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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