2012 Event German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.' 2010 Event At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro 1963 Event Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" 1959 Event Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," San Francisco 1950 Death Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1909 Birthday Lynette Roberts, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, Faber and Faber published works, 'Poems', 'Gods with stainless ears; a heroic poem' 1891 Birthday Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe' 1864 Birthday Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet, May, Tiny Hero's Poem 1854 Event Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published 1835 Event Dr. Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala" 1818 Event Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair" 1815 Death Matthias Claudius, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert, dies at 74 1814 Event "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem 1763 Birthday Samuel Rogers, English poet, Italy, a poem 1740 Birthday Matthias Claudius, born in Reinfeld, Germany, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert 1720 Birthday Johann P Uz, German poet, Lyrische Poem 1708 Birthday Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet, Versuch einiger Poem
