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2006 Stanley Kunitz, American Poet

2004 Donald Justice, American Poet

2004 Carl Rakosi, German Poet

2004 Mattie Stepanek, poet, Heartsongs, dies at 13

2004 Anthony Hecht, American Poet

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

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 Allen Ginsberg, beat poet

1997 James Laughlin, American 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, 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, 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, poet, dies at 51

1996 Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84

1996 Amelia Rosselli, poet, 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, 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, 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, poet, dies at 74

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

1994 Mary Durack, poet, dies at 81

1994 Donna J. Stone, poet, dies of heart failure at 61

1994 Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77

1994 Saeedi Sirjani, poet, dies at 64

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 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 Arthur C Jacobs, poet, dies at 57

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 Hans Faverey, poet, dies

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 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, Czech 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 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 Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, dies at 44

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

1976 German DR 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 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 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 US 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 Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78

1970 Nelly Sachs, German Poet

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 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

1968 Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet

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, Fr 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 Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter, poet and sculptor, dies at 78

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 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 Randall Jarrell, American Poet

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 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], Switz, 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], Ital 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, Nigerian Poet

1959 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet

1958 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet (...de boer h˜ ploegde voort), 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 George Santayana, U.S. philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88

1952 Rita Dove, American Poet

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

1952 Andrew Motion, English Poet

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

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

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

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

1946 Gertrude Stein, US/Fren 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, Czech/German/US poet and writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54

1945 Paul Valery, French poet (Le cimetiere Marin, Mon Faust), dies at 73

1945 Josef Hora, Czech 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 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, poet

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

1942 Douglas Dunn, Scottish Poet

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 David McFadden, Canadian Poet

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 Seamus Heaney, poet

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

1937 Arthur C Jacobs, poet

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

1937 Roger McGough, British Poet

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 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 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet

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], Russ poet/journalist, dies at 38

1933 Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet

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

1933 Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese Poet

1933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet, Bratsk Station

1933 Donna J Stone, poet

1933 Richard Brautigan, born in Tacoma, Washington, novelist/poet, Trout Fishing...

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 Riekus Waskowsky, poet

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 John Updike, born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, poet and novelist, Rabbit Run

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 Lali, poet

1931 Peter Levi, poet/writer

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 Saeedi Sirjani, poet

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, poet

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 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, Czech 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 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

1928 Elinor Wylie, American Poet

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, German Poet

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

1925 Donald Justice, American Poet

1925 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher

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 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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 Anthony Hecht, American 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 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, poet

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, poet

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 David Wright, poet

1920 Alexander Comfort, English poet and writer, Wreath for the Living

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 Edmond Rostand, French Poet

1918 Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poet, Doorstep

1918 Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr 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 Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

1918 John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies

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

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

1917 Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist

1917 Franfo Fortini, poet

1917 Antonio JdC Feijo, Port diplomat/poet (Cancioneiro Chinˆs), 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 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

1916 Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet

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 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 James Laughlin, American Poet

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 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, French Poet

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

1913 Mary Durack, poet

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