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1996 Death - Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor, dies at 59

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

1996 Death - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82

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

1995 Death - Jacques Molicard, translator/Navigator, dies at 62

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

1995 Death - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68

1995 Death - Igor Hajek, translator/writer, dies at 64

1995 Death - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85

1994 Death - Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77

1994 Death - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58

1993 Death - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72

1993 Death - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72

1992 Death - Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79

1992 Death - Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85

1987 Death - John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73

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

1979 Death - Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65

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

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

1955 Death - Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82

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

1949 Birthday - Carlien Brouwer, translator/missing since Jan 6, 1994

1946 Death - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84

1944 Birthday - Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover

1937 Birthday - Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor

1936 Birthday - August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator

1935 Birthday - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar

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

1933 Birthday - Jacques Molicard, translator and navigator

1931 Birthday - Igor Hajek, translator/writer

1930 Birthday - 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'

1927 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator

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

1926 Death - Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60

1926 Birthday - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator

1922 Birthday - Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator

1922 Birthday - Donald L. Keene, born in New York City, Japanese translator/critic

1921 Birthday - Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator, Hedda Gabler

1921 Birthday - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator

1914 Birthday - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator

1914 Birthday - Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum

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

1909 Birthday - Kenton Kilmer, poet and translator

1907 Birthday - Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer, Russia Black on White

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

1902 Birthday - Langston Hughes, poet/translator, Weary Blues

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

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

1899 Death - Carl A E Ahlqvist, A Oksanen, Finnish translator, dies at 63

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

1889 Birthday - Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese and Japanese

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

1882 Birthday - Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyrologist/translator

1881 Birthday - Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator, Enfantines

1873 Birthday - Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman

1873 Birthday - Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder, New Taalgids

1873 Birthday - Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator, I speak beschaafd Dutch

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

1866 Death - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, dies at 65

1861 Birthday - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton England, Russian-English translator

1861 Death - Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/translator/forger, dies at 69

1852 Death - Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69

1849 Birthday - Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic, Father and Son

1845 Death - John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81

1844 Death - Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies

1835 Death - Henry Doeff, translator (Dutch-Japanese dictionary), dies at 57

1830 Birthday - Eelco Refer, linguist, Dictionary for the Dutch translator

1821 Birthday - Richard Burton, explorer/translator, Arabian Nights

1806 Death - Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74

1801 Birthday - Edward William Lane, translator, Thousand and 1 Nights

1800 Birthday - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, Great Hung dictionary

1794 Death - Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62

1783 Birthday - Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer

1783 Birthday - Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homerus

1778 Death - Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83

1767 Birthday - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic

1754 Birthday - Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator, Al Signor di Montgolfier

1729 Birthday - Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator

1702 Death - Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41

1695 Birthday - Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator and historian

1674 Death - Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies

1666 Death - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies

1660 Birthday - Peter Rabus, poet/translator, Liberated Britanje

1607 Death - Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78

1604 Birthday - John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized

1569 Death - Miles Coverdale, English bible translator Great bible, dies at 80

1568 Death - Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80

1550 Birthday - John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator

1513 Birthday - Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne

1480 Death - Eleonora van Austrian, translator, dies

1472 Death - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37

1434 Birthday - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator

1384 Death - John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies

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