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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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