Today in Poetry History (Part 10)
Literature Topics: Author - Essayist - Journalist - Jurist - Novelist - Playwright - Poetess - Scholar - Writer
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Historical Events
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Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 901 - 1,000 of 1,370
1904-05-22 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
1904-07-12 - Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971)
1904-10-21 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
1905-01-23 - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
1905-03-09 - Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
1905-03-21 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1905-03-22 - Phyllis McGinley, poet
1905-04-11 - József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
1905-04-22 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)
1905-04-24 - Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1905-05-20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Sailing)
1905-06-08 - Brian Coffey, poet
1905-06-29 - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (La lenta libertad)
1905-07-29 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1905-08-20 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1905-09-16 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
1905-11-17 - Wazyk, [Adam Wagman], Polish poet/author (Eyes & Mouth)
1905-12-16 - Piet Hein, poet/inventor
1905-12-22 - Kenneth Rexroth, US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush)
1906-01-06 - Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary)
1906-04-06 - John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1906-04-08 - Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea)
1906-06-12 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
1906-06-27 - Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
1906-08-28 - John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
1906-09-04 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, poet (Ongerijmde life)
1906-09-05 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [NS=Sept 18]
1906-09-18 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [OS=Sept 5]
1906-09-27 - William Empson, English poet/critic (Milton's God)
1906-10-09 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1906-11-02 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
1906-12-25 - Herman J Scheltema, [NEM Pareau], Dutch jurist/poet
1907-02-02 - Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic
1907-02-21 - Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
1907-05-11 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
1907-06-04 - Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990)
1907-06-14 - René Char, French poet/painter
1907-06-24 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
1907-07-07 - Helene Johnson, poet
1907-09-12 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
1907-10-21 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
1907-10-28 - John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
1907-11-07 - Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)
1907-12-21 - Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary (Poet in Love)
1907-12-23 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)
1908-01-23 - Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
1908-05-25 - Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind)
1908-10-09 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908-12-27 - Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Black Banners)
1909-02-03 - M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix)
1909-02-14 - A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
1909-02-28 - Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
1909-03-03 - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator
1909-05-01 - Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
1909-05-24 - Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca)
1909-06-30 - Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1909-07-04 - Lynette Roberts, poet
1909-09-28 - Stephen Spender, poet [or Feb 28]
1909-10-10 - Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet
1909-12-12 - Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer
1909-12-28 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija)
1910-01-02 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
1910-01-07 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
1910-02-17 - Ai Qing, poet
1910-03-09 - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
1910-05-16 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
1910-06-21 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
1910-08-05 - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist (Aniara)
1910-10-12 - Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
1910-10-30 - Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spain, poet (Viento del Pueblo)
1910-11-14 - Norman MacCaig, poet
1910-12-19 - Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet/novelist
1910-12-27 - Charles Olson, American poet (d. 1970)
1911-02-08 - Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956)
1911-02-28 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
1911-09-09 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
1911-10-26 - Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet
1911-11-02 - Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1979)
1911-11-09 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
1911-11-12 - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
1911-11-18 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1911-11-28 - Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
1911-12-08 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
1911-12-11 - Vincent Henry Kemp, poet
Poet/Novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911-12-13)
1911-12-13 - Kenneth Patchen, Niles, Ohio, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest), (d. 1972)
1912-02-11 - Roy Fuller, England, poet/novelist (Lost Season)
1912-03-12 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
1912-05-29 - John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet (Go to the Mosque)
1912-06-13 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
1912-09-10 - Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet
1912-10-10 - Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist
1913-01-19 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
1913-02-14 - Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head)
1913-02-20 - Mary Durack, author
1913-02-26 - George G Barker, English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini)
1913-03-29 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
1913-06-03 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
1913-06-26 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1913-07-10 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
1913-07-15 - Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist.
Famous Weddings
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Famous Divorces
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Famous Deaths
Deaths 901 - 1,000 of 1,147
1976-07-04 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1976-08-05 - Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
1976-08-09 - Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet/novelist, dies at 65
1976-08-29 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
1977-01-21 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1977-04-11 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1977-04-14 - Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, dies at 44
1977-06-09 - Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant], Dutch poet, dies at 51
1977-09-12 - Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)
1977-12-18 - Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
1978-01-11 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
1978-05-11 - John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93
1978-07-02 - Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
1978-09-09 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1978-10-22 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1978-11-20 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
1979-01-28 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (b. 1901)
1979-02-08 - Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82
1979-09-10 - Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies at 56
1980-02-12 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
1980-03-25 - James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1980-03-31 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1980-04-21 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
1980-04-30 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
1980-05-05 - Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79
1980-07-09 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
1980-07-25 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1980-07-26 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1980-09-25 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1981-09-12 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1981-10-19 - Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet, dies at 48
1982-02-22 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1982-03-11 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1982-06-06 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1982-07-20 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
1982-11-13 - Babette Deutsch, US poet (Honey out of the Rock), dies at 87
1983-04-15 - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
1983-06-15 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
1983-12-13 - Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933
1984-01-21 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893)
1984-01-23 - Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
1984-03-11 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1984-04-07 - Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
1985-01-16 - Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (b. 1910)
1985-02-22 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1985-05-25 - Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91
1985-10-08 - Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1985-10-18 - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30
1985-10-31 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985-11-24 - Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67
1985-12-02 - Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63
1985-12-07 - Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
1985-12-18 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
1986-01-08 - Yaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84
1986-03-30 - John Ciardi, US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69
1986-04-09 - Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64
1986-04-21 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1986-06-25 - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63
1986-08-16 - Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1986-08-20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1987-07-08 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987-08-17 - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84
1987-09-16 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
1987-11-11 - Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
1988-01-03 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
1988-04-15 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81
1988-06-16 - Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)
1988-08-02 - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1988-09-22 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
1989-01-17 - Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
1989-02-08 - Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
1989-03-15 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
1989-05-24 - Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72
1989-05-27 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1989-11-18 - Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies
1990-04-05 - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59
1990-07-07 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1990-07-10 - Hans Faverey, poet, dies
1990-11-12 - Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81
1991-01-05 - Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
1991-01-22 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1991-01-26 - Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
1991-03-03 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
1991-04-12 - James Schuyler, US poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies
1991-04-17 - Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
1991-04-27 - Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies
1991-05-10 - Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
1991-06-23 - Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
1991-07-05 - Howard Nemerow, US poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies
1991-07-14 - Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies
1991-08-04 - Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1991-09-11 - Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920)
1991-09-12 - Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies
1991-10-11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
1991-10-27 - George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1992-01-26 - Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63
1992-02-16 - George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies
1992-02-29 - Ruth Pitter, English poet (b. 1897)
1992-03-18 - Cornelis B Vaandrager, [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
1992-04-11 - Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
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