1996 Death Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1991 Death Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83 1931 Death Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages 1930 Birthday Gary Snyder, Japhy Ryder, beat poet, Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems 1921 Birthday H. C. Artmann, born in Vienna, Australia, born Hans Carl Artmann, also known as Ib Hansen, writer, poet, celebrated for his early Viennese poems 1920 Birthday Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983 1916 Birthday Unica Zurn, born in Berlin, Germany, author, painter, wrote anagram poems and held automatic drawing exhibitions 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' 1903 Birthday Countee Cullen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, poet, Black Christ and Other Poems 1900 Birthday Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages 1899 Birthday Allen Tate, U.S., poet, Mr Pope and Other Poems 1899 Birthday Conrad Aiken, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Selected Poems 1887 Birthday Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems 1887 Birthday Robinson Jeffers, U.S., poet/playwright, Tamar and Other Poems, Medea 1885 Birthday Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems 1881 Birthday Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems 1876 Birthday Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria, poet, Iron Poems 1867 Birthday Lionel Pigot Johnson, born in England, poet and critic, Ireland and Other Poems 1830 Birthday Emily Dickinson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, poet, Collected Poems 1824 Birthday Phoebe Cary, born in Cincinnati, American poet, Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary 1814 Birthday Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet and writer, Demon and other poems 1774 Death Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies 1758 Event Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems 1750 Birthday Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Scots poems
