Poets in History (Part 14)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1301 - 1,400 of 1,601

• 1925-04-04 Emmett Williams, American poet, born in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 2007)
• 1925-05-04 Peter Blum, Afrikaan poet (Capricorn), born in Trieste, Italy (d. 1990)
• 1925-06-15 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes)
• 1925-08-10 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher
• 1925-10-10 Ivan Sviták, Czech philosopher and poet, born in Hranice na Moravě, Czechoslovakia (d. 1994)
• 1925-10-28 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener, born in Nassau, Bahamas (d. 2006)
• 1925-12-12 Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (The Book of Alley), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2000)
• 1926-01-05 William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet, born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (d. 2009)
• 1926-01-20 Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet & writer, born in New Delhi, India (d. 2015)
• 1926-01-26 José María Valverde, Spanish philosopher, poet and translator (La espera, Historia de la literatura universal), born in Valencia de Alcántara, Spain (d. 1996)
• 1926-02-21 Hans Andreus [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language)
• 1926-03-03 James Ingram Merrill, American poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
• 1926-03-27 Frank O'Hara, American writer and poet, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1966)
• 1926-05-21 Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)

• 1926-06-25 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (Gott von Manhattan), born in Klagenfurt, Austria (d. 1973)
• 1926-08-06 Christa Reinig, German poet and writer (Idleness is the Root of All Love, The Tightrope Walker), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2008)
• 1926-09-26 Buland al-Haidary, Iraqi poet (Passages to Exile) (d. 1996)
• 1926-11-23 Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials)
• 1926-12-23 Robert Bly, American poet & essayist (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds), born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
• 1927-01-08 Charles Tomlinson, British poet & translator, born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (d. 2015)
• 1927-02-24 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
• 1927-03-13 Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet, born in Curacao, Costa Rica (d. 1994)
• 1927-06-07 Martin Carter, Guyanese poet and political activist, born in Georgetown, Guyana (d. 1997)
• 1927-06-15 Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
• 1927-07-28 John Ashbery, American poet (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2017)
• 1927-08-08 Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/poet (Lady of the Night: A flower)
• 1927-09-27 Boris Porena, Italian composer, poet, and writer, born in Rome
• 1927-09-30 W. S. Merwin, American poet
• 1928-01-08 Gaston Miron, Quebec poet & editor, born in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Canada (d. 1996)
• 1928-01-10 Philip Levine, American poet, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2015)

• 1928-04-23 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist, writer and poet, born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1992)
• 1928-06-28 Nick Virgilio, American Haiku poet, born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1989)
• 1928-07-03 Günter Bruno Fuchs, German writer, poet and artist, born in Berlin (d. 1977)
• 1928-07-08 Norma Donaldson, American singer and actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats), born in Harlem, New York (d. 1994)
• 1928-07-18 Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer and poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 2009)
• 1928-07-26 Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet, born in Allahabad, India (d. 1980)
• 1928-08-21 Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan poet and politician who founded the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), born in Golungo Alto, Portuguese Angola (d. 1990)
• 1928-09-20 Donald Hall, American writer, literary critic and Poet Laureate of the United States, born in Hamden, Connecticut (d. 2018)
• 1928-09-29 Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author/poet
• 1928-10-07 Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter, born in Kashan, Iran (d. 1980)
• 1928-10-21 Yú Guāngzhōng [Yu Kwang-chung], Taiwanese poet, essayist, and translator (Nostalgia), born in Nanjing, Republic of China (d. 2017)
• 1928-11-04 Hannah Weiner, American experimental poet, born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1997)
• 1928-11-09 Anne Sexton, American poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967), born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
• 1929-02-16 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel)
• 1929-02-28 John Montague, Irish poet and 1st occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry, born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1929-03-25 Cecil Taylor, American pianist, poet, and one of the pioneers of free jazz, born in Corona, Queens, New York (d. 2018)
• 1929-04-01 Milan Kundera, Czech poet and writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being), born in Brno, Czechoslovakia
• 1929-04-25 José Ángel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza), born in Orense, Spain (d. 2000)
• 1929-05-20 Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
• 1929-07-07 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
• 1929-07-28 Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch writer, poet, son of Jan Campert
• 1929-08-21 X. J. Kennedy, American poet and author (Nude Descending a Staircase), born in New Jersey, Iowa
• 1929-08-29 Thom Gunn, British poet (The Wound), born in Kent, England (d. 2004)
• 1929-10-28 John Hollander, American poet and literary critic, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2013)
• 1930-01-23 Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet (Omeros), Nobel Prize for Literature 1992, born in Castries, St Lucia (d. 2017)
• 1930-02-28 Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
• 1930-03-26 Gregory Corso, American beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man), born in New York City (d. 2001)
• 1930-03-28 Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet, born in Rome (d. 1996)
• 1930-05-03 Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, born in Buenos Aires (d. 2014)
• 1930-05-08 Gary Snyder [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
• 1930-05-11 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean poet (Born to Slow Horses) and academic, born in Bridgetown, Barbados (d. 2020)
• 1930-05-23 Friedrich Achleitner, German poet

• 1930-09-23 Sehba Akhtar, poet of Pakistan (d. 1996)
• 1930-09-24 Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (Marsz żałobny), born in Skarbanowo, Poland (d. 1998)
• 1930-10-10 Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani Urdu poet, born in Allahabad, India (d. 1970)
• 1930-11-13 Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist and poet, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1990)
• 1930-12-25 Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1986)
• 1931-01-06 P J Kavanagh [Patrick Joeseph], British poet, actor and journalist (The Perfect Stranger), born in Worthing, Sussex (d. 2015)
• 1931-01-25 Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet & writer, born in Helsiniki, Finland (d. 2008)
• 1931-02-10 Thomas Bernhard, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet whose work some describe as "the most significant literary achievement since World War II", born in Heerlen, Netherlands (d. 1989)
• 1931-04-10 Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet and playwright, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 2009)
• 1931-04-12 Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter, born in Moscow (d. 1995)
• 1931-04-15 Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature - 2011), born in Stockholm (d. 2015)
• 1931-04-17 Ruth Etchells, English poet and principal (St John's College-Durham), born in Liverpool
• 1931-05-16 Peter Levi, poet/writer
• 1931-06-08 Ivan V. Lalić, Serbian poet, born in Belgrade (d. 1996)
• 1931-09-25 Manouchehr Atashi, Persian poet, born in Dashtestan, Iran (d. 2005)
• 1931-12-03 Franz Josef Degenhardt, German poet and author, born in Schwelm, Westphalia, Germany (d. 2011)
• 1931-12-14 Jaun Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher, born in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, British India (d. 2002)
• 1932-03-09 Simon Heere Heeresma, Dutch writer and poet (Han de Wit goes in development aid), born in Amsterdam (d. 2011)
• 1932-03-18 John Updike, Shillington Pa, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
• 1932-04-10 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (d. 2000)
• 1932-06-18 Geoffrey Hill, English poet, born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (d. 2016)
• 1932-06-20 Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet, born in Kosikhinsky District, Russia (d. 1994)
• 1932-10-15 Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, born in Rotterdam (d. 1977)

• 1932-11-28 Terence Frisby, English actor and playwright (There's a Girl in My Soup), born in London, England (d. 2020)
• 1932-12-05 Fazu Aliyeva, Russian poet, novelist and journalist who helped develop Dagestani in Russian literature, born in Khunzakhsky District, Soviet Union (d. 2016)
• 1932-12-28 Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer
• 1933-02-23 Donna J. Stone, American poet (Wielder of Words), born in Ohio (d. 1994)
• 1933-02-27 Edward Lucie-Smith, British poet and poetry critic, born in Kingston, Jamaica
• 1933-03-15 Cecil Percival Taylor, American pianist and poet (University of Wisconsin)
• 1933-03-20 Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
• 1933-03-29 Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet (Quand nous serons heureux - When we are happy), born in Montreal, Quebec
• 1933-03-31 Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
• 1933-04-29 Rodney "Rod" McKuen, American poet, singer-songwriter and actor (Jean, Alone, Beatsville), born in Oakland, California (d. 2015)
• 1933-05-12 Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet

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Famous Weddings

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1301 - 1,400 of 1,513

• 1994-10-26 Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
• 1994-11-19 Julian Gustave Symons, British crime writer and poet, dies at 82
• 1994-11-20 Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani, Iranian poet and journalist, dies at 64
• 1994-11-22 Norma Donaldson, American singer and actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats), dies at 68
• 1994-11-28 Franfo Fortini [Franco Lattes], Italian poet, dies at 77
• 1994-12-12 Donna J. Stone, American poet, dies of heart failure at 61
• 1994-12-23 Sebastian Shaw, British actor, director, playwright and poet (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste), dies of natural causes at 89
• 1994-12-27 Hans Berghuis, author/poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70
• 1994-12-31 Harri Webb, Welsh poet and nationalist, dies at 74
• 1995-01-05 Somerset de Chair, British writer, politician and poet, dies at 83
• 1995-01-13 Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet and publisher (Critics), dies at 73
• 1995-02-06 James Ingram Merrill, American poet (Braving the Elements), dies at 68
• 1995-04-14 Brian Coffey, Irish poet (Advent), dies at 89
• 1995-05-11 David Avidan, Israeli poet, dies at 62
• 1995-05-30 Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
• 1995-06-03 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69
• 1995-07-06 Helene Johnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, dies at 87
• 1995-07-16 Stephen Spender, English poet and critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness), dies at 86
• 1995-07-23 Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52
• 1995-08-07 Tom Scott, Scottish poet (Sea Dirge: A Mither's Keenin), dies at 77
• 1995-09-03 Earle Birney, Canadian poet and novelist who twice won the Governor General's Award, dies at 91
• 1995-09-08 Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), dies at 87
• 1995-09-18 Donald Davie, English poet and critic, dies at 73
• 1995-09-28 Lynette Roberts, British poet, dies at 86
• 1995-10-21 Linda Goodman, Morgantown, West Virginia, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70
• 1995-12-05 Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (The Lion's Bride), dies at 75
• 1995-12-10 Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95
• 1996-01-11 Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist, dies at 87
• 1996-01-17 Charles Henry Madge, English poet and founder of Mass-Observation, dies at 83
• 1996-01-23 Norman MacCaig, Scottish poet, dies at 85
• 1996-01-28 Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and writer (Less than One, Nobel 1987), dies at 55
• 1996-02-11 Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet, commits suicide at 65
• 1996-03-18 Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel Prize 1979) dies at 84
• 1996-03-31 Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, dies of AIDS at 51
• 1996-04-13 George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet, dies at 74
• 1996-04-17 Eva Jones, German poet and novelist (Taboo), dies at 82
• 1996-04-18 Piet Hein, Danish polymath, dies at 80
• 1996-04-29 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
• 1996-05-05 Ai Qing, Chinese poet, dies at 86
• 1996-06-07 José María Valverde, Spanish philosopher, poet and translator (La espera, Historia de la literatura universal), dies at 70
• 1996-06-09 Bert Schierbeek, Dutch writer and poet (Cross Roads), dies at 77
• 1996-06-16 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
• 1996-06-30 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
• 1996-07-21 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
• 1996-07-27 Ivan V. Lalić, Serbian poet, dies at 65
• 1996-08-06 Buland al-Haidary, Iraqi poet (Passages to Exile), dies at 69
• 1996-08-08 Herbert Huncke, American writer and poet, dies at 80
• 1996-08-18 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103
• 1996-11-24 Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (Poems to Eimhir and Other Poems), dies at 85
• 1996-12-08 Marin Sorescu, Romanian poet, playwright and artist (Iona, House under surveillance), dies of a heart attack at 60
• 1996-12-29 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85
• 1997-01-19 James Dickey, American poet, novelist and lecturer (Deliverance, Buckdancer's Choice), dies at 73
• 1997-03-07 Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish poet (A Little Bouquet), dies at 73

• 1997-05-13 Laurie Lee, English poet and author (I Can't Stay Long), dies at 82
• 1997-07-16 Dora Maar, French photographer, painter and poet, lover of Picasso, dies at 89
• 1997-09-11 Hannah Weiner, American experimental poet, dies at 68
• 1997-11-12 William Matthews, poet, dies at 55
• 1997-12-13 Martin Carter, Guyanese poet and political activist, dies at 70
• 1997-12-20 Denise Levertov, American poet and essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin), dies at 74
• 1998-04-30 Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
• 1998-07-28 Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and writer, dies at 73
• 1998-09-01 Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (Marsz żałobny), dies at 67

• 1999-01-11 Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (The Corn King and the Spring Queen), dies at 101
• 1999-03-19 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
• 1999-05-10 Shel Silverstein, American writer and cartoonist (Now Here's My Plan: A Book of Futilities; The Giving Tree) and songwriter (A Boy Named Sue; The Cover Of The Rolling Stone), dies at 68
• 1999-06-11 DeForest Kelley, American actor (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy-Star Trek), dies of stomach cancer at 79
• 1999-06-21 Karl Krolow, German poet and translator, dies at 84
• 1999-09-08 Moondog [Louis Thomas Hardin], American composer, musician and poet, dies at 83
• 2000-01-22 Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska), dies at 83
• 2000-05-08 Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918)
• 2000-06-09 Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer and poet (Otto's Pug), dies at 74
• 2000-06-14 Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer, dies at 88
• 2000-07-11 Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
• 2000-07-18 José Ángel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza), dies at 71
• 2000-07-24 Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (The Book of Alley), dies at 74
• 2000-08-05 Dudley Randall, African-American poet who founded the pioneering publishing house "Broadside Press", dies at 84
• 2000-09-14 Beah Richards, American actress, poet, playwright and author (Roots, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 80
• 2000-09-22 Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (Now and in Other Days), dies at 76
• 2000-09-25 R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet, dies at 87
• 2000-11-11 Hugo Pos, Surinamese-Dutch poet and writer, dies at 86
• 2000-12-03 Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950), dies at 83
• 2000-12-07 Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)
• 2000-12-20 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), dies at 68
• 2001-01-17 Gregory Corso, American beat poet, dies of prostate cancer at 70
• 2001-02-14 Alan Ross, British poet and editor (London Magazine), dies at 78
• 2001-12-20 Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and 1st President of Senegal (1960-80), dies at 95
• 2002-06-14 June Jordan, Caribbean-American playwright and poet (His Own Where), dies at 65
• 2002-11-08 Jaun Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher, dies at 70
• 2002-12-09 Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
• 2002-12-23 Tatamkhulu Afrika, South African poet and writer, dies at 82
• 2003-01-21 Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933)
• 2003-11-03 Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
• 2003-11-04 Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
• 2004-04-25 Thom Gunn, British poet (The Wound), dies at 74
• 2004-06-22 Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
• 2004-07-02 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese poet and children's author (The Sea Girl), dies at 84
• 2004-08-24 Kees [Cornelis Johannes] Ouwens, Dutch writer and poet (Intimate Acts), dies at 60
• 2004-09-23 Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet, dies at 90

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