974 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82

1974 Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57

1974 Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45

1974 Mascha Kaleko, writer, German language poet, dies at 48

1974 Willem F K Hussem, painter and poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74

1974 John C Ransom, U.S. poet (World's Body), dies

1974 Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56

1974 Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53

1974 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48

1974 Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77

1973 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47

1973 W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies

1973 W. H. Auden, English Poet

1973 Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81

1973 Pablo Neruda, N R R Basoalto, poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69

1973 Conrad Aiken, U.S. poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74

1973 U.S. poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize

1972 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66

1972 Ezra Loomis Pound, U.S. poet (Throne), dies at 87

1972 Ezra Pound, American Poet

1972 C. Day Lewis, English Poet

1972 Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71

1972 Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73

1972 Marianne Moore, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84

1972 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90

1972 John Berryman, U.S. poet (Imaginary Jew), dies

1972 Kenneth Patchen, U.S. poet and writer (Cloth of Tempest), dies at 60

1971 John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47

1971 Yorgos Seferis, Seferiadis, Greek diplomat/poet (I sterna), dies

1971 Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88

1971 Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68

1971 Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46

1971 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72

1971 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82

1971 Stevie Smith, British Poet

1970 Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Poki my Zyjemy), dies at 69

1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy', dies in Milan, Italy, at age 82, of bronchopneumonia

1970 Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels', dies at 78

1970 Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59

1970 Charles Olson, American Poet

1969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67

1969 Bryant H. McGill, American Poet

1969 John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57

1969 F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76

1968 Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

1968 Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85

1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66

1968 [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57

1968 Gerard den Brabander, Jan G Jofriet, poet (Nothing New), dies at 67

1967 Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80

1967 Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet and writer (9th wave), dies at 76

1967 Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89

1967 Carl Sandberg, American Poet

1967 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80

1967 Langston Hughes, American Poet

1967 Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues), dies on 65th birthday

1966 Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom and Thirst), dies

1966 Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer (Motion), dies at 75

1966 Andre Breton, French Surrealist poet (Manifest of Surrealism), dies at 70

1966 Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies

1966 Delmore Schwartz, U.S. poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52

1966 Arthur D Waley, Schloss, British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies

1966 Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79

1966 Georgia BD Camp Johnson, U.S. poet/playwright, dies at 88

1966 Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies

1966 Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82

1966 Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76

1966 Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

1965 Randall Jarrell, American Poet

1965 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and writer (Walk at Dawn), dies

1965 Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66

1965 John Leonard, Australian Poet

1965 Joseph Auslander, American Poet

1965 Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer (Bauernpassion), dies

1965 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies

1965 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70

1965 Hans Marchwitza, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte', dies

1965 T S Eliot, poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76

1965 T. S. Eliot, English Poet

1964 Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77

1964 Edith Sitwell, British Poet

1964 Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81

1964 Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41

1963 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61

1963 Louis MacNeice, British Poet

1963 Theodore Roethke, U.S. poet (Praise to the end!), dies

1963 Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies

1963 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet

1963 William Carlos Williams, U.S. physician/poet, dies at 79

1963 Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30

1963 Robert Lee Frost, U.S. poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88

1963 Robert Frost, American Poet

1962 Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet (Hombres and Soledad), dies at 80

1962 Mark Haddon, born in Northampton, England, novelist, poet, wrote, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time', written from perspective of boy with Asperger syndrome

1962 e e cummings, U.S. poet (Tulips and Chimneys), dies at 67

1962 e. e. cummings, American Poet

1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85

1962 Ephraim Lisitsky, Hebrew poet, dies

1962 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75

1962 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56

1961 Hilda Doolittle, U.S. poet (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75

1961 Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58

1961 Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65

1961 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Modern Art and Degenerating), dies at 85

1961 Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Switzerland, poet, dies at 73

1961 Henry Rollins, U.S. vocalist/poet, Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box

1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tue), dies at 73

1960 Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet and writer, dies

1960 Gunnar Olof Bjorling, Fin-Swedish language poet (Kiri-ra!), dies at 73

1960 Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet (North-South), dies at 70

1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr. Zhivago), dies at 70

1960 F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74

1960 Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian poet (Una Donna), dies at 83

1959 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, dies at 70

1959 Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60

1959 Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77

1959 Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54

1959 Lydia Lunch, U.S. singer/poet, Teenage Jesus, Jerks

1959 Ben Okri, born in London, of Nigerian descent, poet, author, won Booker Prize 1991, for book 'The Famished Road', described as a magic realist

1959 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet

1958 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet, dies

1958 Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74

1958 Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet

1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79

1958 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77

1958 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76

1958 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86

1957 Lorinc Szabo, Hungarian poet (Tucsokzene), dies at 57

1957 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75

1957 Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies

1957 Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54

1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67

1956 Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet, Man and his Bag

1956 Bertolt Brecht, German Poet

1956 Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75

1956 Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies at 82

1955 William F. DeVault, American Poet

1955 Wallace Stevens, U.S. poet and writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75

1955 Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86

1954 Hans Lodeizen, Johan Frederik, poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26

1954 Martin Anderson Nexo, Danish poet and writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at 84

1954 Irina Ratushinskaya, born in Odessa, Ukraine, disident poet, Beyond the Limit

1954 Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet

1953 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48

1953 Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies

1953 Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

1953 Nanci Griffith, U.S. singer and songwriter, Poet in My Window

1953 Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies

1953 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60

1953 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/linguist (spelling), dies at 58

1953 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58

1953 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/translator (spelling), dies at 58

1952 Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59

1952 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56

1952 Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor

1952 Andrew Motion, English Poet

1952 George Santayana, U.S. philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88

1952 Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993

1952 Damaso Alonso, Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), dies at 55

1952 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52

1951 Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63

1951 Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75

1951 John Erskine, U.S. writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71

1950 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68

1950 Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47

1950 Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72

1950 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize

1950 John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies

1950 Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet

1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76

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

1949 W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60

1949 Gayl Jones, U.S. author and poet, Corregidora, Song for Anninho

1949 Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71

1949 Gill Scott-Heron, U.S., writer, poet and singer, Whities on the Moon

1949 Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet, Otobanda; the Other Bank

1948 Diane Ackerman, born in Waukegan, Illinois, American poet, author and naturalist, wrote 'Wife of Light' and 'A Natural History of Love'

1948 Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51

1947 Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff'

1947 Stanislav K Neumann, Czechoslovakian poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72

1947 Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke

1946 Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72

1946 Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35

1946 Countee Cullen, U.S. poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42

1945 Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies at 43

1945 Franz Werfel, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. poet and writer, 'Mirror Man', dies at 54

1945 Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73

1945 Josef Hora, Czechoslovakian writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53

1945 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies

1945 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43

1945 Alfred Douglas, English Poet

1945 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52

1945 Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian poet/folklorist, dies at 51

1945 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62

1945 Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards

1945 Clarissa Pinkola Estes, born in Indiana, writer, psychologist, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, author, wrote bestseller, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype'

1945 Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74

1944 Hans Tentije, Johann Kramer, Dutch poet, Nachtwit

1944 Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75

1944 Jules Deelder, Dutch poet, T of Vondel

1944 Johan van Doorn, Johnny the Selfkicker, Dutch poet, War and Porridge

1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest

1944 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991

1944 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74

1944 Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet, Intimate Acts

1944 Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London

1944 Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet and critic, On the Droge

1944 Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42

1944 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet (Meine Mutter), dies at 90

1944 John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51

1944 Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist, Happy Schizo

1944 Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet, Impossible Work

1944 Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet, For the Good Order

1944 Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet, Venus in Holland

1944 Kevin Coyne, born in Derby, England, musician, composer, singer, songwriter, poet, gained notoriety with mainstream rock with Virgin release Marjory Razorblade

1944 Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74

1943 Selly Fernandes, Curacao poet, Winking with Selly

1943 Nikki Giovanni, poet, LHJ Woman of the Year 1973

1943 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20

1943 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72

1943 Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73

1943 Kostis Palamis, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basilia), dies at 84

1943 Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40

1942 Douglas Dunn, Scottish Poet

1942 Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68

1942 Alice Duer Miller, American Poet

1942 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32

1942 Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide

1942 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31

1941 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46

1941 Camille Melloy, the Paepe, Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50

1941 Sandor Remenyik, Vegvari, Hungarian poet (Campfire), dies at 51

1941 Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80

1941 Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

1941 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70

1941 Karin Boye, Swedish Poet

1941 Robert Hass, American Poet

1941 Stephen Dobyns, U.S. author and poet, Cold Dog Soup

1940 Pete Brown, born in Ashtead, England, poet, lyricist, musical producer, worked with The Battered Ornaments, created Pete Brown & Piblokto!

1940 David McFadden, Canadian Poet

1940 W. H. Davies, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp', dies

1940 Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Hafvets Stjarna), dies at 59

1940 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40

1940 Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies

1940 Henry Habibe, Arubian poet, Kerensentenchi

1940 Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet, La Tumba de Filidor

1940 Edwin Markham, American Poet

1940 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74

1940 Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet, Fireflames

1940 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59

1939 Margaret E Atwood, author and poet

1939 Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter

1939 Willem de Merode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51

1939 Volker Braun, born in Dresden, German, writer, poet, playwright, wrote 'Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts' or 'The Unrestrained Life of Kast'

1939 Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation

1939 Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet, Hoepla/Holland's Hole

1939 Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet

1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73

1939 Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet, Dance of the Zygotes

1939 Jacobus M "Jacques" Hamelink, Dutch writer/poet, Cold Unrest

1938 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57

1938 Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70

1938 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61

1938 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer, Furious Season

1938 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (El dulce dano/suicide), dies at 45

1938 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81

1938 Charles Simic, American Poet

1938 Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet

1938 Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75

1938 Cesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at 46

1938 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78

1938 Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74

1938 Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet and writer, Madjalah Sunda, Pesta

1937 Don Marquis, American Poet

1937 Roger McCough, British poet

1937 Roger McGough, British Poet

1937 Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Hungarian poet, commits suicide at 36

1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54

1937 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66

1937 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58

1937 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71

1936 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72

1936 Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, dies at 76

1936 Harriet Monroe, U.S. poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75

1936 Mischa de Vreede, poet, Our Eternal Hunger

1936 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38

1936 June Jordan, U.S. playwright and poet, His Own Where

1936 August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator

1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies

1936 Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62

1936 A. E. Housman, English Poet

1936 Camille E. Baly, St. Maartens poet, Sonny

1936 Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist

1936 Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet, Dimri i Madh

1935 Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47

1935 Randolph Stow, author and poet, Suburbs of Hell

1935 Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet, Ballad orang-orang tertjina

1935 Henry Gibson, Germantown, Pennsylvania, comedian, Nashville, Laugh-In's poet

1935 Mary Oliver, American Poet

1935 Cornelis B Vaandrager, Cor Vaan, Dut poet, Long Live Joop Massaker

1935 William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies

1935 Michael Slory, Suriname poet, Bitter Combat

1935 Edward Arlington Robinson, U.S. poet, dies

1935 Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet, Pele do Diabo

1934 Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet and author, Charlotte Life or Theater

1934 Imamu Amiri Baraka, Everett Leroi Jones, U.S., poet/writer

1934 Sonia Sanchez, U.S. playwright and poet, The Bronx is Next

1934 Wendell Berry, American Poet

1934 Rutger Kopland, Rutger van den Hoofdakker, Dutch poet

1934 Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies

1934 Alette Beaujon, Curaeaos poet, Gedichten on the Bay and Elsewhere

1934 Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator, Another Republic

1934 Audre Lorde, American Poet

1934 Eduard Bagritsky, Dzjubin, Russian poet/journalist, dies at 38

1933 Paul Snoek, Belgian poet

1933 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65

1933 Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine

1933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet, Bratsk Station

1933 Alden Nowlan, Canadian Poet

1932 Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer

1932 Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter, There's a Girl in My Soup

1932 Sylvia Plath, Victoria Lucas, U.S., poet, Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar

1932 Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left

1932 Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican poet

1932 Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet, Requiem, Userjoz

1932 Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and writer (Book of Love), dies

1932 William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies

1932 Jenny Joseph, English Poet

1932 Harold "Heart" Crane, U.S. poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32

1932 Hart Crane, American Poet

1932 Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts

1932 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46

1932 David Antin, American Poet

1931 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69

1931 Vachel Lindsay, American Poet

1931 Xu Zhimo, Roman Poet

1931 Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguayian poet (Tabare), dies at 75

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

1931 Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood

1931 Tomas G. Transtromer, Swedish psychologist/poet, Morkerseende

1931 Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet

1931 Kahlil Gibran, Poet

1931 Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies

1931 Goran J S Palm, Swedish poet and writer, Hudens Besok

1931 Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio

1930 Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet

1930 Ted Hughes, British poet laureate

1930 Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate, 1984-

1930 Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet

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

1930 Horst Bienek, German poet

1930 Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63

1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85

1930 Robert Bridges, English Poet

1930 Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies

1930 Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici'

1930 Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man

1930 David H Lawrence, poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44

1930 Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucia, poet and writer, Omeros, Nobel 1992

1929 Arno Holz, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus', dies at 66

1929 Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet, The Wound

1929 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies

1929 Al Alvarez, English Poet

1929 Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert

1929 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright and poet, dies

1929 Bliss Carman, poet, dies

1929 Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet

1929 Jose Angel Valente, Spanish poet, A modo the esperanza

1929 Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28

1929 Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian poet and writer, Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being

1929 Gunter Kunert, German poet/writer, Kaiser von Hondu

1929 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel

1928 Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1928 Elinor Wylie, American Poet

1928 Anne Sexton, Newton Massachusetts, poet, Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967

1928 Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author and poet

1928 Lamine Diakhate, Senegal, poet, Primordiale du Sixieme Jour

1928 Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies

1928 Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies

1928 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet

1928 Maya Angelou, born in St. Louis, poet and actress, Nyo-Roots

1927 Oskar Pastior, born in Sibiu, Romania, poet, writer, translator, studied German at University of Bucharest, translated Romanian literature into German, among other works by Tudor Arghezi, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Urmuz

1927 Gunter Grass, Danzig Germany, novelist/poet, Tin Drum

1927 Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentine poet and writer (Don Segundo Sombra), dies

1927 W. S. Merwin, American Poet

1927 Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62

1927 Pentti Vihtori, Finland, writer/poet, Yksinaiset [Solitude]

1927 Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/poet, Lady of the Night: A flower

1927 John Ashbery, American Poet

1927 Martin Carter, poet and critic

1927 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47

1927 Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet

1927 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician

1926 Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet', dies at 51

1926 Robert Bly, U.S., poet/editor/translator, Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds

1926 Jean Richepin, French poet and writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77

1926 Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer, Trials

1926 Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies

1926 Buland Al Haidary, poet

1926 Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet

1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author and poet

1926 Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks and Radiates), dies

1926 Allen Ginsberg, born in Newark, New Jersey, beat poet, Howl

1926 Robert Creeley, Massachusetts, poet and novelist, Island

1926 James Merrill, U.S. poet and author, Scripts for the Pageant

1926 Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58

1926 Hans Andreus, Johan W van der Zant, Dutch poet, Animal Language

1926 Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress, Kantika pa Mama Tera

1926 Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator

1925 Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet

1925 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

1925 Karl M Lybeck, Fin/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71

1925 Donald Justice, American Poet

1925 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher

1925 Ernst Jandl, born in Vienna, Austria, writer, poet, influenced by Dada, translated Gertrude Stein, Robert Creeley's The Island and John Cage's Silence

1925 Jan H. Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60

1925 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet, Tarumba, Maltiempes

1925 Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet, Capricorn

1925 George MacDonald Fraser, poet and author, Flashman at the Charge

1925 John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down

1925 John Wain, English Poet

1925 Nina David, Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon, poet/author, dies

1925 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author

1925 Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985

1925 Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community

1924 Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician

1924 Antonio Jacinto, Portuguese West Africa, Angolan poet

1924 Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist, Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967

1924 John A Emmens, art historian/poet, Kunst and Vliegwerk

1924 Hans Lodeizen, Johannes A Frederik, Dutch poet, Inner Self

1924 Sybren Polet, Sijbe Minnema, Dutch writer/poet, Mannekino

1924 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42

1924 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist

1924 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet and writer (socialism), dies at 47

1924 Renos Apostolidis, Greek author and poet, Katigoro

1924 Hans Berghuis, Dutch author and poet, 3 Women, Adam

1924 Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80

1924 Maurice du Plessys, French poet (Le Feu Sacre), dies at 59

1923 Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist, Joy Beneath the Skin

1923 Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies

1923 Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet

1923 Louis M A Couperus, poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60

1923 Mari Evans, American Poet

1923 Herbert Trench, Irish Poet

1923 James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist, African in Greenland

1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death

1923 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet

1923 Brendan Behan, born in Dublin, Ireland, author and poet, Hostage

1923 James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor, Deliverance

1923 Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels

1923 Eva Zeller, born in Germany, poet, writer, novelist, wrote Lampenfieber, Hauptfrau, Fliehkraft, Auf dem Wasser gehen

1923 Anthony Hecht, American Poet

1922 Grace Paley, born in New York, short story writer, political activist, pacifist, poet

1922 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies

1922 Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator

1922 Donald Alfred Davie, poet and critic

1922 Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet, Heaven is a Side Issue

1922 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curaeaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45

1922 Sidney AK Keyes, English poet, Iron Laurel

1922 David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies

1922 Howard Moss, poet/editor, New Yorker

1922 Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter

1921 Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer

1921 Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic, Secret Diary

1921 George Mackey Brown, poet

1921 Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and writer, Utwory dramatyczne

1921 Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet

1921 Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet

1921 Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40

1921 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33

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

1921 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet

1921 Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher, Gift of Blood

1921 Richard Wilbur, 2nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Ceremony, Walking to Sleep

1920 Paul T B Rodenko, poet and author, Stolen Lover

1920 Paul Celan, Antschell, German/Romanian poet, Collected Prose

1920 Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet and writer, Dikt, Jonas

1920 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer (Polar History), dies at 32

1920 Jan W. Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet and historian, Blossoming Stone

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

1920 Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet, Rose from Mud

1920 Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet, Patria

1920 Eliseo Diego, latin American poet

1920 Amy Clampitt, born in New Providence, Iowa, poet, author, professor at Amherst College, College of William and Mary, Smith College, received Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship

1920 Ruth Graham, born in China, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, author, poet, writer, philanthropist

1920 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet

1920 Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet, Misery of the Word

1920 Bengt N. Anderberg, Swedish poet and writer, Kain

1920 Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26

1920 D. J. Enright, born in England, poet and novelist, Some Men are Brothers

1920 Howard Nemerov, U.S., 3rd U.S. poet laureate and novelist, Blue Swallows

1920 Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior

1919 Jan Elburg, Joannes G, Dutch poet, Through the Night

1919 Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet, Reino da Estupidez

1919 Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer/poet: Armonias/Rodil, dies at 86

1919 Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet, Golgotha/Muchila

1919 Johan A Der Mouw, Dutch philosopher/poet, dies at 56

1919 Hans Bender, German poet

1919 Amado Nervo, Juan C Ruiz de Nervo, Mexican poet, dies at 48

1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, U.S., beat poet, Coney Island of the Mind

1919 Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (Margita elni akar), dies at 41

1919 William W. Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60

1918 Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

1918 Edmond Rostand, French Poet

1918 Oda Blinder, Yolanda Corsen, Antillean poet, Doorstep

1918 Guillaume Apollinaire, Kostrowitsky, French poet 'Alcools', dies at 38

1918 Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25

1918 Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter

1918 Carlos Guido y Spano, Arg poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies

1918 Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet, Crossing

1918 Bert Schierbeek, Lambertus, Dutch writer/poet, Cross Roads

1918 Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet

1918 Tom Scott, poet/editor

1918 Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

1918 Jarl Andre Bjerke, Bernhard Borge, Norwegian poet/writer

1918 John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies

1917 Louise J Gautier, French poet/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71

1917 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix

1917 Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet, Juancho Picaflor

1917 Isang Yun, born in Tongyeong, South Korea, composer, professor, son of renowned poet Yun Ki-hyon, exhiled from South Korea, taught at Hanover Academy of Music

1917 Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist

1917 Franfo Fortini, poet

1917 Antonio JdC Feijo, Port diplomat/poet (Cancioneiro Chinas), dies at 55

1917 Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. poet, Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950

1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I

1917 Kalervo H. Hortamo, Finnish poet, Sydanmaa

1917 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic and poet

1917 Robert Lowell, poet and pacifist, Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean

1917 Herwig Hensen, Flor Mielants, Flemish poet/playwright

1916 Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans, Dutch entertainer/poet, Kolderliedjes

1916 Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet

1916 Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet, Uglegylp

1916 John Ciardi, poet and critic, translated Dante

1916 Pierre Emmanuel, French poet, Sodome

1916 Gavin Buchanan Ewart, English poet, Pleasures of the Flesh

1915 Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet

1915 Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73

1915 Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet, Zoja,

1915 Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet, 7 Curses

1915 Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet, Zoja,

1915 Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (Rubab-i Sjikeste), dies at 47

1915 Margaret Walker Alexander, poet and novelist, For My People

1915 Margaret Walker, American Poet

1915 Bert Decorte, Flemish poet

1915 Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27

1915 Rupert Brooke, English Poet

1915 Leo Vroman, Dutch/U.S. poet and biologist

1915 Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar

1915 Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses

1915 Thomas Merton, born in France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist, 7 Storey Mt

1915 Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter, Skoven

1914 Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27

1914 James Laughlin, American Poet

1914 Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales

1914 John Berryman, American poet, Friends and Associates

1914 Porsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Malleysingjar), dies at 56

1914 Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet, Defense of Violeta Parra

1914 Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27

1914 Laurie Lee, male poet and author, I Can't Stay Long

1914 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies

1914 Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet/writer

1914 Randall Jarrell, American Poet

1914 Charles Hubert Sisson, author and poet, Christopher Homm

1914 Christian Morgenstern, German Poet

1914 Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies

1914 David Ignatow, U.S. poet, Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead

1914 William Stafford, American Poet

1914 Redjaizade M Ekrem, Turkish poet and writer, dies at about 66

1913 Muriel Rukeyser, U.S., poet, 1977 Shelley Memorial Award

1913 Delmore Schwartz, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Shenandoah

1913 Karl Shapiro, American Poet

1913 Eva Jones, poet and novelist

1913 Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet, Diario d'Algeria

1913 Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37

1913 Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician

1913 George G Barker, English poet, Calamiterror, Anno Domini

1913 Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, Australia, poet, author, historian, wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country

1913 Joaquin Miller, American Poet

1913 Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet and writer, Man Without a Head

1912 Johannes D De Jong, Frisian poet/photographer, Kar ut twa

1912 Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist

1912 Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet

1912 Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Emil Frida, Czechoslovakian poet, dies at 59

1912 Anne B Ridler, British poet, Who is my neighbor?

1912 Josef V Sladek, Czechoslovakian poet (Za soumraku), dies at 66

1912 Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74

1912 Mascha Kaleko, born in Chrzanow, Austria, now Poland, writer, German language poet, first book 'Lyrisches Stenogrammheft' was burned in Nazi book burnings, wrote advertising copy while living in New York

1912 John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet, Go to the Mosque

1912 May Sarton, American Poet

1912 Irving Layton, Canadian Poet

1912 Roy Fuller, England, poet and novelist, Lost Season

1912 Georg Heym, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style, dies at 24 from falling through the ice, trying to save a friend

1912 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author and poet, Spielball der Gotter

1911 Kenneth Patchen, U.S., poet and novelist, Cloth of the Tempest

1911 Vincent Henry Kemp, poet

1911 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian

1911 Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1979

1911 Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet

1911 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68

1911 Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet, Njanji Sunji

1911 Sam Walter Foss, American Poet

1911 Elizabeth Bishop, U.S. poet, North and South, Pulitzer Prize, 1956

1911 Gustaf Froding, Swedish poet (Grabstank), dies at 50

1910 Charles Olson, American Poet

1910 Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet and novelist

1910 Norman MacCaig, poet

1910 Georges Schehade, Lebanese poet/playwright, Monsieur Bob'le

1910 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spain, poet, Viento del Pueblo

1910 William V Moody, U.S. poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies

1910 [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist, Aniara

1910 Jean Moreas, Y Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet, dies at 53

1910 Ai Qing, born in Eastern China, modern Chinese poet, original name Jiang Zheng Han, influenced by Kant and Hegel, modern poet Mayakovsky and Belgian poet Verhaeren

1910 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet, Survivor

1909 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet, Subrani Sutsjinenija

1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53

1909 Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer

1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53

1909 Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet

1909 Stephen Spender, English Poet

1909 Hilde Domin, born in Cologne, Germany, lyric poet, writer, German-language poet, wrote Das zweite Paradies (The Second Paradise), volume of prose

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'

1909 Juan Bosch, poet/president of Dominican Republic, 1962-63

1909 Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65

1909 Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet, Lorca

1909 George Meredith, English poet and writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81

1909 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet

1909 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72

1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37

1909 John Synge, Irish Poet

1909 Kenton Kilmer, poet and translator

1909 Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet and critic, Vienna, Edge of Darkness

1909 A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet, Hath Not a Jew...

1909 M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet, Phoenix

1908 Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet, Black Banners

1908 Sylvia Ashton-Warner, born in Stratford, New Zealand, New Zealand educator, poet, and writer

1908 Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78

1908 Theodore Roethke, U.S., poet, Words for the Wind

1908 Francois Coppee, French poet, dies

1908 George Oppen, American Poet

1908 Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist

1907 Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary, Poet in Love

1907 Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author and poet

1907 Francis Thompson, English Poet

1907 Maurits Mok, Dutch author and poet, Cheese and Bread Game

1907 Gerald Massey, English Poet

1907 Louis MacNeice, British Poet

1907 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies

1907 Henri Storck, Flemish poet, Cantico do Lomem, Olympics Bichos

1907 Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66

1907 Helene Johnson, poet

1907 Rene Char, French poet/painter

1907 W. H. Auden, U.S., poet, Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948

1907 Giosue Carducci, poet (Nobel 1906), dies

1907 Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic

1906 Herman J Scheltema, NEM Pareau, Dutch jurist/poet

1906 Leopold Sedor Senghor, poet/president of Senegal, 1960-80

1906 William Empson, English poet and critic, Milton's God

1906 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet, Semj Dnej Nedeli

1906 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet, Semj Dnej Nedeli

1906 Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, poet, Ongerijmde life

1906 John Betjeman, poet laureate of England, Mount Zion

1906 Vernon P. Watkins, Welsh poet, Ballad of Mari Lwyd

1906 Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76

1906 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

1906 Clara Eggink, Ebbele, Dutch poet, Life with JC Bloem

1906 Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet and writer, Mirror of the Sea

1906 John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984, Mount Zion

1906 Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio

1906 Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator, Zulu-English Dictionary

1905 Kenneth Rexroth, U.S., poet, critic and translator Birds in the Bush

1905 Piet Hein, poet/inventor

1905 Wazyk, Adam Wagman, Polish poet and author, Eyes and Mouth

1905 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62

1905 Stanley Kunitz, American Poet

1905 Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher, La lenta libertad

1905 Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press

1905 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet, Sailing

1905 Robert Penn Warren, 1st U.S. poet laureate, All the King's Men

1905 Inger J. Hagerup-Halsor, Norwegian poet

1905 Phyllis McGinley, poet

1905 Phyllis McGinley, U.S., poet, Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters

1905 Rex Warner, English poet and writer, Wild Goose Chase

1905 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75

1905 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet, Zielona Ges

1904 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish Poet

1904 Pablo Neruda, born in Chile, poet, Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971

1904 Alfred Earle Birney, poet

1904 Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet, Trade Wind-Nobel 1974

1904 Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective, Nicholas Blake

1904 Ragnar Skrede, Norwegian poet, Lauvfall

1904 C. Day Lewis, English Poet

1904 Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet

1904 Richard P Blackmur, Massachusetts, critic/poet, Good European

1903 Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet, El hombre deshabitado

1903 Carl Rakosi, German Poet

1903 Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet, Nocturno de los Angeles

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

1903 Countee Cullen, U.S. poet, Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl

1903 Rabbe A. Enckell, Finnish author and poet, Lutad about Brunnen

1903 Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88

1903 Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, U.S. dance critic/poet, Snoring in N

1902 Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author and poet, Az Ismertlen Illyes

1902 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist, The Defeat

1902 Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, Claro Enigma

1902 Arna W. Bontemps noted poet and librarian of Fisk University

1902 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet, El arbol, Un Rio, Un Amor

1902 Stevie Smith, British Poet

1902 Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86

1902 Mathilde Wesendonk, German author and poet, dies at 73

1902 Ogden Nash, born in Rye, New York, humorous poet, I'm a Stranger Here Myself

1902 Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet, Dead Reckoning

1902 Nicolas Guillen, Cuban poet, Motivos de son

1902 Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies

1902 Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet, Unen Kaivo

1902 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet and author, Lutin Sauvage

1902 Armand Bernier, Belgian poet, Sorcier Triste

1902 Langston Hughes, poet/translator, Weary Blues

1902 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet

1901 [Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet, Flowering Rifle

1901 Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet, Nobel 1984

1901 Katri Vala, Karin A Heikel-Wadenstrom, Finnish poet, Paluu

1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959

1901 Hermann Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies

1901 Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet

1901 Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet

1901 Julian Przybos, Polish poet, Sruby

1901 Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Madagaskisch poet, Enfants d'Orphee

1901 Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet, Hverdagen

1901 Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83

1901 Tomas Gudmundsson, Iceland, poet

1900 Oda Schaefer, German author and poet, Die Windharfe, Ladies Only

1900 Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain'

1900 Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist, Maria's Life

1900 Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet, Life of Tchernyshevsky

1900 Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic, Garden of Eros

1900 Gerard den Brabander, Jan G Jofriet, poet, Nothing New

1900 Lorinc Szabo, Hungary, poet, Huszonhatodik ev

1900 Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32

1900 Basil Bunting, British Poet

1900 Ernest Dowson, English Poet

1900 Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1963

1900 Jacques Prevert, France, poet/screenwriter, Paroles

1900 Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter and poet, Coastline, Lookout on Sea

1899 Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet, Those not elected

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

1899 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist, Coup of Trafalgar

1899 Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan

1899 Eddy du Perron, Dutch author and poet

1899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat, Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67

1899 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic

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

1899 Hart Crane, U.S., poet, Bridge

1899 Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet, La revolution surrealiste

1899 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies

1899 Francis Ponge, French Poet

1899 Jacques Audiberti, French poet, Race of Men

1899 Eric Linklater, born in Scotland, novelist/poet, Blue Swallows

1899 Martti Haavio, P Mastapaa, Finnish linguist/poet

1898 Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet, Barfotabarn

1898 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet', dies at 73 in Kilchberg, Switzerland

1898 Willy Alfredo, Willem Jue, Dutch entertainer/poet, Fish-Trap

1898 Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet and author, His Master's Voice

1898 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78

1898 Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet, Hijos de la ira

1898 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78

1898 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet, 5th Seal

1898 John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet, El Dorado

1898 Federico Garcia Lorca, born in Spain, poet/dramatist, Blood Wedding

1898 Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter, sombra desterrada

1898 Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician, The Spark

1898 Hans Ehrke, German writer and poet, Narrenspiegel, Fuer

1898 Luis Pales Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tuntun the paso y griferia), dies

1898 Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26

1898 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet

1897 Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet and author, People's Palace

1897 Ruth Pitter, British poet

1897 Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet

1897 Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73

1897 Joseph Auslander, American Poet

1897 Louis Aragon, French poet and writer, Feu de joie, Lesson poetes

1897 Jean Ingelow, English Poet

1897 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature, About the Laugh

1897 Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet, Statue of Fatigue

1896 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St. Petersburg Russia, poet

1896 Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War

1896 Eugenio Montale, born in Italy, poet/translator, Xenia-Nobel 1975

1896 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83

1896 Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter and poet, Laws of the Americas

1896 Pavel G. Antokolski, Russian poet/director, Syn,

1896 Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies

1896 Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenfeld, French poet, Approximate Man

1896 Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic, Occupied City

1896 Andre Breton, France, surrealist poet and writer, founder of surrealism

1896 Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies

1896 Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights

1896 Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet, Jonsoknatt

1896 Paul M Verlaine, French poet (Elegies, Bonne Chanson), dies at 51

1896 Paul Verlaine, French Poet

1895 Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet, Loke Saar Havre

1895 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix

1895 Eduard Bagritsky, Dzhubin, Russian poet/journalist, South-West

1895 Babette Deutsch, U.S. poet, Animal vegetable mineral

1895 Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet

1895 Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76

1895 Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies

1895 Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet, Dogmatic Aeon

1895 Olof R Jandel, Swedish poet

1895 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet and author, Der Halbe Mensch

1895 Eugen Roth, born in Munich, Germany, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952

1894 Christina Rossetti, British Poet

1894 e. e. cummings, Cambridge Massachusetts, poet, Tulips and Chimneys

1894 Charles Reznikoff, American Poet

1894 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden

1894 Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic, spelling

1894 Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie

1893 Carlo Emilio Gadda, born in Milan, Italy, writer, poet, innovator of pre-war Italian language with dialects, jargon, wordplay

1893 Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet, Meetings

1893 Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian writer/poet/story teller

1893 Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet, Seobe

1893 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52

1893 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52

1893 Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer, From Where I Came

1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution

1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution

1893 Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter

1893 Aaro A. Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, Jaapeili

1893 Daan Boens, Flemish poet, Man who sold his Wife

1893 Elisaveta Bagrjana, Beltsheva, Bulgaria, poet

1893 John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies

1893 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet

1893 Wilfred Owen, born in England, anti-war poet, Anthem for Doomed Youth

1893 Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet and critic, Meaning of Meaning,

1893 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75

1893 Jorge Guillen, Valladolid Spain, poet and critic, Cantico, Final

1893 Xu Zhimo, Roman Poet

1892 F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet and writer, Out of the Flame

1892 Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet and critic, Mirror of Dutch Poetry

1892 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Poet

1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

1892 John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies

1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, American Poet

1892 Anton Schnack, German writer/poet

1892 Edward B B Shanks, British poet and critic

1892 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet, La inquietud del rosal

1892 John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet, This Side of Paradise

1892 Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe, Illinois, polit essayist/poet/dramatist, JB

1892 Archibald McLeish, American Poet

1892 Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, New Jersey at 72

1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter, WW II

1892 Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet, Los Heraldos Negros

1892 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer, Adel und Untergang

1892 Vita Sackville-West, born in England, novelist/poet, The Land

1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist, Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize

1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist

1891 Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet and writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies

1891 Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels'

1891 JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37

1891 Arthur Rimbaud, French Poet

1891 Antera Tarquinis de Quental, Portuguese poet/revolutionary, dies at 49

1891 John Neruda, Czechoslovakian writer/poet (Povidky Malostranske), dies at 57

1891 James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies

1891 Josef Hora, Czechoslovakian writer/poet, Working Day

1891 Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet

1891 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet, Daily Bread

1891 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet, La Ronda

1891 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator, Umbra timpului

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

1891 Camille Melloy, Paepe, Belgian poet, Parfum des Buis

1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet, Noise of Time

1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj

1890 Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

1890 Claire Goll, born in Nuremberg, Germany, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie'

1890 Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet, Love Letters

1890 Sandor Remenyik, Vegvari, Hungary, poet, Campfire

1890 Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69

1890 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet

1890 Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies

1890 Hans Marchwitza, born in Szarlej, Poland, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte'

1890 Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, Dr. Zhivago,

1890 Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958,

1889 Charles Mackay, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer', dies

1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77

1889 W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet, Anthony Adverse

1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68

1889 Eliza Cook, English Poet

1889 Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet, Coeur de Chevre

1889 Conrad P Aiken, U.S., poet and writer, Ushant/Conversation

1889 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34

1889 Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

1889 Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39

1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54

1889 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, Higenia Cruel

1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Desolacion, Tenderness and Nobel 1945

1889 Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, poet, dies at 68

1889 Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet and novelist, Vortex

1888 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist, Bric Brac

1888 Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol

1888 T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948

1888 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45

1888 Fernando A N de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet, Mensagem

1888 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet, La Sangre Devota

1888 Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet

1888 Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62

1888 Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet, Melatiknoppen

1888 Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet, Raged and Tired

1888 John Crowe Ransom, U.S. poet and critic, God Without Thunder

1888 Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65

1888 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer, Svarta Ballader

1888 Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88

1888 Giuseppe Ungaretti, born in Alexandria, Egypt, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy'

1888 Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet, Metsh i Slowo, Cholera

1888 Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75

1887 Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet ("Give us your tired and poor"), dies in New York at 38

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

1887 Georg Heym, born in Hirschberg, Germany, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style

1887 Edith Sitwell, English poet and author, Wheels

1887 Willem De Merode, protestant poet

1887 Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Swiss poet/writer

1887 Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet, 1914

1887 Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist, Uprising and Remorse

1887 Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet, collages

1887 Gunnar Olof Bjorling, Finnish/Swedish language poet, Vilande Dag

1887 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet

1887 Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet, Sintels

1887 Georg Trakl, Austrian poet, Autumn of the Lonely

1887 Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet, Le Gaie Tristezze

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

1886 Joyce Kilmer, U.S., male, poet, Trees

1886 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet, Fugitives and Constants

1886 Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, El Libro Blanco

1886 Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the Martin Fierro), dies

1886 Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich

1886 Hilda Doolittle, U.S., poet, imagisten

1886 Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer, Counterattack

1886 Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet

1886 Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement

1886 Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40

1886 Emily Dickinson, U.S. poet, dies at 55

1886 Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentina, novelist/poet, Don Segundo Sombra

1886 John G Fletcher, U.S., poet, Epic of Arkansas

1886 Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet, In New-York

1885 F S Flint, born in London, England, translator/poet, imagist movement

1885 Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

1885 Ezra Pound, American Poet

1885 Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952

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

1885 Elinor Wylie, American Poet

1885 Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet, Men of Good Will

1885 Dino Campana, Italian poet, Canti orfici

1884 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and author, Bird Phoenix

1884 James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist, Hassan

1884 Sara Teasdale, U.S., poet, 1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-Love Songs

1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80

1884 Richard Henry Horne, English Poet

1884 Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet

1884 Frederik Gerretson, Geerten Gossaert, Dutch poet/politician

1883 William Carlos Williams, poet

1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies

1883 Henricus WJM Keuls, Dutch lawyer/poet, Dancing Lamp

1883 Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet

1883 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer, Pjotr Peroyj,

1883 Kahlil Gibran, born in Lebanon, mystic poet, The Prophet, Broken Wings

1882 Charles Vildrac, Paris, France, poet/playwright

1882 Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65

1882 Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41

1882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright

1882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43

1882 Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer, poet and historian, Paraguay

1882 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright, Abraham Lincoln

1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. poet (Representive Men), dies

1882 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet/painter, dies at 53

1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75

1882 James Joyce, Ire, novelist/poet, Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake

1882 James Stephens, Irish poet, Crock of Gold

1881 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer, Pipelines, Jewish Song

1881 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain, poet, Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956

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

1881 Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity

1881 Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22

1881 George Bacovia, Vasiliu, Romanian poet/composer/painter

1881 Sidney Lanier, American Poet

1881 Edgar Albert Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan, poet/newspaperman

1881 Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland, 1944-52, poet, Figur ild

1881 Maurits H. E. Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer, Youth of a Poet

1881 William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar, Ynys yr Hud

1881 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73

1881 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet

1881 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic, Revaluations

1881 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor, Seated Youth

1880 Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet

1880 Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat

1880 Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74

1880 Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat

1880 Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer, Sak och sken

1880 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist, Loom of Years, Highwayman

1880 Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet and movie critic, 'Alcoola'

1880 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet, Tantum dic verbo

1880 Konrad Weiss, Dutch German writer/poet, Tantum dic verbo

1879 Karel van den Oever, Flemish author and poet, Geuzenstad

1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U.S., poet, General William Booth enters Heaven

1879 Vachel Lindsay, American Poet

1879 John Erskine, U.S., poet/pianist, Private Life of Helen of Troy

1879 Wallace Stevens, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, poet, Ideas of Order

1879 Nathan C. Meeker, U.S., poet and writer, murdered

1879 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet, Il Libro Della Giovinezza

1879 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet, Avondvlam

1879 Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet

1878 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, El Crimen del Otro

1878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet, Tangled Hair

1878 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet, Meister Bertram

1878 Don Marquis, Illinois, journalist/poet, archy and mehitabel

1878 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Australia poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65

1878 Eino Leino, Finland, poet/playwright/novelist, Elaman Koreus

1878 John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate, Salt-Water Ballads

1878 Carel T. Scharten, Dutch poet and writer, Forces of the Future

1878 Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet, God at Sea

1878 Edward Thomas, English Poet

1878 Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59

1878 Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet, Zimzelen pod Snegom

1878 Robert Garbe, German poet, Gorniek

1878 Carl Sandburg, U.S., poet/biographer of Lincoln, The People, Yes

1878 Carl Sandberg, American Poet

1877 Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56

1877 Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet

1877 Endre Ady, Hungarian poet, Uj versek, Ver es arany

1877 Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and author, Emergency Horn

1877 Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher

1877 Georgia B D Camp Johnson, U.S., poet/playwright, Autumn Love Cycle

1877 Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946

1877 David Mendes Chumaceiro, born in Curacao, poet, Crisalidas

1877 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet and writer, socialism

1877 Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist

1877 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author and poet, L'homme Jeune

1876 Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish poet (Abels dod), dies at 67

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

1876 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet, Pesme

1876 Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian feminist/poet, Una Donna

1876 Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies

1876 Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63

1876 Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67

1875 Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet'

1875 Georges Rency, Belgian poet

1875 Seerp Anema, poet and writer, Dutch Coasts

1875 Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet, Beautiful Irine

1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer, dies at 58

1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet, dies at 58

1875 Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet

1875 Stanislav K. Neumann, Czechoslovakian poet, Francouzska Revoluce

1875 Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer (Peregrina), dies at 70

1875 Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33

1874 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies

1874 Alice Duer Miller, American Poet

1874 Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning

1874 Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer, Eros Thanatos

1874 Karl Kraus, born in Austria, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture

1874 Robert Frost, born in San Francisco, poet, Mending Wall, Road Not Taken

1874 Amy Lowell, U.S. poet and critic, Patterns, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist

1874 [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage

1874 Robert Service, England, Canadian poet, Cremation of Sam McGee

1874 Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet

1873 Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24

1873 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76

1873 Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman

1873 Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies

1873 French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol

1873 Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43

1873 Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher

1873 Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944

1873 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Radi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator

1872 Aleksis Kivi, Stenvall, Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38

1872 Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), U.S. poet/Comanche chief, dies

1872 Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61

1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet and novelist, Oak and Ivory

1872 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62

1872 Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose

1871 Stephen Crane, U.S., novelist/poet, Red Badge of Courage

1871 Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931

1871 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34

1871 W. H. Davies, born in Newport, Monmouthsire, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp'

1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania

1871 Christian Morgenstern, German Poet

1871 John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet, Riders to the Sea

1871 John Synge, Irish Poet

1871 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet, El Florilegio

1871 Jovan Ducic, Serb poet, Blue Legends

1870 Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet, Voices, Carmina

1870 Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet

1870 Karel J Erben, Czechoslovakian poet (Ruiker), dies at 69

1870 Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet and novelist, Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933

1870 Alfred Douglas, English Poet

1870 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist

1870 Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46

1870 Amado Nervo, Juan C Ruiz de Nervo, Mexican writer/poet

1870 Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

1870 Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar, Verzen

1870 Ada Negri, Italian poet and author, Il Libro di Mara

1869 Henriette Georgia Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet, Women in Forest

1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, U.S., poet, Richard Corey

1869 Delfien Vanhaute, Eckart, Flem pastor/poet, Parsifal, Ark of Noe

1869 Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet, Symbolic Wounds

1869 William V Moody, U.S. poet, Death of Eve, Faith Healer

1869 Martin Anderson Nexo, Danish poet and writer, Tabte Generation

1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, French poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78

1869 Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet

1869 Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet, The Heart

1868 Francis Jammes, French poet and writer, Jammisme

1868 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author and poet, dies at about 60

1868 Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet

1868 Paul Claudel, born in France, diplomat/poet, L'Otage-1909

1868 Stefan George, born in Germany, lyric poet, Algabal

1868 Edmond Rostand, born in France, poet and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac

1868 Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm

1867 Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet, Servet-i Funun, Sis

1867 Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku and tanka poet/diarist, Salt Water Ballads

1867 Henry Timrod, American Poet

1867 Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet, China

1867 [Pierre-]Charles Baudelaire, French poet (Journaux Intimes), dies at 46

1867 Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

1867 Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet, Lonely

1867 Ernest C Dowson, British poet

1867 Ernest Dowson, English Poet

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

1867 Ruben Dario, national poet, Nicaragua

1867 Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet

1866 Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet, Vredens Born

1866 Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, dies at 65

1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet

1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet

1866 Friedrich Ruckert, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages, dies

1865 Jose Asuncion Silva, Colombia, poet, Nocturno III

1865 Herbert Trench, Irish Poet

1865 William Butler Yeats, born in Ireland, poet, Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923

1865 Jan H. Leopold, Dutch poet, translated Omar Khayyam

1865 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian, Motion

1865 Arthur Symons, Welsh poet, critic and co-founder Savoy

1865 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet, Young Poland

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

1864 Antonio Gonalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea

1864 Maurice de Plessys, French poet, Palace Occidental

1864 Erik Karlfeldt, born in Sweden, poet, Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous

1864 John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70

1864 Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet, Samlade Arbeten

1864 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet, Waltzing Matilda

1864 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists

1864 Adelaide Anne Procter, English Poet

1863 George Santayana, born in Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist, Last Puritan

1863 Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies

1863 Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies

1863 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

1863 Louis M. A. Couperus, Dutch poet and writer, Eline Vere

1863 Arno Holz, born in Germany, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus'

1863 Adolf A. Wolfschoon, Curaeao, poet

1862 Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright, Red Madymaynes

1862 P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet, Blue Bird, Nobel 1911

1862 Johan A de Sleeve, Adwaita, philosopher/classical/poet, Brahman

1862 Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet

1862 Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet, Bailatas

1862 Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16]

1862 Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40

1862 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet, Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya

1862 Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45

1862 John Jay Chapman, U.S. advocate/poet/writer, Learning and Other Essays

1862 Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40

1862 Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75

1861 Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet

1861 Owen Seaman, poet/editor, Punch

1861 Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31

1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

1861 Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer, Nobel 1913

1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

1861 Bliss Carman, Canadian Poet

1860 Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57

1860 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I

1860 Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43

1860 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies

1860 Gustaf Froding, Swedish poet, Stank och flikar

1860 Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet, Les Complaintas

1860 Isaac da Costa, poet and writer (Reveil, Wachter!), dies at 62

1860 Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet

1859 Gustave Kahn, France, poet, claimed to have invented vers libre

1859 Francis Thompson, English Poet

1859 Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, Salmos do Prisoneiro

1859 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916

1859 Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet, Iris, Wood Song

1859 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet, A Buried Life

1859 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet, Act of Simple Justice

1859 A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet, Shropshire Lad

1859 A. E. Housman, English Poet

1859 Kostis Palamas, Greek poet/scholar, Flogera tou Basilia

1858 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73

1858 Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet, Pyrnar

1858 William Watson, British poet, Prince's Quest, Father of Forest

1858 Sam Walter Foss, American Poet

1858 William W. Campbell, Canadian poet, Beyond the Hills of Dream

1858 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic, dies at 54

1858 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49

1857 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69

1857 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, born in Denmark, poet, Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917

1857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies

1857 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet, Along the Meuse

1857 Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet (A la paz), dies at 84

1856 Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Nearlands blood), dies at 76

1856 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, Laodania

1856 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, Laodania

1856 Nestor de Tiere, Flemish poet, Pink Kate

1856 Jean Moreas, Yannis Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet

1856 Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris

1856 Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet, Primoz Trubar

1856 Lizette Woodworth Reese, U.S. poet, Branch of May, Tears

1855 Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet

1855 Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguay's diplomat/poet, Tabare

1855 Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56

1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet and writer, Les Flammes Hautes

1855 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet

1855 Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, dies at 46

1855 Dorothy Wordsworth, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet, dies at 83

1855 Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67

1854 Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer, Illuminations

1853 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet, Meine Mutter

1853 Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet, Los Cien Mejores Poemas

1853 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies

1853 Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Emil Frida, Czechoslovakian poet, 1 night on Karlstein

1853 Jose Marti y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician

1853 Gustav Falke, German author and poet, Der Mann im Nebel

1853 Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75

1852 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian slavist/poet, dies at 53

1852 Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937

1852 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69

1852 Augusta Gregory, born in Ireland, playwright and poet, Yates mistress

1852 Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies

1852 Hamid Abdulhak, Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright

1851 Stanko Vraz, Jakob Frass, Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40

1850 Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate

1850 Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro, Portuguese poet, Simple Ones

1850 Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi

1850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet and novelist /playwright, Under the Yoke

1850 Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet

1850 William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80

1850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87

1850 Mihail Eminesco, Eminovici, Romanian poet, Samanul Dionis

1849 James Whitcomb Riley, U.S., poet, Raggedy Man

1849 Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Baltimore at 40

1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

1849 Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet, Nocturno

1849 Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet, "New Colossus" at the base of Statue of Liberty

1849 Juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39

1849 Bernard Barton, American Poet

1849 France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48

1849 Jean Richepin, French poet and writer, Les Chansons de Gueux

1849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45

1848 Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet, Along the Nile

1848 Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27

1848 [Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, French playwright and poet, Jeune Croyances

1848 Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet

1847 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25

1847 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphee), dies

1847 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet, Espumas Flutuantes

1846 Louise J Gautier, French poet

1846 Antonio C. G. Crespo, Brazilian and Portuguese poet

1845 Josef V Sladek, Czechoslovakian poet, Pisne Smutecni

1845 John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81

1845 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77

1845 August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet

1845 Thomas Hood, English Poet

1845 Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919

1844 Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate, Eros and Psyche

1844 Robert Bridges, English Poet

1844 Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet, Windhover

1844 Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, "Placido", Cuban poet, dies at 35

1844 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet

1844 Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66

1844 Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet

1844 Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet, Sagesse Bonbeur

1844 Paul Verlaine, French Poet

1844 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet

1843 Elisabeth OL, queen of Romania/poet, Rumanische Dichtungen

1843 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet

1843 Johann C F Holderlin, German poet, dies at 73

1843 Robert Southey, English Poet

1843 [Joaquim] Theofilo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician

1843 Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80

1842 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet

1842 Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet

1842 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur

1842 Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher

1842 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34

1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet, Il santo/Leila

1842 Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet, Beatrice

1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50

1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith, U.S., poet laureate of California

1842 Sidney Lanier, American Poet

1842 Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet

1842 Sidney Clopton Lanier, U.S., composer/poet, Hall of Fame

1842 Francois Coppee, French poet

1841 Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet

1841 Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet

1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies

1841 Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet

1841 Edward John Armstrong, poet

1841 Olegario Victor Andrade, born in Argentina, poet, El nido de condores

1840 Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet and author, Fatherland-1872

1840 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski

1840 Hugo Verriest, Flemish author and poet, Flemish Movement

1840 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski

1840 Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer

1840 Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73

1840 Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet, Morning Twilight

1840 Thomas Hardy, England, poet and novelist, Far from the Madding Crowd

1840 Austin Dobson, England, poet, critic and biographer

1840 Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet

1839 Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88

1839 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies

1839 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies

1839 Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet, Bell Birds

1839 Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901

1838 Anne Grant, Scottish Poet

1838 Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

1838 Leon Dierx, French poet

1838 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33

1838 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33

1837 Thomas Babington, British Poet

1837 Joaquin Miller, American Poet

1837 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet

1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne, born in England, poet, Atalanta in Calydon

1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet and novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel

1837 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet, Camoes e o jau

1836 Daniel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet, dies at 59

1835 Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48

1835 Giosue Carducci, born in Italy, poet, Nobel 1906

1835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England, Garden

1835 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies

1835 Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet

1835 Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian bishop/poet/dialectologist

1834 Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet, Martin Fierro

1834 Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69

1834 Aleksis Kivi, Stenvall, Finland, writer/poet, Nummisuutarit

1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61

1834 Jan Neruda, Czechoslovakian writer/poet, Povidky Malostranske

1834 William Morris, England, designer, craftsman, poet and socialist

1833 Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet, Tradiciones Peruanas

1832 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer, Aylwin

1832 Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies

1832 Gaspar Nunez de Arce, Spain, poet "Spanish Tennyson"

1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany

1832 George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77

1831 Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet

1831 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75

1831 Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55

1831 Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost, philosopher, art historian and poet

1831 Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37

1830 Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet

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

1830 Christina Rossetti, London, poet, Winter Rain, Passing Away

1830 Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet, Nobel 1904

1830 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet, International

1830 Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet

1830 Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet

1830 Alexander Muir, born in Lesmahagow Scotland, poet, Maple Leaf Forever

1830 Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar, poet and writer

1829 Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet

1829 Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden, 1872 - 1907, Norway, -1905, poet

1829 Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56

1828 Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet, Tagebuchblatter

1828 Henry Timrod, American Poet

1828 Gerald Massey, English Poet

1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite

1828 George Meredith, England, poet and novelist, Shaving of Shagpat

1827 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49

1827 Robert Pollok, poet, dies

1827 William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69

1826 Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66

1826 Carl AE Ahlqvist, A Oksanen, Finnish poet, Suomalainen Runousoppi

1826 Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway, 1859 - 1872, poet

1826 Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor

1825 Adelaide Anne Procter, English Poet

1825 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, born in Zurich, Switzerland, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet'

1825 Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austria, poet, Weistumer

1825 Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet

1824 Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet, Golden Treasury, Professor, Oxford

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

1824 George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36

1824 Lord Byron, British Poet

1824 George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet

1824 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, Roman

1824 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet, 1st Serbian Uprising

1824 Lucy Larcom, American Poet

1824 Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49

1823 Robert Bloomfield, English Poet

1823 Antonio G Dias, Brazilian poet

1823 Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet

1823 Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58

1822 Matthew Arnold, England, poet and critic, Dover Beach

1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29

1822 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet

1822 Lev A. Mej, Russian nobleman/poet

1821 Nikolai A. Nekrasov, Russian poet, Russkije Zjenjshiny

1821 Nikolai Nekrasov, Russ, poet/journalist, Who Can be Happy in Russia?

1821 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright, Wanda

1821 Vasile Alecsandri, born in Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat

1821 Charles Baudelaire, born in France, symbolist poet, Flowers of Evil

1821 William Allingham, Irish poet, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland

1821 John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome

1821 Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet

1820 Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36

1820 Joseph R. Drake, U.S. poet (American Flag), dies at 25)

1820 Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, poet, Dietsche Warande

1820 Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet, Cincinnati Sentinel

1820 Jean Ingelow, English Poet

1820 Hermann von Lingg, German playwright and poet

1820 Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet, Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1819 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet, Stichotvorenija

1819 Walt Whitman, West Hills, New York, poet, Leaves of Grass

1819 Filinto Elisio, do Nascimento, Portuguese poet, dies at 84

1819 James Russell Lowell, poet and critic /diplomat/abolitionist

1819 Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold

1818 Eliza Cook, English Poet

1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,

1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,

1818 Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet

1817 Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34

1817 Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet, Doloras

1817 Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer

1817 Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer

1817 Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet, dies at 63

1817 Constantine S. Aksakov, Russian historian and poet

1817 Janos Arany, born in Hungary, epic poet, Toldi, Death of King Buda

1817 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist, El rey Loco

1817 Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor, Iduna

1816 Philip James Bailey, English poet, Festus

1816 Charlotte Bronte, novelist/poet

1815 Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75

1815 Anthony Trollope, born in England, novelist/poet, Barchester Towers

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

1814 Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, Skanderbeku

1814 Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet

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

1814 Charles Mackay, born in Perth, Scotland, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer'

1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet, painter and professor of Kiev

1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter, 3/9 NS,

1813 Hermann Kurz, German author and poet

1813 Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro, 1830-51

1813 Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21

1813 Ivar A. Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet

1813 Jacques Delille, French Poet

1813 Louis-Sebastien Mercier, French poet (Le Deserteur), dies at 73

1813 Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet

1812 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet, Lettere a Maria

1812 Henri A. Esquiros, French poet and writer, Les Vierges Folles

1812 Robert Browning, born in London, England, poet, Pied Piper

1811 Karel J Erben, Czechoslovakian poet, Bouquet

1811 Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet, Albertus

1811 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies

1811 Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Chant du Depart), dies at 46

1810 Stanko Vraz, Jakob Frass, Slovenian/Croatian poet, illyrism

1810 Johann Gottfried Seume, writer, lyric poet, wrote 'Mein Sommer in Jahr' 1805, 'Spaziergang nach Syrakus' 1803, dies at 47

1809 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet, Trip to H Land

1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England

1809 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet, Pjesma iz Zagorja

1809 Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet

1809 Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, Placido, Cuban poet

1809 Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet, Danserinden

1809 John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, Silver Fleet

1808 Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies

1808 Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet

1808 Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, Sylvia

1808 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, Cortes

1808 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet

1807 John Greenleaf Whittier, U.S., poet, Snow-bound

1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet and literature critic

1807 Miklos Revai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57

1807 Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer, Der Alchemist

1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born in Portland, Maine, poet, Hiawatha

1806 Charlotte Turner Smith, English Poet

1806 Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian

1806 Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, poet

1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, Sonnets from the Portuguese

1806 Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet, La Belgium

1805 Christopher Anstey, English Poet

1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45

1805 Mihaly Csokonai Vitez, Hungarian (stage)poet (Dorottya), dies at 31

1804 Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, poet (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66

1804 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet, Sasjka,

1804 Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer, Maler Nolten

1804 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet, Sasjka,

1804 Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet

1804 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic

1803 Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59

1803 Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet

1803 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet, Daisies

1803 Albartus Telting, Frisian poet, Frisianch Jierboeckjen

1803 James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67

1803 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet

1803 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56

1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78

1803 Richard Henry Horne, English Poet

1802 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet, Heath's Book of Beauty

1802 Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet, Faust, Die Albigenser

1802 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician

1802 Adrian van der Hoop, Jr., Dutch poet and critic

1800 Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, Great Hung dictionary

1800 Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet, Ritornellen

1800 France Preseren, Slovenian poet, Krst pri Savici

1800 Mihaly Vorosmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist, "To a Day-Dreamer"

1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet and historian, Ivry, Naaseby

1800 Thomas Babington, British Poet

1800 William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68

1799 Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. educator/poet, Concord Days

1799 Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68

1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit

1799 Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt

1799 Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian poet, national anthem, folk song

1799 Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41

1799 Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet (Husn u Ask), dies at about 40

1798 Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet, Pan Tadeusz

1798 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet

1798 Dionysios Solomos, poet

1798 Henry Neele, London, poet

1797 Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist, Schubert, Liszt

1797 William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet

1797 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

1796 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright

1796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37

1796 Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75

1796 James Macpherson, poet, dies

1795 John Keats, born in London, England, romantic poet, Ode to a Grecian Urn

1795 Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54

1794 William Cullen Bryant, poet, Thanatopsis

1794 William Cullen Bryant, American Poet

1794 Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Franeais sur leurs), dies

1793 Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet

1793 John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet, Shepard's Calendar

1793 John Claire, England, poet

1793 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35

1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, born in England, romantic poet, Adonais

1792 Henrik A. Bjerregaard, Norwegian writer/poet, Sonner af Norge

1791 Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet, Curiosity

1791 Karl T Korner, German poet, Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt

1790 Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet

1790 Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet, Toraidas

1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies

1790 Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet, Blommorna

1790 Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet, Lycksalighetens

1789 Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68

1788 Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65

1788 Friedrich Ruckert, born in Schweinfurt, Germany, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages

1788 Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46

1788 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet, Das Marmorbild

1788 Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet, Don Juan

1788 Lord Byron, British Poet

1788 George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet

1787 Barry Cornwall, Bryan Waller Procter, British? poet

1786 Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer

1786 Jacobus Bellamy, Zelandus, Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28

1785 Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54

1785 Alessandro Manzoni, born in Italy, poet and novelist, Betrothed

1784 Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet

1784 Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston

1784 Phillis Wheatly, poet, dies

1784 Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet, To the Rhine

1784 Bernard Barton, American Poet

1783 Max von Schenkendorf, German poet

1783 Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer

1783 Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homerus

1783 Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet, Natthimmelen

1782 Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer, E Binddstouw

1781 Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar, Silvas Americanas

1781 Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

1781 Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet, Des Knaben Wunderhorn

1780 Henry F. C. Tollens, merchant/poet, Vienna Nearlands Blood

1779 Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager, Denmark, poet, National Poet 1849

1779 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/songwriter/archbishop, Dodens Engel

1779 Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66

1779 Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis

1777 Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter, El dos the mayo

1777 Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet, Penthesilea

1777 Thomas Campbell, poet, Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic

1776 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet, Prolegomenes

1776 Daniel Berzsenyi, Hungarian Horatius, Hungarian poet

1775 Charles Lamb, born in London, England, critic/poet/essayist

1774 Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet

1774 Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson

1774 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17

1773 Mihaly Csokonai Vitez, Hungarian poet, Bekaegerhartz

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet, Rime of Ancient Mariner

1772 S ndor Kisfaludy, Hungary, poet/Austrian army, 1793-1801

1772 Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet, El Duque de Viseo

1772 Frans Mikael Franzen, Finnish-Swedish poet, Abo

1771 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet, Regulus

1771 Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cumberland, England, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet

1771 Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet, Lady of Lake

1771 Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54

1771 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54

1771 Thomas Gray, English Poet

1770 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet, dies at 42

1770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies

1770 Mark Akenside, English Poet

1770 William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate, Prelude

1770 Johann Friedrich Holderlin, born in Tubingen, Germany, poet, Der Rhein

1769 Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet

1769 Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71

1768 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, France, poet and novelist, Atala

1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58

1767 August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet

1767 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic

1767 Antony CW Staring, Dutch lawyer/poet, Jaromir

1766 Robert Bloomfield, English Poet

1765 Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet, Dwingelandij

1765 Michail vs. Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53

1765 Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81

1764 Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69

1764 Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet, Cajus Graechus

1764 John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet, Minderjarige Zangster

1763 Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76

1763 John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47

1763 Samuel Rogers, English poet, Italy, a poem

1763 Johann Gottfried Seume, born in Poserna, Germany, writer, lyric poet, wrote 'Mein Sommer in Jahr' 1805, 'Spaziergang nach Syrakus' 1803

1762 Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet

1762 Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet, Elegies

1762 William Lisle Bowles, English poet, 14 Sonnets

1762 Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French poet (Idomenee), dies at 88

1761 Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey, 1789-1808

1761 Friedrich von Matthison, German poet, Adelaide

1760 Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies

1760 Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect

1759 Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist, Ode to Joy

1759 Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44

1759 William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37

1759 Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet, Auld Lang Syne

1758 John Dyer, poet, dies

1758 Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71

1757 William Blake, English poet/painter, Songs of Innocence and Experience

1757 Jacobus Bellamy, Zealand poet

1757 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet, Medea, Yttersa Domen

1756 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature, Disease of Scientists

1755 Anne Grant, Scottish Poet

1754 George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet, Everlasting Mercy

1754 Friedrich von Hagedorn, poet (Fabeln und Erzahlungen), dies at 46

1754 Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet

1754 Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator, Al Signor di Montgolfier

1753 Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet

1752 Thomas Chatterton, English poet, Christabel

1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village

1751 William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies

1750 Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet

1750 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Scots poems

1750 Miklos Revai, Hungarian linguistic/poet

1749 Charlotte Smith, English Poet

1749 Vittoria A. Alfieri, Italian count/poet, Maria Stuarda

1746 Bernardus Bosch, Dutch Patriot/poet/writer, baptised

1746 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet, church songs

1746 Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46

1744 Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet

1744 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28

1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56

1743 Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46

1743 Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet

1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright and poet, dies

1742 William Somerville, English Poet

1742 Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet

1741 Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet, O Uraguai

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

1740 Thomas Tickell, poet, dies

1740 Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet, Buccolica

1738 Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author and poet, Sara Burgerhart

1738 Jacques Delille, French Poet

1738 John Pindar, physician/poet

1737 Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies

1736 Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies

1735 James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher, Essay on Truth

1734 Filinto Elisio, Francisco M do Nascimento, Portuguese poet

1733 Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44

1733 Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet

1732 John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47

1731 William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet, His Task,

1731 William Cowper, English lawyer/poet, John Gilpin,

1731 Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet, O Falso Heroismo

1730 Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies

1729 Richard Blackmore, English Poet

1729 Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64

1729 Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet

1729 Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet, Il Giorno

1729 Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies

1728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England, Pleasures of Melancholy

1728 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet

1727 Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70

1726 John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies

1725 Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet, Geistliche Kantaten

1724 Christopher Anstey, English Poet

1724 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet

1723 Johann A. Cramer, prime minister/poet

1722 Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist, Ceremony of Carols

1722 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60

1721 William Collins, Chichester England, Mayor-Chichester, poet

1721 Mark Akenside, English Poet

1721 Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36

1721 Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies

1721 Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet

1720 Johann P Uz, German poet, Lyrische Poem

1719 Joseph Addison, English poet, writer, and secretary of state, dies at 47

1717 Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies

1716 Thomas Gray, English poet, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

1715 John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet, Frisianche rymlery

1715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies

1715 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet, Temple of Real Poetry

1715 Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet and novelist, Fables and Tales

1715 Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet, Der Fruhling

1714 William Shenstone, English Poet

1714 Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80

1714 Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet, The Seas

1713 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34

1713 Onno Zwier van Haren, Frisian poet, Fatherland

1712 Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77

1712 John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63

1711 Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet

1711 Katharina Lescaille, Netherlands Sappho, poet, dies at 61

1711 Nicolas Boileau, French Poet

1711 Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager and Atalante), dies at 22

1710 Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet, Human Life

1709 Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies

1709 John Philips, English Poet

1708 Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet, Versuch einiger Poem

1707 Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74

1707 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53

1704 Istvan Gyongyosi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemeny), dies in battle

1702 Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41

1700 John Dryden, English Poet

1700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies

1699 Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53

1699 Robert Blair, Scottish poet, Grave

1697 Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet, wrote in blood

1697 Constantine Huygens, Jr., Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried

1697 Richard Savage, poet

1697 Richard Savage, poet, dies

1696 Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies

1695 Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72

1695 Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73

1695 Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies

1694 Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet

1694 Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies

1694 Hans A. Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe

1692 Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet

1691 Isaac de Benserade, French Poet

1689 Philipp von Zesen, German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70

1689 Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan

1689 Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet

1688 Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet, Fight of Kings and Mice

1687 Renatus Rapinus, Rene Rapin, French poet (Jansenisme), dies

1687 Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies

1687 Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet, Abraham the Patriarch

1687 Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90

1685 Geeraerdt Burns, theologist, poet and historian, dies at 59

1685 John Gay, English poet, Beggar's Opera

1685 Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet, Tragedy of Zara

1684 Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright, Puiterveense Helleveeg

1684 Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37

1683 Edward Young, English poet, Revenge, Complaint

1680 Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies

1680 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies

1679 Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies

1679 Johan Runius, Swedish poet, Dudaim

1679 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91

1678 Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57

1678 Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70

1677 Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies

1676 John Philips, English Poet

1676 Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64

1675 William Somerville, English Poet

1674 John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65

1674 Robert Herrick, Massachusetts, British poet, Together

1674 Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies

1674 Lars Johnstown, Lasse Lucidor, Swedish poet, dies at 35

1674 Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate, Jane Shore, Tamerlane

1674 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52

1674 Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French poet, Atree et Thyeste

1674 Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58

1673 John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle

1673 Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57

1672 Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown)

1672 Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73

1671 Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate, Love's Last Shift

1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright and poet, Sacred Odes and Songs

1669 Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42

1669 Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31

1668 John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate

1668 William Davenant, English Poet

1667 Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies

1666 Alexander Brome, British poet

1666 Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies

1665 Benjamin Neukirch, German poet, Herrn von Hofmannswaldau

1664 Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44

1664 Matthew Prior, English poet

1664 Andreas Gryphius, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius', dies at age 47

1663 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet, Obras Dramaticas

1661 Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet/historian/vicar, dies

1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet

1660 Peter Rabus, poet/translator, Liberated Britanje

1660 Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54

1659 Simon Dach, German poet, dies

1658 Jacobus Revius, Reefsen, theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72

1658 Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies

1658 Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at 50

1658 Jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter

1656 Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet, Gradus ad Parnassum

1655 Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)

1654 Richard Blackmore, English Poet

1654 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet

1652 Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved

1651 Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet, dies at 68

1651 Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist, Primero Sueno

1651 Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies

1650 Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet and writer, dies

1650 Richard Crashaw, English Poet

1649 Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36

1648 Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60

1648 Vincent Voiture, French Poet

1648 John Luyken, poet/etcher, Duytse Lyre

1648 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40

1648 Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63

1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65

1647 John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet, Bellone aen bant

1646 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53

1646 Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, Silesian poet

1645 Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64

1644 Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies

1640 Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45

1639 Martin Opitz, German poet and historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41

1639 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70

1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies

1639 Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake

1638 Lars Johnstown, Swedish poet

1638 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56

1638 Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright

1637 Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet, Friend of Abandoned Child

1637 Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54

1637 Ben Jonson, English Poet

1636 Nicolas Boileau, French Poet

1635 Lope Felix de Vega, playwright and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72

1635 Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50

1634 John Marston, English Poet

1633 Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/Wolfenbuttel/poet

1633 George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39

1632 Kaspar von Stieler, German poet, Teutsche Wolredner

1632 Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures), dies

1631 John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England, All for Love

1631 John Dryden, English poet/playwright, Heroic Stanzas

1631 John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)

1630 Charles Cotton, English Poet

1628 Constantine Huygens, Jr., Dutch poet, painter and cartoonist

1627 Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41

1627 Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet and writer, dies

1626 Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist, poet and historian

1626 Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51

1625 James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58

1622 Henry Vaughan, English poet, Silex Scintillans

1622 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns

1621 Renatus Rapinus, Rene Rapin, French jesuit/poet, Hortorum libri IV

1621 Jean de la Fontaine, French poet, Fables

1621 Andrew Marvell, born in England, poet, To His Coy Mistress

1620 Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam

1619 Samuel Daniel, English Poet

1619 Philipp von Zesen, German poet and historian, Amsterdam

1619 Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53

1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason

1618 Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33

1616 Andreas Gryphius, born in Glogow, Silesia, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius'

1616 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet, buried at 68

1615 Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet and writer (Comfort of Soles), dies

1615 Jan Zoet, actor, playwright and poet, Parnasssus aan 't Y

1613 Isaac de Benserade, French Poet

1613 Mathurin Regnier, French poet (Macette), dies

1612 Justus G. Schottel, Schottelius, German poet

1612 Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist, Hudibras, baptized

1610 Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet and historian

1609 John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier

1608 John Milton, London, poet/puritan, Paradise Lost

1608 Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies

1607 Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, Nurnberg Germany, poet, Poetischer Trichter

1607 Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52

1607 Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78

1606 Lorenzo Lippi, Perlone Zipoli, poet/painter

1606 Edmund Waller, England, poet, Penshust

1605 Daniel von Czepko, German poet

1605 Simon Dach, German poet

1604 Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies

1602 Paul Melissus, Paul Schede, German poet/composer, dies at 62

1600 Baki, Turkish royal poet (Davan, Ghazalijjat), dies at about 74

1599 Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46

1598 Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St. Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58

1597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"

1597 Vincent Voiture, French Poet

1596 Vredius, Olivier de Wree, Flemish historian/poet/mayor

1596 Constantine Huygens, Dutch poet/diplomat, Delightful Folly

1596 Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84

1595 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48

1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51

1595 Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest

1595 Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet

1595 Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged

1593 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet, Pianto d'Italia

1593 George Herbert, English metaphysical poet, 5 Mystical Songs

1592 Francis Quarles, English poet, Argalus and Parthenia, Emblems

1591 Juan de la Cruz, de Yepes, Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies

1591 Robert Herrick, England, poet, Gather ye rosebuds, baptized

1591 Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies

1590 Samuel Ampzing, poet, Taelbericht der Netherlands Spellinge

1589 Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet (Carminum Liber I), dies at 57

1589 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright and poet

1587 Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist, Jephtha

1586 Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32

1586 Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn

1585 William Drummond, Scottish Poet

1585 Gerbrant A. Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright, Klucht van de Koe

1584 Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, Oden und Gesange

1584 Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet, Muiderkring

1583 Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet

1582 Playwright and poet William Shakespeare weds Anne Hathaway

1582 Phienas Fletcher, poet

1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet, Euphormio's Satyricon

1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet, Argenis

1581 Thomas Overbury, poet, baptized

1580 Francisco Gomez de Quevado y Villegas, poet/satirist, Vida del Buscon

1580 Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies

1577 Jacob Cats, Father Cats, Dutch grand pensionary/poet, Houwelyck

1576 John Marston, English Poet

1574 Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet

1573 Mathurin Regnier, French poet, Macette

1572 Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72

1572 Ben Jonson, England, playwright and poet, Volpone, Alchemist

1568 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, Citt del sole

1567 Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician

1566 Marcus A Vida, Marcus Hieronymus, Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies

1564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus

1562 Lope Felix de Vega, born in Madrid, Spain, dramatist/poet, Angelica, Arcadia

1560 Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, German poet (Opera omnia), dies

1556 Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing

1556 Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer

1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61

1556 Lieven van der Maude, Ammonius, South Netherlands poet, dies at 70

1554 Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier, Arcadia

1552 Theodore-Agrippa d'Aubigne, French/Swiss historian/poet, Tragiques

1550 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64

1549 Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet, Hertspiegel

1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet

1547 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet

1547 Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29

1545 Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, Dutch politician/poet

1544 Torquato Tasso, born in Italy, Renaissance poet, Aminta, Apologia

1542 Juan de la Cruz, de Yepes, Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint

1540 Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies

1539 Paul Melissus, German poet/composer

1538 Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet, Trattato

1536 Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle

1536 Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24

1533 Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57

1532 Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet, Les amours de Meline

1531 Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37

1530 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies

1529 John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69

1528 Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, Neo latin poet, Collected Works

1525 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49

1524 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73

1523 Pierre de Ronsard, poet

1523 Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35

1520 Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies

1517 Jacques Peletier, du Mans, French poet/scientist

1511 Janus Secundus, neo latin poet, Basia

1502 Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies

1501 Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies

1501 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59

1500 Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns

1495 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet, Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione

1492 Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright

1488 Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot

1488 Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet, Silvae

1485 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet

1485 Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], born in South Netherland, poet

1475 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet, Le Api

1474 Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet, Orlando Furioso

1472 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura', dies at 68

1472 Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37

1463 French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris

1461 Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet

1459 Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies

1458 Mapheus Vegius, Maffeo Vegio, Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies

1458 Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies

1456 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet, Arcadia

1450 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet

1441 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet and author, Mahbub al-kulub

1434 Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator

1432 Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet, Morgante

1404 Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura'

1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, English Poet

1398 Inigo Lopez, Spain, marques de Santillana, poet, Comedieta de Ponza

1375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies

1374 Francesco Petrarca, Petracco, Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69

1374 Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69

1361 Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69

1336 Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux

1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura

1324 Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies

1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56

1304 Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet, Italia Mia

1297 Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St. Truiden, dies at about 86

1294 Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies

1292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies

1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet

1273 Rumi, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature, dies

1272 Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies

1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, Divina Commedia

1253 Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies

1236 Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies

1209 Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies

1207 Rumi, born in Balkh, Khorasan, now Afghanistan, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature

1164 Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies

1131 Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies

1101 Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64

1075 Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet

1048 Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra

1036 Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher

1006 Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet, Monadjat

990 Ekkehart II, Palatinus, monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies

965 Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered

912 Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71

826 Theodorus Studites, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies

772 Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow

709 Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, English abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 69

615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies

460 Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poet, dies

70 Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman leader/poet, Bucolica, Aeneis

39 Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet, Bellum Civile

17 Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies


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