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Poet - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1327-04-06 |
Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura |
1336-04-26 |
Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux |
1463-01-05 |
French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris |
1598-09-22 |
Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel. |
1604-05-06 |
Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina. |
1668-04-13 |
John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate |
1689-07-01 |
Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan |
1775-10-18 |
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. |
1810-05-03 |
English poet Lord Byron swims the Hellespont (modern day Dardanelles) |
1850-11-19 |
Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth |
1873-07-10 |
French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol |
1876-06-02 |
Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary, is killed in Stara Planina |
1878-07-26 |
In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside. |
1883-11-03 |
American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture. |
1892-11-02 |
French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands |
1902-07-17 |
Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia |
1916-04-12 |
Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement boards submarine U-19 at Wilmshaven, Germany, bound for a rendezvous with the Aud at Tralee |
1916-04-21 |
Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement is discovered at McKenna's Fort and is arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary |
1944-06-17 |
Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London |
1950-05-22 |
Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize |
1955-10-07 |
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco. |
1958-04-18 |
A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum. |
1960-09-05 |
The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. |
1969-03-28 |
Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. |
1973-01-07 |
US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize |
1976-11-26 |
German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship |
1984-02-26 |
Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate |
1985-12-20 |
Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) |
1987-04-17 |
Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate |
1991-08-30 |
Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi |
1992-06-14 |
Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate |
1992-10-08 |
Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott |
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Poet - Notable Birthdays
Poet - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
70 |
Virgil, (Publius Vergilius Maro) Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Republican poet (Aeneid), (d. 19 BC) |
65 |
Horace, Venusia, Lucania, Roman Republian poet (Odes), (d. 8 BC) |
43 |
Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17) |
BC AD | |
39-11-03 |
Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile) |
40-03-01 |
Martial, Latin poet (d. 102) |
534-04-29 |
Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion |
772-03-01 |
Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow |
1036-12-19 |
Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher |
1037-01-25 |
Su Tung-p'o, [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19] |
1048-05-18 |
Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131) |
1071-10-22 |
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126) |
1075-02-16 |
Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet |
1140-05-28 |
Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207) |
1155-05-17 |
Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) |
1207-09-30 |
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273) |
1207-9-30 |
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Rumi: Poet of the Heart |
1265-05-09 |
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia) |
1291-10-31 |
Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet |
1304-07-20 |
Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet (Italia Mia) |
1394-11-24 |
Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465) |
1398-08-19 |
Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458) |
1414-08-18 |
Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492) |
1432-08-15 |
Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante) |
1434-08-29 |
Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator |
1441-02-09 |
Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub) |
1450-08-18 |
Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet |
1456-07-28 |
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Arcadia) |
1461-02-06 |
Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet |
1474-09-08 |
Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso) |
1475-10-20 |
Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api) |
1479-06-14 |
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552) |
1485-04-03 |
Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherland poet |
1488-01-06 |
Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (Silvae) |
1488-04-21 |
Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot |
1491-11-08 |
Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544) |
1493-11-11 |
Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569) |
1495-03-06 |
Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione) |
1503-06-28 |
Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556) |
1507-06-19 |
Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566) |
1511-11-14 |
Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia) |
1516-04-23 |
Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571) |
1517-07-25 |
Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist |
1523-09-11 |
Pierre de Ronsard, poet |
1524-02-04 |
Luis de Camões, Portugal's greatest poet. (d. 1580) |
1528-11-02 |
Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], Neo latin poet (Collected Works) |
1533-08-07 |
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595) |
1538-04-26 |
Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato) |
1539-12-20 |
Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer |
1540-06-11 |
Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594) |
1542-06-24 |
St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic, saint, priest and poet (d. 1591) |
1544-03-11 |
Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) |
1545-12-05 |
Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician/poet |
1547-09-16 |
Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet |
1547-09-22 |
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590) |
1548-03-18 |
Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet |
1549-03-11 |
Henric/Hendrik Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel) |
1552-02-08 |
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630) |
1552-06-18 |
Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637) |
1553-03-29 |
Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet (d. 1613 or 1614) |
1554-11-30 |
Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia) |
1555-12-04 |
Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) |
1556-08-10 |
Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer |
1561-07-11 |
Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627) |
1562-01-13 |
Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601) |
1562-11-25 |
Lope Felix de Vega, Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia) |
1564-02-06 |
Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus) |
1564-04-23 |
William Shakespeare, Stratford upon Avon, English Poet and playwright, traditionally regarded as his birthdate |
1564-04-26 |
William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, baptism, English playwright and poet |
1567-02-12 |
Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician |
1568-09-05 |
Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639) |
1569-10-18 |
Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625) |
1572-06-11 |
Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist) |
1574-09-18 |
Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet |
1575-08-14 |
Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629) |
1577-11-10 |
Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary/poet (Houwelyck) |
1578-03-02 |
George Sandys, English colonist and poet (d. 1644) |
1580-08-24 |
John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654) |
1581-06-18 |
Thomas Overbury, poet (baptized) |
1582-01-23 |
John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis) |
1582-01-28 |
John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon) |
1582-04-08 |
Phienas Fletcher, poet |
1583-11-24 |
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641) |
1584-02-12 |
Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring) |
1585-03-16 |
Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe) |
1585-12-13 |
William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649) |
1586-10-09 |
Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn |
1587-11-16 |
Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha) |
1589-02-05 |
Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet |
1589-02-05 |
Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669) |
1590-03-18 |
Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) |
1590-06-24 |
Samuel Ampzing, poet (Taelbericht der Neth Spellinge) |
1591-08-24 |
Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized) |
1592-05-08 |
Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems) |
1593-04-03 |
George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs) |
1593-08-23 |
Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia) |
1595-02-24 |
Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet |
1596-09-04 |
Constantine Huygens, Dutch poet/diplomat (Delightful Folly) |
1596-09-28 |
Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/poet/mayor |
1597-02-24 |
Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648) |
1597-12-23 |
Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" |
1605-07-29 |
Simon Dach, German poet |
1605-09-23 |
Daniel von Czepko, German poet |
1606-03-03 |
Edmund Waller, England, poet (Penshust) |
1606-05-06 |
Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter |
1607-11-01 |
Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658) |
1608-12-09 |
John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost), (d. 1674) |
1609-02-10 |
John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier |
1610-03-01 |
Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian |
1612-02-08 |
Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized) |
1612-06-23 |
Justus G Schottel, [Schottelius], German poet |
1613-06-16 |
John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658) |
1613-11-05 |
Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691) |
1615-03-06 |
Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y) |
1619-10-08 |
Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam) |
1621-03-31 |
Andrew Marvell, England, poet (To His Coy Mistress) |
1621-07-08 |
Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables) |
1621-11-03 |
Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV) |
1622-01-20 |
Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns |
1622-04-17 |
Henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans) |
1626-07-25 |
Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian |
1628-03-10 |
Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist |
1630-04-28 |
Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687) |
1631-08-09 |
John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas) [NS=Aug 19] |
1631-08-19 |
John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (All for Love) |
1632-08-02 |
Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) |
1634-01-16 |
Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716) |
1636-11-01 |
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711) |
1637-08-16 |
Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706) |
1638-01-01 |
Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright |
1638-01-24 |
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706) |
1638-10-18 |
Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet |
1642-12-30 |
Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707) |
1646-02-04 |
Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, Silesian poet |
1647-04-01 |
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680) |
1647-05-03 |
John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Bellone aen bant) |
1648-04-07 |
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721) |
1648-04-16 |
John Luyken, poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre) |
1651-11-12 |
Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno) |
1652-03-03 |
Thomas Otway, England, playwright/poet (Venice Preserved) |
1653-08-09 |
John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683) |
1654-01-20 |
Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet |
1656-11-09 |
Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum) |
1658-02-13 |
Jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter |
1660-12-12 |
Peter Rabus, poet/translator (Liberated Britanje) |
1661-04-11 |
Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet |
1661-04-16 |
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715) |
1663-11-26 |
Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas) |
1664-07-21 |
Matthew Prior, English poet |
1665-03-27 |
Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau) |
1666-12-26 |
Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism, founder and General of Khalsa Army, social reformist and poet(d. 1708) |
1671-04-06 |
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs) |
1671-11-06 |
Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift) |
1674-06-20 |
Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane) |
1674-10-15 |
Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together) |
1675-09-02 |
William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742) |
1676-07-14 |
Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763) |
1679-06-01 |
Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim) |
1680-09-22 |
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747) |
1683-07-03 |
Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint) |
1684-11-16 |
Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg) |
1685-02-10 |
Aaron Hill, English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara) |
1685-09-16 |
John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera) |
1686-10-15 |
Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758) |
1687-07-03 |
Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) |
1688-05-21 |
Alexander Pope, London, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d.1744) |
1688-09-05 |
Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Fight of Kings & Mice) |
1689-01-29 |
Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet |
1692-02-29 |
John Byrom, English poet (d. 1763) |
1692-11-06 |
Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763) |
1692-11-21 |
Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet |
1694-06-20 |
Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe |
1697-01-16 |
Richard Savage, English poet |
1697-11-25 |
Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (wrote in blood) |
1698-01-03 |
Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782) |
1699-04-17 |
Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave) |
1703-03-05 |
Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768) |
1704-11-17 |
Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet |
1708-04-23 |
Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem) |
1710-02-21 |
Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life) |
1711-11-19 |
Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet |
1713-04-02 |
Onno Zwier van Haren, Frisian poet (Fatherland) |
1714-01-01 |
Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet (The Seas) |
1714-11-13 |
William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763) |
1715-03-07 |
Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759) |
1715-07-04 |
Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet/novelist (Fables & Tales) |
1715-07-25 |
Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry) |
1715-12-08 |
John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery) |
1716-12-26 |
Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard) |
1716-12-26 |
Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803) |
1719-01-28 |
Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749) |
1720-10-03 |
Johann P Uz, German poet (Lyrische Poem) |
1721-07-09 |
Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781) |
1721-08-21 |
Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet |
1721-11-09 |
Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770) |
1721-12-25 |
William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet |
1722-04-11 |
Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols) |
1722-11-22 |
Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794) |
1723-01-27 |
Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet |
1724-07-02 |
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet |
1725-02-25 |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten) |
1728-01-06 |
Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet |
1728-01-09 |
Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy) |
1729-05-23 |
Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno) |
1729-07-05 |
Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet |
1729-09-27 |
Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist (d. 1800) |
1731-11-15 |
William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS] |
1731-11-26 |
William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS] |
1731-12-12 |
Erasmus Darwin, Newark-on-Trent, U.K., influential English physician, poet, philosopher, and botanist (and grandfather of Charles Darwin) |
1735-10-25 |
James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth) |
1738-05-09 |
John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet |
1738-06-22 |
Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813) |
1738-07-24 |
Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart) |
1740-03-06 |
Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica) |
1740-08-15 |
Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815) |
1741-04-08 |
Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai) |
1742-03-19 |
Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet |
1743-07-14 |
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816) |
1743-12-23 |
Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803) |
1744-08-25 |
Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet |
1745-02-20 |
Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813) |
1746-03-27 |
Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767) |
1746-08-08 |
Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church songs) |
1746-09-04 |
Bernardus Bosch, Dutch Patriot/poet/writer, baptised |
1749-01-16 |
Vittorio A Alfieri, Italian count/poet (Maria Stuarda) |
1750-09-05 |
Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scots poems) |
1750-10-31 |
Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet |
1750-11-07 |
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819) |
1751-02-20 |
Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826) |
1752-01-02 |
Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) |
1752-11-20 |
Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel) |
1753-02-06 |
Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet |
1753-05-08 |
Phillis Wheatley, American poet who was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman. |
1754-02-19 |
Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier) |
1754-06-16 |
Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800) |
1754-12-24 |
George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy) |
1756-09-07 |
Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature (Disease of Scientists) |
1757-03-16 |
Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen) |
1757-11-12 |
Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Zealand poet |
1757-11-28 |
William Blake, London, poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience), (d. 1827) |
1759-01-25 |
Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796) |
1759-11-10 |
Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805) |
1761-01-23 |
Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide) |
1761-12-24 |
Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808) |
1762-09-24 |
William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets) |
1763-05-11 |
János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845) |
1763-07-30 |
Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem) |
1764-01-01 |
John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet (Minderjarige Zangster) |
1764-02-11 |
Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus) |
1765-06-06 |
Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij) |
1767-01-24 |
Antony CW Staring, Dutch lawyer/poet (Jaromir) |
1767-09-05 |
August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic |
1768-09-04 |
Francois René de Chateaubriand, France, poet/novelist (Atala) |
1769-02-09 |
Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802) |
1770-04-07 |
William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude) |
1771-08-15 |
Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake) |
1771-12-26 |
Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus) |
1772-04-11 |
Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo) |
1772-10-21 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), (d. 1834) |
1774-08-12 |
Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson |
1774-09-08 |
Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet |
1775-02-10 |
Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist |
1777-02-12 |
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843) |
1777-07-27 |
Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic) |
1777-10-18 |
Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea) |
1777-12-14 |
Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo) |
1778-01-26 |
Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis) |
1778-02-06 |
Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis) |
1778-09-08 |
Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842) |
1779-05-28 |
Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852) |
1779-08-01 |
Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer pf the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner" |
1779-11-14 |
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850) |
1781-01-26 |
Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) |
1781-03-17 |
Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849) |
1781-11-29 |
Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas) |
1782-10-11 |
Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw) |
1783-01-12 |
Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen) |
1783-01-29 |
Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9] |
1783-02-09 |
Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852) |
1783-12-11 |
Max von Schenkendorf, German poet |
1784-02-27 |
Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine) |
1784-07-27 |
Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839) |
1784-12-07 |
Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842) |
1785-03-07 |
Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed) |
1786-06-20 |
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859) |
1786-09-18 |
Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer |
1788-01-22 |
Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan) |
1788-03-10 |
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild) |
1788-04-02 |
Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862) |
1788-05-16 |
Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866) |
1790-01-09 |
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens) |
1790-01-19 |
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna) |
1790-09-20 |
Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet (Toraidas) |
1791-09-23 |
Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt) |
1791-10-26 |
Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity) |
1791-12-14 |
Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823) |
1792-08-04 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais) |
1793-07-03 |
John Claire, England, poet |
1793-07-13 |
John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar) |
1793-09-25 |
Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet |
1794-11-03 |
William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis) |
1795-10-31 |
John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), (d. 1821) |
1796-02-01 |
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865) |
1796-09-19 |
Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849) |
1796-12-19 |
Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright |
1796-12-27 |
Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869) |
1797-10-13 |
William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet |
1797-12-13 |
Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt) |
1798-01-29 |
Henry Neele, London, poet |
1798-04-08 |
Dionysios Solomos, poet |
1798-06-29 |
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837) |
1798-12-24 |
Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz) |
1799-03-07 |
Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song) |
1799-03-20 |
Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839) |
1799-05-23 |
Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt) |
1799-06-06 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS) |
1799-11-29 |
Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator/poet (Concord Days) |
1800-03-02 |
Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844) |
1800-10-25 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby) |
1800-12-03 |
France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici) |
1800-12-04 |
Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen) |
1800-12-17 |
Gergely Czuczor, Hung/Czech poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary) |
1801-11-24 |
Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860) |
1802-06-02 |
Adrian van der Hoop Jr, Dutch poet/critic |
1802-07-26 |
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician |
1802-08-13 |
Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser) |
1802-08-14 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty) |
1803-01-15 |
Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811) |
1803-06-30 |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet |
1803-10-11 |
Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen) |
1803-11-18 |
Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet |
1803-12-05 |
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, Russian poet (d. 1873) |
1804-01-21 |
Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887) |
1804-01-31 |
Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic |
1804-02-05 |
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet |
1804-05-01 |
Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860) |
1804-08-30 |
Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [OS] |
1804-09-08 |
Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875) |
1804-09-11 |
Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [NS] |
1806-01-05 |
Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet (La Belgium) |
1806-03-06 |
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Coxhoe Hall England, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese) |
1806-06-13 |
Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian |
1807-02-27 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha) |
1807-03-07 |
Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist) |
1807-04-01 |
Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic |
1807-12-17 |
John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound) |
1807-12-22 |
Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873) |
1808-03-12 |
Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet |
1808-03-25 |
Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes) |
1809-01-01 |
John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet) |
1809-02-07 |
Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden) |
1809-06-15 |
François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866) |
1809-07-08 |
Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja) |
1809-08-06 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Somersby, England, Poet Laureate of Great Britain |
1809-08-23 |
Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land) |
1810-03-10 |
Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886) |
1810-06-30 |
Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism) |
1810-12-25 |
Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892) |
1811-08-31 |
Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus) |
1811-11-07 |
Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet) |
1812-01-13 |
Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883) |
1812-05-07 |
Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper) |
1812-05-23 |
Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) |
1812-11-04 |
Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria) |
1813-08-05 |
Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet |
1813-11-13 |
Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro (1830-51) |
1813-11-30 |
Hermann Kurz, German author/poet |
1813-11-30 |
Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890) |
1814-02-25 |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS] |
1814-03-09 |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev [NS] |
1814-10-03 |
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon & other poems) |
1814-11-08 |
Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku) |
1815-04-24 |
Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) |
1816-04-22 |
Philip James Bailey, English poet (Festus) |
1817-01-14 |
Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna) |
1817-02-21 |
Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco) |
1817-03-02 |
Janos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda) |
1817-03-29 |
Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet |
1817-05-14 |
Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893) |
1817-08-24 |
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, writer and playwright (d. 1875) |
1817-09-05 |
Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS] |
1817-09-24 |
Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras) |
1818-04-06 |
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870) |
1818-05-01 |
Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet |
1818-10-28 |
Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS] |
1818-11-09 |
Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS] |
1819-01-01 |
Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold |
1819-02-22 |
James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist |
1819-05-31 |
Walt Whitman, West Hills New York, American poet (Leaves of Grass) |
1819-12-18 |
Yakov Petrovich Polonsky, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija) |
1819-12-23 |
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889) |
1820-01-17 |
Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) |
1820-01-22 |
Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet |
1820-03-17 |
Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897) |
1820-04-26 |
Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) |
1820-08-13 |
Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande) |
1820-12-05 |
Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892) |
1821-02-15 |
Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet |
1821-03-19 |
William Allingham, Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Irish poet (The Fairies, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland) |
1821-04-09 |
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil) |
1821-06-04 |
Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897) |
1821-07-21 |
Vasile Alecsandri, Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat |
1821-09-24 |
Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda) |
1821-12-10 |
Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny) |
1822-02-13 |
Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet |
1822-03-13 |
Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet |
1822-12-24 |
Matthew Arnold, Laleham, Middlesex, poet/critic (Dover Beach), (d. 1888) |
1823-01-01 |
Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849) |
1823-07-23 |
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet |
1824-01-08 |
Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861) |
1824-03-15 |
Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising) |
1824-04-05 |
Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman) |
1824-09-04 |
Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary) |
1824-09-28 |
Francis Turner Palgrave, England, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford) |
1825-01-11 |
Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer (d. 1878 |
1826-03-20 |
Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor |
1826-05-03 |
Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet |
1826-08-07 |
Carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi) |
1827-04-16 |
Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879) |
1827-09-05 |
Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849) |
1828-02-12 |
George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat) |
1828-05-12 |
Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite figure |
1828-12-23 |
Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter) |
1829-01-21 |
Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet |
1829-11-21 |
Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet |
1830-03-08 |
João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896) |
1830-03-24 |
Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889) |
1830-03-26 |
Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer |
1830-04-05 |
Alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever) |
1830-05-06 |
Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet |
1830-05-25 |
Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International) |
1830-09-08 |
Frederic Mistral, Maillane, France, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904), (d. 1914) |
1830-12-05 |
Christina Rossetti, London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away) |
1830-12-10 |
Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (d. 1886) |
1831-04-08 |
Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet |
1832-04-15 |
Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908) |
1832-10-12 |
Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin) |
1833-02-07 |
Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas) |
1834-03-24 |
William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist |
1834-07-01 |
Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908) |
1834-10-10 |
Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit) |
1834-11-10 |
Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro) |
1835-01-17 |
Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian bishop/poet/dialectologist |
1835-01-18 |
Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet |
1835-05-30 |
Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden) |
1836-02-17 |
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870) |
1836-05-17 |
Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923) |
1836-11-18 |
William Schwenck Gilbert, London, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan) |
1837-01-04 |
Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau) |
1837-02-24 |
Rosalía de Castro, Santiago de Compostela Galician writer and poet ('Séculos Escuros') (d.1885) |
1837-04-05 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon) |
1837-04-10 |
Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867) |
1838-03-31 |
Leon Dierx, French poet |
1838-06-17 |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Bengali writer and poet (Vande Mataram) |
1839-03-16 |
René F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901) |
1839-04-18 |
Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds) |
1839-11-16 |
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908) |
1840-01-18 |
Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer |
1840-03-18 |
William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901) |
1840-06-02 |
Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) |
1840-06-03 |
Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight) |
1840-09-09 |
Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer |
1840-11-15 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27] |
1840-11-25 |
Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement) |
1840-11-27 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15] |
1840-12-11 |
Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872) |
1841-03-07 |
Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina, poet (El nido de condores) |
1841-05-22 |
Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909) |
1841-07-23 |
Edward John Armstrong, poet |
1841-08-17 |
Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet |
1842-01-12 |
Francois Coppee, French poet |
1842-02-03 |
Sidney Clopton Lanier, US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame) |
1842-03-10 |
Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif |
1842-03-18 |
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898) |
1842-04-18 |
Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice) |
1842-04-25 |
Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila) |
1842-06-02 |
Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher |
1842-10-01 |
Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur) |
1842-12-22 |
Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet |
1843-07-31 |
Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918) |
1843-12-21 |
Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898) |
1843-12-24 |
Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886) |
1844-03-30 |
Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur) |
1844-06-03 |
Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet |
1844-07-28 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover) |
1844-08-29 |
Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929) |
1844-10-23 |
Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche) |
1845-04-24 |
Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919) |
1845-07-18 |
Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875) |
1845-08-10 |
Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher (d. 1904) |
1846-03-11 |
Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet |
1846-05-25 |
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900) |
1847-03-14 |
Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes) |
1848-01-05 |
Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet |
1848-02-04 |
[Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, Fren playwright/poet (Jeune Croyances) |
1848-04-12 |
José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1880) |
1848-08-12 |
Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) |
1849-02-02 |
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921) |
1849-02-04 |
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux) |
1849-07-22 |
Emma Lazarus, New York NY, poet ("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty) |
1849-08-23 |
William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903) |
1849-08-27 |
Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno) |
1849-10-07 |
James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man) |
1850-01-15 |
Mihail Eminesco, [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis) |
1850-02-20 |
Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931) |
1850-06-27 |
Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke) |
1850-07-18 |
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939) |
1850-09-09 |
Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi |
1850-11-05 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919) |
1852-03-15 |
Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress |
1852-04-23 |
Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of American Acad of Poets Award 1937) |
1853-01-11 |
Gustav Falke, German author/poet (Der Mann im Nebel) |
1853-01-28 |
Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician |
1853-12-14 |
Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas) |
1854-10-20 |
Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) |
1855-02-25 |
Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886) |
1855-04-09 |
Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet |
1855-05-21 |
Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) |
1855-09-01 |
Innokenty Annensky, Omsk, Russian Empire, poet, critic and interpreter (poètes maudits) |
1855-12-31 |
Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet |
1856-01-09 |
Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar) |
1856-01-09 |
Lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears) |
1856-03-04 |
Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877) |
1856-08-20 |
Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania) [NS Sept 1] |
1857-03-22 |
Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse) |
1857-06-02 |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917) |
1858-04-04 |
Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915) |
1858-06-01 |
William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream) |
1858-08-02 |
William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest) |
1858-09-27 |
Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet (Pyrnar) |
1859-01-13 |
Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943) |
1859-03-26 |
A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad) |
1859-05-06 |
Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice) |
1859-05-26 |
Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life) |
1859-06-10 |
Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song) |
1859-07-06 |
Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916) |
1859-10-15 |
Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro) |
1859-12-21 |
Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre) |
1860-08-16 |
Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas) |
1860-12-23 |
Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I) |
1861-04-15 |
Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929) |
1861-05-06 |
Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913) |
1861-09-17 |
Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch) |
1861-11-21 |
Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet |
1862-02-17 |
Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922) |
1862-03-02 |
John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays) |
1862-05-05 |
Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya) |
1862-06-01 |
Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas) |
1862-06-06 |
Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet |
1862-07-24 |
Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman) |
1862-08-29 |
Maurice Maeterlinck, Ghent Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), (d. 1949) |
1862-11-04 |
Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes) |
1863-02-17 |
Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927) |
1863-03-12 |
Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curacao, poet |
1863-04-29 |
Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933) |
1863-06-10 |
Louis M A Couperus, Dutch poet/writer (Eline Vere) |
1863-06-18 |
George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909) |
1863-08-14 |
Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940) |
1863-12-16 |
George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan) |
1864-02-06 |
John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists) |
1864-02-17 |
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda) |
1864-03-18 |
Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten) |
1864-04-30 |
Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913) |
1864-07-20 |
Erik Karlfeldt, Sweden, poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous) |
1864-10-14 |
Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental) |
1864-11-26 |
Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem) |
1865-02-12 |
Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland) |
1865-02-28 |
Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy) |
1865-05-15 |
Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion) |
1865-06-11 |
Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam) |
1865-06-13 |
William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923) |
1865-09-11 |
Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929) |
1865-11-27 |
Jose Asunción Silva, Colombia, poet (Nocturno III) |
1866-02-16 |
Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [NS=Feb 28] |
1866-02-28 |
Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16] |
1866-04-11 |
Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953) |
1867-01-18 |
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916) |
1867-03-15 |
Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems) |
1867-06-17 |
Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922) |
1867-07-24 |
Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908) |
1867-08-02 |
Ernest C Dowson, British poet |
1867-08-16 |
Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely) |
1867-09-07 |
Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China) |
1867-10-14 |
Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku & tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads) |
1868-03-20 |
Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm) |
1868-04-01 |
Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac) |
1868-07-12 |
Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal) |
1868-08-06 |
Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909) |
1868-12-02 |
Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme) |
1869-07-08 |
William V Moody, US poet (Death of Eve, Faith Healer) |
1869-08-10 |
Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds) |
1869-08-23 |
Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology) |
1869-12-22 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey) |
1869-12-24 |
Henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest) |
1870-02-03 |
Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara) |
1870-02-20 |
Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) |
1870-03-04 |
Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944) |
1870-08-27 |
Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet |
1870-10-16 |
Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist |
1870-10-22 |
Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from San Francisco-Nobel 1933) |
1870-12-10 |
Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet) |
1870-12-20 |
Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Voices, Carmina) |
1871-02-05 |
Jovan Ducic, Serb poet (Blue Legends) |
1871-04-03 |
Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (El Florilegio) |
1871-04-16 |
John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea) |
1871-04-20 |
William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp) |
1871-06-17 |
Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania |
1871-11-01 |
Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900) |
1872-02-01 |
Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose |
1872-06-27 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak & Ivory) |
1872-11-09 |
Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941) |
1872-11-30 |
John McCrae, Guelph Ontario, Canadian physician, soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields) |
1873-01-09 |
Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934) |
1873-01-20 |
Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944) |
1873-02-22 |
Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher |
1873-03-04 |
Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904) |
1873-10-29 |
Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman |
1873-12-01 |
Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924) |
1874-01-16 |
Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee) |
1874-01-25 |
[William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, British novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage) |
1874-02-01 |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist |
1874-02-09 |
Amy Lowell, US poet/critic (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed) |
1874-03-20 |
Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945) |
1874-03-26 |
Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) |
1874-05-27 |
Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos) |
1875-07-26 |
Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939) |
1875-10-11 |
Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet (Beautiful Irine) |
1875-10-31 |
Seerp Anema, poet/writer (Dutch Coasts) |
1875-11-22 |
Georges Rency, Belgian poet |
1875-12-04 |
Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies) |
1875-12-06 |
Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941) |
1875-12-15 |
Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (d. 1899) |
1876-03-04 |
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947) |
1876-07-12 |
Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944) |
1876-08-14 |
Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Italian feminist/poet (Una Donna) |
1876-09-07 |
C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938) |
1876-09-18 |
Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Pesme) |
1876-12-04 |
Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems) |
1877-02-17 |
Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune) |
1877-02-21 |
Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist |
1877-02-26 |
Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet/writer (socialism) |
1877-03-10 |
David M Chumaceiro, Curacao, poet |
1877-06-11 |
Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909) |
1877-07-02 |
Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), (d.1962) |
1877-09-10 |
Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle) |
1877-11-09 |
Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher |
1877-11-14 |
René de Clerq, Flemish poet/author (Emergency Horn) |
1877-12-22 |
Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet |
1878-01-06 |
Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes) |
1878-01-16 |
Robert Garbe, German poet (Gorniek) |
1878-01-23 |
Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom) |
1878-03-10 |
Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea) |
1878-03-14 |
Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future) |
1878-06-01 |
John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) |
1878-07-06 |
Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926) |
1878-07-29 |
Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel) (d. 1937) |
1878-09-09 |
Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914) |
1878-10-24 |
Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram) |
1878-11-14 |
Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957) |
1878-11-27 |
Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d.1948). |
1878-12-07 |
Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair) |
1878-12-31 |
Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet (El Crimen del Otro) |
1879-06-02 |
Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam) |
1879-07-27 |
Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza) |
1879-10-02 |
Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order) |
1879-10-05 |
John Erskine, US, poet/pianist (Private Life of Helen of Troy) |
1879-11-10 |
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven) |
1879-11-19 |
Karel van den Oever, Flemish author/poet (Geuzenstad) |
1879-12-24 |
Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941) |
1880-05-01 |
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo) |
1880-08-22 |
Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916) |
1880-08-26 |
Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola) |
1880-09-16 |
Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman) |
1880-10-13 |
Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932) |
1880-10-14 |
Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Sak och sken) |
1880-11-16 |
Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28] |
1880-11-28 |
Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16] |
1880-12-28 |
Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet |
1881-01-04 |
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) |
1881-01-09 |
Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations) |
1881-02-14 |
William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud) |
1881-02-16 |
Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet) |
1881-02-27 |
Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild) |
1881-08-20 |
Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman |
1881-10-13 |
George Bacovia, [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer/painter |
1881-10-30 |
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941) |
1881-11-28 |
Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity) |
1881-12-08 |
Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems) |
1881-12-24 |
Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spain, poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956) |
1881-12-31 |
Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song) |
1882-02-02 |
James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake) |
1882-02-02 |
James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold) |
1882-06-01 |
John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln) |
1882-07-18 |
Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet/historian (Paraguay) |
1882-10-19 |
Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright |
1882-12-11 |
Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921) |
1882-12-22 |
Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright |
1883-01-06 |
Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings) |
1883-01-10 |
Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS] |
1883-01-21 |
Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet |
1883-03-16 |
Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958) |
1883-03-27 |
Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980) |
1883-05-19 |
Henricus WJM Keuls, Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp) |
1883-07-29 |
Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942) |
1883-09-17 |
William Carlos Williams, American poet |
1884-02-09 |
Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician) |
1884-02-14 |
Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974) |
1884-04-02 |
Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958)) |
1884-05-21 |
Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920) |
1884-08-08 |
Sara Teasdale, US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs") |
1884-11-05 |
James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist (Hassan) |
1884-11-10 |
Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/author (Bird Phoenix) |
1885-01-05 |
Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940) |
1885-08-18 |
Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964) |
1885-08-20 |
Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici) |
1885-08-26 |
Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will) |
1885-09-11 |
David Herbert Lawrence (DH), Eastwood Nottinghamshire, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (d. 1930) |
1885-10-01 |
Louis Untermeyer, NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems) |
1885-10-11 |
Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952) |
1885-10-28 |
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922) |
1885-10-30 |
Ezra Loomis Pound, Hailey Idaho, poet (Cantos), (d. 1972) |
1885-12-19 |
F S Flint, London England, translator/poet (imagist movement) |
1886-01-02 |
Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York) |
1886-01-03 |
John G Fletcher, US, poet (Epic of Arkansas) |
1886-03-03 |
Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968) |
1886-04-15 |
Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921) |
1886-04-26 |
Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913) |
1886-08-10 |
Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement |
1886-09-08 |
Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack) |
1886-10-24 |
Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet (El Libro Blanco) |
1886-12-01 |
Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (Fugitives & Constants) |
1886-12-06 |
Joyce Kilmer, New Brunswick, New Jersey, poet (Trees), (d. 1918) |
1887-01-10 |
Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea) |
1887-01-22 |
Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972) |
1887-01-25 |
Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze) |
1887-02-03 |
Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely) |
1887-05-10 |
Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels) |
1887-05-31 |
Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) [or Mar 31] |
1887-06-20 |
Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages) |
1887-06-22 |
Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist (Uprising & Remorse) |
1887-08-03 |
Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914) |
1887-09-01 |
Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer |
1887-09-15 |
Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss sculptor, artist and poet |
1887-09-16 |
Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor |
1887-10-12 |
Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951) |
1887-11-03 |
Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964) |
1887-11-15 |
Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems) |
1888-02-06 |
Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera) |
1888-04-06 |
Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader) |
1888-04-15 |
Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904) |
1888-04-30 |
John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder) |
1888-05-23 |
Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired) |
1888-06-05 |
Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen) |
1888-06-13 |
Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet |
1888-06-15 |
Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota) |
1888-07-13 |
Fernando A N de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Mensagem) |
1888-09-26 |
T. S. Eliot, St Louis Missouri, poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948), (d. 1965) |
1888-10-31 |
Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (d. 1944) |
1888-11-16 |
Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author/poet (Gogol) |
1889-01-30 |
Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937) |
1889-02-19 |
Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex) |
1889-05-17 |
Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel) |
1889-06-23 |
Anna Akhmatova, Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa. Russian poet (d. 1966) |
1889-08-05 |
Conrad P Aiken, US, Pulitzer poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation) |
1889-08-06 |
John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957) |
1889-12-08 |
W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse) |
1890-02-10 |
Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958) |
1890-10-21 |
Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters) |
1890-11-25 |
Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918) |
1891-01-03 |
Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15] |
1891-01-15 |
Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time) |
1891-01-28 |
Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis) |
1891-03-31 |
Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului) |
1891-04-19 |
Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet (La Ronda) |
1891-05-03 |
Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969) |
1891-05-04 |
Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread) |
1891-07-05 |
Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955) |
1891-07-08 |
Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day) |
1891-12-09 |
Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917) |
1891-12-10 |
leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), (d. 1970) |
1892-02-04 |
E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964) |
1892-02-22 |
Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) |
1892-03-09 |
Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang) |
1892-03-09 |
Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist, poet (The Land) and gardener |
1892-03-16 |
Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros) |
1892-03-18 |
Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II) |
1892-05-07 |
Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB) |
1892-05-21 |
John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise) |
1892-05-29 |
Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal) |
1892-06-11 |
Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic |
1892-07-21 |
Anton Schnack, German writer/poet |
1892-08-11 |
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Scotland, poet (Scots Unbound) |
1892-10-09 |
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941) |
1892-10-27 |
Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet/critic (Mirror of Dutch Poetry) |
1892-12-06 |
F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame) |
1892-12-21 |
Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (d. 1980) |
1893-02-26 |
Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) [NS] |
1893-03-18 |
Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) |
1893-03-21 |
Geoffrey Dearmer, poet |
1893-04-29 |
Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet |
1893-06-04 |
Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife) |
1893-06-29 |
Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter |
1893-07-07 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[NS=7/19] |
1893-07-19 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7] |
1893-07-20 |
Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came) |
1893-09-26 |
Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe) |
1893-10-27 |
Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet (Meetings) |
1894-01-02 |
Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie) |
1894-04-20 |
Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling) |
1894-08-17 |
Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author (Jorden) |
1894-09-13 |
Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953) |
1894-10-14 |
E.E.Cummings (Edward Estlin), Cambridge Massachusetts, poet (Tulips & Chimneys) |
1895-01-24 |
Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch) |
1895-01-29 |
Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965) |
1895-05-09 |
Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon) |
1895-07-24 |
Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26] |
1895-09-21 |
Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925) |
1895-09-22 |
Babette Deutsch, US poet (Animal vegetable mineral) |
1895-11-16 |
Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzhubin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West) |
1895-12-14 |
Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952) |
1895-12-19 |
Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre) |
1896-01-18 |
Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt) |
1896-02-19 |
André Breton, French poet (d. 1966) |
1896-02-22 |
Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City) |
1896-04-04 |
Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man) |
1896-07-01 |
Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS] |
1896-08-17 |
Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter/poet (Laws of the Americas) |
1896-10-03 |
Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987) |
1896-10-12 |
Eugenio Montale, Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975) |
1896-10-30 |
Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928) |
1896-11-01 |
Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War) |
1896-12-22 |
Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St Petersburg Russia, poet |
1897-01-15 |
Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931) |
1897-01-16 |
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977) |
1897-03-13 |
Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue) |
1897-04-20 |
Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh) |
1897-11-07 |
Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955 |
1897-11-15 |
Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace) |
1898-02-18 |
Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980) |
1898-05-02 |
Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician (The Spark) |
1898-05-18 |
Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada) |
1898-06-05 |
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding) |
1898-06-25 |
Kay (Katherine Linn) Sage, Albany New York, American painter and poet |
1898-08-15 |
Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966) |
1898-09-15 |
John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado) |
1898-10-17 |
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet (5th Seal) |
1898-10-22 |
Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira) |
1898-11-12 |
Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice) |
1898-11-15 |
Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch entertainer/poet (Fish-Trap) |
1898-12-05 |
Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982) |
1898-12-11 |
Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet (Barfotabarn) |
1899-03-04 |
Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962) |
1899-03-08 |
Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows) |
1899-03-13 |
Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956) |
1899-03-25 |
Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men) |
1899-05-24 |
Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984) |
1899-05-25 |
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976) |
1899-07-21 |
Hart Crane, US, poet (Bridge) |
1899-09-30 |
Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic |
1899-10-19 |
Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), (d. 1974) |
1899-11-02 |
Eddy [Charles E] du Perron, Dutch author/poet |
1899-11-04 |
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet (Teotihuacan) |
1899-11-17 |
Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Coup of Trafalgar) |
1899-11-19 |
Allen Tate, US, poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems) |
1900-01-29 |
Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter/poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea) |
1900-02-22 |
Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963) |
1900-03-01 |
Yorgos Seferis, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi) |
1900-05-25 |
Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975) |
1900-05-27 |
Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933) |
1900-06-03 |
Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New) |
1900-06-07 |
Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros) |
1900-07-12 |
Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky) |
1900-07-20 |
Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life) |
1900-12-21 |
Oda Schaefer, German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only) |
1901-02-28 |
Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen) |
1901-03-04 |
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937) |
1901-03-05 |
Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby) |
1901-03-29 |
Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet |
1901-06-22 |
Willem Jacobus du Plooy Erlank (Eitemal), Wolmaransstad, Transvaal, poet and professor in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of Stellenbosch |
1901-07-17 |
Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938) |
1901-08-20 |
Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (d. 1968) |
1901-09-02 |
Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975) |
1901-09-23 |
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984) |
1901-10-02 |
[Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle) |
1901-10-28 |
Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979) |
1902-02-01 |
Langston Hughes, Joplin, Missouri, American poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto) |
1902-02-10 |
Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste) |
1902-04-01 |
Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930) |
1902-05-11 |
Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Unen Kaivo) |
1902-07-28 |
Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Dead Reckoning) |
1902-08-19 |
Ogden Nash, Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself) |
1902-09-20 |
Stevie [Florence Margaret] Smith, Kingston upon Hull, English poet and novelist (Not Waving but Drowning) |
1902-10-13 |
Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, American poet (100 years of negro freedom) |
1902-10-31 |
Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (Claro Enigma) |
1902-11-01 |
Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist (The Defeat) |
1902-11-02 |
Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes) |
1903-01-17 |
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953) |
1903-02-04 |
Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N) |
1903-03-03 |
Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen) |
1903-03-30 |
Countee Cullen, US poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl) |
1903-05-30 |
Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems) |
1903-08-27 |
Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nocturno de los Angeles) |
1903-12-16 |
Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (El hombre deshabitado) |
1904-01-21 |
Richard P Blackmur, Mass, critic/poet (Good European) |
1904-02-21 |
Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet |
1904-03-18 |
Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926) |
1904-04-01 |
Juan Gil-Albert, poet |
1904-04-27 |
Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective (Nicholas Blake) |
1904-04-27 |
Ragnar Skrede, Norwegian poet (Lauvfall) |
1904-05-06 |
Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974) |
1904-05-13 |
Alfred Earle Birney, poet |
1904-05-22 |
Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962) |
1904-07-12 |
Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971) |
1904-10-21 |
Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967) |
1905-01-08 |
Giacinto Scelsi, La Spezia, Italy, composer and surrealist poet |
1905-01-23 |
Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges) |
1905-02-28 |
Glyn Jones, Wales, novelist, poet and literary historian |
1905-03-09 |
Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase) |
1905-03-21 |
Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters) |
1905-03-22 |
Phyllis McGinley, poet |
1905-04-11 |
József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937) |
1905-04-22 |
Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991) |
1905-04-24 |
Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men) |
1905-05-20 |
Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Sailing) |
1905-06-08 |
Brian Coffey, poet |
1905-06-29 |
Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (La lenta libertad) |
1905-07-29 |
Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006) |
1905-08-20 |
Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973) |
1905-09-16 |
Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980) |
1905-11-17 |
Wazyk, [Adam Wagman], Polish poet/author (Eyes & Mouth) |
1905-12-16 |
Piet Hein, poet/inventor |
1905-12-22 |
Kenneth Rexroth, US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush) |
1906-01-06 |
Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary) |
1906-04-06 |
John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion) |
1906-04-08 |
Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea) |
1906-06-12 |
Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977) |
1906-06-27 |
Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd) |
1906-08-28 |
John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion) |
1906-09-04 |
Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, poet (Ongerijmde life) |
1906-09-05 |
Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [NS=Sept 18] |
1906-09-18 |
Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [OS=Sept 5] |
1906-09-27 |
William Empson, English poet/critic (Milton's God) |
1906-10-09 |
Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001) |
1906-11-02 |
Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959) |
1906-12-25 |
Herman J Scheltema, [NEM Pareau], Dutch jurist/poet |
1907-02-02 |
Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic |
1907-02-21 |
Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948) |
1907-04-23 |
Elizabeth Lee Miller, The Blood of a Poet |
1907-05-11 |
Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988) |
1907-06-04 |
Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990) |
1907-06-14 |
René Char, French poet/painter |
1907-06-24 |
Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989) |
1907-07-07 |
Helene Johnson, poet |
1907-09-12 |
Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963) |
1907-10-21 |
Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985) |
1907-10-28 |
John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987) |
1907-11-07 |
Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game) |
1907-12-21 |
Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary (Poet in Love) |
1907-12-23 |
Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005) |
1908-01-23 |
Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist |
1908-05-25 |
Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind) |
1908-10-01 |
Kay Cavendish, Poet's Pub |
1908-10-09 |
Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961) |
1908-12-18 |
Irina Volodko, Poet i tsar |
1908-12-27 |
Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Black Banners) |
1909-02-03 |
M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix) |
1909-02-14 |
A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...) |
1909-02-28 |
Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness) |
1909-03-03 |
Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator |
1909-05-01 |
Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet |
1909-05-24 |
Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca) |
1909-06-30 |
Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63) |
1909-07-04 |
Lynette Roberts, poet |
1909-09-28 |
Stephen Spender, poet [or Feb 28] |
1909-10-10 |
Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet |
1909-12-12 |
Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer |
1909-12-28 |
Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija) |
1910-01-02 |
Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983) |
1910-01-07 |
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984) |
1910-02-17 |
Ai Qing, poet |
1910-03-09 |
Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor) |
1910-05-16 |
Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975) |
1910-06-21 |
Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971) |
1910-08-05 |
[Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist (Aniara) |
1910-10-12 |
Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985) |
1910-10-30 |
Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spain, poet (Viento del Pueblo) |
1910-11-14 |
Norman MacCaig, poet |
1910-12-19 |
Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet/novelist |
1910-12-27 |
Charles Olson, American poet (d. 1970) |
1911-02-08 |
Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956) |
1911-02-28 |
Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji) |
1911-09-09 |
Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972) |
1911-10-26 |
Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet |
1911-11-02 |
Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1979) |
1911-11-09 |
Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004) |
1911-11-12 |
William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian |
1911-11-18 |
Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000) |
1911-11-28 |
Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973) |
1911-12-08 |
Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992) |
1911-12-11 |
Vincent Henry Kemp, poet |
1911-12-13 |
Kenneth Patchen, Niles, Ohio, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest), (d. 1972) |
1912-02-11 |
Roy Fuller, Failsworth, Lancashire, English poet/novelist (Lost Season) |
1912-03-12 |
Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006) |
1912-05-29 |
John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet (Go to the Mosque) |
1912-06-13 |
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943) |
1912-09-10 |
Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet |
1912-10-10 |
Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist |
1913-01-19 |
Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955) |
1913-01-30 |
Sofia Tuibayeva, A Poet's Fate |
1913-02-14 |
Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head) |
1913-02-26 |
George G Barker, English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini) |
1913-03-29 |
R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000) |
1913-06-03 |
Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000) |
1913-06-26 |
Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008) |
1913-07-10 |
Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985) |
1913-07-15 |
Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist. |
1913-07-27 |
Eva Jones, poet/novelist |
1913-07-27 |
Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria) |
1913-08-04 |
Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980) |
1913-10-19 |
Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980) |
1913-12-08 |
Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah) |
1913-12-15 |
Muriel Rukeyser, US, poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award) |
1914-02-07 |
David Ignatow, US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead) |
1914-04-22 |
Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm) |
1914-05-12 |
Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet/writer |
1914-06-26 |
Laurie Lee, English poet/author (I Can't Stay Long) |
1914-09-05 |
Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (Defense of Violeta Parra) |
1914-09-12 |
Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988) |
1914-10-25 |
John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates) |
1914-10-27 |
Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales) |
1915-01-29 |
Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter (Skoven) |
1915-01-31 |
Thomas Merton, France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt) |
1915-03-23 |
Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar |
1915-04-10 |
Leo Vroman, Dutch/US poet/biologist, (d. 2014) |
1915-07-02 |
Bert Decorte, Flemish poet |
1915-07-07 |
Margaret Walker Alexander, poet/novelist (For My People) |
1915-10-04 |
Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet (7 Curses) |
1915-10-07 |
Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS] |
1915-11-01 |
Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet |
1916-01-22 |
Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994) |
1916-02-02 |
Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985) |
1916-02-04 |
Gavin Buchanan Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh) |
1916-05-03 |
Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome) |
1916-05-26 |
Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999) |
1916-06-24 |
John Ciardi, poet/critic (translated Dante) |
1916-08-01 |
Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000) |
1916-08-03 |
Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970) |
1916-09-17 |
Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp) |
1916-12-17 |
Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans, Dutch entertainer/poet (Kolderliedjes) |
1917-01-22 |
Herwig Hensen, [Flor Mielants], Flemish poet/playwright |
1917-03-01 |
Robert Lowell, Boston, Massachusetts, American poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean) |
1917-03-14 |
Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet |
1917-06-07 |
Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950) |
1917-09-10 |
Franfo Fortini, poet |
1917-09-12 |
Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist |
1917-10-01 |
René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet (Juancho Picaflor) |
1918-01-16 |
Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005) |
1918-01-30 |
Jarl Andre Bjerke, [Bernhard Borge], Norwegian poet/writer |
1918-05-30 |
Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000) |
1918-06-06 |
Tom Scott, poet/editor |
1918-06-28 |
Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads) |
1918-07-06 |
Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet (Crossing) |
1918-08-07 |
Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter |
1919-01-30 |
Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979) |
1919-03-24 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind) |
1919-07-01 |
Hans Bender, German poet |
1919-07-19 |
Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005) |
1919-07-25 |
Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila) |
1919-08-31 |
Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005) |
1919-09-26 |
Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher |
1919-11-02 |
Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet (Reino da Estupidez) |
1919-11-30 |
Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], Dutch poet (Through the Night) |
1920-02-10 |
Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living) |
1920-02-23 |
David Wright, poet |
1920-03-01 |
Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows) |
1920-03-11 |
D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers) |
1920-04-17 |
Bengt N Anderberg, Swedish poet/writer (Kain) |
1920-04-22 |
Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Misery of the Word) |
1920-04-27 |
Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet |
1920-05-15 |
Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet |
1920-06-08 |
Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995) |
1920-06-15 |
Amy Clampitt, poet |
1920-07-02 |
Eliseo Diego, latin American poet |
1920-08-22 |
Pierre A Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria) |
1920-08-30 |
Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud) |
1920-09-07 |
Harri Webb, poet |
1920-09-12 |
Jan W Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet/historian (Blossoming Stone) |
1920-10-09 |
Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas) |
1920-11-23 |
Paul Celan, [Antschell], German/Romanian poet (Collected Prose) |
1920-11-26 |
Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover) |
1920-12-07 |
Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002) |
1921-03-01 |
Richard Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep) |
1921-04-13 |
Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood) |
1921-04-25 |
Jean Mogin, Belgian poet |
1921-05-09 |
Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004) |
1921-09-25 |
Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet |
1921-10-17 |
George Mackey Brown, poet |
1921-10-20 |
Hans Warren, Dutch writer/poet/critic (Secret Diary) |
1921-10-22 |
Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer |
1922-01-03 |
Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter |
1922-01-22 |
Howard Moss, poet/editor (New Yorker) |
1922-05-27 |
Sidney AK Keyes, English poet (Iron Laurel) |
1922-06-09 |
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941) |
1922-06-29 |
Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue) |
1922-07-17 |
Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic |
1922-09-17 |
Agostinho Neto, poet/president Angola [or Dec 27] |
1922-09-23 |
Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator |
1923-01-15 |
Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006) |
1923-01-16 |
Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004) |
1923-02-02 |
James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor (Deliverance) |
1923-02-09 |
Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage) |
1923-02-23 |
Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet |
1923-03-27 |
Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death), (d. 2012) |
1923-03-30 |
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986) |
1923-03-30 |
Milton Acorn, In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet |
1923-04-23 |
James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland) |
1923-07-02 |
Wislawa Szymborska, Prowent, Poland, poet referred to as the 'Mozart of Poetry' (Nobel 1996), (d. 2012) |
1923-08-03 |
Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet |
1923-09-20 |
Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997) |
1923-09-22 |
Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer |
1923-10-24 |
Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin) |
1924-01-01 |
Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet |
1924-02-12 |
Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam) |
1924-05-03 |
Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000) |
1924-05-15 |
Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist |
1924-07-19 |
Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino) |
1924-07-20 |
Hans Lodeizen, [Johannes A Frederik], Dutch poet (Inner Self) |
1924-08-17 |
John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Kunst & Vliegwerk) |
1924-08-27 |
David Rowbotham, Australian poet |
1924-09-15 |
Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist (Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967) |
1924-09-28 |
Antonio Jacinto, Portuguese West Africa, Angolan poet |
1924-11-25 |
Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher. |
1925-02-13 |
Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author |
1925-03-10 |
Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005) |
1925-03-14 |
John Barrington Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down) |
1925-04-02 |
George MacDonald Fraser, poet/author (Flashman at the Charge) |
1925-04-04 |
Emmett Williams, American poet (d. 2007) |
1925-05-04 |
Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn) |
1925-06-15 |
Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes) |
1925-08-10 |
Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher |
1925-10-28 |
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006) |
1925-12-12 |
Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000) |
1926-01-05 |
William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet |
1926-01-20 |
Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist |
1926-01-26 |
Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator |
1926-02-02 |
Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera) |
1926-02-21 |
Hans Andreus, [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language) |
1926-03-03 |
James Ingram Merrill, US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant) |
1926-05-21 |
Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island) |
1926-06-03 |
Allen Ginsberg, Newark, New Jersey, American beat poet (Howl) |
1926-06-25 |
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author/poet |
1926-08-28 |
Beverly Blossom, Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom |
1926-09-26 |
Buland Al Haidary, poet |
1926-11-23 |
Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials) |
1926-12-23 |
Robert Bly, US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds) |
1927-01-08 |
Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator |
1927-02-24 |
David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician |
1927-03-13 |
Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet |
1927-06-07 |
Martin Carter, poet/critic |
1927-06-15 |
Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978) |
1927-07-20 |
Simin Behbahani, Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty |
1927-07-28 |
John Ashbery, American poet |
1927-08-08 |
Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/poet (Lady of the Night: A flower) |
1927-09-30 |
W. S. Merwin, American poet |
1928-01-08 |
Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (d. 1996) |
1928-01-10 |
Philip Levine, American poet |
1928-04-04 |
Maya Angelou, [Marguerite Johnson], St Louis, poet/actress (Nyo-Roots) |
1928-04-23 |
Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet |
1928-07-26 |
Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980) |
1928-09-20 |
Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate |
1928-09-29 |
Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author/poet |
1928-10-07 |
Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980) |
1928-11-04 |
Hannah Weiner American experimental poet |
1928-11-09 |
Anne Sexton, Newton Mass, poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967) |
1928-9-30 |
Piri Thomas, Every Child Is Born a Poet |
1929-02-16 |
Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel) |
1929-02-28 |
John Montague, Irish poet |
1929-04-01 |
Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being) |
1929-04-25 |
Jose Angel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza) |
1929-05-20 |
Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet |
1929-07-07 |
Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005) |
1929-07-28 |
Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert |
1929-08-21 |
X. J. Kennedy, American poet |
1929-08-29 |
Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound) |
1929-10-28 |
John Hollander, American poet |
1930-01-23 |
Derek Walcott, St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992) |
1930-02-28 |
Bruce Dawe, Australian poet |
1930-03-26 |
Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man) |
1930-03-28 |
Amelia Rosselli, poet |
1930-05-07 |
Horst Bienek, German poet |
1930-05-08 |
Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems) |
1930-05-23 |
Friedrich Achleitner, German poet |
1930-06-20 |
Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet |
1930-08-10 |
Saeedi Sirjani, poet |
1930-08-17 |
Ted Hughes, Mytholmroyd Yorkshire, British Poet Laureate (1984-1998) |
1930-09-23 |
Sehba Akhtar, poet of Pakistan (d.1996) |
1930-09-24 |
Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998) |
1930-10-10 |
Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970) |
1930-11-13 |
Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet |
1930-12-25 |
Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d.1986) |
1931-01-25 |
Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio |
1931-04-10 |
Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet |
1931-04-12 |
Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995) |
1931-05-16 |
Peter Levi, poet/writer |
1931-06-08 |
Ivan V Lali, poet |
1931-09-25 |
Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005) |
1931-12-14 |
Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002) |
1932-03-18 |
John Updike, Shillington Pa, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run) |
1932-04-10 |
Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts) |
1932-06-18 |
Geoffrey Hill, English poet |
1932-06-20 |
Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet (Requiem, Userjoz) |
1932-08-03 |
Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican poet |
1932-10-15 |
Riekus Waskowsky, poet |
1932-10-27 |
Sylvia Plath, Boston Massachusetts, American poet (Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar) |
1932-11-28 |
Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter (There's a Girl in My Soup) |
1932-12-28 |
Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer |
1933-01-08 |
Ko Un, Korean poet |
1933-02-23 |
Donna J Stone, poet |
1933-02-27 |
Edward Lucie-Smith, Kingston, Jamaica, British poet and poetry critic |
1933-03-20 |
Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet |
1933-03-29 |
Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet |
1933-03-31 |
Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983) |
1933-05-12 |
Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet |
1933-07-18 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet (Bratsk Station) |
1933-12-17 |
Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet |
1934-01-24 |
Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976) |
1934-02-10 |
Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet |
1934-04-11 |
Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic) |
1934-05-01 |
Alette Beaujon, Curacaos poet (Gedichten on the Bay & Elsewhere) |
1934-08-04 |
Rutger Kopland, [Rutger van den Hoofdakker], Dutch poet |
1934-08-05 |
Wendell Berry, American poet, writer and farmer |
1934-09-09 |
Sonia Sanchez, US playwright/poet (The Bronx is Next) |
1934-09-14 |
Hans Faverey, Dutch poet |
1934-10-07 |
Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer |
1935-01-18 |
Jon Stallworthy, English poet |
1935-01-28 |
Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet (Pele do Diabo) |
1935-01-30 |
Richard Brautigan, Tacoma Washington, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing in America) |
1935-04-16 |
Sarah Kirsch, German poet |
1935-08-25 |
Charles Wright, American poet |
1935-08-26 |
Cornelis B Vaandrager, [Cor Vaan], Dut poet (Long Live Joop Massaker) |
1935-09-10 |
Mary Oliver, American poet |
1935-09-21 |
Henry Gibson, Germantown Pa, comedian (Nashville, Laugh-In's poet) |
1935-11-07 |
Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet (Ballad orang-orang tertjina) |
1935-11-28 |
Randolph Stow, author/poet (Suburbs of Hell) |
1936-01-27 |
Ismail Kadare, Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh) |
1936-02-18 |
Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist |
1936-03-01 |
Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny) |
1936-05-10 |
Jayne Cortez, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, poet (I see Chano Pozo), (d. 2012) |
1936-06-16 |
August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator |
1936-06-27 |
Lucille Clifton, American poet |
1936-07-09 |
June Jordan, US playwright/poet (His Own Where) |
1936-11-04 |
C. K. Williams, American poet |
1936-11-17 |
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005) |
1937-04-10 |
Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet |
1937-05-30 |
Arthur C Jacobs, poet |
1937-08-03 |
Diane Wakoski, Whittier, California, American poet (Motorcycle Betrayal) |
1937-10-11 |
R. H. W. Dillard, American poet |
1937-11-09 |
Roger McCough, British poet |
1938-01-31 |
Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta) |
1938-05-09 |
Charles Simic Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States |
1938-05-25 |
Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season) |
1938-11-13 |
Gérald Godin, French Canadian poet and politician (d. 1994) |
1939-01-10 |
Jared Carter, American poet |
1939-01-12 |
Jacobus M "Jacques" Hamelink, Dutch writer/poet (Cold Unrest) |
1939-01-21 |
Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes) |
1939-03-03 |
Hans Pieter Verhagen, Dutch poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole) |
1939-04-13 |
Seamus Heaney, poet, (d. 2013) |
1939-04-25 |
Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate |
1939-07-02 |
Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet |
1939-07-26 |
Wopko Jensma, Middelburg, Eastern Province, South African poet and graphic designer |
1939-09-15 |
Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter |
1939-09-27 |
Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer |
1939-11-18 |
Margaret Atwood, Ottawa Ontario, Canadian author/poet |
1940-01-17 |
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames) |
1940-04-06 |
Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor) |
1940-05-06 |
Henry Habibe, Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi) |
1940-10-20 |
Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States |
1941-02-19 |
Stephen Dobyns, US author/poet (Cold Dog Soup) |
1941-03-13 |
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(d. 2008) |
1941-03-22 |
Billy Collins, American poet |
1941-04-28 |
Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet |
1942-04-13 |
Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer. |
1942-11-19 |
Sharon Olds, American poet |
1943-02-08 |
Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and VC of Karachi University |
1943-03-20 |
Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer |
1943-04-22 |
Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate |
1943-06-07 |
Nikki Giovanni, poet (LHJ Woman of the Year 1973) |
1943-07-16 |
Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990) |
1943-11-27 |
Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet |
1943-12-08 |
Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971) |
1944-01-29 |
Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet (Venus in Holland) |
1944-01-31 |
Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet (For the Good Order) |
1944-02-21 |
Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work) |
1944-03-30 |
Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo) |
1944-05-28 |
Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet/critic (On the Droge) |
1944-06-27 |
Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet (Intimate Acts) |
1944-09-05 |
Dario Bellezza, poet |
1944-11-12 |
Johan van Doorn, [Johnny the Selfkicker], Dutch poet (War & Porridge) |
1944-11-24 |
Jules Deelder, Dutch poet (T of Vondel) |
1945-01-17 |
Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter |
1945-04-02 |
Anne Waldman, American poet |
1945-06-21 |
Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet |
1945-09-27 |
Kay Ryan, American poet |
1945-10-26 |
Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author |
1946-05-28 |
Satchidanandan, Indian poet |
1946-08-05 |
Ron Silliman, American poet |
1946-08-25 |
Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author |
1946-11-29 |
Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban poet |
1946-12-10 |
Thomas Lux, American poet |
1947-01-30 |
Les Barker, English poet |
1947-02-03 |
Paul Auster, US author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke) |
1947-03-03 |
Clifton Snider, American poet and writer |
1947-03-14 |
Pam Ayres, British poet |
1947-04-06 |
Tatyana Ignatova, Sing Your Song, Poet |
1947-05-01 |
Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer |
1947-05-23 |
Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995) |
1947-10-26 |
Trevor Joyce, Irish poet |
1947-11-30 |
Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet |
1948-07-06 |
Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet |
1948-10-07 |
Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist |
1948-10-25 |
Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and biographer |
1949-01-25 |
John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet |
1949-02-16 |
Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet (Otobanda; the Other Bank) |
1949-04-01 |
Gill Scott-Heron, US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon) |
1949-04-25 |
James Fenton, British poet |
1949-11-23 |
Gayl Jones, US author/poet (Corregidora, Song for Anninho) |
1950-01-20 |
Edward Hirsch. American poet |
1950-06-21 |
Anne Carson, Canadian poet |
1950-07-28 |
Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet |
1950-11-11 |
Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet |
1950-12-24 |
Dana Gioia, American poet |
1951-01-01 |
Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet |
1951-04-22 |
Ana María Shua, Argentine poet |
1951-06-20 |
Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet |
1951-10-04 |
Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet |
1952-03-12 |
Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist |
1952-06-20 |
Vikram Seth, Indian poet |
1952-08-28 |
Rita Dove, American poet |
1952-10-06 |
Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer |
1952-10-21 |
Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist |
1952-10-26 |
Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate |
1952-11-03 |
Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor |
1953-04-28 |
Roberto Bolano, Latin American author and poet |
1953-07-06 |
Nanci Griffith, US singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window) |
1953-08-10 |
Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer |
1953-10-01 |
John Hegley, British poet |
1954-03-24 |
Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit) |
1954-08-15 |
Mary Jo Salter, American poet |
1955-04-09 |
Joolz Denby, English poet and novelist |
1956-03-05 |
Marco Paolini, Shun Li and the Poet |
1956-05-20 |
William Michaelian, American novelist and poet |
1956-11-26 |
Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet (Man & his Bag) |
1957-01-29 |
Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist |
1957-04-10 |
John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (d. 2006) |
1957-08-19 |
Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet |
1957-11-18 |
Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet |
1958-04-04 |
Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990) |
1958-08-04 |
Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer |
1958-11-29 |
Mario Petrucci, Anglo-Italian Poet and Ecologist |
1959-01-12 |
Lasana M. Sekou, Saint Martin, Caribbean, poet/author (The Salt Reaper |
1960-03-13 |
Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist |
1960-09-02 |
John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist |
1961-02-13 |
Henry Rollins, US vocalist/poet (Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box) |
1961-05-04 |
Ishita Bhaduri, Indian (Bengali) Poet |
1962-03-02 |
Michael Salinger, American poet |
1962-05-13 |
Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet |
1962-09-13 |
Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author |
1963-09-17 |
Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator |
1964-08-31 |
Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor |
1965-03-23 |
Gary Whitehead, American poet |
1965-11-23 |
Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian |
1966-04-02 |
Supla, Noel: The Samba Poet |
1966-11-18 |
Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet |
1967-03-10 |
Omer Tarin [Omer Salim Khan], Peshawar, Pakistan, poet, scholar and activist |
1967-08-28 |
Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet |
1967-10-13 |
Simon Williams, The Poet |
1967-11-16 |
Craig Arnold, American poet |
1968-07-12 |
Nikki Storm, The Poet of Fierce Secrets |
1969-03-27 |
Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer |
1971-10-03 |
Paul Poet, Empire Me: New Worlds Are Happening! |
1972-03-17 |
Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and Celtic musician (Brobdingnagian Bards) |
1972-04-23 |
Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet |
1972-11-20 |
Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian born poet |
1973-01-01 |
Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet & research scholar. |
1974-07-18 |
Alan Morrison, British poet |
1976-03-23 |
Siva Rama Terra, Film for Blind Poet |
1976-07-25 |
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet |
1976-10-29 |
Mohsen Emadi, Iranian Poet |
1976-9-18 |
DeLeon Richards, The Poet |
1977-06-29 |
Oleg Korenfeld, Russian-born American poet |
1977-07-18 |
Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright |
1980-01-16 |
Dominic Nila-Maxwell, Poet |
1982-04-26 |
Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet |
1985-12-20 |
Dániel Bálint, The Dead Poet |
1989-11-29 |
James Jensen, The Happy Poet |
1990-07-30 |
Adam Gonet, The Poet in Exile |
Poet - Notable Weddings
Poet - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1582-11-28 |
Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway |
1656-11-12 |
English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock |
1662-02-24 |
English Poet and author of "Paradise Lost" John Milton marries 3rd wife Elizabeth Mynshull, 31 years his junior. |
1735-07-09 |
Author, poet, critic and lexicographer and writer of the first English dictionary Dr. Samuel Johnson (25) marries the widow Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 21 years his senior. |
1778-04-01 |
Poet Phillis Wheatley (24) weds grocer and advocate for black rights John Peters |
1782-08-18 |
Romantic Age poet and artist William Blake (24) marries Catherine Boucher, 5 years his junior, in St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London. |
1795-10-04 |
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" poet Samuel Coleridge (22) marries Sarah Fricker |
1795-10-04 |
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (22) weds Sara Fricker in Bristol, England |
1802-10-04 |
English romantic poet William Wordsworth (32) marries childhood friend Mary Hutchinson |
1810-08-08 |
Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib marries Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moves to Delhi. |
1811-08-28 |
English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16) |
1815-01-02 |
Leading Romantic Age poet Lord Byron (27) marries Anne Isabella Milbanke (22)by special licence, at Seaham Hall in County Durham. |
1816-12-30 |
English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft |
1846-09-12 |
Poet and playwright Robert Browning (34) weds poet Elizabeth Barrett (40) at Marylebone Church in London |
1850-06-13 |
Poet laureate Alfred Tennyson (40) weds Emily Sellwood (36) |
1876-09-27 |
Poet Frederic Mistral (46) weds Marie Louise Aimee Rivière |
1883-12-09 |
Poet Rabindranath Tagore (22) weds Mrinalini Devi in an arranged marriage |
1893-01-18 |
British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London |
1895-12-19 |
Poet Robert Frost (21) weds Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence, Massachusetts |
1898-03-06 |
Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (25) weds political activist Alice Dunbar (22) in New York |
1908-06-09 |
Poet Joyce Kilmer (21) weds author Aline Murray (19) |
1914-04-20 |
Poet and critic Ezra Pound (28) weds Dorothy Shakespear |
1914-07-13 |
British poet and novelist D. H. Lawrence (28) weds Frieda Weekley (34) after obtaining Frieda's divorce from her 1st husband |
1915-10-17 |
American born poet (The Waste Land) T. S (Thomas Sterns) Eliot (27) marries 1st wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) |
1916-03-22 |
British writer ('Lord of the Rings'), poet and professor J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien marries Edith Mary Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick |
1917-10-21 |
Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25) |
1924-03-19 |
American poet e.e. (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries first wife Elaine Orr. The marriage lasts less than 9 months. |
1926-08-26 |
Poet Arna Bontemps (24) weds fellow Seventh-Day Adventist Alberta Johnson |
1929-05-01 |
American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton |
1937-07-11 |
Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall |
1956-04-23 |
Novelist C. S. Lewis (57) weds poet Joy Davidman (41) at the register office in Oxford, England |
1956-06-16 |
British Poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes marries American writer and poet (The Bell Jar) Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn, London. |
1961-10-14 |
Howard Allen Frances (Anne) O'Brien (20) best-selling author (The Vampire Chronicles) marries poet and painter Stan Rice (21) |
1961-10-14 |
Author Anne Rice (20) weds poet/artist Stan Rice (18) in Denton, Texas |
Poet - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1816-04-16 |
Leading Romantic Age poet Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving his marriage with Lady Byron at her request after 1 year of marriage |
Poet - Notable Deaths
Poet - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
19 |
Virgil, Roman poet, dies at 50 |
BC AD | |
8-11-27 |
Horace, Roman poet, dies at 56 |
17-01-02 |
Roman poet Ovid (in Latin: Publius Ovidius Naso), dies |
65-04-30 |
Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39) |
521-07-17 |
Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474) |
615-11-23 |
Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies |
709-05-25 |
Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury, Bishop of Sherborne. English poet and scholar (b. cica 639) |
826-11-11 |
Theodore the Studite, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies |
912-04-06 |
Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71 |
965-09-23 |
Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered |
990-04-23 |
Ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies |
1101-07-28 |
Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64 |
1123-12-04 |
Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) |
1126-02-10 |
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071) |
1164-01-27 |
Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies |
1209-03-12 |
Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies |
1225-10-28 |
Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155) |
1236-12-23 |
Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies |
1241-09-23 |
Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178) |
1253-07-08 |
Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies |
1272-03-14 |
Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies |
1273-12-17 |
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Rumi: Poet of the Heart |
1292-12-09 |
Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies |
1294-05-03 |
Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies |
1297-04-17 |
Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St Truiden, dies at about 86 |
1304-05-23 |
Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer |
1321-09-14 |
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56 |
1324-02-26 |
Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies |
1361-06-09 |
Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69 |
1374-07-18 |
Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 |
1374-07-19 |
Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69 |
1375-12-21 |
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies |
1395-03-13 |
John Barbour, Scottish poet |
1458-03-25 |
Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies |
1458-06-29 |
Mapheus Vegius, [Maffeo Vegio], Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies |
1459-03-03 |
Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies |
1465-01-05 |
Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394) |
1472-03-27 |
Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37 |
1492-11-19 |
Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414) |
1494-12-20 |
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet |
1500-04-11 |
Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns |
1501-01-03 |
Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59 |
1501-09-25 |
Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies |
1502-02-01 |
Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies |
1520-09-21 |
Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies |
1523-08-29 |
Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 |
1524-01-05 |
Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73 |
1525-04-03 |
Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49 |
1529-06-21 |
John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 |
1530-04-24 |
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies |
1533-07-06 |
Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57 |
1536-09-24 |
Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24 |
1536-10-14 |
Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle |
1540-10-04 |
Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies |
1542-09-21 |
Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet |
1542-10-06 |
Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503) |
1544-12-09 |
Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491) |
1547-01-19 |
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 |
1550-06-13 |
Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64 |
1552-06-10 |
Alexander Barclay, English poet |
1556-03-19 |
Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70 |
1556-04-18 |
Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 |
1556-11-14 |
Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504) |
1560-11-07 |
Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies |
1565-10-14 |
Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521) |
1566-04-25 |
Louise Labé, French poet |
1566-09-27 |
Marcus A Vida, [Marcus Hieronymus], Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies |
1566-11-21 |
Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507) |
1571-07-17 |
Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516) |
1572-11-23 |
Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503) |
1572-12-10 |
Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72 |
1577-10-07 |
George Gascoigne, English poet |
1580-06-10 |
Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies |
1586-10-17 |
Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 |
1588-06-18 |
Robert Crowley, English printer and poet |
1588-11-01 |
Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508) |
1590-11-29 |
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547) |
1591-08-23 |
Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies |
1591-12-14 |
Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies |
1595-02-21 |
Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged |
1595-03-04 |
Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest |
1595-04-25 |
Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51 |
1595-05-25 |
Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567) |
1595-10-15 |
Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48 |
1595-11-29 |
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533) |
1596-07-29 |
Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84 |
1598-12-15 |
Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58 |
1599-01-13 |
Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46 |
1601-04-10 |
Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562) |
1602-02-03 |
Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62 |
1602-10-30 |
Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528) |
1604-04-04 |
Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies |
1605-09-23 |
Pontus de Tyard, French poet |
1606-10-05 |
Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546) |
1607-04-15 |
Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 |
1607-10-26 |
Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52 |
1608-04-19 |
Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies |
1609-12-04 |
Alexander Hume, Scottish poet |
1611-06-08 |
Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552) |
1615-08-15 |
Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies |
1616-04-23 |
William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (b. 1564) (Julian calendar) dies aged 52 |
1616-08-08 |
Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 |
1618-08-23 |
Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33 |
1618-09-28 |
Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563) |
1618-10-29 |
Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason |
1619-03-01 |
Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53 |
1619-10-14 |
Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562) |
1620-02-19 |
Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam |
1625-03-25 |
Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569) |
1625-03-27 |
James VI and I, Scottish born King of Scotland )1657-1625) and King of England and Ireland (1603-25), poet and author, dies at 58 |
1626-02-28 |
Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51 |
1626-12-08 |
John Davies, English poet (b. 1569) |
1627-04-19 |
John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583) |
1627-05-23 |
Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet/writer, dies |
1627-07-19 |
Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41 |
1628-09-30 |
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554) |
1628-10-16 |
François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555) |
1630-04-29 |
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552) |
1631-03-31 |
John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown) |
1631-12-23 |
Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563) |
1632-07-29 |
Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures), dies |
1633-03-01 |
George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39 |
1635-02-13 |
Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50 |
1635-08-27 |
Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72 |
1637-08-06 |
Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies at 65 |
1637-10-14 |
Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552) |
1637-10-21 |
Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54 |
1638-02-28 |
Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 |
1639-01-23 |
Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake |
1639-03-22 |
Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies |
1639-05-21 |
Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 |
1639-08-20 |
Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 |
1640-04-02 |
Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 |
1641-01-11 |
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583) |
1644-09-08 |
Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies |
1645-08-31 |
Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566) |
1645-09-08 |
Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64 |
1646-08-28 |
Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 |
1646-12-23 |
François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) |
1647-05-21 |
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 |
1648-01-14 |
Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63 |
1648-01-23 |
Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40 |
1648-05-26 |
Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597) |
1648-07-31 |
Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60 |
1649-06-03 |
Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590) |
1649-08-25 |
Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36 |
1649-12-04 |
William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585) |
1650-10-21 |
Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies |
1650-11-13 |
Thomas May, English poet and historian (b. 1595) |
1651-10-27 |
Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies |
1655-09-07 |
Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown) |
1658-04-29 |
John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613) |
1658-09-22 |
Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607) |
1658-10-26 |
Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies |
1658-11-15 |
Jacobus Revius, [Reefsen], theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72 |
1659-04-15 |
Simon Dach, German poet, dies |
1660-09-08 |
Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 |
1661-10-26 |
Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies |
1661-12-29 |
Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) |
1662-03-30 |
François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592) |
1666-06-26 |
Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies |
1666-06-30 |
Alexander Brome, British poet |
1667-07-28 |
Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies |
1668-04-07 |
William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606) |
1669-02-01 |
Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31 |
1669-03-10 |
John Denham, English poet (b. 1615) |
1669-05-16 |
Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 |
1672-04-22 |
Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73 |
1672-09-16 |
Anne Bradstreet, New England's first published poet, dies (birth date unknown) |
1673-03-15 |
Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 |
1673-06-24 |
John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle |
1674-01-11 |
Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58 |
1674-06-11 |
Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52 |
1674-08-13 |
Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35 |
1674-09-27 |
Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies |
1674-10-27 |
Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614) |
1674-11-08 |
John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65 |
1676-10-25 |
Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64 |
1677-07-09 |
Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies |
1678-05-05 |
Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70 |
1678-08-16 |
Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57 |
1679-02-05 |
Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91 |
1679-07-08 |
Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies |
1679-07-11 |
William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619) |
1680-07-26 |
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies |
1680-09-25 |
Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies |
1683-12-07 |
John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653) |
1684-09-18 |
Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37 |
1685-10-12 |
Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59 |
1687-03-28 |
Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90 |
1687-10-21 |
Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies |
1689-08-21 |
William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier |
1689-11-13 |
Philipp von Zesen, German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70 |
1691-10-10 |
Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613) |
1692-11-19 |
Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright |
1694-10-12 |
Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies |
1695-04-13 |
Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies |
1695-04-14 |
Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73 |
1695-04-23 |
Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72 |
1696-07-09 |
Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies |
1697-11-02 |
Constantine Huygens Jr, Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried |
1699-04-22 |
Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53 |
1700-05-01 |
John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies |
1702-01-13 |
Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41 |
1703-10-14 |
Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634) |
1706-01-29 |
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638) |
1707-05-03 |
Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53 |
1707-06-24 |
Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74 |
1707-09-15 |
George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663) |
1707-09-24 |
Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642) |
1709-09-04 |
Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies |
1711-02-10 |
Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22 |
1711-03-13 |
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636) |
1712-04-05 |
John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63 |
1712-04-10 |
Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77 |
1713-06-01 |
Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34 |
1714-03-27 |
Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80 |
1715-08-12 |
Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies |
1716-02-19 |
Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634) |
1717-07-21 |
Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies |
1718-12-06 |
Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674) |
1719-06-17 |
Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47 |
1720-06-27 |
Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639) |
1721-02-24 |
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648) |
1721-09-18 |
Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies |
1721-10-04 |
Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36 |
1722-01-07 |
Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60 |
1726-05-14 |
John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies |
1727-05-02 |
Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 |
1729-01-04 |
Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies |
1729-08-15 |
Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 |
1730-07-16 |
Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies |
1730-09-27 |
Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688) |
1732-12-04 |
John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 |
1733-12-31 |
Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 |
1735-04-05 |
Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662) |
1736-07-16 |
Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies |
1737-02-20 |
Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies |
1740-04-23 |
Thomas Tickell, poet, dies |
1741-03-17 |
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671) |
1742-07-19 |
William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675) |
1743-04-30 |
Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies |
1743-08-01 |
Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 |
1744-05-30 |
Alexander Pope, English poet (The Rape of the Lock), dies at 56 |
1744-07-14 |
Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28 |
1746-02-04 |
Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46 |
1747-01-16 |
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) |
1749-06-18 |
Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674) |
1751-05-24 |
William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies |
1754-10-28 |
Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708) |
1757-11-12 |
Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671) |
1758-01-07 |
Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71 |
1758-07-24 |
John Dyer, poet, dies |
1759-06-12 |
William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37 |
1759-08-24 |
Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 |
1760-12-14 |
Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies |
1763-01-11 |
Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676) |
1763-01-29 |
Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692) |
1763-02-11 |
William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714) |
1763-08-09 |
John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47 |
1763-09-26 |
John Byron, English poet (b. 1692) |
1763-10-17 |
Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 |
1764-06-03 |
Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69 |
1765-04-05 |
Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81 |
1765-04-15 |
Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 |
1767-07-15 |
Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746) |
1768-07-04 |
Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58 |
1768-08-17 |
Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703) |
1768-12-20 |
Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692) |
1769-04-03 |
Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71 |
1770-06-23 |
Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721) |
1770-08-24 |
Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies |
1770-08-26 |
Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, dies at 42 |
1771-05-21 |
Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722) |
1771-07-07 |
Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54 |
1771-07-30 |
Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54 |
1772-11-10 |
Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724) |
1774-04-04 |
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 |
1775-10-02 |
Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703) |
1777-06-16 |
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709) |
1779-09-02 |
Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66 |
1780-02-18 |
Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714) |
1781-05-08 |
Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715) |
1781-11-04 |
Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721) |
1782-04-12 |
Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698) |
1784-12-05 |
Phillis Wheatley, American poet and first published African-American woman, dies in Boston at 31 |
1785-10-30 |
Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54 |
1785-11-25 |
Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712) |
1785-12-29 |
Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742) |
1786-03-11 |
Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 |
1788-04-22 |
Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46 |
1788-06-12 |
Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 |
1788-10-13 |
Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702) |
1789-10-24 |
Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68 |
1790-05-21 |
Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies |
1793-01-04 |
Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35 |
1794-07-25 |
Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies |
1795-04-12 |
Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian librettist and poet, dies at 80 |
1795-07-31 |
Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54 |
1796-02-17 |
James Macpherson, poet, dies |
1796-05-12 |
Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 |
1796-07-21 |
Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37 |
1798-04-11 |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725) |
1799-08-15 |
Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729) |
1799-10-05 |
Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68 |
1800-04-25 |
William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68 |
1800-09-29 |
Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729) |
1803-01-18 |
Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743) |
1803-02-09 |
Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716) |
1803-03-14 |
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 |
1803-04-02 |
Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 |
1803-08-18 |
James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67 |
1803-12-18 |
Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 |
1805-05-09 |
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet/playwright, dies at 45 |
1806-10-28 |
Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749) |
1808-07-29 |
Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies |
1811-01-10 |
Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764) |
1811-07-28 |
Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies |
1813-08-11 |
Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745) |
1813-08-26 |
Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21 |
1815-12-20 |
Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 |
1816-07-20 |
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743) |
1817-12-11 |
Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34 |
1819-12-05 |
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750) |
1820-09-21 |
Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) |
1820-10-12 |
Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 |
1821-02-23 |
John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome |
1822-07-08 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29 |
1823-01-21 |
Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761) |
1823-02-07 |
Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58 |
1824-02-09 |
Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49 |
1824-04-19 |
George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36 |
1826-07-25 |
Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795) |
1827-08-12 |
William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 |
1827-09-18 |
Robert Pollok, poet, dies |
1827-10-10 |
Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49 |
1829-01-12 |
Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56 |
1831-01-04 |
Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37 |
1831-07-21 |
Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55 |
1831-12-18 |
Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 |
1832-02-03 |
George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 |
1832-09-21 |
Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies |
1834-07-25 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61 |
1834-10-19 |
Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69 |
1835-05-16 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies |
1835-11-16 |
Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48 |
1836-11-05 |
Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810) |
1837-01-29 |
Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel |
1837-10-15 |
Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760) |
1838-01-16 |
Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS] |
1838-01-28 |
Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS] |
1839-02-07 |
Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799) |
1839-04-22 |
Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784) |
1839-06-30 |
Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies |
1839-07-15 |
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies |
1839-10-11 |
Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88 |
1840-08-18 |
Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73 |
1841-07-27 |
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies |
1842-04-07 |
Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 |
1842-05-23 |
Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 |
1842-10-19 |
Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808) |
1842-10-30 |
Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784) |
1843-01-11 |
Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star Spangled Banner" dies at 63 |
1843-03-21 |
Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774) |
1843-06-06 |
Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770) |
1844-06-15 |
Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66 |
1844-07-11 |
Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800) |
1845-05-12 |
August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 |
1845-05-12 |
János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763) |
1845-09-16 |
John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81 |
1846-11-06 |
Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general |
1847-06-09 |
Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphée), dies |
1847-12-11 |
Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25 |
1848-03-20 |
Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27 |
1849-01-26 |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 |
1849-02-08 |
France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48 |
1849-04-03 |
Juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39 |
1849-10-07 |
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40 |
1850-01-20 |
Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779) |
1850-04-07 |
William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87 |
1850-04-23 |
William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80 |
1850-08-06 |
Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805) |
1851-05-24 |
Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40 |
1852-02-17 |
Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies |
1852-02-25 |
Thomas Moore, Irish poet and musician, dies aged 72 |
1852-04-19 |
Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 |
1852-04-24 |
Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783) |
1852-08-05 |
Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53 |
1853-01-09 |
Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75 |
1853-06-18 |
Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies |
1855-01-10 |
Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67 |
1855-07-07 |
Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787) |
1855-11-26 |
Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56 |
1856-02-17 |
Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris |
1857-02-09 |
Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) |
1857-03-11 |
Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84 |
1857-05-02 |
LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies |
1857-07-16 |
Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies |
1857-11-26 |
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69 |
1858-01-27 |
Gerrit van der Linde Jz, Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49 |
1858-03-03 |
Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54 |
1858-10-10 |
Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73 |
1859-02-23 |
Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812) |
1860-09-03 |
Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804) |
1860-09-18 |
Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies |
1860-12-07 |
Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43 |
1860-12-28 |
Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57 |
1861-03-10 |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814) |
1861-04-11 |
Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824) |
1861-07-02 |
Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31 |
1862-02-11 |
Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829) |
1862-02-21 |
Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 |
1862-03-02 |
Frederick West Lander, US Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40 |
1862-04-04 |
Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45 |
1862-05-16 |
Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 |
1862-05-28 |
Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16] |
1863-09-17 |
Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies |
1863-09-17 |
Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies |
1864-05-20 |
John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70 |
1864-11-03 |
Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea |
1865-10-16 |
Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781) |
1865-12-01 |
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796) |
1866-01-10 |
Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792) |
1866-02-03 |
François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809) |
1866-06-16 |
Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798) |
1866-09-09 |
Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65 |
1867-08-23 |
Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796) |
1867-08-31 |
[Pierre-]Charles Baudelaire, Fren poet (Journaux Intimes), dies at 46 |
1868-08-25 |
Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60 |
1869-02-15 |
Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796) |
1869-03-01 |
Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78 |
1869-11-03 |
Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792) |
1870-09-11 |
Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46 |
1870-11-21 |
Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Ruiker), dies at 69 |
1871-07-06 |
Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 |
1872-03-04 |
Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790) |
1872-04-20 |
Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62 |
1872-10-23 |
Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61 |
1872-11-23 |
Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, dies |
1872-12-31 |
Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38 |
1873-04-25 |
Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43 |
1873-06-29 |
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824) |
1873-10-21 |
Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807) |
1873-11-08 |
Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76 |
1873-12-06 |
Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24 |
1874-08-22 |
Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies |
1875-02-17 |
Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33 |
1875-03-01 |
Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845) |
1875-06-04 |
Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804) |
1875-09-28 |
Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, dies at 58 [OS] |
1875-10-10 |
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817) |
1876-01-07 |
Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807) |
1876-02-24 |
Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67 |
1876-05-12 |
Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63 |
1876-05-20 |
Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies |
1877-05-06 |
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804) |
1877-12-27 |
Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56 |
1878-02-17 |
Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59 |
1878-07-17 |
Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65 |
1878-12-19 |
Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825) |
1879-01-16 |
Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827) |
1879-09-28 |
Nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered |
1880-11-19 |
Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74 |
1881-02-07 |
Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73 |
1881-11-01 |
Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22 |
1882-03-24 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 |
1882-04-09 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53 |
1882-04-27 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet (Representive Men), dies of pneumonia at 78 |
1882-08-01 |
Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43 |
1882-10-20 |
Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41 |
1882-10-22 |
Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65 |
1883-01-05 |
Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806) |
1883-05-23 |
Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies |
1883-06-14 |
Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809) |
1883-12-13 |
Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812) |
1884-04-07 |
Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80 |
1885-07-15 |
Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet in the Galician language ('Séculos Escuros') (b. 1837) |
1886-05-15 |
Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55 |
1886-06-11 |
Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40 |
1886-08-09 |
Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810) |
1886-08-11 |
Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843) |
1886-10-21 |
Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies |
1887-08-20 |
Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) |
1887-11-19 |
Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in New York at 38 |
1887-12-05 |
Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804) |
1888-01-29 |
Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75 |
1888-03-04 |
Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88 |
1888-04-15 |
Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 |
1888-05-17 |
Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820) |
1888-06-12 |
Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Neth Spectator), dies at 62 |
1888-08-09 |
Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 |
1889-03-17 |
Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68 |
1889-06-08 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54 |
1889-06-15 |
Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39 |
1889-07-11 |
Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34 |
1889-07-13 |
Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830) |
1889-11-18 |
William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68 |
1889-12-12 |
Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77 |
1889-12-24 |
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819) |
1890-07-16 |
Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies |
1890-08-22 |
Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69 |
1891-08-12 |
James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies |
1891-11-10 |
Arthur Rimbaud, French poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies of a bone cancer at 37 |
1891-12-11 |
Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies |
1892-03-26 |
Walt Whitman, American poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72 |
1892-06-28 |
Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810) |
1892-09-07 |
John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies |
1892-10-06 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83 |
1892-12-03 |
Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820) |
1893-01-23 |
Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75 |
1893-04-19 |
John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies |
1893-08-17 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29] |
1893-08-29 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17] |
1894-12-29 |
Christina Rossetti, English poet, dies at 64 in London |
1895-05-19 |
Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies |
1895-05-21 |
Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76 |
1896-01-08 |
Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844) |
1896-05-27 |
Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies |
1896-09-23 |
Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83 |
1896-11-26 |
Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823) |
1897-03-20 |
Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821) |
1897-07-20 |
Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820) |
1897-10-24 |
Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73 |
1898-02-16 |
Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843) |
1898-03-19 |
Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26 |
1898-09-09 |
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842) |
1898-10-30 |
Yakov Petrovich Polonsky Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 |
1899-04-16 |
Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b 1875) |
1899-06-30 |
Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies |
1900-03-18 |
Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32 |
1900-10-20 |
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846) |
1901-02-12 |
Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83 |
1901-06-16 |
Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies |
1901-07-20 |
William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840) |
1902-05-27 |
Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies |
1902-06-10 |
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845) |
1902-09-06 |
Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86 |
1902-09-29 |
William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825) |
1903-02-28 |
Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88 |
1903-09-03 |
Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832) |
1904-04-16 |
Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888) |
1904-07-05 |
Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845) |
1905-02-18 |
Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75 |
1905-10-02 |
Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62 |
1906-02-09 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio |
1906-06-26 |
Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 |
1907-08-05 |
Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66 |
1907-09-07 |
R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies |
1907-11-28 |
Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869) |
1908-05-23 |
Francois Coppee, French poet, dies |
1908-05-31 |
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839) |
1908-07-10 |
Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78 |
1908-07-24 |
Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867) |
1909-03-24 |
John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37 |
1909-04-10 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72 |
1909-05-18 |
George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81 |
1909-06-22 |
Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65 |
1909-11-10 |
Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877) |
1909-11-10 |
George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863) |
1909-11-30 |
Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13] |
1909-12-11 |
Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855) |
1909-12-13 |
Innokenti Annenski, Russian poet and interpreter, dies of heart attack at 54 |
1910-10-17 |
William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies |
1911-03-07 |
Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68 |
1912-06-10 |
Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856) |
1912-06-11 |
Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74 |
1913-03-07 |
Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet |
1913-06-21 |
Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37 |
1914-03-25 |
Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83 |
1914-06-06 |
Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies |
1914-07-06 |
Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27 |
1914-09-05 |
Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873) |
1914-11-03 |
Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27 |
1915-04-23 |
Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27 |
1915-09-27 |
Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858) |
1915-10-09 |
Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73 |
1916-07-04 |
Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888) |
1916-07-22 |
James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849) |
1917-04-09 |
Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I |
1917-05-25 |
Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891) |
1917-07-31 |
Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881) |
1917-07-31 |
Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887) |
1918-01-28 |
John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician/soldier, dies of pneumonia at 45 |
1918-05-09 |
George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866) |
1918-06-26 |
Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) |
1918-07-25 |
Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies |
1918-07-30 |
Joyce Kilmer, American poet, dies at 31 |
1918-11-04 |
Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25 |
1918-11-09 |
Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38 |
1918-12-02 |
Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868) |
1918-12-28 |
Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865) |
1919-01-01 |
William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 |
1919-01-27 |
Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877) |
1919-05-24 |
Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican poet, dies at 48 |
1920-03-27 |
Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26 |
1920-09-16 |
Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32 |
1920-11-22 |
Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884) |
1921-05-13 |
Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848) |
1921-06-19 |
Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33 |
1921-08-07 |
Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40 |
1921-08-24 |
Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886) |
1921-09-02 |
Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840) |
1921-09-11 |
Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882) |
1921-11-08 |
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849) |
1922-04-30 |
David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies |
1922-05-30 |
David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45 |
1922-06-28 |
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885) |
1922-10-28 |
Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies |
1922-12-13 |
Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861) |
1923-07-16 |
Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60 |
1923-10-14 |
Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies |
1923-12-01 |
Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836) |
1924-01-24 |
Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80 |
1924-05-06 |
Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47 |
1924-06-30 |
Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42 |
1925-02-22 |
Nina David, [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies |
1925-05-12 |
Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874) |
1925-06-21 |
Jan H Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60 |
1925-10-11 |
Karl M Lybeck, Fin/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71 |
1925-12-27 |
Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895) |
1926-03-01 |
Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58 |
1926-05-27 |
Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904) |
1926-06-04 |
Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks & Radiates), dies |
1926-10-06 |
Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies |
1926-12-12 |
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77 |
1927-04-15 |
Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 |
1927-09-15 |
Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62 |
1928-01-11 |
Thomas Hardy, English novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) and poet, dies near Dorchester at 87 |
1928-02-29 |
Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California (b. 1841) |
1928-05-16 |
Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies |
1928-06-12 |
Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies |
1928-07-20 |
Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896) |
1928-12-16 |
Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885) |
1929-03-26 |
Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859) |
1929-04-23 |
Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28 |
1929-06-08 |
Bliss Carman, poet, dies |
1929-06-28 |
Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844) |
1929-07-15 |
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies |
1929-08-23 |
Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies |
1929-09-12 |
Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865) |
1929-11-03 |
Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883) |
1930-03-02 |
David Herbert Lawrence (DH), English poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44 |
1930-04-04 |
Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies |
1930-04-21 |
Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 |
1930-04-22 |
Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866) |
1931-04-08 |
Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies |
1931-04-10 |
Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883) |
1931-06-29 |
Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850) |
1931-11-19 |
Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897) |
1931-12-05 |
Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) |
1931-12-10 |
Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 |
1932-03-01 |
Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46 |
1932-04-27 |
Harold "Heart" Crane, US poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32 |
1932-05-16 |
William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies |
1932-06-12 |
René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies |
1932-07-05 |
Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880) |
1933-01-29 |
Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884) |
1933-03-01 |
Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900) |
1933-04-29 |
Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863) |
1933-12-04 |
Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65 |
1934-02-16 |
Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzjubin], Russ poet/journalist, dies at 38 |
1934-07-04 |
Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies |
1935-04-06 |
Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies |
1935-07-17 |
George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867) |
1935-08-11 |
William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies |
1935-11-30 |
Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47 |
1936-04-30 |
Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859) |
1936-06-14 |
G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies at 62 |
1936-08-19 |
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38 |
1936-09-05 |
Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859) |
1936-09-26 |
Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75 |
1936-10-25 |
Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76 |
1936-12-31 |
Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72 |
1937-01-14 |
Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889) |
1937-03-08 |
Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71 |
1937-03-19 |
Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58 |
1937-03-23 |
Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66 |
1937-03-25 |
John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 |
1937-04-17 |
Yi Sang, Korean Poet (b. 1910) |
1937-07-18 |
Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908) |
1938-03-01 |
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74 |
1938-03-31 |
Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78 |
1938-04-15 |
Caesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46 |
1938-04-19 |
Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75 |
1938-04-21 |
Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877) |
1938-05-11 |
Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 |
1938-06-22 |
C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876) |
1938-06-30 |
Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61 |
1938-08-04 |
Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70 |
1938-09-17 |
Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901) |
1938-10-27 |
Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57 |
1939-01-28 |
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73 |
1939-02-22 |
Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875) |
1939-07-19 |
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850) |
1940-01-04 |
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 |
1940-01-05 |
Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885) |
1940-01-18 |
Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 |
1940-05-14 |
Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies |
1940-06-21 |
Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40 |
1940-08-21 |
Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863) |
1940-09-03 |
Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59 |
1941-02-05 |
Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864) |
1941-03-13 |
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881) |
1941-07-21 |
Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872) |
1941-08-02 |
Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70 |
1941-08-07 |
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80 |
1941-08-31 |
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892) |
1941-11-01 |
Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50 |
1941-11-07 |
Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46 |
1941-11-18 |
Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879) |
1941-12-11 |
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922) |
1941-12-20 |
Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887) |
1942-02-17 |
Yevgeni Chervyakov, Poet i tsar |
1942-03-28 |
Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31 |
1942-07-23 |
Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32 |
1942-10-10 |
Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68 |
1943-01-12 |
Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 |
1943-02-27 |
Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859) |
1943-03-04 |
Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73 |
1943-04-07 |
Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72 |
1943-04-29 |
Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20 |
1943-06-13 |
Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908) |
1943-10-24 |
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912) |
1944-01-03 |
Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873) |
1944-01-07 |
Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888) |
1944-01-14 |
Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74 |
1944-01-23 |
Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909) |
1944-04-04 |
John Peale Bishop, US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51 |
1944-05-28 |
Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42 |
1944-07-18 |
Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74 |
1944-12-03 |
Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75 |
1945-01-22 |
Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869) |
1945-02-23 |
Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62 |
1945-03-16 |
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52 |
1945-03-16 |
Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874) |
1945-04-03 |
Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43 |
1945-04-17 |
Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies |
1945-06-21 |
Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53 |
1945-07-07 |
Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40 |
1945-07-20 |
Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871) |
1945-08-26 |
Franz Werfel, Czech/German/US poet/writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54 |
1945-11-16 |
Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies at 43 |
1946-01-09 |
Countee Cullen, US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42 |
1946-03-19 |
Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35 |
1946-07-27 |
Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 |
1947-06-28 |
Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72 |
1947-11-25 |
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876) |
1948-03-04 |
Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51 |
1949-06-11 |
Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71 |
1949-07-16 |
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866) |
1949-12-28 |
W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60 |
1950-03-02 |
M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 |
1950-05-10 |
John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies |
1950-10-19 |
Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) |
1950-10-31 |
Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72 |
1950-12-25 |
Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47 |
1950-12-26 |
James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68 |
1951-06-02 |
John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71 |
1951-06-19 |
Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884) |
1951-09-24 |
Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75 |
1951-11-25 |
Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63 |
1952-01-22 |
Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52 |
1952-05-26 |
Damaso Alonso, Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), dies at 55 |
1952-09-26 |
George Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88 |
1952-11-18 |
Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56 |
1952-11-23 |
Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59 |
1953-01-26 |
Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58 |
1953-04-06 |
Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905) |
1953-05-04 |
Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60 |
1953-07-01 |
Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies |
1953-09-01 |
Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866) |
1953-09-25 |
Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies |
1953-11-09 |
Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39 |
1953-12-06 |
Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48 |
1953-12-27 |
Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894) |
1954-07-26 |
Hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26 |
1954-10-22 |
Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899) |
1955-02-23 |
Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86 |
1955-08-02 |
Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75 |
1955-12-30 |
Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913) |
1956-06-19 |
Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer, dies at 82 |
1956-07-08 |
Giovanni Papini, Italian author/poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 |
1957-01-10 |
Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 |
1957-04-22 |
Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54 |
1957-05-29 |
George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75 |
1957-05-31 |
Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878) |
1958-02-24 |
Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86 |
1958-05-29 |
Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76 |
1958-06-28 |
Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77 |
1958-07-04 |
Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79 |
1958-08-04 |
Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883) |
1958-09-11 |
Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874) |
1958-10-27 |
Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74 |
1959-07-26 |
Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54 |
1959-08-05 |
Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 |
1959-09-22 |
Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60 |
1959-12-27 |
Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat, dies at 70 |
1960-01-13 |
Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Ital poet (Una Donna), dies at 83 |
1960-02-28 |
F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74 |
1960-05-30 |
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70 |
1960-06-17 |
Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70 |
1960-11-20 |
Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet/writer, dies |
1961-02-21 |
Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73 |
1961-03-31 |
Seerp Anema, Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85 |
1961-05-06 |
Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65 |
1961-06-26 |
Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58 |
1962-01-17 |
Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56 |
1962-01-20 |
Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75 |
1962-02-15 |
Carl Seelig, The Guardian and His Poet |
1962-06-25 |
Ephraim Lisitsky, Hebrew poet, dies |
1962-06-27 |
Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904) |
1962-08-09 |
Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 |
1962-09-03 |
e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67 |
1962-11-14 |
Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet (Hombres & Soledad), dies at 80 |
1963-01-08 |
Kay Sage, American artist and poet commits suicide aged 64 |
1963-01-29 |
Robert Frost, American poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88 |
1963-02-11 |
Sylvia Plath, American poet/novelist (Ariel), commits suicide at 30 |
1963-03-04 |
William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79 |
1963-06-03 |
Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902) |
1963-06-26 |
Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies |
1963-08-01 |
Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies |
1963-11-21 |
Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61 |
1964-03-20 |
Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41 |
1964-04-26 |
Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81 |
1964-06-04 |
Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887) |
1964-10-19 |
Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (b. 1885) |
1964-11-08 |
Kinba Sanyûtei, The Actress and the Poet |
1964-12-09 |
Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77 |
1965-01-04 |
T. S. Eliot, poet and Nobel laureate (Washed Country), dies in London at 76 |
1965-03-13 |
Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882) |
1965-04-08 |
Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70 |
1965-06-04 |
Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies |
1965-06-07 |
Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies |
1965-07-10 |
Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66 |
1965-08-14 |
Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/writer (Walk at Dawn), dies |
1966-03-05 |
Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76 |
1966-03-27 |
Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82 |
1966-05-13 |
Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies |
1966-05-14 |
Georgia BD Camp Johnson, US poet/playwright, dies at 88 |
1966-06-07 |
Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78 |
1966-06-27 |
Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies |
1966-07-02 |
Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900) |
1966-07-11 |
Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52 |
1966-08-10 |
Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies |
1966-09-29 |
Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Motion), dies at 75 |
1966-10-01 |
Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom & Thirst), dies |
1967-03-02 |
José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873) |
1967-05-22 |
Langston Hughes, American poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto), dies at 65 |
1967-07-21 |
Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80 |
1967-07-22 |
Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89 |
1967-08-31 |
Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet/writer (9th wave), dies at 76 |
1967-09-01 |
Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack), dies at 80 |
1968-01-14 |
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885) |
1968-01-26 |
Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900) |
1968-02-04 |
Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67 |
1968-02-29 |
Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886) |
1968-05-09 |
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893) |
1968-06-01 |
[Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57 |
1968-06-14 |
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 |
1968-10-28 |
Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 |
1969-06-16 |
John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57 |
1969-12-26 |
Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 |
1970-01-24 |
Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891) |
1970-03-01 |
Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59 |
1970-05-12 |
leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78 |
1970-06-02 |
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888) |
1970-10-12 |
Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930) |
1970-11-06 |
Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900) |
1971-03-19 |
Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82 |
1971-03-23 |
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72 |
1971-05-19 |
Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68 |
1971-05-20 |
Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904) |
1971-06-25 |
Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88 |
1971-07-30 |
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901) |
1971-12-12 |
John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47 |
1972-01-07 |
John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies |
1972-01-12 |
Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 |
1972-02-15 |
Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73 |
1972-03-20 |
Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71 |
1972-08-02 |
Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887) |
1972-11-01 |
Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87 |
1972-12-11 |
Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66 |
1973-04-30 |
Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911) |
1973-05-14 |
Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905) |
1973-06-04 |
Arna Bontemps, American poet (Harlem Renaissance), dies of heart attack at 72 in Nashville |
1973-08-17 |
Conrad Aiken, US poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74 |
1973-09-23 |
Pablo Neruda, [N R R Basoalto], poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69 |
1973-09-26 |
Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81 |
1973-09-29 |
W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies |
1973-10-17 |
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47 |
1974-01-13 |
Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904) |
1974-01-20 |
Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77 |
1974-01-21 |
Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48 |
1974-03-01 |
Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53 |
1974-03-08 |
Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56 |
1974-07-03 |
John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies |
1974-07-21 |
Willem F K Hussem, painter/poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74 |
1974-08-07 |
Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925) |
1974-10-17 |
René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57 |
1974-10-29 |
Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 |
1975-01-08 |
Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66 |
1975-02-10 |
Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910) |
1975-03-18 |
Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900) |
1975-09-20 |
Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78 |
1975-11-01 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 |
1975-11-13 |
Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910) |
1976-03-13 |
Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77 |
1976-05-01 |
Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939) |
1976-06-09 |
Paul T B Rodenko, Dutch poet/writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55 |
1976-07-04 |
Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895) |
1976-08-05 |
Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88 |
1976-08-09 |
Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet/novelist, dies at 65 |
1976-08-29 |
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899) |
1977-01-21 |
Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906) |
1977-04-11 |
Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900) |
1977-04-14 |
Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, dies at 44 |
1977-06-09 |
Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant], Dutch poet, dies at 51 |
1977-07-27 |
Elizabeth Lee Miller, The Blood of a Poet |
1977-09-12 |
Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60) |
1977-12-18 |
Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 |
1978-01-11 |
Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927) |
1978-05-11 |
John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93 |
1978-07-02 |
Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922) |
1978-07-03 |
Boris Tamarin, Poet i tsar |
1978-09-09 |
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892) |
1978-10-22 |
John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937) |
1978-11-20 |
Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890) |
1979-01-28 |
Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (b. 1901) |
1979-02-08 |
Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82 |
1979-09-10 |
Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies at 56 |
1980-02-12 |
Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913) |
1980-03-25 |
James Wright, American poet (b. 1927) |
1980-03-31 |
Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905) |
1980-04-21 |
Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928) |
1980-04-30 |
Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898) |
1980-05-05 |
Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79 |
1980-07-09 |
Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913) |
1980-07-25 |
Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938) |
1980-07-26 |
Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928) |
1980-09-25 |
Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883) |
1981-04-30 |
Peter Huchel, German poet, dies at 78 |
1981-09-12 |
Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) |
1981-10-19 |
Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet, dies at 48 |
1982-02-22 |
Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898) |
1982-03-11 |
Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898) |
1982-06-06 |
Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905) |
1982-07-20 |
Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931) |
1982-11-13 |
Babette Deutsch, US poet (Honey out of the Rock), dies at 87 |
1983-02-08 |
Alfred Wallenstein, Poet and Peasant Overture |
1983-04-15 |
Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80 |
1983-06-15 |
Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910) |
1983-12-13 |
Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933 |
1984-01-21 |
Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893) |
1984-01-23 |
Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926) |
1984-03-11 |
Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76 |
1984-04-07 |
Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79 |
1985-01-16 |
Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (b. 1910) |
1985-02-22 |
Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913) |
1985-05-25 |
Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91 |
1985-10-08 |
Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 |
1985-10-18 |
Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 |
1985-10-31 |
Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907) |
1985-11-24 |
Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67 |
1985-12-02 |
Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63 |
1985-12-07 |
Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90 |
1985-12-18 |
Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916) |
1986-01-08 |
Yaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84 |
1986-03-30 |
John Ciardi, US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69 |
1986-04-09 |
Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64 |
1986-04-21 |
Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930) |
1986-06-25 |
Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63 |
1986-08-16 |
Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921) |
1986-08-20 |
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923) |
1986-08-20 |
Milton Acorn, In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet |
1987-07-08 |
Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896) |
1987-08-17 |
Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84 |
1987-09-16 |
Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922) |
1987-11-11 |
Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30 |
1988-01-03 |
Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901) |
1988-04-15 |
Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81 |
1988-08-02 |
Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 |
1988-09-22 |
Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914) |
1989-01-06 |
Irina Volodko, Poet i tsar |
1989-01-17 |
Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 |
1989-02-08 |
Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81 |
1989-03-15 |
Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915) |
1989-05-24 |
Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72 |
1989-05-27 |
Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907) |
1989-11-18 |
Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies |
1990-04-05 |
Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59 |
1990-07-07 |
Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958) |
1990-07-10 |
Hans Faverey, poet, dies |
1990-11-12 |
Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81 |
1991-01-05 |
Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68 |
1991-01-22 |
Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905) |
1991-01-26 |
Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46 |
1991-03-03 |
Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84 |
1991-04-12 |
James Schuyler, US poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies |
1991-04-17 |
Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97 |
1991-04-27 |
Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies |
1991-05-10 |
Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies |
1991-06-23 |
Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66 |
1991-07-05 |
Howard Nemerow, US poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies |
1991-07-14 |
Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies |
1991-08-04 |
Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80 |
1991-09-11 |
Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920) |
1991-09-12 |
Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies |
1991-10-11 |
Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950) |
1991-10-27 |
George Barker, English poet (b. 1913) |
1992-01-26 |
Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63 |
1992-02-16 |
George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies |
1992-02-29 |
Ruth Pitter, English poet (b. 1897) |
1992-03-18 |
Cornelis B Vaandrager, [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56 |
1992-04-11 |
Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75 |
1992-05-23 |
Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies |
1992-08-13 |
Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], poet (Geen letterheren), dies |
1992-12-26 |
Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74 |
1993-02-08 |
Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies |
1993-03-02 |
Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15 |
1993-04-23 |
Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78 |
1993-05-15 |
Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) |
1993-06-26 |
Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81 |
1993-08-28 |
William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914) |
1993-12-13 |
Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87 |
1993-12-27 |
Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50 |
1994-03-01 |
Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74 |
1994-03-09 |
Charles Bukowski, author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73 |
1994-03-17 |
Arthur C Jacobs, poet, dies at 57 |
1994-03-19 |
Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87 |
1994-05-10 |
Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69 |
1994-06-04 |
Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59 |
1994-07-04 |
Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90 |
1994-08-19 |
Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64 |
1994-08-28 |
David Wright, poet, dies at 74 |
1994-09-02 |
Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82 |
1994-09-10 |
Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74 |
1994-10-12 |
Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938) |
1994-10-26 |
Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64 |
1994-11-20 |
Saeedi Sirjani, poet, dies at 64 |
1994-11-28 |
Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77 |
1994-12-12 |
Donna J. Stone, poet, dies of heart failure at 61 |
1994-12-27 |
Hans Berghuis, author/poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70 |
1994-12-31 |
Harri Webb, poet, dies at 74 |
1995-01-13 |
Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73 |
1995-02-06 |
James Ingram Merrill, US poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68 |
1995-02-10 |
Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85 |
1995-04-14 |
Brian Coffey, poet, dies at 89 |
1995-05-11 |
David Avidan, poet/writer, dies at 62 |
1995-05-30 |
Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72 |
1995-06-03 |
Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69 |
1995-07-06 |
Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87 |
1995-07-23 |
Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52 |
1995-08-07 |
Tom Scott, poet/editor, dies at 77 |
1995-09-03 |
Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91 |
1995-09-18 |
Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73 |
1995-09-28 |
Lynette Roberts, poet, dies at 86 |
1995-10-21 |
Linda Goodman, Morgantown, West Virginia, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70 |
1995-12-05 |
Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920) |
1995-12-10 |
Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95 |
1996-01-11 |
Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist, dies at 87 |
1996-01-17 |
Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83 |
1996-01-23 |
Norman MacCaig, poet, dies at 85 |
1996-01-28 |
Joseph Brodsky, poet, dies at 55 |
1996-02-11 |
Amelia Rosselli, poet, dies at 65 |
1996-03-18 |
Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84 |
1996-03-31 |
Dario Bellezza, poet, dies at 51 |
1996-04-13 |
George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74 |
1996-04-17 |
Eva Jones, poet/novelist, dies at 82 |
1996-04-18 |
Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 |
1996-04-29 |
Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71 |
1996-05-05 |
Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86 |
1996-06-07 |
Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70 |
1996-06-16 |
David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69 |
1996-06-30 |
Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76 |
1996-07-21 |
Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79 |
1996-07-27 |
Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65 |
1996-08-06 |
Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69 |
1996-08-18 |
Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103 |
1996-10-25 |
Sofia Tuibayeva, A Poet's Fate |
1996-11-24 |
Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet, dies at 85 |
1996-12-08 |
Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60 |
1996-12-29 |
William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 |
1997-01-19 |
James Dickey, poet/novelist, dies at 84 |
1997-04-05 |
Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, dies at 80 |
1997-09-11 |
Hannah Weiner American experimental poet (b. 1928) |
1997-11-12 |
William Matthews, poet, dies at 55 |
1997-12-13 |
Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70 |
1997-12-20 |
Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74 |
1998-04-30 |
Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926) |
1998-09-01 |
Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930) |
1998-10-28 |
Ted Hughes, British Poet Laureate dies aged 68 |
1999-01-11 |
Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897) |
1999-03-19 |
Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926) |
1999-05-10 |
Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930) |
1999-09-08 |
Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916) |
2000-01-22 |
Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916) |
2000-01-23 |
Kay Cavendish, Poet's Pub |
2000-05-08 |
Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918) |
2000-06-14 |
Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911) |
2000-07-11 |
Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913) |
2000-07-24 |
Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925) |
2000-09-25 |
R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913) |
2000-12-03 |
Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917) |
2000-12-07 |
Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930) |
2001-01-17 |
Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930) |
2002-11-08 |
Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931) |
2002-12-09 |
Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942) |
2003-01-21 |
Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933) |
2003-11-03 |
Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923) |
2003-11-04 |
Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917) |
2004-04-25 |
Thom Gunn, British poet (b. 1929) |
2004-06-22 |
Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990) |
2004-10-20 |
Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923) |
2004-12-02 |
Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921) |
2005-01-25 |
Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907) |
2005-02-21 |
Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920) |
2005-03-29 |
Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919) |
2005-03-30 |
Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926) |
2005-05-22 |
Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924) |
2005-06-23 |
Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925) |
2005-08-21 |
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936) |
2005-09-06 |
Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929) |
2005-11-04 |
Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980) |
2005-11-20 |
Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931) |
2006-01-04 |
Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912) |
2006-01-18 |
Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915) |
2006-03-03 |
Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923) |
2006-03-27 |
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925) |
2006-05-14 |
Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905) |
2006-09-11 |
William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924) |
2006-09-25 |
John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957) |
2006-09-29 |
Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926) |
2006-11-30 |
Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927) |
2006-12-24 |
Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (b. 1961) |
2007-01-04 |
Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949) |
2007-01-05 |
Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923) |
2007-02-04 |
Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959) |
2007-06-27 |
Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905) |
2008-02-09 |
Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931) |
2008-04-17 |
Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913) |
2008-08-09 |
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(b. 1941) |
2008-10-15 |
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet (b. 1914) |
2009-01-13 |
William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926) |
2009-01-18 |
Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935) |
2009-03-04 |
Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942) |
2009-04-10 |
Deborah Digges, American poet (b. 1950) |
2009-05-17 |
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (b. 1920) |
2009-08-27 |
Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913) |
2010-05-23 |
Gane Todorovoski, Macedonian literary critic, poet, & publicist (b. 1929) |
2010-10-25 |
Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (b. 1922) |
2010-11-05 |
Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet and politician (b. 1943) |
2010-11-29 |
Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (b. 1937) |
2010-12-03 |
Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik poet and fiction writer (b.1927) |
2011-02-16 |
Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930) |
2011-05-27 |
Gil Scott-Heron, American poet, musician and author (b. 1949) |
2011-07-08 |
Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924) |
2011-09-21 |
Jun Henmi, Japanese writer and poet (b. 1939) |
2011-10-17 |
Piri Thomas, Every Child Is Born a Poet |
2011-10-20 |
Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet and translator (b. 1928) |
2011-11-10 |
Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944) |
2012-02-01 |
Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel Laureate, dies at 88 |
2012-03-27 |
Adrienne Rich, American feminist poet/essayist, dies from complications of rheumatoid arthritis at 82 |
2012-09-14 |
Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89 |
2012-12-28 |
Jayne Cortez, African-American poet, dies at 76 |
2013-03-21 |
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian poet and novelist, dies at 82 |
2013-08-30 |
Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature) |
2014-02-22 |
Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist & Poet, dies at 98 |
2014-08-19 |
Simin Behbahani, Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty |
2014-11-01 |
Beverly Blossom, Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom |
2015-12-09 |
American Indian activist, poet John Trudell dies at 69 |
2016-04-14 |
Poet Ruth Gilbert, also known as Florence Mackay, dies age 99 |
2016-07-02 |
Poet Sir Geoffrey Hill dies aged 84 |
2016-07-03 |
Poet and award-winning Falstaff novelist Robert Nye dies aged 77 |
2016-12-27 |
Wellingtonian poet and actor Michele Amas dies, aged 55 |
2017-03-18 |
Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dies aged 87 |
2017-04-02 |
Legendary Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies aged 84 |
2017-06-06 |
Poet and author Helen Dunmore dies aged 64 |
2017-07-04 |
Heathcote Williams, radical poet and writer, dies aged 75 |
