2015 Event Juan Felipe Herrera, age 66, has been named by U.S. Congress as this year's national poet laureate; Herrera, who is the first Latino to be given the title, has served for the past three years as California poet laureate 2014 Event French author Patrick Modiano receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, winning the award over noted poet Adonis and writers Haruki Murakami, Svetlana Alexievich, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o 2012 Event Anglo-Irish poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis' archive, which inclues manuscripts and a letter from W. H. Auden are donated to Oxford University's Bodelian Library by Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis 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.' 2011 Event The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer 2006 Death John M. Ford, author, science fiction and fantasy, poet, game designer, wrote, 'The Final Reflection', 'How Much Just for the Planet?', dies of natural causes, at age 49 2006 Death Stanley Kunitz, American Poet 2004 Death Anthony Hecht, American Poet 2004 Death Donald Justice, American Poet 2004 Death Carl Rakosi, German Poet 2004 Death Mattie Stepanek, poet, Heartsongs, dies at 13 2001 Death Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet 2001 Death Gregory Corso, American Poet 2000 Death Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83 2000 Death Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet 2000 Death Karl Shapiro, American Poet 2000 Death Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet 2000 Death Al Purdy, Canadian Poet 2000 Death Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80 2000 Death Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies 1998 Death Margaret Walker, American Poet 1997 Death Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74 1997 Death Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70 1997 Death William Matthews, poet, dies at 55 1997 Death James Laughlin, American Poet 1997 Death Allen Ginsberg, beat poet 1996 Death William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 1996 Death Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60 1996 Death Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet, dies at 85 1996 Death Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103 1996 Death Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69 1996 Death Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 1996 Death Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79 1996 Death Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76 1996 Death David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69 1996 Death Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70 1996 Death Ai Qing, modern Chinese poet, dies at 86 1996 Death Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71 1996 Death Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 1996 Death Eva Jones, poet and novelist, dies at 82 1996 Death George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74 1996 Death Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1996 Death Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84 1996 Death Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65 1996 Death Joseph Brodsky, poet, dies at 55 1996 Death Norman MacCaig, poet, dies at 85 1996 Death Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83 1996 Death Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87 1995 Death Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95 1995 Death Lynette Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, dies at 86 1995 Death Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73 1995 Death Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91 1995 Death Tom Scott, poet/editor, dies at 77 1995 Death Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52 1995 Death Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87 1995 Death Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69 1995 Death Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72 1995 Death David Avidan, poet and writer, dies at 62 1995 Death Brian Coffey, poet, publisher, dies at 89 1995 Death Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85 1995 Death James Ingram Merrill, U.S. poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68 1995 Death James Merrill, American Poet 1995 Death Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73 1994 Death Harri Webb, journalist, nationalist, poet, dies at 74 1994 Death Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70 1994 Death Mary Durack, poet, author, historian, dies at 81 1994 Death Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77 1994 Death Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64 1994 Death Amy Clampitt, British poet, 'Silence Opens', dies at 74 1994 Death Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82 1994 Death David Wright, poet, dies at 74 1994 Death Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64 1994 Death Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69 1994 Death Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59 1994 Death John Wain, English Poet 1994 Death Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69 1994 Death Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87 1994 Death Charles Bukowski, author and poet, dies of leukemia at 73 1994 Death Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74 1993 Death Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50 1993 Death Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87 1993 Death Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81 1993 Death Bertus Aafjes, poet and writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78 1993 Death Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15 1993 Death Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies 1992 Death Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74 1992 Event Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott 1992 Death Jan Elburg, Joannes G, poet (Geen letterheren), dies 1992 Event Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate 1992 Death Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies 1992 Death Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75 1992 Death Cornelis B Vaandrager, C Vaan, poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56 1992 Death George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies 1992 Death Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63 1991 Event Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba) 1991 Event Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba 1991 Death Jacques Benoit, JJM Bayer, poet, dies 1991 Event Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi 1991 Death Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80 1991 Death Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies 1991 Death Howard Nemerow, U.S. poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies 1991 Death Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66 1991 Death Armand HF Boni, Armand the Good, Flemish poet and writer, dies 1991 Death Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies 1991 Death Jack Yellen, U.S. poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97 1991 Death James Schuyler, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies 1991 Death Clara Eggink, Ebbele, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84 1991 Death Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46 1991 Death Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68 1990 Death Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81 1990 Death Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59 1989 Death Henry de Vries, painter and poet (Toovertuin), dies 1989 Death Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72 1989 Death Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland 1989 Death Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81 1989 Death Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 1988 Death Francis Ponge, French Poet 1988 Death Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 1988 Death Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet (High Falcon), dies at 88 1988 Death Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81 1987 Death Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30 1987 Death Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84 1987 Event New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate 1986 Death Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63 1986 Death Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64 1986 Death John Ciardi, U.S. poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69 1986 Death Yaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84 1985 Event Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) 1985 Death Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90 1985 Death Philip Larkin, hermit of Hull, English poet, dies at 63 1985 Death Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67 1985 Death Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 1985 Death Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 1985 Death Robert Nathan, U.S. writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91 1984 Death Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del corazon), dies at 86 1984 Death George Oppen, American Poet 1984 Death Sylvia Ashton-Warner, educator, poet, and writer, dies 1984 Death Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79 1984 Death Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76 1984 Event Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 1983 Death Alden Nowlan, Canadian Poet 1983 Death Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80 1982 Death Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 1982 Death Babette Deutsch, U.S. poet (Honey out of the Rock), dies at 87 1982 Death Ab [Albert] Visser, poet and writer (Kain sloeg Abel), dies 1982 Death Archibald McLeish, American Poet 1981 Death Paul Snoek, Edm Schietekat, Belgian poet, dies at 48 1980 Death Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79 1979 Death Elizabeth Bishop, poet (North and South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 1979 Death Agostinho Neto, poet/1st President of Angola, dies at 56 1979 Death Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82 1978 Death John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93 1978 Death Phyllis McGinley, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72 1977 Death Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 1977 Death Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60) 1977 Death Johanna Andersen-Nexo, wife of Danish poet Martin A-N, dies at 74 1977 Death Hans Andreus, Johan W van de Zant, Dutch poet, dies at 51 1977 Death Claire Goll, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie', dies at 86 in Paris, France 1977 Death Jacques Prevert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77 1976 Event East Germany deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship 1976 Death Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65 1976 Death Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88 1976 Death Paul T B Rodenko, Dutch poet and writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55 1976 Death Eugen Roth, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952, dies at 81 in Munich, Germany 1976 Death Willy Alfredo, Willem Jue, Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77 1976 Death Charles Reznikoff, American Poet 1975 Death Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 1975 Death Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78 1975 Death Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66 1974 Death Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 1974 Death Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57 1974 Death Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45 1974 Death Mascha Kaleko, writer, German language poet, dies at 48 1974 Death Willem F K Hussem, painter and poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74 1974 Death John C Ransom, U.S. poet (World's Body), dies 1974 Death Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56 1974 Death Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53 1974 Death Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48 1974 Death Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77 1973 Death Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47 1973 Death W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies 1973 Death W. H. Auden, English Poet 1973 Death Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81 1973 Death Pablo Neruda, N R R Basoalto, poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69 1973 Death Conrad Aiken, U.S. poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74 1973 Event U.S. poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize 1972 Death Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66 1972 Death Ezra Loomis Pound, U.S. poet (Throne), dies at 87 1972 Death Ezra Pound, American Poet 1972 Death C. Day Lewis, English Poet 1972 Death Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71 1972 Death Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73 1972 Death Marianne Moore, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84 1972 Death Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 1972 Death John Berryman, U.S. poet (Imaginary Jew), dies 1972 Death Kenneth Patchen, U.S. poet and writer (Cloth of Tempest), dies at 60 1971 Death John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47 1971 Death Yorgos Seferis, Seferiadis, Greek diplomat/poet (I sterna), dies 1971 Death Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88 1971 Death Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68 1971 Death Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46 1971 Death Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72 1971 Death Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82 1971 Death Stevie Smith, British Poet 1970 Death Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Poki my Zyjemy), dies at 69 1970 Death Giuseppe Ungaretti, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy', dies in Milan, Italy, at age 82, of bronchopneumonia 1970 Death Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels', dies at 78 1970 Death Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59 1970 Death Charles Olson, American Poet 1969 Death Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 1969 Death John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57 1969 Death F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76 1968 Death Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet 1968 Death Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 1968 Death Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 1968 Death [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57 1968 Death Gerard den Brabander, Jan G Jofriet, poet (Nothing New), dies at 67 1967 Death Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80 1967 Death Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet and writer (9th wave), dies at 76 1967 Death Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89 1967 Death Carl Sandberg, American Poet 1967 Death Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80 1967 Death Langston Hughes, American Poet 1967 Birthday Michael Easton, born in Long Beach, California, actor, appeared on television shows, Ally McBeal and The Practice, poet, author, wrote Soul Stealer 1967 Death Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues), dies on 65th birthday 1966 Death Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom and Thirst), dies 1966 Death Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer (Motion), dies at 75 1966 Death Andre Breton, French Surrealist poet (Manifest of Surrealism), dies at 70 1966 Death Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies 1966 Death Delmore Schwartz, U.S. poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52 1966 Death Arthur D Waley, Schloss, British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies 1966 Death Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 1966 Death Georgia BD Camp Johnson, U.S. poet/playwright, dies at 88 1966 Death Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies 1966 Birthday Michael Franti, born in San Francisco, California, poet, musician, head of Michael Franti & Spearhead band, supports peace and social justice issues 1966 Death Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82 1966 Death Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76 1966 Death Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet 1965 Death Randall Jarrell, American Poet 1965 Death Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and writer (Walk at Dawn), dies 1965 Death Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66 1965 Birthday John Leonard, born in Australia, poet, editor of poetry journal, 'Overland', 'Unlove', 'Braided Lands', 'Jesus in Kashmir' 1965 Death Joseph Auslander, American Poet 1965 Death Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer (Bauernpassion), dies 1965 Death Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies 1965 Death Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70 1965 Death Hans Marchwitza, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte', dies 1965 Death T S Eliot, poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76 1965 Death T. S. Eliot, English Poet 1964 Death Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77 1964 Death Edith Sitwell, British Poet 1964 Death Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81 1964 Death Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41 1963 Death Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61 1963 Death Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1963 Death Theodore Roethke, U.S. poet (Praise to the end!), dies 1963 Death Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies 1963 Death Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet 1963 Death William Carlos Williams, U.S. physician/poet, dies at 79 1963 Death Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30 1963 Death Robert Lee Frost, U.S. poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88 1963 Death Robert Frost, American Poet 1962 Death Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet (Hombres and Soledad), dies at 80 1962 Birthday Mark Haddon, born in Northampton, England, novelist, poet, wrote, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time', written from perspective of boy with Asperger syndrome 1962 Death e e cummings, U.S. poet (Tulips and Chimneys), dies at 67 1962 Death e. e. cummings, American Poet 1962 Death Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 1962 Death Ephraim Lisitsky, Hebrew poet, dies 1962 Death Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75 1962 Death Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56 1961 Death Hilda Doolittle, U.S. poet (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75 1961 Death Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58 1961 Death Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65 1961 Death Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Modern Art and Degenerating), dies at 85 1961 Death Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Switzerland, poet, dies at 73 1961 Birthday Henry Rollins, U.S. vocalist/poet, Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box 1961 Death Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tue), dies at 73 1960 Death Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet and writer, dies 1960 Death Gunnar Olof Bjorling, Fin-Swedish language poet (Kiri-ra!), dies at 73 1960 Death Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet (North-South), dies at 70 1960 Death Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr. Zhivago), dies at 70 1960 Death F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74 1960 Death Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian poet (Una Donna), dies at 83 1959 Death Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, dies at 70 1959 Death Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60 1959 Death Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 1959 Death Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54 1959 Birthday Lydia Lunch, U.S. singer/poet, Teenage Jesus, Jerks 1959 Birthday Ben Okri, born in London, of Nigerian descent, poet, author, won Booker Prize 1991, for book 'The Famished Road', described as a magic realist 1959 Death Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet 1958 Death Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet, dies 1958 Death Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74 1958 Death Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet 1958 Death Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79 1958 Death Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77 1958 Death Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76 1958 Death Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86 1957 Death Lorinc Szabo, Hungarian poet (Tucsokzene), dies at 57 1957 Death George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75 1957 Death Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies 1957 Death Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54 1957 Birthday John M. Ford, born in East Chicago, Indiana, author, science fiction and fantasy, poet, game designer, wrote, 'The Final Reflection', 'How Much Just for the Planet?' 1957 Death Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 1956 Birthday Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet, Man and his Bag 1956 Death Bertolt Brecht, German Poet 1956 Death Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 1956 Death Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies at 82 1955 Death Wallace Stevens, U.S. poet and writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75 1955 Death Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86 1954 Death Hans Lodeizen, Johan Frederik, poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26 1954 Death Martin Anderson Nexo, Danish poet and writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at 84 1954 Birthday Irina Ratushinskaya, born in Odessa, Ukraine, disident poet, Beyond the Limit 1954 Death Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet 1953 Death Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48 1953 Death Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies 1953 Death Hilaire Belloc, English Poet 1953 Birthday Nanci Griffith, U.S. singer and songwriter, Poet in My Window 1953 Death Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies 1953 Death Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60 1953 Death Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/linguist (spelling), dies at 58 1953 Death Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58 1953 Death Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/translator (spelling), dies at 58 1952 Death Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59 1952 Death Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56 1952 Birthday Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor 1952 Birthday Andrew Motion, English Poet 1952 Death George Santayana, U.S. philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88 1952 Birthday Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993 1952 Death Damaso Alonso, Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), dies at 55 1952 Death Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52 1951 Death Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63 1951 Death Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75 1951 Death John Erskine, U.S. writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71 1950 Death James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68 1950 Death Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47 1950 Death Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72 1950 Event Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize 1950 Death John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies 1950 Death Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet 1950 Death M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 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 1949 Death W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60 1949 Birthday Gayl Jones, U.S. author and poet, Corregidora, Song for Anninho 1949 Death Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71 1949 Birthday Gill Scott-Heron, U.S., writer, poet and singer, Whities on the Moon 1949 Birthday Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet, Otobanda; the Other Bank 1948 Birthday Diane Ackerman, born in Waukegan, Illinois, American poet, author and naturalist, wrote 'Wife of Light' and 'A Natural History of Love' 1948 Death Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51 1947 Birthday Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff' 1947 Death Stanislav K Neumann, Czechoslovakian poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72 1947 Birthday Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke 1946 Death Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 1946 Death Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35 1946 Death Countee Cullen, U.S. poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42 1945 Death Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies at 43 1945 Death Franz Werfel, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. poet and writer, 'Mirror Man', dies at 54 1945 Death Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73 1945 Death Josef Hora, Czechoslovakian writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53 1945 Death Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies 1945 Death Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43 1945 Death Alfred Douglas, English Poet 1945 Death Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52 1945 Death Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian poet/folklorist, dies at 51 1945 Death Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62 1945 Birthday Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards 1945 Birthday Clarissa Pinkola Estes, born in Indiana, writer, psychologist, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, author, wrote bestseller, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype' 1945 Death Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74 1944 Birthday Hans Tentije, Johann Kramer, Dutch poet, Nachtwit 1944 Death Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75 1944 Birthday Jules Deelder, Dutch poet, T of Vondel 1944 Birthday Johan van Doorn, Johnny the Selfkicker, Dutch poet, War and Porridge 1944 Death Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Birthday Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1944 Death Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74 1944 Birthday Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet, Intimate Acts 1944 Event Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London 1944 Birthday Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet and critic, On the Droge 1944 Death Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42 1944 Death Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet (Meine Mutter), dies at 90 1944 Death John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51 1944 Birthday Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist, Happy Schizo 1944 Birthday Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet, Impossible Work 1944 Birthday Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet, For the Good Order 1944 Birthday Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet, Venus in Holland 1944 Birthday Kevin Coyne, born in Derby, England, musician, composer, singer, songwriter, poet, gained notoriety with mainstream rock with Virgin release Marjory Razorblade 1944 Death Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74 1943 Birthday Selly Fernandes, Curacao poet, Winking with Selly 1943 Birthday Nikki Giovanni, poet, LHJ Woman of the Year 1973 1943 Death Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20 1943 Death Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72 1943 Death Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73 1943 Death Kostis Palamis, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basilia), dies at 84 1943 Death Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 1942 Birthday Douglas Dunn, Scottish Poet 1942 Death Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68 1942 Death Alice Duer Miller, American Poet 1942 Death Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32 1942 Birthday Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide 1942 Death Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31 1941 Death Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46 1941 Death Camille Melloy, the Paepe, Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50 1941 Death Sandor Remenyik, Vegvari, Hungarian poet (Campfire), dies at 51 1941 Death Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80 1941 Death Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet 1941 Death Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70 1941 Death Karin Boye, Swedish Poet 1941 Birthday Robert Hass, American Poet 1941 Birthday Stephen Dobyns, U.S. author and poet, Cold Dog Soup 1940 Birthday Pete Brown, born in Ashtead, England, poet, lyricist, musical producer, worked with The Battered Ornaments, created Pete Brown & Piblokto! 1940 Birthday David McFadden, Canadian Poet 1940 Death W. H. Davies, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp', dies 1940 Death Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Hafvets Stjarna), dies at 59 1940 Death Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40 1940 Birthday Henry Habibe, Arubian poet, Kerensentenchi 1940 Birthday Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet, La Tumba de Filidor 1940 Death Edwin Markham, American Poet 1940 Death Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 1940 Birthday Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet, Fireflames 1940 Death Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 1939 Birthday Margaret E Atwood, author and poet 1939 Birthday Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter 1939 Death Willem de Merode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51 1939 Birthday Volker Braun, born in Dresden, German, writer, poet, playwright, wrote 'Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts' or 'The Unrestrained Life of Kast' 1939 Birthday Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation 1939 Birthday Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet, Hoepla/Holland's Hole 1939 Death Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet 1939 Death William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73 1939 Birthday Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet, Dance of the Zygotes 1939 Birthday Jacobus M "Jacques" Hamelink, Dutch writer/poet, Cold Unrest 1938 Death Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57 1938 Death Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70 1938 Death Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61 1938 Birthday Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer, Furious Season 1938 Death Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (El dulce dano/suicide), dies at 45 1938 Death Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 1938 Birthday Charles Simic, American Poet 1938 Death Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet 1938 Death Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75 1938 Death Cesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at 46 1938 Death Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78 1938 Death Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74 1938 Birthday Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet and writer, Madjalah Sunda, Pesta 1937 Death Don Marquis, American Poet 1937 Birthday Roger McCough, British poet 1937 Birthday Roger McGough, British Poet 1937 Death Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Hungarian poet, commits suicide at 36 1937 Death John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 1937 Death Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66 1937 Death Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58 1937 Death Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71 1936 Death Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72 1936 Death Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, dies at 76 1936 Death Harriet Monroe, U.S. poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75 1936 Birthday Mischa de Vreede, poet, Our Eternal Hunger 1936 Death Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38 1936 Birthday June Jordan, U.S. playwright and poet, His Own Where 1936 Birthday August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator 1936 Death Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies 1936 Death Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62 1936 Death A. E. Housman, English Poet 1936 Birthday Camille E. Baly, St. Maartens poet, Sonny 1936 Birthday Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist 1936 Birthday Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet, Dimri i Madh 1935 Death Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47 1935 Birthday Randolph Stow, author and poet, Suburbs of Hell 1935 Birthday Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet, Ballad orang-orang tertjina 1935 Birthday Henry Gibson, Germantown, Pennsylvania, comedian, Nashville, Laugh-In's poet 1935 Birthday Mary Oliver, American Poet 1935 Birthday Cornelis B Vaandrager, Cor Vaan, Dut poet, Long Live Joop Massaker 1935 Death William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies 1935 Birthday Michael Slory, Suriname poet, Bitter Combat 1935 Death Edward Arlington Robinson, U.S. poet, dies 1935 Birthday Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet, Pele do Diabo 1934 Birthday Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet and author, Charlotte Life or Theater 1934 Birthday Imamu Amiri Baraka, Everett Leroi Jones, U.S., poet/writer 1934 Birthday Sonia Sanchez, U.S. playwright and poet, The Bronx is Next 1934 Birthday Wendell Berry, American Poet 1934 Birthday Rutger Kopland, Rutger van den Hoofdakker, Dutch poet 1934 Death Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies 1934 Birthday Alette Beaujon, Curaeaos poet, Gedichten on the Bay and Elsewhere 1934 Birthday Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator, Another Republic 1934 Birthday Audre Lorde, American Poet 1934 Death Eduard Bagritsky, Dzjubin, Russian poet/journalist, dies at 38 1933 Birthday Paul Snoek, Belgian poet 1933 Death Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65 1933 Birthday Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine 1933 Birthday Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet, Bratsk Station 1933 Birthday Alden Nowlan, Canadian Poet 1932 Birthday Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer 1932 Birthday Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter, There's a Girl in My Soup 1932 Birthday Sylvia Plath, Victoria Lucas, U.S., poet, Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar 1932 Birthday Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left 1932 Birthday Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican poet 1932 Birthday Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet, Requiem, Userjoz 1932 Death Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and writer (Book of Love), dies 1932 Death William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies 1932 Birthday Jenny Joseph, English Poet 1932 Death Harold "Heart" Crane, U.S. poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32 1932 Death Hart Crane, American Poet 1932 Birthday Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts 1932 Death Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46 1932 Birthday David Antin, American Poet 1931 Death Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 1931 Death Vachel Lindsay, American Poet 1931 Death Xu Zhimo, Roman Poet 1931 Death Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguayian poet (Tabare), dies at 75 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 1931 Birthday Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood 1931 Birthday Tomas G. Transtromer, Swedish psychologist/poet, Morkerseende 1931 Birthday Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet 1931 Death Kahlil Gibran, Poet 1931 Death Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies 1931 Birthday Goran J S Palm, Swedish poet and writer, Hudens Besok 1931 Birthday Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio 1930 Birthday Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet 1930 Birthday Ted Hughes, British poet laureate 1930 Birthday Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate, 1984- 1930 Birthday Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet 1930 Birthday Gary Snyder, Japhy Ryder, beat poet, Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems 1930 Birthday Horst Bienek, German poet 1930 Death Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63 1930 Death Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 1930 Death Robert Bridges, English Poet 1930 Death Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies 1930 Birthday Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1930 Birthday Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man 1930 Death David H Lawrence, poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44 1930 Birthday Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucia, poet and writer, Omeros, Nobel 1992 1929 Death Arno Holz, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus', dies at 66 1929 Birthday Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet, The Wound 1929 Death Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies 1929 Birthday Al Alvarez, English Poet 1929 Birthday Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert 1929 Death Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright and poet, dies 1929 Death Bliss Carman, poet, dies 1929 Birthday Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet 1929 Birthday Jose Angel Valente, Spanish poet, A modo the esperanza 1929 Death Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28 1929 Birthday Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian poet and writer, Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being 1929 Birthday Gunter Kunert, German poet/writer, Kaiser von Hondu 1929 Birthday Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel 1928 Birthday Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim 1928 Death Elinor Wylie, American Poet 1928 Birthday Anne Sexton, Newton Massachusetts, poet, Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967 1928 Birthday Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author and poet 1928 Birthday Lamine Diakhate, Senegal, poet, Primordiale du Sixieme Jour 1928 Death Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies 1928 Death Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies 1928 Birthday Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet 1928 Birthday Maya Angelou, born in St. Louis, poet and actress, Nyo-Roots 1927 Birthday Oskar Pastior, born in Sibiu, Romania, poet, writer, translator, studied German at University of Bucharest, translated Romanian literature into German, among other works by Tudor Arghezi, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Urmuz 1927 Birthday Gunter Grass, Danzig Germany, novelist/poet, Tin Drum 1927 Death Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentine poet and writer (Don Segundo Sombra), dies 1927 Birthday W. S. Merwin, American Poet 1927 Death Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62 1927 Birthday Pentti Vihtori, Finland, writer/poet, Yksinaiset [Solitude] 1927 Birthday Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/poet, Lady of the Night: A flower 1927 Birthday John Ashbery, American Poet 1927 Birthday Martin Carter, poet and critic 1927 Death Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 1927 Birthday Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet 1927 Birthday David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician 1926 Death Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet', dies at 51 1926 Birthday Robert Bly, U.S., poet/editor/translator, Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds 1926 Death Jean Richepin, French poet and writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77 1926 Birthday Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer, Trials 1926 Death Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies 1926 Birthday Buland Al Haidary, poet 1926 Birthday Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet 1926 Birthday Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author and poet 1926 Death Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks and Radiates), dies 1926 Birthday Allen Ginsberg, born in Newark, New Jersey, beat poet, Howl 1926 Birthday Robert Creeley, Massachusetts, poet and novelist, Island 1926 Birthday James Merrill, U.S. poet and author, Scripts for the Pageant 1926 Death Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58 1926 Birthday Hans Andreus, Johan W van der Zant, Dutch poet, Animal Language 1926 Birthday Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress, Kantika pa Mama Tera 1926 Birthday Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator 1925 Death Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet 1925 Birthday Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet 1925 Death Karl M Lybeck, Fin/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71 1925 Birthday Donald Justice, American Poet 1925 Birthday Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher 1925 Birthday Ernst Jandl, born in Vienna, Austria, writer, poet, influenced by Dada, translated Gertrude Stein, Robert Creeley's The Island and John Cage's Silence 1925 Death Jan H. Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60 1925 Birthday Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet, Tarumba, Maltiempes 1925 Birthday Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet, Capricorn 1925 Birthday George MacDonald Fraser, poet and author, Flashman at the Charge 1925 Birthday John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down 1925 Birthday John Wain, English Poet 1925 Death Nina David, Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon, poet/author, dies 1925 Birthday Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author 1925 Birthday Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985 1925 Birthday Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community 1924 Birthday Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician 1924 Birthday Antonio Jacinto, Portuguese West Africa, Angolan poet 1924 Birthday Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist, Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967 1924 Birthday John A Emmens, art historian/poet, Kunst and Vliegwerk 1924 Birthday Hans Lodeizen, Johannes A Frederik, Dutch poet, Inner Self 1924 Birthday Sybren Polet, Sijbe Minnema, Dutch writer/poet, Mannekino 1924 Death Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42 1924 Birthday Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist 1924 Death Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet and writer (socialism), dies at 47 1924 Birthday Renos Apostolidis, Greek author and poet, Katigoro 1924 Birthday Hans Berghuis, Dutch author and poet, 3 Women, Adam 1924 Death Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80 1924 Death Maurice du Plessys, French poet (Le Feu Sacre), dies at 59 1923 Birthday Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist, Joy Beneath the Skin 1923 Death Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies 1923 Birthday Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet 1923 Death Louis M A Couperus, poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60 1923 Birthday Mari Evans, American Poet 1923 Death Herbert Trench, Irish Poet 1923 Birthday James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist, African in Greenland 1923 Birthday Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death 1923 Birthday Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet 1923 Birthday Brendan Behan, born in Dublin, Ireland, author and poet, Hostage 1923 Birthday James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor, Deliverance 1923 Birthday Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels 1923 Birthday Eva Zeller, born in Germany, poet, writer, novelist, wrote Lampenfieber, Hauptfrau, Fliehkraft, Auf dem Wasser gehen 1923 Birthday Anthony Hecht, American Poet 1922 Birthday Grace Paley, born in New York, short story writer, political activist, pacifist, poet 1922 Death Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies 1922 Birthday Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator 1922 Birthday Donald Alfred Davie, poet and critic 1922 Birthday Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet, Heaven is a Side Issue 1922 Death David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curaeaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45 1922 Birthday Sidney AK Keyes, English poet, Iron Laurel 1922 Death David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies 1922 Birthday Howard Moss, poet/editor, New Yorker 1922 Birthday Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter 1921 Birthday Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer 1921 Birthday Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic, Secret Diary 1921 Birthday George Mackey Brown, poet 1921 Birthday Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and writer, Utwory dramatyczne 1921 Birthday Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet 1921 Death Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet 1921 Death Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40 1921 Death Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33 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 1921 Birthday Jean Mogin, Belgian poet 1921 Birthday Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher, Gift of Blood 1921 Birthday Richard Wilbur, 2nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Ceremony, Walking to Sleep 1920 Birthday Paul T B Rodenko, poet and author, Stolen Lover 1920 Birthday Paul Celan, Antschell, German/Romanian poet, Collected Prose 1920 Birthday Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet and writer, Dikt, Jonas 1920 Death Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer (Polar History), dies at 32 1920 Birthday Jan W. Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet and historian, Blossoming Stone 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 1920 Birthday Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet, Rose from Mud 1920 Birthday Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet, Patria 1920 Birthday Eliseo Diego, latin American poet 1920 Birthday Amy Clampitt, born in New Providence, Iowa, poet, author, professor at Amherst College, College of William and Mary, Smith College, received Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship 1920 Birthday Ruth Graham, born in China, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, author, poet, writer, philanthropist 1920 Birthday Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet 1920 Birthday Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet, Misery of the Word 1920 Birthday Bengt N. Anderberg, Swedish poet and writer, Kain 1920 Death Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26 1920 Birthday D. J. Enright, born in England, poet and novelist, Some Men are Brothers 1920 Birthday Howard Nemerov, U.S., 3rd U.S. poet laureate and novelist, Blue Swallows 1920 Birthday Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior 1919 Birthday Jan Elburg, Joannes G, Dutch poet, Through the Night 1919 Birthday Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet, Reino da Estupidez 1919 Death Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer/poet: Armonias/Rodil, dies at 86 1919 Birthday Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet, Golgotha/Muchila 1919 Death Johan A Der Mouw, Dutch philosopher/poet, dies at 56 1919 Birthday Hans Bender, German poet 1919 Death Amado Nervo, Juan C Ruiz de Nervo, Mexican poet, dies at 48 1919 Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti, U.S., beat poet, Coney Island of the Mind 1919 Death Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (Margita elni akar), dies at 41 1919 Death William W. Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 1918 Birthday Al Purdy, Canadian Poet 1918 Death Edmond Rostand, French Poet 1918 Birthday Oda Blinder, Yolanda Corsen, Antillean poet, Doorstep 1918 Death Guillaume Apollinaire, Kostrowitsky, French poet 'Alcools', dies at 38 1918 Death Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25 1918 Birthday Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter 1918 Death Carlos Guido y Spano, Arg poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies 1918 Birthday Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet, Crossing 1918 Birthday Bert Schierbeek, Lambertus, Dutch writer/poet, Cross Roads 1918 Death Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet 1918 Birthday Tom Scott, poet/editor 1918 Death Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet 1918 Birthday Jarl Andre Bjerke, Bernhard Borge, Norwegian poet/writer 1918 Death John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies 1917 Death Louise J Gautier, French poet/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71 1917 Death Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix 1917 Birthday Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet, Juancho Picaflor 1917 Birthday Isang Yun, born in Tongyeong, South Korea, composer, professor, son of renowned poet Yun Ki-hyon, exhiled from South Korea, taught at Hanover Academy of Music 1917 Birthday Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist 1917 Birthday Franfo Fortini, poet 1917 Death Antonio JdC Feijo, Port diplomat/poet (Cancioneiro Chinas), dies at 55 1917 Birthday Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. poet, Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950 1917 Death Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I 1917 Birthday Kalervo H. Hortamo, Finnish poet, Sydanmaa 1917 Birthday Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic and poet 1917 Birthday Robert Lowell, poet and pacifist, Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean 1917 Birthday Herwig Hensen, Flor Mielants, Flemish poet/playwright 1916 Birthday Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans, Dutch entertainer/poet, Kolderliedjes 1916 Birthday Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet 1916 Birthday Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet, Uglegylp 1916 Birthday John Ciardi, poet and critic, translated Dante 1916 Birthday Pierre Emmanuel, French poet, Sodome 1916 Birthday Gavin Buchanan Ewart, English poet, Pleasures of the Flesh 1915 Birthday Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet 1915 Death Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73 1915 Birthday Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet, Zoja, 1915 Birthday Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet, 7 Curses 1915 Birthday Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet, Zoja, 1915 Death Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (Rubab-i Sjikeste), dies at 47 1915 Birthday Margaret Walker Alexander, poet and novelist, For My People 1915 Birthday Margaret Walker, American Poet 1915 Birthday Bert Decorte, Flemish poet 1915 Death Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27 1915 Death Rupert Brooke, English Poet 1915 Birthday Leo Vroman, Dutch/U.S. poet and biologist 1915 Birthday Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar 1915 Birthday Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses 1915 Birthday Thomas Merton, born in France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist, 7 Storey Mt 1915 Birthday Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter, Skoven 1914 Death Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27 1914 Birthday James Laughlin, American Poet 1914 Birthday Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea, Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales 1914 Birthday John Berryman, American poet, Friends and Associates 1914 Death Porsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Malleysingjar), dies at 56 1914 Birthday Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet, Defense of Violeta Parra 1914 Death Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27 1914 Birthday Laurie Lee, male poet and author, I Can't Stay Long 1914 Death Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies 1914 Birthday Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet/writer 1914 Birthday Randall Jarrell, American Poet 1914 Birthday Charles Hubert Sisson, author and poet, Christopher Homm 1914 Death Christian Morgenstern, German Poet 1914 Death Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies 1914 Birthday David Ignatow, U.S. poet, Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead 1914 Birthday William Stafford, American Poet 1914 Death Redjaizade M Ekrem, Turkish poet and writer, dies at about 66 1913 Birthday Muriel Rukeyser, U.S., poet, 1977 Shelley Memorial Award 1913 Birthday Delmore Schwartz, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Shenandoah 1913 Birthday Karl Shapiro, American Poet 1913 Birthday Eva Jones, poet and novelist 1913 Birthday Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet, Diario d'Algeria 1913 Death Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37 1913 Birthday Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician 1913 Birthday George G Barker, English poet, Calamiterror, Anno Domini 1913 Birthday Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, Australia, poet, author, historian, wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country 1913 Death Joaquin Miller, American Poet 1913 Birthday Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet and writer, Man Without a Head 1912 Birthday Johannes D De Jong, Frisian poet/photographer, Kar ut twa 1912 Birthday Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist 1912 Birthday Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet 1912 Death Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Emil Frida, Czechoslovakian poet, dies at 59 1912 Birthday Anne B Ridler, British poet, Who is my neighbor? 1912 Death Josef V Sladek, Czechoslovakian poet (Za soumraku), dies at 66 1912 Death Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74 1912 Birthday John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet, Go to the Mosque 1912 Birthday May Sarton, American Poet 1912 Birthday Irving Layton, Canadian Poet 1912 Birthday Roy Fuller, England, poet and novelist, Lost Season 1912 Death Georg Heym, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style, dies at 24 from falling through the ice, trying to save a friend 1912 Birthday Rudolf Hagelstange, German author and poet, Spielball der Gotter 1911 Birthday Kenneth Patchen, U.S., poet and novelist, Cloth of the Tempest 1911 Birthday Vincent Henry Kemp, poet 1911 Birthday William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian 1911 Birthday Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1979 1911 Birthday Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet 1911 Death Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68 1911 Birthday Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet, Njanji Sunji 1911 Death Sam Walter Foss, American Poet 1911 Birthday Elizabeth Bishop, U.S. poet, North and South, Pulitzer Prize, 1956 1911 Death Gustaf Froding, Swedish poet (Grabstank), dies at 50 1910 Birthday Charles Olson, American Poet 1910 Birthday Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet and novelist 1910 Birthday Norman MacCaig, poet 1910 Birthday Georges Schehade, Lebanese poet/playwright, Monsieur Bob'le 1910 Birthday Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spain, poet, Viento del Pueblo 1910 Death William V Moody, U.S. poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies 1910 Birthday [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist, Aniara 1910 Death Jean Moreas, Y Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet, dies at 53 1910 Birthday Ai Qing, born in Eastern China, modern Chinese poet, original name Jiang Zheng Han, influenced by Kant and Hegel, modern poet Mayakovsky and Belgian poet Verhaeren 1910 Birthday Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet, Survivor 1909 Birthday Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet, Subrani Sutsjinenija 1909 Death Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 1909 Birthday Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer 1909 Death Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 1909 Birthday Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet 1909 Birthday Stephen Spender, English Poet 1909 Birthday Hilde Domin, born in Cologne, Germany, lyric poet, writer, German-language poet, wrote Das zweite Paradies (The Second Paradise), volume of prose 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' 1909 Birthday Juan Bosch, poet/president of Dominican Republic, 1962-63 1909 Death Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65 1909 Birthday Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet, Lorca 1909 Death George Meredith, English poet and writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81 1909 Birthday Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet 1909 Death Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72 1909 Death John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37 1909 Death John Synge, Irish Poet 1909 Birthday Kenton Kilmer, poet and translator 1909 Birthday Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet and critic, Vienna, Edge of Darkness 1909 Birthday A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet, Hath Not a Jew... 1909 Birthday M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet, Phoenix 1908 Birthday Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet, Black Banners 1908 Birthday Sylvia Ashton-Warner, born in Stratford, New Zealand, New Zealand educator, poet, and writer 1908 Death Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78 1908 Birthday Theodore Roethke, U.S., poet, Words for the Wind 1908 Death Francois Coppee, French poet, dies 1908 Birthday George Oppen, American Poet 1908 Birthday Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist 1907 Birthday Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary, Poet in Love 1907 Birthday Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author and poet 1907 Death Francis Thompson, English Poet 1907 Birthday Maurits Mok, Dutch author and poet, Cheese and Bread Game 1907 Death Gerald Massey, English Poet 1907 Birthday Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1907 Death R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies 1907 Birthday Henri Storck, Flemish poet, Cantico do Lomem, Olympics Bichos 1907 Death Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66 1907 Birthday Helene Johnson, poet 1907 Birthday Rene Char, French poet/painter 1907 Birthday Mascha Kaleko, born in Chrzanow, Austria, now Poland, writer, German language poet, first book 'Lyrisches Stenogrammheft' was burned in Nazi book burnings, wrote advertising copy while living in New York 1907 Birthday W. H. Auden, U.S., poet, Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948 1907 Death Giosue Carducci, poet (Nobel 1906), dies 1907 Birthday Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic 1906 Birthday Herman J Scheltema, NEM Pareau, Dutch jurist/poet 1906 Birthday Leopold Sedor Senghor, poet/president of Senegal, 1960-80 1906 Birthday William Empson, English poet and critic, Milton's God 1906 Birthday Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet, Semj Dnej Nedeli 1906 Birthday Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet, Semj Dnej Nedeli 1906 Birthday Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, poet, Ongerijmde life 1906 Birthday John Betjeman, poet laureate of England, Mount Zion 1906 Birthday Vernon P. Watkins, Welsh poet, Ballad of Mari Lwyd 1906 Death Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 1906 Death Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet 1906 Birthday Clara Eggink, Ebbele, Dutch poet, Life with JC Bloem 1906 Birthday Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet and writer, Mirror of the Sea 1906 Birthday John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984, Mount Zion 1906 Death Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio 1906 Birthday Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator, Zulu-English Dictionary 1905 Birthday Kenneth Rexroth, U.S., poet, critic and translator Birds in the Bush 1905 Birthday Piet Hein, poet/inventor 1905 Birthday Wazyk, Adam Wagman, Polish poet and author, Eyes and Mouth 1905 Death Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62 1905 Birthday Stanley Kunitz, American Poet 1905 Birthday Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher, La lenta libertad 1905 Birthday Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press 1905 Birthday Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet, Sailing 1905 Birthday Robert Penn Warren, 1st U.S. poet laureate, All the King's Men 1905 Birthday Inger J. Hagerup-Halsor, Norwegian poet 1905 Birthday Phyllis McGinley, poet 1905 Birthday Phyllis McGinley, U.S., poet, Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters 1905 Birthday Rex Warner, English poet and writer, Wild Goose Chase 1905 Death Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75 1905 Birthday Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet, Zielona Ges 1904 Birthday Patrick Kavanagh, Irish Poet 1904 Birthday Pablo Neruda, born in Chile, poet, Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971 1904 Birthday Alfred Earle Birney, poet 1904 Birthday Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet, Trade Wind-Nobel 1974 1904 Birthday Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective, Nicholas Blake 1904 Birthday Ragnar Skrede, Norwegian poet, Lauvfall 1904 Birthday C. Day Lewis, English Poet 1904 Birthday Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet 1904 Birthday Richard P Blackmur, Massachusetts, critic/poet, Good European 1903 Birthday Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet, El hombre deshabitado 1903 Birthday Carl Rakosi, German Poet 1903 Birthday Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet, Nocturno de los Angeles 1903 Birthday Countee Cullen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, poet, Black Christ and Other Poems 1903 Birthday Countee Cullen, U.S. poet, Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl 1903 Birthday Rabbe A. Enckell, Finnish author and poet, Lutad about Brunnen 1903 Death Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88 1903 Birthday Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, U.S. dance critic/poet, Snoring in N 1902 Birthday Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author and poet, Az Ismertlen Illyes 1902 Birthday Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist, The Defeat 1902 Birthday Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, Claro Enigma 1902 Event Arna W. Bontemps noted poet and librarian of Fisk University 1902 Birthday Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet, El arbol, Un Rio, Un Amor 1902 Birthday Stevie Smith, British Poet 1902 Death Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86 1902 Death Mathilde Wesendonk, German author and poet, dies at 73 1902 Birthday Ogden Nash, born in Rye, New York, humorous poet, I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1902 Birthday Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet, Dead Reckoning 1902 Birthday Nicolas Guillen, Cuban poet, Motivos de son 1902 Death Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies 1902 Birthday Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet, Unen Kaivo 1902 Birthday Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet and author, Lutin Sauvage 1902 Birthday Armand Bernier, Belgian poet, Sorcier Triste 1902 Birthday Langston Hughes, poet/translator, Weary Blues 1902 Birthday Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet 1901 Birthday [Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet, Flowering Rifle 1901 Birthday Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet, Nobel 1984 1901 Birthday Katri Vala, Karin A Heikel-Wadenstrom, Finnish poet, Paluu 1901 Birthday Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959 1901 Death Hermann Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies 1901 Death Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet 1901 Birthday Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet 1901 Birthday Julian Przybos, Polish poet, Sruby 1901 Birthday Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Madagaskisch poet, Enfants d'Orphee 1901 Birthday Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet, Hverdagen 1901 Death Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83 1901 Birthday Tomas Gudmundsson, Iceland, poet 1900 Birthday Oda Schaefer, German author and poet, Die Windharfe, Ladies Only 1900 Birthday Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain' 1900 Birthday Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist, Maria's Life 1900 Birthday Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet, Life of Tchernyshevsky 1900 Birthday Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic, Garden of Eros 1900 Birthday Gerard den Brabander, Jan G Jofriet, poet, Nothing New 1900 Birthday Lorinc Szabo, Hungary, poet, Huszonhatodik ev 1900 Death Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32 1900 Birthday Basil Bunting, British Poet 1900 Death Ernest Dowson, English Poet 1900 Birthday Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1963 1900 Birthday Jacques Prevert, France, poet/screenwriter, Paroles 1900 Birthday Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter and poet, Coastline, Lookout on Sea 1899 Birthday Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet, Those not elected 1899 Birthday Allen Tate, U.S., poet, Mr Pope and Other Poems 1899 Birthday Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist, Coup of Trafalgar 1899 Birthday Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan 1899 Birthday Eddy du Perron, Dutch author and poet 1899 Birthday Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat, Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67 1899 Birthday Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic 1899 Birthday Conrad Aiken, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Selected Poems 1899 Birthday Hart Crane, U.S., poet, Bridge 1899 Birthday Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet, La revolution surrealiste 1899 Death Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies 1899 Birthday Francis Ponge, French Poet 1899 Birthday Jacques Audiberti, French poet, Race of Men 1899 Birthday Eric Linklater, born in Scotland, novelist/poet, Blue Swallows 1899 Birthday Martti Haavio, P Mastapaa, Finnish linguist/poet 1898 Birthday Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet, Barfotabarn 1898 Death Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet', dies at 73 in Kilchberg, Switzerland 1898 Birthday Willy Alfredo, Willem Jue, Dutch entertainer/poet, Fish-Trap 1898 Birthday Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet and author, His Master's Voice 1898 Death Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 1898 Birthday Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet, Hijos de la ira 1898 Death Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 1898 Birthday Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet, 5th Seal 1898 Birthday John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet, El Dorado 1898 Birthday Federico Garcia Lorca, born in Spain, poet/dramatist, Blood Wedding 1898 Birthday Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter, sombra desterrada 1898 Birthday Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician, The Spark 1898 Birthday Hans Ehrke, German writer and poet, Narrenspiegel, Fuer 1898 Death Luis Pales Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tuntun the paso y griferia), dies 1898 Death Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26 1898 Death Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet 1897 Birthday Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet and author, People's Palace 1897 Birthday Ruth Pitter, British poet 1897 Death Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1897 Death Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73 1897 Birthday Joseph Auslander, American Poet 1897 Birthday Louis Aragon, French poet and writer, Feu de joie, Lesson poetes 1897 Death Jean Ingelow, English Poet 1897 Birthday Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature, About the Laugh 1897 Birthday Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet, Statue of Fatigue 1896 Birthday Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St. Petersburg Russia, poet 1896 Birthday Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War 1896 Birthday Eugenio Montale, born in Italy, poet/translator, Xenia-Nobel 1975 1896 Death Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83 1896 Birthday Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter and poet, Laws of the Americas 1896 Birthday Pavel G. Antokolski, Russian poet/director, Syn, 1896 Death Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies 1896 Birthday Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenfeld, French poet, Approximate Man 1896 Birthday Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic, Occupied City 1896 Birthday Andre Breton, France, surrealist poet and writer, founder of surrealism 1896 Death Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1896 Birthday Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights 1896 Birthday Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet, Jonsoknatt 1896 Death Paul M Verlaine, French poet (Elegies, Bonne Chanson), dies at 51 1896 Death Paul Verlaine, French Poet 1895 Birthday Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet, Loke Saar Havre 1895 Birthday Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix 1895 Birthday Eduard Bagritsky, Dzhubin, Russian poet/journalist, South-West 1895 Birthday Babette Deutsch, U.S. poet, Animal vegetable mineral 1895 Birthday Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet 1895 Death Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76 1895 Death Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies 1895 Birthday Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet, Dogmatic Aeon 1895 Birthday Olof R Jandel, Swedish poet 1895 Birthday Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet and author, Der Halbe Mensch 1895 Birthday Eugen Roth, born in Munich, Germany, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952 1894 Death Christina Rossetti, British Poet 1894 Birthday e. e. cummings, Cambridge Massachusetts, poet, Tulips and Chimneys 1894 Birthday Charles Reznikoff, American Poet 1894 Birthday Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden 1894 Birthday Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic, spelling 1894 Birthday Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie 1893 Birthday Carlo Emilio Gadda, born in Milan, Italy, writer, poet, innovator of pre-war Italian language with dialects, jargon, wordplay 1893 Birthday Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet, Meetings 1893 Birthday Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian writer/poet/story teller 1893 Birthday Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet, Seobe 1893 Death Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 1893 Death Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 1893 Birthday Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer, From Where I Came 1893 Birthday Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution 1893 Birthday Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution 1893 Birthday Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter 1893 Birthday Aaro A. Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, Jaapeili 1893 Birthday Daan Boens, Flemish poet, Man who sold his Wife 1893 Birthday Elisaveta Bagrjana, Beltsheva, Bulgaria, poet 1893 Death John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies 1893 Birthday Geoffrey Dearmer, poet 1893 Birthday Wilfred Owen, born in England, anti-war poet, Anthem for Doomed Youth 1893 Birthday Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet and critic, Meaning of Meaning, 1893 Death Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75 1893 Birthday Jorge Guillen, Valladolid Spain, poet and critic, Cantico, Final 1893 Birthday Xu Zhimo, Roman Poet 1892 Birthday F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet and writer, Out of the Flame 1892 Birthday Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet and critic, Mirror of Dutch Poetry 1892 Birthday Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Poet 1892 Death Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet 1892 Death John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies 1892 Death John Greenleaf Whittier, American Poet 1892 Birthday Anton Schnack, German writer/poet 1892 Birthday Edward B B Shanks, British poet and critic 1892 Birthday Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet, La inquietud del rosal 1892 Birthday John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet, This Side of Paradise 1892 Birthday Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe, Illinois, polit essayist/poet/dramatist, JB 1892 Birthday Archibald McLeish, American Poet 1892 Death Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, New Jersey at 72 1892 Birthday Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter, WW II 1892 Birthday Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet, Los Heraldos Negros 1892 Birthday Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer, Adel und Untergang 1892 Birthday Vita Sackville-West, born in England, novelist/poet, The Land 1892 Birthday Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist, Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize 1892 Birthday Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist 1891 Death Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet and writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies 1891 Birthday Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels' 1891 Death JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37 1891 Death Arthur Rimbaud, French Poet 1891 Death Antera Tarquinis de Quental, Portuguese poet/revolutionary, dies at 49 1891 Death John Neruda, Czechoslovakian writer/poet (Povidky Malostranske), dies at 57 1891 Death James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies 1891 Birthday Josef Hora, Czechoslovakian writer/poet, Working Day 1891 Birthday Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet 1891 Birthday Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet, Daily Bread 1891 Birthday Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet, La Ronda 1891 Birthday Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator, Umbra timpului 1891 Birthday Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe' 1891 Birthday Camille Melloy, Paepe, Belgian poet, Parfum des Buis 1891 Birthday Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet, Noise of Time 1891 Birthday Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj 1890 Birthday Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet 1890 Birthday Claire Goll, born in Nuremberg, Germany, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie' 1890 Birthday Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet, Love Letters 1890 Birthday Sandor Remenyik, Vegvari, Hungary, poet, Campfire 1890 Death Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69 1890 Death John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet 1890 Death Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies 1890 Birthday Hans Marchwitza, born in Szarlej, Poland, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte' 1890 Birthday Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, Dr. Zhivago, 1890 Birthday Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958, 1889 Death Charles Mackay, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer', dies 1889 Death Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77 1889 Birthday W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet, Anthony Adverse 1889 Death William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68 1889 Death Eliza Cook, English Poet 1889 Birthday Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet, Coeur de Chevre 1889 Birthday Conrad P Aiken, U.S., poet and writer, Ushant/Conversation 1889 Death Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34 1889 Birthday Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet 1889 Death Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39 1889 Death Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54 1889 Birthday Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, Higenia Cruel 1889 Birthday Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Desolacion, Tenderness and Nobel 1945 1889 Death Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, poet, dies at 68 1889 Birthday Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet and novelist, Vortex 1888 Birthday Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist, Bric Brac 1888 Birthday Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol 1888 Birthday T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948 1888 Death Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 1888 Birthday Fernando A N de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet, Mensagem 1888 Birthday Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet, La Sangre Devota 1888 Birthday Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet 1888 Death Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62 1888 Birthday Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet, Melatiknoppen 1888 Birthday Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet, Raged and Tired 1888 Birthday John Crowe Ransom, U.S. poet and critic, God Without Thunder 1888 Death Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 1888 Birthday Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer, Svarta Ballader 1888 Death Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88 1888 Birthday Giuseppe Ungaretti, born in Alexandria, Egypt, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy' 1888 Birthday Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet, Metsh i Slowo, Cholera 1888 Death Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75 1887 Death Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet ("Give us your tired and poor"), dies in New York at 38 1887 Birthday Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems 1887 Birthday Georg Heym, born in Hirschberg, Germany, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style 1887 Birthday Edith Sitwell, English poet and author, Wheels 1887 Birthday Willem De Merode, protestant poet 1887 Birthday Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Swiss poet/writer 1887 Birthday Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet, 1914 1887 Birthday Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist, Uprising and Remorse 1887 Birthday Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet, collages 1887 Birthday Gunnar Olof Bjorling, Finnish/Swedish language poet, Vilande Dag 1887 Birthday Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet 1887 Birthday Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet, Sintels 1887 Birthday Georg Trakl, Austrian poet, Autumn of the Lonely 1887 Birthday Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet, Le Gaie Tristezze 1887 Birthday Robinson Jeffers, U.S., poet/playwright, Tamar and Other Poems, Medea 1886 Birthday Joyce Kilmer, U.S., male, poet, Trees 1886 Birthday Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet, Fugitives and Constants 1886 Birthday Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, El Libro Blanco 1886 Death Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the Martin Fierro), dies 1886 Birthday Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich 1886 Birthday Hilda Doolittle, U.S., poet, imagisten 1886 Birthday Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer, Counterattack 1886 Birthday Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet 1886 Birthday Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement 1886 Death Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40 1886 Death Emily Dickinson, U.S. poet, dies at 55 1886 Birthday Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentina, novelist/poet, Don Segundo Sombra 1886 Birthday John G Fletcher, U.S., poet, Epic of Arkansas 1886 Birthday Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet, In New-York 1885 Birthday F S Flint, born in London, England, translator/poet, imagist movement 1885 Birthday Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet 1885 Birthday Ezra Pound, American Poet 1885 Birthday Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952 1885 Birthday Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems 1885 Birthday Elinor Wylie, American Poet 1885 Birthday Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet, Men of Good Will 1885 Birthday Dino Campana, Italian poet, Canti orfici 1884 Birthday Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and author, Bird Phoenix 1884 Birthday James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist, Hassan 1884 Birthday Sara Teasdale, U.S., poet, 1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-Love Songs 1884 Death Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80 1884 Death Richard Henry Horne, English Poet 1884 Death Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet 1884 Birthday Frederik Gerretson, Geerten Gossaert, Dutch poet/politician 1883 Birthday William Carlos Williams, poet 1883 Death Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies 1883 Birthday Henricus WJM Keuls, Dutch lawyer/poet, Dancing Lamp 1883 Birthday Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet 1883 Birthday Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer, Pjotr Peroyj, 1883 Birthday Kahlil Gibran, born in Lebanon, mystic poet, The Prophet, Broken Wings 1882 Birthday Charles Vildrac, Paris, France, poet/playwright 1882 Death Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65 1882 Death Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41 1882 Birthday Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright 1882 Death Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43 1882 Birthday Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer, poet and historian, Paraguay 1882 Birthday John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright, Abraham Lincoln 1882 Death Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. poet (Representive Men), dies 1882 Death Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet/painter, dies at 53 1882 Death Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 1882 Birthday James Joyce, Ire, novelist/poet, Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake 1882 Birthday James Stephens, Irish poet, Crock of Gold 1881 Birthday Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer, Pipelines, Jewish Song 1881 Birthday Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain, poet, Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956 1881 Birthday Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems 1881 Birthday Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity 1881 Death Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22 1881 Birthday George Bacovia, Vasiliu, Romanian poet/composer/painter 1881 Death Sidney Lanier, American Poet 1881 Birthday Edgar Albert Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan, poet/newspaperman 1881 Birthday Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland, 1944-52, poet, Figur ild 1881 Birthday Maurits H. E. Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer, Youth of a Poet 1881 Birthday William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar, Ynys yr Hud 1881 Death Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73 1881 Death Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet 1881 Birthday Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic, Revaluations 1881 Birthday Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor, Seated Youth 1880 Birthday Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet 1880 Birthday Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat 1880 Death Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74 1880 Birthday Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat 1880 Birthday Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer, Sak och sken 1880 Birthday Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist, Loom of Years, Highwayman 1880 Birthday Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet and movie critic, 'Alcoola' 1880 Birthday Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet, Tantum dic verbo 1880 Birthday Konrad Weiss, Dutch German writer/poet, Tantum dic verbo 1879 Birthday Karel van den Oever, Flemish author and poet, Geuzenstad 1879 Birthday Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U.S., poet, General William Booth enters Heaven 1879 Birthday Vachel Lindsay, American Poet 1879 Birthday John Erskine, U.S., poet/pianist, Private Life of Helen of Troy 1879 Birthday Wallace Stevens, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, poet, Ideas of Order 1879 Death Nathan C. Meeker, U.S., poet and writer, murdered 1879 Birthday Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet, Il Libro Della Giovinezza 1879 Birthday Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet, Avondvlam 1879 Death Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet 1878 Birthday Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, El Crimen del Otro 1878 Birthday Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet, Tangled Hair 1878 Birthday Hermann Claudius, German folk poet, Meister Bertram 1878 Birthday Don Marquis, Illinois, journalist/poet, archy and mehitabel 1878 Death Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Australia poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65 1878 Birthday Eino Leino, Finland, poet/playwright/novelist, Elaman Koreus 1878 Birthday John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate, Salt-Water Ballads 1878 Birthday Carel T. Scharten, Dutch poet and writer, Forces of the Future 1878 Birthday Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet, God at Sea 1878 Birthday Edward Thomas, English Poet 1878 Death Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59 1878 Birthday Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet, Zimzelen pod Snegom 1878 Birthday Robert Garbe, German poet, Gorniek 1878 Birthday Carl Sandburg, U.S., poet/biographer of Lincoln, The People, Yes 1878 Birthday Carl Sandberg, American Poet 1877 Death Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56 1877 Birthday Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet 1877 Birthday Endre Ady, Hungarian poet, Uj versek, Ver es arany 1877 Birthday Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and author, Emergency Horn 1877 Birthday Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher 1877 Birthday Georgia B D Camp Johnson, U.S., poet/playwright, Autumn Love Cycle 1877 Birthday Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946 1877 Birthday David Mendes Chumaceiro, born in Curacao, poet, Crisalidas 1877 Birthday Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet and writer, socialism 1877 Birthday Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist 1877 Birthday Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author and poet, L'homme Jeune 1876 Death Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish poet (Abels dod), dies at 67 1876 Birthday Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria, poet, Iron Poems 1876 Birthday Milan Rakic, Serbian poet, Pesme 1876 Birthday Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian feminist/poet, Una Donna 1876 Death Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies 1876 Death Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63 1876 Death Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67 1875 Birthday Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet' 1875 Birthday Georges Rency, Belgian poet 1875 Birthday Seerp Anema, poet and writer, Dutch Coasts 1875 Birthday Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet, Beautiful Irine 1875 Death Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer, dies at 58 1875 Death Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet, dies at 58 1875 Birthday Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet 1875 Birthday Stanislav K. Neumann, Czechoslovakian poet, Francouzska Revoluce 1875 Death Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer (Peregrina), dies at 70 1875 Death Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33 1874 Death Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies 1874 Birthday Alice Duer Miller, American Poet 1874 Birthday Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning 1874 Birthday Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer, Eros Thanatos 1874 Birthday Karl Kraus, born in Austria, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture 1874 Birthday Robert Frost, born in San Francisco, poet, Mending Wall, Road Not Taken 1874 Birthday Amy Lowell, U.S. poet and critic, Patterns, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed 1874 Birthday Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist 1874 Birthday [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage 1874 Birthday Robert Service, England, Canadian poet, Cremation of Sam McGee 1874 Birthday Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet 1873 Death Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24 1873 Death Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76 1873 Birthday Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman 1873 Death Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies 1873 Event French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol 1873 Death Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43 1873 Birthday Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher 1873 Birthday Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944 1873 Birthday Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Radi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator 1872 Death Aleksis Kivi, Stenvall, Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38 1872 Death Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), U.S. poet/Comanche chief, dies 1872 Death Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61 1872 Birthday Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet and novelist, Oak and Ivory 1872 Death Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62 1872 Birthday Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose 1871 Birthday Stephen Crane, U.S., novelist/poet, Red Badge of Courage 1871 Birthday Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931 1871 Death Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 1871 Birthday W. H. Davies, born in Newport, Monmouthsire, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp' 1871 Birthday Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania 1871 Birthday Christian Morgenstern, German Poet 1871 Birthday John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet, Riders to the Sea 1871 Birthday John Synge, Irish Poet 1871 Birthday Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet, El Florilegio 1871 Birthday Jovan Ducic, Serb poet, Blue Legends 1870 Birthday Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet, Voices, Carmina 1870 Birthday Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet 1870 Death Karel J Erben, Czechoslovakian poet (Ruiker), dies at 69 1870 Birthday Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet and novelist, Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933 1870 Birthday Alfred Douglas, English Poet 1870 Birthday Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist 1870 Death Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46 1870 Birthday Amado Nervo, Juan C Ruiz de Nervo, Mexican writer/poet 1870 Birthday Hilaire Belloc, English Poet 1870 Birthday Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar, Verzen 1870 Birthday Ada Negri, Italian poet and author, Il Libro di Mara 1869 Birthday Henriette Georgia Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet, Women in Forest 1869 Birthday Edwin Arlington Robinson, U.S., poet, Richard Corey 1869 Birthday Delfien Vanhaute, Eckart, Flem pastor/poet, Parsifal, Ark of Noe 1869 Birthday Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet, Symbolic Wounds 1869 Birthday William V Moody, U.S. poet, Death of Eve, Faith Healer 1869 Birthday Martin Anderson Nexo, Danish poet and writer, Tabte Generation 1869 Death Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, French poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78 1869 Death Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet 1869 Birthday Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet, The Heart 1868 Birthday Francis Jammes, French poet and writer, Jammisme 1868 Death Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author and poet, dies at about 60 1868 Birthday Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet 1868 Birthday Paul Claudel, born in France, diplomat/poet, L'Otage-1909 1868 Birthday Stefan George, born in Germany, lyric poet, Algabal 1868 Birthday Edmond Rostand, born in France, poet and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac 1868 Birthday Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm 1867 Birthday Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet, Servet-i Funun, Sis 1867 Birthday Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku and tanka poet/diarist, Salt Water Ballads 1867 Death Henry Timrod, American Poet 1867 Birthday Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet, China 1867 Death [Pierre-]Charles Baudelaire, French poet (Journaux Intimes), dies at 46 1867 Death Charles Baudelaire, French Poet 1867 Birthday Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet, Lonely 1867 Birthday Ernest C Dowson, British poet 1867 Birthday Ernest Dowson, English Poet 1867 Birthday Lionel Pigot Johnson, born in England, poet and critic, Ireland and Other Poems 1867 Birthday Ruben Dario, national poet, Nicaragua 1867 Death Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet 1866 Birthday Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet, Vredens Born 1866 Death Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, dies at 65 1866 Birthday Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet 1866 Birthday Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet 1866 Death Friedrich Ruckert, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages, dies 1865 Birthday Jose Asuncion Silva, Colombia, poet, Nocturno III 1865 Birthday Herbert Trench, Irish Poet 1865 Birthday William Butler Yeats, born in Ireland, poet, Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923 1865 Birthday Jan H. Leopold, Dutch poet, translated Omar Khayyam 1865 Birthday Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian, Motion 1865 Birthday Arthur Symons, Welsh poet, critic and co-founder Savoy 1865 Birthday Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet, Young Poland 1864 Birthday Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet, May, Tiny Hero's Poem 1864 Death Antonio Gonalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea 1864 Birthday Maurice de Plessys, French poet, Palace Occidental 1864 Birthday Erik Karlfeldt, born in Sweden, poet, Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous 1864 Death John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70 1864 Birthday Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet, Samlade Arbeten 1864 Birthday Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet, Waltzing Matilda 1864 Birthday John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists 1864 Death Adelaide Anne Procter, English Poet 1863 Birthday George Santayana, born in Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist, Last Puritan 1863 Death Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies 1863 Death Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies 1863 Death Alfred de Vigny, French Poet 1863 Birthday Louis M. A. Couperus, Dutch poet and writer, Eline Vere 1863 Birthday Arno Holz, born in Germany, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus' 1863 Birthday Adolf A. Wolfschoon, Curaeao, poet 1862 Birthday Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright, Red Madymaynes 1862 Birthday P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet, Blue Bird, Nobel 1911 1862 Birthday Johan A de Sleeve, Adwaita, philosopher/classical/poet, Brahman 1862 Birthday Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet 1862 Birthday Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet, Bailatas 1862 Death Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16] 1862 Death Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 1862 Birthday Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet, Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya 1862 Death Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45 1862 Birthday John Jay Chapman, U.S. advocate/poet/writer, Learning and Other Essays 1862 Death Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40 1862 Death Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 1861 Birthday Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet 1861 Birthday Owen Seaman, poet/editor, Punch 1861 Death Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31 1861 Death Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet 1861 Birthday Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer, Nobel 1913 1861 Birthday Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet 1861 Birthday Bliss Carman, Canadian Poet 1860 Death Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57 1860 Birthday Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I 1860 Death Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43 1860 Death Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies 1860 Birthday Gustaf Froding, Swedish poet, Stank och flikar 1860 Birthday Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet, Les Complaintas 1860 Death Isaac da Costa, poet and writer (Reveil, Wachter!), dies at 62 1860 Death Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet 1859 Birthday Gustave Kahn, France, poet, claimed to have invented vers libre 1859 Birthday Francis Thompson, English Poet 1859 Birthday Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, Salmos do Prisoneiro 1859 Birthday Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916 1859 Birthday Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet, Iris, Wood Song 1859 Birthday Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet, A Buried Life 1859 Birthday Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet, Act of Simple Justice 1859 Birthday A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet, Shropshire Lad 1859 Birthday A. E. Housman, English Poet 1859 Birthday Kostis Palamas, Greek poet/scholar, Flogera tou Basilia 1858 Death Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73 1858 Birthday Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet, Pyrnar 1858 Birthday William Watson, British poet, Prince's Quest, Father of Forest 1858 Birthday Sam Walter Foss, American Poet 1858 Birthday William W. Campbell, Canadian poet, Beyond the Hills of Dream 1858 Death Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic, dies at 54 1858 Death Gerrit van der Linde Jz, Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49 1857 Death Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69 1857 Birthday Karl Adolph Gjellerup, born in Denmark, poet, Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917 1857 Death LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies 1857 Birthday Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet, Along the Meuse 1857 Death Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet (A la paz), dies at 84 1856 Death Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Nearlands blood), dies at 76 1856 Birthday Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, Laodania 1856 Birthday Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, Laodania 1856 Birthday Nestor de Tiere, Flemish poet, Pink Kate 1856 Birthday Jean Moreas, Yannis Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet 1856 Death Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris 1856 Birthday Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet, Primoz Trubar 1856 Birthday Lizette Woodworth Reese, U.S. poet, Branch of May, Tears 1855 Birthday Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet 1855 Birthday Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguay's diplomat/poet, Tabare 1855 Death Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56 1855 Birthday Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet and writer, Les Flammes Hautes 1855 Birthday Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet 1855 Death Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, dies at 46 1855 Death Dorothy Wordsworth, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet, dies at 83 1855 Death Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67 1854 Birthday Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer, Illuminations 1853 Birthday Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet, Meine Mutter 1853 Birthday Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet, Los Cien Mejores Poemas 1853 Death Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies 1853 Birthday Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Emil Frida, Czechoslovakian poet, 1 night on Karlstein 1853 Birthday Jose Marti y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician 1853 Birthday Gustav Falke, German author and poet, Der Mann im Nebel 1853 Death Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75 1852 Death Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian slavist/poet, dies at 53 1852 Birthday Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937 1852 Death Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 1852 Birthday Augusta Gregory, born in Ireland, playwright and poet, Yates mistress 1852 Death Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies 1852 Birthday Hamid Abdulhak, Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright 1851 Death Stanko Vraz, Jakob Frass, Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40 1850 Event Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate 1850 Birthday Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro, Portuguese poet, Simple Ones 1850 Birthday Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi 1850 Birthday Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet and novelist /playwright, Under the Yoke 1850 Death Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet 1850 Death William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80 1850 Death William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87 1850 Birthday Mihail Eminesco, Eminovici, Romanian poet, Samanul Dionis 1849 Birthday James Whitcomb Riley, U.S., poet, Raggedy Man 1849 Death Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Baltimore at 40 1849 Death Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet 1849 Birthday Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet, Nocturno 1849 Birthday Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet, "New Colossus" at the base of Statue of Liberty 1849 Death Juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39 1849 Death Bernard Barton, American Poet 1849 Death France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48 1849 Birthday Jean Richepin, French poet and writer, Les Chansons de Gueux 1849 Death Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 1848 Birthday Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet, Along the Nile 1848 Death Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27 1848 Birthday [Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, French playwright and poet, Jeune Croyances 1848 Birthday Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet 1847 Death Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25 1847 Death Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphee), dies 1847 Birthday Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet, Espumas Flutuantes 1846 Birthday Louise J Gautier, French poet 1846 Birthday Antonio C. G. Crespo, Brazilian and Portuguese poet 1845 Birthday Josef V Sladek, Czechoslovakian poet, Pisne Smutecni 1845 Death John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81 1845 Death August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 1845 Death August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet 1845 Death Thomas Hood, English Poet 1845 Birthday Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919 1844 Birthday Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate, Eros and Psyche 1844 Birthday Robert Bridges, English Poet 1844 Birthday Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet, Windhover 1844 Death Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, "Placido", Cuban poet, dies at 35 1844 Birthday John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet 1844 Death Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66 1844 Birthday Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet 1844 Birthday Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet, Sagesse Bonbeur 1844 Birthday Paul Verlaine, French Poet 1844 Birthday Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet 1843 Birthday Elisabeth OL, queen of Romania/poet, Rumanische Dichtungen 1843 Birthday Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet 1843 Death Johann C F Holderlin, German poet, dies at 73 1843 Death Robert Southey, English Poet 1843 Birthday [Joaquim] Theofilo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician 1843 Death Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80 1842 Birthday Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet 1842 Death Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet 1842 Birthday Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur 1842 Birthday Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher 1842 Death Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 1842 Birthday Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet, Il santo/Leila 1842 Birthday Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet, Beatrice 1842 Death Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 1842 Birthday Ina Donna Coolbrith, U.S., poet laureate of California 1842 Birthday Sidney Lanier, American Poet 1842 Birthday Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet 1842 Birthday Sidney Clopton Lanier, U.S., composer/poet, Hall of Fame 1842 Birthday Francois Coppee, French poet 1841 Birthday Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet 1841 Birthday Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet 1841 Death Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies 1841 Death Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet 1841 Birthday Edward John Armstrong, poet 1841 Birthday Olegario Victor Andrade, born in Argentina, poet, El nido de condores 1840 Birthday Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet and author, Fatherland-1872 1840 Birthday Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski 1840 Birthday Hugo Verriest, Flemish author and poet, Flemish Movement 1840 Birthday Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski 1840 Birthday Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer 1840 Death Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73 1840 Birthday Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet, Morning Twilight 1840 Birthday Thomas Hardy, England, poet and novelist, Far from the Madding Crowd 1840 Birthday Austin Dobson, England, poet, critic and biographer 1840 Birthday Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet 1839 Death Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88 1839 Death Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies 1839 Death Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies 1839 Birthday Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet, Bell Birds 1839 Birthday Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901 1838 Death Anne Grant, Scottish Poet 1838 Death Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet 1838 Birthday Leon Dierx, French poet 1838 Death Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 1838 Death Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 1837 Death Thomas Babington, British Poet 1837 Birthday Joaquin Miller, American Poet 1837 Death Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet 1837 Birthday Algernon Charles Swinburne, born in England, poet, Atalanta in Calydon 1837 Death Aleksandr Pushkin, poet and novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel 1837 Birthday Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet, Camoes e o jau 1836 Death Daniel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet, dies at 59 1835 Death Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48 1835 Birthday Giosue Carducci, born in Italy, poet, Nobel 1906 1835 Birthday Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England, Garden 1835 Death Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies 1835 Birthday Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet 1835 Birthday Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian bishop/poet/dialectologist 1834 Birthday Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet, Martin Fierro 1834 Death Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69 1834 Birthday Aleksis Kivi, Stenvall, Finland, writer/poet, Nummisuutarit 1834 Death Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61 1834 Birthday Jan Neruda, Czechoslovakian writer/poet, Povidky Malostranske 1834 Birthday William Morris, England, designer, craftsman, poet and socialist 1833 Birthday Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet, Tradiciones Peruanas 1832 Birthday Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer, Aylwin 1832 Death Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies 1832 Birthday Gaspar Nunez de Arce, Spain, poet "Spanish Tennyson" 1832 Death Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet 1832 Death Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany 1832 Death George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 1831 Birthday Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet 1831 Death Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 1831 Death Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55 1831 Birthday Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost, philosopher, art historian and poet 1831 Death Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37 1830 Birthday Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet 1830 Birthday Emily Dickinson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, poet, Collected Poems 1830 Birthday Christina Rossetti, London, poet, Winter Rain, Passing Away 1830 Birthday Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet, Nobel 1904 1830 Birthday Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet, International 1830 Birthday Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet 1830 Birthday Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1830 Birthday Alexander Muir, born in Lesmahagow Scotland, poet, Maple Leaf Forever 1830 Birthday Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar, poet and writer 1829 Birthday Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet 1829 Birthday Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden, 1872 - 1907, Norway, -1905, poet 1829 Death Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56 1828 Birthday Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet, Tagebuchblatter 1828 Birthday Henry Timrod, American Poet 1828 Birthday Gerald Massey, English Poet 1828 Birthday Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite 1828 Birthday George Meredith, England, poet and novelist, Shaving of Shagpat 1827 Death Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49 1827 Death Robert Pollok, poet, dies 1827 Death William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 1826 Death Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66 1826 Birthday Carl AE Ahlqvist, A Oksanen, Finnish poet, Suomalainen Runousoppi 1826 Birthday Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway, 1859 - 1872, poet 1826 Birthday Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor 1825 Birthday Adelaide Anne Procter, English Poet 1825 Birthday Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, born in Zurich, Switzerland, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet' 1825 Birthday Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austria, poet, Weistumer 1825 Death Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet 1824 Birthday Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet, Golden Treasury, Professor, Oxford 1824 Birthday Phoebe Cary, born in Cincinnati, American poet, Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary 1824 Death George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36 1824 Death Lord Byron, British Poet 1824 Death George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet 1824 Birthday Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, Roman 1824 Birthday Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet, 1st Serbian Uprising 1824 Birthday Lucy Larcom, American Poet 1824 Death Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49 1823 Death Robert Bloomfield, English Poet 1823 Birthday Antonio G Dias, Brazilian poet 1823 Birthday Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet 1823 Death Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58 1822 Birthday Matthew Arnold, England, poet and critic, Dover Beach 1822 Death Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29 1822 Birthday Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet 1822 Birthday Lev A. Mej, Russian nobleman/poet 1821 Birthday Nikolai A. Nekrasov, Russian poet, Russkije Zjenjshiny 1821 Birthday Nikolai Nekrasov, Russ, poet/journalist, Who Can be Happy in Russia? 1821 Birthday Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright, Wanda 1821 Birthday Vasile Alecsandri, born in Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat 1821 Birthday Charles Baudelaire, born in France, symbolist poet, Flowers of Evil 1821 Birthday William Allingham, Irish poet, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland 1821 Death John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome 1821 Birthday Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet 1820 Death Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 1820 Death Joseph R. Drake, U.S. poet (American Flag), dies at 25) 1820 Birthday Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, poet, Dietsche Warande 1820 Birthday Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet, Cincinnati Sentinel 1820 Birthday Jean Ingelow, English Poet 1820 Birthday Hermann von Lingg, German playwright and poet 1820 Birthday Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet, Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1819 Birthday Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet, Stichotvorenija 1819 Birthday Walt Whitman, West Hills, New York, poet, Leaves of Grass 1819 Death Filinto Elisio, do Nascimento, Portuguese poet, dies at 84 1819 Birthday James Russell Lowell, poet and critic /diplomat/abolitionist 1819 Birthday Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold 1818 Birthday Eliza Cook, English Poet 1818 Birthday Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, 1818 Birthday Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, 1818 Birthday Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet 1817 Death Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34 1817 Birthday Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet, Doloras 1817 Birthday Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer 1817 Birthday Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer 1817 Death Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet, dies at 63 1817 Birthday Constantine S. Aksakov, Russian historian and poet 1817 Birthday Janos Arany, born in Hungary, epic poet, Toldi, Death of King Buda 1817 Birthday Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist, El rey Loco 1817 Birthday Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor, Iduna 1816 Birthday Philip James Bailey, English poet, Festus 1815 Death Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 1815 Birthday Anthony Trollope, born in England, novelist/poet, Barchester Towers 1815 Death Matthias Claudius, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert, dies at 74 1814 Birthday Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, Skanderbeku 1814 Birthday Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet 1814 Birthday Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet and writer, Demon and other poems 1814 Birthday Charles Mackay, born in Perth, Scotland, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer' 1814 Birthday Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet, painter and professor of Kiev 1814 Birthday Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter, 3/9 NS, 1813 Birthday Hermann Kurz, German author and poet 1813 Birthday Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro, 1830 - 1851 1813 Death Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21 1813 Birthday Ivar A. Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet 1813 Death Jacques Delille, French Poet 1813 Death Louis-Sebastien Mercier, French poet (Le Deserteur), dies at 73 1813 Death Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet 1812 Birthday Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet, Lettere a Maria 1812 Birthday Henri A. Esquiros, French poet and writer, Les Vierges Folles 1812 Birthday Robert Browning, born in London, England, poet, Pied Piper 1811 Birthday Karel J Erben, Czechoslovakian poet, Bouquet 1811 Birthday Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet, Albertus 1811 Death Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies 1811 Death Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Chant du Depart), dies at 46 1810 Birthday Stanko Vraz, Jakob Frass, Slovenian/Croatian poet, illyrism 1810 Death Johann Gottfried Seume, writer, lyric poet, wrote 'Mein Sommer in Jahr' 1805, 'Spaziergang nach Syrakus' 1803, dies at 47 1809 Birthday Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet, Trip to H Land 1809 Birthday Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England 1809 Birthday Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet, Pjesma iz Zagorja 1809 Birthday Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet 1809 Birthday Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, Placido, Cuban poet 1809 Birthday Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet, Danserinden 1809 Birthday John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, Silver Fleet 1808 Death Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies 1808 Birthday Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet 1808 Birthday Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, Sylvia 1808 Birthday Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, Cortes 1808 Birthday Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet 1807 Birthday John Greenleaf Whittier, U.S., poet, Snow-bound 1807 Birthday Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet and literature critic 1807 Death Miklos Revai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57 1807 Birthday Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer, Der Alchemist 1807 Birthday Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born in Portland, Maine, poet, Hiawatha 1806 Death Charlotte Turner Smith, English Poet 1806 Birthday Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian 1806 Birthday Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, poet 1806 Birthday Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1806 Birthday Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet, La Belgium 1805 Death Christopher Anstey, English Poet 1805 Death Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45 1805 Death Mihaly Csokonai Vitez, Hungarian (stage)poet (Dorottya), dies at 31 1804 Death Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, poet (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66 1804 Birthday Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet, Sasjka, 1804 Birthday Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer, Maler Nolten 1804 Birthday Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet, Sasjka, 1804 Birthday Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet 1804 Birthday Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic 1803 Death Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 1803 Birthday Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet 1803 Birthday Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet, Daisies 1803 Birthday Albartus Telting, Frisian poet, Frisianch Jierboeckjen 1803 Death James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67 1803 Birthday Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet 1803 Death Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 1803 Death Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 1803 Birthday Richard Henry Horne, English Poet 1802 Birthday Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet, Heath's Book of Beauty 1802 Birthday Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet, Faust, Die Albigenser 1802 Birthday Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician 1802 Birthday Adrian van der Hoop, Jr., Dutch poet and critic 1800 Birthday Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, Great Hung dictionary 1800 Birthday Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet, Ritornellen 1800 Birthday France Preseren, Slovenian poet, Krst pri Savici 1800 Birthday Mihaly Vorosmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist, "To a Day-Dreamer" 1800 Birthday Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet and historian, Ivry, Naaseby 1800 Birthday Thomas Babington, British Poet 1800 Death William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68 1799 Birthday Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. educator/poet, Concord Days 1799 Death Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68 1799 Birthday Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit 1799 Birthday Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt 1799 Birthday Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian poet, national anthem, folk song 1799 Death Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41 1799 Death Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet (Husn u Ask), dies at about 40 1798 Birthday Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet, Pan Tadeusz 1798 Birthday Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet 1798 Birthday Dionysios Solomos, poet 1798 Birthday Henry Neele, London, poet 1797 Birthday Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist, Schubert, Liszt 1797 Birthday William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet 1797 Birthday Alfred de Vigny, French Poet 1796 Birthday Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright 1796 Death Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37 1796 Death Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 1796 Death James Macpherson, poet, dies 1795 Birthday John Keats, born in London, England, romantic poet, Ode to a Grecian Urn 1795 Death Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54 1794 Birthday William Cullen Bryant, poet, Thanatopsis 1794 Birthday William Cullen Bryant, American Poet 1794 Death Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Franeais sur leurs), dies 1793 Birthday Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet 1793 Birthday John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet, Shepard's Calendar 1793 Birthday John Claire, England, poet 1793 Death Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35 1792 Birthday Percy Bysshe Shelley, born in England, romantic poet, Adonais 1792 Birthday Henrik A. Bjerregaard, Norwegian writer/poet, Sonner af Norge 1791 Birthday Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet, Curiosity 1791 Birthday Karl T Korner, German poet, Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt 1790 Birthday Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet 1790 Birthday Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet, Toraidas 1790 Death Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies 1790 Birthday Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet, Blommorna 1790 Birthday Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet, Lycksalighetens 1789 Death Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68 1788 Death Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 1788 Birthday Friedrich Ruckert, born in Schweinfurt, Germany, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages 1788 Death Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46 1788 Birthday Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet, Das Marmorbild 1788 Birthday Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet, Don Juan 1788 Birthday Lord Byron, British Poet 1788 Birthday George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet 1787 Birthday Barry Cornwall, Bryan Waller Procter, British? poet 1786 Birthday Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer 1786 Death Jacobus Bellamy, Zelandus, Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 1785 Death Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54 1785 Birthday Alessandro Manzoni, born in Italy, poet and novelist, Betrothed 1784 Birthday Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet 1784 Death Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston 1784 Death Phillis Wheatly, poet, dies 1784 Birthday Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet, To the Rhine 1784 Birthday Bernard Barton, American Poet 1783 Birthday Max von Schenkendorf, German poet 1783 Birthday Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer 1783 Birthday Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homerus 1783 Birthday Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet, Natthimmelen 1782 Birthday Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer, E Binddstouw 1781 Birthday Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar, Silvas Americanas 1781 Birthday Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet 1781 Birthday Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet, Des Knaben Wunderhorn 1780 Birthday Henry F. C. Tollens, merchant/poet, Vienna Nearlands Blood 1779 Birthday Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager, Denmark, poet, National Poet 1849 1779 Birthday Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/songwriter/archbishop, Dodens Engel 1779 Death Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66 1779 Birthday Thomas Moore, Irish Poet 1778 Birthday Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis 1778 Birthday Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis 1777 Birthday Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter, El dos the mayo 1777 Birthday Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet, Penthesilea 1777 Birthday Thomas Campbell, poet, Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic 1776 Birthday Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet, Prolegomenes 1776 Birthday Daniel Berzsenyi, Hungarian Horatius, Hungarian poet 1775 Birthday Charles Lamb, born in London, England, critic/poet/essayist 1774 Birthday Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet 1774 Birthday Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson 1774 Death Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 1773 Birthday Mihaly Csokonai Vitez, Hungarian poet, Bekaegerhartz 1772 Birthday Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet, Rime of Ancient Mariner 1772 Birthday S ndor Kisfaludy, Hungary, poet/Austrian army, 1793-1801 1772 Birthday Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet, El Duque de Viseo 1772 Birthday Frans Mikael Franzen, Finnish-Swedish poet, Abo 1771 Birthday Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet, Regulus 1771 Birthday Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cumberland, England, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet 1771 Birthday Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet, Lady of Lake 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English Poet 1770 Death Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet, dies at 42 1770 Death Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies 1770 Death Mark Akenside, English Poet 1770 Birthday William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate, Prelude 1770 Birthday Johann Friedrich Holderlin, born in Tubingen, Germany, poet, Der Rhein 1769 Birthday Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet 1769 Death Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71 1768 Birthday Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, France, poet and novelist, Atala 1768 Death Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58 1767 Birthday August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet 1767 Birthday August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic 1767 Birthday Antony CW Staring, Dutch lawyer/poet, Jaromir 1766 Birthday Robert Bloomfield, English Poet 1765 Birthday Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet, Dwingelandij 1765 Death Michail vs. Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 1765 Death Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81 1764 Death Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69 1764 Birthday Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet, Cajus Graechus 1764 Birthday John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet, Minderjarige Zangster 1763 Death Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 1763 Death John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47 1763 Birthday Samuel Rogers, English poet, Italy, a poem 1763 Birthday Johann Gottfried Seume, born in Poserna, Germany, writer, lyric poet, wrote 'Mein Sommer in Jahr' 1805, 'Spaziergang nach Syrakus' 1803 1762 Birthday Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet 1762 Birthday Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet, Elegies 1762 Birthday William Lisle Bowles, English poet, 14 Sonnets 1762 Death Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French poet (Idomenee), dies at 88 1761 Birthday Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey, 1789-1808 1761 Birthday Friedrich von Matthison, German poet, Adelaide 1760 Death Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies 1760 Birthday Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect 1759 Birthday Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist, Ode to Joy 1759 Death Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 1759 Death William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37 1759 Birthday Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet, Auld Lang Syne 1758 Death John Dyer, poet, dies 1758 Death Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71 1757 Birthday William Blake, English poet/painter, Songs of Innocence and Experience 1757 Birthday Jacobus Bellamy, Zealand poet 1757 Birthday Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet, Medea, Yttersa Domen 1756 Birthday Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature, Disease of Scientists 1755 Birthday Anne Grant, Scottish Poet 1754 Birthday George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet, Everlasting Mercy 1754 Death Friedrich von Hagedorn, poet (Fabeln und Erzahlungen), dies at 46 1754 Birthday Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet 1754 Birthday Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator, Al Signor di Montgolfier 1753 Birthday Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet 1752 Birthday Thomas Chatterton, English poet, Christabel 1752 Birthday Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village 1751 Death William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies 1750 Birthday Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet 1750 Birthday Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Scots poems 1750 Birthday Miklos Revai, Hungarian linguistic/poet 1749 Birthday Charlotte Smith, English Poet 1749 Birthday Vittoria A. Alfieri, Italian count/poet, Maria Stuarda 1746 Birthday Bernardus Bosch, Dutch Patriot/poet/writer, baptised 1746 Birthday Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet, church songs 1746 Death Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46 1744 Birthday Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet 1744 Death Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28 1744 Death Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 1743 Death Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 1743 Birthday Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet 1743 Death Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright and poet, dies 1742 Death William Somerville, English Poet 1742 Birthday Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet 1741 Birthday Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet, O Uraguai 1740 Birthday Matthias Claudius, born in Reinfeld, Germany, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert 1740 Death Thomas Tickell, poet, dies 1740 Birthday Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet, Buccolica 1738 Birthday Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author and poet, Sara Burgerhart 1738 Birthday Jacques Delille, French Poet 1738 Birthday John Pindar, physician/poet 1737 Death Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies 1736 Death Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies 1735 Birthday James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher, Essay on Truth 1734 Birthday Filinto Elisio, Francisco M do Nascimento, Portuguese poet 1733 Death Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 1733 Birthday Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet 1732 Death John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 1731 Birthday William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet, His Task, 1731 Birthday William Cowper, English lawyer/poet, John Gilpin, 1731 Birthday Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet, O Falso Heroismo 1730 Death Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies 1729 Death Richard Blackmore, English Poet 1729 Death Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 1729 Birthday Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet 1729 Birthday Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet, Il Giorno 1729 Death Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies 1728 Birthday Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England, Pleasures of Melancholy 1728 Birthday Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet 1727 Death Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 1726 Death John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies 1725 Birthday Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet, Geistliche Kantaten 1724 Birthday Christopher Anstey, English Poet 1724 Birthday Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet 1723 Birthday Johann A. Cramer, prime minister/poet 1722 Birthday Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist, Ceremony of Carols 1722 Death Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60 1721 Birthday William Collins, Chichester England, Mayor-Chichester, poet 1721 Birthday Mark Akenside, English Poet 1721 Death Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36 1721 Death Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies 1721 Birthday Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet 1720 Birthday Johann P Uz, German poet, Lyrische Poem 1719 Death Joseph Addison, English poet, writer, and secretary of state, dies at 47 1717 Death Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies 1716 Birthday Thomas Gray, English poet, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 1715 Birthday John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet, Frisianche rymlery 1715 Death Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies 1715 Birthday Immanuel J Pyra, German poet, Temple of Real Poetry 1715 Birthday Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet and novelist, Fables and Tales 1715 Birthday Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet, Der Fruhling 1714 Birthday William Shenstone, English Poet 1714 Death Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80 1714 Birthday Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet, The Seas 1713 Death Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34 1713 Birthday Onno Zwier van Haren, Frisian poet, Fatherland 1712 Death Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77 1712 Death John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63 1711 Birthday Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet 1711 Death Katharina Lescaille, Netherlands Sappho, poet, dies at 61 1711 Death Nicolas Boileau, French Poet 1711 Death Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager and Atalante), dies at 22 1710 Birthday Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet, Human Life 1709 Death Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies 1709 Death John Philips, English Poet 1708 Birthday Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet, Versuch einiger Poem 1707 Death Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74 1707 Death Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53 1704 Death Istvan Gyongyosi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemeny), dies in battle 1702 Death Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41 1700 Death John Dryden, English Poet 1700 Death John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies 1699 Death Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53 1699 Birthday Robert Blair, Scottish poet, Grave 1697 Birthday Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet, wrote in blood 1697 Death Constantine Huygens, Jr., Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried 1697 Birthday Richard Savage, poet 1697 Death Richard Savage, poet, dies 1696 Death Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies 1695 Death Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72 1695 Death Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73 1695 Death Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies 1694 Death Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet 1694 Death Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies 1694 Birthday Hans A. Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe 1692 Birthday Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet 1691 Death Isaac de Benserade, French Poet 1689 Death Philipp von Zesen, German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70 1689 Event Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan 1689 Birthday Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet 1688 Birthday Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet, Fight of Kings and Mice 1687 Death Renatus Rapinus, Rene Rapin, French poet (Jansenisme), dies 1687 Death Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies 1687 Birthday Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet, Abraham the Patriarch 1687 Death Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90 1685 Death Geeraerdt Burns, theologist, poet and historian, dies at 59 1685 Birthday John Gay, English poet, Beggar's Opera 1685 Birthday Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet, Tragedy of Zara 1684 Birthday Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright, Puiterveense Helleveeg 1684 Death Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37 1683 Birthday Edward Young, English poet, Revenge, Complaint 1680 Death Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies 1680 Death John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies 1679 Death Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies 1679 Birthday Johan Runius, Swedish poet, Dudaim 1679 Death Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91 1678 Death Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57 1678 Death Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70 1677 Death Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies 1676 Birthday John Philips, English Poet 1676 Death Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64 1675 Birthday William Somerville, English Poet 1674 Death John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65 1674 Birthday Robert Herrick, Massachusetts, British poet, Together 1674 Death Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies 1674 Death Lars Johnstown, Lasse Lucidor, Swedish poet, dies at 35 1674 Birthday Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate, Jane Shore, Tamerlane 1674 Death Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52 1674 Birthday Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French poet, Atree et Thyeste 1674 Death Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58 1673 Death John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle 1673 Death Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 1672 Death Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1672 Death Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73 1671 Birthday Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate, Love's Last Shift 1671 Birthday Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright and poet, Sacred Odes and Songs 1669 Death Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 1669 Death Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31 1668 Event John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate 1668 Death William Davenant, English Poet 1667 Death Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies 1666 Death Alexander Brome, British poet 1666 Death Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies 1665 Birthday Benjamin Neukirch, German poet, Herrn von Hofmannswaldau 1664 Death Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44 1664 Birthday Matthew Prior, English poet 1664 Death Andreas Gryphius, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius', dies at age 47 1663 Birthday Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet, Obras Dramaticas 1661 Death Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet/historian/vicar, dies 1661 Birthday Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet 1660 Birthday Peter Rabus, poet/translator, Liberated Britanje 1660 Death Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 1659 Death Simon Dach, German poet, dies 1658 Death Jacobus Revius, Reefsen, theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72 1658 Death Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies 1658 Death Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at 50 1658 Birthday Jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter 1656 Birthday Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet, Gradus ad Parnassum 1655 Death Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1654 Birthday Richard Blackmore, English Poet 1654 Birthday Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet 1652 Birthday Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved 1651 Death Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet, dies at 68 1651 Birthday Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist, Primero Sueno 1651 Death Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies 1650 Death Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet and writer, dies 1650 Death Richard Crashaw, English Poet 1649 Death Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36 1648 Death Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60 1648 Death Vincent Voiture, French Poet 1648 Birthday John Luyken, poet/etcher, Duytse Lyre 1648 Death Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40 1648 Death Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63 1647 Death Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 1647 Birthday John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet, Bellone aen bant 1646 Death Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 1646 Birthday Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, Silesian poet 1645 Death Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64 1644 Death Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies 1640 Death Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 1639 Death Martin Opitz, German poet and historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 1639 Death Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 1639 Death Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies 1639 Death Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake 1638 Birthday Lars Johnstown, Swedish poet 1638 Death Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 1638 Birthday Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright 1637 Birthday Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet, Friend of Abandoned Child 1637 Death Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54 1637 Death Ben Jonson, English Poet 1636 Birthday Nicolas Boileau, French Poet 1635 Death Lope Felix de Vega, playwright and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72 1635 Death Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50 1634 Death John Marston, English Poet 1633 Birthday Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/Wolfenbuttel/poet 1633 Death George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39 1632 Birthday Kaspar von Stieler, German poet, Teutsche Wolredner 1632 Death Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures), dies 1631 Birthday John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England, All for Love 1631 Birthday John Dryden, English poet/playwright, Heroic Stanzas 1631 Death John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1630 Birthday Charles Cotton, English Poet 1628 Birthday Constantine Huygens, Jr., Dutch poet, painter and cartoonist 1627 Death Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41 1627 Death Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet and writer, dies 1626 Birthday Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist, poet and historian 1626 Death Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51 1625 Death James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58 1622 Birthday Henry Vaughan, English poet, Silex Scintillans 1622 Birthday Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns 1621 Birthday Renatus Rapinus, Rene Rapin, French jesuit/poet, Hortorum libri IV 1621 Birthday Jean de la Fontaine, French poet, Fables 1621 Birthday Andrew Marvell, born in England, poet, To His Coy Mistress 1620 Death Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam 1619 Death Samuel Daniel, English Poet 1619 Birthday Philipp von Zesen, German poet and historian, Amsterdam 1619 Death Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53 1618 Death Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason 1618 Death Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33 1616 Birthday Andreas Gryphius, born in Glogow, Silesia, German writer, poet, dramatist, master of philosophy, works include historical tragedy 'Leo Armenius' 1616 Death Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet, buried at 68 1615 Death Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet and writer (Comfort of Soles), dies 1615 Birthday Jan Zoet, actor, playwright and poet, Parnasssus aan 't Y 1613 Birthday Isaac de Benserade, French Poet 1613 Death Mathurin Regnier, French poet (Macette), dies 1612 Birthday Justus G. Schottel, Schottelius, German poet 1612 Birthday Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist, Hudibras, baptized 1610 Birthday Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet and historian 1609 Birthday John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier 1608 Birthday John Milton, London, poet/puritan, Paradise Lost 1608 Death Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies 1607 Birthday Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, Nurnberg Germany, poet, Poetischer Trichter 1607 Death Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52 1607 Death Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 1606 Birthday Lorenzo Lippi, Perlone Zipoli, poet/painter 1606 Birthday Edmund Waller, England, poet, Penshust 1605 Birthday Daniel von Czepko, German poet 1605 Birthday Simon Dach, German poet 1604 Death Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies 1602 Death Paul Melissus, Paul Schede, German poet/composer, dies at 62 1600 Death Baki, Turkish royal poet (Davan, Ghazalijjat), dies at about 74 1599 Death Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46 1598 Death Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St. Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58 1597 Birthday Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" 1597 Birthday Vincent Voiture, French Poet 1596 Birthday Vredius, Olivier de Wree, Flemish historian/poet/mayor 1596 Birthday Constantine Huygens, Dutch poet/diplomat, Delightful Folly 1596 Death Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84 1595 Death Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48 1595 Death Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51 1595 Death Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest 1595 Birthday Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet 1595 Death Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged 1593 Birthday Fulvio Testi, Italian poet, Pianto d'Italia 1593 Birthday George Herbert, English metaphysical poet, 5 Mystical Songs 1592 Birthday Francis Quarles, English poet, Argalus and Parthenia, Emblems 1591 Death Juan de la Cruz, de Yepes, Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies 1591 Birthday Robert Herrick, England, poet, Gather ye rosebuds, baptized 1591 Death Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies 1590 Birthday Samuel Ampzing, poet, Taelbericht der Netherlands Spellinge 1589 Death Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet (Carminum Liber I), dies at 57 1589 Birthday Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright and poet 1587 Birthday Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist, Jephtha 1586 Death Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 1586 Birthday Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn 1585 Birthday William Drummond, Scottish Poet 1585 Birthday Gerbrant A. Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright, Klucht van de Koe 1584 Birthday Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, Oden und Gesange 1584 Birthday Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet, Muiderkring 1583 Birthday Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet 1582 Event Playwright and poet William Shakespeare weds Anne Hathaway 1582 Birthday Phienas Fletcher, poet 1582 Birthday John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet, Euphormio's Satyricon 1582 Birthday John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet, Argenis 1581 Birthday Thomas Overbury, poet, baptized 1580 Birthday Francisco Gomez de Quevado y Villegas, poet/satirist, Vida del Buscon 1580 Death Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies 1577 Birthday Jacob Cats, Father Cats, Dutch grand pensionary/poet, Houwelyck 1576 Birthday John Marston, English Poet 1574 Birthday Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet 1573 Birthday Mathurin Regnier, French poet, Macette 1572 Death Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72 1572 Birthday Ben Jonson, England, playwright and poet, Volpone, Alchemist 1568 Birthday Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, Citt del sole 1567 Birthday Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician 1566 Death Marcus A Vida, Marcus Hieronymus, Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies 1564 Birthday Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus 1562 Birthday Lope Felix de Vega, born in Madrid, Spain, dramatist/poet, Angelica, Arcadia 1560 Death Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, German poet (Opera omnia), dies 1556 Death Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing 1556 Birthday Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer 1556 Death Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 1556 Death Lieven van der Maude, Ammonius, South Netherlands poet, dies at 70 1554 Birthday Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier, Arcadia 1552 Birthday Theodore-Agrippa d'Aubigne, French/Swiss historian/poet, Tragiques 1550 Death Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64 1549 Birthday Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet, Hertspiegel 1548 Birthday Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet 1547 Birthday Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet 1547 Death Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 1545 Birthday Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, Dutch politician/poet 1544 Birthday Torquato Tasso, born in Italy, Renaissance poet, Aminta, Apologia 1542 Birthday Juan de la Cruz, de Yepes, Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint 1540 Death Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies 1539 Birthday Paul Melissus, German poet/composer 1538 Birthday Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet, Trattato 1536 Death Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle 1536 Death Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24 1533 Death Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57 1532 Birthday Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet, Les amours de Meline 1531 Death Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37 1530 Death Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies 1529 Death John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 1528 Birthday Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, Neo latin poet, Collected Works 1525 Death Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49 1524 Death Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73 1523 Birthday Pierre de Ronsard, poet 1523 Death Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 1520 Death Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies 1517 Birthday Jacques Peletier, du Mans, French poet/scientist 1511 Birthday Janus Secundus, neo latin poet, Basia 1502 Death Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies 1501 Death Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies 1501 Death Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59 1500 Death Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns 1495 Birthday Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet, Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione 1492 Birthday Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright 1488 Birthday Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot 1488 Birthday Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet, Silvae 1485 Birthday Veronica Gambara, Italian poet 1485 Birthday Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], born in South Netherland, poet 1475 Birthday Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet, Le Api 1474 Birthday Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet, Orlando Furioso 1472 Death Leon Battista Alberti, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura', dies at 68 1472 Death Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37 1463 Event French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris 1461 Birthday Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet 1459 Death Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies 1458 Death Mapheus Vegius, Maffeo Vegio, Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies 1458 Death Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies 1456 Birthday Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet, Arcadia 1450 Birthday Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet 1441 Birthday Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet and author, Mahbub al-kulub 1434 Birthday Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator 1432 Birthday Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet, Morgante 1404 Birthday Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura' 1400 Death Geoffrey Chaucer, English Poet 1398 Birthday Inigo Lopez, Spain, marques de Santillana, poet, Comedieta de Ponza 1375 Death Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies 1374 Death Francesco Petrarca, Petracco, Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69 1374 Death Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 1361 Death Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69 1336 Event Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux 1327 Event Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura 1324 Death Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies 1321 Death Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56 1304 Birthday Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet, Italia Mia 1297 Death Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St. Truiden, dies at about 86 1294 Death Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies 1292 Death Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies 1291 Birthday Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet 1273 Death Rumi, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature, dies 1272 Death Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies 1265 Birthday Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, Divina Commedia 1253 Death Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies 1236 Death Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies 1209 Death Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies 1207 Birthday Rumi, born in Balkh, Khorasan, now Afghanistan, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature 1164 Death Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies 1131 Death Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1101 Death Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64 1075 Birthday Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet 1048 Birthday Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra 1036 Birthday Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher 1006 Birthday Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet, Monadjat 990 Death Ekkehart II, Palatinus, monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies 965 Death Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered 912 Death Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71 826 Death Theodorus Studites, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies 772 Birthday Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow 709 Death Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, English abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 69 615 Death Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies 460 Death Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poet, dies 70 Birthday Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman leader/poet, Bucolica, Aeneis 39 Birthday Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet, Bellum Civile 17 Death Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies
