Today in Poetry History (Part 3)

Literature Topics: Author - Essayist - Journalist - Jurist - Novelist - Playwright - Poetess - Scholar - Writer

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 201 - 300 of 1,370

1729-05-23 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno)
1729-07-05 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet
1729-09-27 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist (d. 1800)
1731-11-15 - William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS]
1731-11-26 - William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
1735-10-25 - James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth)
1738-05-09 - John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
1738-06-22 - Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1738-07-24 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
1740-03-06 - Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)
1740-08-15 - Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
1741-04-08 - Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai)
1742-03-19 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet
1743-07-14 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1743-12-23 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
1744-08-25 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet
1745-02-20 - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
1746-03-27 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1746-08-08 - Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church songs)
1746-09-04 - Bernardus Bosch, Dutch Patriot/poet/writer, baptised
1749-01-16 - Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian count/poet (Maria Stuarda)
1750-09-05 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scots poems)
1750-10-31 - Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet
1750-11-07 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
1751-02-20 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
1752-01-02 - Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1752-11-20 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
1753-02-06 - Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet
1754-02-19 - Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier)
1754-06-16 - Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800)
1754-12-24 - George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy)
1756-09-07 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature (Disease of Scientists)
1757-03-16 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1757-11-12 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Zealand poet
Poet/Artist William Blake (1757-11-28) 1757-11-28 - William Blake, London, poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience), (d. 1827)
1759-01-25 - Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796)
1759-11-10 - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1761-01-23 - Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide)
1761-12-24 - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808)
1762-09-24 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)
1763-05-11 - János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
1763-07-30 - Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem)
1764-01-01 - John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet (Minderjarige Zangster)
1764-02-11 - Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus)
1765-06-06 - Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij)
1767-01-24 - Antony CW Staring, Dutch lawyer/poet (Jaromir)
1767-09-05 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic
1768-09-04 - Francois René de Chateaubriand, France, poet/novelist (Atala)
1769-02-09 - Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
Poet Robert Burns (1759-01-25) 1770-04-07 - William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)
1771-08-15 - Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
1771-12-26 - Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus)
1772-04-11 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1772-10-21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), (d. 1834)
1774-08-12 - Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson
1774-09-08 - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet
1775-02-10 - Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist
1777-02-12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843)
1777-07-27 - Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic)
1777-10-18 - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
1777-12-14 - Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo)
1778-01-26 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
1778-02-06 - Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)
1778-09-08 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-10-21) 1779-05-28 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
1779-11-14 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)
1781-01-26 - Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
1781-03-17 - Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1781-11-29 - Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)
1782-10-11 - Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw)
1783-01-12 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen)
1783-01-29 - Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9]
1783-02-09 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
1783-12-11 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet
1784-02-27 - Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine)
1784-07-27 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1784-12-07 - Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
1785-03-07 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
1786-06-20 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
1786-09-18 - Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer
1788-01-22 - Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan)
1788-03-10 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
1788-04-02 - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
1788-05-16 - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
1790-01-09 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens)
1790-01-19 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna)
1790-09-20 - Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet (Toraidas)
1791-09-23 - Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt)
1791-10-26 - Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)
1791-12-14 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
1792-08-04 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
1793-07-03 - John Claire, England, poet
1793-07-13 - John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar)
1793-09-25 - Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
1794-08-10 - Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
1794-11-03 - William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
Romantic Poet John Keats (1795-10-31) 1795-10-31 - John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), (d. 1821)
1796-02-01 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
1796-09-19 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
1796-12-19 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright

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Famous Weddings

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 201 - 300 of 1,147

1700-05-01 - John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies
1702-01-13 - Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41
1703-10-14 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
1706-01-29 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
1707-05-03 - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
1707-06-24 - Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74
1707-09-15 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
1707-09-24 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1709-09-04 - Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies
1711-02-10 - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22
1711-03-13 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1712-04-05 - John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63
1712-04-10 - Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1713-06-01 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
1714-03-27 - Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
1715-08-12 - Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies
1716-02-19 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)
1717-07-21 - Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies
1718-12-06 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
1719-06-17 - Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47
1720-06-27 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1721-02-24 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1721-09-18 - Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies
1721-10-04 - Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36
1722-01-07 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60
1726-05-14 - John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies
1727-05-02 - Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70
1729-01-04 - Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies
1729-08-15 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
1730-07-16 - Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies
1730-09-27 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
1732-12-04 - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1733-12-31 - Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44
1735-04-05 - Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
1736-07-16 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1737-02-20 - Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies
1740-04-23 - Thomas Tickell, poet, dies
1741-03-17 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
1742-07-19 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1743-04-30 - Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies
1743-08-01 - Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46
Poet Alexander Pope (1744-05-30) 1744-05-30 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1744-07-14 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1746-02-04 - Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46
1747-01-16 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1749-06-18 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1751-05-24 - William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies
1754-10-28 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1757-11-12 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1758-01-07 - Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1758-07-24 - John Dyer, poet, dies
1759-06-12 - William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37
1759-08-24 - Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
1760-12-14 - Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies
1763-01-11 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
1763-01-29 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1763-02-11 - William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714)
1763-08-09 - John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47
1763-09-26 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1763-10-17 - Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
1764-06-03 - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69
1765-04-05 - Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81
1765-04-15 - Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1767-07-15 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1768-07-04 - Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
1768-08-17 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
1768-12-20 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
1769-04-03 - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71
1770-06-23 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1770-08-24 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies
1770-08-26 - Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, dies at 42
1771-05-21 - Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
1771-07-07 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1771-07-30 - Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54
1772-11-10 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1774-04-04 - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
1775-10-02 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1777-06-16 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1779-09-02 - Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66
1780-02-18 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
1781-05-08 - Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)
1781-11-04 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1782-04-12 - Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
1784-12-05 - Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston
1785-10-30 - Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54
1785-11-25 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
1785-12-29 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
1786-03-11 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28
1788-04-22 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46
1788-06-12 - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
1788-10-13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
1789-10-24 - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68
1790-05-21 - Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
1793-01-04 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35
1794-07-25 - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
1795-07-31 - Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54
1796-02-17 - James Macpherson, poet, dies
1796-05-12 - Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
Poet Robert Burns (1796-07-21) 1796-07-21 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37
1798-04-11 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)